Hello team! This week was focused on enhancing the user journey, from a brand new onboarding experience to daily community engagement. We also merged a number of important fixes and maintenance updates. Let's dive in!

🚀 New Features & Major Updates

Onboarding Checklist for New Users
A significant new feature landed this week: an onboarding checklist for new users (DEV-3551). This will guide newcomers through the initial steps of setting up their profile and exploring the platform, aiming to improve user retention and the initial user experience. Follow-up work was also completed to add more flexible skip logic.

Daily Quiz Bot Creator
The community bot has been upgraded to automatically create daily quiz posts. This is a great step towards driving consistent community engagement with fun, automated content.

Codex/update community bot post creator for daily quiz #87

muraridevv posted on Apr 09, 2026

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📈 Enhancements & Fixes

A flurry of bug fixes and enhancements were merged to improve platform stability and user experience:

• Mobile Auth: Adjustments were made to ensure our mobile authentication flow is fully compatible with the latest platform changes.
• Embeds: Support was added for CodePen 2.0 editor URLs in embeds, and a bug affecting embeds within comments in the user feed was resolved.
• Bug Squashing: A number of smaller fixes were addressed, including issues with the fast reaction toggle, null byte argument errors, exception handling for Apple sign-in, and improved automod labeling logic.

⚙️ Maintenance & Housekeeping

To keep the platform robust and up-to-date, we performed several key maintenance tasks.

Upstream Sync
We merged the latest changes from our upstream repository to ensure we have the most recent code and security patches.

Merge upstream 10 04 #88

muraridevv posted on Apr 10, 2026

What type of PR is this? (check all applicable)

• [ ] Refactor
• [ ] Feature
• [ ] Bug Fix
• [ ] Optimization
• [ ] Documentation Update

Description

Related Tickets & Documents

• Related Issue #
• Closes #

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• [ ] Semantic HTML implemented?
• [ ] Keyboard operability supported?
• [ ] Checked with axe DevTools and addressed Critical and Serious issues?
• [ ] Color contrast tested?

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Added/updated tests?

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Dependency Updates
Our CI/CD pipeline was improved by bumping the actions/checkout GitHub Action from v3 to v6, keeping our build process modern and secure.