Release Notes: June 1st, 2015

Feature

• Continued our campaign to make Answers completely awesome:
  • Revamped the Ask a Question form, making it easier to ask questions about the correct topic
  • Added “Answered!” button to questions with an accepted answer, making it easier to jump to the solution
  • Badge counts and Admin + Moderator status are now displayed in answer details sidebar
  • Member reputation is now displayed in the answers index to better highlight users' expertise
  • Members are now immediately notified when someone has responded to their question instead of at the end of the day
• Improved behavior of Login/Register/Reset Password to not redirect to home page and added the ability to navigate between these three screens with the browser’s forward/back buttons
• We improved the emails sent to users whose posts have been flagged as spam, making them more informative.
• Renamed the “Scholar” badge to “Highway Patrol,” for patrolling 1,000 edits. Created new “Scholar” badge for members of student teams.
• Added a link to iFixit Meta on the question submission form to help direct questions to the proper site

Bugs

• Fixed an issue on the password reset page where pushing the tab key with a textbox focused would result in unexpected behavior
• Fixed an issue on sites with Google/Facebook login enabled where double-clicking the login button would cause a login failure
• Fixed issue where guide PDFs occasionally would render without bullets
• Fixed an issue where moderator posts were flagged for spam review instead of being immediately posted
• Addressed a bug where an empty status message appeared to users when resetting passwords or when they had an incorrect email address
• Fixed an issue where under certain circumstances, media uploads and manipulation would fail
• Fixed a bug where under rare circumstances, guide pages would fail to load
• Fixed a bug where the “reset password again” link shown after clicking on an expired password reset link would only show the login modal
• Addressed an issue where student members were incorrectly being blocked by the automated spam system
• Fixed a bug where debugging information appeared in certain site messages
• Fixed a bug that caused markup to be removed from an image when cropped
• Fixed a bug where nudging a line in the markup editor with the “-” key caused the line to change orientation
• Fixed a bug where users received an error when trying to preview edits made to a question
• Fixed a variety of small issues relating to moderator actions on answers, as well as tweaking some display issues
• Tweaked the appearance of category header images on mobile view
• Added validation to responses to questions to help ensure they are posted to the right place
• Fixed a bug where login errors were appearing behind the login window, rendering them invisible
• Fixed a bug causing occasional empty search results
• Improved the appearance of pagination links on mobile devices
• Addressed confusing ordering of guide steps and proper display of images in guide edit history
• Fixed a bug that appended tags left in the “add tag” field onto pre-existing tags, i.e. when editing tags on a question
• Tweaked avatar display problem in recommended question list
• Fixed a bug that prevented device images from displaying in the questions list despite the question being linked to a device category with an image
• Fixed a bug where users could try to answer closed posts
• Fixed a bug causing image rendering issues in IE 11
• Fixed a bug where new answers notifications were being sent to the question answerer instead of the question owner
• Fixed a bug where under certain circumstances, /Answers filtering options were unavailable
• Tweaked avatar image size on /Stories page for better rendering
• Added pagination to /Stories page
• Fixed an issue where status messages shown during the checkout process were double-escaped
• Fixed a style issue on iFixit Meta where question lists would incorrectly refer to nonexistent devices