Release Notes: May 1st, 2015
Features
- We completely redesigned the Answers platform!
- Answers now has a cleaner, more modern look
- It is now easier to ask and edit a question
- Subscribing and participating in questions is easier
- Answers is now mobile friendly!
- Optimized the following pages for mobile and tablet view:
- iFixit Apps, Repair Manifesto, Identify your iPhone, Patagonia Care and Repair, API 2.0 Documentation, Stories,Help Documentation, Start a New Page tool, Gadget Teardowns, Featured Guides, Tablet Repairability, Smartphone Repairability, Document Metadata pages, and Image Metadata pages
- Added three new Marker types: lines, arrows, and gap markers!
- Gap markers have been frequently requested to illustrate spacing
- The label that appears when hovering over an item on a Guide now displays the name of the item
- Improved the appearance of find-as-you-type category autocomplete
- Added additional keyboard shortcuts for working with image markup
- Created the Featured Student Guides page, where you can view exceptionally awesome guides made by students
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where under certain circumstances the iOS app would crash for iPad users
- Fixed an issue where business teams were only allowed to be registered in countries that the iFixit store ships to
- Fixed a style issue with the new Answers layout that made it impossible for moderators to distinguish between active and deleted comments
- Fixed a bug where comments on a deleted wiki were still appearing
- Fixed an issue where the list of Guides and Wikis in the
- Fixed a bug where prerequisites would display in a guide as their original title even if had been changed
- Fixed issues with formatting on Category pages
- Fixed some visual bugs caused by implementing more internationalization features
- Fixed a bug where certain bullets in PDFs did not match the ones on actual guides
- Fixed an issue where certain pages would not work if the user’s view language was not set to English
- Fixed an issue where edits made simultaneously may have displayed out of order on the wiki history page
- Fixed an issue where documents appearing in search results did not have images associated with them
- Fixed an issue where guides were inheriting flags from prerequisites that did not apply
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