Changelog

- New 'help & resources' button: A faster way to get your questions answered or share feedback while you're creating

- Fix to GIF and video exports: Fixed a bug where some portrait Arcades were exporting to a mobile format

• We've made some investments in our fullscreen mode. Before. you needed to use a browser wrapper to expand into fullscreen. Now, we allow you to expand into fullscreen regardless of whether you're using a browser wrapper.

• We've added a nice help icon on the bottom right of your Arcade editor.

• Make your Arcades pop with motion. Pan and zoom will focus your users on what matters inside your demo. To enable, click on the new Pan and Zoom button in the Step Tools menu in the editor. Check out this Arcade to learn how to use it. Pan and Zoom is available for all Growth plan customers.
• We released a bevy of bug fixes, enhancements, and general improvements to ensure Arcades continue to represent your products beautifully.

• Growth: Ever had a frustrating moment when you need to edit an Arcade that is live, but the creator is on vacation, OOO, or not online because of different timezones? Now any admin can allow anyone inside the plan to edit any Arcade! For all new Growth users, this is going to be default on. For all current Growth users, your admin needs to change this setting.

• Pro+: MAJOR release! We support blurring of your content. If you want to anonymize data, now you can! Check it out once you log in. Note that this does not apply to videos.

• Better upload progress experience: You can now see where you are in the upload experience and learn more about where you are in the upload journey.
• Videos are trimmed by default: We give you access to the whole video as a step in the flow, so you can edit more easily.
• Videos upload as part of the editing experience: You can edit your Arcade faster because we now upload videos as part of the editing experience.

• We've made some changes to your introduction slides. They now have new pulsating buttons, and blur controls! 

• New media library: You can easily update Arcades with new content by using our new media library. You can now see the dimensions of every Arcade that you upload inside the library, and match it against your current Arcade's dimensions. You can also easily "swap and replace" the media library content for wherever you are within your current Arcade.
• Growth plan: Announcing Video Splitting! Easily create interactive Arcades from videos. Learn more about this feature here.

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• Chapters are supported across all plans! Add an introduction slide or a chapter anywhere across your Arcade.
• Bug fix: Hotspots save location correctly.
• Enterprise plan: We support SAML SSO. Read through the documentation here.

• Adjust your hotspot location: Now it's easier to change the location of your hotspot.
• Growth plan: Integrate with Amplitude, Google Analytics, Segment and more! Read through our docs to learn more. Join our beta here.
• Growth plan: Share your Arcade directly with your team.
• Growth plan: Check out your team right from your main page! 

• We now support audio in MP4 uploads! If you want to upload a video of yourself speaking to personalize your Arcade, or explain how something works, your viewers will hear audio.
• If you want to change your Arcade dimensions, you can do so before capture. It remembers the last Arcade's dimensions so that you can easily update Arcades.
• We added a small design cue to your mobile Arcades to indicate that the text can be expanded. If you also want to turn off the mobile settings, you can do so within your Arcade.
• Emojis are now supported inside GIF exports!
• If you are editing an Arcade, and there is no hotspot, you will see a visual warning that it needs to be updated.

Announcing Arcade Growth

Today we're launching Arcade Growth! It's our newest plan that helps marketers to build, learn, and experiment fast.A few awesome things are included, including:

• Showing off your brand with custom logos
• Video editing - trim or speed up videos
• Learning from insights across many metrics
• Being able to collaborate as a team on high performing demos

Features

Insights for all! Insights is our new take on analytics. If you’ve used Arcade Analytics in the past, you’re going to love Insights. Insights redefine some key metrics we use to measure the success of your Arcades. You can read more about it here.

Improvements

• We updated our billing pages to allow users to change the billing name (as well as other information) so that invoices are rendered with the appropriate information.
• We now show visible feedback after granting user access to a team.

Bug fixes

• We fixed a bug that prevented some Teams customers from duplicating each other’s Arcades.
• We fixed a bug that prevented some Team Arcades from being branded.
• We fixed a bug where videos uploaded through the editor can’t be previewed in the library.
• We fixed a bug that prevented users from tagging Arcades that were rendered below the fold on the index page.

Features

• Custom Branding for your Arcades!
  

Improvements

• We added a better hint for triggering the fullscreen functionality. Previously, the Arcade viewer can be expanded into a fullscreen view by clicking on the green circle icon on the upper-left side of the Arcade, but our users found that hard to discover. So, we made it more visible by adding an icon to the upper right side of Arcade’s browser bar.
• We made an improvement to our image optimization, where we now ship images to your browser as AVIF or WebP, depending on what your browser can support. This leads to faster load times.
• We’ve made a bunch of small UI improvements in our loading states. Now you’ll see nicer-looking loading indicators throughout the app.

Bug fixes

• We’ve fixed several issues that prevented some users from uploading Arcades after a recording.

Features

• Chapters! We've upgraded the Start Overlay, and CTA features with a new feature called Chapters. Chapters allow you to break up your Arcade into sections. You can add a title, description, and button to each chapter. Check it out...

• You no longer have to wait for your GIFs and videos to generate. We'll now email you after we've generated them.

• Now you can upgrade to a Teams plan in-app during or after your trial expires.

Improvements

• We've added the title attribute to our embed code to help improve accessibility on your site.
• We now capture tax IDs on our checkout page.
• Smaller JavaScript bundle sizes for our viewer = faster page loads.

Bug fixes

• We made numerous UI improvements and bug fixes.
• We fixed an issue where the hotspot circle was misaligned with the mouse when being dragged.
• We fixed a handful of issues that prevented some users from capturing screenshots with the Chrome Extension.
• We made improvements to how the Chrome Extension handles uploading assets after a recording is complete.
• We fixed an issue where Arcade's editor was broken on computers behind certain VPNs or proxies. Some of these VPNs or proxies blocked Web Channel / Web Socket connections, which Arcade uses to communicate with the server. We've added a fallback to HTTP long polling to fix this issue.

In this cycle, we mostly focused on 4Ps (papercuts, polish, performance, productivity):

• Fixed a bug where the hotspot inspector was allowing changes to get lost when selecting a new step in the editor’s sidebar.
• Fixed a bug where Hotspots were cloned with their original ID causing issues in Analytics.
• Added more accurate progress tracking to video and image uploads.
• Free users trialing Teams can now upgrade on their own.
• We made several improvements to our Chrome Extension to help with the reliability of uploads v0.16.0.
• We added a setting to turn off video captures during a “Record Demo” session. This is useful if you want an Arcade composed of images v0.16.1.
• We added a permission check on our Chrome Extension for those who want to tighten up their security and privacy with our Chrome Extension v0.16.2.
• We fixed an issue where some team members in a Team would still show up as Free users.
• We fixed an issue on Windows where ⌘K doesn’t exist. Instead, we’ve mapped the search function to Ctrl-K on Windows.

Happy New Year!!! We’ve spent the last few weeks focusing on fixing 🐞🐛🐜🐝, but also had a bit of time to release one big highly requested feature…

• Video editing is here! You no longer need to have your users watch you slow-type a form in an Arcade — you can speed it up instead… up to 3x. You can also trim your videos to make the transitions just right 👌. You can do all of this inside the Arcade editor. You’ll now see a video timeline at the bottom of each video step.

• In addition to that, we’ve made some big improvements to video in general. Whenever you see a video tile in Arcade, hovering your mouse over the video will show you an instant replay.
• Team admins can now upload a logo on the Teams homepage or settings.
• In addition to these awesome features, we fixed a handful of little UI bugs in iOS and Safari.

Happy Holidays! This was a short cycle for us due to the holidays, but we have two very important features we released this week. We’re looking forward to building and sharing more Arcade goodies with you in 2023! 🎉🥂

• Tagging and filtering: Got lots of Arcades and having a hard time keeping track of them? We hear you. This week we rolled out support for tagging and filtering. Now, you can organize your Arcades using our new tagging and filtering feature. This is only available for those of you on our Teams plan.‍

• Improved video quality on Safari and iOS: We’ve made some big improvements to the video quality of our Arcades in the past few releases, and this week, we’re making sure those are seen on Safari and iOS as well. Video playback for Safari and iOS users will be a lot more stable moving forward.

Improvements

• We made some major improvements to the video quality of demo recordings. 720p for free plan users and 1080p for paid plan users.
• We now record videos at 2x the resolution regardless if your screen supports a high DPI or not.
• We made improvements to how GIFs and videos are cached for export. Now when you make a change to your published Arcade that affects the GIF or video, the new GIF or video the old versions are invalidated, and new ones will be generated when requested.
• We made a lot of enhancements to improve the stability of the demo uploads after a recording has ended.
• We replaced the cmd+delete key for deleting multiple steps with the delete key for deleting a step on the editor.
• We removed the video target component inspector from the editor to free up space.
• We refreshed the settings UIs.
• We refreshed the Teams request to join the page's UI.

Bug fixes

• We fixed a bug where the user can't add a hotspot target when copying/pasting the step
• We fixed a bug where the hotspot text is removed if you reassign the hotspot target in the same transaction.
• We fixed a bug where Cmd/Ctrl-E does not work for stopping a video recording in the extension.
• We fixed a bug where the hotspot color control was preventing users from using a custom color.
• We fixed a bug where some Arcades with overlays were adding a scrollbar when embedded.

Features

• We’ve released a new Arcade Teams trial and onboarding experience.

Improvements

• When you go through the flow builder, you can see slightly different actions inside each card — now you can learn about Command C and Command D.
• We released a new Teams UI in that you can see all the Team members inside Arcade.
• We made it clearer about our GIF and video export rules.
• Improve demo upload reliability. If your demo fails to upload, we’ll retry up to 5 times before it fails.
• The opening animation that “fades in and grows” is now disabled. Older Arcades will continue to animate in this way, but new Arcades will have a simpler fade-in.
• Be able to Cmd-K search from the preview and share page.

Bug fixes

• We fixed a bug where the hotspot text is removed if you reassign the hotspot target in the same transaction.

Features

• Send Arcades as GIFs in Gmail or Superhuman. When you paste an Arcade URL while composing an email, the Arcade Chrome Extension can replace the URL with a GIF. To use, enable this in the Arcade Chrome Extension settings.
• Multi-step copy/paste and move.

• Now you can start a Teams trial simply by visiting https://app.arcade.software/flows/team.

Bug fixes

• We fixed an issue that was preventing some iOS 16 Safari users from logging into Arcade

Improvements

• Hotspots are now animated in the new mobile viewer.
• We added the ability to disable the mobile viewer if needed. Please contact us if this is needed on your Arcade.

Bug fixes

• Embed sizes in platforms that utilize Iframely (Gitbook and most Atlassian products) are now more accurate across all sizes of Arcades.
• We fixed a UI issue with the hotspot inspector that was preventing users from changing the target of a hotspot.

Features

• Huge release! We now support mobile responsiveness. If you host your Arcade on your website or blog post, it now translates nicely when it is viewed on mobile. We made a lot of design decisions around this — we added subtitles, navigation, and a replay.

Features

• Login with Microsoft! Now you can log in with your Microsoft acct. This includes any Microsoft accounts in any organizational directory (Any Azure AD directory - Multi-tenant) and personal Microsoft accounts (e.g. Skype, Xbox)
• We launched our new navigation/progress bar UI component inside the Arcade viewer. This is only turned on by default for new Arcades you create. If you’d like to turn it on for older Arcades, there’s now a “Navigation” setting inside the Arcade settings. If you’re a Teams customer, you can turn this on by default on all the Arcades in your Teams acct by toggling on the “Navigation” setting inside the Teams appearance preferences page.

Improvements

• We’ve made UI improvements to bring consistency throughout the app, especially in the Arcade Editor.
• We’ve improved our preloading logic in the Arcade viewer to ensure speedy and reliable loading of images and videos even on bandwidth-constrained connections.
• We’ve enabled the ability to add/change your billing address and email during checkout so that the invoice contains just the right information you need when submitting your Arcade invoice to your expense department.
• We’ve added Statuspage to our Intercom Widget so you can see the status of our services directly from our support/chat widget.

Bug fixes

• We fixed an issue where the Arcade editor was causing an error that prevented users from editing their Arcade.

Features

• Search! Looking for that missing Arcade? Now you can find it easily by using the cmd-k (or ctrl-k for non-mac users). This new search feature will search the title, description, hotspots, and CTAs.

• We shipped an internal navigation/progress bar on Arcades made by Arcade. This will ship to everyone soon. Your viewers can now skip around Arcades!

Improvements

• We converted animated hotspots from SVGs to CSS, resulting in performance improvements.
• We made it faster for you to download MP4s.
• We made the engagement dropoff analytics much faster.

Bug fixes

• Numerous UI fixes/enhancements.
• Fix for “invite to collaborate” link resulting in a blank page for the invitee if they’re not logged in.
• Fix for embed height size is when embedding an Arcade on platforms that use iFramely to render the embed.
• Moving Arcades to the Team failed for customers whose team has not configured appearance preferences.
• Fixed an issue where the Arcade was sized incorrectly in the editor.
• Reassigning the hotspot’s target would cause the Arcade editor to crash.

Features

• You can now download MP4 videos of your Arcade. Much like the GIF export, we introduced a few weeks ago, you can now download an MP4 as well

Improvements

• Lots of minor UI improvements.
• Added security headers to patch up some vulnerabilities.
• Shortcut key to record an Arcade in the Chrome Extension can now be remapped from the Arcade extension’s panel.

Bug fixes

• Emojis in GIFs and MP4s were not rendering properly…it is now.
• The Arcade link expander was introducing empty space in emails composed in Superhuman. All fixed!
• GIF/MP4 generation is now more reliable.
• The Arcade Chrome Extension will now automatically expand Arcade URLs found in emails (Gmail, Superhuman, and Outlook… bonus: Github). You can turn this off if you want in the Arcade Chrome Extension settings.
• Watermark on GIFs and MP4s can now be removed just like on the Arcade itself (Pro and Team plans only).

Features

• We now allow newlines in hotspot text. If you want to share two ideas in one place, this is easier now!

Improvements

• We made the search crawler, IP tracking, and event tracking controls are now available on all plans.
• We limited the max width and height of GIFs so that portrait oriented Arcades are limited the same way as landscape oriented Arcades.
• We forced regeneration of GIFs by using CTRL/CMD-click when clicking the “Download” button.
• We limited the size of GIFs to 25mb.
• We added some Arcade card actions menu with icons.

Bug fixes

• Empty Arcades in Teams are no longer visible by users who don’t have edit access to it. This fixes a 401 error issue that users would normally get if those empty Arcades were visible.
• Publishing from the Arcade card would allow you to publish more than the limit of 3 Arcades on the free plan.
• Overlay button now syncs with the hotspot color.
• Manage billing link was missing for team admins.

Features

• View Arcades in your email (Gmail, Outlook, Superhuman, and bonus — Github).

Features

• Now you can use your clipboard to copy an image from anywhere and paste into Arcade

• Publish and share your Arcade without leaving the homepage

Improvements

• Add Team “Settings” link in user menu if the user is a team admin.

Bug fixes

• Hotspot preview on Teams preferences page shifts position during loading.
• Fix font regression in Chrome extension.
• Fix hotspot animation - the text and the hotspot are disjoined after replay.
• Arcades without a wrapper aren't centered on the stage when a background is applied.
• Cursor with name in Get Started Guide card colors are wrong.
• StartOverlay button size is not right after the button refactor.
• Prevent step copy in editor when the focus is in an input field.
• Share on Twitter button not clickable, but element inside the button is.

Features

• New email notifications related to events that happen with your Arcade when shared and viewed
• New Get Started with Arcade onboarding guides

Improvements

• You can now select multiple Arcades in “My Arcades” for deletion or moving to a team
• Updated the button styles across the app so that they’re consistent with our design language.

Bug fixes

• You can no longer preview or share an empty Arcade
• We fixed an error for Pro users that was caused when accessing the User menu in the sidebar
• When you delete a step in the editor, it should select the previous step… this is now fixed.
• We fixed a bug when typing a description in the editor, the steps in the background also change when using the arrow keys.
• We fixed an issue were the Manage Billing nav item in the user menu was missing an icon.