Answer 1.2.5 is Ready

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Spring is coming, and our monthly update is finally here! In this update, you’ll enjoy the coming community nights with Dark Mode, and manage third-party plugins' notification. There are new changes for better using and management experience, and we’re glad that they are ready for the stage. Check out what’s new in Answer V1.2.5 and the tutorials in this blog.

Turn the Dark Mode On

Get ready to explore the dark side with our new Dark Mode. Switch to light, dark manually to meet your needs, or follow the system for a smooth transition.

Dark Mode of Answer

How to

  1. Go Admin — Customize — Themes

  2. Color scheme, and choose Dark in the dropdown menu.

    How to Switch to Dark Mode

Plugin Notification Management

Now, users can always stay on top of the third-party plugin notifications, ensuring you stay informed across all your favorite tools. With Apache Answer, managing third-party plugin notifications has never been easier.

Third Party Notification

How to

  1. Click your avatar, and Settings.

    Personal Settings

  2. Click the name of the plugin.

Exciting New Changes

As we embrace the new season, we also prepare some enhancements to existing features. Here’s a sneak peek for better knowledge sharing.

Easier Invitation. Better Sharing.

The interface and interaction of invitation is refreshed. You can check invited users while add community member at the same time.

Invite People Answer Question

Customize the Reputation Score

There’s no one-size-fits-all rule, and it’s true when it comes to the community. You can familiarize with the reputation system first with default levels, and use custom level to fit your platform. Now, admins can customize the reputation score to keep the community engaged.

Customize Reputation Score in Answer

Tags. No Clutter.

Small tags are powerful. It’s the thread of the community, sewing similar content together for the users, while providing a neat garment for the admin. We make slight changes to make tags adding and searching fresh.

Tags

Big Applause to the Contributors

Raise your glass to hgaol, sy-records, hbsciw, and insistedMarin for their time and effort in this release. Shout out to every translator. Special thanks to lincolhzhou for contribution to plugins.

We’d love to hear from you

What do you think of the releases? Anything you think it should be added to the roadmap? What does your Answer look like? We’d love to hear from you about this release or anything else on your mind. Hit us on X, Discord, GitHub, Meta Answer, or the mailing list.

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