Changelog
Follow up on the latest improvements and updates.
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fixed
& signs in Impressum
We've fixed a tiny but mightily annoying bug today: When you tried to type a & sign, it would be replaced with
&
in the Impressum text. Now… it's not anymore, as you'd expect.Thank you to Florian for flagging this bug to us in our Slack Community.
Another small improvement today for those who get a lot of messages or comments: You can now control whether you receive email notifications for them in your notification settings.
improved
fixed
Trial Memberships: Switch plans and keep trial days
Another small update today: Members in a trial can now switch plans and will keep their trial days.
Leon from Krautreporter asked for this on Canny. Krautreporter is using the Drip Campaign feature to recover canceled trials with a discounted hidden plan. I think that’s a great best practice and might be interesting for some of you to copy.
We've also fixed a bug that was causing issues when attempting to change an existing non-renewing subscription plan to the same plan and period. Previously, users were unable to make this change and would receive an error message. Now, users can change their non-renewing subscription plan to the same plan and period without any issues.
We’ve seen fantastic results from the first version of recommendations, which has already been live since last fall. Thousands of new subscribers came through our algorithmic picks, with some media makers getting as much as 80% of their new subscribers from them.
On average, Steady publications got a 20% boost in subscribers.
Now we’re expanding it and giving you the chance to build your own recommendation networks by picking media makers you want to recommend to your audience. 🤝 Check it out in your Steady backend and add your first personalized recommendations today.
- When cancelling a paid membership, users are now presented with an option (which is selected by default) to automatically switch to a free newsletter subscription when their membership expires. This means you’ll retain more contacts who may want to convert to a paid membership later
- We have included timestamps of subscription dates in Member CSV exports
- Plus, we’ve made creating Drip Campaigns a breeze by pre-filling the ‘From’ and ‘Reply-To’ fields for you
- We no longer send emails about expired cards to users without an active membership
- Handling Latin1 encoding: We've fixed an issue where some users were experiencing problems with Latin1 encoding. Now, Steady should properly handle Latin1 encoding, ensuring that all characters display correctly.
- Handle OpenGraph meta tags with missing content: We've also fixed an issue where OpenGraph meta tags with missing content were causing errors. Now, Steady will properly handle OpenGraph meta tags even if some content is missing.
improved
Offer 7 day trial period
From today, you can choose to offer a 7 day trial. This will be particularly useful for those who offer content that can be experienced in a very short time.
You can find the new setting in your Steady backend under Business -> Plans.
We have just released a new feature that many of you have been asking for: You can now delete subscribers in your Steady backend, without them having to unsubscribe. Of course, they can still unsubscribe themselves, but we know occasionally people have a hard time finding that link. So now you can do it for them.
- It is now possible to pin a post on the top of your Steady page
- We created a new block for the editor: the sponsored block. If you are getting a post sponsored by an advertiser or friend, it is now clearer to the audience.
- We also continued our bug hunt and fixed a small issue with YouTube embeds on the project pages
We've made some improvements to the Spotify account linking feature on Steady:
- Unlink Spotify account when user deletes their Steady account: We've fixed an issue where a user's Spotify account would remain linked even after they deleted their Steady account. Now, when a user deletes their Steady account, their linked Spotify account will also be automatically unlinked.
- Improve Spotify account linking error when Spotify account is already linked: We've also fixed an issue where users would receive an error message when trying to link their Spotify account if it was already linked to another Steady account. Now, users will receive a clearer error message prompting them to unlink their Spotify account from the other Steady account first.
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