Inspired by proprietary solutions, add clearer details on how transcription
works and what users can expect from the feature. This new presentation is much
simpler to read, parse, and understand than the previous large block of text
that users were not reading at all.
Using icons helps users quickly understand where the transcription is sent, how
they are notified, and which meeting language is used.
Some information is currently hardcoded and will be parameterized in upcoming
commits. This work is ongoing.
Explicitly explain that transcription is reserved for public servants. Remove
the temporary beta form: the feature is now available to all public servants,
with restrictions based on domain. Make white-labeling rules explicit and
clarify who to contact for access.
The beta form created frustration, with users registering and never hearing
back from the team.
Improve guidance when a user may be the meeting host but is not logged in, and
therefore cannot activate recording. Add a clear hint and a quick action to log
in. This decision is based on frequent support requests where users could not
understand why recording was unavailable while they were simply not logged in.
Initially, I thought presenting the recording feature as a beta would clearly
signal that it was still under construction and being improved. In practice, it
sent a negative signal to users, reduced trust, and still generated many
questions for the support team.
Without clearly explaining why the feature was in beta or what was coming next,
the label only added confusion. I chose to simplify the interface and remove the
beta indication altogether.
Follow Robin’s suggestion on the meeting tool layout presentation. The result
does not yet exactly match the Figma design, and I took some freedom to stay
closer to a Google Meet–like layout.
In the initial approach, it was hard to understand that the full option was
clickable. Adding a light background improves discoverability and usability.
Robin chose to adopt Material Design icons, inspired by NVasse’s commit on
Fichier. This sets up the required CSS to easily use Material Icons throughout
the application.
Eventually, all icons in the app will be replaced with Material ones. For now,
the setup is only used in the recording UI refactor.
Simplify wording and presentation of the recording feature heading,
using a more concise and familiar product-style language inspired by
well-known proprietary solutions.
Many public servants use PCs with unusual screen resolutions. The screen
height is often quite small, which caused responsiveness issues on the
vertical axis.
When opening the side panel, they could not see the button to start the
recording. I improved the vertical responsiveness to address this issue and
reduce support requests such as “I cannot see the button”.
Users typically do not think about scrolling inside the side panel, so the
layout now better fits constrained screen heights.
Eliminate the perception of being 'under development,'
which can undermine trust with potential users.
Focus on creating a more confident and reassuring experience.
While creating a meeting on mobile, the dialog was opening,
and when its width exceeds the mobile width, users are unable
to close the dialog.
Prevent the dialog opening on mobile as a hot fix.
Adjust z-index values to restore button interactivity broken by previous
z-index changes in commit 53e68b7, ensuring fullscreen warning dismiss
controls remain accessible to users instead of being blocked
by overlay layering.
Manually update libexpat to 1.6.53-r0 in Alpine 3.21.3 base image
to address CVE-2025-64720, CVE-2025-65018,
CVE-2025-66293 high-severity vulnerability until newer Alpine base image
becomes available, ensuring Trivy security scans pass.
A manually constructed authentication URL didn’t match the actual endpoint
address, causing the Django backend to issue a 301 redirect to the correct URL.
This wasn’t a problem for regular users at first, but once a client integrating
through a virtual browser came on board, it became significant. The 301 redirect
was disrupting the virtual browser’s cookie/cache system, which in turn broke
the authentication flow.
This change aims to resolve the issue, although it’s not yet certain that
it will fully address their problem.
- add admin action to retry a recording notification to external services
- log more Celery tasks' parameters
- add multilingual support for real-time subtitles
- update backend dependencies
Mark unnecessary decorative icons as aria-hidden following feedback
from @cyberbaloo to eliminate redundant screen reader announcements
that create noisy and annoying experience for users relying on
assistive technologies.
Remove 1000 z-index from screenshare warning that was
causing conflicts with reaction menu and reaction displays,
retaining only necessary layering to hide participant
metadata underneath.
Persist user preference choices across sessions using localStorage
following notification store pattern, eliminating need to reconfigure
disabled features on every meeting join and respecting user's
long-term preference decisions.
Adopt unified switch component pattern for notification preferences to
enable future addition of descriptive text per notification type,
improving consistency and providing clearer explanation capability
for notification behaviors.
Allow users to opt-out of idle participant disconnection despite
default enforcement, trusting power users who modify this setting
won't forget to disconnect, though accepting risk they may block
maintenance configuration updates.
Add margin between switch description text and toggle button to
improve visual breathing room and prevent text from appearing
cramped against interactive control element.
Introduce pop-in alerting participants of automatic 2-minute idle
disconnect to enable LiveKit node configuration updates during
maintenance windows, preventing forgotten tabs from blocking
overnight production updates following patterns
from proprietary videoconference solutions.
Introduce new narrow-width alert dialog variant to improve
readability of short messages by preventing excessively
long line lengths that occur when brief alerts use
standard dialog widths.
Expose idle disconnect timeout as configurable parameter accepting None value
to disable feature entirely, providing emergency killswitch for buggy behavior
without redeployment, following other frontend configuration patterns.
Correct accidentally swapped keyboard shortcuts between video and
microphone toggle controls introduced during device component
refactoring, restoring expected shortcut behavior reported by users.
Manually update libexpat to 2.7.2-r0 in Alpine 3.21.3 base image
to address CVE-2025-59375 high-severity vulnerability until newer
Alpine base image becomes available, ensuring Trivy security scans pass.
Add additional room event tracking to PostHog analytics to better
understand and diagnose disconnection error patterns. Enhanced
telemetry will provide insights for improving connection stability.
Adjust permission modal dimensions to properly fit mobile viewports
and prevent poor responsive user experience. Ensures modal content
remains accessible and readable across different screen sizes.
Resolve issue where users with disabled track preferences in local
storage wouldn't receive permission prompts in subsequent sessions,
causing app deadlock. Toggle tracks when permissions are disabled to
re-trigger permission requests.
This is a hotfix addressing critical user feedback. Permission handling
requires further testing and improvements based on gathered user
reports since release.
