Customer updates for Changebot

We've made an important update to how email addresses are displayed in the navbar dropdown. Previously, some users experienced issues with the display of their email address being obfuscated, resulting in a placeholder like "[email protected]" being shown instead. This was due to a conflict with Cloudflare's email protection feature.

To ensure a smoother and more accurate experience, we've adjusted the display settings to disable this feature in specific instances, allowing your actual email address to be visible where intended. This change enhances usability by ensuring you see the right information at the right time.

We've made it easier for new users to get started by automatically creating a default product when they sign up and create a team. This change ensures that new users can immediately begin using the platform without encountering errors, even if they haven't completed onboarding by connecting a GitHub repository.

If you're a new user, this means you won't run into issues when attempting to create a manual update, as the application will no longer require you to have an associated product from the start. You can rename this default product anytime to better reflect your work.

This update enhances the onboarding flow and improves the overall stability of the application, ensuring a smoother initial experience for all users.

We've streamlined the way you switch teams by incorporating the team selection directly into the user dropdown menu. This change makes navigating between teams much easier and more intuitive, removing the need for a separate team selection form.

Now, you can simply click on your user profile and choose your desired team from the dropdown, ensuring a smoother and quicker transition. Enjoy a cleaner interface and a more efficient workflow with this update!

We've upgraded our platform to the latest version of Rails, bringing improved performance and security enhancements. This update includes significant improvements to our service infrastructure, ensuring a smoother and more reliable experience for you.

Additionally, we've introduced a newly designed error page for 400 Bad Requests. This page now features an enhanced user interface that is easier to navigate and understand, making it simpler for you to troubleshoot any issues.

While most of these changes happen behind the scenes, they help us deliver a more secure and efficient service to you. As always, we appreciate your understanding and feedback as we continue to enhance our platform.

We've enhanced your onboarding experience by introducing automatic redirection once you start the onboarding process. Now, after installing the GitHub App, you'll be seamlessly guided to the next step of the onboarding without any extra clicks.

This update ensures a smoother setup process, helping you get up and running with our platform more efficiently. You can still explore the app freely before starting your onboarding journey, but rest assured, once you begin, you'll be taken directly to where you need to go next.

We've revamped the onboarding experience in your dashboard to make it more intuitive and helpful. If you're a pre-onboarded user, you'll now see a dedicated section that guides you through connecting your GitHub account. This step-by-step approach helps ensure a smooth start with our platform.

First, you'll be prompted to connect your GitHub, setting the stage for seamless updates. Once connected, we'll inform you that updates are underway, and shortly after, you'll see your updates displayed right on your dashboard. This enhanced flow makes it easier to understand where you are in the onboarding process and what to expect next.

We've given our password reset page a fresh new look! The redesigned layout is now more responsive, thanks to the use of flex and overflow scroll, making it easier to navigate on any device.

The password fields have been upgraded with enhanced styling and required attributes to guide you smoothly through the reset process. We've also revamped the submit button with a sleek gradient background and interactive hover effects for a more engaging experience.

Additionally, we've added convenient links for signing in, signing up, and accessing confirmation instructions, ensuring you have everything you need right at your fingertips.

We've introduced a new feature to enhance the onboarding experience for users who haven't made updates yet. Our system now automatically sets up essential components such as team, user, GitHub app installation, product, and repository records seamlessly. This improvement aims to provide a smoother start, ensuring everything you need is ready from the get-go.

We've enhanced the sign-up process by directing new users to a dedicated confirmation page instead of the login page. This change ensures you have a clear path to follow after signing up, making it easier to understand the next steps.

The new confirmation page includes straightforward instructions on how to verify your email address, helping you activate your account with ease. This improvement eliminates the possibility of missing critical messages, ensuring a smoother onboarding experience.

We've given the resend confirmation page a fresh new look! The static SVG logo is now replaced with an inline SVG, which not only speeds up loading times but also enhances the visual appeal of the page.

To make your experience more seamless, we've revamped the email input field with better accessibility features and a more polished design. The submit button also received an upgrade with new gradient backgrounds and rounded shapes for a modern touch.

Navigating between different actions is now easier than ever. We've added handy links so you can quickly access sign-in, sign-up, or recover your password right from the page. Plus, the form layout now adjusts beautifully to different screen sizes, ensuring a smooth experience across all your devices.

We've made some improvements to how customer updates are handled by allowing each update to be associated with multiple commits. This enhancement provides a more comprehensive view of changes, giving you a clearer understanding of all the relevant updates at once.

We've also revamped the user interface to showcase all linked commits along with their details, ensuring you have all necessary information at your fingertips. This change not only streamlines the information you receive but also enhances your ability to track and understand changes relevant to you.

We've made some updates to improve your experience with the product settings page. Teams that haven't completed their onboarding process will no longer see the product settings page. This change helps prevent any confusion or errors that might occur from accessing settings that aren't relevant at this stage.

If you belong to a team still in the onboarding phase, you'll be redirected to the integrations settings page instead. This ensures that your focus remains on completing the setup process smoothly. Once onboarding is done, you'll have full access to all the product settings options you need.

We've made significant enhancements to the visual design of our application to make it more user-friendly and visually appealing. This includes adding new SVG icons for various functionalities like alerts and bug fixes, as well as fresh graphics for user profiles and publishing actions. These updates not only make navigation easier but also improve the overall aesthetic of the platform.

We've also redesigned the registration form to be more responsive and clear, and revamped the onboarding process for connecting with GitHub, making it more intuitive. These changes aim to streamline the user experience, helping you get started and navigate the platform with ease.

Furthermore, a new and dynamic edit interface for customer updates has been introduced. This dynamically reflects the update status, ensuring you have a clear view of your interactions. We've also optimized the performance of customer updates queries, so you can enjoy faster, more efficient data processing.

To enhance your interaction with our platform, we've added user interface components like carousels and modals. These elements provide a more engaging and interactive experience, allowing you to easily view and manage content.

Lastly, we've made several behind-the-scenes improvements, including refactoring HTML structure and improving CSS styling, which enhance accessibility and maintain a consistent design across our application.

We've given our Team Settings page a major facelift to enhance usability and align with our latest design standards. Now, you can manage team details, notifications, and member invitations more efficiently with a streamlined layout that organizes everything into clear, distinct sections.

We've introduced intuitive forms for updating information and implemented robust error handling to guide you through the process smoothly. This update also includes clearer UI labels to ensure a more straightforward and delightful user experience.

We've made some changes to enhance the experience for users who haven't completed onboarding. Previously, non-onboarded users were automatically redirected to the onboarding wizard, but now you'll have more flexibility. This update allows users without admin access to still explore the app, invite team members, and access the Team settings page.

While we haven't yet added demo updates to illustrate the app's functionality fully, this change sets the stage for future improvements that will help you understand what our platform can do before connecting your GitHub repo. Our goal is to make the initial experience smoother and more informative, so you can get the most out of Changebot from the start.

We've made a small but helpful adjustment to the publication settings page. The submit button now has improved spacing, making it easier to interact with and enhancing the overall user experience. This update ensures that the button is more visually distinct and accessible, allowing you to navigate and complete your tasks more smoothly.

You can now invite others to join your team with ease! Generate an invitation link and share it with your colleagues. Once they receive the link, they can quickly join your team by following the simple steps provided.

We've also added a user-friendly interface for managing your invitations, so you can see all pending invites and keep track of who has joined your team.

We've made it easier to manage your team with a new feature that allows you to remove team members directly from the settings page.

Simply navigate to the team members section, find the member you want to remove, and click the 'Remove' button. The process is quick and seamless, helping you maintain an up-to-date team effortlessly.

You can now easily update your team's name directly from the settings. Head over to the new team settings section to make changes to your team's name.

We've also added a convenient link in the settings sidebar and an intuitive interface to guide you through the process. This update ensures you have more control and flexibility in managing your team's identity.

We've improved our customer update system to ensure you receive timely notifications via email. Now, whenever there is a customer update, an email notification will be automatically sent to keep you informed.

This enhancement ensures you stay updated with relevant changes, enhancing your ability to respond swiftly to new information.

We've added a new feature where you'll receive email notifications when there are updates to your customers. This ensures you stay informed without having to constantly check the system.

You'll receive at most one notification per day, and if you haven't logged in since the last notification, you won't get another until you log in again. This way, you'll only get the updates you need without being overwhelmed.

We've added new email notification settings for a more personalized experience. You can now manage your email preferences through a dedicated settings page, accessible from the menu.

The new interface includes toggle switches to easily customize which notifications you receive, making it simpler to stay informed in a way that suits you best.

We've made a small but significant improvement to the update view on our platform. Now, paragraphs in updates will have consistent spacing, similar to what you see in the edit and published views.

This enhancement ensures that your updates are more readable and visually appealing, preventing any confusion caused by inconsistent formatting.

We've updated the webhook URL for our TRMNL plugin to ensure seamless communication with the new backend service. This change ensures that all your operations continue to run smoothly without any interruptions.

We've added a new notifications settings page to help you manage your email and Slack notifications more effectively. This new page includes a toggle for email notifications and an input field for Slack notifications, making it easier to customize your notification preferences.

While we've also added an entry for these notification settings to your sidebar, it's currently commented out and will be enabled once the feature is fully implemented.

We've enhanced the display of links in customer updates. Now, links are styled with blue text and medium font weight, making them easily identifiable.

Additionally, when you hover over a link, it will be underlined, providing a clear visual cue that the text is clickable. This update applies to the update show view, update edit view, and the hosted updates view.

We've improved the visibility of links in customer updates to make them easier to identify and interact with.

From now on, links will appear in blue text with a medium font weight, and they will be underlined when you hover over them. This update applies to the update show view, update edit view, and the hosted updates view, ensuring a consistent and intuitive experience across the board.

We've enhanced the appearance of paragraphs in the update view by adding extra padding at the bottom. This change ensures that paragraphs will now have consistent spacing, making the update view look similar to the edit and published views.

We're excited to introduce a refreshed customer generation experience that makes it easier and more intuitive for you to create and update customer profiles. Our latest update removes unnecessary steps and simplifies the process, ensuring you can focus on what matters most—connecting with your audience.

Here are some key highlights:

• Streamlined Settings: We've refined the settings to eliminate redundant options, making configuration faster and more straightforward.
• Improved Clarity: The new format for customer generation prompts ensures that the information is presented clearly, helping you to create engaging content effortlessly.
• Tailored Messaging: Choose from various narrative styles and tones to craft messages that resonate with your specific audience.
• Focus on User Benefits: Our guidelines now emphasize the impact and benefits of changes, helping you communicate effectively with your customers.

This update is designed with you in mind, offering a user-friendly interface and tools that enhance your productivity and engagement. We hope you love these improvements as much as we do!

We've made a significant performance improvement in how customer data is retrieved in our system. By optimizing the way customer-related queries are handled, operations involving customer information are now faster and more efficient.

This update ensures that associated team and product data is loaded more efficiently, reducing the time it takes to access and manage customer details.

We've added a handy 'Back' button to the hosted update page. This new feature lets you easily return to the previous page you were on, making navigation smoother and more intuitive.

For now, the 'Back' button will take you to the last page you visited. In the future, we plan to give you the option to customize where this button takes you, ensuring an even better user experience.

We've updated how links to published updates are handled on our platform. Now, the anchor tags use a consistent and user-friendly ISO 8601 date format, making it easier for you to share and navigate to specific updates.

This change also includes a code refinement to enhance the maintainability and readability of our codebase, ensuring a smoother experience overall.

We've improved how deep links to updates work! Now, each deep link includes the update title along with the publish date. This change ensures that you can easily link to specific updates, even if multiple updates are published on the same day.

These more descriptive links also make it simpler for you to navigate and find the updates you're looking for. Happy browsing!

We've made a small but impactful change to the design of our customer updates. The title text is now larger, ensuring it stands out more prominently on the page.

This update enhances readability and helps you quickly identify important information in your updates.

We've improved how customer updates are displayed! Now, updates will be shown in order of their publication date, with the newest updates appearing first.

We've added a feature that displays the published date for customer updates. This makes it easy to distinguish between published updates and drafts, giving you clear visibility on when each update was officially released.

We've made a small but impactful update to how dates are displayed in the customer update section. To enhance readability and consistency, all dates will now appear without leading zeros. For example, instead of '04/09/2023', you will see '4/9/2023'. This change ensures a cleaner and more user-friendly interface.

We've updated the datepicker settings to ensure date formatting is consistent and compatible with our system. This change helps to prevent errors that occurred with certain date inputs.

From now on, you will notice that the datepicker uses the standardized YYYY-MM-DD format, making date selection smoother and more reliable.

• When viewing your updates, you will now see a Skip Button next to each update.
• If you aren't interested in posting a particular update, simply click the Skip Button to mark it as "skipped".
• Once an update is marked as skipped, it will be removed from your list of updates to review, allowing you to focus on the updates that need your attention.
• Should you change your mind, you can easily undo this action by clicking the Unskip Button, which will re-add the update to your list.

We've made it easier for you to personalize your hosted updates page by allowing you to set a custom title for each update. This means you can now clearly label and organize your updates according to your preferences.

If you don't provide a custom title, don't worry – we'll automatically use your team name as the default title. This update helps keep your page looking neat and organized.

• Proper display of bullet points, improving readability and organization of your updates.
• Enhanced user experience with more effective communication of information to your customers.
• Consistent styling across the application, thanks to centralized CSS management.

You can now edit customer updates regardless of their publication status. This means more flexibility for you to make changes even after an update has been published.

We've made it easier for you to manage your publications by adding the ability to choose your own publication date. Now, when you publish content, you can set a specific 'published_at' date that suits your needs.

We've also enhanced the publication form layout for a smoother experience and replaced the publish button with a more intuitive link. These changes aim to make your publishing process more flexible and streamlined.

We’ve introduced a new 'Set Publication Date' feature that allows you to specify the publication date for your updates. This gives you more control over scheduling and backdating updates, ensuring the publication date aligns with your needs.

You can now easily set the publication date through a new modal window, which is accessible via a button in the publication settings. Additionally, we've added a 'Default Publication Date' setting to streamline your publishing process.

• Skip Button: You can now mark updates as 'skipped' if you are not interested in reviewing them at the moment. This will remove the update from your list, helping you to quickly identify and focus on the updates that require your attention.
• Unskip Option: If you change your mind, you can easily 'unskip' any updates, bringing them back into your list for review.
• Enhanced User Interface: The skip and unskip buttons are prominently displayed and easily accessible, making the process intuitive and user-friendly. Clear visual cues are provided to indicate the status of each update.

We've introduced a new 'Created Date' field across various parts of our application. This addition allows you to easily track and display the creation date of records, blog posts, and customer updates, giving you better visibility and improved data management.

We've increased the allowed length for excerpts when publishing to Webflow. You can now include up to 84 characters in your excerpts, providing more space for detailed previews of your content.

We have added a new 'Published Date' field to improve your content scheduling and management capabilities. This feature allows you to define and manage the publication dates of your content directly within our platform.

Additionally, the user interface has been updated to include a more intuitive date selection element, making it easier than ever to specify and adjust published dates for your content. This enhancement ensures better control over the timing and visibility of your posts.

We've made an important update to our form components to improve your experience. Now, required fields in forms are clearly marked with red asterisks.

This change affects fields such as collection selection, body, title, excerpt, and site selection. This should help you quickly identify which fields need to be filled out, reducing errors during submission.

• Improved Visual Appeal: The customer update titles are now more visually appealing and easier to read, with adjusted font sizes, colors, and layout.
• Enhanced Clarity: We have explicitly stated that human review is happening and provided reasons for any slow processes, ensuring customers are well-informed and reassured about the status of their updates.
• Consistent Styling: Addressed any inconsistencies in styling to create a more cohesive and professional appearance.
• Better Padding and Spacing: Added padding to the title input and decreased space between the title and content for a cleaner look.

We've given the hosted updates page a stylish makeover! You'll now see a more visually appealing header that grabs attention right away.

The list style for updates has also been improved, making it easier to read and more organized. Plus, we've added a semi-random background color to bring some life to the page.

These enhancements aim to make the page look more professional and engaging, ultimately helping you make a better impression on your customers.

We've made an improvement to the publication preview process by turning the preview URL into a clickable link. This makes it much easier to access and view your publication previews directly from the interface.

• Efficient Update Management: You can now mark updates as read, mark updates as important, and delete updates directly from the list view. This eliminates the need to navigate to a separate page, saving you valuable time.
• Quick Edit Options: Easily edit an update's status, date, and commit information from the list view. This allows for faster modifications and ensures your updates are always current and accurate.
• Seamless Skipping: Mark any update as skipped with a single click. This intuitive action helps you quickly prioritize and manage your update review tasks.
• Direct Approvals: Approve updates right from the list view, accelerating your review process and enabling you to start using those updates in your marketing initiatives sooner.

We're excited to announce a new feature that allows you to configure the slug field in your Webflow collections. This enhancement lets you customize SEO-friendly URLs more easily, improving the flexibility and consistency of your content management.

Simply update your settings to specify the slug field for each collection, ensuring that your URLs are tailored to your needs.

We've updated the Webflow configuration interface to include a new sidebar layout. This enhancement allows you to view, edit, and manage your Webflow settings more easily.

The sidebar provides clearer guidance on your configuration status and offers quicker access to actions, helping you navigate the interface with greater efficiency.

We've made some important improvements to the Webflow configuration form. Now, the submit button will only be enabled when all required fields are filled out. This means you won't be able to submit the form prematurely by accident.

This update also improves the visual feedback for disabled elements, providing a clearer and more consistent user experience.

• Relevance and Efficiency: By filtering out bot-authored PRs, you will receive more concise and valuable updates, helping you focus on important information without being overwhelmed by irrelevant details.
• Enhanced Communication: The updates you receive will be more pertinent, leading to more effective communication between your development team and stakeholders. This can help streamline the feedback and resolution process.
• Improved Performance: With the system avoiding the processing of long and low-value PRs, you can expect a more streamlined and efficient handling of imported PRs, ultimately reducing noise and improving overall system performance.

We've made it easier to manage your Webflow configurations with a new dedicated view page. Now, after setting your Webflow configurations, you can see all your current settings clearly displayed on a separate page.

The edit form has also been improved to ensure you always fetch the latest values from the Webflow API, making it simpler to keep your configurations up-to-date. These changes enhance the overall user experience by providing a clearer and more intuitive interface for managing your Webflow settings.

We've enhanced the way customer updates exported to Webflow are displayed on the Changebot-hosted customer updates page.

This update introduces more accurate publication times and improves the order in which updates are shown, ensuring a more reliable and consistent experience.

• Tailored Updates: By leveraging our advanced language learning model (LLM), we now generate a set of specific questions based on each commit message to ensure that all relevant information about new changes is included in the customer updates.
• Improved Accuracy: We now ensure (and triple check that) updates are generated in the correct format, ensuring clarity and accuracy.
• Consistency and Quality: This update improves the consistency of updates, specifically with regard to key information is always included, leading to more consistent and high-quality updates.

You can now personalize your team's publication URL by editing the publication slug. This allows you to create a custom URL that aligns with your team's branding and makes it easier for your audience to find your updates.

We've introduced a new feature that allows you to mark your updates as published. This helps you keep track of which updates are ready to be shared, streamlining your workflow.

Look for the new 'Publish' button to easily mark your updates as published. This feature ensures that your updates are managed effectively and are ready to be displayed when needed.

We've improved the accuracy and consistency of timestamps when publishing updates. This enhancement ensures that the 'published_at' timestamp is set correctly, providing reliable tracking and reporting for publication events.

• Dropdown Menu for Actions: The 'Actions' button now includes a dropdown menu, grouping related actions such as approving, editing, and marking updates as pending. This pulls the disconnected action that were previously around the updates page into one streamlined interface.
• Enhanced Organization and Visual Appeal: By incorporating a dropdown menu, the interface is now more organized, reducing clutter and creating a cleaner layout.
• Improved Efficiency: The new button logic simplifies access to various functionalities within the application, helping you manage customer updates more efficiently.

We've enhanced the way customer update statuses are managed by ensuring that a publication record is created with a 'published' status before it's sent out. This improvement boosts the reliability and consistency of status updates.

Additionally, we've added more robust test coverage to ensure these updates are processed correctly. This means you can trust that your customer updates are accurately recorded and reflected.

• Richer Context for Customer Updates: By including issue and pull request comments, we provide a more thorough context for generating customer updates, leading to more informed and accurate communication with your customers.
• Improved Development Insights: Access to comments related to pull requests and issues offers valuable insights into the development process, potential bugs, and decisions made during feature implementation, enhancing transparency and communication within your team.

• Streamlined Publication Process: Easily publish drafts to Webflow CMS collections with just a few clicks. No more manual steps, reducing the potential for errors.
• Better Configuration Management: Configure your Webflow integration directly from the settings page, ensuring a smooth setup and ongoing management of your content.
• Automated Processes: Benefit from new automation that simplifies content publishing, making it faster and more reliable.

1. Configure your Webflow integration by accessing the settings page.
2. Navigate to the customer update you wish to publish.
3. Select the option to publish it to your Webflow CMS collection on your Webflow site.

We've made an update to ensure that our Webflow configuration dropdowns handle unselected options more gracefully. Previously, deselecting an option would cause a page error, but this is now fixed.

With this update, you can freely select and unselect options in the Webflow configuration dropdowns without encountering any issues. This makes the setup process smoother and more reliable.

We've introduced a new way for you to configure Webflow integration directly from our platform! This setup allows you to prepare for publishing customer updates to your Webflow CMS collection seamlessly.

Navigate to the settings page to manage your Webflow OAuth tokens and configure your Webflow settings. This is the first step towards a more integrated and efficient workflow.

We're excited to announce the addition of a Webflow API client to our platform! This new feature allows you to seamlessly interact with your Webflow sites, directly from our application.

You can now create CMS items, fetch collections, view detailed collection information, and access site data programmatically. This update empowers you to automate your content management tasks and maintain real-time synchronization with Webflow.

We've enhanced our data security measures by enabling ActiveRecord encryption. This update strengthens the protection of sensitive information stored in our system.

With this improvement, you can have greater confidence in the security of your data, as it is now safeguarded with stronger encryption methods.

• Enhanced Spacing: Added 1.5em spacing below divs and lists to create a clear visual separation and better mirror the appearance of content when pasted into platforms like Webflow.
• Improved Readability: By aligning the spacing with the default line height the content within the editor is now more visually appealing and easier to read (making it easier to edit.)
• User-Friendly Experience: These changes help users to better visualize the structure of their content while editing, making the text editor more intuitive and user-friendly.

1. Published into your CMS, and
2. Published to your Changebot hosted updates page.