We’ve been hard at work bringing you new features, exciting improvements, and essential fixes to make managing your links, biolinks, and QR codes even more powerful and user-friendly. This latest release is packed with updates designed to give you more control, better customization, and streamlined workflows.
Here’s a look at what’s new and improved:
✨ New Implementations
We’ve added a host of brand new capabilities to enhance your url.rw experience:
- Expanded QR Code Customization: Get ready to make your QR codes truly unique and on-brand!
- We’ve implemented:
- +18 new QR code styles: Explore a wider variety of visual patterns for the core of your QR code.
- +14 new QR code inner eye styles: Customize the appearance of the inner squares in the corners of your QR code.
- +3 new QR code outer eye styles: Choose from more options for the outer rings of the corner squares.
- +11 new QR frame designs: Add stylish borders and backgrounds to make your QR codes stand out.
- New Header Block for Biolink Pages: Give your biolink pages a stunning first impression. The new header block allows you to add a custom Image, Gif, or even a YouTube video as a cover, along with your avatar, creating a more dynamic and engaging introduction for your audience.
- Exclude IPs from Link Tracking: Gain cleaner, more accurate link statistics. You now have the ability to exclude specific IP addresses (like your office or development team’s IPs) from being tracked, preventing internal testing or bot traffic from skewing your data for the entire account.
- Inline Image Cropping: Uploading images just got easier! A new image cropping tool has been integrated throughout the product wherever image uploads are available, allowing you to perfectly frame your visuals before they are used.
- One-Click Statistics Reset: Need to start fresh with your link data? You can now fully reset the statistics for any individual link with a single click – ideal for restarting tracking after a promotional period or significant change.
- Aliexpress App Deep Linking Support: Improve the mobile shopping experience for your audience. We’ve added support for App deep linking specifically for Aliexpress, ensuring users are directed seamlessly to the product within the Aliexpress mobile app if they have it installed.Custom Meta
- Descriptions for URL Cloaking: Take control of how your cloaked links appear when shared. You can now set custom meta descriptions for links using the URL Cloaking system, which is essential for SEO and managing link previews on social media and search results.
- Bulk Short URL Generation: Save significant time when creating multiple short links. We’ve implemented a new feature that allows you to generate many short URLs in bulk, perfect for large marketing campaigns, tracking multiple sources, or generating unique links for a list.
🚀 Key Improvements
We’ve refined existing features based on your feedback to provide a smoother, more effective experience:
- Improved QR Code Generation Form: The form for generating QR codes has been visually improved, making it easier and more intuitive to select and combine the various styles, inner eyes, and outer eyes for your custom designs.
- Enhanced Twitch Biolink Block: Streamers rejoice! The Twitch biolink block now supports embedding both Clips and Videos, allowing you to showcase more of your content directly on your biolink page.
- More Accurate A/B Targeting Randomization: For those utilizing A/B testing and targeting with shortened URLs, we’ve improved the randomization accuracy to ensure more reliable and statistically sound test results.
- Refined Biolink Verified Page Message: The message displayed on verified biolink pages has been improved for clarity, and we’ve added a direct link to the contact page (if enabled) to make it easier for visitors to reach out.
- Better Biolink Theme Selector: The biolink theme selector now features faded margins, providing a clearer visual indication that there are more themes available to scroll through.
- Streamlined Biolink Block Creation: We’ve improved the Image Slider, FAQ, and Timeline biolink blocks to allow you to add primary data (like images, questions/answers, or timeline events) right at the moment of creation, speeding up the building process.
- Duplicatable Image Slider Block: Building out image galleries on your biolink just got faster. You can now easily duplicate the Image Slider block, making it simple to create multiple galleries or variations with minimal effort.
- Font Awesome Library Upgrade: We’ve upgraded the Font Awesome library to the latest 6.7.2 version, giving you access to an expanded collection of icons to use throughout the platform for even greater customization.
🐞 Bug Fixes
As always, we’ve squashed various bugs and addressed underlying issues to ensure the platform remains stable, fast, and reliable for all users.
We are constantly working to improve url.rw and appreciate your continued support and feedback.
Log in to your dashboard today to explore all these new features and improvements!
