2.0.4
Two images covered every URL on this domain, so a link to the security page and a link to a release previewed as the same picture and told the reader only which site it came from. 2.0.4 ships 23 social cards, one per section and one for each of the 15 app pages that have a shot of their own, with the remaining 9 falling back rather than pointing at a file that is not there. The menu bar is sorted along the same line: the brand menu carried 13 rows covering the session, the product and three outward links, and now carries the 5 that act on the running session, while About, What’s New, the release notes and the links moved to Help. Wallpapers drop from four collections to one, since three of them were other companies’ pictures.
8 changes in this release
Highlights
- 01
A link preview that matches the page it opens
One card for the whole domain is recognisable and says nothing. Every section has its own now, cut from the screen the URL actually opens: the app grid under /apps, the permission tiers under /security, the tools hub under /tools. App pages go further and show the app, so a shared link to Uniswap previews as Uniswap. The 9 apps with no shot yet get a fallback, which is a generic preview rather than a broken one, and the structured data names the same image as the meta tag so the two cannot disagree.
- 02
The brand menu does one thing
It held both what the session can do and what the product is, which are different questions, and 13 rows is where a menu stops being scannable. The 5 that remain all act on the running session: pause it, force an app to quit, lock it, reload it, restart it. Help took the other 4 and the three outward links, going from 3 rows to 9. The launcher also left the dock, where it was the one tile that opened no app while looking exactly like the tiles that did; it heads the app menu now, above the list it expands on.
Everything in this release
Improved7
- 23 social cards replace the 2 that covered the whole site, one per section and one per app page that has its own screenshot.
- 15 of the 24 app pages carry a card showing that app; the other 9 use a fallback. The image named in each page’s structured data is the one its link preview shows.
- About This Hexncoin, What’s New, the release notes and the links to X, Telegram and Phantom are on the Help menu, which is where a reader asking what this is rather than telling it to do something goes.
- The brand menu is down to Pause Session, Force Quit, Lock Screen, Reload and Restart. System Preferences and App Center were on it and are both a click away in the dock and the app menu already.
- The launcher is the first row of the app menu instead of the leading dock tile, so every tile in the dock is now an app with a running indicator and a context menu.
- The wallet button in the menu bar reads Connect Wallet while nothing is connected. It was a Phantom mark alone in a row of icon buttons, at the one moment there is most to gain from pressing it.
- The reported version is 2.0.4, still codename North Star. Nothing about what the apps do changed.
Removed1
- The Apple, Microsoft and Oxygen wallpaper collections, and the 6 pictures behind them. A browser still holding one of those selections falls back to Automatic instead of drawing on a missing file.
Every version of Hexncoin, newest first.