Today we've rolled out more control over your suggestion system.

Optional Downvotes

Firstly is the ablity to turn of down voting. Down voting is useful in the majority of cases as it allows users to reject ideas which they think might interfer with how they use your software, but we understand some may want to focus only on positive requests. You can turn this off per-project in the project settings.

Admin Only Suggestions

We've also added the option to disable user suggestions entirely. This means only admins can create the suggestions, but users remain with the ablity to upvote and comment. We've added this as some people would like to limit feedback to what they have in their roadmap and thus allow them to proritise currently planned features.

When your users are looking through their changelog there is often a time in which they might be trying to find out about a particular update or feature - or maybe they are interested in a certain topic such as when you've launched a new feature?

Today we're happy to announce the addition of filters & search. This is an optional feature that you can turn off a per-change log. With filters & search, you get... well filters based on categories and a search box to search through your changelog.

We've added the ablity to optionally show who created the post - this is great for smaller companies who want to show their team, and useful for private logs to understand who did want.

As this feature changes a privacy setting it is default of off for current users, but you can enable it in your changelog settings by selecting "Show Creator".

New Widget

We've changed the widget so you now have two options for embedding. First is the traditional inline embed option, but also you now have a full height slide

Private Changelogs

We've now introduced the ability to have private changelogs. Private changelogs are only accessible by you and your team by logging into your ChangeCrab account and do not have a publicly accessible URL. You can setup the new widget in your changelog settings.

Notifications

With the introduction of Private Changelogs we’ve also introduced notifications. You can toggle notifications on for any of you or your teams’ changelogs and then get notified when a new item has been added. 

Header Links

We've also introduced the ablity for you to set your post headers to go to a given URL. For example you might want to link the header of your post to the dashboard page with a new feature, or maybe to a help document about the changes.

Smaller Changes

- We've moved the save, publish and close buttons to be fixed, making it easier to access when editing longer posts
- We've cleaned some CSS up, and redesigned several elements for better looking UI
- We've moved the subscribe form into a clickable button on the public reporting pages

We've now added the ablity for your users to share your latest changelog items to either Twitter or Facebook.

This change will mean your changes can get even more noticed by customers and none customers alike.

This is an optional feature and you can toggle it in your control panel. By default it is on.

We've also improved the design of the changelog page by bringing the subscribe button into the main toolbar.

Finally we've improved how your page looks when shared, and if an image is present in your changelog it is used as the sharing image on the social media platforms.

We want to make editing your changelog as easy as possible and with that in mind today we're happy to annouce a complete revamp of our changelog editor. We've moved to a medium-type editor with great new features including

1. Drag and drop images right into the editor
2. Stylistic options such as headers and bullet points
3. A what you see is what you get editor
   

We've also pushed live the ablity to set posts as drafts before going live. This means you can ensure your post is perfect before any email notifications are sent.

Finally we've added some design polish to the changelog pages, and the backend, including unifying the settings control panel.

Removed and minamised the CSS on the page to improve the load time on your change log.