Customer updates for Changebot

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 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 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 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 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 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'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'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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

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.

• 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 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 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'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.

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 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.

• 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'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.

• 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.

• 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 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.

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 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.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

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.

• 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.