Beam.gg's biggest update so far brings multiple new features, quality of life improvements and popularly-requested upgrades.
- New feature: Custom User Roles
Create and customize user roles with granular control over platform-wide and subforum specific permissions
- New feature: Private Subforums
Create private subforums, customize their look and set role-based granular permissions such as Post Type, Anonymous, Posts and comments submissions
- Improved Categories
Categories are now subforum-based and can be deleted
- Expanded Feed and Comments Filters
Choose the default view for your community's feed with a wider range of options based on post time and post type
- Improved Community UI Navigation
- New left menu navigation for subforums, categories and other links
- New Hamburger Menu for mobile devices
- Wider feed for improved readability (desktop)
- "Read More" button on feed posts
- Breadcrumb trails for faster navigation between posts
- Fixed header navigation with "New Post" and profile buttons always available
- New "User Settings" profile menu
- Username Badges for Admins and Moderators
- New feature: Cross-login/Users API
Bring users from an existing platform without requiring them to register
- Enabled changing the Beam Subdomain on the Beam Dashboard
- Users can now change their email and password on the profile settings
- Added "Backlink" option displayed on the left navigation menu
- And many more changes...
- Fixed an issue with captcha verification
- Fixed a rare issue when removing community content
- Fixed an issue with custom domain input
- Fixed page crash when viewing "Terms and Rules" on the Beam Dashboard
Major performance improvements on several areas on the community, including:
- Improved feed and post page performance and response
- Improved comments and replies performance and response
- Improved search page performance and response
- Improved user profile page performance and response
- Fixed an issue causing the community feed to show as empty after signing in
- Fixed an issue with mention notifications
- Fixed an issue with code redemption process on Beam Dashboard
- New feature: Social Login (Google, Facebook)
- Fixed an issue when mentioning a user
- Fixed an issue with custom reactions icons on notifications
- Fixed an issue with notifications on single post pages
- Fixed an issue causing pinned posts to also be shown as a non-pinned post in the feed
- Added redirect on previous route after sign in
- Deleting a comment will now reload the page
- Fixed a small inconsistency with birthday selector during onboarding
- Added a page for deleted posts (post not found)
- Fixed an issue causing hashtags to not work properly
- Improved overall app performance and loading times
- Account verification will now send links instead of codes
- Fixed an issue causing comments to disappear from a post
- Fixed an issue causing post page link previews to display missing information
- Fixed an issue causing some email notifications call-to-action buttons to land incorrectly
- Fixed an issue with link previews failing to load, resulting in recurrent requests to draw the preview and slowing down page speed
- Fixed a rare issue causing community feed to not load
- Added avatar image reupload option during community onboarding
- Added reCAPTCHA for account verification for improve security
- Fixed image visualizer for post images
- Fixed a few issues with mobile browsing on main community feed
- Major efforts were made to improve community feed and post page loading speeds
- Fixed a rare issue of content mismatch
- Added image visualizer for post images (previously only available for text posts)
- Small adjustments for community mobile view
- Fixed an application error caused by link previews not containing enough OG metadata
- Added several Community Monetization related email and in-app notifications
- Fixed an issue causing Subscription Perks list to not being displayed correctly
- Added a maximum character limit to link previews
- Fixed an issue causing anonymous comments to display on the poster's user profile
- Fixed an issue on community monetization when selecting India as your country
- GIF avatars will now properly play when viewing users from the Beam Dashboard
- Added a confirmation step for disabling the community monetization
- New Feature: Community Monetization (Member subscriptions)
Enable from the Beam Dashboard. Allows community members to subscribe for a monthly fee and get special rewards.
Member rewards include: Gif profile picture, 1.5x EXP gain, special Avatar Frames and Profile Covers, special subscriber name badge
- Reworked "Hot" feed view. Now it will first show posts that have higher recent score, based on number of comments and upvotes/reactions.
- Fixed an issue causing feed buttons (Hot, New, Images) to not work on subforums
- Fixed an issue causing feed to not load old posts
- Fixed an issue causing upvotes to not work properly inside a post page
- Fixed an issue with Level Up email notifications incorrectly displaying the username
- Fixed an issue causing email notifications to display the Beam Domain links instead of the chosen custom domain
- Added iframe support
- Added line breaks for community description section
- Fixed mismatched text color for community description on mobile view
- Fixed "Remove Preview" button not working for link previews
- Fixed missing image button on text editor
- Fixed an issue with post image preview
- Minor backend improvements
- Fixed an issue with link preview word break
- Improved load speed community feed and post page by fixing single page behavior
- Improved feed load speed by removing "Empty posts" check
- Improved load speed on feed by fixing a double loading issue added as a temporary solution to a previous issue
- Fixed an issue with Post Approval where unapproved posts couldn't be previewed by authors and moderators
- If Post Approval is active, now only approved posts will grant exp and count towards Quest progression
- Fixed an issue with notifications being sent for unapproved posts
- Fixed an issue where Owner account creation required approval if Member Approval was turned on before owner registration
- New Feature: Member Approval and Whitelist
When enabled, new community members will require approval before they can access the community. Pre-approve members by adding email addresses or domains to the whitelist.
- New Feature: Post Approval
When enabled, new posts will be sent for moderation review before appearing on the community feed.
- Fixed an issue with word wrap on link previews
- Small speed improvements done to the community feed
- Fixed an issue breaking the width of the page during post creation
- Custom domain improvements related to flattened CNAME values
- Improved error messaging on Platform Settings page on Beam Dashboard
- Restricted Subscriptions page access to Editors
- Fixed an issue with the community switcher on specific browsers
- Fixed an issue with community link previews showing Beam.gg related info
- Updated available subscriptions on subscription change modal
- Removed link preview for mentions and hashtags
- Improved link previews
- Fixed an issue when unsubscribing notifications
- Fixed an issue when adding mentions to other users
- Improved custom domain deletion process
- Fixed an issue preventing community members from being shown on Community Manager
- Fixed an issue when changing passwords
- Fixed an issue causing the post page to crash
- Added "Code Block" to text editor
- Added Open Graph link preview to community links
- Fixed an issue causing Category browsing to not display related posts properly
- Fixed an issue causing password changing on Beam Dashboard to not work at all times
- Fixed an issue causing "Domain already exists" error when setting up Custom Domain on Beam accounts with more than one created community
- Improved community feed browsing experience by allowing "Open in new tab/window" functionality for posts
- Removed Custom Domain mapping if certificate is not found
- Fixed an issue with posts in the post page and comments behaving as an URL and leading to an "Undefined Error" page
- Fixed an issue with birthdate
- Fixed an email issue when unsubscribing from a post
- Fixed an issue causing main subforum to always be displayed when viewing different subforums on private communities
- Fixed an issue when signing out from Beam Dashboard on mobile view
- Added new community icon and cover to default community settings
- Fixed an issue that enabled custom domain for pricing plans where the feature is unavailable
- Added new statuses to custom domain authentication process
- Fixed an issue with free trial expiration alert banner
- Added support for special characters for community profile First Name and Last Name
- Fixed an issue with community creation for communities with long names
- Improved error messaging in the community name creation step
- Fixed a display issue in Custom Domain setup process
- Added support for "www" custom domains
- Community profile url is now be unique (previously /profile/me)
- Fixed an issue with Quests tab
- Fixed an issue preventing anonymous posts and comments from being deleted by Admins and Moderators
- Fixed an issue that prevented the profile completion quest from being completed
- Fixed a rare issue with code redemption process
- Added mobile support for Community Builder
- Added partial mobile support for Beam Dashboard
- Fixed a display issue on Custom Domain
- Fixed UI related issues with Custom Reactions
- Added Custom Domain management to Beam Dashboard
- Fixed several Code Redemption issues
- Several improvements to Code Redemption UI
- Added Custom Reactions management to Beam Dashboard
- Several improvements to Code Redemption process
- Improvements to "Subscription expired" community alert banner
- Fixed an issue with community Birthday displaying the incorrect date
- Improved community birthday date selectors
- Removed gender selection from user profile
- Several backend stability improvements
- Several improvements to Code Redemption process
- Added Code Redemption process to Beam Dashboard
- Sign out now redirects to community feed instead of sign in screen
- Minor design fix to post dropdown menu
- Fixed a rare issue with user reactions
- Fixed a rare issue causing User Reactions not being registered by the system
- Improved video embedding on a few browsers
- Enhanced Vimeo video embedding
- Small backend fixes and improvements
- Improved text editor and added new formatting options: Underline, Headings, Alignment, Divider
- Added embedding support
- Several backend optimization and improvements to Community Feed
- Fixed an issue with comments on user profile page
- Fixed user onboarding "Skip" button not working
- Fixed images disappearing when editing a post
- Post editing now doesn't allow switching the original post type
- Resolved an issue which prevented support on "app." custom domains
- Various back-end improvements
- Improved clarity of error messaging during sign up
- Improved performance by increasing the limit of concurrent connections
- Fixed a rare issue with infinite loading during community sign in
- Fixed an issue during account verification
- Removed member limit indicator from Beam Dashboard
- Enabled Subforum and Post Category editing on Beam Dashboard
