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# Remotehour Release Notes

Thank you for visiting this page. We are providing [Remotehour](https://remotehour.com), a spontaneous video call service.

Any feedback are welcome! Feel free to comment here.

## 2021-06-04

### Enhancements

- Enable to add N minutes for basic plan users

### Fixes

- Fix a slack integration bug while onboarding
- Fix various email reputation problems

## 2021-06-02

### Enhancements

- Update the landing page
- Update onboarding design
- Add slack knock notification


## 2021-05-25

### Enhancements

- Enable to delete call history including recorded data
- Update the movie on the landing page

## 2021-05-24

### Enhancements

- Experimental Background Blur :tada: 
- Update Welcome and onboarding emails

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/10719495/119253990-c2381d00-bbee-11eb-874a-a49f9bb396cb.png)

### Fixes

- Refactor CSS to decrease file size
- Fix requirements invisible UI bug

## 2021-05-20 

### Fixes

- Fix subscribe error handling
- Fix a bug when subscribing themselves
- Fix error tracking
- Fix social login error handling
- Make dark mode disabled by default and move to experimental feature
- Update onboarding copy
- Refactor CSS and reduce its size
- Improve server side logging

## 2021-05-18

### Fixes

- Show an error if unable to use Remotehour due to tab detection logic
- Don't use sessionStorage anymore
- Fix mic-check bug on iPhone

## 2021-05-17

### Fixes

- Fix onboarding form bug
- Improve dashboard performance by fixing data fetching logic

## 2021-05-14

### Enhancements

- Add host subscribe preview
- Add a notification for being added by a co-working space
- Add slack authorization button for encourage team modal
- Claim room when already subscribed
- Change email domain to remotehour.com (was mg.remotehour.com)
- Dynamically change title and meta tags for room page 
- Upload files on the chat
- Insert new line on the chat by pressing Shift + Enter

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/10719495/118229926-ca45dd80-b4c7-11eb-917b-7667f6051adc.png)

### Fixes

- Fix mobile onboarding
- Remove unsupported browser on some screens


## 2021-05-12

### Enhancements

- Change the headline on the LP
- Encourage users to share their room URL more
- Enable to callback if guest is also Remotehour user
- Add "Don't show again" choice to some modals
- Add free office hour coupon feature

![](https://i.imgur.com/00JBeUS.png)

### Fixes

- Enable to skip notification while onboarding

## 2021-05-11

### Enhancements

- Add a guide on self room
- Extension become the onboarding last step

### Fixes

- Improve error discovery
- Fix mic check false positive
- Fix room settings not editable bug

![](https://i.imgur.com/j6Yg5hS.png)




## 2021-05-08

### Enhancements

- Default mute guest if testing call
- Make iconized remote video draggable

### Fixes

- Fix email validation on the knock form
- Add `Map` polyfill
- Tweak test audio indicator style
- Fix invalid status code when HTTP method is HEAD

## 2021-05-07

### Fixes

- Fix placeholder color on the payment form
- Fix error message on the payment form

## 2021-05-06

### Enhancements

- Enable to send followup by host after a call
- Add host video check step

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/10719495/117028759-f9768500-ad38-11eb-9f49-69e7cd26863c.png)

### Fixes

- Add signaling server connection error handling

## 2021-05-02

### Enhancements

- Add subscriber notification every 30 minutes
- Encourage guests to signup for Remotehour after talking
- Fix extension style

### Fixes

- Internal infrastructure changes for stability improvements

##  2021-04-29

### Enhancements

- Improve style of the Chrome extension

##  2021-04-28

### Enhancements

- Enable to customize default knock message by each host
- Save guest name, email, and knock message if step proceeds
- Set room name while onboarding

### Fixes

- Improve performance of knock form

## 2021-04-27

- Fix status not updating extension bug

## 2021-04-26

### Enhancements

- Add away Slack notification
- Separate integrations page into three tabs
- Add coworking space to the chrome extension

![](https://i.imgur.com/m6XTNNn.png)

### Fixes

- Fix initial slug builder: replace all `.` with `-`
- Fix guest UUID generation bug which happened randomly
- Better validation while onboarding
- Fixes follow-up notes to guest not sending bug
- Fixes room error

## 2021-04-24

### Enhancements

- If possible, mention the host when sharing on Twitter
- Add bottom fixed navigation for mobile
- Add modal to guide how to accept call while knocking themselves for testing
- Add knocking 
- New Landing page :tada: 
    - Make eyecatch to gif animation
    - Add `/solutions` directory
- "Coworking" feature is released :tada: 

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/10719495/115866197-ddb1db80-a428-11eb-9857-babc2b915c77.png)

![](https://i.imgur.com/GvnXS9D.png)


### Fixes

- Fix Firefox edge case camera error
    - If another application use camera, Firefox silently failed.

## 2021-04-21

### Fixes

- Stop publishing too many updates to clients for performance

## 2021-04-20

### Enhancements

- Show subscribers preview
- New onboarding :tada: 
- Improve Embed widget UI

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/10719495/115151605-24848780-a05d-11eb-87a5-444d76e27f47.png)

### Fixes

- Increase performance of updating user info

## 2021-04-16

### Enhancements

- Show volume indicator before knock

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/10719495/114976931-55569800-9e76-11eb-8139-ad07f29b437b.png)

### Fixes

- Fix some styles
- Scroll to top on step changes at the guest thanks screen

## 2021-04-15

### Fixes

- Remove old client-side recording code which leads performance improvement.
- Fix occasional voice error on Safari
- Fix Firefox permission error
- Remove redundant permission requests and improve performance on the knock screen

## 2021-04-14

### Fixes

- Fix guest queue view style
- Add Safari 14.0.1 to unsupported browser

## 2021-04-12

### Enhancments

- Enable to choose what to share on the Slack integration

### Fixes

- Fix office hour page bug on Safari
- Make disconnected users "out of office"  every 30 minutes to prevent stale-online. For some reason, sometimes user is not connected to Remotehour but keeps online.
- Fix color of status text

## 2021-04-09

### Enhancements

- Add /case-study link. Thank you for Jonathan and Miraise to accept our case study interview!

![](https://i.imgur.com/Gg7mzk3.png)

https://remotehour.com/case-study

## 2021-04-08

### Enhancements

- Add "auto recording" feature :tada: 
- Make the recording feature available on the basic plan too
- Call history can be publicly shared by using random token
- Enable to archive call history
- Add feedback modal on the dashboard to collect user needs
- Add room settings to the onboarding page
  - Recording
  - Email form
  - Secret
- Add security page
- Encourage to users to tweet their experience while calling
- Restore "secret mode" feature, which disables sharing

https://remotehour.com/security

### Fixes

- Force terminate calls by server side for ended calls
- Keep user "busy" if there is guest queues, to prevent interruptions
- Make leaving call faster by queuing some async operation to background jobs
- Add singular / plural support

## 2021-04-05

### Fixes

- Fix OG Images on the blog
- Fix favicon on the landing page and the blog

## 2021-04-01

### Fixes

- Fix re-subscribe issue
- Fix unsubscribe token
- Fix default twitter text
- Change tutorial movies format from gif to video
- Fix danger button
- Fix extension login style

## 2021-03-30

### Enhancements

- Encourage users to share their room on mobile devices while onboarding

![](https://i.imgur.com/oBuMw2B.png)

### Fixes

- Fix tweet content
- Remove annoying auto focus on Mobile

## 2021-03-29

### Enhancements

- Go to guest thanks screen after a test call for better understanding how Remotehour works
- Improve the call UI
  - Fix some text
  - Fix the loading screen for another participant
  - Fix resizing
  - show `extra mins modal` in last 2 mins
- Online user notifications sent after 40 seconds user online (Delayed job)

### Fixes

- Fix an error for receiving call on Android

## 2021-03-27

### Enhancements

- Add "add minutes" and "note talking" tutorial popover
- Use Modal for not supported browser alert on the room page
- Partial support of iOS Safari notification sound

### Fixes

- Remove the test call modal when the user already became online on onboarding
- Reload host dashboard on incorrectly room ends
- (Internal) Use unique UUID for Twilio room unique name for debuggability
- Prevent call duplication. Even if two users click "knock" button at the same time, a knock will fail.

## 2021-03-26 

### Fixes

- More consistent text, e.g. video/mic -> video/audio
- Move the form of default decline message to account settings
- Fix the force quit button style
- Fix custom status messages for embeds
- Fix status message form section title on the dashboard

## 2021-03-25

### Fixes

- Rename one of dashboard menu; Invites -> Subscribers
- Fix Safari bug for time zone

## 2021-03-24 

### Enhancements

- Enable to change each status name (online/away/busy/outOfOffice) by the user configuration

![](https://i.imgur.com/9ZLnZTm.png)


## 2021-03-23 

### Enhancements

- Enable to disable the Guest Queue feature in settings
- Show guest queues both on the dashboard and the talk page
- Scroll to top on route/step changes

![](https://i.imgur.com/yRFOXPY.png)

### Fixes

- Fix the video preview not working bug for Mobile Safari
- Use the recommended camera width and height on mobile devices for better performance

## 2021-03-22 

### Enhancements

- Add follow-up emails
- Add the "Pay to extra minutes" feature to the landing page
- Add a step indicator for knock form
- Add test call for onboarding step

The Step indicator

![](https://i.imgur.com/vw9Q6RL.png)


### Fixes

- Set maximum bit-rate for audio to improve performance
- Decrease FPS to improve performance
- Fix translation on room knock page
- Fix bio style for mobile CSS

## 2021-03-18

### Enhancements

- Enable to hide local time
- Add CSS transition to some elements
- Enable to click video setup animation

### Fixes

- Remove animation GIF on the knock screen when accessing from mobile devices
- Fix as bug on showing public review logic

## 2021-03-17

### Enhancements

- Pay to extra minutes :tada:  Guest can "add minutes" by paying certain amount 
- Add slack notification when creating an office hour
- Show receipts on call history

![](https://i.imgur.com/QcCM53W.png)

### Fixes

- Fix guest thanks screen for mobile

## 2021-03-11

### Enhancements

- Add note template feature
- Add follow-up notes if email address

### Fixes

- Change queue indicator position from bottom-right to top-right 

## 2021-03-10

### Fixes

- Fix a bug on dashboard using mobile safari. Folks, be careful to use `window.Notification` which is not supported on some browsers!
- Fix a permission bug on fetching office hour attenders

## 2021-03-09

### Fixes

- Fix call history creation bug which was a long issue. We've migrated code to more stable way.
- Enable to send a message even host is online
- Fix avatar style
- Change menu icon on the knock screen
- move "send a message button" to the menu on the knock screen
- Fix long-note talking bug

## 2021-03-08

### Enhancements

- Add host thanks message

### Fixes

- Fix some styles
- Add request id tracking to better logging
- Re-design knock screen

## 2021-03-01

### Enhancements

- Scheduled Office hour feature :tada: 
- Show

### Fixes

- Make email text of call histories unclickable

## 2021-02-25

### Enhancements

- Enable to set dark/light mode by adding URL query string
    - Adding `?theme=light` forces to be light mode regardless of OS settings

## 2021-02-24

### Enhancements

- "Pay to talk" is now available for all plans :tada:
- Enable to subscribe a host after a decline call

### Fixes

- Remove tutorial popover for invitation because not all people will use it
- Fix disabling camera/mic bug on Safari/Chrome on macOS
- Fix Safari bug while onboarding
- Fix no-camera bug on Firefox on Linux

## 2021-02-16

### Enhancements

- Improve the knock UI
- Make the invitation email layout and texts more comprehensive

### Fixes

- Do not hang up even if fails to get camera permission
- Fix some Japanese translations
- Fix some broken CSS and Reduce CSS bundle size
- Remove redundant text on the talk screen
- Fix embed page and add Copyright
- Close talk window if opened by the Chrome extension

## 2021-02-09

### Fixes

- Fix broken support url

## 2021-02-05

### Enhancements

- Enable email sign in (not with the magic link)
- Encourage users to install our Chrome extension while onboarding
- Integrate room settings and account settings (was separated)

![](https://i.imgur.com/m2YSHso.png)

### Fixes

- Remove confusing subscription confirm message in the email
- Fix some CSS when login/signup
- Fix Twitter integration error (was fixed by previous deployment)
- Remove user invitation while onboarding as it prevents to complete the onboarding process
- Fix initial slug creation; remove `+`
- Add `Access-Control-Max-Age` header to decrease preflight requests
- Follow Apple human interface guideline

![](https://i.imgur.com/zWrLN9T.png)

## 2021-02-03

### Enhancements

- Ability to create custom check-boxes which guest must agree before knocking

### Fixes

- Fix face size broken bug when full screen + screen sharing
- Fix flickering of the landing page
- Fix scrollbar style for Win/Linux

## 2021-02-01

### Enhancements

- Add missed call notification email


## 2021-01-29

### Fixes

- Fix timing of request notification permission while onboarding
- Fix and add use-case survey option

## 2021-01-26

### Enhancements

- Enable to tweet after subscribing a user
- Added invited date to invite list

### Fixes

- Fix unsubscribe link in emails
- Remove unused css and JavaScript
- Fix styles for Mobile
- Do not become online on mobile
- Fix queue session
- Fix Japanese translation

## 2021-01-24

### Enhancements

- Enable to change payment method
- Enable to search and paginate inbox messages
- Add banner if no data available for call history, inbox messages, and invites
- Update LP text

## 2021-01-22

### Fixes

- Fix bug of not created call histories
- Fix h3 style; not to use font-semibold, but font-medium
- Fix call duration text of ongoing call

## 2021-01-21

### Enhancements

- New landing page :tada: 
- Add a default image when video is off
- Add confirmation for subscription invites

![](https://i.imgur.com/p4EJc9q.png)

### Fixes

- Fix updating user emails
- Fix subject of subscriber emails

## 2021-01-19

### Enhancements

- Add decline message
- Enable to add subscribers while onboarding 
- Add last 30 seconds bell while calling
- Save last used device and use it as the default input

### Fixes

- Add rate limit for DOS attack guard
- Fix status change when host disconnected
- Fix OGP image

## 2021-01-15

### Enhancements

- New dashboard :tada: 
- Show analytical data in dashboard
- Remove experimental note posting from dashboard
- Enable to search call histories

![](https://i.imgur.com/6QJI5rI.png)

### Fixes

- Improve performance
- Internal changes (move our Database to Amazon)
- Fix subscribers count
- Fix chat scrolling

## 2021-01-10

### Enhancements

- Remove multiple rooms to improve UX
- Experimental status note posting

### Fixes

- Fix infinite popup bug
- Fix thanks message bug
- Fix cannot downgrade bug

## 2021-01-03

A Happy New Year :tada:
We'll continue to update this release notes since 2021. 

### Enhancements

- 2-Step screen for knocking

### Fixes

- Remove force ending call because it caused critical false-positive
- Fix pay-to-talk bug