Category: New Features

April 2025

Release Notes Highlights

The April 2025 release introduces new features to enhance performance and branding, alongside targeted bug fixes to improve the user experience with comments.

Mentions
  • Framework Performance
  • Comments

New Features

  • Updated to Vue 3 JavaScript Framework to enhance performance across all Viafoura components

  • Refined Viafoura logo color from red to grey for a modernized appearance

Bug Fixes

  • Resolved issue preventing comment replies from displaying under the top comments tab

  • Corrected comment loading behavior in scenarios involving the reset function

March 2025

Release Notes Highlights

The March 2025 release includes several bug fixes, such as resolving ads loading issues under the Active Conversations component, correcting the late-firing comments sort event that caused ad disruptions, addressing Bearer Token failures in certain scenarios, fixing notification tray access when creating new containers, correcting inaccurate reply counter displays, preventing automatic logouts for Viafoura Out Of Box Login users within an hour, and ensuring comment counts no longer drop below zero in specific cases.
Mentions
  • Conversations
  • Login
  • Notifications

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed ads loading underneath the Active Conversations component
  • Fixed comments sort event firing too late resulting in ads to break on sort
  • Fixed Bearer Token not returning token in some scenarios
  • Fixed Unable to View Notifications or Open Notifications Tray When Creating a New Container
  • Fixed reply counters showing 0 incorrectly in some scenarios
  • Fixed Viafoura Out Of Box Login users automatically being logged out in under an hour
  • Fixed comment counts dropping below zero in some scenarios

January 2025

Release Notes Highlights

The latest release includes several bug fixes, such as resolving the issue where the “Load More Comments” button remained visible when using sort, correcting the comment counter logic in GDPR delete scenarios, fixing the time spent on page metric in the Performance Dashboard, restoring functionality to the standalone rating widget, and ensuring the Ratings and Review follow button displays correctly.
Mentions
  • Performance Dashboard
  • Ratings and Reviews
  • Comments

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the Load More Comments Button that doesn’t disappear when using sort
  • Fixed comment counter logic in GDPR delete scenarios
  • Fixed Time Spent on Page Metric in Performance Dashboard
  • Fixed Standalone Rating Widget Not Functioning
  • Fixed Ratings And Review Follow Button always shows as Following

December 2024

Release Notes Highlights

Prior to our holiday code freeze on December 13, 2024, the December release includes several enhancements, such as the ability to control replies on reviews, resolved issues with truncated comment counters, and fixed broken deeplinks.
Mentions
  • Admin Features
  • Comments
  • Deeplinks

New Features and Enhancements

  • New Admin Setting, enable or disable replies on reviews

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed comment counter truncate logic
  • Fixed deeplinks that don’t take users to comments

November 2024

Release Notes Highlights

The latest Viafoura update introduces several enhancements and bug fixes. Administrators can now customize the default length of comment previews, and live blog posts have a size limit to improve performance. The update also empowers developers with new SDK features, such as support for larger font sizes and content syndication. Additionally, it enhances reporting capabilities by allowing administrators to create custom reporting reasons. Several minor bugs have been fixed, including issues with deep linking, icon display, comment counts, notifications, and avatar display in replies.
Mentions
  • Admin Features
  • Comments
  • Custom Report Reasons
  • SDK

New Features and Enhancements

  • New Admin Setting, change default comment preview length
  • Limit live blog post size to improve performance
  • Add custom reporting reasons
  • SDK: Support large font size settings
  • SDK: Added syndication support

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed deep linking to Ratings and Reviews
  • Fixed icon display in mod console
  • Fixed ES comment count in French
  • Removed false positive error message when no notifications
  • SDK: Fixed avatar display issue on replies

October 2024

Release Notes Highlights

October brings new update that improves our platform’s performance and usability in several ways. We’ve made it faster for web pages to load and improved how search engines find comments. Moderators can now set the length of comment previews and search for comments by a unique identifier. The update also clarifies reporting options and adds new features to the SDK for reporting comments and gathering ratings and reviews. Additionally, we’ve fixed a number of minor bugs to improve the overall user experience.
Mentions
  • Ratings & Reviews
  • SDK
  • Loading Performance
  • Comment Indexing

New Features and Enhancements

  • Improved CSS loading performance
  • Improved ability for search engines to index comments
  • New Feature: Set comment preview character length from admin console
  • New Feature: Search by container uuid in mod console
  • Updated “flag” references in mod console to match new reporting terminology
  • SDK: Added Reporting Reasons when reporting a comment
  • SDK: Added Ratings and Reviews feature

Bug Fixes

  • Comment settings dropdown closing too quickly in same cases
  • Fixed invalid CSS class name
  • Fixed text shift on copy comment action from dropdown
  • Fixed first notification in tray getting cut off in some cases

September 2024

Release Notes Highlights

September’s updates bring a range of enhancements to Viafoura. We’ve introduced skeleton loading for components in our SDK to provide a smoother user experience. Additionally, moderators can now easily filter comments by pinned, featured, and top comments in the mod console. To address reported issues, we’ve resolved text and translation errors in polls and ratings, prevented replies from being marked as featured, and fixed thread-related issues for iOS devices. These updates aim to improve the overall functionality and user experience of our platform.
Mentions
  • Ratings & Reviews
  • SDK
  • Replies
  • Polls
  • Ratings
  • Filtering

New Features and Enhancements

  • SDK: Skeleton loading for components added
  • Filter by pinned, featured and top comments in mod console

Bug Fixes

  • Polls text and translation fixes
  • Ratings text fixed
  • Replies should not be allowed to be marked as featured
  • SDK: Replies disappearing when liking pinned comment on top comments
  • SDK: iOS thread fixes

August 2024

Release Notes Highlights

In August, we’re excited to introduce new features and enhancements to elevate your Viafoura experience. This month’s highlights include the launch of our Ratings and Reviews product, designed to help you gather and analyze user feedback more effectively. Additionally, we’ve added a Top Comments filter to conversations, allowing you to spotlight the most impactful discussions.

We’ve also addressed a key issue with the SDK where the report comment function was not performing as expected, ensuring smoother functionality moving forward. These updates are geared towards refining your platform’s capabilities and ensuring a more seamless user experience.

Mentions
  • Ratings & Reviews
  • SDK
  • Comments
  • Filtering

New Features and Enhancements

  • New Product: Ratings and Reviews, see documentation (Ratings & Reviews)
  • Top Comments filter for conversations

Bug Fixes

  • SDK: Fixed issue with the report comment function not working as intended

July 2024

Release Notes Highlights

In July, we’ve made significant updates to enhance your Viafoura experience. Our improvements include enhanced data dashboard performance, optimized skeleton loading for a smoother user experience, and new SDK functionality to display the ban state. Additionally, we’ve added French language support to the Engagement Starter and resolved issues with clicks not registering in iOS WebKit browsers. These changes aim to streamline functionality, improve performance, and deliver a more intuitive interface.

Mentions
  • Web
  • SDK
  • Analytics

New Features and Enhancements

  • Improved data dashboard performance
  • Improved skeleton loading performance
  • SDK: Display Ban state

Bug Fixes

  • Added French translation for Engagement Starter
  • Clicks not registering in iOS webkit browsers
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