2024
This is an older changelog. Some of these updates may no longer be relevant or have been enhanced. See the latest changelog to keep up to date on what’s new.
December 10, 2024
Feature Updates 🎉
- Allow moving cards across workspaces
- Add logged in user filter
- Persist filters to your organization so they are shared with your teammates.
- Allow filtering tree on KPI status.
Bugfixes 🐛
- Hide filters when its corresponding card type is disabled.
- Fix insight source filter so it works with the updated insight experience.
- Update filter language to use customized card language.
- Fix bug that would prevent interviews from showing up until a feedback was created.
December 7, 2024
Feature Updates 🎉
- Update roadmap filters to match tree filters.
December 5, 2024
Feature Updates 🎉
- Add ability to filter tree based on insight count.
Bugfixes 🐛
- Fix slack bot bug when choosing person for feedback.
- Update notification link to select cards on the tree.
December 3, 2024
Feature Updates 🎉
- Add ability to filter tree based on card type.
November 29, 2024
Bugfixes 🐛
- Fix bug that prevent sessions from loading when deep linking to them.
November 28, 2024
Bugfixes 🐛
- Fix image uploading from insights.
November 21, 2024
Feature Updates 🎉
- Add ability to bulk import insights via CSV.
November 14, 2024
Major Update to Insights
We just released a massive overhaul to Insights that has everything teams need to collect, analyze, and organize customer feedback and discovery interviews directly into your Opportunity-solution Trees.
Vistaly now offers two different types of input for capturing insights:
- Interviews - PMs, designers, and researchers can take long-form discovery interview notes right in Vistaly. You can link snippets of these notes to (as Insights) to the relevant card.
- Feedback - as customer-facing teams (like sales, support, and customer success) talk to prospects and customers, they can relay product feedback and other relevant information that might inform product strategy to the product team.
Read the updated docs for full details on the changes.
October 21, 2024
Bugfixes 🐛
- Fix visual bug where custom fields prevent long multi-select options from overflowing.
October 1st, 2024
Feature Updates 🎉
- Updated app-wide navigation. These navigational changes lay the foundation for an upcoming major release. Stay tuned!
- Added workspace management page to admin views
September 2, 2024
New pricing plans
TLDR: we’re sunsetting our Freemium plan and moving from a “per seat” to “pricing tiers” model.
We we’re getting rid of Freemium
Our initial thesis behind the Freemium plan was that it would be a great way for teams to get started with Vistaly. They’d adopt the product with a small team, and usage would spread throughout company, ultimately prompting an upgrade to paid.
This rarely happens. The overwhelming majority of our paid customers convert to a paid plan relatively quickly, without a prolonged Freemium usage period.
We want to sunset the Freemium tier so that we can prioritize solving for and offering assistance to people with a high level of motivation to become more Outcomes-focused.
What happens next?
If you’re currently on a plan, we’ll be transitioning you to an state with a trial length of 60 days. This means you’ll have 60-days of unlimited access to really exercise the product before deciding if you want subscribe to one of the new paid tiers.
We’re offering a lifetime discount of 10% to current Freemium users as a thank you for being part of our early community.
If you’re on one of the existing paid plans, you don’t have to do anything for now. We may choose to sunset these legacy plans in the future.
However, if you’d like to make changes to your existing plan, you’ll need to move onto one of the new plans to do so.
Questions or concerns?
If you have any questions or concerns with this change, send us an email at support@vistaly.com and we’ll get back to you ASAP.
August 10, 2024
Bugfixes 🐛
- Fix bug that prevented card links from opening in a new tab.
Feature Updates 🎉
- When clicking on an insight from your search results, you can now edit/delete it, add it to a new card, or view the cards it’s attached to.
August 9, 2024
Bugfixes 🐛
- Fix bug that wouldn’t allow you to edit a link’s content.
August 8, 2024
Bugfixes 🐛
- Fix bug that prevented links from being changed when on a card’s first line.
- Fix bug that wouldn’t allow you to click “View in Tree” from an insight.
- Fix race condition that would occasionally occur when deep linking to the drawer.
August 7, 2024
Bugfixes 🐛
- Fix bug that would prevent editing your active workspace’s name from settings.
- Fix loading bug when deep linking to a session and then navigating to the tree.
Feature Updates 🎉
- Redesign search to make it a cleaner experience. Adds ability to remove insights and/or archived cards from the search results.
- Reduce minimum number of characters to trigger search from 3 to 2.
- Make update modal’s refresh button more prominent.
August 5, 2024
Bugfixes 🐛
- Fix loading bug when deep linking to a session.
Performance Improvements 🏎️
- Make many search results render more quickly.
August 1, 2024
Bugfixes 🐛
- Fix onboarding tooltip bug.
- Fix race condition that would result in app crashing.
- Add polling to app to ensure dropped messages are rehydrated.
Feature Updates 🎉
- Update cards to auto-save if you click off of them.
- Add text cursor to make it clear where you should click to edit card.
- Drop root workspace selector and always redirect to first workspace.
- Move leave organization under advanced settings.
- Allow key results to have an unset start or target value.
July 25th, 2024
Bugfixes 🐛
- Fix bug that would result in infinite spinner when loading the tree.
July 24th, 2024
Performance Improvements 🏎️
- Loading trees (especially large trees) is much faster.
Bugfixes 🐛
- Eliminated race conditions that resulted in odd behavior.
- Fix card centering bugs on the tree view.
July 3rd, 2024
Feature Updates 🎉
- Updates story mode to use folds instead of being a dedicated experience.
June 27th, 2024
Feature Updates 🎉
- Adds update modal to notify you when Vistaly has launched a new version.
June 26th, 2024
Major update to the Roadmap view
Out vision for the Roadmap is that it’s a tool for communicating at a high-level the Solutions you’re working on now, and the Opportunities you are committed to addressing in the future.
We found that showing Opportunities and Solutions on different views makes it hard for stakeholders to quickly understand what the product teams are doing.
What are we doing to address this?
- We’re combining Opportunities and Solutions into a single unified Roadmap view (and moving Experiments to their own Experiment Tracker view).
- The “status” of Opportunities is now driven by child cards — parent cards will automatically take on the furthest now-next-later status of their child cards.
- We only show the “furthest down” child on the Roadmap
See the Roadmap documentation for full details on how this view works now.
Other Updates 🎉
- You can now disable the Assumption and Experiment cards. Doing so will also remove the Experiment Tracker from the top navigation.
- We display a tooltip with full names when hovering over assignees on a card
- Added Custom Fields to the Export artifact
- Updated our Jira integration to support updates on Atlassian’s end
- Major overhaul to the docs site to account for updated views and card styles this year
- Major overhaul to the new user onboarding experience
Bugfixes 🐛
- If someone else moved a card to another parent, we weren’t broadcasting that such that others using the tool
April 5th, 2024
Feature Updates 🎉
- You can now disable the Vision Statement, Objective, or KPI card type, making it easier for your whole team to understand which cards to use and speak the same language.
- We’ve updated KPI statuses to , , and . The previous set of statuses implied that you were actively working on improving the KPI. The proper way to communicate that effort is to use the Outcome (aka Key Result) card.
March 27th, 2024
Feature Updates 🎉
- You can now sort Roadmap items within a given column. This will help you more clearly communicate what your team’s focus is.
- You can now add Unmapped cards to your Roadmap using the ”+” icons in column headers
Usability Improvement 🤩
- You can shift+click a card’s “Show Above” button to show all the way up to the top of the Workspace
March 14th, 2024
Feature Updates 🎉
- Continuing from last week’s release, we’ve updated how cards look in the Roadmap (formerly List) and Reports view.
- The link to the Insights page has moved from the top navigation to the left sidebar.
- You can now update a user’s role without needing to re-invite them.
Looking For Beta Testers 🧪
- We’re about to launch the ability to sort items within the Now/Next/Later Roadmap. If you’d like to get early access and give feedback, send an email to steve@vistaly.com.
March 6th, 2024
Feature Updates 🎉
- We launched a major overhaul to how cards look and function on the Tree view. See the video below.
- You can now use cmd + scroll (in addition to shift + scroll) to zoom in/out.
Performance Improvements 🏎️
- We refactored the front and and performance (espcially in Workspaces with high card counts) should feel dramatically faster.
Bugfixes 🐛
- Fixed a bug where users that just joined your organization wouldn’t show as active up in the bottom right until you refreshed.
- Fixed a bug where using the mouse to highlight the text in a card would drag the entire Workspace.
February 20th, 2024
Bugfixes 🐛
- Fix bug that would prevent custom field dropdowns from showing up in list or report view.
Feature Updates 🎉
- Improve customer and label pickers.
February 16th, 2024
Feature Updates 🎉
- Public launch of custom fields, check out the docs. Thanks to everyone who helped with the beta!
- Switch to for search.
Bugfixes 🐛
- Fix bug that could occur when creating comments & having slack integration setup.
Februrary 13th, 2024
Feature Updates 🎉
- Allow reordering single-select custom options.
February 2nd, 2024
Feature Updates 🎉
- Add single-select custom field.
- Add single-select tree filter.
Bugfixes 🐛
- Fix card content overflow in tree view.
January 30th, 2024
Feature Updates 🎉
- Add custom field filters (rating) to tree view.
- Add planning column to roadmap allowing you to view ideas.
January 24th, 2024
Bugfixes 🐛
- Fix race condition that would occasionally result in infinite spinner when loading app.
January 22nd, 2024
Feature Updates 🎉
- Add custom field filters (slider & yes/no) to tree view.
January 18th, 2024
Feature Updates 🎉
- Roadmap text search support.
January 17th, 2024
Feature Updates 🎉
- Support reordering custom fields.
- Allow viewing custom fields on card faces in the tree view.
Performance 🏎️
- Improve performance of notification routes.
January 8th, 2024
Bugfixes 🐛
- Fix bug where filters would be incorrectly applied in tree view when story mode was enabled.
January 8th, 2024
Feature Updates 🎉
- More clearly separate KPIs (persistent) and Key Results/Outcomes (point-in-time). For more information and tips on using KPIs and Key Results/Outcomes, check out this guide.
Bugfixes 🐛
- Fix bug where labels would be cut off.
January 6th, 2024
Feature Updates 🎉
- Adds quick submit for card editor.
- Adds facilitator and details to session email.