Display platform release notes / what's new?

[thisisjoshford]

Description

Consistent feedback from developers have been lack of awareness to new features that have been shipped. In efforts to help resolve this we can increase user awareness of recent changes made to near-discovery by displaying release notes as they happen.

Fortunately, we have existing design work and an example implementation that was created for NEAR Wallet.

Completion Requirements

• Determine release notes format & content
• Create simple landing page for current & archival release notes
• Create toast notification or similar
• Create visible link on near.org to recent updates

Resources

Previous implementation in Wallet -> near/near-wallet#2074

Example:

[Ishatt]

Related: #546

[charleslavon]

@thisisjoshford we now have release notes auto created on each production release for near-discovery and near-discovery-components. Perhaps that's good enough for now and this can be closed?

[thisisjoshford]

I am happy to close the related issue near/DX#18, but I still think there should be some way of notifying a logged-in near.org user of platform changes/updates. I would argue that a very small percentage of near.org logged-in users subscribe to near-discovery releases, and visibility is still low.

For me its still two parts:

• create regular releases w/ clear updates
• surface this information to end users

For the second part we don't have to implement the old wallet solution as proposed here. I am totally open to a simple "what's new" icon or button somewhere on the site or even a temp banner when someone logs in after a release like GH: