This roundup highlights the most noteworthy features and updates in the past 12 months. We have been adding and improving existing features, and it's time to share what we shipped in the past year. Let's break it down.

Writing experience updates

1. Reusable content
   1. Content Variables - https://docs.archbee.com/reusable-variables
   2. Content Snippets - https://docs.archbee.com/content-snippets
2. New custom blocks
   1. Expandable Heading - https://docs.archbee.com/expandable-headings
   2. Vertical Split
   3. Link block
   4. Code Drawer - https://docs.archbee.com/code-drawers
   5. Button block
3. Improvements on existing custom blocks
   1. API endpoint
   2. Table improvements - resize columns
   3. Code Editor 
   4. Insert images in lists
   5. Improve styling for the SwaggerUI block
   6. Dark-mode image support
4. Other writing improvements
   1. FontAwesome - add inline icons or change the icon of documents or Spaces.
   2. Emoji library and new shortcuts
   3. Support for international keyboard layout
   4. Drag and drop and contextual options for blocks
   5. Better markdown support - replace markdown shortcuts as you type
   6. Select anchor from @dynamic links - open a document to a section

New publishing workflow

1. New publish workflow
   1. Preview and production environments
   2. Publish Spaces with icons
2. Appearance Settings
   1. New template designs
      1. Stripey template
      2. Booklet template
      3. Colored Nav template
   2. Content layout settings
      1. one column
      2. two columns
   3. Logo Redirect URL
   4. Control over the document info on published pages
3. New home page template: Provided Template
4. Public Access Control: Authenticate customers with Magic links - https://docs.archbee.com/authentication-options#ZOP-e
5. Hosted Spaces New Features
   1. i18n support - https://docs.archbee.com/localization
   2. Space links and Version links - https://docs.archbee.com/version-links
   3. Host spaces on a subfolder - https://docs.archbee.com/hosting-spaces-on-a-sub-folder
   4. Better SEO meta controls with redirects
   5. Accessibility improvements for the published Spaces
6. Contextual Documentation Widget - https://docs.archbee.com/contextual-documentation-widget
7. PDF export - https://docs.archbee.com/export-to-pdf

Collaboration experience

1. Document verification - https://docs.archbee.com/document-verifications
2. In-app navigation, spacing, colors, and more have been tightened all over the app
3. Use emojis in the thread comments
4. Upload Logo for the Organization
5. Feedback analytics - https://docs.archbee.com/feedback-analytics

Integrations

1. Released the Public API - https://docs.archbee.com/get-document
2. Microsoft Active Directory SSO
3. SAML - https://docs.archbee.com/google-setup
4. GitHub integration - https://docs.archbee.com/github
5. OpenAPI import & sync - https://docs.archbee.com/importing-openapi-swagger-spec-files
6. Postman Collection
7. Jira Integration

General

1. Platform and infrastructure improvements
2. Delete an organization
3. More control over the trial experience with swap Trial and auto extend the trial for 7 days
4. Dark/Light mode based on the system preferences.

What to do next?

Go to our roadmap and add your suggestions.

Reach out to support@archbee.com or read the full article on our blog.

As promised to many of you, we're focusing on improving the functionality we already have as opposed to adding new stuff. 

We've improved the performance of the app, the design system, our libraries & code, the self-service abilities of the system.

Here are some highlights:

• custom HTML with handlebars templates in custom footers or custom landing pages for documentation sites; read more here: https://docs.archbee.io/custom-landing-page;
• improved image rendering; we've changed our CDN for images with one that renders sizes dynamically and allows people with smaller screens (e.g mobile) to download the exact size of images they need; we also changed the way image widths/heights are calculated so no layout shifting will happen anymore;
• user downloadable invoices; download any invoice on demand so that you don't have to look for them in your email;
• ability to appoint a new super admin; this also changes the email that Stripe sends invoices to;
• ability to change email address by yourself;
• UI improvements all over; we've tightened our design system even more; more consistent colors and spacing;
• better automatic scrolling in the document tree section;
• improved search algorithm and faster instances on AWS for search indexing;
• we've upgraded most of our code to the latest libraries so you get the benefit of improved performance and security;
• reduced load time for public collections by 20%;
• reduced load time for documents by 25%;
• improved callout blocks;
• more accurate reading time prediction by using a new algorithm;
• faster real-time sync between people looking at the same document;
• better table of contents rendering;
• improved loading time of the knowledge graph on workspaces with 1000+ documents;
• improved document tree drag & drop accuracy;
• improved blockquote rendering.

Enjoy!

What a day on ProductHunt!

Thanks to all your support, we made it to top 1 when we launched Archbee 2.0!

ProductHunt called us a "Google Docs alternative" a few days later in their newsletter. Flattered and humbled!

But there's no resting on the laurels... here's what we released today.

Workspace-Level Domains

One of our cool & distinctive features is that you can share collections of documents on your domain.

But each domain was bound to a single collection. That made it hard for everybody:

• companies with multiple products had to set a different subdomain for each product's documentation; 
• agencies with multiple customers (like you'd find an agency with a single customer, haha) had to set a different subdomain for each customer they wanted to share docs with;
• every new domain had to be set in the DNS provider, taking too much time, and DNS propagation is really slow sometimes;
• that also made it hard for us because we had to supply many SSL certificates, and that's not easy, or cheap.

The alternative was sharing the collections with an archbee.io link, and that worked for some companies, but it didn't for those that wanted a more professional look.

Super happy to announce we now made it possible to share multiple collections on the same domain, by having a path on each collection, while maintaining the root path for a single collection. 

It was one of the most requested features!

Here's how you do it:

Publish-Mode!!

Our automatic save feature and collaborative experience made it easy to create docs by not having to click any unnecessary buttons.

That's awesome for internal team documentation and collaboration.

But for customer-facing documentation, it's not a good look to have them see unfinished work or drafts.

This is why we now have publish-mode, which snapshots your collection and deploys it to your domain.

You get to keep the archbee.io staging link that points at the real-time collection, and a production environment to which the snapshot is deployed at your domain. 

Publish-Mode gets activated whenever you have a domain set on your collection.

This new feature also introduces clean URLs. We only add the randomly generated string at the end of the URL if you have another doc named exactly the same. To get the new URLs you have to publish once.

Here's how it looks like:

Enjoy your holidays, and we'll see you soon with more blazing features.

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