Raftr Support: October 27 Update

Android:

  • Chat messages can now have files attached
  • ProUsers can now enable check-in for events they (or their aliases) create, with attendance tracking
  • Lots of notifications improvements, including:
    • Notifications can now be marked as “read” (individually, or all at once)
    • Notifications screen now has “new” and “earlier” sections to make it more clear which have already been seen there
    • Opening push notifications will now update the related notification in the app to be marked as read, as well as reducing the unread tally
    • Notifications can now be longer – for a better preview of their related content
    • The Messages screen now has an option to mark all conversations as “read”
  • Some additional fixes like making it more clear that you can cancel a request to join a raft or chat channel and updating some empty state and error messages to be more clear

iOS:

  • Chat messages can now have files attached
  • ProUsers can now enable check-in for events they (or their aliases) create, with attendance tracking
  • Added new options to create Events and Posts on rafts’ home pages, as well as adding a collapsed state for the prompts to create content throughout the app
  • Lots of notifications improvements, including:
    • Notifications can now be marked as “read” (individually, or all at once)
    • Notifications screen now has “new” and “earlier” sections to make it more clear which have already been seen there
    • Opening push notifications will now update the related notification in the app to be marked as read, as well as reducing the unread tally
    • Notifications can now be longer – for a better preview of their related content
    • The Messages screen now has an option to mark all conversations as “read”
  • Some additional fixes like making it more clear that you can cancel a request to join a raft or chat channel, updating some empty state and error messages to be more clear, and link previews being hidden when there is not enough info to show for them

Web:

  • Chat messages can now have files attached
  • Events feed now has a map view to be able to see and discover events based on their locations
  • ProUsers can now enable check-in for events they (or their aliases) create, with attendance tracking
  • People with “broadcast” permission can now broadcast DM’s to multiple people or posts (of any type) to multiple rafts
  • Raft leaders can now delete their rafts
  • Lots of notifications improvements, including:
    • Notifications can now be marked as “read” (individually, or all at once)
    • Notifications screen now has “new” and “earlier” sections to make it more clear which have already been seen there
    • Notifications can now be longer – for a better preview of their related content
    • The Messages screen now has an option to mark all conversations as “read”
    • A new option to receive notifications via email
    • Updated, longer character limit for Announcements (to align with update to allow notifications to have more text)
  • Some additional fixes including:
    • Making it more clear that you can cancel a request to join a raft or chat channel
    • Updating some empty state and error messages to be more clear
    • Improving how the audience is selected when creating content
    • Updating list posts with Raftr users to include additional information from their profiles when available – locations, career info, and phone numbers that are set to be visible to others
    • Introducing visual indicators to members of secret rafts when seeing the rafts on Explore or in Search – to confirm the rafts are secret and only visible there to members

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