Winter 2024 Boosts Have Landed!

emmanuel · 2024-12-18T14:00:21.175Z

Hi everyone,

As we wrap up the year, we’re thrilled to bring you the Winter 2024 edition of Bubble Boosts! As a reminder, boosts are the tiny but mighty product updates. We prioritize them based on your feedback across the Ideaboard, the forum and customer support cases.

While this quarter’s set is a bit lighter, thanks to all the holidays here in the US — we focused on delivering impactful enhancements that improve your day-to-day workflow. Your feedback has once again guided us, ensuring each boost makes the time you spend in Bubble a bit more friction-free. So please keep them coming, either here, on social/X and by email.

From tweaks to the property editor to smarter default settings and better debugging tools, these updates continue our mission to make Bubble not just powerful but a fun to use. Here’s what’s new:

Highlights from winter 2024 boosts

Property editor improvements:

Better navigation for locked property editors: Easily scroll through all conditions, even in dense configurations.

Default settings tuned for smoother design workflows: The “fit width to content” setting is now off by default for groups.

Enhanced element tree:

Visual clarity for layout types: Elements in rows or columns now display intuitive icons to identify their arrangement.

Version control usability:

No more lost popups! Draggable version control windows keep your merge conflicts manageable and visible.

Dynamic customization:

Placeholder colors in input fields can now be dynamic, unlocking new creative possibilities for your designs.

Debugger:

Enhanced calendar debugging: Calendar elements with “When a day is clicked” events now function seamlessly in the debugger, ensuring smoother testing of your workflows.

Better data insights: The debugger now displays the count of list items, saving you time and helping you better understand your data during testing. In general, this our way to remind everyone to keep using the editor, this is a very important aspect of Bubble to learn the platform and build robust apps.

Quality-of-life tweaks:

Retain collaborator access on app transfers: You can now choose to remain a collaborators when transferring an app, enabling seamless handoffs for agency workflows.
Improved 301 redirect handling with wildcard support
Polished Domain/Email Settings UI: Fixed UI issues in the Domain and Email subtab for a cleaner and more seamless experience when managing your app settings.

Prioritized Layout Options: Reordered the list of layout options to surface the most commonly used layouts first, making design workflows faster and more intuitive.

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Streamlined page and reusable element creation: Updated UI for the creation modals makes building new pages and reusable elements faster and more intuitive.

Cleaner, clearer error logging for workflow termination issues

[Coming soon] Updated UI for deploy modals.

What ties it all together?

If we had to summarize this release in a word, it would be “precision.” These boosts are about refining the details — making interactions smoother, workflows simpler, and designs more intuitive. By focusing on these granular improvements, we want to help you create with fewer interruptions.

A look ahead

Winter 2024 marks the close of an solid year of growth, and we’re already excited for what 2025 holds, in particular with mobile, AI, and other improvements to the editor to ensure the building experience is delightful and efficient. The team is hard at work to accelerate how fast we ship things for you.

Thank you for being such an engaged community. Your ideas drive these updates, and we’re proud to keep building alongside you. Let us know your favorite boost or share your suggestions for what you’d like to see next on our Ideaboard.

Thank you for being a part of this amazing community. Here’s to creating even more amazing things together in the new year!

Emmanuel

davidb · 2024-12-18T14:05:38.744Z

emmanuel:

The “fit width to content” setting is now off by default for groups

Hooray! – surely millions of clicks saved

J805 · 2024-12-18T14:19:29.641Z

emmanuel:

[Coming this week] Retain collaborator access on app transfers: You can now choose to remain a collaborators when transferring an app, enabling seamless handoffs for agency workflows.

This is huge. Thank you. Not sure why this wasn’t the default.

baskaran1073 · 2024-12-18T14:22:18.465Z

Amazing!

vitorsotero · 2024-12-18T14:29:34.368Z

emmanuel:

Prioritized Layout Options: Reordered the list of layout options to surface the most commonly used layouts first, making design workflows faster and more intuitive.

Who are the monsters that prefer the Fixed layout?

emir.ozgun · 2024-12-18T14:40:07.483Z

Moving fixed option to bottom is a really underrated move, seen hundreds of beginners asking questions using fixed, struggling. Good work. But IMO 1000 boosts = Native mobile or Industry standart pageload or Better built-in functionality

fede.bubble · 2024-12-18T15:07:51.966Z

alxgrepe · 2024-12-18T15:21:25.914Z

emmanuel:

Default settings tuned for smoother design workflows: The “fit width to content” setting is now off by default for groups.

This!!

buero · 2024-12-18T15:56:30.177Z

any updates on shipping the backend workflow tab in the main view ?
Or is there any url info that we could at so we can try it out ?

johnny · 2024-12-18T16:22:16.063Z

emmanuel:

[Coming this week] Retain collaborator access on app transfers: You can now choose to remain a collaborators when transferring an app, enabling seamless handoffs for agency workflows.

Awesome, finally!

pxlhstlr · 2024-12-18T21:37:25.722Z

This is fantastic!!!

Would be nice to have a video demo as some descriptions do not suffice to make things clear.

pxlhstlr · 2024-12-18T21:42:21.326Z

Any consideration of lowering costs or some sort of solution to make it so very extensive apps that make full use of Bubble and offer incredible service are actually viable on bubble?

My app is incredible connected to OpenAI and Stable Diffusion. I’ve made various custom plugins. Extensive use of every and all bubble capabilities. Social posting, backend workflows, scheduled events, and so many amazing features I cannot divulge publicly.

But… it looks like I am about to hit a wall as even the most efficient work flows for some necessary actions are too costly to be viable. Too many efficiency considerations require diminishing quality of features.

sigh

bubblewithsandip · 2024-12-19T04:11:12.875Z

Great! the most liked change for me is -

emmanuel:

Enhanced element tree:

Visual clarity for layout types: Elements in rows or columns now display intuitive icons to identify their arrangement.

randomanon · 2024-12-19T04:13:36.135Z

All good changes.

emmanuel:

Enhanced element tree:

Visual clarity for layout types: Elements in rows or columns now display intuitive icons to identify their arrangement.

All the people who typed “Row” and “Column” in the names of elements thousands of times before this was implemented deserve a Purple Heart.

Also, this is probably so simple for you guys to do, but can you change the handles of the Slider element to circular? I’ve never seen an app in my life that has those weird pseudo-rectangular handles in the current implementation. Please @emmanuel !

parthapatel0723 · 2024-12-19T10:18:42.552Z

I bump this too, maybe let us control using border radius because I would love circular handles!!

randomanon · 2024-12-19T10:52:08.082Z

It’s such low-hanging fruit. Huge impact with very little effort.

TipLister · 2024-12-19T12:45:14.994Z

mouse companies will go bankrupt with all the clicks saved.

great to see quality of life improvements being looked at again in 6 months. hope to see this 4 times at least next year! happy new year

boston85719 · 2024-12-19T13:50:42.090Z

TipLister:

hope to see this 4 times at least next year!

Definitely should be a quarterly event, with at least 10 boosts from that day, so not counting the new features/improved UI that had been previously released and should have a form for people to vote on a short list created by Bubble.

NexradJosh · 2024-12-19T17:41:33.194Z

emmanuel:

Retain collaborator access on app transfers: You can now choose to remain a collaborators when transferring an app, enabling seamless handoffs for agency workflows.

Thank you for this! That handoff moment will be much less scary now…

johncaulkins · 2024-12-19T18:28:40.395Z

emmanuel:

element tree:

Visual clarity for layout types: Elements in rows or columns now display intuitive icons to identify their arrangement.

Thank you!