Notifications, desktop notifications and translations (Patreon)
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Big one! Mentions column has been replaced with a notifications column, which, alongside mentions, includes favourites, reblogs and follows that you receive. Furthermore, in supporting browsers, notifications trigger "desktop notifications". I know the terminology is a bit overlapping there... Those are the little blurbs on your screen that notify you something happened in a tab.
You can now also choose which language to use Mastodon in. There's the default English; I've translated everything into German, victorhck and ekaitz_zarraga translated it into Spanish.
More stuff has been moved to background workers.
The UI now uses "real" URLs instead of the anchor ones (#) and e-mails now link using those, so instead of clicking through to the public page of a status from the e-mail, you can go straight to the interactive UI.
I've also added a privacy policy borrowed from the Discourse project, it can be viewed here.