NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Hi everyone! My name is Walker and I’m one of the co-founders at Fourthwall. The monthly patch notes blog is a way for us to show off all the improvements and fixes that are made to the Fourthwall platform on a monthly basis. If you have any thoughts on how we can improve the format, let us know on Discord or by tweeting me @walkeriwilliams.
One of our big releases this month was our new YouTube Merch Shelf app, which makes it far easier to show off your products below your YouTube videos. We also added support for connecting multiple YouTube channels to a single store, and a system for keeping you informed on Google’s product review process. You can get all the details in our release article!
We also released our new team member roles and permissions feature, which lets you invite other people to administrate your Fourthwall website while controlling what they can see and change. This allows you to do things like invite a designer into your account to create new products, without letting them see your sales history or change your payout details. Get the full story in our release article.
The engineering team released a few improvements to our promotions tools in May, including the following:
Read our full write-up for more details
The Memberships team has been hard at work these last few months, and in May they shipped dozens of improvements. Here are three of the bigger ones:
You can now use our existing StreamElements and Streamlabs integrations to configure alerts for when a supporter becomes a member! Full support for SE and SL event feeds is also included, so you can easily access your purchase history, stay up to date, and thank members for their support. For more details and configuration instructions, check out our help center article.
We made it easier for members to navigate through your posts with the ability to click tags on posts (which will bring them to a page showing all other posts with that tag), as well as including tags in search results (so if a member searches for “Comic”, all posts tagged with “Comic” will show up).
We know moderating a large group can be hard, especially when one a members starts being disruptive. You now have the ability to shadowban disruptive members, preventing their comments from being viewable by you or other members.
We also made a number of improvements to our iPhone and Android apps.
We added a quick link to the top right of your admin dashboard that makes it faster than ever to create new products and promotions:
A small but often requested improvement: Giveaway links can now be deleted!
We added a Resources tab to the homepage to make it easier to find our support center and community:
You can now see the production methods that are available for any products in our product catalog from the product browsing experience, without having to click into the product. This makes it easier to understand what products are available for embroidery, DTFx, etc. If you want to learn more about the different production methods Fourthwall supports, check out this blog on production techniques.
We’ve made it much easier to understand what gifters paid to cover shipping when purchasing a Twitch gift by making it a seperate line item on the order summary:
Google is ending support for their Universal Analytics (UA) tracking on July 1st in favor of the new Google Analytics (GA4) solution. Be sure to update your Google Analytics 4 ID in the Analytics tab under the site editor in your Fourthwall dashboard to take advantage of this new system!
For those of you trying to add emojis to the name of your site or product names, we have some good news: Emojis are now fully supported throughout your Fourthwall shop, app, and dashboard! 🦸🎉🎉
Our engineering team made a huge effort this month to reduce bugs and improve the Fourthwall experience, with hundreds of bug reports solved and dozens of small experience improvements released. We want to make using Fourthwall magical, and we’re committed to continuing to solve bugs and issues as you all report them on Discord, Twitter, and via email!
And that's our May roundup! See you all next month for June's Patch Notes.