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Updates: Lock Placement, Announcements, and Voice & Video

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Jayme
Roll20 Team
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!
The new lock icon is SO much better. Thanks! The announcement tab, not so much. I can't believe that I'm saying this, but I preferred the pop-ups. IMO persistent on screen icons should be for in-game functions only, not announcements or ads.
Rick A. said: The new lock icon is SO much better. Thanks! The announcement tab, not so much. I can't believe that I'm saying this, but I preferred the pop-ups. IMO persistent on screen icons should be for in-game functions only, not announcements or ads. I didn't care for the pop-ups, but losing horizontal real estate for a permanent announcement section is also less than ideal.  Could there be a link generated to the announcements each time you login or tucked away in the settings icon instead? -Adam
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Digging the new Lock Icon set-up. +1 !!! Not a fan for the information/announcement button location on the right-hand side.  It looks like you lengthened the right-hand toolbar.  Looks and feels weird. It should have probably been embedded with the settings button on the left-hand side.  Please reconsider its location.   Much appreciated.
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.
Thank you for inplementing the lock icon change. It's even better than I expected when I made the suggestion. 
Pandarian said: Not a fan for the information/announcement button location on the right-hand side.  It looks like you lengthened the right-hand toolbar.  Looks and feels weird. It should have probably been embedded with the settings button on the left-hand side.  Please reconsider its location.   I second this! Announcements can appear in the side bar on the Roll20 home page or even the game title page, then details can be accessible in the "hamburger menu" at the top of the left side tool bar. 
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.
Lock icon, voice nag gone, these changes are welcome, but I simply do not understand the rationale for announcements to be in-game?  When I log in, I only need tabs that I am going to access throughout the game, announcements are a community thing and, for me, should be accessed there.  Why do I need a tab that shows me things I have already accessed/ been advised about?Glad you have ensured there is no more screen taken by this change, but I still feel the logic is way off.    Mini-rant over
I'll second Simon G: announcements would be better placed out-of-game on the home screen.  That's where I start when checking for news in the forums in between games.  And at game time, the fewer potential distractions, for me or my players, the better.  Why not the Community menu?  That's where I'd expect to find news.
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keithcurtis
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Many folks (like myself) bookmark the Launch game button, and rarely see the home screen. Lots of folks don't engage with any Roll20 social media, including forum, reddit, discord or blog. The in-game feature popups are intrusive to many. I think this is a reasonable compromise.