It’s been a while since our last update, and we’ve made up for it. We’re now starting to leverage AI a bit more in our development process and have deployed a significant release that updates many under-the-hood layers of Crowdpurr, several billing bugs, along with adding some new features. This release will pave the way for many more rapid developments and features that will be released soon. Including many long-standing requests by our user-base.
NEW FEATURES
AI Bingo Generator - Bingo games can now be generated with AI, similar to trivia games. Free Basic Plan users can generate up to three games. All upgraded plans can generate unlimited AI bingo games. Bingo squares can also be AI generated on an existing bingo game from the Experience Dashboard. Crowdpurr’s AI integration has been updated as well to the current OpenAI frontier models, generating better and faster trivia and bingo.
Experience List Folders - Finally! You can now organize your experiences in the Experience List with folders. You can put folders within folders, re-arrange folders with experiences, and bulk select/remove experiences. Also, the Experience List is now paginated! Which is helpful for users with dozens and dozens of experiences.
Extended AI Writing Tools - For all upgraded users, new AI writing tools have been sprinkled about on the Experience Dashboard that greatly assist in writing trivia games:
Question - Improve Quality, Make Shorter, Make Longer
Question Note - Generate, Improve Writing, Make Shorter, Make Longer
Update Email Address - Users can now update their account’s email address autonomously without needing Crowdpurr support.
Minor Updates
New “Stadium Plan” - A new “Stadium” premium plan has been added that supports up to 15,000 simultaneous participants.
Billing - New Crowdpurr subscriptions now renew by default matching typical online services, with proper notices to inform the customer. Customers must now manually downgrade and complete a feedback form. Existing subscriptions are not affected.
Failed Payments - When a payment method fails for a renewal, users now get a permanent notification on the Upgrade page and on the My Account page to remind them to choose a new payment method or their account will be downgraded.
Bingo Square Sizing - The bingo square font sizing algorithm was updated across the app so bingo square text now resizes more legibly with better formatting.
Visual Updates - Minor visual updates to the Upgrade page (plan columns and upgrade pop-ups are easier to read), My Account → Profile page, and bingo card examples in Bingo Library.
Under-The-Hood Optimizations
Completely overhauled and optimized how the Participant View communicates with the server, going from cached methods to optimized pub/sub, greatly simplifying underlying code (this was a massive effort).
All remaining cached methods have a new “single flight” request coalescing that optimizes efficiency for stampede-prone methods. This removes the needs for “pre-warming” caches.
Upgraded how Crowdpurr micro-services communicate to a reliable/acknowledged pattern versus a “send and forget” pattern greatly improving reliability.
Internal framework version upgraded, upgraded multiple framework and npm packages, all methods renamed for consistency, and all HTTP error codes updated for conformity.
Removal of antiquated collection hooks code library (this was a massive effort).
Added a comprehensive test suite to all services of Crowdpurr including unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests. This will greatly improve reliability and added over 1200 tests to programmatically test nearly every function in the app (and was the largest effort of this update).
Security Improvements
Account verification tokens are now expired after twenty-four hours versus lasting indefinitely. After expiration, a new “Verify Account” email must be requested from the My Account page.
Fixed a bug where locked experiences could in fact be loaded on the Experience Dashboard.
Fixed a bug where published library experiences could be reset to their initial state causing their QR code to not allow users to join and play the game.
All method signatures app-wide updated to no longer allow a database modifier to be passed from the client.
BUG FIXES
Billing Bugs
Fixed a bug where a duplicate customer account with no subscription could get created in our billing back-end.
Fixed a bug where a customer could be charged twice and a second customer account gets created.
Fixed a bug when upgrading where lower-case promo codes would display as capitalized but submit in their actual typed case and fail to work.
Fixed a back-end billing bug where a used promo code would not increment the count for how many times it has been used.
Fixed a bug where an expired/canceled promo code could still be used when upgrading.
Fixed a bug where a user’s existing profile fields could get removed when upgrading.
Fixed a bug where a user with an ongoing promo code would not see the promo code reflected in the preview invoice of a future subscription (e.g. nonprofit promo code).
Fixed minor calculations in pricing on the Preview Invoice when upgrading.
Fixed a billing bug where a user could upgrade to a higher plan from an existing plan and only get charged a few cents. The same issue caused the Preview Invoice to display $0.00 as the upgrade price.
Experience Dashboard Bugs
Fixed a bug where upgraded yearly plan users were not getting their monthly email and SMS notification counts reset. This update immediately resets all counts and restores them back to their original schedule.
Fixed a bug where an experience could get a negative Participant Count set when resetting.
Fixed a bug where a set Automatic Start Time would not get cleared upon manually starting an experience.
Fixed a similar bug where an Automatic End Time would not get canceled upon manually restart/resetting an experience, causing it to randomly end.
Fixed a bug where enabling Fully Automatic Mode on an already active poll would not start Fully Automatic Mode.
Fixed a bug where enabling Advanced Team Mode on a bingo game would not copy the list of teams to linked Multi-Game Rankings bingo games.
Fixed numerous bugs with under-the-hood caches that affect rankings, live answer results, etc.
Presentation View Bugs
Fixed a bug where the Rankings Leaderboard could freeze while processing a high-volume of participants. Fixes the same issue on the Experience Dashboard as well.
Improved question font sizing and bingo square sizing.
Participant View Bugs
Fixed a bug where YouTube videos could fail due to the library failing to load. This also fixes the same issue on the Presentation View.
Fixed a bug where a Points Wager question could fail to display the points wagering form.
Fixed a bug where custom Bingo Card/Square colors were not displayed.
Fixed a bug where the Advanced Teams list could render empty and block sign-in if a participant already had a pre-existing team chosen.
Fixed minor internationalization errors.
Live Streaming Bugs
Fixed a bug where the live stream preview on the Experience Dashboard could stop working and no longer display a list of camera options to select.
Improved how Crowdpurr customer support can troubleshoot live streaming issues on a user’s Experience Dashboard.
This update fixes some bugs that made it out in 6.0.0.
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug that wasn’t allowing stock images to be uploaded to answer options and bingo squares.
Fixed a bug that wasn’t allowing any type of image to be removed from answer options and bingo squares.
Fixed a bug that added two “New” categories in the Trivia/Bingo Libraries and relocated the Trivia Library’s “Trending Pack” to the bottom of the normal categories list.
This update fixes some bugs that made it out in 6.0.0.
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug that caused Drag and Drop Order questions to not work correctly on the Participant View.
Fixed a related bug that was failing to display Multiple-Choice answer options’s letter prefix on the Participant View.
Fixed a bug where a submitted text-answer that didn’t match the correct answer’s case would be counted as correct but displayed as a non-matching submitted answer on the Participant View.
Fixed a bug that could cause live streams to freeze or go black on the Participant View until the browser was refreshed.
Fixed back-end logging connection issues due to an expired configuration.
This update fixes some bugs that made it out in 6.0.0.
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug that prevented the Presentation View from showing the points wagering interface on an active question with points wagering.
Fixed a bug that caused an added YouTube video on a question to restart on the Presentation View any time a participant joined or a vote was cast.
Fixed a bug that caused experiences to not load on the Experience Dashboard after an upgrade to the Stadium Plan. This bug also caused the upper-right plan badge to display “Basic” instead of “Stadium”.
Corrects a significant amount of back-end invisible issues from the 6.0.0 update and few last visible issues that users reported. Again, 6.0.0 was a major overhaul of several systems, so a few minor bugs were expected. We have added additional tests for many of the below issues to protect them in the future.
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug where every back-end APM error is reported as a generic Script error in addition to its actual error.
Experience Dashboard Bugs
Fixed a bug where the app failed to load entirely on legacy web browsers including embedded browsers in older smart TVs models.
Fixed a bug where the left/right keyboard shortcuts would render an empty tab after clicking on any tab (e.g. Experiences List, Bingo/Social Wall tabs, etc.)
Related to the above, fixed a bug where the left/right keyboard shortcuts stopped updating the active question on trivia games and polls after clicking on any tab but the Questions tab.
Fixed a bug when upgrading the first time or adding a new payment where not having a CVC code still allows the credit card form to be submitted.
Fixed a bug where if a user’s downgrade date gets extended, the user’s downgrade well on the Upgrade and Profile page would not reflect the updated downgrade date.
Fixed a bug where the Question Note editor could try saving an improperly validated value to the server and return a repeated blank server error instead of a client validation.
Fixed a back-end Can't select in removed DomRange APM error related to using an unguarded Tracker.afterFlush().
Fixed a back-end r.close is not a function APM error due to a missing check when closing notifications.
Fixed a bug where on an initial survivor trivia game, the rankings tab would show the wrong message instead of a “game hasn’t started” message.
Fixed a missed null user bug in the planExperienceLimit helper.
Fixed a bug where if a text/numerical-answer question has no correct answers added, the Results tab would render a broken view.
Fixed a null check in the experienceTypeItem global helper.
Fixed the Experience Dashboard skeleton loader to load the nav bars and not have empty space.
Added a new skeleton loader for the Experience List for a better loading experience.
Fixed a minor visual issue in the blog post loading skeleton on the Resources page.
Updated the Edit Question’s AI tool and icon to no longer cause a new line on long questions, which added unneeded space into the UI.
Presentation View Bugs
Fixed a bug where uploading a background image was not showing the image in the lower-right-corner configuration menu, and thus not allowing it to be removed.
Fixed a bug where a Drag and Drop Order question’s answers didn’t always sort into the correct order when Show Correct Answers is enabled.
Fixed a bug where where client errors are thrown (e.g. activeAutomaticDisabled) when an experience context momentarily isn’t present (e.g. deletion, Next Round, etc.)
Fixed the skeleton loader which was collapsing into a misconfigured layout.
Participant View Bugs
Fixed a critical bug where any participant that joins a Crowd Controlled Mode trivia game or poll gets a forever-loading first question when the experience is started, until they refreshed.
Fixed a critical bug that could cause a participant’s trivia/poll question to immediately gray out and not allow casting an answer.
Fixed a bug where a question’s timer bar and points countdown was not initializing when manually starting a question on the Experience Dashboard.
Fixed a bug that could allow a returning existing participant on a slow connection to join as a new participant, instead of a returning participant.
Added the Stadium Plan Help Center link on the Upgrade page.
Fixed a bug where a Crowdpurr admin would get an error when removing a user.
Experience Dashboard Bugs
Fixed a bug where submitted answers for Type-In Text/Numerical Questions were not showing their vote and percentage counts.
Fixed a bug in the Trivia/Bingo Library where searching for a multi-word phrase (e.g. The Lord of the Rings) would return matches on “the” and “lord” before exact-phrase matches on “The Lord of the Rings”. Now, the more logical exact phrase-match ranks first.
Fixed a bug when importing questions or bingo squares from a CSV, the first question’s answers (or bingo squares) would hang and load forever.
Fixed a bug where the search input was not being auto-focused in the image library pop-up when adding question/answer media.
Fixed a bug where dragging and dropping a file upload stopped working after canceling the question/answer media pop-up window.
Improved formatting/wrapping of all settings switches, labels, and help-icons specifically on Crowd Lead Capture Settings and all green-tab Settings switches.
Added a skeleton loader when using the AI Tools for a generating a question’s body.
Presentation View Bugs
Fixed a styling bug that caused the “12 answers” text inside answer options when enabling “Show Answer Results (A)” to render too large.
Fixed a bug in the lower-right configuration menu that always enabled “Show Multi-Game Rankings (M)” even when no additional experiences were added to the Multi-Game Rankings settings.
Fixed a minor bug in the positioning of the column titles on the lower-right configuration pop-up menu.
Participant View Bugs
Fixed a bug where enabling “Show Answer Results (A)” on a “Type-in Text/Numerical Answer” question would not show the answer results if a participant did not cast a vote.
Removed duplicate users from a 2021 bug that allowed duplicate user accounts to be created if they used the same email with different capitalization.
Experience Dashboard Bugs
Fixed a bug that could cause someone who previously streamed a significant length of time in the past to not be able to start a new live stream due to an expired stream publish token.
Fixed a bug where previously upgraded users that had previously live-streamed could fail to have their experiences upgraded to the intended plan after successfully upgrading. This also fixes users failing to downgrade properly for the same reason.
Fixed a bug where the “Disconnected/Reconnected” notification could duplicate stacked notifications.
Fixed a bug where the “Update Available” notification could display duplicate stacked notifications.
Fixed a bug where YouTube and Twitch could fail to load after clicking “Reload” on the “Update Available” notification.
Fixed a bug that displayed duplicate notifications when shutting down a live stream.
Improved the Trivia/Bingo Library search rankings algorithm for single-word searches (e.g. “oz” now ranks games higher with that exact word in the title (e.g “The Wizard of Oz”)).
Fixed a bug where a Crowdpurr admin could not see a user’s added Multi-Game Experiences or their Next Round experiences when viewing the Experience Dashboard during customer support services.
Presentation View Bugs
None for this update!
Participant View Bugs
Fixed a critical bug where the Convention Plan’s Lower Banner Ads were not displaying on the Sign-in and Participant Reset pages.
Fixed a critical bug where the Convention Plan’s Custom Pop-Up ads were not displaying.
Fixed a bug on the Sign In page where the greeting updates from “Enter a nickname…” to “Please complete the following fields.” (along with placeholder updates) after enabling additional Lead Capture fields beyond the Nickname.
Fixed a points wagering bug where if the wager window was closed without clicking Place Bet, the displayed points are wagered instead of zero points.
Fixed a bug where the upper-left-corner Points Wager badge always showed, versus after a wager is actually placed.
Fixed a bug where a previous question’s points wager amount could pollute the current question, especially in Crowd Controlled Mode.
Fixed a bug where the Points Wager time would start over after refreshing the browser window.
Fixed a bug where YouTube and Twitch could fail to load after an app update’s auto-refresh fired.
This update adds several new Social Wall features and greatly improves the performance of live streaming, YouTube, and Twitch video handling on the Participant View through a series of critical bug fixes.
NEW FEATURES
Download Social Wall Images - There is now a dedicated “Download Post Images” button added in two places (the new “Post Tools” tab on the Experience Dashboard → “Social Wall” tab and under the “Crowd Activity” tab). This triggers a build of a ZIP file containing all the Social Wall images. This is a huge improvement and has been requested by users for several years.
Social Wall Post Type - The type of allowed Social Wall post can now be set to Text, Images, Text or Images, and Text and Images. This allows the host greater flexibility to set which type of posts are allowed on the social. It’s one that has also been requested by users multiple times.
More Social Wall updates are on the way as well.
Minor Updates
Crowd Activity Social Wall Image Viewing - In the “Crowd Activity” tab of a Social Wall, you can now view any added images in a pop-up by clicking on the image.
Updated cross-app container memory settings to optimize container memory usage. Was previously over-paying for high memory containers that weren’t being accessed properly by app’s memory settings.
General Bugs
Fixes certain older versions of web browsers that could display a white screen or crash instead of loading the app.
Added a build step that runs a check if any newly added code would crash older browsers (e.g. LG Smart TVs, WebOS, Internet Explorer, etc.)
Experience Dashboard Bugs
Fixed a bug where button tooltips were not displaying if they were not on the originally loaded tab of the Experience Dashboard.
Fixed multiple minor non-user facing exceptions and bugs.
Participant View Bugs
Fixed a bug that could cause live streams to fail to load when returning to the browser window after navigating away/using another app on device.
Fixed a bug where the loading screen could get stuck during surges of participants joining when trying to download international language files upon joining an experience.
Fixed a critical series of bugs that were causing live streams, YouTube on-demand videos, and Twitch streams to refresh anytime a participant joined or a setting was updated from the Experience Dashboard. This could also cause sound effects, action effects, and other processes to re-run/refresh.
Updated live stream handling to now maintain an already running stream, when possible, after a user navigates away to view another browser tab, another app, sleeps the device, etc., versus defaulting to always reloading the stream.
Fixed a bug when pressing the unmute button while a live stream, YouTube, or Twitch video was still loading could cause an unpredictable mute/unmute functionality.
Fixed a bug where pressing submit on a Drag and Drop Reorder question immediately upon the question loading could cause it to not submit.
Improved reliability of image uploading on Social Walls.
Improved error validation message design when posting on Social Walls and answering Type-In Text/Numerical Question responses on Polls and Trivia Games.
Fixed multiple minor non-user facing exceptions and bugs.
Fixed a bug when starting a live stream and granting camera permissions, an error notification would appear and the stream preview would fail to appear until clicking “Initiate Dashboard Stream” again.
Improved handling of multiple camera sources when doing a Dashboard Stream from the Experience Dashboard.
Participant View Bugs
Fixed a critical bug where trivia games and polls in Crowd Controlled Mode were not advancing to the next question due to an update in the previous version and a test that was not updated.
Fixed a minor issue when a live stream or on-demand video loads, where is it would appear loading, then flash off, then re-appear with a top-down animation.
Version 6.1.0 - Updated “Write Your Own” Builder & Bug Fixes
Minor Updates
Write Your Own Builder - The Trivia Library has a new “Write Your Own” builder functionality that now accepts the count and type of blank questions to be added to a new trivia game. This tool can also be used to add blank questions to existing trivia games from the Experience Dashboard’s “Question Tools” → “Trivia Library” button. This new tool is much clearer than the older pre-made template games which caused confusion about question counts and where/when to edit blank questions.
General Bugs
Fixes a bug across the app that could cause tooltips to hang forever in the interface.
Experience Dashboard Bugs
Fixed a critical edge-case bug on the Experience Dashboard and Presentation View that could calculate total correct questions, percentage, and points rankings incorrectly for participants in rare cases where a participant joins a trivia/bingo game and then responds immediately. The Crowd Activity tab and its CSV export, and participant devices, would all display the correct rankings stats, while the Presentation View and Experience Dashboard’s Rankings tab and CSV exports displayed incorrectly. This update also repaired all instances where this error occurred.
Sign in with Google - New users can now create an account using their Google account by clicking “Sign in with Google”, similar to “Log in with Facebook”.
Experience Dashboard Bugs
Fixed a bug when a user’s upgraded plan renews but the payment fails, upon adding an updated payment, the user could create a new upgraded plan but would also be charged for their failed renewal.
Greatly improved handling of renewing subscriptions that have failing payments. Notifications are now shown in multiple pages that the account is overdue and will cancel. Updating the payment method automatically renews the existing subscription. Not updating within three days cancels the susbcription.
Added guards to prevent multiple subscriptions from being charged. Now enforces only one subscription per account at a time.
Fixed a minor bug where after upgrading and clicking “Create Experiences”, users could see the Create Experiences page scrolled halfway down, instead of at the top, causing users to inadvertently create Polls instead of Trivia Games.
Presentation View Bugs
Fixed a bug where the Greek international language setting was incorrectly displaying variable names instead of Greek translations.
Participant View Bugs
Fixed a critical bug that could allow participants joining an experience to incorrectly create multiple participant accounts in the process of trying to sign in to an overly crowded experience and/or when the servers are experiencing heavy traffic.
The Participant View now protects against multiple cases like browser refreshing, tab-switching, device-sleeping, etc. when signing in to an experience, so that the sign-in is restored upon returning to the sign-in page of the experience.
Fixed a bug where the Greek international language setting was incorrectly displaying variable names instead of Greek translations.
This update is mostly internal under-the-hood improvements that adjust memory settings, database indexes, and log-outputs to better tune performance under high-participant loads.
Participant View Bugs
Fixed a minor bug when a participant joins a trivia game experience that is already finished and showing its final rankings, they were unable to see the game’s final rankings on initial load.
This update fixes a few critical bugs and adds some design polish in a few places.
Experience Dashboard Bugs
Updated the design of the Custom URL tab for users lower than the Conference Plan.
Updated the Countdown Timer, Schedule Start Time, and Schedule End Time settings to have a small trashcan button that quickly clears the saved value.
Live streaming with OBS no longer requires a custom version of OBS. Updated copy in app to reflect this (and Help Center article Connect OBS to Crowdpurr Streaming).
Updated the copy/paste OBS stream keys to now only use a single key pre-formatted in the required pattern for OBS.
Fixed a minor bug in the Trivia Library where Drag n Drop Order questions’ answers were rendering with duplicate star icons. Now displays numerical icons to denote correct ordering.
Fixed CSS breakpoint issues that could cause a jumbled layout at certain width resolutions.
Minor design and layout improvements.
Participant View Bugs
Fixed a critical bug introduced in 6.1.1 that was preventing newly added Custom URLs from resolving correctly prior to their activation.
Fixed a critcial bug that could prevent a question from loading if a participant signs back into an experience.
This update fixes a critical issue related to question tabs getting corrupted on polls and trivia games.
Experience Dashboard Bugs
Fixed a critical issue where if Sync to Tabs was disabled and all questions are removed, adding new questions via the Trivia Library could cause the Question tab order to become corrupted and behave unpredictably. This bug affected the Presentation View and the Participant View when question ordering gets corrupted.
Fixed a similar issue that could occur from simply adding new questions using the Trivia Library from an existing trivia game’s Experience Dashboard after previously removing all of the questions.
Fixed an issue where when adding new questions on an existing, already run, trivia game using the Trivia Library, any votes cast on existing questions would be displayed on an incorrect question in the Question Rankings tab.
Repaired all existing instances of the question corruption bug across all polls and trivia games.
TriviaLibrary.com - Introducing a new service from Crowdpurr that compliments Crowdpurr’s Trivia Library… TriviaLibrary.com. You can now download pen-and-paper versions of every Crowdpurr trivia and bingo game in PDF, DOCX, and PPTX (Power Point Presentation) format. In case you want to run Crowdpurr’s games offline. Every game in the trivia and bingo library has a link to its downloadable version on TriviaLibrary.com. This a new paid service, separate from Crowdpurr. This version is still in beta and being tested.
Minor Updates
Login with Crowdpurr - Adds the ability to log into trivialibrary.com directly from Crowdpurr. Just click the “Login with Crowdpurr” button on trivialibrary.com’s sign-in page.
Experience Dashboard Bugs
Fixed a critical issue when a user updates their email (or an admin updates it) the process could cause delays and block the performance of the app for other users.
Fixed a critical bug where moving a bingo square could cause unpredictable ordering of other bingo squares and disables all future drag n’ drop moving on that bingo game. This update also repairs all bingo games affected by this issue.
Fixed a bug that could cause a bingo game’s Game Tools → Shuffle, Reset, and Import Squares functions to cause a bingo game’s squares ordering to become unpredictable
Fixed a bug when editing bingo squares, pressing the TAB keyboard shortcut could have unpredictable results. It now navigates down the column of bingo squares correctly.
Minor visual updates.
Participant View Bugs
Fixed a critical bug where pressing Show Correct Answer (C) on a Type-in Text/Numerical Answer question without pressing Show Live Answer Results (A) first would not show the correct answer, would not indicate the % who answered correctly, and would show a “no responses” received message.
Fixed a minor issue where a live stream would layer over top of confirmation pop-ups (e.g. when voting).
Fixed a bug that could cause a live stream to not reload when navigating away from the browser window on a mobile device (e.g. sleeping phone, different browser tab or app).
Fixed a bug that could cause a live stream’s mute button to display the wrong state when returning to an experience with an active live stream that needs to reload.
Improved loading feedback when returning to a live stream that needs to reconnect. A loader is now displayed instead of a missing stream or a frozen frame.
Fixed a critical bug that was causing the Webex integration to no longer launch its meeting control buttons in Webex.
Fixed a bug where the bingo library was reporting some bingo games as having “NaN” questions.
Participant View Bugs
Fixed a critical bug that allowed returning participants to immediately join and cast votes on newly joined experiences before they were fully added to the experience on the server, which could cause an error if the participant quickly cast a response. Returning participants now hold on the sign-in page until fully added to a new experience.
Fixed a critical bug where the rankings leaderboard would display “NaN” for all players for any trivia games using Percentage Correct Mode mode.
Fixed a bug where participants in a Crowd Controlled game using Percentage Correct Mode saw their final score drop to 0% after refreshing the page.
Fixed a bug where a Question Note would not display in Crowd Controlled Mode when Automatically Show Question Note is enabled and a participant does not respond to the question.
Fixed a bug where in a Quiz Mode bingo game with Allow Unlimited Square Marking disabled, after marking an incorrect bingo square, and then having a square called that is on a participant’s card, if the host enabled Show Rankings Leaderboard, after returning from the rankings the participant would be blocked from calling a square that they had on their card (CPDV-658).
Fixed a bug that would cause a bingo card to reload for several seconds every time the Rankings Leaderboard was displayed and then turned off. This fix also removes the bingo card loading when first joining a bingo game and moves the wait to when the participant is signing in.
AI Bingo Generator - Bingo games can now be generated with AI, similar to trivia games. Free Basic Plan users can generate up to three games. All upgraded plans can generate unlimited AI bingo games. Bingo squares can also be AI generated on an existing bingo game from the Experience Dashboard. Crowdpurr’s AI integration has been updated as well to the current OpenAI frontier models, generating better and faster trivia and bingo.
Experience List Folders - Finally! You can now organize your experiences in the Experience List with folders. You can put folders within folders, re-arrange folders with experiences, and bulk select/remove experiences. Also, the Experience List is now paginated! Which is helpful for users with dozens and dozens of experiences.
Extended AI Writing Tools - For all upgraded users, new AI writing tools have been sprinkled about on the Experience Dashboard that greatly assist in writing trivia games:
Update Email Address - Users can now update their account’s email address autonomously without needing Crowdpurr support.
New “Stadium Plan” - A new “Stadium” premium plan has been added that supports up to 15,000 simultaneous participants.
Billing - New Crowdpurr subscriptions now renew by default matching typical online services, with proper notices to inform the customer. Customers must now manually downgrade and complete a feedback form. Existing subscriptions are not affected.
Failed Payments - When a payment method fails for a renewal, users now get a permanent notification on the Upgrade page and on the My Account page to remind them to choose a new payment method or their account will be downgraded.
Visual Updates - Minor visual updates to the Upgrade page (plan columns and upgrade pop-ups are easier to read), My Account → Profile page, and bingo card examples in Bingo Library.
Under-The-Hood Optimizations
Security Improvements
Experience Dashboard Bugs
Presentation View Bugs
Participant View Bugs
Live Streaming Bugs
Download Social Wall Images - There is now a dedicated “Download Post Images” button added in two places (the new “Post Tools” tab on the Experience Dashboard → “Social Wall” tab and under the “Crowd Activity” tab). This triggers a build of a ZIP file containing all the Social Wall images. This is a huge improvement and has been requested by users for several years.
Write Your Own Builder - The Trivia Library has a new “Write Your Own” builder functionality that now accepts the count and type of blank questions to be added to a new trivia game. This tool can also be used to add blank questions to existing trivia games from the Experience Dashboard’s “Question Tools” → “Trivia Library” button. This new tool is much clearer than the older pre-made template games which caused confusion about question counts and where/when to edit blank questions.
Sign in with Google - New users can now create an account using their Google account by clicking “Sign in with Google”, similar to “Log in with Facebook”.
Login with Crowdpurr - Adds the ability to log into