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February 2023 Updates

On February 1, 2023 (US Pacific Time), the Local Contexts Hub received a major update to the Project workflow. Read the latest post on the changes here. If you encounter any issues, please let us know at support@localcontexts.org.

Important Changes

  • Contributing communities can only apply Labels to a Project if they are notified of it first.
  • Public Projects have a “View As” card, where only contributors can view the Project action page as one of their contributing accounts and a public view.
  • Added and updated in various locations around the hub the Privacy Policy link and disclaimers:
    • Added privacy policy link to the registration page.
    • Added disclaimers to account creation: institution, community.
    • Added disclaimers to settings in profile and all accounts, as well as create-profile and Project comments.
    • Added a tooltip with a disclaimer to the customize Label page next to the Label text.
    • Content updates to apply Labels tooltip and adding disclaimer to join request popups

Other Changes

  • Styled email templates for all outgoing emails.
  • Notify Communities popup content update.
  • Project action page misc content updates.
  • Content update for different Contributor Views
  • Copyright in footer set to dynamically change every year without having to manually change it.
  • Adjusted the footer: it would jump up the page when there wasn’t enough content to fill the page, will now stay on the bottom regardless of content.