Release Notes: October 1st, 2014

Without further ado, here are October's release notes:

Features

  • Started to roll out nicely formatted HTML emails, including the popular reply notification email. We've got more on the way!
  • Fully translated iFixit into Russian and Turkish
  • Adjusted spacing around Guide steps’ lines to be more aesthetically pleasing
  • Overhauled the revision history section of Guides and Wikis
    • Style updates to the page that illustrates what changes have been made to Guides and Wikis
    • Guide and Wiki revision history now displays videos that have been added or removed
  • Guide authors are now awarded 30 reputation for completing a guide!
  • Added an imprint link for non-English site visitors that provides more information on the company
  • Everyone can now see the “View My Students” link on Teachers’ profile pages
  • Students and teachers can now edit the repairability score of a device that they are an author of
  • Added new phones to the repairability chart
  • Made some small style updates to the iFixit blog

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where changes to an image that was already placed, such as cropping or adding markers, were occasionally not being saved
  • Corrected a typo in our 307 Redirect message
  • Fixed inconsistencies in Device wiki heading style
  • Fixed a bug where editing a Guide video step would require re-uploading the video
  • Fixed a bug where editing an image that was already placed resulted in an unedited copy of the photo appearing alongside the edited copy in your Media Manager
  • Made all of the tabs in the Answers’ About section appear on one line instead of two
  • Fixed a rare occurrence where an error would appear when trying to migrate a question in Answers
  • Fixed issues with Yahoo OpenID Login
  • Made it so placeholder text would no longer show up as user inputted text when previewing a guide
  • Fixed an issue where users could attempt to delete a step without being logged in
  • Fixed a bug where the Guide Ownership section of a guide’s history would occasionally not display
  • Made it so you can get shipping cost estimates even if you don’t enter a zip code
    • Now our customers that live in areas without zip codes can get shipping estimates
  • Fixed a bug where removing a repair service from a business team immediately after adding it didn’t work
  • Removed some HTML from the plaintext version of our emails

Special thanks to David Bourguignon for some nicely detailed bug reports this month. We got (almost) all of the issues he reported fixed.

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