Sandora.

Release notes

A record of how Sandora has changed.

2.4

A new starry-night pixel art look, and avatars that show how others are doing.

Changed

  • The app icon, launch screen and welcome screen have been redrawn as a starry night in pixel art.
  • The header is now a pixel art night sky, and the tabs and icons are pixel art too. The tabs now show icons only.
  • User avatars are now pixel art figures. The background keeps the color chosen in each profile.
  • An avatar’s eyes are open while that person has the app open, and closed when they don’t. You can see this in chats, the timeline, public chats and Search.
  • When someone is typing a message to you, a “…” speech bubble appears on their avatar.
  • The like hearts on the timeline are now pixel art.

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where pressing the return key in chats and public chats sent the message. The return key now starts a new line, and messages are sent with the send button.
  • If a like can’t be saved, the app now tells you.

Other

  • We updated our Privacy Policy.
  • We have also made a few smaller improvements.

2.3

Like notifications and a new Notifications tab.

Added

  • You now get a notification when someone likes your post, including push notifications.
  • The new Notifications tab brings likes and announcements together in one place.
  • Jump straight from a notification to the post that was liked.
  • Open your profile from your avatar at the top left of the screen.
  • Turn like notifications on or off in your notification settings.
  • From a notification, open the profile of the person who liked your post, or report or block them.

Changed

  • The tabs have been reorganized. Your profile now opens from your avatar in the header.
  • Like and match push notifications now arrive in the app’s display language.
  • Notifications for posts that are no longer available are now clearly marked.

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where a setting you turned off could turn back on the first time you saved your notification settings.

Other

  • We updated our Privacy Policy.
  • We have also made a few smaller improvements.

2.2

A new look, inspired by a starlit shore.

Changed

  • The launch screen, welcome screen, and app colors have been redesigned around a starlit shore.
  • The app icon is new too, with dark and tinted versions for your Home Screen.

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where a chat sometimes would not open from the chat list.
  • Fixed an issue where you sometimes could not delete your account if your posts had likes.
  • Fixed an issue where message times were sometimes shown incorrectly.
  • Heart refill times are now shown in your country’s time.
  • Login error messages now match the actual cause.

Other

  • We strengthened protection against impersonation and unauthorized access.
  • We have also made a few smaller improvements.

2.1

You can now choose whether others can look back on your open room.

Added

  • When you close a room, you can now choose “Close and keep it viewable” or “Close and make it private”.
  • A room made private can be looked back on only by the person who opened it.
  • Rooms that end on their own stay viewable to everyone for 7 days, as before.
  • Private rooms are marked with a lock in the list of ended rooms.

Other

  • We have also made a few smaller improvements.

2.0

Open rooms have arrived.

Added

  • Open rooms let you step into a space someone opened and leave whenever you like. Join the conversation, or simply listen.
  • Anyone can open a room (one at a time). A room ends after 24 hours, or when its host closes it.
  • Once a room ends, anyone can look back on it for 7 days. You can read what was said, but no new messages can be added.
  • Ended rooms now appear in the list too, gathered below the rooms that are still open.
  • Timeline posts now have a lifespan. Whatever you set down drifts away after a week.

Changed

  • Open rooms now reach across countries. You can join a room opened anywhere.
  • The tabs along the bottom are now ordered Timeline, Open rooms, Discover, Chats, Settings. Sandora still opens on Discover, as before.
  • The room screen has been tidied up. Your own messages sit on the right, and tapping an avatar opens that person’s profile.
  • The host is no longer counted in a room’s attendance. A room nobody has joined now shows zero.

Safety improvements

  • Timeline posts are now checked for inappropriate language before they go up.
  • Reporting now lives on the person’s profile, and works the same whether you arrived from an open room, the timeline, a chat, or Discover.
  • You can now block someone from an open room as well.
  • The inappropriate-language dictionary has been expanded and now covers Traditional Chinese. We also fixed cases where ordinary words were being turned away.
  • Speaking as someone else in an open room is no longer possible.
  • Conversations in an ended room now expire. After 7 days nobody can read them, not even the host.