Visual Space 4 is our first public release and the starting point for communities, publishing, planning, meetings, and creative work. Its broad foundation is compressed into these highlights. Future changelogs will explain smaller updates in more detail.
Core Experience
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Hybrid Feed - Hybrid Feed keeps updates, conversations, files, and live apps connected as people move through a space. The Hybrid Feed release details expand how people contribute and move through spaces.
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Spaces - Spaces give communities a shared home with subspaces, activities, membership, privacy, and clear ways to organize their work.
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About - Each space area can explain its purpose and surface useful activities, events, goals, updates, contributors, and onboarding content.
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Expo - Space owners and permitted members can curate published work into a showcase for easier discovery.
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Wiki - Maintainers can curate published articles into an expandable knowledge tree that follows their current Documents placement.
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Q&A - Members can browse questions for the selected space area, contribute rich answers, vote on their usefulness, and discuss each question or answer directly.
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Top Contributors - Members can discover leading contributors, understand their impact, and continue to their profiles or highlighted goals.
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Rules - Space owners can publish community rules, and members can read them whenever they need guidance.
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Roles - Space owners can create custom roles and set permissions for the whole space or individual subspaces and activities.
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Announcements - Coordinators can share official updates in a focused space feed, giving members a reliable place to catch up on important changes and decisions.
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Profiles - Profiles bring public identity, published work, earned Medals, saved content, and personal settings into one place.
Content And Publishing
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Articles - Authors can grow an idea from a private draft into a rich article with media, discussion, reliable autosave, and a focused feed summary.
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Q&A - Members can ask article-backed questions, rank rich answers with votes, and add short comments directly to a question or answer.
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Polls - Authors can add single-choice polls to articles, while members can vote from the feed, reading page, or meeting stage. The Polls release details cover creation and publication.
Communication
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Chat - Activity topics keep replies, mentions, attachments, reactions, drafts, and article handoffs close to the shared work. The Chat release details expand activity discussions and messaging.
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Direct Messages - Private one-to-one and group conversations support organized topics, file sharing, reactions, search, favorite and mute controls, and unread tracking.
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Meetings - Activity and direct-message calls offer audio, video, screen sharing, flexible layouts, invitations, and picture-in-picture alongside reactions and raised hands.
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Meeting live apps - Activity meetings can bring supported articles, polls, retrospectives, whiteboards, Canvas files, and Frames projects onto the shared stage.
Collaboration
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Whiteboards - Teams can sketch, diagram, plan, and connect existing work on a persistent canvas with live editing, comments, and meeting access.
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Goals - Flexible boards, backlogs, assignments, filters, and lasting references help teams plan active work and revisit completed goals.
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Docs - Documents keeps files and folders with articles and app work, while previews, bulk actions, chat sharing, and space permissions support everyday organization.
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Events - Coordinators can prepare and publish events with schedules and rich details, while members can respond and return to the discussion later. The Events release details follow the planning and publishing workflow.
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Retrospectives - Teams can reflect with Went Well, To Improve, and Action Items boards that update live and also work in meetings.
Creative Live Apps
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Canvas - Users can create layered image projects with painting, text and shapes, adjustments, local history, and meeting access, then reopen saved project files. The Canvas release details expand the layered editing experience.
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Blueprints - Users can build measured sketches and simple solid previews, save their design state, review drawings, and export an SVG sheet.
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Poly - Users can shape an early 3D scene with objects, materials, groups, display modes, local history, and partial GLTF export.
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Frames - Users can assemble clips, captions, audio, and review notes on a local video timeline, including on a meeting stage.
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Layouts - Users can sketch rooms, walls, openings, measurements, and notes, then export the visible plan as a PNG.
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MathPad - Users can build structured formulas visually, inspect their parts, export several text formats, and link accessible snapshots into articles.
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Current limits - Blueprints saves projects, while Poly, Frames, Layouts, and MathPad still keep important editing work only for the current session.
Discovery And Attention
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Search - Search finds spaces and people alongside posts, goals, events, documents, and conversations across Visual Space or within one space.
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Private results - Search opens results in context and keeps private spaces, areas, and direct messages hidden from people without access.
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Notifications - One in-app inbox groups important updates, opens the related work, and supports global preferences with space-level exceptions.
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Rankings - Top Contributors highlights sustained community work while excluding direct messages, time online, and private report details.
Abos And Boosts
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Abos - Free covers everyday participation, while Contributor and Coordinator add monthly Awards and assignable storage, and Coordinator unlocks planning, meetings, and collaborative apps.
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App packages - Designer Pack groups Whiteboard, Canvas and Poly while Engineer Pack groups Blueprints, Layouts and Poly, with supported apps also available separately.
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Boosts - Storage and upload Boosts benefit an assigned space and can be moved between joined spaces when needed.
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Award packs - One-time packs add 5, 10, or 20 permanent Awards that remain available until used.
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Space rules still apply - Paid access unlocks eligible tools but never replaces membership, privacy, ownership, or role permissions.
Awards And Medals
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Everyday Awards - Awards are spendable thanks for published work, public messages, meeting contributions, or whiteboard items. Space owners and members with Add awards permission give them from personal balances in areas they can access.
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Lasting Medals - Medals honor wider contributions with a certificate and message, making them lasting recognition rather than quick reactions. Space owners and members with Give medals permission grant them for eligible joined spaces, with a five-per-month limit per space. They cannot be purchased or taken from personal Award balances.
Safety And Moderation
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Members report - Members can report a post, choose the relevant Visual Space or community rule, add context, and receive a private confirmation.
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Space owners review - Space owners can see new and resolved reports for their own space, including pending reports beside the affected post.
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Authorized moderators - Permitted reviewers can inspect the case, add notes, and approve it without removal, remove the post, or mark it as spam.
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Current coverage - Posts have the complete reporting and review journey in this release, while other content types do not yet have the same coverage. The reporting and moderation release details explain how a report begins.