APP UPDATES
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Lets do this! Make something really great for the active communities we love.
This page is a dynamic page for those in the Factum beta program, we will post updates, information that comes to hand. For real time support try the 'Factum Feedback' group inside of the Factum app.
Latest Update:
October 9th, 2024
Version 1.0.14
Road Cycling update - our first sport specific update!
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Anyone up for a challenge? We’re shipping group leaderboards where you can compete with your fellow group members for most distance and elevation over the week and month!
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Like group stories and events but wish you could see who went the fastest or put out the most Watts per kilo during an group ride? Us too so we’ve built in live leaderboards into group story.
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No doubt you will want to give a like to the winner of the top speed story leaderboard or your favourite photo in a group story. You can now tap the thumbs up to show your appreciation.
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We updated the story playing experience to improve handing out likes and made adding photos and videos a breeze.
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If you haven’t connected Wahoo or Garmin to Factum we display a tip when viewing Leaderboards or Story Leaderboards to help you connect them up so you can always take part in the fun.
Feature Spotlight:
Home
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You land on this area as soon as you log in, its where you can create your first group to invite friends
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It also gives you a quick way to see the latest from all the groups you are a member of.
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Latest Group Story's cycle through from groups to create a Story Mix, want to see more? You can click on the group name to jump to group of the current playing group story
See the detailed FAQs for more
Group Home
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Every community needs a home! This is the hub where you can invite others, chat, see Group story updates, create events and more
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Tap around, as you build a history of Group Stories and Events you can see them in list and calendar views - easily jump back to past great moments so they are not lost in a timeline
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Group home provides a number of smart extensions compared to simple chat that make life easy for activity lovers like you
See the detailed FAQs for more
Group Stories
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A visual way to remember those great moments in a unique shared way
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Its created over a 24h window by uploading photos and videos
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Its a group project, each group member can contribute
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Images are ordered by timestamp when they were taken, it's a timeline in a story!
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Unique visual elements will be generated and can be deleted as desired (such as who turned up for the event)
See the detailed FAQs for more
Events and Voting
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Schedule an event for the group and let everyone select if they are coming or sleeping in
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Can't decide on the activity? Publish two events and the group can vote on which one they like
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Help everyone visualise the event - import activities or routes from Strava, create simple routes, and even set the coffee stop!
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Events automatically attach to the story, have smart notifications like weather and build a history of events/stories
See the detailed FAQs for more
Rich Messaging
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Messaging is the heart of any group and Factum features rich messaging, access by tapping the latest message near the top of Group Home
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In a way, Factum is a purpose built chat platform that adds on the features you need to organise rides, runs or any outdoor activity
See the detailed FAQs for more
Leader Boards and Achievements
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Make group events more challenging and motivating
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Leaderboards show your group members key stats making a fun way to stay motivated
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Group stories now update with achievements like speed and power from an event highlighting not only your photos and videos but now key performances - share them around!
Previous Updates:
October 1st, 2024
Version 1.0.13
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Small fix for pinned messages
Version 1.0.12
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Wahoo!!!! For those of you using Wahoo devices we now support them natively in Factum. You can create new events using your Wahoo workouts.
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Onboarding now includes the ability to connect your favourite Fitness App to Factum, be it Garmin, Wahoo or Strava when you first sign up.
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As per usual we kept crushing those bugs to keep things running smoothly
September 11th, 2024
Version 1.0.11
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Want to see how many folks are in, maybe or out of an event quickly? We saved you some taps by now showing this on the event details sheet.
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We shortened our link URLs so that we were not wasting precious characters when sharing an event or group story out to your favorite messaging and social platforms.
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Love sharing your group story? We’ve improved this with a custom share sheet to make it even better.
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We want to make it simple for you to connect your favorite fitness app so we added an onboarding flow when you first sign up for Factum.
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Subtle look and feel updates to make our app look oh so good.
August 28th, 2024
Version 1.0.10
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We decided the standard IOS share sheet was a bit boring so we built one especially for Factum. Now you can share with ease to all your favourite apps.
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Want to rest your fingers when sharing an event to your favourite messaging service? Us too so we improved the share feature to include route details, who’s in and out and an improved preview image of the route.
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Feeling jet lagged? You may have noticed when sharing an event the details showed the wrong time and possible date. You guessed it, we were crossing timezones and didn’t know what time it was.
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We love to see you all sharing group stories but sometimes when accessing it from another app it would land you back on our delightful home screen instead of the group story you wanted to watch. We fixed that all up so there’s no unexpected coffee stops at the home screen.
August 15th, 2024
Version 1.0.9
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New Event Sharing: Want to spread the word about your event? Now you can easily copy the event preview link from the chat and share it wherever you like.
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Custom Time Picker: Scheduling just got easier! Our custom time picker ensures you select the exact time you need without any confusion.
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Country Notifications: Traveling or living abroad? If a feature isn’t supported in your country, we’ll let you know upfront.
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Attendance Switch Update: We’ve tweaked the undecided attendance switch colour to make your choices stand out more clearly.
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Swipe Anywhere on Group Home: Navigating your group's home is now as simple as swiping anywhere on the screen. Easy, right?
July 31st, 2024
Version 1.0.8
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What do we want? Garmin! When do we want it? How about now! We heard you so we’ve added Garmin as connected App type so you can use your past activities in events.
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We’ve heard that people like to share their events far and wide so we’ve enabled the ability to copy the event preview link from chat and paste the URL where ever you see fit.
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When scheduling an event selecting the correct date and day of the week could be confusing so we developed a custom date picker to make it obvious and consistent across devices.
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Like to keep your group even more selective? Now group admins can enable the ability and see a list of folks who’ve been invited or have tried to join the the group and can approve or deny as they see fit.
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Need a break from all the chit chat but still want to know when that next event is on or when a new group story is available? Us too so now you can choose between muting only chat notifications or all notifications.
July 22nd, 2024
Version 1.0.7
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We saved a little visual clutter when playing stories by removing the icon outline in the story player.
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Play/pause icon added for long press on stories, yep that's what a long pause does while you watch a group story play. Now there is an icon to prove it!
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We had some big buttons for switching between current and past events, actually, too big so we refined them down a bit.
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Simplified the creation of events with same start/end location by moving the button that does this to a better location
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So how do you add new media to todays Group Story? We were asked this too often so now there is a big + button in Group Home so you can’t miss it!
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Our rain overlay’s we added to Group Storys was not very descriptive and a bit drab so we removed them for now
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This really confused us and you - so we fixed it. The current event will now disappears once event starts so you can see the next event in the Group’s Home. Slide up the events to see all of the current and past events, admire those new buttons we mentioned earlier as well.
July 4rd, 2024
Version 1.0.6
Well that's awkward, we accidentally had Gamin in the connected apps. Its coming but not finished, so this build hides it. (It's coming so won't be hidden for long)
Version 1.0.5
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Fixed a small navigation problem from home to groups, you may not have noticed but we did.
Version 1.0.4
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Want to share that group story with your friends who haven’t joined Factum yet or just want to save a copy to your phone? We thought so, start watching that story and tap Share or Save to Phone.
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Run a privacy conscious group or just don’t like the idea of the group sharing the stories with the world? If you’re an admin of a group you can disable saving of group stories.
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There’s lots to explore in Factum so we implemented a walk through of the main features when a new user signs.
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Finding it hard to read those messages from your group? Thanks to feedback from our awesome early users like Vincent we increased the font size, line spacing and extended the width of text bubbles to make it a more relaxed viewing experience.
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Are you sick of seeing the same two people on their bikes riding into the sunrise when you run out of stories in the Story Mix? Us too so we thought what’s better than watching them all again with Story Mix looping.
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Don’t like the music your group story created or just like the sound of silence? Global mute is for you. If you mute the audio in any story it will be honoured in all subsequent stories until you choose to unmute it.
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June 16th, 2024
Version 1.0.3
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Encountered an all white screen when searching past events? Us too and no matter how hard we kept searching all we got was the same screen.
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We thought when we pinned a message or upcoming event to the top of the group chat it would stay there. Clearly we weren’t using the right sort of pin so we replaced it with one that now keeps them pinned securely.
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We love sharing those epic group stories back to the group to celebrate them over and over. Unfortunately when we did this it just kept sharing the first group story in the group instead of the one we wanted to. Through the power of shared troubleshooting and engineering prowess we now let you share the correct group story.
Android
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Updated group story engine to resolve transition glitch between uploaded videos. No more video hitches with glitches.
June 11th, 2024
Version 1.0.2
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Time to get your swipe on. We’ve implemented swipe gestures for group stories and story mix to skip back or forward between stories.
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Has your cycling or running kit not been matching our weather forecast? Ours either we were always too hot, too cold, or worst getting wet when we thought we’d be dry. Anyway we’ve now got you covered with our pre-event weather notification matching the event weather forecast.
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Upcoming and past events couldn’t play nicely together so we had to seperate them into individual lists.
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We’ve implemented historical weather for past events. Nothing is better than having a detailed weather forecast of that time last week when you got stuck in the rain 50km from home.
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We’ve included a Default Factum story in the Story mix to walk you through how the app works.
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We’ve implemented more informative notifications for upcoming events and group stories to keep you up to date with what’s going on for your next event.
Android
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Are slow load times getting you down with those great photos and videos you uploaded to group stories? Us too so we tuned up our group story engine to make sure you see more of your groups awesome achievements and less of our loading animation.
May 29th, 2024
Version 1.0.1
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Prepared to remove white list, this was a short term setting to make sure we had no issues with quality. Let Factum be free and available to all!
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Added some muting and flagging features, I hope we don't need these
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Created short intro story for new users at the suggestion from the feedback group - keep them coming!
May 14, 2024:
Version 1 posted to Apple App Store and Google. First release is live!
- Reworked the events organisation flow to make it simpler for repeat events
- Added mentions and notification badges to chat
- Major bug squishing thank to early testers
- Group Story navigation is, tap near centre right for next image, tap outer right for next group story. Tap near centre left for previous image or tap outer left for previous group story. We may rework this as its not as intuitive as we hoped
- No export of Group Story so you can share easily (working on this one)
April 2, 2024:
Build 40 posted to public test flight in Apple App Store. Not posted in Google play currently. First release! We already plan some rework and a few items not implemented for early testers.
- In the event scheduling what is an 'Event' and a 'Route' is not as clear as we would like.
- 'New Message' badges not implemented for app or groups (coming)
- Group Story navigation is, tap near centre right for next image, tap outer right for next group story. Tap near centre left for previous image or tap outer left for previous group story. We may rework this as its not as intuitive as we hoped
- No export of Group Story so you can share easily (working on this one)