🚀 Overview

November was one of our biggest updates yet: bringing powerful improvements to brand guidelines, task workflows, authentication, comments, and overall daily usability.
From a redesigned brand guidelines editor to smarter session handling, threaded comments, and a more polished dashboard, everything now feels faster, clearer, and more reliable across Braandly.

💼 Project Management

We continued refining how teams manage and navigate their work:

• Added a Pinned Projects section for quick access to important work.

• Improved project dashboard layout, spacing, responsiveness, and header design.

• Enhanced project action handlers, menu positioning, and filter options for cleaner workflows.

• Updated project member roles with the new guest role and improved access control.

• Improved project creation limits and permission enforcement for workspaces.

• Enhanced shortlink previews, metadata, and handling to make project sharing more consistent.

✅ Task & Workflow Improvements

A major upgrade to tasks: with smoother visuals and more reliable interactions:

• Added a full task attachment system with better retries, optimistic updates, and safer deletion logic.

• Introduced threaded comments, parent/child support, and improved ordering for clearer conversations.

• Added priority indicators to task cards and extended optimistic priority updates across caches.

• Refined task navigation, layouts, and dropdown consistency for a more polished flow.

• Improved comment submission, rendering logic, uploader states, and session-based error handling.

• Enhanced task dashboard filters, sidebar options, and UI readability.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Team & Collaboration

Collaboration is now more secure, predictable, and flexible:

• Updated workspace and project roles, replacing “viewer” with guest for clearer team structure.

• Improved member permission handling across tasks, comments, and project management.

• Added member removal notification settings, allowing teams to choose when emails are sent.

• Improved comment access control, permission checks, and retrieval logic for safer collaboration.

• Refined member roles in backend responses and error messages for clarity.

🎨 Design & Interface Updates

This month included substantial UI consistency and visual improvements:

• Introduced new outline icon variants across the app for a more cohesive look.

• Added a minimal theme switch and improved button visibility when the sidebar is collapsed.

• Polished dark mode across inputs, search fields, dashboards, and coming-soon sections.

• Improved spacing, typography, and layout consistency in project dashboards and task views.

• Updated dashboard preview images for sharper and more consistent visuals.

🧰 Brand Guidelines & Identity Tools

A significant evolution for brand teams:

• We’ve started working a new Brand Guidelines Generator.

• Added backend support for updating existing brands through the AI generation service.

• Improved content structure and introduced clearer styling across guideline components.

✉️ Feedback, Support & Communication

Listening to users is easier than ever:

• Added a new Feedback Submission page with improved flow and mobile support.

• Implemented a backend feedback endpoint with email acknowledgments and admin notifications.

• Updated HelpDropdown across desktop and mobile for quicker access to support.

🔐 Authentication & Security

A major focus this month — making sign-in and session handling smarter and more reliable:

• Added session creation during signup and login for smoother transitions.

• Introduced proactive token refresh and improved refresh token parsing.

• Enhanced security for session cookies, including environment-aware cookie options.

• Implemented a more reliable session mismatch retry flow.

• Improved redirect logic for login, logout, and OTP flows.

⚙️ Performance & Stability

Under-the-hood improvements that make Braandly feel faster and more robust:

• Overhauled shortlink service with better previews, environment detection, and redirect handling.

• Improved Redis fallback logic, TTL management, and URL initialization for better caching.

• Added extensive environment logging, safer variable handling, and CORS improvements.

• Optimized image loading, spotlight effects, and performance on landing components.

• Cleaned up imports, removed unused code, and standardized icons for consistent performance.

🪄 At a Glance

❤️ Why This Matters

Braandly is becoming the central workspace for brand building — from strategy and guidelines to tasks and collaboration.
This month’s update strengthens the foundations: clearer navigation, smarter workflows, richer brand tools, and a more reliable backend to support the growing needs of creative teams.