April post-mortem (Patreon)

Posting this Patreon update on Medium because it's quite long and Patreon's post editor is quite frustrating and limiting. To save you a click in case you only want the most prominent items on the changelog since the last Patreon update:

Direct messages

Avatars now finally hover-to-play

Option to disable all GIF autoplay

Option for confirmation dialogs for boosts

Confirmation dialogs for deleting/blocking/muting

Videos can be expanded

Improved search UI, ability to open remote statuses by pasting their permalink URL into the search

Two-factor authentication now requires one confirmation before activation, recovery codes added

Admin UI for domain blocks has been introduced (and improved in general)

An onboarding modal to greet new users and explain the basics

Localization and translations have been improved and expanded respectively

Various bug fixes, performance improvements and UX polishing