A new minor release of CB Activity is now available with a few bug fixes and some neat new features. Check out the details below!
Large comment chains were difficult to follow since comments basically floated out in large amounts of empty space. This has been substantially improved with depth rulers for comments.
These currently only apply to activity comments, but are present on every comment stream and can be customized with CSS as well as from the template files. With this addition is also stored reply depth. A new "reply" column was added to the comments table to keep track of reply depth more accurately. Automatic migration to this for up to a depth of 10 is already implemented and will apply at install time. This moves depth tracking away from buggy GET variables and into a much more reliable check.
Notifications being site only have been a common complaint. Now you can configure notifications to send emails. This is enabled globally, but you can specify what assets should send email notifications giving you the chance to filter what is emailed and what isn't. Note the daily/weekly/monthly digest feature is not yet available, but this is a great stopgap for when it is.
You'll find these new parameters within CB Activity > Parameters > Notifications > Email. It by default sends as a fast batched BCC email. Toggling on personalization will send individual emails to each user, which can be slower, but depending on the amount of users you have may not be an issue. In the future we'll use an email queue to schedule emails.
The font size of the main "What's on your mind" post section at the top of an activity stream has also been increased in size to give it more focus as it was being lost in the noise of the page. This can be overridden using CSS if you do not want the larger size though, but for accessibility and usability I recommend leaving it large.
For a full change log please visit our forge below.
https://forge.joomlapolis.com/projects/cb-activity/issues?query_id=293
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