What's New lists the new features, improvements and fixes that are live on your site, newest first. It replaces the old Updates sidebar.
Open What's New
Click the bullhorn icon at the top of the screen. The number on it is how many updates there have been since you last looked. If your company uses the older layout, click What's New at the top of the screen instead.
A panel opens with the latest updates. To go straight to the full page, hold Ctrl (Cmd on a Mac) as you click.
The panel
The line at the top says how many updates there have been since you last looked, or that you're up to date.
Updates you haven't seen yet have their first line in colour and a bold title. Your last visit marks where you left off.
Click an update to read all of it on the full page, or click See all updates.
Opening the panel clears the number on the bullhorn.
Close it with the ×, the Escape key, or by clicking outside it.
The full page
The full page holds every update and loads older ones as you scroll.
Stories or Titles: Stories shows each update in full. Titles shows one line per update, so you can look further back quickly; click a title to open it. Press T to switch. The Layer remembers which you chose.
Search updates: type a word to find updates about it. Press / to jump to the search box and Escape to clear it.
All, New, Improved, Fixed: show one kind of update.
Areas: show only the updates for one part of The Layer, such as Quotes. Clicking the area named on an update does the same.
Jump to: go straight to a month. It shows on wider screens once there are a few months of updates.
Copy link: hover over an update and click it to copy a link to that update, to send to a colleague.
Click a picture to see it full size.
Back to the newest takes you to the top again.
New, Improved and Fixed
New: something you couldn't do before.
Improved: something that works better than it did.
Fixed: something that wasn't working as it should, and now is.
Some updates are marked For administrators. Only users with administrator access see those.
Tell us what you think
Press Helpful (the thumbs up) on an update you found useful. Press it again to take it back.
Press Comment to write to the Layer team about an update, in up to 1,000 characters.
Only the Layer team sees what you press and write. Other customers never do.
For anything that isn't about one update, use Tell us what you think at the bottom of the panel, or Feedback in the bar at the bottom of the screen. See Send feedback to Layer.
Cards that point out something new
Now and then a card at the bottom left of the screen points you to something new. Show me takes you to it and Not now puts it away. Either way you won't see that card again, on any device. If you leave it, it comes back at most once a day, and no more than three times.
Now and then The Layer also asks how likely you are to recommend it to a colleague. Pick a number from 0 to 10, add a reason if you like, or close the card. Only the Layer team sees your answer.
Which updates you see
An update appears once the change is live on your site.
An update about a feature that isn't switched on for your company is left out.
Updates marked For administrators show only to administrators.
Can't see the bullhorn? What's New is switched on for each user by your administrator, in Settings > Users, in the Product Updates column. See Turn on What's New for your users.