We’ve released a series of performance improvements to the search experience throughout Orbit.

Using the search bar in the header now feels much faster—allowing you to find specific members in an instant.

In addition to the performance improvements, it is now possible to search for a member’s —useful for members who you know by their personal blog! You can still search for names, email addresses, usernames, and organizations.

We want to empower every customer-facing member of the organizations who use Orbit with as much robust context as possible. We know that every click is an action that takes time, and can cost money. So we built the Orbit browser extension.

With it, .

You can give it a try in the Chrome webstore, read more on the Orbit blog, or check out the open source repository on GitHub!

Over the past few months, Twitter has made numerous changes to its API, both in terms of capabilities as well as how they charge for API access. To put it mildly, the specific implementation, impact, and timing of these changes have not been well communicated in advance and we are reacting in real time as best we can.

Unfortunately, the most recent pricing changes have severe impacts on how Orbit currently leverages its API on behalf of our users. Their previously open and completely free API allowed us to offer our Twitter integration on all plans, including our Free tier.

However, these changes mean we need to revise the way we integrate with Twitter and what we can offer you, our users.

Right now, our team is working to roll out an updated Twitter integration that takes into account the changes. Unfortunately, we will need to deprecate the existing integration first, and there will be an interim period without Twitter support in Orbit (more details below).

The good news is that once the transition is complete, we should be able to recover any Twitter data “missed” during the interim period.

Here’s what that means:

The new integration will require manual configuration steps and could cost an additional $100 per month, per Twitter's new API pricing.

🚨 If you’d like to learn more or opt-in to using this new integration, please complete this form as soon as possible.

If you have questions or want to discuss, join us in our Discord forum here

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All Twitter data in your workspace by April 27 will remain, but no new Twitter activity will be ingested until and if the new integration is connected.

Twitter provided very little notice of these changes, and additionally, have not provided clear guidance to API users on when the changes will take effect. We’re working as quickly as possible to coordinate with current customers and make updates to our infrastructure, but for the reasons above, there will be a transition period.

There will be a gap between deprecating the current integration and releasing the new one, but any mentions missed during that time frame will be imported during setup of the new integration.

We’re working on that now. If you’d like to use the new integration or just stay in the loop, please complete the form.

If you have any other questions, feel free to reply directly to this email, or post in our product forum on Discord.

Today we’re announcing a new feature for our Discord integration - syncing Discord roles with Orbit.

This new feature allows you to segment your community members by their Discord roles, giving you even more control over your community management. You can now create saved views and lists based on Discord roles, making it easier to manage your community and communicate with specific groups of members.

To get this working, all you have to do is… nothing.

In addition, roles for Discord members are now included in their member profiles, providing additional context about each member and who they are on Discord.

We hope this new feature will make it even easier for you to manage your Discord community and create a greater link between Orbit and Discord. As always, please let us know if you have any feedback or questions.

We’re happy to announce our new Twitter followers filter! A while ago, we started pulling back our “Reach” metric & you folks told us that being able to filter based on a user's Twitter following was actually very helpful. Well, we listened, you win, this is life 😊

A small caveat - Twitter follower counts are only updated when a member completes a Twitter activity. For members who are regularly active on Twitter this won’t be a problem, but less active members may fall out of sync.

This new action allows updating the location, job title, Organization or affiliation (member/teammate) inside a workflow. Some example:

The table now shows how many are attributed to each Organization, how many , and how many .

What’s better? You can also sort the table by these new columns.

Line charts in Orbit have been improved! Before, for future weeks along the x-axis, we'd show values as 0 which could potentially seem a bit alarming (à la "Why did my community activity completely drop off here??")

Now, when viewing your line charts for 3+ month views (and grouped by Week), you'll clearly see where the weeks up to now end and the future weeks begin.

Now you can customize the Status property on lists in your workspace to work better for your community tasks. You can use the Status property to keep track of:

and more.

Click the button on your list to edit and create new statuses.

It is now possible to use the AND operator to filter for multiple activity types on the Members Table. This seemingly simple change unlocks massive opportunities to get more done in Orbit because you can now get answers to questions like:

Being able to filter for multiple activity types will help you find all sorts of work that can help you grow your community, run events, re-engage member, and better support your product and sales teams.

Just select the activity type filter from the filters dropdown each time you want to filters on Activity X AND Activity Y.