
# Remotehour Release Notes
Thank you for visiting this page. We are providing [Remotehour](https://remotehour.com), a spontaneous video call service.
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## 2021-04-16
### Enhancements
- Show volume indicator before knock

### 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://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

### 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

## 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

### 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

### 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

### 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)

### 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

## 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

### 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

### 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