The 3.5.0.beta1 release introduces several key features and improvements. A new dark/light mode selector allows users to choose their preferred theme, replacing a deprecated component hugh. The flagging system now includes customizable informational text to help admins comply with regulations hugh. A new setting prevents posts consisting solely of uploads, encouraging more substantive contributions hugh. Additional updates include plugin improvements for discourse-activity-pub and discourse-ai, along with various bug fixes and UX enhancements tgxworld.
If you’re using a theme that has both dark and light modes, you now have the option of displaying a selector to your users for them to choose which mode they prefer. The selector can appear in the footer or the header, and allows users to select dark, light or auto, which will select the appropriate mode based on their system settings. This core feature replaces the now-deprecated theme component that provided this selector. Read the announcement here.
More useful information when flagging content
To help site admins remain compliant with evolving legislation, the flag modal now includes text providing a brief explanation of what happens when content is flagged and how it is reviewed. This text can be customised to include any necessary information, like the expected timeframe for reviews. Learn more about this in our documentation.
By default, this text reads:
All flags are received by moderators and will be reviewed as soon as possible.
Check out the feature documentation for how to edit that and add your own details to it.
Encouraging better conversations
In order to foster more interesting and valuable conversations, we now have a setting for not counting uploads when calculating the minimum length of a post. With the new prevent uploads only posts setting enabled, posts that contain only images or other uploads, will be blocked from publishing, encouraging users to offer more substantial and valuable input when engaging in conversations.
But wait, there’s more! We do our best to highlight new features and changes for you, but there’s always too many changes to detail. For a full list of new features, bug fixes, UX improvements, and more, be sure to review the Additional Features and Fixes listed below.
Plugin improvements
discourse-activity-pub
New Features
Add ActivityPub topic map, topic actions, post actions and topic info, and update ActivityPub post info (169)
Add ActivityPub topic map, topic actions, post actions and topic info, and update ActivityPub post info. (161)
Bug Fixes
Update site actors when actor is created or edited (173)
Anon users should be included in ‘everyone’ for post status visibility groups (175)
Handling of AP attributes in topic info modal of first_post topics (174)