Changelog

Kialo’s comprehensive release history.

Release Notes #554

  • In preparation for allowing signing up to kialo-edu.com without providing an email address, it is now possible to also log in using your username instead of your email address.
  • Button sizes and layout for the mobile top and bottom bar have been improved.
  • Fixed some minor navigation and layouting issues.

Release Notes #553

  • Minor bug fixes and performance improvements were released.

Release Notes #552

  • Using search “marked for review” claims and selecting a specific linked location of a multi-linked claim, sometimes resulted in the wrong linked location of a claim being selected for moving/linking. This has been fixed.

Release Notes #551

  • Minor bug fixes and performance improvements were released.

Release Notes #550

  • The scroll position in the discussion changes sidebar is now remembered when closing and opening it.
  • Flagging claims that have been copied from another discussion, will now result in the user that copied the claim receiving the notification for a flagged claim, not the original creator.
  • Location-specific changes, like the “Move Elsewhere” mark for review change, of multi-linked claims will now link to the correct locations.

Release Notes #548

  • Minor bug fixes and performance improvements were released.

Release Notes #547

  • Acknowledging a ‘claim was deleted’ notification made the deleted claim disappear, instead of still being shown until a user navigates a level up or down. This has been fixed.
  • The team members invite dialog wrongly displayed a role selection dropdown, this has been corrected.

Release Notes #545

  • The Cloning and Invitation Wizard (CIW) has been released on Kialo-Edu. It allows educators to invite users and teams to their own respective clones of a debate. This feature will make the lives of educators with large courses, especially when split into multiple teams, much easier. Please contact support to have it enabled for your account.
  • Trailing parenthesis in URLs of links added to claims, were sometimes not saved correctly. This has been fixed.

Release Notes #544

  • Minor bug fixes and performance improvements were released.

Release Notes #543

  • The role and respective permissions of users joining discussions via discussion invite links can now be specified. 
  • Private Kialo discussions can now be embedded too.
  • HTML code snippet to embed a discussion can now easily be found via the share menu within discussions.
  • Cloned discussions will no longer immediately be opened after cloning has been completed.

Release Notes #541

  • Minor bug fixes and page content changes were released.

Release Notes #540

  • Sometimes scrolling was required to see a claim selected from the discussion change list, this has been fixed.

Release Notes #539

November 18th, 2019

  • New team members now automatically follow all debates that a team is a member of.
  • Parent claims now have white backgrounds in the minimap.
  • In “show all ancestors” mode, claim selections sometimes did not scroll the selected claim to the correct position, this has been fixed.
  • Kialo.com and Kialo-edu.com now link to each other in their respective footers.

Release Notes #537

  • The “Saving..” notification was erroneously popping up in MyKialo, this has been fixed.
  • An error message is now shown when users try to move suggested claims to where the suggested claim is currently located.
  • A minor search results layouting error has been fixed.

Release Notes #536

  • Scrolling the Explore page with Chrome-based browsers on recent versions of Android was broken, this has been fixed.

Release Notes #535

  • Deleted discussions are now immediately removed from search results upon deletion.
  • Comment drawer animations have been improved.

Release Notes #534

  • A new function to enable displaying the whole chain of claims up to the thesis has been released.
  • Loading pages with Kialo embeds sometimes scrolled the embedding page to the Kialo embed upon initial load, this has been fixed.
  • Clones of discussions can now be renamed during the cloning process.
  • Links to release notes have been added to the deployment toast notifications.
  • Kialo will now reconnect quicker to backend servers, when network access is restored.
  • Minor quirks when logging in using Safari and Firefox have been fixed.

Release Notes #533

  • The new team selection dialog has been released, making inviting teams to debates much more intuitive. No more having to enter /teamname.
  • The comment and history tab can now be displayed while editing a claim.

Release Notes #532

  • Mentioning all participants of a private debate, in comments and chat, is now possible via @all.
  • The default team and clone limits for users of Kialo Edu have been increased

Release Notes #530

  • Google SSO has been enabled for Kialo Edu.
  • Opening claims in new tabs using Ctrl-/Cmd-/middle-click was not possible in various instances, like e.g. from within sidebars. This has been fixed.
  • Saving edited comments on moved claims was not possible in some instances. This has been fixed.
  • Suggesters were not able to edit their comments on their suggested claims. This has been fixed.
  • The spacing between the minimap and the column claim interface varied depending on how deep in a discussion one was. This has been fixed.
  • Mentioning users was not possible in moved claims. This has been fixed.
  • Tooltips for disabled buttons were not shown. This has been fixed.
  • And finally, some minor visual quirks in the discussion info popup have been fixed.