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Changelog second quarter 2017

by Max

What happened during the second quarter of 2017 on LocalBitcoins? LocalBitcoins constantly makes small improvements to the site, this blogpost is a collection of all the publicly visible changes we've done during the second quarter of 2017.

This blogpost is continuously updated. Last update: April 26th 2017

Key changes

The most important and visible changes during the second quarter of 2017.

  • April 3rd Lowered the threshold to hide advertisements of inactive users. Ads are now hidden after 19 days instead of 37 if the user hasn't logged in.
  • April 10th Removed the Facebook verification feature.
  • April 11th Made improvements to our email system to ensure email delivery in problematic situations.
  • April 24th SMS notification feature for new trade messages is disabled..

The complete list of changes April 1st to June 30th

April 3rd

  • Lowered the threshold to hide advertisements of inactive users. Ads are now hidden after 19 days instead of 37 if the user hasn't logged in.
  • Improved certain error messages when users try to open trades.
  • Improved error checking on the advertisement creation form.
  • "Leave feedback" reminder email was sent even when feedback already existed between the trading partners.

April 6th

  • Advertisement limits are no longer displayed incorrectly.

April 10th

  • Added advertisement rules to the "post a trade" page.
  • Partly paid invoices are now kept in the open invoices tab where they are more visible and easier for merchants to notice.
  • Removed the Facebook verification feature.

April 11th

  • Made improvements to our email system to ensure email delivery in problematic situations.

April 13th

  • Improved readability of the blog for mobile devices.

April 18th

  • Multiple files can now be uploaded to one support ticket. Currently this only works when replying to tickets and not when creating new ones.

April 20th

  • Ads with deprecated payment methods are now hidden from listings and trades can no longer be started from them.
  • Anonymous users can now reply to closed support tickets for two days after the ticket was closed.

April 24th

  • SMS notification feature for new trade messages is disabled.

April 25th

  • Merchants can now release partly paid invoices through the merchant interface.

April 26th

  • Existing ATM ads are disabled.