Projects and improvements developed
March 2021
Web application:
- Redesign of chat
- Removal of the option to connect a Whaller box to OneDrive or GoogleDrive
- Image gallery feature available from the Pro offer
February 2021
Web application:
- New integration of messages waiting to be published
- Possibility to change the order of images when editing a message
- Redesign of message editing (text, Markdown, files, images, priority, publication date)
- Redesign of link display (New: the author can delete them one by one)
- Insert a link to an article in a message via Markdown tools
- Possibility to share a CMS article from within a sphere
- Possibility to share a CMS article in a sphere from the article
- Multilingual content: possibility to translate messages into the languages available on Whaller
January 2021
Web application:
- Additional Markdown options
- Export an organization's list of spheres and their details
- Autocompletion when adding sphere administrators
Mobile application:
- Suggestions of usernames in comments
- Apple SSO connection
December 2020
Web application:
- All users can schedule messages in spheres
- Possibility to download the contents of a folder or an entire sphere box
November 2020
Web application:
- Display a larger version of a single emoji when left as a comment
- Extend the rights attributed to "Publishers"
- Possibility to use Zoom for video conferencing
- Possibility to host large files (up to 3GB)
- Cybersecurity option: prevent the reuse of a password when it is renewed
- (Re)launch of the Full Remote offer
- Suggestion platform (Feature Upvote)
- Links displayed below messages are updated after a message is edited
Mobile application:
- Addition of connection via Google
October 2020
Web application:
- Deployment of a new WYSIWYG editor for CMS articles
- Possibility to associate a video conference room to an event (only if the sphere has BigBlueButton selected as its video conferencing tool)
- Redesign of the "sphere settings" window
- Viewing of Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents shared in messages on Whaller
- Launch of Whaller 365: co-editing of documents, spreadsheets and presentations
- Securing of accounts with a strong U2F authentication factor
September 2020
Web application:
- "My tasks": all current tasks assigned to a user appear on their root page
- Cybersecurity option: organization managers can define different levels of classification for information and assign consultation rights according to these levels to members
August 2020
Web application:
- Improved performance of conversation feeds
- Interpret an event's "location" field with a URL
- Possibility to configure an Ausha widget
July 2020
Web application:
- Ability to view a PDF, an image or a video directly from the sphere Box (and update of file icons)
- Ephemeral spheres available with the Enterprise offer (spheres that are archived on a pre-determined date)
- Cybersecurity option: possibility to temporarily disable the uploading of documents in an organization
Mobile application:
- Possibility to invite phone contacts to a sphere
- Display of badges in profiles
June 2020
Web application:
- Possibility to set video conferencing in webinar mode (listen-only mode for participants, more than 100 participants)
- White label: a user who logs in can be redirected to either the "root" page or the portal page
- The "Reply" buttons in notification emails refer directly to the reply field of the concerned message
- Translation of messages in foreign languages (with DeepL)
- Creation of top-down options (within federations) in the settings of a "mother" organization, so that thay can be applied to all "daughter" organizations
- Improved upload for large files (according to organisation settings)
- Possibility to paste a file directly in the "new message" or "new comment" fields
Mobile application:
- Integration of video conference feature
- Display custom profile fields in profiles
May 2020
Web application:
- Possibility to disable online support via Intercom for an organization
- Notifications: "new member" and "new sphere" emails sent to sphere administrators and organization managers now take into account the settings defined in the general notification frequency - invitation or entry request emails are not affected
- Possibility to have a specific profile field appear next to the username in conversations. (Example: company name of members in an inter-professional network)
- Replacement of the term "sphere open to visitors" by "sphere accessible to visitors"
April 2020
Web application:
- Automation of the "pass a member as a visitor" process by automatically removing them from members-only spheres
- Deletion of quizzes feature
- Addition of a "visitors" icon on spheres accessible to visitors
- Improvement of the UI of registration and login forms
- Modification of the rules for spheres accessible to visitors (impossible to make them global, open, etc.)
- Temporary blocking for 30 minutes (instead of permanent blocking) of users who have tried to log in with the wrong password 5 times
- In a federation: inheritance of offers, and a number of "top-down" options
- Creation of a federation management page
- Correction of the bug that turned some images 🙈
- Video player update (with the possibility to detach the video in the foreground)
- Agglomeration of analytics in a federation
March 2020
Web application:
- Add BigBlueButton (BBB) as a video conferencing option, these instances are stored on the Whaller infrastructure
- BBB as a default in school organizations
- Launch of FULL REMOTE offer
Mobile application:
- Do not display active spheres if the user has access to only one organization
February 2020
Web application:
- Release of new Pro, Business and Enterprise offers
- POC of connection with Atlassian (JIRA and Confluence). Those who would like to test can write to us!
- POC of integration of SAP Cloud
- Review of all transactional email texts
January 2020
Infrastructure: all Whaller servers (data and service) migrated to OVHcloud in Roubaix (France).
Web application:
- Reinforcement of security options: password policy, automatic signout after inactivity, etc.
- Integration of meet.jit.si as a choice for video conferencing
Mobile application:
- Sphere and organization calendar feature available
- Ability to start a private conversation directly from a user's profile
December 2019
(Work on client platforms)
November 2019
Web application:
- Display of organizations in the same federation in an arborescent manner on the "root" page and in the "My Spheres" menu
- When a temporary message is commented on, it becomes permanent
- Temporary password renewal URL
October 2019
Web application:
- Management of cookie preferences for users (GDPR)
- GDPR & Privacy by Design: By default, fields in a user's enhanced profile should be set to "Unpublished"
- Make the blurring of private messages optional
- Launch of the new Whaller Help Center: https://help.whaller.com/
- Add the names of authors to articles
September 2019
Web application:
- Connection of the sphere box to OneDrive
- The user now has the choice to delete documents they deposited in a sphere Box when they leave (GPDR)
August 2019
Web application:
- Restructuring of organization settings
- Premium Option that allows managers to validate the creation of new spheres (Sphere creation workflow)
July 2019
Web application:
- Change in provider for transaction emails. From Mandrill (US) to Sendinblue (France) (GPDR)
- Blurred private messages
Mobile application:
- Correction of duplicate messages sent
June 2019
White Label site (GATE)
- Creation of the possibility to have a white label site for an organization or federation network (code name: GATE)
- Personalization of the header
- Personalization of the footer
- Design of a white label "root" page of a site, with the side navigation bar
- Ability to play shared videos automatically
- Creation of a stronger confidentiality option in order to not show one's full name to the entire network
Web application:
- Addition of a premium option: "Use badges"
Mobile application:
- Creation of the possibility to have a white label mobile application (realized first for France Télévisions)
May 2019
Web application:
- Possibility to share GIFs in spheres and comments
- Add a publication end date for programmed messages
- Premium organization option to hide Google Drive and Microsoft Office 365 shares
- Addition of Markdown shortcuts for level 2 and 3 titles
- Addition of a Premium option to disable scratch-off messages
- Addition of the ability to choose a native emoji from a selector 🎉
- Ability to export participants to an event
- Sphere creation workflow (validated by an organization manager), available for Premium
- Ability to cancel an entry request from the "root" page
April 2019
Web application:
- Drag & drop tasks in sphere Kanban
- Display the Kanban in a new tab
- Remove the integration of Facebook videos in spheres to not have Facebook cookies on Whaller
- Authorize the creation of public isolated spheres
- Highlight the visio-sphere (under sphere members)
Mobile application:
- Possibility to share videos from the app
- Display ads in messages
- Possibility to copy text from a message or comment
- Possibility to copy a URL open in Whaller
March 2019
Web application:
- Ambassador program improvements (Podium, possibility to earn Illicado gift cards)
- Improvement of message display performance, especially when data is outsourced to a proprietary server (see Data outsourcing offer)
- GPDR: Logging all Whaller ADMIN actions
- Organization Federations: When adding an organization as a "child", its members are added automatically to "parent" organizations
- Establishment of an IdP server allowing the installation of a "Whaller Connect" button on third-party sites (via SSO). Realized example: configuration of a Whaller login button on a Wordpress site
- Extension of shared file size limit to 1Go for organizations (Premium)
February 2019
Web application:
- Improvements to SSO mechanisms for organizations that use them
- When a sphere exceeds 50 members, automatic welcome messages are disabled
- In the organization members management section, possibility to use the action "Remove from the organization" for several people at a time
- Change the font used for messages in order to display all languages on all OS
- Messages and comments can be edited at any time
January 2019
Web application:
- Simplification of the "My account" menu
- Remove "lemonades" and "bouquets of roses" from gifts
- Remove the 3,000 character limit for messages
- Integration of a Markdown editor in the message writing field
Mobile application:
- Possibility to connect via LDAP
- Display documents in messages
- Access to sphere boxes (new "tools" icon in spheres)
- Display tasks in messages
- Display gifts in messages
- Display message styles
December 2018
Web application:
We wanted to improve the "serenity" or "focus" aspect of Whaller, which sometimes gave the impression to send too many notifications. Our logic: give ALL the control back to users, don't overwhelm them with information, and only send what's necessary:
- Removal of transaction emails (new messages, etc.) if the user has installed the Whaller mobile app (focus)
- Possibility to select time slots to receive email/mobile pushes (not during the night, weekend, etc.) (focus)
November 2018
Web application:
- Launch of a new chat
- No longer sending emails for a like or dislike (focus)
- Possibility to block sending pushes for comments in a sphere (backend option)
- Change the default sending frequency for emails: no more than 2 emails per day (focus)
- Simplification of the notification settings page: fusion of the "new comments" and "new messages" setting, add an insert concerning "educational" emails
Mobile application:
- Improved message display performance (x2)
- Events in spheres
- Better offline management
- Design of private messages
- Possibility to connect in LDAP
- Password recovery link
October 2018
- Possibility to download a list of participants for an event
- Redesign of the "real time" system for sending pushes, and synchronized display of new messages, comments, likes
- Opening to all public spheres
- Possibility to block the creation of public spheres in an organization
- Display public spheres on organization portals
- Add Capterra and G2Crowd missions to the Ambassador program
August / September 2018
- Redesign of the mobile application in ReactNative
- Public spheres: the first public spheres are opened upon request. For the time being, you can visit: l https://whaller.com/sphere/jaimemaboite
- Redesign of the chat (still a feature)
- Image galleries (Premium)
- Official release of zap' Whaller : https://zapier.com/apps/whaller/integrations
- Addition of an activity table to Whaller Analytics
July2018
- Beta release of new chat. Ask to test it on https://whaller.com/sphere/tcjwx6
- Beta release of the new mobile application. Ask to test it on https://whaller.com/sphere/b799m1
- Creation of an interface that lists a person's spheres for an organization (only for the manager)
- Analytics: addition of a frame and an asset counter for the selected period (Premium)
- Addition of emojis :bzh:, :corsica: and :euskadi:
- Integration of "stripe elements" for card entry
June 2018
- Creation of a Premium organization option: "do not notify by email/push for anonymous messages"
- Security fixes following feedback from Bug Bounty
- Creation of the Whaller Sports page
- "Scratch-off" messages
- Ability to move a sphere from one organization to another
- Create a "verified" certificate for organizations and people
May 2018
- Create an event from Google calendar via Zapier
- Redesign of the ergonomics message types
- Add a task to a message that has already been posted (Premium)
- Program messages in advance (Premium)
- Restricted spheres: addition of a "block comments" option (Premium+)
April 2018
- "Alpha" release of the new chat (not visible to all users)
March 2018
- Improvements to the entry path in a network from its public portal
- "Enter a sphere" tutorial + customization of this tutorial
- Improvement of the UI of the signup modal on organization portals
- Make public portal pages responsive
February 2018
- Possibility to mention a group of people with the same role in a sphere using "@@nameofrole" (Premium)
- Creation of a CSS field allowing the graphic modification of organization interfaces (Premium)
- Points earned in "incentive" organizations are displayed in the navigation sidebar (Premium)
- Customization of the entry route in an organization: personalization of the redirect page after registration
January 2018
- Add percentages to csv survey extracts
- Possibility to merge two user accounts
- Creation of the Associations landing page with Halo Asso: https://whaller.com/fr/usage/association
December 2017
- Zapier application accessible on https://zapier.com/apps/whaller/
- Can archive spheres in an organization (Premium)
- Restriction of the organization standard offer: self-accepting emails, badges personalization of emails, charters
- Creation of the Universities landing page: https://whaller.com/fr/usage/college
November 2017
- Respond to a comment in private (triggers an alert)
- Can upload videos in a custom profile field
- Display a LinkedIn profile in a Whaller profile
- Creation of a "no role" filter in the members management section (Premium)
- Compatibility with native emojis!
- Export analytics in an Excel file
October 2017
- Connection of a "wedoogift" boutique to Whaller for one of our clients (will be generalizable) (Premium)
- Synchronization and generic authentication in LDAP (Premium)
- Addition of an option to hide the "website" link on an organization portal
- Increase the sphere description to 500 characters
- Addition of Dutch in the languages 🇳🇱
- Addition of a premium option to remove the notion of price in events + PayPal
- Allow the upload of InDesign files
September 2017
- Possibility to create a hierarchy between several organizations (Premium+) : with link between profiles, role, etc. (Premium)
- Create events from calendars (Premium)
- Block a person
- Creation of assignable rights according to roles (Premium): right to create a sphere, right to accept new members in the organization
- "Serendipity" widget (suggestions of people in an organization): specific to a single network at the moment. A generic version may be planned someday depending on requests (Premium)
- Implementation of the "Analytics" page in spheres, for sphere administrators (Premium)
- Creation of a new type of customizable profile field: free lists with suggestions (Premium)
- Removal of "product" icons (prices, premium,...) from organization portal pages (Premium)
- Sphere administrators can now create and edit widgets linked to their sphere (This was reserved exclusively for organization managers before) (Premium)
- Strengthen the invitation "quota" security policy
August 2017
- Can personalize the list of types of events (Premium)
- Possibility to block "I dislike" (Premium)
- Possibility to define a list of "blacklisted" words that automatically report messages to administrators and managers (Premium)
- Mobile application: can connect with Microsoft Office 365
- Showing roles in the form of medallions on avatars (Premium)
- Creation of the Premium + "Maps" page /product/premium-plus/map
- Generalization of the use of "Glowbl visio-spheres"
- Strengthening of the password security policy
July 2017
- Possibility to sign up/ connect with LinkedIn
- Possibility to share a message in several spheres at the same time (Premium)
- Addition of invitation quotas
- Improvement of the navigation in the right hand column of spheres: always visible, always scrollable
- "Forum" spheres for Premium+ (organization spheres in which you van validate or refuse the responses to a message)
- Ability to search all of a person's profile fields, including specific fields in an organization Premium
- Addition of a "role" filter in member directories Premium
- Message legacy (possibility to leave the messages you've written when you leave a sphere) Premium
- Can disable automatic messages for new documents in a sphere box Premium
- Possibility to structure organizations among themselves by defining "sub-organizations" to an organization; legacy profiles: avatars, bio, roles and specific fields (Premium)
June 2017
- SSO SAML (Premium+ option)
- Public page /contact
- Member management: can filter non-activated members
- Can disable the Kanban in spheres
- External hosting of message content and attached files
- "Whaller Ambassador" program: https://whaller.com/account/refer
- Addition of a navigation sidebar for isolated spheres
- Addition of attachment to automatic message in the sphere's box
- Mini profile: when clicking on the photo, it is displayed in full resolution
- Publication of Whaller's 3 core values on the homepage
- Publication of Whaller's Manifesto on the homepage
May 2017
- Automatic online payment (integration of the last elements)
- Integration of Google Drive in the sphere Box: possibility to manage a Google Drive folder directly from a Whaller sphere (beta)
- Deletion of the old mobile version and passage of spheres and root page in full responsive
- Integration of Glowbl as a replacement for visio-spheres
- Member management: Display the list of spheres for each person
- Ability to disable welcome messages in a sphere
- Public page /integrations
- Public page /mobile
- SEO improvements
- Creation of a "Start a trial" workflow
April 2017
- Create a task directly from a Kanban in a sphere
- Ability to share a GoToMeeting in a message (in an event)
- Automatic publication of a welcome message when a new member joins a sphere
- Redesign of the "sphere summary" widget
- Permanent deletion of old personal spheres
- Redesign of badge management
March 2017
- New network creation path
- New Premium+ offer "data hosted on the third party server"
- Tasks: fusion with ideations, possibility to assign a task to several people
- Integration of Office 365: registration and authentication with an Office 365 account, possibility to share OneDrive files
- Integration of Google Suite: registration and authentication with a Google account, possibility to share Google Drive files
- New discussion thread UX
February 2017
- Ability to create temporary, self-destructing messages ("burning messages")
- Notifications when a document is added in the Box
- PDF document viewer in the spheres
- Mobile application: new network creation path
- Mobile application: display of entry requests
January 2017
- Annual debug campaign. More than 150 bugs found and corrected.
December 2016
- Statistics tool: "Whaller Analytics"
- Possibility to activate "Premium" for a single sphere
- Card editor (points, quiz, info...)
- Interfacing Plussh & Whaller
- Twitter widget
- Entry course: (Join/ Create a network)
- Creation of a sponsorship/ referrals page
- Depreciation Internet Explorer < 10
November 2016
- New entry course: "What would you like to do?" and "Join a network"
- Redesign of the sphere management page: all settings accessible from this page
- Performance of web interfaces
- Creation of the page status.whaller.com
October 2016
- Switch to PHP7
- Update of ElasticSearch search engine
- Suggestions of organizations
- Creation of the "connected apps" account page
September 2016
- Ability to remove or add several sphere members at a time
- Enrichment of events: types (carpool,...), spots available, price, PayPal.Me
- Redesign of directory ergonomics and people search
- Synchronization of tabs
August 2016
- Improvement of real time, possibility to interact with a message while it's being updated (likes, etc.)
- Creation of the "publisher" right
July 2016
- Integration of IFTTT
- Multiple surveys
June 2016
- Redesign of the notification management page
- Pin a message
May 2016
- Side navigation bar