Release Notes

For Users

Nothing in this version

For Admins

Nothing in this version

For Users

New

• Questions with lots of response options – Your campaign can now ask questions with up to 10,000 response options! Just think of the possibilities. If you come across a single-choice or multiple-choice question with more than five response options, it will appear in a handy-dandy drop-down which will open in a whole new screen with type-to-filter functionality.

Improved

• Redesigned signup and login experience – The process for making an account and logging into the app is now prettier and easier to use. We don’t know why you logged out in the first place, but if you need to log back in, enjoy!
• Added and improved animations – Throughout the app, the animations should be smoother and slicker.
• Design tweaks – Small improvements to the look of the primary question.

Fixed

• Fixed a bunch of small bugs that affecting joining a campaign by an invite code, switching between campaigns, and viewing the rankings screen.

For Admins

Nothing in this version

For Users

Improved

• New look, same great Reach – Beautiful new app icon and slash screen features our cute little mascot, “Ballie to Ballot”. Ballie is a kind soul. Ballie uses they/them pronouns.
• Offline connection handling – Reach without internet access is like Paul Ryan without corporate tax cuts. Now, if you try to use Reach without an internet connection, the app will let you know so you can adjust accordingly.
• Streamlined notifications – No more humblebrags from Reach when the app successfully does something it was supposed to do. It will just work without showing a notification on your screen. No fuss. Nobody likes a braggart.

Fixed

• Squashed some of minor bugs and made the app look even prettier, if you can believe it.

For Admins

New

• Admin Survey Questions – This won’t affect users of the app, but from the Admin Dashboard, campaign administrators now have complete control over customizing the various survey questions and sets of survey questions that will be presented to their canvassers. If you’re not an admin, you should feel jealous – it’s very slick.

For Users

Fixed

• Squashed some minor bugs and made the app look even prettier, if you can believe it.

For Admins

Improved

• We refined our “Linked Campaigns” feature to be more flexible for all your linkification needs.

Fixed

• Non-Admins can do longer add users to inactive campaigns.

For Users

New

• Custom Questions support – your campaign admins can now work with us to configure as many questions as they want which will now fill your person profile screen with all sorts of new questions to ask. These include more numerical scale questions with various customizable number ranges and color schemes, multiple choice questions, single choice questions, yes/no questions, and short or long open-ended text input questions. Once your campaign admins set these questions up with us, you’ll see them appear for every person you Reach.
• Contact Actions – once you’ve added a phone number or email address for the person you’ve reached, you’ll now see some handy dandy buttons there which will let you email them, text them, or add them as a Reach user.
• Add User button on main search screen. We know that adding new users to Reach is key to spreading the app far and wide so we’ve made it way easier. You no longer have to tap through to the Campaign Manager screen to add new users – you can do it right from the search screen using a new button in the top right corner.
• Each section on the person profile screen is now collapsible and expandable. Hide the sections you don’t care about and show the ones you do. The app will remember your preferences.

Improved

• We added a loading indicator to our various screens in the Settings Menu so you won’t be left staring at a blank screen and wondering what is going on.
• All pop-up toast notifications now include a close button so you can dismiss them right away if they’re in your way.
• You can now pull-to-refresh your screen on the Campaign Manager, My History, and Rankings screens.

Fixed

• The Add User pop-up is now more responsive and notifies you every time you successfully add a user.

For Admins

New

• Custom Questions support – You can now work with us to configure as many questions as you want which will now fill the person profile screen with all sorts of new questions to ask.

For Users

Fixed

• Had some Android crashing happening
• Users on Trial Campaigns can now see the Rankings screen

For Admins

Improved

• Laid the groundworks for faster, more responsive updates in the future.

For Users

Fixed

• Users on Trial Campaigns can now see the Rankings screen
• If you’re Reaching for lots and lots of campaigns at once, the campaign switcher is now much easier to use.
• ‘My History’ screen looked very naked if you hadn’t Reached anyone yet. We now have some placeholder text there for you, but go Reach people! What are you doing? Sitting at home and fiddling while the world burns?
• Searches with no search terms should now give you exactly what you deserve: nothing.

For Admins

Improved

• Laid the groundworks for faster, more responsive updates in the future.

For Users

New

• New Voter Profile Save Behavior – So you’ve just gathered a bunch of responses from a voter. Are they saved? Are you sure? We had heard from a bunch of you that it was too easy to forget to save things you had entered on the voter profile screen, and we just can’t have you losing precious data, now can we?
  • So we’ve redesigned the voter profile save behavior. Now, instead of each field auto-saving or saving only when you tap an easy-to-miss “submit” button, we’ve built a new “Edit Mode” into that screen. As soon as you modify anything about a voter (a question response or a contact info field) you’ll find yourself whisked away into Edit mode where you’ll see a “Cancel” button in the top left and a “Save” button in the top right. These buttons will do exactly what it sounds like they’ll do. Tap save to send your changes to your campaign and tap cancel to forget everything you’ve done and pretend it never happened. Attempt to leave this screen without saving and we’ll check yourself before you wreck yourself. Try us!
  • As a nice side-affect of this change, all your button taps on question responses will feel more immediate and won’t depend on your network connection speed.

Improved

• Cleaned up the interface a bit to keep things in tip top shape.
• Easier tapping! We made the touch targets of our buttons bigger and easier to mash with clumsy human fingers.

Fixed

• In Android, user profile changes were not saving properly. They will now!

For Admins

New

• Laid some behind-the-scenes groundwork for our next big release coming soon!