Move suggestions between boards in bulk
You can now move suggestions in bulk from one Feature Upvote board to another board.
The new “bulk move” allows you to move up to 50 suggestions at a time.
Product Updates
Contributors can now tag their suggestions
If you have created some tags for your Feature Upvote board, you can now let contributors (i.e. your customers) choose tags to add to their suggestions. If you’d like contributors to be able to tag suggestions, you can enable this in your board’s permissions, as follows: Once you’ve done this, the “Add suggestion” form on […]
Your account now has an activity log
We’ve added an activity log to your account.
It won’t help you work out what feature to build next, but it will make your account more secure.
Two ways to export your Feature Upvote data
There are now two ways you can get your data out of Feature Upvote in a form suitable for getting it into whatever other tool you’re using, such as a spreadsheet. First, there’s the full data export. This has been available for a long time. In your board settings, you have an option called Export, […]
When listening to user feedback resulted in a DMCA takedown
A video game had to deal with DMCA takedown requests after one player gave feedback and then made unreasonable demands.
Due to this alarming story, we’ve added an Acceptable Use Policy to Feature Upvote.
We’ve enabled voting directly from the front page
You can now enable voting directly from the front page of your feedback board.
Although this has been a popular request for a long time, for a long time we resisted adding it.
Here’s why we finally relented.
Sort suggestions by “trending”
Since the day we launched, Feature Upvote has offered your customers two views of your feature requests: “Top” or “New”.
We’ve just added a third order, “Trending”.
Ending support for Internet Explorer 11
Microsoft is ending support for Internet Explorer 11. So are we. Here’s what it means for you and your customers.
Feature Upvote and log4shell
Feature Upvote is not vulnerable to the log4shell RCE issue. Here’s a full report of our investigation.
Add images to comments
You and your contributors can now add images to comments on suggestions.
The “email log” – see what emails your board has sent
Working out why a contributor has not received an email can be hard. We’ve made it easier with our new email log.
The “access list” – restrict who can use your board
The “access list” is a new way of controlling access to your feedback board. Once enabled, only people on your access list can access your board.
Connect your feedback board to Microsoft Teams
Get notifications in a Microsoft Teams channel when your feedback board receives new suggestions and comments.
Finetune your Slack integration
Our Slack integration is our most popular integration. So we improved it to give you control over what exactly gets sent to Slack.
Export your suggestions as an Excel file
You can now export your data as an Excel file. This removes some headaches some of our customers have reported with getting Excel to play nicely with our CSV export.
Change your board’s vote throttling level
Our throttling system detects when too many votes come too quickly for a suggestion, and starts silently ignoring some of them. You can now set how strict our throttling should be – or turn it off altogether.
Add private notes to suggestions
When viewing a suggestion as a moderator or admin, you can add a private note. This is a free-form field to add any notes you want about the suggestion. It is only be visible to moderators and admins.
Set the status given to newly approved suggestions
We’ve given our one-click moderation a small but important improvement. Now you can choose what status is assigned to a suggestion when it is approved for voting and commenting.
Change the order of statuses on your feedback board
Now you can change the ordering of statuses on your feedboard board to be more logical. The ordering you choose will be respected anywhere statuses are listed.
Create custom statuses for your feedback board
Your board comes with a set of built-in statuses. Your workflow might have additional statuses you’d like to add, such as “In progress” or “In testing”. Custom statuses allow you to add these to your feedback board.
Setting a default filter for your feedback board
You can set a default filter to control what suggestions are seen by first-time visitors.
Using Google Analytics with your feedback board
You can now add your own Google Analytics account to your feedback board. Find out useful info such as which pages get the most organic traffic.
Signing in to a private board using an HTTP GET parameter
Your users can now access your private board using a shared URL instead of a shared password.
You can now stop your feedback board from being indexed by Google
You told us that you wanted the option to disable your feedback board, and all suggestions on it, from being indexed by Google. You can now.
Make new suggestions and comments approved by default
You told us through our own feedback board that you wanted to be able to turn off moderation of comments and suggestions when you trusted contributors. We listened and got to work.
Move suggestions between your feedback boards
When you have more than one feedback board your customers occasionally add suggestions to the wrong board.
You can now filter suggestions by tags
You can now filter suggestions by tags, to make browsing similar ideas easier.
We now integrate with Zapier
With the power of our Zapier integration, you can connect Feature Upvote to 1,000+ other apps, including Asana, Aha!, productboard, Zendesk and Discord.
We’ve improved our search function
After taking onboard your feedback, we’ve made our search smarter and easier to use.
