Sharing something personal is easier when you know the space around it is looked after. This release is mostly about that: blocking an account now really separates you, and what people share is checked before it is published.
There is also something new to do with the deeds you read. On the web, you can highlight the sentence that stays with you, and the author knows that someone found it worth keeping. You’ll also find Sign in with Apple, an RSS feed of public deeds, a more accessible web, and faster deed pages.
We’ve written about what these changes mean for you in What’s new in Deeditt 2.13.
Block an account, completely
Muting an account has become blocking it. You can block an account from its deeds, its comments, its profile or a conversation.
Once you do, you stop seeing each other on Deeditt. Their deeds, comments and profile no longer appear for you, and yours no longer appear for them. Conversations between you are hidden, and neither of you receives notifications about the other.
We’re also told about every block, so we can review the account.
A check before you share
Deeds, journeys and comments that other people can see are now checked automatically on our servers before they are published. If something includes language that isn’t allowed, it isn’t published, and Deeditt tells you what to change.
The check looks for a short list of terms that are offensive in any context. It doesn’t look at topics: writing about hard experiences is still welcome. Memories and private content are never checked.
You can read more in our Community Guidelines.
Sign in with Apple
You can now sign in or create your account with Apple, alongside Google and Facebook.
Highlight the sentences that stay with you
On the web, when a sentence in a public or community deed stays with you, click it and choose Highlight.
Highlighted sentences show with a soft marker that grows a little deeper as more people choose them, and your own carry a thin line underneath. Nobody can see who highlighted which sentence. When someone highlights your deed, you get a notification with their name, but it doesn’t say which sentences.
Your highlights are kept in Highlights, in the account menu. From there you can go back to each deed or remove a highlight.
A few more details:
- Private deeds can’t be highlighted.
- If you edit a deed, only the sentences you change lose their highlights, and the web tells you before you save.
- Highlights are free and coming to the app soon.
Follow public deeds in a feed reader
Public deeds now have an RSS feed with the 25 most recent ones, so you can follow them from any feed reader, even without an account. You’ll find the link in the Explore sidebar.
A more accessible web
We’ve reviewed the web app with screen readers, the keyboard and contrast in mind:
- Dialogs, alerts and Refine take focus when they open and keep it while they are open.
- Images open from the keyboard, and so do the profile photo and journey cover pickers.
- New chat messages are announced as they arrive, along with who wrote them.
- Profile form errors are read out together with the field they belong to.
- Insights tell feelings apart without relying on colour alone.
- Text field lines and switches are easier to see.
- Links inside a deed are named by what they show, and highlighted sentences are announced, not only coloured.
You can read more about our approach on the Accessibility page.
Faster and steadier
- Deed pages and lists such as Explore and profiles load much faster, on the web and in the app, especially for deeds with many reactions and comments.
- On the web, text no longer shifts when the fonts finish loading, and the fonts weigh less.
- Highlighting a sentence no longer reloads the whole deed.
- In the app, the keyboard no longer closes while you type a journey’s title or description, and what you type stays in view above it.