Release notes

Here you'll find our most recently released features.

🕛  Last updated 27th November, 2024

Fresh Joy

Recently released features

Release date Description
November 11th, 2024
  • AI facilitator language can be set for each campaign
November 1st, 2024
  • Improved report export process and link sharing to align
October 31st, 2024
  • Access the new engagement Heat map from any Dashboard menu
    • Heat map table shows engagement by attribute and the delta of each of the columns from the overall value.  The difference in the percentage points compared to overall is being heat mapped.


October 17th, 2024
  • New launch reminder email for campaign stakeholders

October 14th, 2024
  • New actionable engagement funnel & metrics on the Dashboard Overview and Themes tabs

    Screenshot 2024-11-27 at 11.24.32 AM
October 3rd, 2024
  • New notification email for Exec sponsor and leads of a campaign

  • Updated notification email template for facilitators

September 18th, 2024
  • Team members will now hear notification sounds & see a typing indicator when the AI facilitator is responding to their comments.
September 11th, 2024
  • Human facilitators can see when the AI will next auto-respond to conversations.

September 11th, 2024
  • Actions items including suggested actions related to displayed themes are now in the Themes tab.
    • Suggested action items can be accepted or ignored from the Themes tab.
    • Tasks can be marked as completed in the the Themes tab.
  • Actionable phrases are not displayed by default, users can expand/collapse on the theme to show relevant actionable phrases
September 4th, 2024
  • New campaign template gallery has pre-designed conversations to help guide customers during campaign planning

September 3rd, 2024
  • AI Facilitator can be configured to acknowledge all feedback, even when clarification is not required.
    Screenshot 2024-10-01 at 12.16.43 PM
August 27th, 2024
  • AI facilitator can be set to respond instantly to audience member comments
    Screenshot 2024-10-01 at 12.15.36 PM
July 26th, 2024
  • View conversations in the user's native language

July 1st, 2024
  • Set assignees and due dates to tasks within your action plan

June 27th, 2024
  • Enable Joyous' generative AI to respond to feedback

June 26th, 2024
  • Automatic notification of campaign results

June 13th, 2024
  • Automatically schedule audience nudges

June 5th, 2024
  • Reach more people by integrating with Google Chat

May 29th, 2024
  • Track financial / non-financial impact of campaigns under the Impact tab in Dashboard

May 15th, 2024
  • Export planning board to PPT/PDF
  • Share link to planning board
  • Ability to jump from planning board to dashboard to view results
  • Ability to move a campaign from one planning board to another via Calendar setup

May 7th, 2024
  • Prevent question fatigue by selecting an audience that was not part of a recent campaign, or distribute your audience by another attribute value

April 24th, 2024
  • Create and manage separate planning boards
  • Filter Calendar + Dashboard by planning board

April 19th, 2024
  • Cleaner calendar and login pages with improved readability



April 17th, 2024
  •  AI-powered guidance for action items based on campaign themes

April 10th, 2024
  • New planning board view to help high level campaign planning across the year

    Board Dropdown
April 8th, 2024
  • Cleaner conversations for facilitators and team members with improved readability

    Masonry View

    Team Member
March 14th, 2024
  • New inbox view to help facilitators work through conversations in a more straightforward way

March 11th, 2024
  • Cleaner dashboard with improved readability, slightly more compact to fit on screens better

February 28th, 2024
  • AI suggested responses now generate suggestions in the original language of the question
February 23rd, 2024
  • When viewing a conversation, it indicates when another facilitator is viewing

February 19th, 2024
  • Select one and select many options can now be added and deleted within conversation designer

February 19th, 2024
  • Campaigns have default impact and topic values (not defined) on creation

February 6th, 2024
  • Admin users can manage:
    • Campaign copy
    • Settings (campaign context, audience, facilitators)
    • Proposed/confirmed status
February 1st, 2024
  • Facilitators can bulk respond to conversations that contain no audience member comments

January 23rd, 2024
  • Top menu is replaced by a navigation rail on the left side of the screen
    • Profile menu is at the bottom of the rail
    • Notification bell is moved to the filter area
January 12th, 2024
  • Assign people to action items

  • Export action plans as spreadsheets
December 28th, 2023
  • Facilitators can use quick filters to narrow their conversation search

December 20th, 2023
  • Facilitators can use suggested responses to save time when responding

December 18th, 2023
  • Print and export your action plan

December 11th, 2023
  • Track action items from campaigns under the Action tab in Dashboard

November 27th, 2023
  • Faster navigation between conversations in the Live Feed

November 20th, 2023
  • Download campaign conversations from Calendar to PDF and PPT
  • Share link to campaign conversations

October 31st, 2023
  • Download report files as PowerPoint

October 30, 2023
  • Themes tab added to the Dashboard

October 11th, 2023
  • Apply attribute filter to Dashboard from attribute chart

October 4th, 2023
  • Easily apply conversation filters in the Live Feed

  • Sentiment filters can be applied in the Dashboard

September 5th, 2023
  • Weekly summaries are sent to campaign facilitators, replacing daily notifications
September 1st, 2023
  • More detailed participation information made available in the dashboard gives users a complete view of the campaign in one place
August 24th, 2023
  • Dashboard displays “New participants” for conversations from week 2 and onward.
  • Dashboard displays actionable phrase counts in the line chart

    Participation
August 16th, 2023
  • Send an additional nudge to participants after an initial nudge is scheduled or sent
August 14th, 2023
  • View overall participation for a campaign on the dashboard, as well as participation over time at a conversation level

August 1st, 2023
  • Facilitators are given more context of the campaigns they are being added to and when it will launch

July 27th, 2023
  • Dashboard has improved readability

July 17th, 2023
  • Similar themes are grouped and displayed in the dashboard
  • View and filter to associated actionable phrases for each theme
  • View associated conversations for each theme
  • Rename themes and sub-themes

July 3rd, 2023
  • Replace featured comments in the Dashboard if you think there is one that better illustrates the theme

June 20th, 2023
  • Send your audience a nudge email to increase participation

June 14th, 2023
  • Facilitators receive a launch reminder email on the day a campaign launches

June 2nd, 2023
  • Rename themes if the terms used are not quite right for your organization

May 29th, 2023
  • Actionable phrases are displayed in real-time

May 4th, 2023
  • Facilitators can see an indicator in the conversation modal if another user is currently typing a reply to that conversation

April 12th, 2023
  • Click a theme on the Top Actionable Themes chart to jump to the Live Feed, filtering by the theme and the campaign to view conversations associated with that theme

April 11th, 2023
  • Common phrases act as prompts to enable quick replies for facilitators

April 5th, 2023
  • The Campaign Dashboard allows you to download reports directly from the tool

April 3rd, 2023
  • Reach more people by integrating with Slack

March 28th, 2023
  • The Campaign Dashboard adds featured quotes from the key themes for each conversation in the campaign

    Featured Quotes
March 17th, 2023
  • The Campaign Dashboard adds rating summary and breakdown by any attribute for each question in the campaign

March 17th, 2023
  • Campaign Dashboard second beta release adds high level information when you select a campaign from the timeline, including top actionable themes and rating summary breakdown by any attribute

March 10th, 2023
  • Reach more people by integrating with Workplace from Meta

January 17th, 2023
  • Joyous gets a little more Joyous-er

December 19th, 2022
  • Close campaigns for new responses
December 2nd, 2022
  • Reach more people by integrating with Microsoft Teams

November 10th, 2022
  • Actionable phrases are highlighted within conversations

  • Filter the live feed to see Actionable Conversations only

August 11th, 2022
  • Joyous supports the Mana Ora framework

August 8th, 2022
  • Facilitators can track important conversations by marking them with a star

  • Filter the feed to show conversations that have been marked with a star

July 25th, 2022
  • View the date and time details of the last comment in a conversation

May 12th, 2022
  • 2 new conversation filters. Making it easier for you to see:
    • Conversations I've Joined: Conversations that you have commented on
    • Conversations With No Comments: Conversations that have no comment from a team member
April 27th, 2022
  • New conversation filter. Making it easier for you to see:
    • Conversations Awaiting Response: Conversations that have a comment from a team member but no response
March 4th, 2022
  • Send different questions to subsets of your campaign audience
March 2nd, 2022
  • Insights includes a new Average scores over time chart
    • This line chart shows changes in scores over time by category
    • Click or tap a line in the chart to display results for that category
    • Filter by a question to display scores over time for only that question
January 20th, 2022
  • Team members can self-select reporting attributes such as Tribe, Squad, Ethnicity, Gender etc

January 13th, 2022
  • Bug fix: Rounding error in eNPS calculation
January 6th, 2022
  • Bug fix: Joydog bubbles were highlighted when a selection or rating was edited
December 23rd, 2021
  • Questions cards in Insights include open questions and multiple choice questions

December 23rd, 2021
  • Conversation starter filters were not sorted from most recent to oldest question round
December 23rd, 2021
  • Notification count on team-member-ui header would show -1 when there were no notifications
November 30th, 2021
  • Bug fix: App bar was partially hidden when question filter was clicked from Insights
November 25th, 2021
  • Bug fix: On Insights, percentage values in sentiment bars were rounded incorrectly
November 22nd, 2021
  • SMS delivery is improved in the following ways:
    • We use dedicated short codes for NZ customers.
    • We use dedicated dedicated alphanumeric codes for AU customers.
  • This will reduce the number of SMS messages being flagged as spam by the mobile phone carriers
November 6th, 2021

⚠️ Joyous underwent a scheduled maintenance update

  • Note that people may be required to log back into Joyous after this maintenance update is completed
October 27th, 2021
  • Ability to disable commenting in conversations based on permissions
October 26th, 2021
  • Bug fix: Questions card data was calculated based off how many people viewed each question in a conversation instead of how many people received the conversation starter
October 22nd, 2021
  • Bug fix: Insights and Heatmaps showed all question rounds with no question or conversation starter filters applied
October 20th, 2021
  • Insights include a new Questions card below the category cards. Each row shows results for each rating scale question

October 19th, 2021
  • We've improved our error messages, to provide more clarity and support to our users:
    • When filtering and there are no results to display on the live feed
    • When we encounter an unexpected error
    • When someone's token has expired for the team member view
October 13th, 2021
  • New Conversation Starter filter. Filter by conversation using the leading question of the conversation

21st September, 2021

  • New Message Pill worked incorrectly when new changes were added to conversations not visible in the Live Feed

20th September, 2021

  • My Direct Reporting Line. A new filter to view your entire direct reporting line. Great for leaders, such as Tribe Leads or Administrators who have broad visibility

20th September, 2021
  • Bug fix: eNPS values in Heatmaps and Insights were not integers
14th September, 2021
  • Bug fix: Question sent time was different in the live feed, heatmaps and insights
13th September, 2021
  • Participation information has it's own menu item on the app bar, making it easier to find. There are many other improvements to this page:
    • The Team member commented measure is back!
    • Total chats percentage is calculated by dividing the value by the Team member commented value. So the Total Chats values and percentage now match the old Leader Response Rate measure
    • Total chats values have a background colour based on the levels shown in the sidebar. The rest of the values will no longer have a background colour
    • Filter Participation using questions asked more than once by round
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13th September, 2021
  • The team member's messages are light blue. Makes it easier to distinguish between the team member and leader responses

    Feed Navigation Drawer (1)
13th September, 2021
  • Filter by question round. Makes it easy to see responses for a particular round of a question. You can choose which round to see from the options below the question filter

    Direction (1)-png
8th September, 2021
  • The input bar now includes a progress bar and a skip button. Making it it more obvious and easier to navigate through longer conversations

    Screen Shot 2021-09-11 at 12.38.04 PM
8th September, 2021
  • Bug fix: Date displayed on feed card headers was not the conversation send date
7th September, 2021
  • UI improvements to team member view
7th September, 2021
  • Messages from people responding to conversations now show the full name of the author, and the send time

    Screen Shot 2021-09-11 at 12.37.40 PM
25th August, 2021
20th August, 2021
  • Bug fix: Some users were experiencing an error in both the live feed or the team member view which has been fixed
19th August, 2021
  • Some users reported missing having the topic and date on the live feed conversation card headers - these have now been reinstated

19th August, 2021
  • Bug fix: Some users experienced a flickering issue on the live feed which has been fixed
14th August, 2021