Guess what? Weâre back again to highlight more new features for EveryoneSocial! This time around weâre talking about rich text, private groups, and improving our usersâ quality of life.
Platform Changes
First up, weâve got some changes to how the platform functions that weâd like to share with you! These are our favorite kinds of updates because they usually add in some pretty neat features, and this monthâs release doesnât disappoint.
Rich Text Editing
Wow! Rich text! That sounds exciting, but…what is it?
Formatting. Itâs all about formatting! Big text, small text, underlines, italics and bold! Emojisđ, quote blocks, hyperlinks, bulleted or numbered lists â you name it, weâve got it. Go crazy.

Regular users can use rich text formatting while composing or editing an EveryoneSocial post while Admins can also apply it elsewhere, like within Content Emails or Internal Messages.
Pretty snazzy, right?
Honestly, we donât have much else to say on this feature since youâre smart and itâs fairly self-explanatory. Itâs also just part of the platform now, so thereâs nothing you need to activate!
All that pent-up personality youâve got is just waiting to make its way into your next EveryoneSocial post!
How many emojis are too many? Thatâs up to you to find out, but weâll support you all the way.
Private Group Discoverability
This particular update is sort of a hybrid between a functionality change and a QoL update, and might need a bit of background information first.
Previously, Admins and Moderators had to manually add users to private groups. Now, they function pretty much just like a public group, other than requiring specific onboarding criteria be met before joining.

If a user meets said onboarding criteria, theyâll be able to see that private group in search results, the ârecommended groupsâ sidebar, and the main groups page. Theyâll also be able to find it during the onboarding process!
Oh, and if you leave a private group, itâs all good â youâll still be able to rejoin at a later time.
Referral Invites
The last of our platform functionality changes comes in the form of improved referral invites, which can be seen in the top right-hand corner of your Timeline page, if your programâs Admin has the feature turned on.
This update has two parts: a visual component and a functionality component, the first of which is pretty straightforward. It used to look like this:


But hereâs what it looks like now:


One thing to note here is that the âCopy invite linkâ button in the screenshot above will actually only become available once we roll out a sizable new project later this year. Stay tuned for updates on that. đ
The other part of this update is specific to Admins. Turning this feature on or off used to be handled on our end, but we handed that power over to our clients!
Admins can now toggle this feature on or off in the Admin Console by navigating to âSettingsâ > âAccountsâ > âReferrals.â

They can also customize the headline and body text that appears here.
For example, if your program is giving out $5 rewards for inviting people, go ahead and use that as the attention-grabber!
…and let me know how I can get in on some of those rewards while youâre at it, too.
User Quality of Life Improvements
These updates are slightly smaller tweaks that just make things work better. Enjoy!
Pinned Posts
To help clean up peopleâs timelines, weâve made a change to the default behavior to pinning posts.
Now, when admins want to pin posts, âPin to the timeline of everyoneâ is unchecked by default. When left unchecked, the content will instead be pinned only to the group in which it was posted.

If youâre posting something really important, like a message from the CEO to the whole company, you can certainly still select the box to pin it to everyoneâs timeline! The idea here is just to prevent that from happening by accident.
Displaying Groups in Dropdown Menus
This update will help both users and Admins find groups when creating a post, adding groups to their onboarding list, and so on.
Previously, there were certain cases where groups wouldnât appear in drop-down menus until a user had already started typing.

Thatâs not a big issue, unless youâre like most people and donât have all the groups in your organization memorized. Now, EveryoneSocial will suggest groups to a user wherever thereâs a dropdown, so no need to rely on your at-times-questionable memory!
Have more questions? Reach out to our customer support team.