Changelog

Improved Homepage

Homepage headline: all your work tools, under one login

The homepage headline now reads "All your work tools, under one login."

Improved Homepage

Homepage headline: one account instead of separate apps

The homepage headline now reads "One account instead of 39 separate apps." The tools it covers are named beside it.

Improved Homepage

Homepage headline names the tools

The homepage headline now names Documents, meetings, invoices and forms and gives the number of other tools.

Fixed Homepage

A bolder invitation at the end of the homepage

The homepage ends with a red panel inviting you to create a Magpie account.

Improved Interface

Messages stay in view while you scroll

A confirmation or error message now moves up with the page as you scroll and stays near the top of the screen.

Improved Documentation

Organized repository documentation

Separated current specifications, open work, and historical documents, and consolidated shared assistant instructions.

Improved Message Boards

Message boards are easier to start and nicer to read

Create a board from just its name, edit it where it is shown, and read posts in a feed with authors and instant voting.

Improved Interface

Clearer form fields

Text boxes and menus have a darker edge, are a little shorter, and show a sharper outline when you are typing in them.

New Navigation

Pin tools from the sidebar

Point at a tool in the sidebar and select its star to add it to Your tools straight away.

Improved Navigation

A shorter navigation menu that remembers All tools

Once you have pinned tools, All tools starts closed, and opening or closing it is remembered on your account in every browser.

Improved Website

Fewer circles on the homepage tool list

The homepage tool list shows at most two circles, and the row of tool groups under the introduction is removed.

Improved Website

Homepage tool groups row and coloured panels

The homepage shows a row of tool groups under the introduction, and its sections gain coloured title panels and circles in the empty panels of the tool list.

Improved Design

Softer corners in the canvas design

Sidebar links, buttons, form fields and tool marks have more rounded corners when the canvas design is enabled.

Improved Website

New design preview extends to feature pages and the app

The new design that website admins can preview now covers feature pages, Pricing and the app as well as the homepage.

New Website

New homepage design in admin preview

A new design for the lower half of the homepage can be previewed by website admins before it is shown to everyone.

New Website

Design studies for a new look

Early design studies for a possible new look for the Magpie website and app are being reviewed.

Improved Website

Feature page questions describe what Magpie does

Questions on public feature pages are limited to ones answered by what Magpie does.

New Website Builder

Static sites in Website Builder

Create a website from Markdown files and templates in a Git repository. Magpie builds it each time you push.

New Mobile app

Chat during a podcast recording session in the app

In the mobile app, Chat in a recording session opens over the studio, so recording carries on while you write to the others.

Improved Development

Test suite cleanup

Removed tests that depended on source snippets, wording, layout details or fixed catalog inventories.