Moera node & client 0.14.0-rc0

[smelamud]

Release candidate

Ban. Now it is possible to prohibit a particular user from adding comments to your posts, to prohibit from adding reactions to your posts, to hide comments by this user in all discussions (including discussions in blogs of others) or all of this together. The ban may be limited to a particular period of time or be permanent. The ban may be related to a particular post (i.e. it is possible to remove a user from one specific discussion) or to all of your posts. To kick a user from a specific discussion, open the menu of some of his comments. To ban a user globally, press the friend/subscribe button. The banned user will be notified about this.

The list of banned and those who banned you is shown on the People page. This list is public by default, but you can hide it. You can add a message to the ban, to explain the reason of the ban. This message will be sent to the banned and will be shown on the People page.

"Show hidden buttons" button allows to reveal the comments of the users hidden by you at any moment.

Sheriffs is a voluntary moderation mechanism in the decentralized network. If you allow the sheriff to moderate your blog, he will be able to see all your posts (except the ones visible to you only) and mark the posts or comments that, as he thinks, violate the rules. For now, there is only one sheriff in the Moera network - the one enforcing the rules of Google Play. This is required by Google as a condition to allow the Moera application to Google Play application store. The blogs not allowing sheriff to moderate them will not be shown in the Moera application installed from Google Play. Posts and comments marked by the sheriff will also be hidden. But outside the application - when accessing Moera through a browser or any other application - all these blogs, posts and comments will be accessible.

Any user of the application may complain to the sheriff about violation of the rules by any post or comment. All complaints are public by default. The user may ask not to show his complaint to others, in this case the complaint will be hidden till the sheriff's decision. All further hiding of the complaint is at the discretion of the sheriff, but, in most of the cases, the sheriff will leave the complaint public.

Lists of users. Any node may keep lists of users, and all other nodes can read these lists, search in them and subscribe to them to receive notifications about changes. The lists may be used, for example, to fight spam or to create decentralized communities. The sheriff uses such a list to inform all nodes that some specific user violates the rules too often, and because of that all his comments should be marked by the sheriff's mark automatically.

• The friend/subscribe button now shows the most important information about your relations with the user: ban, friendship, subscription. All other information you can see after pressing the button.
• Added a button on the People page to create groups of friends.
• Polish translation added (thanks to @tigra[Tigra]).

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This discussion was created from the release Moera node & client 0.14.0-rc0.