Connect GC Network

September 13, 2024

New: - New Feature! – In the app plugin, header menu, we have added a new small but powerful feature that allows you to add or remove a post activity ‘Whats on your mind’ box that we all know so well, to the top of the main activity feed - New Feature! – In this update we have introduced Polls. Polls is a highly requested feature that allows Admins and group Owners & Moderators make use of Polls either in the main activity feed or group activity feed. Fixed: - Bug: Groups – Editing comments from a group feed which was related to a post which are “Joined the group” or “Posted an update” then showed a critical error - Bug: Groups – Group invitation in the App was not working as expected - Bug: Groups – Users were unable to create groups using the plus icon

August 26, 2024

Fixed: - Core – App was crashing on launch due to conflicts with custom typography - Core – Corrected typos in the app - Core – No error message now showing when playing WEBM videos in iOS app - Media – When the group albums were set to the default tab they would display on the web but not in the app - Media – Videos were not playing correctly on the iPad

July 29, 2024

New: - Group – Admins and Groups organizers and moderators now have the ability to use scheduling posts - Group – new group header to be more engaging and most of all remove the group tab page and load directly into the group feed Changed: - Activity – Images that have been uploaded to the activity feed in a portrait view will now fill the image preview pane creating a better look and feel of the images - Messages – When typing long messages on private messaging, the scroll feature was not working smoothly and the keyboard autoclosed when a user tried to minimize Fixed: - Activity – When Pining a Post from the activity comment modal would cause an unexpected error in some cases - Activity – Aa text formatting and Edit Activity Post menu option was not showing - Activity – Keyboard was not automatically showing when clicking pencil icon to post in certain iOS devices - Activity – When select a group to post into did not show the search bar properly on iPhone 14 - Core – When logging out and logging back in again the app would crash in some circumstances - Core – Keyboard failed to show up on an iPhone 13 mini when creating an activity post - Core – When scrolling through activity posts or comments to read more in some cases the feed was pulling the same posts and comments from the previous pagination - Core – Comment and Like buttons were showing on comments from Group feed posts. - Document – The upload document button was showing on the page when viewing another member’s document - Forum – Full description for forums were not showing - Groups – Groups that had long Group Descriptions when trying to edit would not scroll to the top forcing only new text to be added to the end - Messages – A white screen was showing when trying to add more recipients into an existing message - Messages – When using Live Messaging the typing indicator was not showing in the app correctly - Media – Deleting a Folder from the Documents tab in a user’s profile was causing the app to crash

May 6, 2024

Changed: - Media – changed the default behavior to when downloading media to download to photo library by default with the option to then save to other locations Fixed: - Activity – When the app is opened the Activity block was not updating automatically - Forums – Critical error was showing on Forum discussion when clicking Report Reply - Forums – When replying to discussion with many tags the message input text preview section would not show until hiding the keyboard - Groups – Group forum discussion/replies which were also posted in News Feed, showed link preview in the News Feed even if the link preview is disabled for both Activity and Forum

April 11, 2024

Added: - New Feature! Activity – Users now have the ability to Turn off Notifications on specific posts they have interacted with that they no longer have interest in. - New Feature! Activity – To make the activity feed more streamlined we have introduced the View more comments and View more replies which will allow users to expand the threads they are interested in rather than showing the full expanded user interactions - New Feature! Activity – Close comments allows post authors and admins to turn off commenting on any specific post, which gives users and admins another great way to maintain control and moderation Fixed: - Activity – The Load More button in the activity feed was not working properly when scrolling down - Forums – Users were unable to edit standalone discussions as the page would just sit in a loading state - Messages – Users were not seeing the instantly sent message in thread and also even when the send button was greyed out users were able to send a blank message as the send button was still active - Moderation – Suspended users were still able to access the app

March 15, 2024

Added: - New Feature – Introducing reaction into the platform – members will now have the ability to react with different emotions to posts, comments and replies. Fixed: - Activity – Activity Feed skeleton post loader, continued to load infinitely when reaching the end of the screen - Groups – The radio button was not clickable within the groups Manage pages when you have already selected Group Discussion and Course while creating a Group - Groups – The Accept or Reject member request button was not updating to show whether the member had been accepted or rejected - Forums – The full description of a forum was not displaying correctly - Forums – The keyboard collapses/hides when a tags is selected within the forum discussion reply - Media – Video information not showing when posting or editing video posts in the activity feed - Media – When scrolling the Video directory quickly users were encountering a critical error - Messages – The send message button was not working and was stopping messages being sent - Messages – When pressing Send to send message the button would stay highlighted and clickable while the message was sending in the background causing multiple messages if the user kept pressing the button - Messages – When viewing messages you could scroll through and see recent messages but when scrolling up you were unable to load the message history - Moderation – In certain situations if a member was reported, then a different member could have been suspended instead of the reported member - User – Users would encounter a one-time critical error after uploading a new document and then changing the document privacy

November 9, 2023

Added: - Activity – Pin to Activity feed also known as Pin to Posts - Notifications – new gesture capability into Notifications screen to mark individual notifications as Read or Unread - Notifications – new option to Mark All Notifications as Read Changed: - Performance – Fixed conflicts with iOS 17 causing app crashing in some circumstance Fixed: - Forums – Could not start a discussion after joining a group - Groups – Users were unable to report members from the Group members list - Forums – Video & Document content was not showing when you tried to edit content within a group or standalone forum discussion - Styling – Within Send Invites the keyboard would cover the Recipient Details input box - Videos – Change Thumbnail > Choose from Videos issues - Groups – Subscribe/Unsubscribe button was not responsive

September 5, 2023

Fixed: - Activity – When editing a post in Discussions or Discussions reply, users were unable to remove Giff’s - Activity – Link Preview causing fatal error when using www. instead of https:// on the URL link - Groups – Member request screen was not being refreshed after action was taken - Groups – Activity notifications were still received after leaving a hidden group - Forums – App crashed when opening a forum discussion with a link preview - Forums – Discussion post was not displaying - Forums – Discussion Reply notification doesn’t scroll user to the reply when the number of replies is high - Media – Image positioning fixed when viewed in landscape orientation - Media – Vertical video previews were not correctly displayed - Media – Videos were not being played when WP Offload is installed - Messages – Unable to create group messages with someone you already have a private message with has now been resolved - Profiles – Date field in “Repeater field” was not saving due to “Invalid date” error

June 20, 2023

Changed: - Activity – Aligned the Like and Comment icons on the activity feed - Activity – Improved Moderation for Activity Feed - Groups – Improved Moderation for Groups - Forums – Improved Moderation for Forums Fixed: - Discussions – Fixed issue where some discussions were not showing up and left users with a continuous spinner - Groups – Group message not available for users with existing 1:1 conversations - Groups – Group messages will no longer automatically select all members when using the search on the members screen - Groups – Groups were not able to be created immediately after deleting one - Media – Excel and Word documents will now provide download option when previewing is unavailable - Media – Media being opened from Videos or Photos screens would only load the first media file - Photos – Reply comment to photos is not shown - Videos – Videos continued playing audio after closing - Videos – Videos were not rotating on iOS to landscape mode when in full screen

May 10, 2023

Added: - Support for App Links – all links using the Site URL(https://connect.ggcn.org) will open directly in the app, as long as the app is installed on the member's iOS device Fixed: - Activity – Spacing issue when mentioning users on timelines - App Crash – When accessing Documents while logged out - Media – Documents can now be uploaded into sub-folders - Media – UI improvement for comments on Photos - Media – UI Styling on Photo Directory - Send Invites – UI fixed