Doozy changelog doozy.live

New

📢 Public events - You can now create public events which can be attended by people outside your team. Perfect for building connections with your partners!

👩‍💻 Host or Play - You can now choose whether to host or play a quiz from a room

🎄🎃 Halloween & Christmas categories have been added into Discover, so you can easily find some seasonal fun for your team!

New experiences have been launched from our awesome partners! Check them out:

• Save our santa: Virtual escape room
• Virtually Amazing: Virtual Magic show with Darren Delaney
• Up Your Greeting Game - Light Up Christmas Cards
• Twist and Shape for Christmas - Christmas Balloon Animals
• Let's nail this Christmas! - Geometric Nail Art
• Pére Neon - Festive Neon Signs

New

We've finally launched our Slack app 🎉🎉. Available to all Doozy users. Head to the manage tab and smash the "Connect to Slack" button.

In seconds you'll get access to:

• All the social activities + events happening within your team
• The ability to instantly launch quizzes, games and activities from any channel
• Automatic user syncing, so you can start inviting your whole team to events and activities

Something you'd like to see added? Just hit me up!

New

We've launched a Halloween quiz and some spooooooky Ice Breaker questions

👀 Keep your eyes peeled for more Halloween fun launching this week!

New

Chloe has been hard at work adding new help articles and videos to our Doozy Help Center. Press the help icon to get access at any time.

Fix

The last two weeks have been pretty insane on Doozy. We've had a ton of new users, and with all this new usage, a few cheeky gremlins surfaced. Don't worry though, team Doozy have been on the case!

• Optimised room audio playback to improve reliability
• iOS 15 introduced some issues with playback which we've had to battle with. Glad to say the battle has now been won!
• The games tab didn't work on mobile. It does now!

Some new quizzes and riddles for you this week. Next week should be a biggy with the release of our HOTLY anticipated Slack app. Keep your eyes peeled!!

New

• 🧠 Riddles & Brainteasers - We've picked some absolute Doozy's for you and your teammates to try and wrap their heads around!

Improvement

• 🏎 Speed improvements - We've made a bunch of changes under the hood so the site should load much quicker!

Quizzes

The Friends quiz Certainly a favourite show of mine growing up, but how well do you really know Friends?

Food & Drink in Films quiz Can you match the film to the food?

2.5.0

It's Friday, and we're finishing off the week with some awesome improvements to the quizzes!

New

• 🏃‍♀️⏰💨 New quiz scoring. One of our most requested features is now LIVE. Scores now take into account how fast you answered - the faster you answer, the more you score 💥
• ⏱ Quiz timer is now enabled by default. You can change it in the game settings.
• 👌 New Discover categories + tags make it even easier to find things to do with your team.
• ♣️ Host a club right in Doozy. Why not get started with a book club?

Improvement

• ▶️ Quiz/Icebreaker buttons to make navigating live rooms easier.
• 👩‍👩‍👦‍👦 Collaborators are now easier than ever to add to your quiz.
• ✍️ Quiz creation has been simplified.

With all these goodies, how can you NOT want to get started right now!

And special shout out to the Desana team for the awesome feedback on how to make Doozy better 💪

2.4.0

A couple of quiet weeks on the changelog, but I promise we have been hard at work!

New

• 👩‍👩‍👦‍👦 Event creation just got a whole lot easier. Add participants instantly and they'll be notified in app and via email.
• 🔥 Popular quizzes are easily accessible at just a glance in Discover.
• 🙅‍♀️ Attendees can now choose not to attend events!
• 👀 Invitees are now visible for all activities, so you can see who else will be joining for some jollies.
• 👋 Onboarding improvements mean it's now easier than ever for new users to discover the joys of connecting on Doozy.
• ⏰ Quiz events allow you to schedule your quiz to be played at a certain time with your team!

Improvement

• 💌 Easy Invites mean you can now paste a list of users instead of having to add them one by one.
• 🎠 Discover carousels now go swoosh-swoosh.

Fix

• 💬 Room chat - Sometimes messages showed up with the wrong person's name. How embarrassing 🙈

Have these updates tantalised your tastebuds? Get started on Doozy now!

2.3.0

New

• 👾 Related content is now available within Discover, making it even easier for you to quickly find something to do with your team!
• ⏮ Live stream replays - If you miss a live stream event, you can nowcatch upp any time. If you missed yesterdays you can check it out here!
• ❄️ Ice breakers are now available from within Discover. Keep your eyes peeled for more coming very soon!

Improvement

• We've added descriptions to each featured activity, so you know exactly what you're in for when you click play!
• Ice breakers have some slick new animations and a limit of 6 questions per round.

Fix

• When exiting fullscreen video on iOS, the video would pause and you'd be stuck forever. Not ideal!

Like what you hear? Get started on Doozy now!

This week was all about MAKING THINGS EVEN MORE FUN 🎉

After some amazing feedback from teams of all shapes and sizes, a few things were bumped up the priority list:

New

• 🧊Ice breaker questions are available within live rooms. If there's a new starter you'd like to get to know better, or the conversation's just gone a bit dry, then crack out the ice breakers and you'll have talking points for days. No more mister awkward guy!

• 🚀 Featured activities right on the landing screen in live rooms make it super easy to instantly start a game or a quiz. No need to engage your brain for this one!

• 🤸‍♂️Collaborative quizzes so you can work on a quiz together. No longer will you be burdened with the sole responsibility of coming up with the perfect questions and exceptional gifs.

Improvement

• 🐍 Faster snakes and a smaller map to make this classic a hell of a lot more exciting.

Fix

• It's been a bug bash bonanza this week, ironing out all the kinks and smoothing things out. We won't bore you with all of the fixes, but things are looking a whole lot sharper and a lot less broken!

That's right! DOOZY 2.0 BABY!!! There are so many new features, updates and improvements that it merits a big shiny version bump. Here's what's been keeping us busy for the last few weeks.

New

• 👾 Retro Games are coming to Doozy! Challenge your friends to a multiplayer bout of the class Snake game for a nostalgia trip back to your Nokia 3310 days.
• 💃 Song Conga - because making a whole playlist in one go is just too much effort, why not get your whole crew to add one song at a time? Check out our create-your-own activity ideas for more!
• 🎨 Doodler - the drawing and guessing game for budding artists.
• ✍️ Drawing challenges - see who on your team can draw the best dinosaur, or maybe even the best unicorn! If you're competitive about showing off your MS Paint skills, this one's for you.
• 📹 Reimagined live rooms - we completely overhauled Doozy rooms from the ground up to bring massive improvements to usability, accessibility, design, and performance. Now you can instantly kick off quizzes, drawing challenges and activities directly in a room, no setup required!

Improvement

• Discover games, quizzes and activities 10x faster with our revamped interface featuring bold new categories and smashing new activities.
• Team space - We redesigned the dashboard. Those circles just weren't doing it for us any more. Now everything's clearer, cleaner and faster.

Fix

• The advent of the new live rooms has cleared a whole host of bugs off the table. We've basically renovated the entire thing for a much better mobile-first experience, all the way up to high-res desktop monitors.

But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the Doozy changelog, and Slack integration is the sun.

    ‐ Romeo, during a remote team-building social

New

• The Doozy Slack app is here! Milo pulled it out of the bag and impressed us all with a polished version of the Slack app we previewed last week. It's delightful. If you want to try it out with your team just fire a message to milo@doozy.live and we'll get you set up right away.
• Activity event series - some of our amazing partner events have way more content than can fit in a single session (for example Laura's weekly yoga sessions). We've added some new ways to better surface related events in a series so you'll never miss out.
• COMING SOON: On-demand video - we're putting the finishing touches on a session replay feature so you'll be able to go back and re-watch that yoga class you missed out on because your cat tripped over the router, unplugged the internet and then puked on the carpet even though he's never done that before. Honestly he's never like this, it's so embarrassing! What's gotten into you, Catrick Swayze?

Improvement

• Some massive UX improvements are coming to Rooms - we'll be pushing these changes out incrementally over the coming days 🤩
• We gave the homepage a bit of a spruce up with some updated content and more representative screenshots

Fix

• Some helpful users pointed out that the UI wasn't making it clear enough that events in the past were, well, in the past. We fixed that, so thanks for letting us know! Keep the feedback coming.

It's been a hot minute since I last posted an update here, so here's what's been going on at Doozy HQ recently.

New

• Create a temporary room - now it's even quicker to jump into a room whenever you want to catch up with your team. As well as the 3 permanent Live Rooms in your space, you can now spin up a new room at the press of a button.
• COMING SOON: Doozy Slack App Beta - Speak to milo@doozy.live to get access! 🤩 We're reeeeeally excited about this - you can now connect your whole team to Doozy instantly, create rooms on the fly, and log in automatically. When I first saw this I yelled out "I love Doozy's integrated multi-platform functionality!"
• Public Live Streams - Details of upcoming public live stream events are now proudly displayed on the Discover page even if you're logged out
• Partner profile pages - This one's kinda a no-brainer, we just didn't have time to build it yet! We found time.

Improvement

• Descriptions are now optional when you're creating events. As unbelievable as it sounds, not everyone enjoys typing as much as me.
• Improved SEO with new sitemaps and all-round better page hierarchy, so we can get that #1 ranking on Alta Vista.

Fix

• Even more mobile fixes, because phones are really small and fiddly (we've got some even more delightful UI updates in the pipeline)