Latest from Muut

New and more polished authentication system

12 different social login options to choose from

Improved the load performance of forum’s “All posts” view

Dramatically increased API capacity

More reliable connection handling

Improved the connection reliability between you and our servers

Private messaging

Ability to move threads between channels.

Ability to “retire” threads. Retired threads no longer get bumped to top in the feeds they appear in.

Plumbing for a totally new email notification system. Coming shortly in a fix release!

“Select to quote or share”- tip to the help dialog.

Hide odd characters beside account / profile image on Safari.

autowatch: false configuration property displays a “Watch for new replies”- checkbox when replying or creating new topics. By default this is true and threads are automatically followed. On both cases users have the option to click the eye icon to follow/unfollow threads.

higher performance search index implemented

better cache invalidation algs

improved median calculation algs

public stats on homepage

aerospike microsecond precision caching

improved abuse protection

improved search suggestions

fed-ids now fully support all characters

api optimizations for busier forums

improved API failover handling

various fixes from user reported issues

Communities with a custom domain no longer see a forum under muut.com. This also includes the static content.

The help dialog is positioned below the mouse if there is no space available above

A new LARGE plan with zapier, salesforce, mailchimp and campaign monitor integration

The ability to embed a forum with initial path or search string on the URL. For example: https://muut.com/goma/#!/exhibitions or https://muut.com/goma/#!/?my search string. The path is specified after #!/ characters.

Receive email notifications for access request on a private forum

Custom logo now fixed and showing on email notifications

Google login now works on a private forum

Root index not being generated in S3

Hosted Custom Domain: SEO links to muut.com/i rather than custom domain index.

Security fix: User verification links no longer contain email addressses in plain text form.

A link on the forum sidebar that points to our new referral program. For each referred friend we’ll either give you a $10 credit to lighten your bill while your friends get 33% off for the first 3 months if they upgrade.

“Make administrator” and “Make moderator” action buttons to profile page (mini & small plans only)

Allow unlimited amount of posts on the “Show earlier/newer posts” action button. Currently one of our customer has over 500 000 posts on a single thread!

Allow bolding of multiple words

YouTube links no longer open an extra tab

Google+ login issue fixed with private community

Fixed a non-critical (but ugly) JavaScript issue when initializing the private forum as anonymous user

One XSS issue fixed

Check out v1.3 blog entry

Ability to watch for new posts

Completely revamped settings

Ability to export community data from the settings

Ability to use custom watermark on uploaded images

When you open a new channel or thread the window is automatically scrolled to correct position

Muut affiliate program

Show display name and a bigger avatar on profile pages

“My Account” link is changed to “My Profile”- link that opens users profile page instead of Muut account page

Use native select element when switching channels on new post

Update to brazilian portugese language

Disable the ability to manipulate window.opener when opening user generated links to new window

You can now use the same HTML snippet on all your pages to enable commenting. No need to generate anything on the server. Learn more

Email configuration URL’s have the email in hashed form. This improves security.

A new setup wizard for newly created forums. Eventually this will become a whole new way to configure Muut.

Slack integration

Ability to configure a custom domain name for the hosted forum (SMALL plan only). How to

Consistent overlay styling (confirm dialogs, join prompt, remove and mark as spam popups)

The custom brand color is used on the overlay header (MINI plan only)

A thread is expanded no matter where you click on a collapsed thread

Channel name maximum length increased from 40 to 164 characters

“Load earlier posts”- action button now works on all search results

After removing a post the scrolling is no longer disabled

Allow 4 letter usernames on settings panel

New website: home, tour and global styling. Glabal switch to “Proxima Nova” font family. Using home baked static generator.

Moot client files are now served with SPDY protocol. The CSS, JS and font files can be seen as single concatenated file since the same HTTP connection is re-used.

quotes_with_displayname configuration option. When this is set to true the client uses display name on quoted texts instead of username. This can be useful on federated id / SSO setups where usernames may be ugly. The drawback is that when the display name is changed the quoted text is no longer linked to the original post.

When My Feed is clicked as anonymous user the login dialog is shown and the feed is automatically opened after succesfull login

Simplified the process of (re)sending account verification code

User access tab under settings is more convenient to use

Big images no longer need to be scrolled on the image gallery view

Styling improvements on the settings dialog

Client recovery after a connection failure is now more reliable

No more duplicate replies when other users edit a post

Posts on unlisted categories no longer appear on “All posts” view

Fixed syntax highlight error on the first line comment

Avoid double initialization of the client in all cases

Online user count is displayed correctly

XSS vulnerability fix

14-day free trial! Try all premium features for free

New API method: user.login(callback). API is still undocumented

Updated documentation

40% improvement on API response time

At- key (@) is now displayed on Android on the Muut login screen

User banning now works on the Settings dialog

Ability to add moderators who can remove posts, manage spam and ban users. Moderators cannot access the global settings like administrators can. The moderator list is only available for Muut Developer subscribers. Moderators can be added from the new Users tab on the settings.

The window title is now localized on “My feed” and “All posts” views

The preview is now disabled on small touch devices. Preview was slowing down some mobile phones and it is not visible while typing on smaller screens.

Updates to Finnish, Korean and Brazilian Portugese languages

Scrolling is no longer disabled when the help dialog is displayed

Brought back correct icons on the sidebar. These were all the same on the previous release.

Our biggest release so far

MEDIUM Member only access

SMALL Outgoing Webhooks

Designer Custom banner image for hosted forum

Completely new settings panel

Customizable Facebook share thumbnail

Reply-to address for email notifications

Twitter share handle setting

Language setting for hosted forums

Danish translation (now 26 languages in total)

New embedding option widget: true to prevent Muut from changing document.title and location.hash

Improved documentation

Better looks and content on OK / Cancel prompts

The “Brand name” setting is now available. This name appears on notification emails and hosted forums headers.

The display name character limit is now dropped to 3

Better syntax highlight support for CSS

Growl notifications are no longer shown for own posts on another window

The “create new post” background glitch fixed on dark theme

Now you can post to unlisted channels directly from the forum UI as they are now available in the dropdown list when you create a new thread

Issues page is now within our support forum as an unlisted channel

Show : instead of # in post permalinks when you mouse over the post timestamp

Fixed an issue on the Facebook sharing from the hamburger menu

Very long channel names are no longer clipped on the sidebar

More prominent @username- fields on quoted text on dark theme

Ability to modify the selected navi element on Designer with the dark theme

No white background on the selected navi item, search field and reply box on the dark theme

When hitting arrow-up key on the body field on a new post the cursor jumps to the title field only on the very first line

No layout issues with long display names on the account overlay

Fixed a syntax highlight issue with URLs

Muut now uses the new version of Google Analytics tracking code

Added a simple mouseover underline effect to the avatar on top right

“Select forum” is now “Select channel” on the dropdown when creating a new post

Finnish and Hungarian fixes to time formatting

Muut now works with require.js

XSS vulnerability fix

4 letter usernames are allowed

Fixed a loading issue with IE8 with saved style from Designer

No more double admin badges on the preview box

Render posts on threaded commenting page that belong to a subpath

The fixed positioned “Loading…” message no longer appears if Muut is outside the viewport

Setting yourself invisible also hides the green dot indicator

Fixed Facebook sharing with uploaded images and all protocol indedpendent image URLs (starting with “//“).

XSS vulnerability fix

Spanish language update. See demo

Fixed a few errors on the “growl” notification popup links

Followup posts from the same user are detected from the @username and not from display name to avoid conflicts with different users with exactly the same name

A new url_escape configuration option for SSO users using login_url option

Riot 1.0.1

The words “Forums” and “Categories” that represent individual discussion areas have been replaced with “Channels”. This both standardizes the terminology used throughout Muut and better describes their present and future functionality.

Unlisted channels are now specified with “unlisted” CSS class name. “non-category” is depreciated.

category configuration variable is depreciated. Use channel instead

The embed URL taken from the Designer is no longer hardcoded to our “goma” demo forum

XSS vulnerability fix. Thanks James Amos!

Updates to Dutch and Brazilian Portugese languages. Thanks Aubrey Hewes and Dan Cortazio!

When share option was set to false the select-to-quote no longer happens automatically without cliking on the quote icon

Small fix on the HTML syntax highlight

Show an error message when attempting to change to a too long password

Post mortem about our service failure on April 23

Sharing can now be disabled with share: false embedding option

Online count is now shown on the right spot on mobile Firefox

XSS vulnerability fix

Small updates to the client regarding to the service failure

The growl- type notification dialog is not shown on mobile screens since it can disturb the experience if the user is currently writing a post

Fixed a few issues on the notification dialog links

The “switch to yearly billing” teaser looks better on sidebars with a background color

Fixed ‘learn more…’ links from the settings panel

The Google Analytics tracking events were changed back to “Moot” instead of “Muut”. Unfortunately the analytics data for the last five days was lost! We are sorry.

Use Muut logo on authentication and password change dialogs

Make seed avatar completely clickable, no overlapping hidden parts

Better positioning of the teaser element when mouseovering the Muut logo

Online flag keeps it’s state after logging in with different usernames

Fix profile page loading with usernames containg “:”- character. Only on SSO setups.

A shortcut link for forum owners to the account page where forums can switch to yearly billing with 20% lower pricing

XSS vulnerability fix

Display a warning message for jQuery versions older than 1.7 (not hidden anymore)

1 year of Moot: growth, investment, and rebranding to Muut

The class="moot" is now deprecated, use class="muut" instead

References to “moot.it/i/[forumname]” are deprecated, use “muut.com/i/[forumname]” instead

The moot() function is renamed to muut()

Changed the language token from “Administrators” to “Moderators” on the settings panel to avoid confusions. Only the user that initially created the forum has access to the billing information on our account page.

Improved styling on the change password dialog

Norwegian translation. Now Muut is translated to 26 different languages.

Internal Muut links are now opened in new window or tab by default

The preview area is now updated after text is quoted

If Muut is initially hidden the layout is not set to mobile layout by default

The reply input auto- grows more nicely on Firefox

If a second administrator is logged in the Add-ons are properly updated

The social buttons are now correctly positioned on all embedded layouts from the menu item

The menu icon no longer causes the title to abrupt on relatively long titles

Muut hashes are now appended to the custom login url on SSO setups

Sharing, post counts, faster search and more…

Twitter and Facebook sharing of threads (from menu) and individual posts (by selecting text).

Updated styling on the notification emails to make your custom branding more prominent

The video/image gallery view can be closed by clicking on the surrounding semi- transparent mask

The ability to edit by re-posting is now enabled for admins too

The remove button is now visible for admins after being logged in as non-admin prior login

A new API method for comment counts

A new demo where “All posts” and “Feed” navigation is moved to the sidebar

A new m-no-threads CSS class name is added to the container element when a discussion channel is empty. You can use this to style the UI as you wish. For example, to remove a page title you can do this: .m-no-threads m-pagetitle { display: none; }

Admin settings overlay mask will span the whole window also inside relatively positioned wrapper element

Submitting empty title and channel no longer disables the submit button permanently

The online status is now updated if user is logged out and then logged in as a different user

No double load issues under Squarespace when browsing through channels on the sidebar

XSS vulnerabilities fixed, thanks to Madhu Akula and Gurjant Sadhra!

Tiny CSS positioning fix for the green circle on the “Is writing..” section on a thread

Improved search indexing mechanism. More accurate results.

Google+ login, User banning, Quick embedding and more …

Links to individual posts

More server power

Titleless commenting

New embedding docs

“data-channel” attribute, pageTitle is deprecated

“Someone is writing…” is more prominent

Reply…” input box is now always visible

Fixed thumbnail plugin to handle previews

Password reset working on /account page

Links to individual posts

No need to zoom on hosted form on narrow mobile screens

Fixed an issue on search results that caused them to freeze occasionally

The placeholder text on threaded commenting is now “Comment…” by default instead of “Start a new topic”

New Muut logo looks and placement

New Account page

Upgrade without leaving your forum page on muut.com/[yourforum]

Upgrade directly from your embedded forum

Improved handling of connection errors: connection now resumes more reliably

“Untitled” is now indicated in post preview when the title field is empty

Time labels for posts use weeks only after 30 days, instead of 7 days

Show green Online indicator on your own avatar after login

Fine-tuned the look of your account panel

Fixed “Load more replies”- action on user profile pages, it was broken on some cases

Designer: thumbnails are always loaded in Themes

Designer: Adjusting width no longer generates a dark background (#444) on narrow layouts

Fixed “Admin” badge missing from Finnish translation

Improved Spanish translation

Show a confirmation dialog when admin tries to remove her/his own post

“Show likes” by clicking on the heart icon now works on collapsed topics as well

“Remove” button is completely hidden on collapsed topics (previously just invisible)

Use : instead of # to append topic to path in permalinks, e.g. #!/path/to:topic instead of #!/path/to#topic

If admin logs out while managing channels, the UI resumes to the previous state upon login

Fixed “Show more replies” loading duplicate posts in search results when the button is at the end of the topic

Prevented duplicate posts due to repetitive clicks on the submit button when the post contains image uploads

Title-less commenting preview on our blog post

Goodbye reloads: Muut no longer reloads after login or reply, periods of inactivity, etc. resulting in more robust connections, significantly fewer lost posts

Italian translation (now 25 in total)

Facebook login button is now in both login and join tabs

“Load more replies” button layout now allows 10000+ posts

No “+”- sign on load more posts/replies icons

Setup now opens the setup in a new window when launced from the bottom/left logo

Image thumb plugin now works in the jQuery no-conflict mode

Quote- icon now only displayed when body or title text is selected

The gallery images are always fit on the screen

Default button design is now flat. A subtle gradient is displayed on mouseover

Muut now loads with Ghostery extension on Firefox

Remove action is now shown for admin even after they have liked a post

A new logo on bottom/right corner.

The remove confirmation dialogue is now correctly positioned when Muut is placed inside an iframe

Error warning now appears on consecutive tries (and not just the first time) when uploading a too large file or a file in a wrong format

There is now a 50 reply maximum per click for revealing more posts in long threads

There is now more whitespace before “like” and “less…” action links on IE8

Forum dropdown is now always positioned within view on mobile too

Display a warning message when a non-image file is uploaded. Some browsers such as IE10 don’t support the accept attribute on file upload fields.

Better gallery positioning when Muut is installed inside iframe

Prevented some of the tooltips from being cropped

No italic formatting when file name contains an underscore character

Minor thing: simplified CSS rules for .m-follow tooltip

Text inputs now grow infinitely instead of having a maximum height. No longer (ugly) scrollbars on non-iOS browsers.

Switched from cookies to localStorage. Now sessions works on IE even when Muut is embedded on iframe and on a different domain

Fixed an ability to select the whole text on the title field

The duplicate check is now done for every topic on a page instead of just the last topic

No possibility to submit the same post twice

Increased the reliability of the client/server connection

After the client reloads when connection comes back the first input field is no longer focused

After updating the display name the button is hidden and all names on the UI are immediately updated

Prevented scrollbars from appearing on the reply box on all scenarios

Adjusted word crop to fit the latest UI changes (really long words won’t break the UI)

The client clock is in sync with the server clock preventing any issues on the timestamps

Update to the Chinese localization

The authentication window no longer loads Open Sans font from Google making the popup load faster on Chine (Google is blocked there).

Facebook login is opened on a new window on the setup page

Updated to jQuery 1.11.0 on the website and demos.

Title-less threaded commenting by setting show_title: false on the configuration. With this setting the title field is no longer present and forces every topic to be always expanded and there is always a single input field for creating new topics, similar to the reply field.

Image labels are now shown below the large gallery image

The body field can now have focus even when the title field is empty

Display error message when empty title is provided

“Collapse all” link is now displayed even with just one expanded topic

“Someone is typing…” notification no longer causes the UI to jump

Added missing language tokens

Designer

Ability to toggle “boxed topics” setting without loosing the background colors

Fixed dimensions for the custom color picker

Tested the Wordpress plugin against WP version 3.8

Writing modular applications with Riot.js

A new embedUrl configuration variable to provide the linkback URL for the indexed SEO content

Fixed a bug on the settings dialog that prevented the values to be saved on certain situations

No more lost character when a long title is cut off

Muut Developer subscription

A significant upgrade to paid subscriptions. Single Sign-On is now called “Developer” and features private discussions, custom S3 bucket and single sign-on. Branding is now called “Designer” to more reflect the nature of the product.

The sso configuration variable is deprecated, please use api instead

The client / server communication is now gzipped. Client initialization requests shrank by 66% essentially making the client yet smaller.

jQuery is no longer loaded from Google servers and we use code.jquery.com (NetDNA) for CDN. Google CDN is not working on China.

Muut can now be loaded and unloaded dynamically on a page allowing multiple commenting and forum instances so that one instance is loaded at the time. Here is a demo

Demos for private forum, private commenting and single sign on.

Ability to disable automatic spam detection from forum settings

When you submit a post without a selected channel it displays the channel selector automatically. Now after you have selected a channel a post is automatically submitted.

Quoting now works on threaded commenting. It was broken on 1.8.0 and 1.8.1

Login prompt is now displayed for anonymous users on Single Sign-On /flat commenting setups

Double hyphens -- are no longer transformed to “m-dashes” (–) in links

Settings overlay is now absolutely positioned so that it can be scrolled on smaller screens

The login_url configuration property with SSO now displays the main login prompt on top/right corner of a forum

Logging in no longer displays a console error with threaded commenting

Followup posts from the same user are now properly displayed without overlapping

No tailing spaces allowed at the end of the username upon sign up

List of users that liked a post on a commenting thread have a proper margin.

Full URLs are now allowed on a link label

Removed the bottom white section on hosted forums with custom background color

The like icon has the right colors on collapsed state

View title no longer forced visible after navigating away from the search results

Persian (Farsi) RTL language version

The link texts are now shown on the gallery view

Improve commenting layout on mobile clients

Consistent margins on the “liked users”- tooltip

Avoid unnecessary

Allow uploading of the same file more than once

The designer is hidden during the setup process

Ukrainian translation

New language tokens for maximum image size and the “Yes” word on confirmation popup.

Muut designer

Facebook login dialog closes automatically on iOS

The “more replies” button now works with over 1000 replies (yes, some forums have these!)

New Chinese translation file with a new file suffix zh.js. The older file suffix ch is reserved for Switzerland.

Image upload file input is now hidden with Bootstrap.css

Forward anonymous users automatically to login page on Wordpress Single Sign-On configurations

Fixed undefined timestamps from Finnish and Hungarian localizations

Hide profile image URL on window’s status bar on threaded commenting

Restyled the “Test forum” link on our forums to separate it from channels

An error message is displayed when the uploaded image is too large (4Mb)

Ability to paste content to a new post. The title and body are automatically split correctly

The growl notification is now less prominent, which was a trouble on a more active forum. When you hit “x” the growl will be always minified (icon only) until you click the icon and when a new post appears the icon makes a subtle animation. Hitting “x” will clear the entries and hide growl completely.

Collapsed post titles are now bolded by default so they are not confused with replies

Search results title now looks nicer with a suggested term or with a spelling correction

Code blocks can now be wrapped inside Markdown compatible backticks

URLs are no longer formatted inside `inline code`

“Show full post…” action is now more prominent (blue background color)

Larger input for administrators on the settings overlay

Very large gallery images are now shown completely

Polish, Turkish and Swedish language updates

Big set of improvements to IE8. Tested with real IE8 instead of using the “document mode”.

Icons are now working reliably on IE8. We moved back to fontsquirrel for EOT conversion.

Fixed an issue that caused replying with IE8 fail on certain situations

No typing errors while typing on IE8 (only seen on developer console)

Fixed infinite loading of the Google Analytics script when used together with Chrome Disconnect extension

The start time parameter #t=30 is now supported on YouTube video links. Now both &- and #- syntaxes are supported

Smoothened the animation for the topics that appear through the real-time channel

“Embed on your site”- link now present only in one spot on the hosted forum sidebar

Fixed bottom margin on the last reply of the loaded replies

Fixed the message when there are no search results

Smileys are no longer italicized on the “growl” notification dialog

No more redundant horizontal scrollbar on the hosted forum with Firefox

Added missing language tokens for show, hide, and invisible.

A new blog entry about our client-side development with Riot.js

The text inside backtick characters (`) is no longer formatted

When a post is submitted it’s initially grayed before it’s succesfully saved. The effect is now more subtle than before.

The start time parameter &t=30 is now supported on YouTube video links

A scrollbar now appears to textarea after it grows large enough

When you edit a post or paste text to the textarea it adjusts it’s height accordingly

Added a missing pageTitle

Swedish, Polish, French and Spanish language updates

Fixed a minor syntax highlight issue on JavaScript comments.

Green circle animation is no longer ill-positioned on “Someone is writing a message…”

The ETA is now properly aligned on Firefox on this page

An early peek of our upcoming Designer. The official release is scheduled for November.

Better rendering of flat comments under the forum

Shielding against a couple of XSS issues

Fixed an issue on image uploads with special characters on file names

The image URLs were shown unformatted on the notification popup

Smileys are no longer rendered in italics

No monospaced on reply input on Firefox

Improved the layout of the list of people who liked a post

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Much better support for dark background colors.

There is no separate CSS file for the dark backgrounds and you enable the support with CSS classes instead. Read the updated documentation about the subject.

Muut now takes the full 100% width of the container element and the nested elements have a maximum width 980px. This allows you to make full width headers like we have on our forums.

Header elements are vertically centered using CSS display: table

Custom channels with single sign on now work

Fixed a XSS vulnerability issue on custom labeled links

Fixed a JavaScript error lang is not defined that was thrown on really slow internet connections

Removed an ugly drop shadow from the Muut logo on bottom/right and made the link open on the topmost frame

Fixed a corner case issue on Safari that wasn’t loading if there is an IMG tag with id="title" on the page

A french language update

This update includes a big amount of CSS modifications, especially how topics are intended. So if you have custom styling for margins or paddings make sure you review your CSS code.

Ability to upload multiple images on iOS

The sidebar now goes from top to bottom and looks good with a background color

The likes tooltip is now fully visible on flat commenting and small screens

Administrators are now validated when settings are submitted and not when texarea leaves focus making the submit button work more reliably.

Nicer rendering of long channel names

Channel renaming is no longer broken right after setup

Fixed one XSS vulnerability issue

A new login_url property for Federated identity users which will render login prompts that point to your login page.

The sidebar is reverted back to a smaller height. We didn’t like the gray line going from top to bottom.

A md-full-sidebar CSS “modifier class” that can be added to the container to enable full height sidebar.

A md-full-header modifier class to make the header span full width of the container. Full header is in use on our own forum. These modifier classes are part of the preparation work for the upcoming designer and will be property documented upon it’s release.

Added “collapse all” link to threaded commenting

The login dialog is now centered on the window on all scenarios. It used to work only on maximized browser windows.

The various elements on the header are now precisely positioned on different screen sizes

No vendor prefixes for box-shadow or border-radius causing a 3kb size reduction on moot.css file

The settings panel can now be closed by clicking outside the panel or by pressing the esc- key

Wide syntax sections are now wrapped so that longer lines will span multiple lines instead of rendering a scroll bar. Have a look at the word “anonymous” on this screenshot to get an idea.

The deprecated label property to change the input prompt is no longer supported. Instead, place <script>moot.language.start = "What's up??";right after where themoot.min.js` file has been included.

Empty bodies on a new post are now valid. This was a failed experiment from our side on versions 1.7.4 and 1.7.5. Posts with just a title line are perfectly good.

The Google Analytics extension now uses _createTracker() method instead of the depreceated _getTracker() method to be more future proof.

The help dialog now opens upwards on the reply input.

The body of the topic is now required. You’ll be informed if the body is empty.

Syntax highlight now is now aware of the search matches

Search bar autogrows to full width on mobile screens.

Client no longer uses @media queries for responsive layout. The layout is determined from the container width and not from the screen width. Now the client will switch to tablet or mobile layout on a better spot.

Flat- or single commenting no longer has an arbitrary CSS max-width setting. The width is now determined by the outer container element. Warning This may cause your layout to break so make sure you set max-width or width for the wrapper element.

The main image on the gallery view is now shown in it’s maximum width on mobile screens

3-5x faster client-side templating by hacking the “Resig templating”. Expect to hear more about this on an upcoming blog entry.

8) is no longer rendered as smiley when it’s on the beginning of the line.

Fixed the positioning of “someone is typing” message on flat commenting when the reply input has a focus

Muut now works inside a form element. However this is not recommended and not actively tested.

The reply box is now completely hidden for anonymous users on SSO setups

The overlay positioning of the online users is improved on mobile

Improved posting for anonymous users for a collapsed topic. The topic can be collapsed because the UI is re-rendered after the login.

A new blog entry about Frameworkless JavaScript

The gallery view starts with a thread title

No flickering of images on the gallery view

Admin badge and display name are now shown on the preview box

Added clarification for bolding on the help dialog – we only allow bolding of single words

Fixed to allow multiple quotes on a reply

Russian language update: demo, diff

No mouseover effect on the title on the preview area

Unverified can remove/edit their own, newly created posts

Fixed the ability to create new posts on threaded commenting on some setups

A new upload configuration option to enable / disable image uploading. Uploads are enabled by default.

When title exceeds the max length (= 30 * 2.71) the focus goes automatically to the body field

Fixed the width of the gallery view on long pages and on iPhone

Fixed our RSS feed

Fixed the “Total Events” view on the analytics dashboard and removed load events from the pie chart to make it more interesting.

Install Muut Analytics v1.0.1

The blog entry

Muut Analytics for viewing detailed statistics about posts, likes, users and topics. It’s based on Google Analytics.

Native image uploads to new posts and replies

Separate fields for title and body fields for improving the title quality

Ability to load both old and new replies on topics with more than 27 replies

A small “Admin” badge for forum administrators

Better “growl” notification popup:

Automatic minification after a few seconds and a minify icon

No growl notifications will appear from active moot

Links and URLs are shortened

Growl scrollbars are no longer overlapping the close button

Better gallery view for images

The view can be scrolled. Better with bigger images and smaller screens

The thumbnails preserve aspect ratio

More room for the main image

New, better animation when a new post is created

Ability to write [relative](/links)

Local links no longer display a redundant “home” icon

Topics can be opened with cmd/ctrl- click from the triangle link

Improved positioning and sizing on the black tooltips

Dropbox image gallery links display a dropbox icon

data-show_online=false attribute on the container tag will hide the online user list

Removed “watch for new replies” option below the textarea to reduce clutter. They eye icon does the job perfectly

The editing area no longer zooms on iPhone when creating a new post

Facebook profile images no longer distorted (only for new registrations) since before you’d just size them to be square now they will actually be square images run through the same transformation filter we use for uploaded images

The “Change paswword” dialog now has custom branding

The login dialog is now opened for anonymous users when they hit CTRL+Enter when posting

A smiley followed by a link now works

No typing messages under forum is someone is writing to a commenting thread elsewhere on the site

The new real-time posts are marked with red for anonymous users too

The facebook join dialog now hints users to use dashes, numbers and letters only when the input validation fails. The dialog has also improved looks.

No more broken avatar images on single sign on if the avatar was not provided

Fixed the color input layout on Settings > Branding tab on Safari

All h2 and h3 tags on the client are now replaced with div class="m-h2/3" respectively to avoid CSS clashes with the hosting site

A custom logo no longer crops on a hosted forum under muut.com

Updates page (= this page) now works on smaller screens

The “growl” notification popup now completely hides after clicking on the close button

For better text truncation the titles on the growl popup are now longer

Fixed grayscale filter to work on favicons on Firefox

The administrator functions now work on jQuery noConflict() mode

A wide logo on branding package logo no longer stretches on hosted forum.

The subscribed items can now be clicked to open the corresponding settings

Less white space on flat commenting and followup posts

Fixed a double preview and double post issue after a new forum is created and a new post is created

Added a “follow us on Twitter” link to the bottom area of our pages

A new blog post about our real time infrastructure.

External links on a post are coupled with a favicon. View example. These icons are displayed in grayscale and colored on mouseover. They are retina compatible and loaded through content delivery network.

“Someone is writing…” notification to the window title (tab). You can now see when someone is writing even when you are on a different browser tab.

Completely disabled the ability to use Muut login in SSO setups. It’s no longer solely behind CSS display: none.

Added tracking on which browsers are not supported by Muut. We can possibly bring more supported browsers into the table.

Fixed short labeling on external links to Google searches. Their URL format was changed.

Added an ability to load blog comments inside forum on the Wordpress plugin

A new 404 error page on our website.

“Someone is writing…”

The forum and users overlays are nicer on mobile. These overlays are now be closed when the corresponding navi- elements are re-clicked. Only the click event closes and no longer with drag.

Email notification links now scroll to the last post when there are no unread posts.

The “log in” link is no longer too lightly grayed on mobile screens.

Likes tooltip is now working on a flat commenting entry inside forum. Example.

The “Loading…” text before the application loads no longer crops on mobile screens and is coupled with a small Muut icon.

The unread marker- and online counter dots are slightly smaller and in better position

The path can now be provided in mixed case letters

Turkish language update.

Read the blog entry about this release.

Administrator functions and subscriptions are now grouped and shown on the UI. These are only visible for admins.

The post truncate limit before the “show more” button appears is now doubled to 1087 characters. This is 2.718 * 400 characters, wehere 2.718 is the Euler’s constant). This number is being used all around Muut code.

Muut now works better on really small screens. Here is a 250px wide screenshot from our forums. The search box grows automatically when in focus. Try yourself by resizing your browser.

User’s full name is shown on a custom tooltip when the user is mouseovered on the online user list.

Fixed email notification links to automatically scroll to first unread reply.

A fade-effect progress indicator is shown when channels are saved.

Back button now works for links that are escaped.

Fixed a bug with two successive custom labeled links on a post.

Some rare IE 10 and Chrome versions now work more reliably.

Stability improvements on the server side.

The WordPress plugin with Documentation and a Github repository

Drastically improved setup: easier overall experience and works nicely on smaller screens

Single Sign-On users now have the ability to hide online status and unwatch all notifications

Single apostrophes are not prettificated unless they wrap a separate word

The small logo on bottom/right has a fixed position only if Muut is installed above the initial viewing area (fold)

Settings panel for administrators uses the custom brand name on the title

A new “back button” to the parent channel when a single topic is opened on a separate page

An update to the French language version.

Added a “Please don’t reply this email directly”

The client can now recover unsubmitted posts when a special “invalid_channel” error occurs

Added a far future expiry header for CSS, JS and font files to fully utilize client-side caching

Fixed a bug on some very long links so that they are are shortened properly without breaking the layout

The online user list can be shown on threaded commenting with a new show_online configuration option as shown on our issues page

Dropbox image links are now opened in an overlay

youtu.be short video URLs are now displayed on the overlay

Bunch of server side stability fixes to handle the constantly increasing load

CTRL+Tab keyboard shortcut no longer causes 3 spaces on the input field on Firefox

The monospaced help item background color does not span the whole line

Added custom branding on the “forgot password” overlay

“Full view” tooltip on the single moot’s permalink

Muut’s permalink on the URL is taken directly from the title

Fixed permalink and back button on threaded commenting

Vimeo channels and channels are opened on a new page instead of a video overlay

Italics and bolding are completely disabled from title, not only from the preview

Disabled profile links on threaded commenting

Removed mouseover and pointer cursor from title on single thread view

An internal modularization for binary uploads

Portuguese translation

Bold and italics helps are again bolded and italicized in help dialog

Fixed adding of new channels

Smoother expand animation. The like action no longer jumps after the animation finishes.

Labeling links that are longer than 81 characters now work

The prominent UI no longer uses header tags (h1, h2, h3) but DIV’s with class names instead. This causes less trouble with existing CSS since header tags are typically heavily custom styled.

A new entry on the help dialog for labeling links

The image/video gallery view can be closed by clicking anywhere outside the images

Links can be labeled with markdown syntax: [label](url). This works for overlayed videos and images too.

The official wordpress plugin. This is still beta. The official release is next month.

Custom logo and background color is now visible on the hosted forum too under muut.com.

Ability to customize the senders name on the notification emails with the new Brand name field. This is only possible if your forum is subscribed to Designer.

Single Sign-On examples in python, php and ruby in addition to node.js.

New “octocat” icon for Github links. The “g” was too similar with Google.

Posting and liking is disabled with anonymous single sign-on (SSO) user.

Login dialog now fixed on Internet Explorer 8 and 9

Tall avatars (height bigger than width) are now forced to be smaller. Proportions are kept.

“Watch for new replies” option is hidden from unverified users

Bolding, italic and inline code is no longer allowed on title. Smart quotes, hyphens, etc. still work.

Administrators field can now be erased on the settings panel

The username cannot be quoted

The session stays on all browsers browsers even if the browser is closed

Fixed the style on change password dialog

The bottom hanging letters are no longer cropped on a thread title

Swedish translation. The total number of different languages is now 21.

The “change” button is now always shown on the account dialog when the value is changed. When the value is not valid the button is greyed instead of hidden.

A thread title can be formatted with italics and monospaced. Bolding is not supported since title is already bolded by default.

The “settings” and “edit” links now work after the user logs out and logs in

The title on the preview box has the same line-height as on the final post

The muut logo on the bottom right has a white background shadow so that it’s more prominent on dark backgrounds.

Single Sign-On (Later renamed to “Developer”)

Branding (Later renamed to “Designer”)

Smaller Muut logo on the bottom right

Channel selector further away from submit button

Droplr images are shown directly on the overlay

When quote icon is mouseovered the reply box stays visible

When help dialog is opened the mouse movement cannot hide it

Updates to Japanese translation

Read the blog entry about this release.

Quoting works for single paragraphs only

When clicking a quote the original quote stays highlighted for 1.35 seconds

The “Post” button no longer overlaps the preview area on iPhone

Updates to Russian, Taiwanese, French, Arabian, Indonesian, Hungarian, Dutch, Bulgarian and Brazilian languages. Thank you all the translators!!

Added top margin for images and videos on the overlay

Fixed a double logo and posting issue on the password forgot dialog

Fixed a posting issue on threaded commenting with formatted body text

Quotation support

Bolding, italic, and inline code support.

Youtube and Vimeo video overlays

Setting Google Analytics tracking for SEO pages

Ability to define multiple administrators

Email notification links automatically scroll to first unread post

All red unread markers are gone after navigating away from the All posts view

Allow mixed case letters on username

Clearer (and whiter) help dialog

Custom tooltips for common actions on desktop browsers

channel selection is now a mandatory option for any new post

Timestamp link (for example “2w”) displays the full time with browser’s native tooltip. Example value: Thu May 30 2013 06:06:11 GMT+0300 (EEST)

Translators can now see their edits on the authentication dialogs too on the language test page

Ability to navigate entries with keyboard on the channel select box

The design of the entries on the channel dropdown is similar to the main channels

Timestamp link (for example “2w”) on the seed post now works

Timestamp on the replies has a default cursor instead of a pointer cursor, which invites to click and there is nothing to click

If a websocket connection fails uncleanly the client creates a new connection and performs the missed calls

The whole avatar is now clickable on Windows/Firefox to open the file upload dialog

Browser reload no longer displays a “reconnect” text

Edit, remove and watch buttons are now more reliable on mobile browsers

When a post is removed the corresponding entry is removed from the notification box from other users

Preivew window no longer ignores the tab key which indents text with three spaces

Textarea line height matches the line height of the rendered posts

Collapse all link is no longer clickable when it’s hidden

Local links are pretty printed even with protocol mismatch (http or https)

No more double rendering of the same moots

A separate blog entry about this release.

Vastly improved documentation

Ability to serve the indexed content from your own domain for search engines

Customized navigation for subchannels, sticky posts, banners etc

Branded links

Commenting and threaded commenting is now supported under muut.com/[your_forumname]. Check out the new Getting started section for more information.

Russian, Bulgarian, Korean and Polish languages.

URLs can now be placed inside “quotes” or (brackets) and they will work

When confirming a new email address as an anonymous user the client will no longer open a new login window since some browsers will block new windows. A button to open a login window is shown instead.

No more negative times on the remove tooltip

Red color is now consistently used for all unread stuff: channels are no longer bolded and a small red dot is shown instead and all unread posts are marked with a small red dot.

Brazilian Portuguese demo now works

label configuration property is now deprecated. Use moot.language object instead.

The preview area is now fully visible on smaller screens

The email address field is now updated when a new address is confirmed via email link

Bigger font size on screens smaller than 350px, these are typically mobile phones on portrait mode

A separate blog entry about this release.

“Edit” tooltip is now renamed to “Remove” and there is a counter from 2.7 minutes to zero before the button disappears

Links to google.com without a search term no longer break the rendering

No more console errors with anonymous enter and leave events

“Log in” link no longer drops on its own row at narrower screen widths. Issue

Accented characters and other special characters are now allowed for display names. Issue

Internal forum links can now be copy-pasted from the browser’s context menu. Issue

The password prompt dialog after “forgot password” email closes automatically after submission

The display name no longer overlaps the avatar on the notification dialog in Safari

Facebook login now works on Android

The channel menu now opens when hitting “submit” for a new post with no channel selected.

When a post is removed the title line is no longer joined with the body text on the pre-filled text

The container link text (for SEO) is hidden when the app is loading and only a centered “Loading…” text is shown

The “Reloading…” text is back and localized.

Dutch language version

When posting the first channel is selected by default if nothing is chosen

Ability to hide the online status from account popup. Language versions for this feature are coming later

“Be the first to comment” changes to “Comment..” after a post from the channel

“Like this post” renamed to “Like” on commenting replies

“Offensive or spam” no longer visible on personal posts after 2.7 minutes

A custom icon for linked Flickr images, Facebook accounts, internal Muut links or Twitter accounts

A new “Edit” action to edit post 2.7 minutes after a post is submitted

Both “Offensive or spam” and “Remove this post” actions fire a yes/no dialog

All parts of a collapsed thread will expand it when clicked

Authentication dialogs are now loaded from muut.com, which has a signed SSL certificate

Image file names are truncated to 27 characters

All authentication dialogs that prompt for the password are now opened in a new window. This is a bit clunkier, but more secure.

The host part of the configuration URL is customizable so the indexed content can be served from a custom subdomain. We’ll give you the details on how to do it later this week.

The embed code now refers to the major version number of moot.min.js and moot.css so that new installations are part of the automatic update cycle.

Administrator cannot remove all channels from the forum and one channel must always be present.

Watching new thread upon submission now works.

Search engine optimization (SEO)

Language support with 14 different languages

Right to left support (RTL)

Ability to watch for new replies when submitting the post

Doubled the size of the post before it is collapsed

Image overlaying is now part of core

Better mobile layout; wider posts and easier to hit action buttons

A single thread can be opened to a different browser tab from the gray arrow

Like button no longer hidden when logged out (forums only)

Posting now works on a page where title tag is not present

brought back jQuery 1.9 because the jquery 2.0 conditional comment trick does not work on all browsers

A separate blog entry about this release.

Fixed expand/collapse link on the preview area

Less visual jumping after expanding a moot

Progress indicator (opacity) when loading likers or watching/unwatching a moot

Improved positioning of likers on smaller screens

Better closing of tooltips on touch devices

Fixed sizing issues on mobile browsers, much better experience now

Muut switches to narrow layout at 768px (= iPad width), seems a good fit for Muut

You can search forums by typing muut.com and then [space] on browser’s location bar

Dates and times are shown in shorter format: 12m, 5h, 8d etc..

Moving away from search results view clears the search box

Editing a posts preserves formatting

Upgraded to jQuery 2.0 on our website

IE now works when Muut is configured with a https URL

A new blog entry about the 3.5 years before the release.

Fixed the password reset dialog after hitting the link on email

Allow submitting of posts with only non-word characters

The website (muut.com) now uses https protocol on every page

When posting a message to a closed WebSocket connection the client now reloads itself before the post is sent to the server. We got some feedback about posts disappearing and we believe this should fix the issue.

The image plugin is now versioned and available from our CDN: CSS file and JS file

Muutthemes.com skins are now hosted on our CDN: Klin, Klin dark, Fullhead and Fullhead dark

Fixed threaded commenting to work under file:// protocol, this was another catch from our extended logging

Forum, user and login tooltips are now positioned correctly on narrow layout

Confirmed that Muut works with jquery 2.0

Fixed a few causes of errors when posting a new reply. We are constantly following for new errors with extended logs if these still occur.

Fixed an image on the error screen for browsers that don’t support Muut (IE6/7 mostly)

Fixed the password input after clicking the password recovery link

English language is now part of the client. This is preparation work for upcoming set of different languages

When selecting a channel on “All posts” view and then posting on a channel that was selected on the sidebar the post is now correctly saved to the channel on the sidebar.

Email notifications

Image embedding plugin. See demo. Documented on source code.

Internal Muut links use a more effective API method instead of location.href

When admin removes a post the user’s admin remove

Fixed an uncaught type error: “Cannot call method ‘mootboost’ of undefined”

Internal CSS line-height setting for avoiding issues with external CSS line-height

Fixed issues on URLs to a specific thread

When accessing a page with a thread specific URL the user is smooth scrolled to the commenting section

Allow permalinking to a specific thread on threaded commenting

Fixed a CSS cropping issue on trhead titles

Show information for unverified accounts and an ability to resend the confirmation code

Brought back “like this post” and action and account panel for flat commenting

Upcoming features are now listed on our updates page

A separate blog entry about this release.

Fixed a code insertion issue with two successive “<” characters

Remove action not shown on collapsed state

Likes are not shown in collapsed state

Different icon (!) for “Offensive or spam”

Fixed the layout on “change password” section

Improved tooltips and validation on the login and join dialog

channel, user and account panels work if muut is placed inside absolutely or relatively positioned element

Email confirmation links work in escaped format

Flexible layout: the outermost .moot element can be freely resized

Forum layout does not break on narrow containers. Minimum container width is 600px

Floats are no longer used for layout

Links under the same domain don’t open a new tab/window

Full forum view (sidebar on right) is now used on screens bigger than 700px (was 980px)

Muut links inside hosting domain are rendered in shorter style

Improved search suggestions

Right to left (RTL) demo. This will be completed as part of our localization package

Muut setup now works an all clients and browser dimensions

Chrome on iOS now works

Older versions Firefox (3.6 and below) now works.

More readable and consistent line height on mobile devices.

Esc key no longer clears the inputted text. Esc- key is used for different purpose in China.

Each forum now has a title under muut.com. Example.

New blog entry: Redis as the primary data store? WTF?!

Fixed Muut logo on the login dialog

Links on posts are opened in a new tab

When a thread is opened from the search results by clicking the gray triangle the search is cleared

Hitting logout no longer causes file upload to open on some versions of Firefox

Better overall experience with channel management

Allow adding channels after all channels have been deleted

Allow removing of newly added channels

Allow posting with international characters. URL keys are converted to punycodes. Welcome China!

Forums can start with numbers

Improved spam detection

Layout fixed for iPhone at muut.com/forum

More solid back button behaviour

Links now work on search results view

Fixed a bug on channel editing when hitting edit and cancel multiple times

Fixed logo on authentication dialog on Firefox

Notify me about updates checkbox

Font-basesd graphics now work across browsers, firefox had an issue when embedding in alternate domains.

When a thread is expanded the body is now shown on the seed post, in some cases the body was missing

“Growl” notification box no longer causes an error when clicking on link about new posts.

Facebook join dialog makes it more clear that only lowercase letters are allowed for username.

Better URL match patter, now allows links with “(“ and “)” characters often seen in wikipedia.

Changed the default avatar for anonymous users.

Initial release. Read the story from our blog.