You now decide who can see that you work on a project. This release adds private user profiles and private team members, and brings Mermaid diagrams and a round of security improvements.

Choose who sees your team

Every Simplifier project has a team tab that lists its members, and until now anyone could read it, even on a public project. For a national program or a vendor, the people behind a specification can be sensitive, and the only way to hide them was to make the whole project private. That also hid the specification others have to implement.

Now you can keep the project public and the people private:

• Private team members. Teams now have a Team settings page, where the member list can be made private. Outside the team, nobody sees who is in it: not on the team tab, in the feed, on project pages, in the journal, in file history, or on user profiles. Existing teams stay public until a team manager changes this. Read more in the documentation.
• Private user profiles. Under your account settings, you can now close your profile page to everyone but you. Your name still appears next to your work, as plain text, but it no longer links to a page that lists your projects and activity.

Team owners now also see roughly when each member last logged in, to spot accounts that can be removed. And the project log, import log, journal and organization news show a member's display name instead of their username. You can change your display name yourself under Account > Personal, and the logs follow.

Mermaid diagrams, wherever you write

A sequence or flow diagram often explains an exchange better than a page of text, but until now that meant PlantUML or an image kept up to date by hand. Simplifier now renders Mermaid diagrams:

• in guides, inline with the <mermaid> tag, or from a .mmd or .mermaid file in your project with {{render:}}, just like a PlantUML file;
• in project readmes, issues and comments, and in embeds.

The guide editor offers Mermaid snippets under Insert snippet to get you started, and the new Mermaid playground lets you try a diagram and share a link to it before it goes into your guide.

▲ Write the diagram in the page, and the preview draws it.

Please note: if your guide uses a custom style copied before this release, its master template needs one extra script line to show Mermaid diagrams. Here is the line and where it goes.