December 2021
New features
- Download of subtitles
- Analytics: Refreshed display of pie charts for better legibility
Improvements
- Moved event specific billing data from the organizations billing page to the event list
- Improved question tool layout for Chromium-based browsers
- Improved CSV question export
- Removed “dropdown” survey type
- Show the organization in the event settings
November 2021
Improvements
- Show tags in additional places
- Make attendee file download available regardless of event state
- Improved Excel exports
- Improved organization view for users with multiple organizational roles
- Alignment fixes
October 2021
Improvements
- Show red border in Questions widget when question/name is missing
- Support registration fields labels longer than 255 chars
September 2021
New features
- Add tags to events
- Admin titles for surveys
Improvements
- Include votes in questions export
- Fix offset in questions count
- Set max FPS to 30
- Make it possible to change the Event Group of an event
August 2021
New features
- Remote Speaker Moderation: Manually Spotlight a speaker
- Screensharing
Improvements
- Only Event Managers can start / stop events
- Attendee list XLS export repaired
July 2021
New features
- Remote speaker moderation: mute camera and microphone of speakers
Improvements
- Redundant streaming for in-browser encoding
May 2021
New features
- New default in-browser streaming for Webcast, Audiocast, Phone dial-in with Multiple remote Speakers
- Attach registration data to survey results + anonymity management features
- Live Producer: Full screen button for slides widget
Improvements
- Infrastructure updates
- Improve Public Question performance
- Finalize French version
January 2021
New features
- A new overview dashboard:
After logging in, instead of a list of event, you will now be presented with a modern dashboard, with panels displaying relevant information about your SlideSync activity. - New users, and landing page visitors, are now invited to subscribe to the SlideSync newsletter.
Improvements
- For mulitilingual events with a survey: the attendee language is now included in the survey results.
- Better performance for the Live Q&A questions list.
- Organizations role table now only show users with an organization-level role. Event-level roles are not shown there anymore, but in the event role table.
December 2020
Improvements
- Backend efficiency improvements: higher availability
- Attendees of SAML restricted events can now open several sessions simultaneously
November 2020
New features
- Attendee Q&A received many updates
- Paginated view, useful when there are many questions
- Attendees can order the questions chronologically (default) or by popularity (votes)
- New button to hide already answered questions
- Improved performance
- Attendees cannot vote for their own questions anymore
- Surveys and Attendee Registration are now available to users of the Basic subscription
- New streaming languages: Greek, Hungarian and Romanian
Improvements
- Improved performance for the Attendee page
October 2020
New features
- Users with the Moderator role can now create / edit surveys
Improvements
- Platform-wide performance update
September 2020
New features
- Backup Stream recording
- Expiration Dates can be now set for events. Expired events are archived and can be restored
- New languages
- Polish (English localization)
- Japanese (English localization)
- German sign language (German localization)
Improvements
- Question form and list design has been reworked
July 2020
New feature
- Custom sender name for invitation mails
Improvements
- Live Streaming Improvements
- Bring attendees that paused the stream back to Live
- Optional feature: prevent attendees from pausing the stream
- Current slide is now shown in the preview
- Event description is now shown in Pre/Post state on Template 4 (audiocast only)
- Improve performance for questions pages
June 2020
New features
- New languages (English localization)
- Czech
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese
- Slidecast recording
Improvements
- SFA export improvement
- Resolution will now match predefined settings
- More than one file can be exported at the same time
- SFA now works for exports bigger than 1 GB
- Q&A
- Each column in the Questions Moderation tool is now independently scrollable
- The Question Moderation tool is now scrollable on touchscreen devices
- Users with multiple organizations can now resend speaker invitations
Bug Fixes
- It is impossible now for two email fields to appear in the registration interface
- It is possible to hide question votes if no vote is being cast
May 2020
New features
- New streaming languages available (English localization)
- Dutch
- Swedish
- Dial-in Q&A call number is now displayed on the event page before the event starts.
Improvements
- Q&A support for high question volume
- Survey UX: use toggles instead of true/false dropdown
April 2020
New features
- Sign-in to SlideSync through Microsoft Office 365
March 2020
Improvements
- Added full screen view to internal chat
February 2020
Improvements
- Media Asset Management: New uploader which supports up to 20 GB files
January 2020
Improvements
- Highlighting of back-office instructions
November 2019
Improvements
- Renamed menu label ‘Basics’ (‘Stammdaten’) to ‘Settings’ (‘Einstellungen’)
- Increased range of supported subtitle encodings. Now supporting files with UTF-8 order mark
October 2019
New features
- Custom Thumbnails for recorded videos
- Shareable download links for recorded videos
August 2019
New features
- All approved (‘live’) questions can now be displayed on attendee page in realtime
- Alpha version of our native Peer-to-Peer Enterprise CDN based on WebRTC technologies (opt-in required – please get in touch with us if you are interested in participating in this testing phase).
Improvements
- Media Asset Management: Improved status display when processing large video clips
- Live Transcoding and HTML 5 ingest are now available by default for all plans
June 2019
Improvements
- Enhanced upload for subtitle files (in the .vtt and .srt format) for video-on-demand content
- Improved layouts for the default templates
- Updated range of social networks
May 2019
New features
- Subtitling for on demand media (SRT / WebVtt formats)
- Attendees can now ask questions in advance (configurable)
- Downloadable live recordings
- Support for secondary (backup) streams with Phone Conference Ingest
Improvements
- Increased file size limit for uploads to 5 GB
- Improved usability of Single Sign-On activation
- Improved event and user search usability
- Support for further downloadable file formats
March 2019
New features
- Added functionality to list all published recodings in Assets Management
- Added french backend language
Improvements
- Added Serbian frontend language with English localization
- Minor updates of pricing plan details on SlideSync landing page
- Disabled page refresh on Event application form to prevent data loss
- Added search functionality to backend organizations view
February 2019
New features
- Support for multiple speakers within the HTML 5 publisher
Improvements
- Decoupled telephone dial-in option from dial-in details
- Improved quick event restart in publisher
- Improved sizing of slides in fullscreen embedded mode
- Improved projector view for multilingual events
December 2018
New features
- Support phone conferences as a source for Audiocasts
Improvements
- Updated Live Dashboard user interface for Audiocast events with Phone Conference
- Improved Cookie notice and privacy policy links
Mid October 2018
New features
- JavaScript API: Support for muted autoplay
Improvements
- Allow to specify telephone dial-in details for webcasts
- Mark questions as sent from “back-office”
- Browse our homepage while being logged in – to see the event listing, please click on ‘Events’ instead of the SlideSync logo
- Added five additional frontend languages with English localization
Bugfixes
- Fixed recording trimming issue
- Fixed collapsed slide widget in Live Dashboard
- Fixed slide fullscreen mode for Internet Explorer 11 and Edge browsers
August 2018
Improvements
- Moved question form below the player to be more visible
Bugfixes
- Fixed slide fullscreen mode for Internet Explorer 11 and Edge browsers
- Fixed default language for attendees
- Fixed live preview for multilingual events
- Fixed questions author name
- Added “Telephone dial-in” button to Preview and Layout editor pages
- Fixed orientation change on mobile devices for embedding
July 2018
New features
- Added new questions functionality for backend users
- Added additional functionality for Media Asset Management
- Changed organization members permission
Bugfixes
- Fixed event setup for trial users
- Removed user channels from backend
- Fixed slide widget view on iOS mobile devices
- Fixed localization in user profile pages
- Fixed state change issue on event page
- Fixed system test for Edge browser
- Fixed player start delay in Google chrome
June 2018
New features
- Added sub-organizations functionality (available by request)
- Added customizable registration fields
Improvements
- Improved user privacy settings
Bugfixes
- Fixed user unlock process
- Fixed iPhone scrolling issue
- Fixed asset activation
May 2018
New features
- Media Asset Management
Improvements
- GDPR compliance alignment
Bugfixes
- Fixed event page auto scrolling
April 2018
Improvements
- Improved user access to SlideSync home page
- Improved reference to internal IT helpdesk on event page
- Changed price comparison icon
Bugfixes
- Fixed embedding issues
- Fixed organization naming
March 2018
Improvements
- Improved attendee analytics for a time range
Bugfixes
- Fixed cookies notification for embeddings
- Fixed recordings trimming
- Prevented incorrect font rendering when extracting slides
- Fixed event calendar view
February 2018
New Features
- Retina images support for logo upload
- Added parent-level organization functionality
Bugfixes
- Fixed datepicker in event creation
- Fixed button styling in Live Producer
- Fixed localization issue on event registration page
- Fixed right-to-left text order issues on event public page (e.g. for Arabic language)
- Fixed slide navigation for Audiocast events on public page
- Fixed minor styling issues
- Fixed incorrect asset counter in Recordings Editor
- Fixed embed redirection issues
January 2018
New Features
- Customer logo is shown in analytics report
Improvements
- Improved slides flight direction on event public page
- Improved landing page
- Improved listing of team members: sorted alphabetically
- Improved bitrate selector usability
Bugfixes
- Fixed iOS playback issues
- Fixed localization issues for attendees reminder emails
- Fixed organization creation
- Fixed page background color
- Fixed embed issues
- Fixed time range selection for analytics reports
- Fixed sign up localization issues
- Fixed default setup for new users
December 2017
New Features
- Added support for custom favicon for event public page
- Updated landing page
Improvements
- Renamed ‘Beamer view’ to ‘Projector view”
- Changed default settings: enabled question and auto recording, disabled auto publishing
Bugfixes
- Fixed video size issues on public page
- Fixed permissions for users with multiple organizations
- Fixed event state change
- Fixed layout issue on public page
November 2017
New Features
- Added surveys for the Post events
- Added new permission to the event managers: to assign roles to the new user
Improvements
- Improved analytics export
Bugfixes
- Fixed position of components after slideset activation
- Fixed backend layout issues
- Fixed language switch on public page
- Fixed Live Dashboard issues
- Fixed backend chat issues
- Prevented incorrect font rendering when extracting slides
- Fixed participants analytics
October 2017
New features
- Added event date in overview page
- Updated pricing page
Improvements
- SFA improvements
- Enabled MSE by default for Mozilla Firefox
- Enabled preview button in Live Producer
- Improved time selection on “Analytics” page
- Prevented invalid timezone for new users
- Published questions are shown in video fullscreen mode
Bugfixes
- Fixed recordings editor bugs
- Fixed slides navigation on published recordings
- Fixed SFA bugs
- Removed unwanted “Telephone dial-in” button from public page in case of published recording
- Fixed analytics PDF export
- Fixed turbolinks issue
- Fixed self-sign in issue
- Fixed slideflow issue on event public page
- Fixed recordings creation created via recording editor
- Fixed questions export
- Fixed questions moderation
- Fixed layout issues on iOS
- Fixed media widget buttons behavior in Live Dashboard
- Fixed questions displaying into video fullscreen mode
September 2017
New features
- Added basic support for Chinese language
Improvements
- Improved slides widget usability
Bugfixes
- Fixed event state after assets upload
- Disabled section “Telephone Dial-in” for a webcast event
- Fixed survey issue
- Fixed sign in process
August 2017
Improvements
- Improved Analytics page for events without analytics data
- Usability improvements for asset upload
- Improved usability of player play button in Recordings Editor
- Improved labels in Live Producer
Bugfixes
- Fixed Recording Editor bugs
- Fixed registration with optional fields
- Fixed slide tooltip for the last slide in Recordings Editor
- Fixed title and description of the first slide in Recordings Editor
- Fixed slide title after slide replacement in Recordings Editor
- Fixed slide replacement issues in Live Producer
- Fixed slides upload for demo events
- Fixed resizing issues
- Fixed asset upload issues
- Fixed asset deletion
July 2017
New features
- Added event channel to the backend chat
- Added support for 1080p transcoding (available on request)
- Added switching of slideset in Recordings Editor
- Added possibility to add notes to event groups
Improvements
- Improved slide’s widget
- Added scrollbar to the bottom slide widget in Recordings Editor
- Show slide title on hover at the timeline and bottom drawer in Recordings Editor
- Added double-click to make slide details more obvious in Recordings Editor
- Added slide numbers to the top and bottom views in Recordings Editor
- Added participants tab to analytics page if Registration is enabled
- Added distribution type in PDF statistics
- Added resource label on user permissions page
Bugfixes
- Fixed slide widget’s width
- Prevented stretching the video in fullscreen mode
- Fixed updating asset’s language when event languages were changed
- Fixed restricted events with additional registration fields
- Fixed resizing issues
- Fixed deactivation / activation of the social network buttons
- Fixed sizing of large logos on phones
- Enabled multilingual slides with only one stream on public page
- Enabled multilingual recordings when having only one stream
- Fixed logo upload
- Fixed backend menu according to user role
- Fixed errors while adding roles to users
- Fixed event page after using browser’s “Back” button
- Disabled slide control when within backend chat
- Fixed redirecting users to the originally requested URL after sign-in
- Fixed hiding of deleted events on event groups
June 2017
New features
- Added a projector view that shows only the slides
Usability improvements
- Added display of remaining characters when typing a question
- Renamed button “Go to webcast” for audiocast events
- Prevented deleting an Organization by users
Bugfixes
- Fixed media upload for audiocasts via Recordings editor
- Fixed borders (video / audiocast widgets)
- Fixes for asset management in Recordings Editor
- Fixed player control panel height in Live state
- Fixed slideflow placement in fullscreen mode
- Fixed preview for restricted events
- Prevent unset default language
- Fixed player resizing after using fullscreen mode in Chrome
- Fixed wrong player position in Recordings editor
- Fixed player controls height in live state
- Fixed right slide’s border for audiocasts
- Fixed wrong name of the button
- Fixed live preview when event has On Demand state
- Fixed activation/deactivation slideset via recording’s editor and Live Producer
- Fixed recordings publishing on public page
- Enabled full screen mode in projector view
May 29, 2017
New features
- Added confirmation dialog when stopping an event
- Added limitation number of characters for questions
Bugfixes
- Added borders to slidecast
- Fixed activation of second presentation
- Added full name of users to drop-down menu for invitation of team member
May 22, 2017
New features
- Added support for custom passwords expiration time at organization level
- Added means to make SFA downloadable
May 9, 2017
New features
- Added possibility to delete events automatically after a given time
- Added option “Mandatory name” for questions
- Added custom user password policy
Bugfixes
- Improved styling of slides list in recording editor
- Added big play button for audiocast on all devices
- Fixed invitation email
- Added custom registration field “location”
- Fixed slide timing for first slide, when event is On Demand
- Fixed video window height: additional fields can be shown without scrolling down
- Fixed problem with random password, which generated for new users while self signing up
- Fixed “Telephone dial-in” fields in event navigation
April 24, 2017
New features
- Added password expiration after 12 month
Bugfixes
- Fixed recordings editor
- Fixed multilanguage events with slide sets
- Changed “Flash Player Settings” to “ Source selection” in Live Producer and added icons
- Fixed event title: completely displayed and correctly updated after changing
- Fixed thumbnails in Files page
- Fixed slide download from event public page
- Fixed issue with attendee limit
- Improved slidecast streaming
- Improved chat usability: auto scroll down chat when it is opened
April 10, 2017
New features
- Added possibility to select from multiple audio / video sources for in-browser encoding
Bugfixes
- Fixed Webcast button functionality: current state is shown in the new opened Live Dashboard window
- Fixed and enabled button “Start Webcast” for streaming using the encoder
- Fixed Preview button
- Fixed deactivating of slides for multilingual events
April 3, 2017
Bugfixes
- Made registered attendees visible even if registration is disabled
- Fixed media assets name: the media name matches the filename
- Added information about amount of slides in asset details and navigation has been improved
March 28, 2017
New features
- Streams for new languages are now automatically created when a language is activated
- Implemented internal vs. external attendees statistics
Bugfixes
- Aligned horizontally video in video-only webcast and retains a certain minimum height
- Fixed public survey results
- Improved webcast start / stop button behaviour
- Fixed the position of the backend chat toggler in Questions page
March 20, 2017
New features
- Added multi-organisation support for users
- Implemented possibility to send reminder email to registered attendees
Bugfixes
- Fixed event policy: deleted events are not visible anymore
- Solved multiple active media assets
- Fixed sorting for device panel in analytics
- Fixed attendee pagination on statistic page
March 13, 2017
Bugfixes
- Fixed Wirecast configuration profiles
- Fixed statistics for returning attendees
- Fixed country map on statistics page
- Fixed auto recording for event with multiple streams
- Added custom label for questions author on the live page
- Added attendee name for reminder email if present
- Added possibility to disable the sentry error dialogs
- Fixed broken public page after editing timings
February 27, 2017
New features
- Improved date range picker for statistics
- Added recordings preview
February 20, 2017
New features
- Added a fallback for statistics if cookies are disabled
Bugfixes
- Fixed position of video errors, when data-slides-ratio is available too late
- Fixed no cookie warning message
- Fixed a bug that prevented auto recording to be enabled
- Fixed timeline in Edit Recordings (keeps resetting, loosing cutters)
- Fixed player page reloading issue
February 13, 2017
New features
- Added question push support for Slidecast
- Added statistics for Slidecast
- Attendees of restricted events now get logged out if another browser signs in with the same credentials
Improvements
- Added tooltips for survey buttons
- Improved video player resizing in video-only Webcasts, when questions are activated
February 6, 2017
New features
- Added archiving of statistic and event archived state
- Added telephone dial-in information and slides view without delay
Bugfixes
- Fixed layout issues when dragging elements on the event overview page
- Fixed layout issues when using the backend chat inside the Live Producer
January 24, 2017
Usability improvements
- Added pagination for attendees in the analytics
Bugfixes
- Fixed cookies for Internet Explorer 11 when SlideSync is embedded in an iframe
- Fixed quality highlight in video player
January 16, 2017
New features
- Added support for a custom logo in the emails
- Added live statistics to the event overview page
- Attendees can now request access for restricted events
- Added event registration limited to a certain group of email domains
Bugfixes
- Fixed overlapping questions and input field
- Fixed sorting of registrations fields in the registration page
- Fixed mobile layout resizing on orientation change
- Fixed iframe embedding resizing
January 2, 2017
New features
- Added option to send reminders after registration
Improvements
- Added time above backend chat messages, in addition to the date
Bugfixes
- Fixed error when deleting live events
- Fixed error in analytics PDF export
- Fixed message for unavailable pages
- Fixed registration shown again after correct registration password was entered
December 19, 2016
New features
- Added amount of current attendees to Live Producer
Improvements
- Added numbers to questions to help with sorting
- Changed backend chat styling
Bugfixes
- Fixed video upload
- Fixed keyboard shortcuts skipping two slides in Live Producer
- Fixed resizing issues on player page
- Recordings editor
- Fixed slide preview not synchronized with changes in the timeline
- Fixed on demand clips activation
- Questions module
- Fixed sort order after reloading the page
- Fixed moderators not allowed to publish a question
- Removed “done” column from speaker view
December 12, 2016
Bugfixes
- Analytics
- Fixed labels for Internet Explorer 11
- Fixed old data reload after changing the time range
- Fixed downloadable files not listed on player page
- Fixed encoder configuration download for Open Broadcaster Software
- Fixed recordings editor not showing a preview image for active slides
- Fixed external links opening in the SlideSync window
December 5, 2016
New features
- Added autoscrolling for new questions in the questions module
Usability Improvements
- Changed upload file size limit from 500MB to 5GB
Bugfixes
- Fixed an error in public page for events without slides
- Fixed an error that prevented speakers from seeing the progress of file uploads
November 28, 2016
New features:
- Added option to publish live questions to all attendees
Bugfixes
- Fixed social media buttons visibility
- Fixed full screen slide view aspect ratio
- Fixed slides view control bars visibility
- Analytics
- Fixed location map disappearing
- Fixed alignment of data points and ticks in weekly and monthly graphs
- Fixed UTC offset calculation in timeline popups
- iPhone
- Fixed first slide not loaded occasionally
- Fixed audiocast controls and added big play button
- Removed error message when leaving player page
November 21, 2016
Bugfixes
- Fixed timezone and layout issues in the statistics
November 7, 2016
New features
- Added HLS delivery based on requesting IP
Bugfixes
- Fixed system test not accessible without login
October 31, 2016
Improvements
- Added first active slide to the edit layout page
Bugfixes
- Fixed SAML authentication requiring an email address
- Fixed footer not sticking to the bottom of the page
- Fixed wrong size of logos on mobile devices
October 24, 2016
New features
- Added “Single File Archive” export option to recordings editor
Bugfixes
- Fixed “Preview” button in recordings editor
- Added missing translations
October 17, 2016
New features
- Added support for secondary ingress
- Added survey widget to Live Producer dashboard
Bugfixes
- Fixed slidecasts not starting
October 10, 2016
New features
- Added “Revert to original” option to recordings editor
- Added support for multiple slidesets
October 4, 2016
Bugfixes
- Fixed not being able to drag questions
Improvements
- Changed styling and wording for recordings editor
- Removed languages that are not fully translated
September 12, 2016
New Features
- Access protection with signed links
- Backend chat
- Responsive embed codes
- Released pricing model
- Responsive slide images
- Signed event urls
- Support for presenters to control the slideshow
- Video trimming
July 11, 2016
New Features
- Analytics
- World map of attendees
- Export to PDF
- Countdown timer in Live Producer
- Toast for new questions in Live Producer
- Embed code
- EU cookie banner
- Multi-language slide sets
- More exact slide synchronization
- Updated system requirements
May 2, 2016
New Features:
- Bitrate selector for HTML 5 playback
- HTML 5 based playback for Android and MS Edge
April 25, 2016
New Features:
- Lookup of attendee locations
- Service status page
Improvements
- Support flexible opening / closing of Live Producer
Bugfixes
- Fixed keyframe interval for built-in publisher
- Fixed issue were slides were not shown on public page
April 18, 2016
Bugfixes
- Delayed slide set change
- Fixed multi-hour synchronization in Flash component
- Name in invitation mail now shows consistently
- Token link in restricted registration mail now works again
- Users invited via restricted registration can now be deleted again
- Memory leak in edit layout
- Going live for the first time in an audiocast raises JavaScript error on public page
April 11, 2016
Improvements
- Show name of inviting user in invites
- Height of slide controls and timeline is now set automatically
Bugfixes:
- Allow speakers to access analytics
- Fixed retraction of team member permissions
- Accessing recording preview from the Live Producer now works again
- Datetime and sharing widgets now resize correctly again in template 2
- Permissions error when changing date
- Fixed JavaScript error related to slides
April 4, 2016
New Features
- Anonymous questions
Improvements
- Improved speaker role detection
Bugfixes
- Show 403 Unauthorized errors for public pages instead of redirecting away from them
- Layout improvements for language switcher