Release notes

Here you'll find our most recently released features.

🕛  Last updated 6th June, 2025

Fresh Joy

Recently released features

Release date Description
June 3rd, 2025
  • When accessing conversations via generic campaign link, conversations can be configured to automatically reset to the self-identification screen after a 30-second countdown.
May 22nd, 2025
  • New Lifecycle setting for campaigns:
    • Recurring (quarterly): new option to trigger sending based on a date attribute across a quarterly period
    • Instead of sending all at once, recurring campaigns can send X days before/after a date attribute across a quarter
    • For example: send an onboarding conversation 90 days after start date:
      Screenshot 2025-05-28 at 9.24.24 AM
    May 22nd, 2025
    • Option to enable + configure a closing message that is sent when conversations are complete
      Screenshot 2025-05-28 at 9.19.20 AM
    May 15th, 2025
    • New Heatmap tab on dashboard;
    • Displays average scores for each question in the campaign, with delta from the overall average;
    • Up to 3 levels of attribute breakdowns

    May 2nd, 2025
    • Ability to copy individual campaigns or entire planning boards;
    • Joyous support can additional copy campaigns/board from one org to another

    May 2nd, 2025
    • New AI Campaign Assistant sidebar in Template Library

    April 15th, 2025
    • Campaigns have a generic link with which audience members can access the campaign instead of their unique link
    • Campaign links can be distributed as URLs or downloaded as QR codes to display somewhere audience members can scan with their device

    April 9th, 2025
    • Translation of Joyous comms (sends, notifications, nudges, email, sms, chat app)

    March 19th, 2025
    • User gets the opportunity to confirm if the language we detect from the browser is correct.
    • They can change to a different language from the one detected if desired.

    March 13th, 2025
    • Organization's name is now masked in Generative AI requests
    February 26th, 2025
    • Smarter translation toggle display: Translation toggle only displays if there is content to translate.
    January 28th, 2025
    • CSV upload automatically detects which column to match people where possible
    • New option to define an audience by copy+pasting a list of emails

    January 13th, 2025
    • A new section outlining the action plan is now included in the weekly summary.

    January 9th, 2025
    • When the user selects an option to create a new campaign (either by selecting 'blank template' or a specific template from library) they are now taken directly to the conversation designer.
    December 27th, 2024
    • The weekly summary will now also display themes and suggested actions if they have been published for a campaign.
    • This includes a bar chart with counts of the top themes and the first three action items and two tasks per item.
    • Reporting line leaders (if turned on) will only see results relevant to their part of the audience.

    December 18th, 2024
    • Improved security for audience members when clicking links to respond to conversation sends

    December 16th, 2024
    • Improved UX for accepting suggestions
    • Improved quality of AI output
    • Visibility improvements for actions

    December 3rd, 2024
    • New Themes report option in the Themes tab

    November 28th, 2024
    • Campaign stakeholders now receive one email per week with campaign details stacked

    November 11th, 2024
    • AI facilitator language can be set for each campaign
    November 8th, 2024
    • Theme groups now feature a group icon next to the theme name, making them easily distinguishable from other themes
    • Unique participant count is displayed in the Overview and Themes tab
    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

      Tempalte library
    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
    Group 70-png
    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