Most Notable Changes
The first notable change is that logged-in users can now edit their own posts regardless of reputation. Additional changes are made to help ensure that revisions only occur if it has been at least 5 minutes since the last change. This will help make revisions more concise since it's likely that after starting a new thread you may have spotted mistakes to fix, and I don't think there need to be revisions for these initial edits for your own posts.
The next notable change was adding recaptchas to the authentication system, as well as numerous other anti-bot measures which have dramatically reduced the number of bots creating accounts. This will result in less spam and fewer posts to look at in the review queues. Below you can see that it reduced fake accounts by approximately 80%:
The last notable change that I will mention is with our image upload tool that you can utilize on any post. Before it required you to create a filename and description. This was a bit confusing, and it was often hard to remember what image file extension to use when writing the filename. An update was released that completely removes the requirement to specify a filename. This will now be completely automatic and the only thing you need to do is write a short description that describes the image as you can see here:
May's Full List of Changes
- Fixed issue with comments not updating last activity timestamp #2126
- Simplified image upload modal to automatically create file name #2125
- Added moderator tool to allow comments to be changed back to regular posts #2120
- Added missing markdown class to comments to resolve formatting issues #2123
- Fixed typo in wiki instructions area for creating a new wiki #2122
- Added high and low mail priority queues #2119
- Added new feature to allow splitting of posts #1861
- Fixed retrying job queue by identifier and avoiding memory issues #2118
- Fixed bug in daily and weekly user registering stats #2113
- Additional measures in place to counter bot accounts #2109
- Last visit handling login event now passes correct IP address #2110
- Additional checks now ensure gmail accounts are unique #2107
- Prevent bad email TLDs from creating new accounts #2105
- Added charting of registered users per time period #2103
- Added recaptcha for account creation and login #1813
- Modals will now send a page view event #2095
- Attempt to solve model refresh failing issue for created models #2079
- Added a 5 minute grace period to new revisionable models before creating revisions #2099
- GA4 will now exclude internal traffic #2094
- Attempted to address failed email queue where host lookup did not complete #2093
- Created a cookie consent saved event for GA4 diagnostics and compliance #2092
- Old paginated category URLs will now correctly redirect #2091
- Deleted legacy sub posts will now correctly redirect to parent thread #2090
- Fixed bug with bell notifications showing wrong dates #2089
- Logged in users can now edit their own posts and see revisions #2041
