Tightknit Release Notes (June 25, 2025) Release Notes Lots of goodies...
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Tightknit Release Notes (June 25, 2025)
Tightknit Release Notes (June 25, 2025)
Lots of goodies this week. Here are some highlights:
🪝 New User Joined WebhookNeed a webhook that is triggered when a new user joins the workspace? Now we have one!
🤖 Bot Names PreservedThis applies to all Slack bots, but let's illustrate with a service example. Some customers use Tightknit in conjunction with another app, such as our friends Thena, Channeled, or Pylon, for the customer support side of their communities. These apps integrate with your service backend and will respond in threads on behalf of your service agents. These apps commonly override their icon / username to appear as the service agent (but behind-the-scenes it is still the Thena/Channeled/Pylon bot). Tightknit will now prerserve icon and username overrides sent by bots, so that they appear the same way on the companion site as in Slack!
🔏 Privacy and ConsentAs Tightknit prepares to enter the app marketplace, we will be making several changes to comply with privacy and consent requirements. The first of these requires Tightknit to notify users when their messages are synced to a Feed—a public notification is sent to the channel when a feed is connected, and users that join the channel later are notified privately (read more). Secondly, channel activation is now opt-in when you invite the Tightknit bot to a new channel, rather than automatic.
Updates
[Companion Site] Video links are unfurled in feed posts
[Companion Site] If a Slack message sent by a bot uses an icon or username override to change the author user's appearance, this override will take precedence and will be preserved in the Companion Site.
[Slack] In order to meet privacy requirements, users are now notified by Tightknit when they are in a channel becomes connected to a feed (public notification), or when they join a channel connected to a feed (private message).
[Slack] During initial onboarding, the Tightknit Hub channel is now created on behalf of the installing admin user rather than by the Tightknit bot.
[Slack] When the Tightknit bot is invited to a new channel, activation of the channel is now opt-in instead of automatic. If the user is an admin, they are sent a private notification in the channel with the option to begin the activation flow.
[Slack] The Related Discussions agent now only returns results linked to companion site posts.
[Slack] Anonymous messages now have a button to add an anonymous reply.
[API] Added new webhook of type /member.joined which is triggered when a new user joins the community
[API] The slack_first_name and slack_last_name properties on the user profile objects have been deprecated. Instead please use first_name and last_name, respectively. The deprecated properties will continue to be sent until removal at a later date.
Fixes
[Companion Site] Added fallback infrastructure in case of another outage from our cloud service provider
[Companion Site] The companion site is now deactivated when your Tightknit subscription ends
[Companion Site] The search results page now shows a loading state each time the user makes multiple repeated searches
