ReleasePad

We’re excited to announce the launch of our upgraded dashboard, designed to enhance your experience with greater flexibility and insight!

It now shows your public changelog page visits, total post views and published posts.

On the posts listing page, we’ve added a handy new filter that lets you easily search for posts that haven’t been published yet—basically, any post with a publish date set in the future. Now you can keep track of your upcoming content with just a few clicks!

Drafts Are Now Truly Private

We discovered that posts you marked as drafts were still appearing publicly—yikes, that’s not what anyone wants! We’ve fixed this issue, so your drafts stay hidden until you’re ready to share them with the world.

Blurbs That Capture Every Word

Some of you noticed that the short descriptions of your posts—your blurbs—were getting cut off, leaving out key words. That’s not fair to your story. We’ve resolved this, ensuring your blurbs now display every word as intended.

Today marks more than just a product release.

It’s the result of countless hours, late nights, breakthroughs, setbacks, rewrites, and relentless passion. We’re not just unveiling a new UI. We’re not just shipping a new backend. We’re giving you the experience we’ve always believed you deserve.

Every pixel, reimagined.

We didn’t just give the interface a fresh coat of paint. We started from scratch. We listened to your frustrations, studied your workflows, and sweated over the tiniest details. The new UI is faster, clearer, and more intuitive—designed to disappear so you can focus on what matters.

Every line of code, rebuilt.

Behind the scenes, we tore down the old architecture and rebuilt it from the ground up. The new backend is faster, more stable, and ready for everything ahead. You may not see it—but you’ll feel it: in the speed, in the reliability, in the way everything just works.

This is more than a launch. It’s a promise.
To build with heart.
To listen when it’s hard.
To never settle.

We built this for you. For the creators, the doers, the believers who never stop pushing forward. And this is just the beginning.

Let’s go. 🚀

When creating a new post and adding new image, an incorrect placeholder image was being used.

This has been fixed ;-)

Fixed an issue that was preventing image load on both the widget and public page change log.

We added a new CDN to our platform that delivers your images and videos way way faster.

ReleasePad was very fast and now is extremely fast! ?

Today we had an outage because of a problem we had with one of our SSL certificates.

This has been fixed ?

We've been very quiet lately, but it doesn't mean we haven't been hard at work.

Currently finalizing the new version of the API which is 10X faster.  That change will bring 2 big advantages for your product:

1.It will run extremely fast, that means you will get your work done even faster.

2.Since SEO is so important and you can get penalized when your website doesn't load in a reasonable amount of time, the new Widget will load 10X faster.  Not that our current widget is not fast enough.  It is ! But we wanted to raise the bar again and make it faster so we don't compromise your product or website.

Stay tuned !

We’ve brought back the ability to delete posts, and it’s ready for you to use! You can now find this feature right within the post editing section, making it super easy to remove any post whenever you need to.

When the widget loads for the first time in your product you will notice that it has a very subtle animation.

If you find it distracting, it can be easily disabled by adding the following tag to the widget:

enable-animation="false"


For more information, you can refer to the following article

https://help.releasepad.io/article/8-how-to-disable-widget-animation

They say that data is knowledge and knowledge is power.

This new feature that we are releasing today is going to give you a lot of data, knowledge and power to make decisions.

It will allow you to know which user have seen each one your posts.

Unfortunately this implementation only works for new post views since today and you must add an extra parameter to the widget.

This is what you need to do:

Step 1.
Make changes in your widget. 
Here is a quick step by step on what you need to do.  
https://help.releasepad.io/article/6-how-to-enable-option-to-know-who-views-your-posts

Step 2.
Find the posts you would like to know more about and click "Who has seen my post?".
It's important to note that this information will be available only for the post views after performing step #1

Step 3.
See your data.

The notifications bubble indicator on widget was being reseted after a couple of days.  What this meant for end user were false alerts about new changes.

This has been fixed :-)

In the widget and public page, posts were displaying the creation date instead of the publish date.  

This has been fixed and pushed.  

Thanks Diana for noticing this :-)

In some special conditions, the words of some posts were overflowing to the left, creating an unpleasant experience for your users.

This has been fixed.

Improved the responsiveness of ReleasePad for mobile phones.The experience has been improved so that it loads faster and screens are rendered correctly based on device.

This morning we had some intermittency on our service.  This was related to a change that Amazon AWS did on Cloudfront.We got in touch with support and managed to solve the issue.

In some special cases there were some css conflicts between the widget and the hosting page, particularly with headings (H1, H2, H3, ...).

This issue has been fixed and pushed.

Pushed a change that fixes the ordering of the posts.  Instead of using the creation date it now uses the publication date.

We were having some issues with the current way of storing data for the user facing widget (the one you use on your product) related to local storage.  Some logout implementations usually delete all local storage, therefore erasing all the widget data.  This caused that each time a user logged out and the logged in it would appear as if it hasn't seen any of the updates, therefore creating confussion.

We switched to cookies to fix this issue. 

For privacy matters it only stores the id from last seen post.

We updated our CDN provider for a faster one and with edge locations all around the world.  This means that when a user loads the widget it will be sent form its closest physical location, therefore reducing loading times and latency ??

Fixed an issue that wasn't correctly displaying the number of published posts.  It was taking also in account the number of drafts.

Pushed fix that opens all posts (from the widget) in a separate window.

Fixed an issue that was preventing images from being displayed correctly on the widget.

Fixed issue that was preventing the correct image upload in a new or existing post.