A bare "4:04 PM" gave no way to tell today's message from one sent last
week. Today stays time-only; older messages gain just enough date to
place them: "Yesterday 4:04 PM", a weekday for the past week ("Mon
4:04 PM"), then "Oct 2, 4:04 PM" (with the year if it isn't this one).
Hovering a time shows the full date. All in the viewer's local time.
A new calendar day now always starts a new message group. Previously a
same-sender run that crossed midnight within the 5-minute window (11:58
PM then 12:01 AM) stayed under one header, which would have put the
later message under the wrong day's timestamp. The grouping rule moves
out of MessageList into messageGrouping.ts so it's unit-tested.
useLocalDay refreshes "today" at local midnight and when a hidden tab
becomes visible again, so a tab left open overnight doesn't keep showing
yesterday's messages as a bare time. .message-time no longer wraps, and
.message-author can shrink, so a long display name can't push the longer
label out of the row on a phone.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Markdown support was already complete and documented, but nothing in the
composer pointed at it -- unlike @, # and : (which advertise themselves
when typed), formatting syntax was only discoverable via Help, buried in
the account menu.
The composer stays a plain markdown textarea; a new "Aa" button opens a
toolbar that inserts the syntax for you: bold, italic, strikethrough,
inline code, code block, link, quote, bulleted/numbered lists, H1-H3,
sub/superscript. Collapsed by default, remembered across reloads and
room switches. Clicking a button again removes the formatting (native
undo doesn't track programmatic edits), and bold/italic/sub/strike
toggles are run-length aware so "***x***" is handled correctly. The
selection math is pure functions in lib/markdownFormat.ts, unit-tested.
The "?" opens /help#formatting in a new tab so the draft isn't lost;
HelpPage now scrolls to the hash once the guide has loaded, since the
browser's own hash scroll fired before the async-fetched headings
existed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Version bump in both pyproject.toml and package.json. Documentation
update covers everything shipped since v1.0.0 (direct messages,
message deletion, custom emoji, video attachments, DM/room email
notifications, active sessions, and more), and corrects claims that
had gone stale -- backend/README.md and DEPLOYMENT.md both still said
"no server-side session revocation" and backend/README.md said "no
custom/uploaded emoji," both now false.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
USER_GUIDE.md at the repo root is the single source of truth --
frontend/public/USER_GUIDE.md symlinks to it so the same file is both
readable directly in the repo and served by the app, rendered on a new
/help page reusing the existing markdown renderer. Scoped to regular
member features (messaging, rooms, attachments, notifications,
profile); room admin/site admin features are intentionally left out.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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