Exposure changelog exposure.co

Notice

Exposure now supports the Google Analytics 4 natively.

Google Analytics users may have noticed that Google has announced their legacy product (Universal Analytics, "UA") will cease data processing on July 1, 2023. All UA users will need to migrate to a Google Analytics 4 property to continue to take advantage of that product.

If you haven't yet, we recommend migrating to GA4 and updating your property tags in your Exposure Integration Settings page at your earliest opportunity.

As always, if you'd prefer to remove tracking and take advantage of other privacy features, you may do so by modifying your Privacy Options.

Improvement

Over the past months, the Engineering Team has been hard at work updating and improving our core systems.

Most of these changes aren't user-visible, exactly: while pages load faster and e-mails deliver more expediently, more importantly Exposure is now far better equipped to handle the ever-increasing megapixels that our members publish in their stories.

And we're not done yet.

In 2023, we're going to continue to focus on improving the stability and reliability of our platform and will hold ourselves accountable to it. We are also going to deliver on a few, heavily-requested features… some of which, we admit, are long overdue. More on this soon.

In the meantime, we always appreciate feedback—please keep it coming! We're always an e-mail away at hello@exposure.co.

Improvement

There is now a dedicated page where you can see all your drafts, as well as an intuitive button to navigate to it.

The "View Drafts" button will appear in the top right of your screen when you have one or more drafts. Previously this button was at the bottom of your screen and swapped between published and draft stories.

There is also a handy new shortcut URL that will take you right to our Drafts page. → exposure.co/r/drafts

Thanks to the Exposure community for their feedback on this update. Drop us a line anytime at hello@exposure.co with your ideas for improvements.

New feature

Exposure stories come in all shapes and sizes and embedding them just got even easier. Please welcome the new "Automatic Resize" option!

It's always been popular for members to embed their stories anywhere that accepts HTML as a way to share, so this upgrade makes it easier for those embeds to look seamless wherever they are placed.

Your embed will automatically resize to the height and width of the story. This means no more double scroll bars within a webpage for your readers, a much smoother experience.

Embeds are fully responsive and will work perfectly across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.

Check out this live example from York FC to see an embed in action.→ yorkunitedfc.canpl.ca/article/preview-playoffs-the-only-game-in-town-as-york-united-head-into-the-west

Using Automatically Resized Story Embeds

"Automatic Resize" embeds are available for all members and the code can be found in the Embed view of any story. Simply copy and paste the code snippet and place it.

Our classic options for Fixed Height and Cover are still available for all embeds.

Improvement

Knowing which parts of your story you are removing or changing is now much clearer thanks to the new Group Contents Indicator.

The Indicator, a grey box with a dashed border, will appear around the group content you are about to change when you hover over any of the Group Controls. The Indicator will only appear to you as the author while in Edit Mode.

We heard your helpful feedback that sometimes it was not clear what parts of your story you were about to remove. This small improvement should help and we'll keep iterating to make the experience better and more clear.

Cheers!

New feature

You can now sign into multiple Exposure accounts at once via our brand new Manage Accounts feature. This will allow you to sign into and quickly switch between your Exposure accounts without having to sign out and back in each time.

You can access a quick account switcher by clicking the arrow next to your avatar in the main menu. From there you can get started with adding a new account or see all the accounts you are signed into.

To manage the accounts you are signed into, please visit the dedicated settings page located at exposure.co/settings/manage-accounts. From here you can add new accounts, sign out of individual accounts, or sign out of all the accounts at once.

Multiple account sessions are stored locally so won't apply if you change computers or devices.

This feature is currently available for Pro Plus and Business subscribers.

New feature

You can now hide a specific story from your Story Feed while still making it visible within any category it's placed in.

The story can also be accessed by anyone with the exact URL.

This new toggle is available under Story Options → Privacy → Hide Story from Story Feed.

Improvement

The photo Lightbox will now load the bigger version of a story photo 100% faster. No more waiting and staring at a spinner when you want to see a photo in more detail. Enjoy!

New feature

By default, the link share image that is pulled by Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks will be the cover photo of your story.

You can now find a new feature under your Story Options, you have the ability to set a custom link share image that will replace using the cover photo for a link shared.

The optimal image size is 1200px × 630px, but any image under 5MB will be cropped to that size once uploaded and processed.

This feature is available on any paid plan.

You can confirm what your link will look like via these handy links.

• Facebook: developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
• Twitter: cards-dev.twitter.com/validator

New feature

Exposure stories can now be exported to a high resolution .PDF files for sharing offline or archival purposes! Exports will also include any links you might have added to your story.

The exports are in standard A4 sizing and use the Overlay story layout. More options will be available in the future.

Due to the nature and length of web pages, exports may not be 1:1 with the original story, we will improve this over time.

You can download an example .PDF below of this UNDP Climate change story, https://undp-climate.exposure.co/powering-the-green-recovery to see how it looks.

Download Example PDF↓

PDF Exports are available on the Pro Plus and above plans. Stories with over 50 photos will require a Business plan to export.

The Export Story to PDF section can be found in the Options menu of your story and will also appear in the share options once you publish.

Stories may take around 5 to 30 seconds to export.