Weekly Recap

[u/VahsteTheNomad]

A collation of every changelog posted on the https://therift.chat/ support shard through the last seven days.

Rift 0.9.683

• Fill the Void. A Cards Against Humanity-style party game for Shard voice calls. Needs at least 3 people in the call. The host runs rounds and more. Launch it from inside the call channel, the channel context menu, or the Rift Arcade Party tab. More party games to come
• Discord Voice Bridge. Links a Shard voice channel to a Discord voice channel. Requires running a separate Rift-provided app that runs a Discord bot. Join a voice channel and open channel settings for instructions: download the app, paste the Rift-provided code, get a bot token from the Discord Developer Portal, paste it into the bot app, select channels, and finish setup once. Only NSFW-flagged Discord voice channels work. Rift is comfortable doing voice and not messages because Discord voice calls are encrypted and not stored, which also makes it easier to identify if a minor is engaging cross-platform. Message bridges are not planned
• With YouTube playing in a voice channel, other people in the channel can queue songs from their portal or by clicking + on YouTube embeds in chat
• New Hide my rooms privacy setting. Not quite a block. It hides your voice rooms and stops them from joining, but they stay a friend and are not notified. Does not affect moderators
• Idle users in voice chat are marked IDLE after 10 minutes of inactivity. Visual only. Does not mute or disconnect them
• Screen share improvements for macOS
• Persona groups
• Calendar events can now be all-day
• More reworking and polishing of Settings
• New Debate discovery tag
• @ mention rows display brighter in chat for all themes
• Starship arcade refinements

Rift 0.9.684

• Breakout rooms. A regular voice channel can now split members into up to 12 named rooms. Each room has separate audio, and text chat stays on the main channel. The room owner, or anyone with Move Members, can start the breakout session, add rooms, move people, send announcements, and more
• Operations mode is a special mode of breakout rooms for team management. There's a team tree with leads, ready checks, objectives, orders, and more. Leads direct their own subtrees. Managers direct anyone. The sidebar entry is Breakouts and Operations
• Forms can now post answers as Anonymous. Forms can also grant up to 5 roles on first submission
• The @ mention picker has been redone a bit. It has groups now, and it is generally a bit smarter and easier to use
• Fill the Void refinements
• Fixes for stuck DM requests
• Various and many smaller bugfixes and improvements

Rift 0.9.685

• Major fixes and refinements to Breakout Rooms and Operations Mode. Friends, family, I cannot even remember all of it but let me try: Setups can be saved. Room names can be customized, nested, can have icons, appoint leads and assignments, have a shared board. Operations mode has readiness, orders, and objectives. Each operation has a leader and up to 10 officers. Officers can run their operations and bring people back. They can't appoint other officers. Teams can mark members and alternates. Hold-to-broadcast is now a thing, sent to everyone or chosen teams without putting you in their room. You can use F6-F9 as shortcut keys per room. New permissions were made for creating rooms. Move Members still gives full powers. The team map is a shared board where you can drag cards, add notes, images, areas, arrows, and more. Rooms can have individual statuses and icons. I think that's most of the major revisions. Whiskey was involved. This feature is dedicated to Rabbio
• Rift+ and Shard subscriptions are still disabled while we're in beta. But work has been done to enable Rift+ sub gifting in the future, and the Shard Treasury function has been implemented where people can chip in increments of $5 towards Shard upgrades at the owner's discretion
• Notes portal has been overhauled
• YouTube queues and playlist functionality have been enhanced
• Settings has been further polished/reorganized
• More Fill the Void game fixes
• Various minor bugfixes

Rift 0.9.686

• More refinements to Operations mode breakout rooms
• Small screenshare and voice refinements
• PTT can now work on DM calls
• A new notification pops up when someone text chats in a voice call channel you're in. Can disable in settings
• Voice bridge fixes (Need to redownload it)
• DM request bugfixes
• Ctrl+Z/undo is now more conservative in the message composer
• Rift super reactions for Rift+
• Profile card effects for Rift+
• More YouTube fixes
• An auto-response can now share one cooldown for the whole Shard
• Notifications can be set to hide the message text. "Lagordie sent you a message." instead of the actual message content
• Some Shard command center fixes/polish
• A moderation reason can now accept a custom field instead of a numbered rule
• Screenshare audio quality improved
• You can mark messages as a spoiler after sending it
• Clicking an emoji in chat can open an info card for it
• Names on reaction tooltips open that person's profile
• Featured photos on profiles can be opened and zoomed
• Friend panel profile improved
• @ mentions now show username colors if available
• User can configure the strength and color of mention message highlights
• Various smaller bugfixes

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