Roadmap
Keep track of new Zealous features, improvements and fixes.
For Organising Calls
NEW
- MAJOR: Customise the submission step
- Highlight what candidates needs to submit (project, individual work).
- Hide questions
- Edit “hint text” on fields
- Restrict number and types of uploads
For Everyone
IMPROVED
- Speed improvement to drafting a submission
- Clearer validation and requirements when submitting
For Organising Calls
NEW
- Experience an opportunity as soon as you register with our Demo call
- View individual judges scores
- Include short ID into the submissions search and reports
For Everyone
FIXES
- Removal of all public votes with fake email addresses
- Patch to stop public votes from blacklisted addresses
Late October '19
version 225 / deployed 2019-10-30
For Organising Calls
NEW
- Link Stripe refunds directly to invoices within Zealous
- Improved works reports including work dimensions and weights
IMPROVED
- Optimise images to load faster for judges and organisations
- Overall javascript improvements to speed up Zealous
For Creative Talent
IMPROVED
- Overall javascript improvements to speed up Zealous
Mid Ocotber '19
version 224 / deployed 2019-10-17
For Organising Calls
NEW
- Preview how candidates submit without needing to create an account, or publishing your opportunity
- Judge your own submissions as an organisations, your score will be added to the average score for the round
IMPROVED
- Bigger images on submission rows for you and your judges
For Creative Talent
FIXES
- Get a credit back for paid submissions your dropped out of, so you can submit again
Mid September '19 - We're out of beta!
version 223 / deployed 2019-09-16
For Organising Calls
IMPROVED
- Submission fee step rebuilt to clarify which packages are being bought, how many submissions can be made and the total cost
- Improve invoices to include information about the payment
- Faster load times across the whole site, with overall site performance upgrades
FIXES
- Fixed an issue with public votes not being able to be confirmed when applications are made anonymous
- Fixed an issue with projects going missing from submissions during peak submission times
For Creative Talent
IMPROVED
- Paying for submissions is now clarifies which packages are being bought, how many submissions can be made and the total cost
- Fixed an issue with projects going missing from submissions during peak submission times
- Faster load times across the whole site, with overall site performance upgrades
Mid July '19
version 222 / deployed 2019-07-15
For Organising Calls
NEW
- Remove your account directly from your settings
- Show shaddow submissions for users that have removed their account
IMPROVED
- Update payment service for your monthly fees and submission fess in line with European changes to online transactions (SEPA) – payments will now require confirmation before being made.
- Published opportunities opening soon now show up in explore.
FIXES
- Fixed an issue with editing judges on a mobile phone
For Creative Talent
NEW
- Remove your account directly from your settings
IMPROVED
- Update payment service for submission fees in line with European changes to online transactions (SEPA) – payments will now require confirmation through a code sent to your phone.
FIXES
- Design update to allow you can remove uploaded elements when validation is shown (they were previously on top of each other)
Early July '19
version 221 / deployed 2019-07-03
For Organising Calls
IMPROVED
- Improvement to SEO site wide, making your opportunities searchable by Google, Bing…
For Creative Talent
IMPROVED
- Improvement to SEO site wide, making your portfolio and projects searchable on Google, Bing…
Mid June '19
version 220 / deployed 2019-06-18
For Organising Calls
IMPROVED
- Optimise speed for judging by preloading the next submission.
- Streamlined submissions process (removal of additional fieds and design updated)
FIXES
- Fixed black screen of death when users were submitting whilst a new version of Zealous was deployed
- Judges now showed on your opportunity page in the order you have chosen
For Creative Talent
IMPROVED
- Streamlined submissions process (removal of additional fieds and design updated)
- Automatically set the country and role in the registration popup if they have already been filled out during the submission
FIXES
- Fixed black screen of death when users were submitting whilst a new version of Zealous was deployed
Early June '19
version 219 / deployed 2019-06-03
For Organising Calls
NEW
- Move questions on your application form
- Choose to show or hide answers to questions from judges
- Add checkboxes to the submissions step to confirm candidates have uploaded the right content to their application
IMPROVED
- Residencies, Commissions, Fairs and Awards have been added to opportunity types
- Price and currency have been added to the works report
- Improved emails when downloading reports
FIXES
- Fixes on occasional discrepencies between the number of submissions counted on the graph, and shown to organisations when users drop-out
For Creative Talent
IMPROVED
- Quick access to Edit Submission on the Submissions page
Late May '19
version 218 / deployed 2019-05-28
For Organising Calls
IMPROVED
- Optimised speed of download all submissions as PDF.
- Creation of short unique ID for each submission.
FIXES
- Fixed an issue downloading PDF’s when submissions were bigger than 200Mb
For Creative Talent
IMPROVED
- Explore opportunities now ordered by closing date, making it easier to see which ones to apply to first
- Exploring portfolios now show all portfolios, not just featured ones
- Explore talent shows the latest ones that have been updated
May '19
version 217 / deployed 2019-05-20
For Organising Calls
NEW
- Download all submissions as PDF.
- Customise PDF files to show candidate details, uploaded project, application forms & contact details.
- Move application form questions.
- Make answers to some of the application form questions private to judges.
FIXES
- Fixed show the public vote chart on the dashboard even when public vote is switched off
For Creative Talent
FIXES
- Link payments to postcodes for increased security
April '19
version 216 / deployed 2019-04-23
For Organising Calls
NEW
- Add checkboxes confirming the right content has been uploaded to submissions
- Allow judging for specific sub-categories only
FIXES
- Fixed a specific scenario where users dropping out of an opportunity didn’t update the submissions graph
For Creative Talent
FIXES
- Fixed issues with uploading video and audio issues on some versions of Internet Explorer
For All
NEW
- Complete upgrade of the submissions process
- Complete upgrade to the uploader (it’s lightning fast!)
- Allow users to upload more file types – these now include:
- Images – jpg, gif, jpeg, png, tiff
- Videos – mp4
- Music – mp3
- Documents – xml, pdf, xlsx, xls, doc, docx, odt, ods, odp
- Have information about specific works uploaded to submissions and projects shown below them (e.g. description, sizes, costs…)
- Drag and drop files on the uploader
- Zoom into the details of the imagery with the new lightbox.
- 80% speed improvement on submissions
IMPROVED
- Complete rebuild of the submissions process to allow for more seamless submission via mobile
FIXES
- Include category the submission was made to in all emails to candidates (so you don’t get confused when we confirm your submission if you have two!).
- Page freezes on large uploads in Safari and IE.
- Sketchfab content fails to embed
- Some SoundCloud content fails to embed
- Occasional failure to load towns
- Montreal showing as being a US city (our most sincere apologies to our Canadian friends).
For Organising Calls
NEW
- Allow for anonymous judging
- Allow judges to reset scores to being unscored
IMPROVED
- Allow for payments of £0 in multiple payment page (e.g. making submissions free for students, but not for others).
For Creative Talent
NEW
- Reuse previously submitted projects to new opportunities (even if they are private).
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