Aliada Create v2.3.0: Redesigned comments, clearer share pages and safer sign-in

This release makes conversations about a track easier to follow. Comments now line up with the music, and share pages tell your listeners who sent the link and how long it lasts. Signing in and staying signed in are safer, and many small problems with layout, playback and accessibility are fixed.

New

• Comments in track order. You can sort comments by where they sit in the track and click a comment’s timecode to jump there. While a track plays, the comment for the part you’re hearing is marked “Playing now”.
• Delete comments. You can delete your own comments and replies, and team owners can remove any comment. A deleted comment also disappears from the activity history.
• Edit and delete your own notes. You no longer need to be a team admin to fix or remove a note you wrote.
• Who shared it, and until when. A share page now shows who shared the track, when they shared it and when the link expires. The expiry date turns red only in the last seven days.
• Finer spans. A span can now start and end on a tenth of a second, and repeat stops exactly at its end.

Improved

• Comment threads. Threads look calmer. Each comment has a one-line header, replies are joined by a connecting line, and a reply box is always ready. On a computer, the actions for a comment sit as icons next to its time. Formatted text reads properly, and the comment box shows clearly when a comment is sending or has failed.
• Previews for listeners. If a track plays only a preview to some listeners, they can see exactly where the preview ends. Skipping ahead stays inside the preview, on the compare page too.
• Waveform. When part of a track is out of view on a narrow screen, a fade and a button show there is more to that side and take you to it.
• Playback when your session expires. The player now pauses and asks you to sign in again. It used to skip through your whole queue.
• Signing in. The check that you’re human now runs out of sight and no longer gets in the way of password managers. If you use two-factor sign-in, you’re now asked for your code after signing in with an emailed code, and in the iPhone app as well.
• Your account stays yours. Changing or resetting your password, or choosing to sign out of all devices, now signs you out everywhere. A new email address only takes effect once you confirm it.
• Privacy. Your email address no longer appears in the addresses of sign-in, sign-up, invitation or help pages. Only the person a team invitation was sent to can accept it, and only a team admin can cancel one that hasn’t been accepted.
• Deleted means gone. A track, project or team you delete stops playing straight away everywhere, including on share links and in playlists.
• Split sheets keep their history. A split keeps the full record of who was on it, even after someone is removed or their account is deleted. The email addresses of removed participants are hidden.
• Uploads and imports. When you upload many versions at once, they start sooner and are processed two at a time. Imports from links run one at a time for each person, so no single account holds everyone else up. If processing fails, you’re told instead of being left waiting.
• Session photos. Generated cover photos use the title you typed, and Regenerate uses your edited description. If a description is turned down, the photo is tried again automatically.
• Getting around. The top navigation bar stays in view as you scroll, and moving between pages animates smoothly.
• Choosing a plan. The plan you pick on the pricing page now carries through sign-up all the way to billing.
• Accessibility. Text, form fields, checkboxes and status labels have stronger contrast, and a focused field shows a single clear outline. When a drawer opens, keyboard focus moves into it and stays there. Tooltips close with Escape and stay open while you hover over them. The phone country picker now works fully from the keyboard. Buttons on playlists, session photos, the sign-up code form and the help panel are larger and easier to tap, and reduced-motion settings are respected.
• Consistency. Times like “5 minutes ago” read the same everywhere, numbers line up in tables, and headings and wording are consistent across the app.
• Sending feedback. The support link on aliada.io now opens the feedback panel straight away.

Fixed

• Live updates once again appear without refreshing the page.
• Drawers, menus, tooltips and panels no longer hide behind the player bar or get cut off near the bottom of the page, and the bottom of a page no longer ends up underneath the player bar.
• New comments no longer show as edited.
• Mentions of people in comments are readable in dark mode.
• On touch screens, tooltips no longer pop open on every tap and stay stuck open.
• Every tap on rewind and fast-forward now counts.
• A track you’ve lost access to in your queue is skipped at once rather than retried.
• A version whose length hasn’t been worked out yet no longer shows a Play button that doesn’t work.
• Uploading a profile or session photo no longer fails now and then.
• New members stay signed in after entering their sign-up code.
• Signing in with an emailed code now takes you back to the page you were trying to reach.
• The iPhone app no longer tells you your session has expired when it hasn’t.
• Opening an expired share link no longer counts as a listen.
• Share pages no longer offer Compare or show an empty space above the title, and the sharing details stay with the title.
• If the billing portal can’t open, you now see a page that lets you try again instead of an error.
• Rows in Recent Playlists on your dashboard now open their playlist.
• The new-playlist form now works on phones.
• The help and news panel keeps its layout while it loads.
• Sessions uploaded by someone whose account was deleted stay available to the rest of their team.