Product Updates Updates

Custom Favicons

by Laurent Pellegrino, Founder & CEO
New
Newspages

A favicon is a small graphic that appears to the left of the page title but also in bookmarks. Having an image related to your brand is for users a strong indicator that they came to the right place, which can be reassuring in a sense.

Furthermore, favicons save time to your users: when you look at a web page, your eyes notice an image before the text surrounding it.

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Starting Today, we are happy to offer the possibility to set your own favicon per project Timeline. Existing projects have been updated to include a favicon based on their logo.

If your Timeline doesn't have a logo or favicon yet, be sure to upload one from your project configuration page.

Introducing Analytics πŸ“ˆ

by Laurent Pellegrino, Founder & CEO
New

Since last Monday, all projects are collecting metrics. This gives project owner and collaborators the opportunity to understand what posts are trendy.

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The metrics which are collected for now are mainly about the number of views. You can get the total number of views per post or project but also detailed information such as the number of views generated from the Timeline, the Widget or even the number of times the Widget was clicked.

Analytics provided per post can be displayed using different time scales (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly).

We're extremely excited to see how this helps you, and we hope you'll share your experiences with us.

Multiple widget updates πŸš€

by Laurent Pellegrino, Founder & CEO
Announcement
Widgets

We have made several improvements to the Widget:

  1. Its definition is smaller. Fewer data to fetch, less time to first display. The Widget is now speedier than ever πŸ—²

  2. Setup instructions have been updated to reference a new script element. Instead of 4 line of codes, a single is now required to import the Widget definition:

    <script async defer src="https://cdn.noticeable.io/v1/noticeable-widget.js"></script>
    

    The async and defer attributes guarantee the content is loaded in parallel and executed after your page is parsed, no matter where the import is placed in.

    Although we recommend switching to the new import script, old ones remain available but are deprecated.

  3. Unread posts displayed in the Widget popup now include a left border. This allows distinguishing unread messages from read ones:

    Noticeable Widget Updates

    The color of the left border is based on the project accent color but can be changed programmatically. You can set it transparent to mimic the old style:

    <custom-style>
        <style>
            noticeable-widget {
                --noticeable-widget-popup-entry-unread-border-color: transparent !important;
            }
        </style>
    </custom-style>
    
  4. Widget but also Timeline code snippets are rendered with the Atom One Dark style to improve readability.

Share buttons πŸ”˜

by Laurent Pellegrino, Founder & CEO
New

When you open a post in your Timeline, share buttons are displayed by default on the left. Until now, only 2 were available: Twitter and Facebook. Today, we have added LinkedIn!

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Following the recent data privacy scandal with Facebook, we are happy to provide a new option in your Timeline configuration page that allows selecting which share buttons must appear.

Embeddable Noticeable timelines πŸ“‹

by Laurent Pellegrino, Founder & CEO
New

Noticeable Timelines centralize your product updates. Today, we have deployed a new version of the app that allows embedding Timelines in your own pages.

Any Noticeable Timeline can be embedded into a full page of your website, rather than hosting it on a subdomain. For this purpose, we allow serving Timeline content from an iframe.

Below is a link to a Github repository that provides an example:

https://github.com/noticeableapp/noticeable-timeline-iframe

Timelines also support some options via Query string parameters:

ParameterValueDescription
cachefalseLoad content from Noticeable servers bypassing caching layers. This ensures data freshness at the cost of higher response times.
footerfalseHide the Timeline footer.
headerfalseHide the Timeline header.

For instance, here is the official Noticeable Timeline with header and footer hidden:

https://updates.noticeable.io?footer=false&header=false

Importing posts from Headwayapp πŸ’«

by Laurent Pellegrino, Founder & CEO
New

We are receiving more and more requests from people and companies who are interested in switching from Headwayapp to Noticeable. Is it also your case? As from Today, we provide a wizard for this purpose.

How is this new feature working?

  1. Open our Importation Wizard.
  2. Select a Noticeable project, then click on "Get started".
  3. Enter your Headwayapp changelog URL.
  4. Click on "Begin Import".

The importation is fully asynchronous. This means you can continue working on other tasks, and even close your browser, while posts are fetched and published on your Noticeable project.

You will receive an email once the importation is finished.

Help center πŸ’

by Laurent Pellegrino, Founder & CEO
Announcement

We are proud to announce the availability of our new Help Center. This last centralizes the most frequent questions we receive but also share tips and discuss advanced features. You can search by keywords and leave reactions. The content will expand with time.

If you have questions or need help, you can also reach us by chat on our pages or by email.

Widget auto refresh πŸ”„

by Laurent Pellegrino, Founder & CEO
New

Are customers keeping your product pages opened for a long time without reloading? In such a situation the Noticeable Widget is now automatically refreshing its content every hour.

The auto refresh period is configurable. As for other Widget properties, you can set its value from your configuration page on Noticeable:

  1. Open a project from your dashboard.
  2. Select Widget in the sub-menu.
  3. Set your value in the Auto refresh field (in minutes).

or programmatically (in milliseconds):

<noticeable-widget 
    auto-refresh="3600000"
    access-token="YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN" 
    project-id="YOUR_PROJECT_ID"></noticeable-widget>

The refresh period cannot be lower than 1 minute. If you want to disable the auto refresh feature, you simply need to set the value to -1.

Although requests are cached by a first class Content Delivery Network (CDN) by default, please note that reducing the auto refresh value will in most cases increase cache invalidations and thus affect your API calls quota.

Zapier-Noticeable Integration ⚑

by Laurent Pellegrino, Founder & CEO
Announcement

We're thrilled to announce that our Zapier Integration is now live.

Zapier is all about making your life easier through automation. It automates the connection between your Noticeable projects and the apps and services you already use to run your business or manage your audience. That means you don’t have to do as much of the heavy lifting.

If you want to automatically add Timeline subscribers to an email list or instantly post your Noticeable posts on social media, Zapier makes it happen πŸ™Œ

Automations are set up with Zaps. A Zap is made of a Trigger and Actions. For instance, when a new post is published in Noticeable (Trigger) then a new Tweet is automatically published with a link to the post (Action).

Zapier works with over 1,000 different connected applications, meaning that you can create and customize a huge range of automations to your heart's content. What's even more awesome is that no code is required!

Here are a few of the most popular Noticeable-Zapier automation templates you can set up right now:

This new Zapier integration works with any Noticeable plan, and you can find a list of the most popular Zap Templates from the Integrations section of any Noticeable project. Please note Zapier offers free accounts with a few automations included, and paid plans with more advanced functionality.

If you need help, we remain available at [email protected].