Hello everyone!
I’ve been working hard on general improvements to SpeakBits along with some bigger updates that I think people will enjoy.
Collections
All users are now able to create multi-group collections and save them to their profiles for future use. These collections are mainly a place in the app for you to save the usual multi-group url, e.g. https://www.speakbits.com/group/technology+news+fashion+sports, and return to them in the future if bookmarking them in a browser is not available or not desired. Your collections are accessible from the groups page or from the dropdown on the "See groups" button in the sidebar.
Poll Post Type
Users can now submit posts with an associated poll to have users vote on anything the user wants! Polls can be open for a minimum of 1 day to a maximum of 7 days. There are no limits on the amount of options that can be provided. Users must be signed in to be able to vote on a poll.
This is what a poll looks like before a user has voted on it:
And this is what a poll looks like after it has closed or a user has voted on it:
A poll has been added to this post so that everyone may see how it works for the question "Should pineapple be on pizza?".
General UI Changes
The majority of time these last couple months has been focused on hardening the system, speeding up processing, and eliminating bugs that I and other users have found from using SpeakBits. I hope these changes make a much more enjoyable experience for all!
A collapsible sidebar has been introduced to allow for the main posts area to take up more of the screen. This will be more useful for those with smaller screens that might feel the regular sidebar ends up wasting too much of their screen space.
Notifications on mobile have been consolidated into a single “You have XX notifications” to prevent the screen from being filled up with notifications when you might want to just go ahead with doing something and deal with notifications later. These notifications can still be viewed by clicking on the bell icon in the navbar. A “Clear All” button has also been introduced in the Notification drawer to let you clear everything instead of clicking each close button one by one.
Planned Features
The following is a list of ideas of what I’m thinking of working on next. This is not ordered in any way and changes priorities based on feedback:
Groups
- Wiki pages
- User and self tags
Moderation
- AutoModerator
- Post scheduling
- Combined moderation view for all groups under a single mod
- Moderation UI toggle for groups
Sortition Moderation
- Add group bans to the sortition process
- Add locked content to the sortition process
As always, I love receiving feedback from everyone so please keep it coming!