v1.4.0

Features

• Moderate flagged usernames via the Community tab in the admin
• Global Comment Stream Description now supports markdown and linking
• Turn Closing Stream functionality on or off
• Permalinks page now automatically updates with new comments

Fixes

• Permalinks UX revamp and bug fixes
• Don't allow emoji in Banned/Suspect word lists because it breaks the stream
• Updated Spanish translations

v1.3.0

Features

• Use meta/link URLs if an explicit URL is not provided for the asset
• Strip params from scraped asset URLs
• Add "Moderate article" link to closed comment streams
• "My Comments" tab UX and polish

Fixes

• Disable reply button on closed comment streams
• Fix banned, suspect and links to be highlighted in moderation queues
• UX fixes

Talk Beta v1.0.0

We're happy to release the Beta version of Talk, the commenting platform from Coral.

Administrative and Moderation Features

• Easy to embed comment stream w/ permitted-domain configuration
• Pre/Post-moderation configuration (set globally or set per individual stream)
• Moderation queues and approve/reject tools (Pending, Flagged, Account Flags, Accepted, Rejected)
• Managing community and newsroom permissions and roles
• Search community members (commenters, mods, admins)
• Flagged username moderation
• Flagged comment moderation
• Banning & suspending users
• Comment & stream management/config (auto-close, manual close, comment length max)
• Banned word and Suspect word management
• Suspect word highlighting in moderation
• Option to require users to verify their email before commenting or acting
• Custom comment stream description box
• Basic Moderator dashboard showing articles with recent activity (likes and flags)

Comment and Commenting Features

• Login/Signup via email/pass or Oauth (+ standard auth features, e.g. forgot password)
• Set a username to protect commenter privacy
• Threaded comments and replies with partial load (“Load more”)
• “Liking” comments
• Flagging comments with various options/feedback ability
• Flagging usernames with various options/feedback ability
• In-stream notifications to update commenter on certain actions
• Comment permalinks
• View my comment history (with permalinks)
• Email notifications if suspended because of username (+ ability to update username)

Feedback, Feature Requests, Bug Reporting

We would love your feedback and input. Please contact us via our Integration Engineer ([email protected]), or you can log an issue here on the Talk repo on Github, or get in touch with our team via our Community Slack: https://coralprojectslackin.herokuapp.com/.

v0.0.4: Merge pull request #340 from coralproject/heroku-setup-patch

Adjusted route for Heroku app.json

GraphQL, UI Updates and More

With v0.0.3, we integrated GraphQL driven by Apollo (https://github.com/apollostack). In doing so, we radically simplified the front end and back end.

• Created the /graph folder, which runs our graph endpoints
• Radically refactored many packages in /client
• Refactored service code into the /services folder, simplifying the /models
• Many new features and bugfixes

v0.0.2

Talk Alpha

v0.0.1: Merge pull request #200 from coralproject/npm-heroku

Update app.json