🚀 User Interface Enhancements

### Message Composition - Rich Text Editor Polish - Redesigned agent chat and main chat text editors with improved layout - Added dedicated submit buttons for both chat interfaces - Implemented dynamic clip icon positioning across different editor contexts - Enhanced text area to dynamically grow while typing

Modal and Interaction Improvements

• Smarter Modal Interactions
  • Introduced ‘click outside to close’ functionality for modal windows
  • Resolved focus routing issues, especially in Safari
  • Improved message editing experience, fixing image attachment workflows

URL and Linking

• Advanced URL Handling
  • Enhanced autolinking to support more complex domain scenarios
  • Fixed edge cases with trailing slashes and path variations
  • Improved link detection and rendering across the platform

📱 Mobile App Refinements

Performance and Stability

• Sentry Error Tracking
  • Fully integrated Sentry for comprehensive iOS error monitoring
  • Improved crash reporting and diagnostics
• Navigation and Persistence
  • Resolved cold start room context preservation
  • Fixed mobile web navigation control issues in Safari
  • Streamlined workspace settings and profile link functionality

🔧 Infrastructure and Backend Improvements

Authentication and Integration

• OneSignal Push Notifications
  • Initiated advanced push notification integration
  • Implemented flexible external ID management
  • Developed robust CORS and authentication strategies
• Desktop App Enhancements
  • Added manual update checking functionality
  • Optimized last_sort_order event broadcasting
  • Improved multi-window management logic

🎨 Design System Evolution

Workspace Customization

• Role and Personalization
  • Advanced workspace role management UI design
  • Explored custom emoji and avatar customization options
  • Implemented timezone preference at user level

🔍 Performance Optimizations

• Refined message rendering and grouping algorithms
• Improved Safari-specific rendering and interaction handling
• Enhanced text composition and message display responsiveness

Continuous improvement, one feature at a time.

Push Notifications

• Integrated OneSignal SDK
• Implemented user creation and deletion workflows
• Developed communication-style notifications with avatars
• Created push notification routing system

Desktop App Improvements

• Enhanced Electron window focus and event handling
• Implemented multi-window support
• Fixed top interaction deadzone issues
• Improved app signing and version management

Notification System

• Advanced mention detection with contextual awareness
• Implemented 5-second delay for intelligent notifications
• Created importance-based notification filtering
• Developed outer dispatching layer for notifications

File and Upload Management

• Implemented 10-file upload limit
• Added clear UI feedback for upload errors
• Improved file upload error state handling
• Enhanced media pipeline with file extension tracking

Performance and UI

• Optimized channel loading speed
• Implemented caching mechanisms
• Refined text wrapping and responsiveness
• Improved editor persistence across chat contexts

Mobile Enhancements

• Continued scrolling and UI responsiveness improvements
• Added staff debug mode for diagnostics
• Explored Sentry integration for mobile error tracking

Mobile Development

• Investigated and fixed mobile message submission issues
• Addressed UI rendering problems with screen cutoff on iOS
• Explored robust offline state implementation
• Improved mobile app routing and deployment processes

Notifications and Mentions

• Began development of advanced profile mention system
• Implemented ULID-based mention ID generation
• Created context-sensitive notification mechanisms
• Developed importance-based mention filtering

Design and UI

• Refined homepage circle SVG design
• Explored breakout summary interface layouts
• Updated sidebar and channel interaction designs
• Improved media upload and attachment interfaces

Technical Infrastructure

• Generated App Store Connect API team key
• Investigated build signing processes for Electron Forge
• Explored WebSocket connection security
• Worked on Rails data migration processes

Workspace Management

• Addressed edge cases with workspace channel deletion
• Improved workspace routing and error handling

User Interface Improvements

• Redesigned agent tool use blocks with updated visual styling
• Improved media attachment handling and thumbnail display
• Fixed paperclip icon positioning in attachment interfaces
• Enhanced dropzone functionality across agent chat and channel interfaces

Editor and Messaging Enhancements

• Resolved list item rendering issues in message posting
• Fixed Enter key functionality in quoted messages
• Added ability to remove attachments when editing messages
• Improved focus management after file selection

Performance Optimizations

• Accelerated channel loading speed
• Reduced unnecessary media attachment preloading
• Optimized sidebar and channel selector scrolling

Bug Fixes

• Corrected first character dropping in list items
• Addressed dropzone interaction bugs between agent chat and channels
• Improved handling of deleted agent chats and messages
• Fixed unread indicators compatibility with deleted messages

Infrastructure Improvements

• Enhanced agent chat panel interactions
• Improved new channel form synchronization
• Refined header title CSS and overall layout

User Experience

• Added better error handling for media dropzone interactions
• Improved overall message editing and attachment management

Product Development

• Implemented Breakout Channels with advanced interaction management
• Added functionality to store and display room details in breakout open/close announcements

User Interface Improvements

• Enhanced dropzone element handling across different pages
• Refined mobile UI and submit/send button interactions
• Improved error display mechanisms for tool interactions

Technical Refinements

• Fixed rendering issues with tool error displays
• Addressed page scrolling problems with dropzone elements
• Continued work on optimizing channel and room interactions

Bug Fixes

• Resolved critical error in agent chat message tool call rendering
• Addressed unexpected UI rendering behaviors in agent chat interfaces

Infrastructure

• Continued work on improving system error handling and reporting
• Enhanced frontend component stability and error management

Ongoing Improvements

• Fine-tuned emoji synchronization processes
• Continued exploration of UI architectural approaches

Performance & Infrastructure

• Switched from ActionCable to AnyCable for improved real-time communication
• Implemented Redis-based session storage for more robust session management
• Optimized channel navigation to reduce message flashing and improve rendering stability

Email & Communication

• Resolved email deliverability issues for [email protected] by upgrading to Mailgun
• Improved email template language to reduce spam detection

User Interface Improvements

• Fixed mobile page icon display using Tailwind classes
• Addressed scroll behavior when sending messages
• Implemented #channel mention entities for easier navigation
• Improved channel chiclets design

Bug Fixes

• Corrected emoji rendering bug with ‘:)’ shortcode
• Fixed an unexpected formatting issue when pasting text
• Resolved a TypeError in text editor functionality
• Prevented summary popup flash during message sending

Developer Experience

• Enhanced workspace search tool summary message filtering
• Improved overall message stream performance and sorting

Media & Attachment Handling

• Implemented comprehensive media upload pipeline supporting multiple file types
  • Added processing for PDF, GIF, and complex image formats like HEIC
  • Transcoding for many video and audio file types
  • Created lambda-based variant generation for thumbnails
  • Migrated legacy ActiveStorage attachments to custom media attachment system
  • Added secure JWT-based validation for secure client-side file uploads

AI and Agent Chat Improvements

• Enhanced PDF handling in agent chats
  • Developed full PDF content reading capability (beyond first page) via download media agent tool
  • Improved AI content analysis for multiple file types
• Enhanced video handling in agent chats
  • Supply “storyboard” to agent for visual overview of full video

Infrastructure Updates

• Migrated primary domain from synthetictraffic.com to output.app
  • Updated GSuite configuration
  • Set up Mailgun email services

Performance and Security

• Resolved internal errors in file processing pipeline
• Fixed agent chat index display to show correct conversations
• Added content-disposition header for uploaded attachments

Emoji and Rendering

• Improved emoji rendering quality
  • Fixed blurry emoji display at 64px resolution
  • Added missing emoji PNG files

Platform Optimization

• Refined search and summary generation tool usage
• Improved internal tooling for content processing and display

Infrastructure and Domain Strategy

• Subdomain Routing Implementation
  • Transitioned to root domain-based routing (output.app)
  • Developed mechanisms for workspace and agent chat URL handling
  • Explored complex redirect and navigation challenges
  • Prepared for multi-tenant infrastructure with domain-level separation

Rich Text Editing Breakthrough

• Implemented advanced Tiptap/Prosemirror rich text editor with comprehensive features
  • Native undo/redo functionality integrated
  • Custom emoji generation for messages
  • Improved markdown-like formatting support
  • Enhanced link handling and text transformation

Mobile Development Progress

• iOS Development Enhancements
  • Explored Hotwire’s UINavController for improved navigation
  • Investigated redirect and routing mechanisms
  • Prepared mobile app for TestFlight beta testing
  • Refined iOS app interaction and user experience

Web Platform Refinements

• Text Editor and Interaction Improvements
  • Simplified typing focus behavior
  • Implemented custom extensions for markdown-style formatting
  • Enhanced emoji handling and rendering
  • Improved keyboard interaction and routing

Development Workflow

• Continued transition from previous branding to Output
• Preparing for public beta and platform launch
• Iterative improvements to communication platform capabilities

Our team remains committed to creating a seamless, intuitive communication experience through continuous refinement and thoughtful design.

Key Highlights 🚀

• Richdown Text Editor Launch: Deployed a revolutionary text editing experience powered by Tiptap, bringing advanced markdown, formatting, and emoji support to our platform
• Agent Chat Evolution: Implemented comprehensive sharing capabilities, making collaboration and communication more seamless than ever
• Workspace Navigation Refinement: Continued improving our Electron app’s multi-workspace support and overall user experience

Detailed Improvements

App Stability Enhancements

• Implemented Prosemirror’s native undo/redo history management
• Prevented unintended history preservation after message sending
• Simplified Tailwind class management to reduce potential rendering conflicts
• Added more robust error handling for message composition and editing

Text Editing

• Implemented advanced markdown and formatting capabilities
• Added native Prosemirror support for enter/line break handling
• Integrated custom emoji extensions

Agent Chat

• Merged Pull Request #80 for advanced chat sharing
• Refined button interactions and sharing UI
• Improved cross-platform chat functionality

Electron App

• Pushed new staging build with multi-workspace navigation
• Improved workspace switching and UI responsiveness
• Optimized rendering of complex UI components

Infrastructure & Design

• Updated emoji CDN to stdout.host
• Configured production and staging asset hosts
• Continued exploration of domain names (favoring output.app)

A week of significant progress in making our communication platform more intuitive, powerful, and user-friendly!

📅 Smarter Message Timestamps

• Added day and date next to message summaries (e.g. ‘Thursday 03/28/25’)
• Helps users quickly understand message chronology without manual calculation

🔔 Improved Channel Member Notifications

• Automatically generate announcement messages when new members join a channel
• Includes direct links to new member profiles for instant team connection

📱 Mobile Experience Enhancements

• Fixed critical mobile layout bug causing unwanted zoom on input fields
• Ensures consistent text size and prevents accidental interface interactions

🤖 Advanced Agent Chat Capabilities

• Created new tools allowing AI agents to directly manage channel memberships
• Streamline team organization through conversational channel creation
• Example: Users can now say “Create a CX channel and add Minsuk”

🔍 Performance and Reliability Upgrades

• Debugged and resolved LLM (Language Model) error handling
• Prevents system errors during AI-powered message summaries
• Improves overall stability of automated communication features

🔜 Coming Soon

• Investigating push notification solutions
• Exploring workflow automation tools to further streamline team communication

Continuous improvements, powered by your feedback.

🚀 New Features and Improvements

Workspace and Channel Management

• Implemented advanced workspace role management
  • Added admin-only member removal capabilities
  • Prevented last admin from leaving workspace
  • Created dedicated channel leave endpoint
• Enhanced channel interaction models
  • Moved ‘Join Channel’ button to top action bar
  • Added support for public/private channel distinctions
  • Improved channel membership management

Rich Text and Markdown

• Upgraded markdown rendering capabilities
  • Auto-linkified markdown links in memos
  • Enhanced memo text formatting
  • Improved MDX rich text editor functionality
• Fixed multiline content text wrapping issues

Performance and Infrastructure

• Optimized daily channel summary job
  • Now handles unsummarized days across channels
  • Improved backfilling of historical data
• Refined profile and user preloading mechanisms
• Dropped legacy timestamp and message hide fields

🛠 Technical Improvements

Backend Enhancements

• Improved database query efficiency
• Enhanced enum and scope query methods
• Cleaned up deprecated data fields

Frontend Refinements

• Cleaned up Tippy tooltips
• Improved conditional rendering for profiles
• Enhanced UI responsiveness

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Resolved issues with timestamp sorting
• Fixed context menu interactions
• Improved error handling in summary creation
• Prevented potential last-admin workspace lockout scenarios

Next Steps

• Continue refining workspace and channel interactions
• Further improve markdown and rich text capabilities
• Ongoing performance and UI/UX optimization

🚀 Overall Project Progress

Last week, the team made significant advancements across Echo’s ecosystem, focusing on specific UI/UX improvements, infrastructure enhancements, and tooling integrations.

ECHO Project Developments

🎨 UI and Design Improvements

• Flipped summary message detail view order for better pagination (ECHO-186, commit 7bffb34)
• Implemented CSS to hide untitled agent chats in index view (ECHO-165)
  • Specifically uses CSS display: none for untitled chats
  • Maintains navigation accessibility
• Fixed mobile UI image width stretching issue (ECHO-116)
• Stylized Echo output design (ECHO-109)
• Added max-width (max-w-2xl) for code and pre elements to improve readability (commit ec2f0ea)

🤖 Agent and Chat Features

• Added ‘Summarize Day’ functionality (ECHO-83)
  • Create new AgentChat thread when summary requested
  • Attach all messages from selected day
  • Dynamically generate summaries
• Refined agent chat title generation (commit 9276a58)
  • Only regenerate titles for specific user requests
  • Prevents unnecessary title mutations

🛠 Infrastructure and Tools

• Integrated Notion workspace read tool (ECHO-157)
• Developed GitHub integration tools (ECHO-182)
  • Added Octokit for GitHub client
  • Implemented organization and repository collaboration queries
• Reorganized tool documentation dynamically (commit c6fb413)
• Resolved runaway job queue configuration issues (ECHO-162)
  • Fixed retry configuration during exception handling

Desktop Project (DESK)

🖥 Desktop Application

• Moved desktop app signing to synthetic organization (DESK-2)
• Added Sentry for application monitoring (DESK-4)
• Excluded /healthz from SSL redirect (commit 260b7e5)

Mobile Project (MOB)

📱 Mobile Development

• Completed Turbo Native initial setup (MOB-1)
• Implemented environment switching solution (MOB-2)

GitHub and External Integrations

🔗 Development Tools

• Added GitHub Personal Access Token with organization access (commit e194ebf)
• Integrated Octokit for programmatic GitHub interactions (commit 6b7155f)
• Migrated input schemas to JSON format for better type safety (commit 2d1e4fa)

🔧 System Improvements

• Updated dependencies, including Babel helpers to v7.26.10
• Improved error display mechanisms (commit 8b3590e)

Technical Debt and Optimization

• Cleaned up old data after workspace migrations (ECHO-96)
• Refined summary processing logic (commit a894963)

Key Metrics: - Projects Touched: 3 (Echo, Desktop, Mobile) - Linear Tickets Closed: 11 - GitHub Commits: 20+ - Focus Areas: Precise UI improvements, infrastructure integration, tooling refinement