Updates: Lock Placement, Announcements, and Voice & Video

Happy Thursday, everyone. Today, the VTT team released a few quality-of-life updates based on community feedback that I'm happy to tell you about: Lock Placement icon is now less intrusive By popular demand, we’ve updated the Lock Placement icon on maps and tokens to be a more manageable size, translucent, and automatically fade away after 3 seconds. The context menu was also updated with clearer "Lock" and "Unlock" labels, making this function easier to find and use. Announcements moved to the Right-Hand Sidebar Say farewell to "What's New" pop-up jumpscares, and bye-bye to announcements taking up space in your chat log (especially for weeks after you’ve read them!). We've added a dedicated Announcements tab to the right-hand sidebar that lets you browse recent tabletop updates, access tours of new features, and find supporting documents at your own pace, without getting in the way.  Voice & Video notification updated Finally, the pesky "Join Voice & Video?" pop-up that appeared when your player video/avatar size was set to "Names Only" has finally been relocated! You'll now find it tucked neatly behind a headphones button next to your avatar's nameplate, so it’s there when you need it, but doesn’t require you to click out of it EVERY! SINGLE! TIME! you join a game. :)  Hopefully, these updates let you focus more on your game and less on the tools you’re using! Let us know what you think!

We appreciate the feedback, please keep it coming! Wanted to directly address the feedback around increased horizontal real estate / width of right-hand toolbar.  The team is taking a look at that now - the goal is that the Right Hand sidebar doesn't take up any more real estate as a result of this additional tab.

We just released an update to ensure that the  minimum width of the Right Hand sidebar is reinstated , and there should be 1)no overflow of icons into a second row, and 2) no misalignment between the icon row and the rest of the sidebar. Lavi said: We appreciate the feedback, please keep it coming! Wanted to directly address the feedback around increased horizontal real estate / width of right-hand toolbar.  The team is taking a look at that now - the goal is that the Right Hand sidebar doesn't take up any more real estate as a result of this additional tab.

Hello! Happy to share a bit of the “why” behind the announcement tab: 1. We have updates and features we want to make sure you’re aware of, but we don't want to break your flow every time you jump into a game. Every time we threw up a 'whats new' pop up for you guys, a little piece of us died inside and someone somewhere rage quit we had a ton of feedback about that. The announcement tab will dramatically reduce those pop ups so that the info is on hand when you want it. 2. We wanted a single place where announcements and feature tours live over time. If you are doing some quick prep for a session or just focusing on the basics, you can come back and explore new features whenever it works for you. We also want to keep evolving towards in-vtt "help," where folks can find how-to's and other useful information.

Hello again! We definitely hear your feedback that you find the addition of the tab a bit annoying - our goal is to make it really useful as we move forward; we want to not only have feature updates listed here, and other messages that we deem important and relevant enough  to access in-app, but more importantly, we want in-app help , documentation , tours , and how-tos . In interview after interview, folks new to Roll20 have requested more in-app guidance, help and documentation. This is our first stab at making that happen - that needs a spot to live! Let us prove out to you that this is helpful not only to you but your new players, and know that we are taking suggestions on useful resources! If you still feel that the addition of the icon is too much for you in your games after we build out the concept a bit further, please let us know :)