We were so busy working on release 3.9 of Shapado we didn’t even announce 3.8 even though it got deployed.

What this release focuses on is the Social Web. You can now connect to shapado using your Facebook account and/or your twitter account (you could already login with your Google and Yahoo account among other services before).

Another thing is that you can now synchronize all your profile activities with various services such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIN. So that each questions you make gets posted to those services.

We’ve also made it easier to share posts you like using the Facebook Like Button, twitter button, identi.ca button and others.

Here is a non-exaustive list of new features, improvements and bug fixes:

Features

• Facebook login: you can now connect to Shapado with your Facebook account, if you already have a login, go to your settings page and connect there
  It doesn’t work for custom domains yet but we’re working on it.
• Twitter login: same as facebook, go to your settings page and connect there
• auto-save textareas contents: thanks to HTML5, even if your browser crashes, your question is still there after restarting your browser
• syndicate your questions to dlvr.it from your /settings page

Improvements:

• many SEO improvements by tweaking our robots.txt and removing any duplicated pages, this will make Google very happy and it has already started showing great results.
• improved support for non-latin languages
• more sharing buttons: you can share questions on more sites now.
• add special icons next to admins and mods avatars
• show badge count for each user
• widgets must be EmbeddedObjects: we’re taking advantage of super fast MongoDB even more for Shapado.
• more constrains checks: you can check the list in your group settings page
• index of wiki pages: everyone can browse the wiki now
• Ability to sort post in your profile: requested by many users, you can go to a user profile and sorts his/her latest activities
• add rel=nofollow to all links in post content, this should help make spam futil
• filter feeds by language using a unique token by user
• allow to set group logo width and height
• more i18n

Bug fixes:

• auto display thumbnail for videos should not happen inside a code block
• long lines of code should not be wrapped
• clear wysiwyg editor after submitting
• make it possible to delete wiki pages
• some IE7 fixes for CSS and Javascript
• don’t increment question counter on refresh if user is not logged in
• atom feeds are now all valid
• fixed reseting password
• made topbar menu auto-overflow to manage users with many memberships on the group menu

Once again, thanks to all for your suggestions and support and thanks to the following people for their patches:

• Simon Probert
• Kliment Mamykin
• roolio

And thanks again to Google for sponsoring Shapado this summer

Posted on 2010-05-21 03:19:17 UTC

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Tags release, shapado, social, facebook, twitter, html5