Feature Upvote Changelog

April 2025: The moderation tool now has a date filter. Find suggestions created before a specific date, after a specific date, or between two dates.
April 2025: The moderation tool now has a vote count filter. Filter suggestions by a range of vote counts.
December 2024: We’ve made our export feature more reliable, and with more helpful filenames in the exported files. The filename now includes the board name, and the date the export was generated.
November 2024: The moderation tool now has a log of every moderator action. Great for when you have multiple moderators and need to be able to see review what was done.
November 2024: The moderation tool now has some quick action buttons next to each suggestion for the most common actions, such as approve, merge and split.
October 2024: All new boards now have an “Archived” status. Suggestions with “Archived” status are not visible to regular users.
October 2024: You can now add some moderator guidelines to the moderation tool (aka ‘moderator view’). It’s great for ensuring your team are making consistent decisions about which ideas to approve, merge, reject, etc.
September 2024: Introduced private statuses, which can be used to create a board archive.
September 2024: Our search engine now gives better results. It does this by using vote count as a ranking factor. This should lead to less duplicate suggestions.
July 2024: We significantly improved the appearance of board logos that use SVG images.
July 2024: We’ve tweaked the search algorithm to give better results
May 2024: The moderation tool (aka ‘moderator view’) has better filtering – including a search field.
April 2024: You can restrict moderator access to specific boards
March 2024: Added Discord integration.
February 2024: You can pin a comment to the top of a suggestion’s list of comments. Great for an “official company response” comment.
January 2024: You can disable voting for suggestions marked as “Done”. Furthermore, any status, built-in or custom, can be set to disable voting for suggestions with that status.
November 2023: Comments now have a “like” button. Instead of writing “I want this too” comments, your board contributors can upvote existing comments.
November 2023: Boards are now more interactive and have less full-page reloads. Your board feels different to use, while not looking different.
November 2023: The search page updates results as you type
November 2023: Editing comments now occurs in-page
November 2023: Improved creating, editing, and deleting of private notes.
September 2023: You can now move suggestions between boards in bulk. This makes it much easier to separate a board into two, or to merge two boards together into one.
September 2023: You can now edit a board’s “custom explanation text” with a rich text editor. No more manual HTML!
September 2023: Contributors can now add tags to their own suggestions. This is an opt-in setting; you can enable it in your board’s settings -> permissions.
August 2023: Your account now has an activity log. It won’t help you work out what feature to build next, but it will make your account more secure.
August 2023: Set a default ordering for your board: New suggestions first, Top (most voted) first, or trending first.
June 2023: When moderating, you can now export just the suggestions matching your current filter. For example, you can download all suggestions with status “Under consideration” with tag “version 2”.
May 2023: We’ve improved the design and usability of our voting buttons.
May 2023: We’ve made our infrastructure for handling custom domain names more reliable and stable.
April 2023: Contributors now need to accept our Acceptable Use Policy before their suggestions or comments can be posted.
March 2023: Dashboard home page now has more accurate counts for # of suggestions and # of comments. We now exclude deleted suggestions, merged suggestions, and spam suggestions from the total counts.
March 2023: Improved format of CSV and Excel exports.
March 2023: Auto-generated comments created when you merge two suggestions are now excluded from the daily and weekly activity summary emails.
March 2023: Our bulk import system is now self-serve. You can import from a CSV file without having to ask Feature Upvote support to do it for you.
March 2023: Suggestions now have the same excellent automated spam detection that comments have had for a long time.
February 2023: Improved the formatting of Slack notifications sent by Feature Upvote.
February 2023: Exports no longer get sent to email, but are downloadable directly from within your Feature Upvote dashboard.
January 2023: You can now enable voting directly from the front page.
December 2022: You can now hide the names of contributors from suggestions and comments.
December 2022: We’ve made our search feature work much better for boards in languages such as German, Swedish, and Norwegian, that use compound words.
November 2022: You can now sort suggestions by “Trending”, in addition to the existing options of “Top” and “New”.
November 2022: Your board’s suggestion list now includes a snippet of text from each suggestion’s description. This gives your users more context when skimming the list of suggestions.
November 2022: From your board’s, Data Privacy settings, you can disable Akismet comment spam detection. This is useful if you don’t want data passing to a US-based service.
October 2022: When moderating, you can now filter suggestions by tags.
September 2022: When viewing a suggestion’s upvotes, you can now view the upvotes ordered by date, name, email, ip address, or user agent. This makes it much easier to find duplicates.
September 2022: Exporting to CSV is now simpler. All three CSV files are now generated with one click, and sent to you via email.
July 2022: We’ve added an automatic vote cleaner. The vote cleaner removes suspected duplicate votes from the same person, based on IP address. Available on request.
May 2022: When moderating, you can now choose the sort order of the suggestions or comments to be “newest first” or “oldest first”.
April 2022: Added Zendesk integration.
March 2022: You can add tags to multiple suggestions at once from the moderation screen.
February 2022: Any custom status can be marked as a “Done” status. Suggestions with these statuses are not shown when the filter “All except done” is used.
January 2022: Excel export is now much faster.
November 2021: Contributors can now add images to comments.
November 2021: You can add an “Impressum” to your board and company portal.
October 2021: Your board now has an email settings screen, with an email log, showing what emails were recently sent for your board.
August 2021: Use an “access list” to restrict access to your board to only certain people.
July 2021: You can now hide the vote counts.
June 2021: Added Microsoft Teams integration.
June 2021: Our search results page now lets you paginate through all the results.
May 2021: Our Slack integration now has some options that let you fine-tune what gets sent to Slack.
April 2021: You can now add custom CSS to your company portal.
April 2021: You can export your suggestions as an Excel file.
March 2021: Added Japanese translation.
February 2021: More colours for custom statuses. We’ve added purple, pink, brown, and red.
February 2021: Made it possible for customers to navigate between your feedback boards and your company feedback portal.
January 2021: You can choose what level of throttling you want, or turn throttling off altogether.
January 2021: Our bulk importer now imports statuses, creates custom statuses, and imports private notes.
January 2021: Private notes can now be much longer.
December 2020: Add private notes to suggestions.
December 2020: Optionally disable email notifications to contributors.
December 2020: Customise the title text on the “Add suggestion” page.
December 2020: Choose an IP address to block directly from the “view contributor” page.
December 2020: View a list of all suggestions and comments made by a specific contributor.
November 2020: Add a custom domain to your board without having to contact Feature Upvote support first.
November 2020: The dashboard received substantial design improvements. It’s faster and easier to use, without sacrificing any features.
November 2020: Use the “vote cleaner” to bulk delete all or some votes for a specific suggestion.
October 2020: When viewing a suggestion’s list of upvotes, you now page through all votes, instead of only the most recent 500 votes.
October 2020: Block specific IP addresses from being able to contribute to your feedback board.
October 2020: Comments can now be up to 1,000 characters long, instead of only 500 characters. This matches the length of suggestion descriptions.
September 2020: Added Finnish translation.
September 2020: Choose the status given to newly approved suggestions.
September 2020: Disable the built-in statuses such as ‘Planned’ and ‘Under consideration’.
August 2020: Use query string parameters to pass in a contributor’s name and email address. These will be used when adding a suggestion, adding a comment, or voting.
August 2020: Change the order in which statuses are listed.
July 2020: Add your own custom statuses for suggestions.
June 2020: Improved the detection of accidental double submissions.
June 2020: Company portals can now be embedded in an iframe.
June 2020: Tweaked detection of votes by bots or scripts.
May 2020: Set a default filter to control what suggestions are seen by first-time visitors.
April 2020: Use your Google Analytics account to track usage of your feedback board.
April 2020: Transfer ownership of your account to another user.
March 2020: Amount of custom text on your board increased to 2,000 characters.
March 2020: Your customers can now sign in to your private board using a special shared URL.
January 2020: Added Polish translation.
December 2019: Optionally block Google from indexing your feedback board.
November 2019: The privacy policy consent checkbox now defaults to selected if the user has already agreed when previously posting a suggestion or comment.
November 2019: Custom domain names now support SSO (single sign-on).
November 2019: Set suggestions and comments to be auto-approved.
October 2019: Move a suggestion to a different feedback board.
September 2019: Added Norwegian translation.
September 2019: Added pagination to suggestion list.
September 2019: Added optional “notify me of changes” popup when people vote.
August 2019: Added a filter by tag. This appears when your feedback board has at least one tag.
June 2019: When you change the colour of the header bar, the moderator icons automatically adopt an appropriate colour scheme.
May 2019: Added Hebrew translation.
April 2019: Modernised Atlassian Jira integration to use API tokens instead of passwords.
April 2019: Added support for right-to-left languages, such as Hebrew.
April 2019: Added Turkish translation.
March 2019: Made suggestion and comment forms GDPR-compliant.
February 2019: Added Zapier integration.
February 2019: Added Icelandic translation.
February 2019: Links are auto-created in suggestion descriptions and comment text.
Dec 4, 2018: Improved comment spam detection.
Nov 22, 2018: Check for similar suggestions has been significantly improved.
Nov 16, 2018: Search for suggestions has been significantly improved.
Oct 8, 2018: Added Danish translation.
Sep 29, 2018: Board export now includes suggestions, comments and upvotes.
Sep 19, 2018: When voting on behalf of a customer, you can enable notifications for the customer.
Sep 12, 2018: Added Russian translation.
Sep 9, 2018: Added Slack integration.
Aug 24, 2018: Customers who comment on suggestions are sent email notifications when suggestions are updated.
Aug 16, 2018: Your customers are emailed when their suggestions are updated.
Aug 14, 2018: When viewing a suggestion as a moderator, displayed email address are now clickable mailto links.
Aug 8, 2018: Board export now includes the name and email address of person who made the suggestion.
Aug 7, 2018: Company portals can now have custom domain names.
Jul 28, 2018: Added an optional “company portal”, which publicly lists all your feedback boards.
Jul 27, 2018: Added French translation.
Jul 25, 2018: Updated the design of Feature Upvote to be more consistent and modern.
Jun 28, 2018: You can now change the default header bar title and suggestion list title.
Jun 4, 2018: Added Single sign-on (SSO) integration using the SAML 2.0 standard.
May 25, 2018: Added Czech translation.
May 11, 2018: Added permissions to control who can vote, add suggestions, and add comments.
May 9, 2018: Moderators can add votes on behalf of customers.
May 8, 2018: Moderators can remove individual votes from a suggestion.
May 1, 2018: Multiple suggestions can now be pinned.
May 1, 2018: Moderators can now change the name and email they use when posting a suggestion.
May 1, 2018: Moderators can now add/remove “admin” tag on any comment.
April 10, 2018: Added Dutch translation for feedback boards.
March 25, 2018: Dashboard lets you delete all suggestions, comments only, upvotes only, or entire board.
March 22, 2018: You can disable voting on suggestions.
March 19, 2018: Moderators can now see email addresses when viewing suggestions.
March 8, 2018: Added “All except done” to suggestions filter.
February 28, 2018: In “View suggestions”, all four public statuses can now be selected from the status dropdown.
February 23, 2018: CSV export now includes suggestion status and custom tags.
February 21, 2018: You can now add your own custom CSS stylesheet.
January 19, 2018: Added paging to bulk moderation of comments and suggestions.
January 18, 2018: Moderators can view metadata for each upvote.
January 15, 2018: You can add custom tags to suggestions.
November 8, 2017: Added Jira integration. Create a Jira issue from a suggestion.
October 18, 2017: Added German translation for feedback boards.
October 9, 2017: You can disable commenting on suggestions.
October 9, 2017: Added uploading of images and screenshots.
September 19, 2017: Added Portuguese (Brazil) translation for feedback boards.
August 31, 2017: You can now split a suggestion into two.
August 24, 2017: You can now merge two suggestions into one.
August 17, 2017: Added a user guide.
August 11, 2017: You can filter suggestions by All, Planned, and Done.
August 10, 2017: Added Spanish (Spain) translation for feedback boards.
August 4, 2017: You can add password protection to a feedback board.
August 3, 2017: Improved the usability of the board settings page.
July 28, 2017: New feedback boards have two sample suggestions made for you.
July 27, 2017: You can now undo bulk comment moderation.
July 26, 2017: You can now undo bulk suggestion moderation.
July 21, 2017: Activated system for handling paid subscriptions.
July 11, 2017: Improved search UI.
July 7, 2017: You can add custom text to your board page.
July 6, 2017: You can pin a suggestion to the top of the list.
July 4, 2017: You are now prompted “are you sure?” if you try to navigate away from half-completed suggestion.
June 29, 2017: Custom page footer text max length is now 400, was 200 characters.
June 26, 2017: Improved prevention of double-posting of suggestion.
June 22, 2017: Added bulk moderation of comments.
June 20, 2017: Added bulk moderation of suggestions.
June 19, 2017: You can now receive a weekly email summary instead of a daily email summary.
June 13, 2017: All feedback boards now use subdomain-style URLs.
June 9, 2017: Added “notification” icon to board nav bar when signed in.
May 19, 2017: You can export all board suggestions from the dashboard.
May 17, 2017: Feature Upvote now available to the public.
March 17, 2017: Started private beta.
February 17, 2017: Started turning proof-of-concept into production-quality code.
November 21, 2016: First line of code written.

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