When I’m working in the Studio it often asks me to ‘reload for updates’ but I never have any idea what those updates are. I reload Studio and then notice that I need to Publish again but I’ve no idea what changes have been made/what impact they might have/what I’m actually Publishing
Is there a way we can be notified about what the updates are and choose to reload whenever we’re ready? I feel like we need to do it straight away to carry on working and we’re completely in the dark about what we’re publishing! It feels risky!
I suspect that Softr is just built in such a way that every time they do a commit to prod, it generates that message. Probably a lot of commits are small and incremental bug fixes and tune-ups, not actual product updates that we the users can experience. When user-impactful changes do come out, usually, they show a pop-up lightbox front and center listing the new features. I suppose it’s still reasonable to ask for these small “Softr just got better” message to be accompanied by a log showing what’s been pushed to prod, but I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of those things would be too technical and irrelevant to us, the users, to see.
Agreed @bbelo but it’s the only software I use that has these reloads/updates where the ‘app’ is client facing. It’s the ‘publishing’ element that worries me.
I spoke to support about it, they said “these updates are applied in the same way as when we release new blocks or add new features to the settings, they become available across all workspaces once deployed to production.”
So, it sounds like it’s small and incremental bug fixes, plus new blocks, new features.
We pay for a custom domain and after one of the updates we noticed that our emails were being sent from the Softr domain (not our custom one), DKIM was no longer listed in the system for authentication and our sign-up had changed from being ‘disabled’ to ‘open’. I had no idea about any of these changes until something stopped working and I looked into it. I can only presume it happened with an update/reload.
They’ve passed the info to the team - hopefully they’ll consider it as a feature request
