🪲 The Problem

Following the release of the URL Updates in #proposal-86's final deliverable, a bug was introduced that prevented admin and moderator privileges from appearing within a post - unless the post was accessed via a specific route.

You'll notice in the screenshot below that there's no ability to change the user's label, despite having Admin privileges.

This was raised as #bug-3937 on GitHub.

⚙️ The Cause

This was caused by the change in URL structure when improving Steemit's SEO.

The replacement of hive-xxxxxx with the community name meant that when the page state of a post is set and the code looks up the community via the URL, Hivemind cannot return the community information without the hive-xxxxxx community identifier.

So when the page tries to access the 'community' information in the state, it returns 'undefined' - an empty object.

It's this 'community' property which then drives the post permissions.

🛠️ The Fix

The fix is straightforward enough (as always, the few lines of code mask the effort involved in solving the problem!) and involves linking the getCommunty() function to the page;

Then, as the page mounts, if the community property is empty, call this function.

I'll document the code fully (all 9 lines of it) once it's been thoroughly tested.

🧪 Testing

As the post title indicates, this is now available on https://steemitdev.com for testing.

It would be great if all community administrators and moderators who read this check that the functionality is now available to them and I'd appreciate a brief comment below to say whether it is / isn't working for you.

🚀 #proposal-89

We're extremely close to getting #proposal-89 over the line so that I can continue development for the next 11¹/₂ months. I wasn't going to leave an annoying bug that I introduced, hence the fix before the proposal is hopefully approved.

Your support is still needed to get this over the line