Release Notes: July 1st, 2015

Features

• Redesigned iFixit header, homepage, and footer
  • The new header integrates a constant search bar, a new cart icon, and keeps navigation consistent around the site.
  • The new homepage facilitates the search for answers by putting the search bar front and center, and features rotating images of various repairs.
  • The footer displays the number of manuals, devices, and accepted solutions that we currently have.
  • The link to iFixit Meta was changed to “The Watercooler”
• Business team members are now automatically subscribed to the iFixit Pro newsletter
• Mobile users can now take a photo or video directly from their phones and upload it through the media manager
• By popular demand, added Login and Join links back to the homepage
• Tweaked product display so that all prices now show in red
• We now send emails notifying members when their questions are about to be automatically archived, giving them the opportunity to update it
• We have added a new interface for single-video, single-step guides; videos added to a guide’s introduction are displayed full-width, and the wiki/guide toolbar now includes a video embed link button to make adding videos convenient
• When questions or posts are updated, the updates are now appended to the end of the post beneath an “Update” header
• Added “View Profile” link back to the header's dropdown menu

Bugs

• Fixed a bug where moderators could not accept answers on “discussion”-labeled threads migrated from iFixit meta to iFixit
• Fixed a bug where quotation marks in guides’ tool autocompleter did not display properly
• Fixed a typographic inconsistency on iFixit Pro
• Fixed a bug where users could run a search without a query
• Fixed a bug where the language modal on the Patagonia and Pro pages did not render properly
• Fixed a bug where login through the header on the Pro and Patagonia pages was not working
• Fixed a bug where the login/join links on certain pages were the wrong color
• Fixed a display bug on ifixit.com/new where a wrapping link disrupted some text
• Fixed link colors of certain buttons around the site
• Fixed a bug where the cart link in the header did not display properly on mobile devices
• Tweaked the new footer display to resolve some stylistic inconsistencies
• Tweaked display of Patagonia page to fix a bug where certain content was not rendering properly
• Fixed some display bugs on the mobile and tablet repairability pages, and linked all device images to guides
• Tweaked header on ifixit.com/New to fix a visual bug
• Fixed a bug affecting the appearance of the header search and footer newsletter-signup inputs on certain pages
• Fixed a bug that caused empty space to show beneath the footer
• Fixed a bug where the wrong icon was displaying for the Guide index page
• Fixed a bug where the cursor changed to pointer on hover even though the object was not clickable
• Fixed a bug where the hover state of icons on our homepage did not display properly on high-DPI screens
• Fixed a bug where the sidebar occasionally overlapped the footer on product pages
• Fixed a bug with the repair services autocompleter where it was displaying raw HTML
• Fixed the API documentation page so that endpoint titles no longer wrap
• Tweaked guide index display so there is no longer any page effect
• Edited Dozuki banner to omit an incorrect comma
• Made the “Reputation” link in the header dropdown menu link directly to the reputation tab of the user’s profile
• Merged Cart search and Site search for a unified Search experience™!
• Various Gift Guide style tweaks (iFixit)
• Updated ifixit.com/Pro and moved it to pro.ifixit.com
• Fixed a bug where search engines were indexing ephemeral patrol pages
• Fixed a bug where non-printing ascii control characters were appearing in XML output by the API
• Fixed an issue affecting element spacing in tablet and mobile display of guide creation and edit pages
• Fixed rendering of search bar in mobile view
• Fixed a bug where invalid characters were not being properly filtered out of certain fields for questions and answers
• Tweaked spacing of autocompleter results
• Made a slight change to the user activity display so that when there is no up/downvote history for a user, the up/downvote history indicator is not shown
• Tweaked display of pagination on mobile devices
• Fixed a bug where edits to the main image of a guide, if made from the guide details page, would not apply on save
• Fixed a bug where searching on the Answers page only worked if the “enter” key was hit, and not if the search button (magnifying glass) was clicked
• Updated styling of the moderation modal and fixed a bug where opening the modal caused the page to automatically scroll back to the top
• Fixed a bug that briefly kept the Patrol page from loading
• Fixed a bug that caused guide deletion for guides with PDFs to fail
• Amended API documentation to add missing parameters, fix typos/grammar, and add a list of our supported image formats
• Fixed a bug where teams' descriptions were not displayed when browsing the site in languages other than English
• Fixed a bug where wikis were not being filtered for spam
• Allow native video embeds in questions, answers, and wikis