New Bright Works Features: Undo & Archive

We were well aware that when we launched Bright Works that the first version of the platform would be very much the basic proposition of the overall vision we have for Bright Works (a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) if you will).

There are naturally features, processes or ideas that you don't account for when in the planning stages, but when you launch your MVP to the world it is then that your first users start to point out where the platform could be improved and what features they'd like to see.

So, thanks to all of those who have been using the platform in these first few weeks (we broke the 100 registered user mark within the first few days and are growing steadily) and for all of the feedback you have given (P.S. our feedback form is always open for your comments).

We'e listened (and perhaps more importantly) acted upon your ideas, inspirations and basic requests, with the following features now put into place:

1. Allowing a user to “undo” the claiming of a task: Were you a bit too enthusiastic to take on a task, but now realise that you don't have time to complete it? Or did you simply slip on your mouse finger and accidentally claim a task? Well, never fear - task undo is here!

2. Ability to archive projects: Perhaps you're a charity who has had all of your current tasks completed. Great news! Bright Works has worked a treat for you. But now those tasks have been done, you don't have any more to be completed at this time. Now we can archive your project, so that volunteers don't see an empty project.

3. Ability to re-enable archived projects: But, if you do come up with some more tasks, we can bring back your project so you can start adding tasks again. Hooray!

4. Prevent deletion of done tasks: When a project is archived, this previously 'deleted' all tasks that were completed, which meant that it didn't count towards the total amount of tasks completed by the Bright Works community. That's now been changed, so that even if a project is archived, the completed tasks (and your vital work) still counts.

5. Addition of new icons: Last but not least, there's been a few tweaks to how Bright Works is represented across the range of devices that you might access it on. There’s a new placeholder icon for users and for projects, a “favicon” that will show up in your browser’s tab and browser bookmarks, and there’s a mobile device “app icon” that will show up, for example, when you save Bright Works as an iPhone or iPad home screen shortcut.

You may not even notice some of these improvements, but we're keen to show that we're rapidly iterating Bright Works and will constantly work to implement your feedback where possible. We'll keep you updated as further improvements are made, but feel free to let us know if there's a feature or idea that you'd like us to look at.

So keep the feedback coming and keep completing those tasks - your small actions with Bright Works will add up to big changes across our communities!