Changelog
Everything we've shipped recently, newest first.
All changes
- Fixed
Threads stop looking unread everywhere at once
Opening a conversation marks it read the way every other change in the product is made — as an action, not as a side effect of loading the page. What that fixes is a second tab: it used to keep the unread mark for a thread you had read minutes ago, and now hears about it immediately. Without JavaScript there is a button for it.
- New
Say where remote applicants may be
A remote listing can now name the countries it accepts applicants from — and if it names none, it restricts nobody. Until now the country a team gave for itself was passed to search engines as a restriction on applicants, so a remote position posted by a German server was only shown to people in Germany, although its author had turned nobody away.
- New
A studio can have a recruiter
A studio posts openings and receives applications through them, but could give nobody the role that answers them — “recruiter” was offered to servers only. It is offered to both now, and “applicant”, the role that applies on the team's behalf, stays as it was. A decision on an application a studio sent also reaches the whole team's notifications instead of only the person who pressed the button, which until now left a studio without a configured webhook hearing nothing at all.
- Improved
How a studio answers, and what it keeps private
A studio's page now shows how it answers the applications it receives — the same figure a server's page has always carried, withheld here on the assumption that a studio receives none. A hiring team can also open the profile of a studio that has applied to them, even one that is not in the directory, which was the one moment it mattered and the one moment it was missing. And a studio that has taken itself out of the directory no longer publishes its list of delivered work: the list follows the profile it belongs to, like the gallery and the skills beside it always have.
- Improved
Getting started as a studio
The “Where would you like to start” page now offers a studio path, which it did not — a studio founder had to pick one of the two wrong ones. The studio checklist is its own: fill in the profile, get listed in the directory, and post an opening only if your team is looking for people itself.
- Fixed
A studio's own language, everywhere
Email, push notifications and Discord messages for a studio are now written in the language the studio set on its own profile. Until now they all came out in one language regardless, and a studio's “We are hiring” badge showed no picture at all — it looked for one in a place only servers have.
- Improved
Straight to the content, with one key
Every page now starts with a “Skip to content” link: press Tab once and the next press is in the page itself, instead of walking through the whole header first. Screen readers also get a proper content area to jump to on every page, which several of them did not have.
- Fixed
The filters can be used with the keyboard again
On the job and talent lists, the first arrow key inside a filter closed the panel and lost your place, so choosing an option with the keyboard was not possible. Arrow keys now move through the options and the panel closes when you actually pick one.