Welcome to our first release for the new season! March sees us expand the functionality of the Blend tool, add a new permission for your Admin menu, and a important update for your followers to join you on the canvas more easily. Read on for more…

Color mixing setting for all

After a brief period of testing with a smaller group of Magma users, we’ve now made the Blend tool’s Paint setting available to everyone! With this you can add color to your blend strokes. If you’re using a pressure-sensitive stylus, you’ll be able to get the most out of this setting. See more in our Blend tool guide.

Join people you follow

To make it even easier to join your friends on the canvas, we’ve made two important updates for you. Shoutout to Filip, our engineer who worked on implementation of this feature. We're already seeing that many of you have discovered it already.

First, you can make your current canvas visible to all of your followers to join. Tapping on the blue Share button of your canvas will now show an option to allow followers to join you.

When this setting is enabled, followers can see your canvas in their Following list in the dashboard. By default, the setting is OFF for your Artdesk canvases, and ON for Art Jams. Artspace canvases remain private.

Secondly, we know that some people prefer to keep their status hidden. We’ve added the option to completely disable it in the Activity Privacy section of your Account settings. You can either Always appear offline, or never show that you are drawing publicly, even while you are in a public Art Jam.

Sequence panel permissions

We’ve added a new permission for the Sequence Panel to let you control who can add or remove drawings to your sequence. This was an important request that came from our community after increasing the drawing limit for sequences. As part of this, the Admin menu permissions now apply to the entire sequence. We hope that this makes your drawing lessons, hangouts and live streams much easier to manage.

Simplified user button

We’re improving upon our updates to the top toolbar. The one you’ll notice for now is the minified user button. Instead of showing your avatar and display name, now only your avatar is displayed.

The mobile experience always presents interesting challenges and we’re aware of the canvas participant dropdown falling behind the top bar buttons. We’re already working on a fix for it.

Bugs

Of course, there are always a few stealthy bugs that get past us while we build and improve other features. Here's some of what we fixed in the latest update:

• Fixed a bug where Hide Art Jam was not working;

• Repeatedly switching to Super Simple Mode on iPad in drawing sequences is fixed;

• Apple Pencil no longer causes a page reload when switching Artspace projects;

• Fixed scrollbar in Art Jams and Profile pages;

• Fixed Reference Window UI hide behavior;

• Fixed issue with angle and roundness for brush not resetting correctly;

• Various performance and memory improvements.

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That's all for now…we've got more exciting features to build! Be sure to join the Magma Discord server to be a part of product discussions and news about what’s coming next. See you on the canvas!