Minnit Blog

Hello everyone — if you’re in the US like myself, I hope you’ve had a happy Thanksgiving! Today I am pleased to announce version 4.0 of our WordPress plugin is now released. This features major improvements both to the functionality and design of the plugin. Chat icon changed First and foremost, the chat icon has… Continue reading Version 4.0 of our WordPress Plugin has arrived!

Hello everyone! Today, we’re pleased to announce that Email Notifications are now available. Just like Push Notifications released earlier this year, Email Notifications will ensure you never miss a message. You can set up the following notification types: Notifications are easy to setup. Click the Gear icon in the chat, then click Notifications. You can… Continue reading You’ve got mail! Email Notifications are here 📫

Hello everyone. Today we’re offering another much-requested feature: Webhooks. Webhooks will allow Minnit to send a request to a URL on your website when an action is performed in your chatroom. Currently, these actions are sending a message, user joining, and user leaving. You can use this to generate real-time statistics, perform an action on… Continue reading Hooked on Webhooks

Hello everyone. Today, we’re pleased to announce the launch of a much-requested feature: The ability to create an allowlist, or a blocklist, of who is allowed to start a conversation from within your Organization. On the chat level, you have long been able to restrict certain chatrooms so that Direct Messages are disabled altogether, and… Continue reading Control who can start conversations in your Organization

Hello everyone. This has been quite the month for Minnit! We’ve deployed many new and exciting updates for our users to help make the chatting experience for you and your users even better. I wanted to go over all of the features outlined on our social media, and also discuss a few new features and… Continue reading Minnit Chat — All of our updates for July 2023!

Hello folks! 👋 As discussed last month, the redesigned chatting experience has been well underway for quite awhile. And now, we’re beginning to roll this out to a variety of chatrooms — so far, over one hundred active chats have had the design manually applied, with a broader rollout expected soon. I wanted to go… Continue reading The redesigned chat experience is arriving

Hello everyone. Earlier this year, we released a redesigned set of emoji, to help modernize our platform and make the chat work more efficiently. The new emoji, rendered via SVG, look crisp and perfect no matter what type of display, zoom level, or devices you use. Although change is never easy, many owners agree that… Continue reading Preview Minnit’s new chatting experience

Hello everyone. One year ago, we launched the ability for users to Boost your chat. This allows your community to help pitch in and fund your chatroom, and, in return, get some cool perks, such as the ability to upload their own emoji, an animated rocket rank shape, guaranteed access to connect to the chat… Continue reading Boost-exclusive shop items have arrived! 🚀

Often times we get users requesting assistance with a forgotten password, since they did not supply a valid email address during the sign up process, making it difficult, if not impossible, to regain access. Adding a verified email is a great way to secure your account and ensure you can always access it. To help… Continue reading Can you keep (your account) a secret? 🤐

Hello everyone. We’ve recently added the ability to create long-term polls in your chatroom. These polls will appear at the top of the chat, above the messages view. Similar to polls attached to a message, users can click to vote in the poll, and immediately watch as the voting results change. What makes the new… Continue reading Long-term polls