We pushed a small but important update to our Zapier app that will enhance your login experience and provide better security for your projects. We've listened to your feedback, and we're moving to a new API key authentication method.
With this update, we've replaced the traditional username/password login process with a more secure and streamlined API key. You can now find your Zapier API key in your account settings or directly in the Zapier integration card in the Project Settings. This new authentication method ensures that your integration is bound to your user account, just like before.
One of the great benefits of this new approach is that if you ever lose access to a project, the integration will automatically stop working. This ensures that only authorized individuals can access and manage your integrations, giving you peace of mind and better control over your projects. For this reason, we suggest the Project owner (rather than a team member) is responsible for setting up the integration through their account.
Existing users who are already using the previous version of the Zapier app with the username/password authentication method don't need to migrate. This update only affects new users who will now be presented with the API key authentication when setting up the integration.
Now you can add a "noindex" meta tag to your pages
Some of our users have requested the ability to prevent their boards from being indexed by search engines, even if they are publicly available.
With the latest update, you can now easily add a no-index meta tag to your boards using the Custom Code feature accessible from your Project Settings.
In the section named "Custom code at the end of </head>", simply enter the following code:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">
This simple addition will inform search engines not to index your boards, ensuring that they remain accessible only to the intended audience or that they won't compete with your main domain for your keywords.
When you mark an idea with a "Not Now" status, it won't be visible by default in your feedback boards anymore.
We understand that sometimes ideas need to be put on hold or parked to be revisited later, and it's essential to manage expectations. From now on, your users won't receive any notifications when an idea is marked as "Not Now."
Whatever you write in the idea form will now be auto-saved, so if you go to a different page and then back to the form, everything you wrote will still be there.
You can now add ideas to your board directly from your Roadmap page.
The new author selection input also allows you to add ideas on behalf of users, so you can easily gather their ideas from other sources and add them to your boards.
You can now moderate which ideas will be visible to users.
From the board settings, you can assign the "Not set" status for all new ideas and then hide that status from users, so only admins will be able to see them.
This is extremely useful for those that want to review the ideas provided by users before making them visible on the boards.
We have performed some nice improvements to our widget, in order to make it more flexible and easier to use.
You no longer need to generate an SSO token to use the widget, you can now simply copy its code and paste it directly on your website. In this case, users will be asked to provide a name and email.
The documentation on how to use the widget has also been updated accordingly. You can find the documentation clicking here.
Make sure to give it a try and start asking your users to share their ideas with you!
You can now customize some aspects of email notifications that are sent to users, allowing you to better incorporate your company details on those messages as well as better manage any responses that are sent to those emails.
You can now hide the count of votes for ideas in any of your idea boards.
This can be useful if you don't want people to be influenced by existing vote counts or if it's not information you'd like to display publicly. You can access this setting from "Board settings" for all of your boards.
We've improved the feedback form, as well as the login and registration processes, allowing users to leave their feedback without having to register for an account. You can now also login using a link sent to your email instead of providing a password.
Users can now upvote ideas and feedback without registering for an account.
These changes have the objective of making it easier for users to share their ideas and feedback
This is useful for ideas you're not likely to implement anytime soon. Posts with this status won't show in the "Not Done" default filter for the board.
We updated FeedBear's design and overall experience to improve the productivity and happiness of those who use it – our valuable customers and their valuable users.
As FeedBear's features grew with our customers' needs, the navigation and other action elements became scattered through the workspace. To name a few problems – the search button was appearing only on certain pages, navbar items changed based on the current page. On the engineering side, there were many unnecessary or lazily used libraries that contributed to slow page loads.
Summary of the changes
Navigation: Persistent search bar
Navigation: All items in one row, until they fit
Navigation: Items are the same on every page (duh!)
Navigation: Added breadcrumbs to pages on depth level 2 and more
Navigation: Separated project switch from the user menu
Roadmap: Added feedback boards on the project homepage. This eliminates the previous "Where does your feedback fit the best?" page. Users can now jump directly to their board of interest.
Boards: Improved filter/sort bar, moved tags filter next to the others
Posts: URLs now contain a simplified version of the title. When the title changes, the URL also changes, but the old URLs keep working (redirecting to the current one). Old URLs with the ID still work.
Posts: Attachments can now be added by drag&drop or pasted from the clipboard
Posts: Attachments can now be added to the comments
Posts: Attachments show as a preview instead of the file name
Settings: Added email notification preferences to Personal settings
Changelog: Improved scheduling/saving as draft/publishing workflow
Changelog: Added default label color swatches in addition to the custom picker
Overall visual cleanup: Unified spacing, font sizes, colors, buttons, etc.
If you have any issues or ideas, as always, let me know at pietro@feedbear.com or press the chat button in the bottom right corner. There are a few more updates coming this year, so stay tuned!
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