New Features

A new dialog for inviting users to discussions and teams has been released, as a part of a larger initiative to reinvigorate Kialo’s user invite interfaces.

• The login and sign up dialogs have been revamped with an improved user experience.
• A minor visual improvement has also been rolled out with this release, making the discussion card menu overlay more visually appealing.
• A minor isue with sidebar content not properly displayed has been fixed.

• There are now more visually appealling default images for account and team avatars and discussion images.

• URLs generated for inviting users and access to discussions now have a “Copy Link” button to copy the URL to your clipboard.
• Bug fix: An incorrect confirmation message that was shown when removing a team from discussions has been fixed.

• On Kialo Edu, Discussion Tasks can be used to direct students towards specific activities in a discussion.
• A Sources sidebar is available in the discussion menu, listing all the external links from the claims of the discussion.

• A new wizard makes inviting teams to discussions more intuitive.
• The link editor can now quickly be brought up with Ctrl+K.

• Kialo now supports Microsoft Single Sign On.

• Discussions can now be muted. When muted, users won’t receive notifications when mentioned, nor when new claims or comments are suggested.

• A new read-only Viewer role was released, which cannot suggest, vote or change discussions in any way.
• The old role Viewer has been renamed to Suggester, which is more accurate given discussion participants with that role are able to suggest claims and comments and can vote.

• All dialogs have been redesigned and their design and button placement has been made more consistent across the whole site.

• Discussion contents and chat comments now support displaying right-to-left text. 
• Screen reader compatibility has been improved.

• Discussions and the discussion info popup can now be properly printed.

• Discussions can now be cloned from their settings page.
• Emails from Kialo are now localised into German, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.

• Cloning of private discussions no longer requires admin access to the discussion.

• Kialo is now available in Portuguese.

• New versions of Kialo will from now on be deployed without interrupting users for a couple of minutes while the sites are being updated.

• Kialo is now available in French.