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Hi Joseph,

User feedback and feature requests play an incredibly important part in our product roadmap. We know that this can often feel like a one-way conversation, so, in order to improve that process and experience, we''re launching a new series of live product meet-ups that will provide users with the chance to interact with our product team and get further insights into our vision and what we are working on.

The first of these sessions will be next Friday, the 21st of August, and the topic will be ''the future of Slices''. Most of you will be aware of our recent launch of Slice Machine and we want to take this opportunity to tell you about how we are working on improving one of our most popular features.

Register for the future of Slices product meet-up

Sadek and Renaud will not only give an overview of Slices best practices and real-world examples, but also preview some upcoming improvements that we are working on - including Shared Slices.

Component-based web development is at the heart of what we''re working on at Prismic, but don''t think that this is a meet-up that requires a high level of technical skills or previous experience with Slices.

One of the best parts about Slices is that it is a feature that has clear benefits for every type of Prismic user. Developers and designers can use it to create flexible building blocks that can be used by content creators and marketers when building new pages. With that in mind, we see this as a session that will be useful for any type of Prismic user.?

The session will also involve a Q&A at the end, but you can share any questions that you have with us ahead of time by responding to this email or by tagging us in a question on Twitter (@prismicio).

You can even get help with your existing projects by bringing or sending screenshots of website sections so that we can discuss the challenges of modeling them in Slices. Sadek, Renaud, and other members of the Prismic team can then take a look at what you''re working on and provide tips and advice on how to make the most of Prismic and Slices.

Don''t worry, whilst the event is only an hour long, we''ll be happy to continue any conversations that come up via email, Twitter, or by scheduling a call.

Can''t make it to the event? The session will be recorded, so if you register for the event the video will be shared with you even if you can''t make it on the day.

Don''t want to miss out on future Prismic Events? We will typically only share these updates as part of our newsletter or to users that sign up for our Prismic Events mailing list. So, to make sure that you don''t miss out, please subscribe to the mailing list below.

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Look forward to seeing you on Friday,

Edward?

Hi Joseph,

Thanksgiving and the Festive Period is nearly upon us and with it comes a huge increase in online shopping and traffic for a lot of our users. Over the years, we've put in a considerable amount of effort to develop features and functionalities that help our eCommerce users to create landing pages, campaigns, project catalogs, and other website pages and apps that help them to grow.

This year is expected to be busier than ever. US consumers just north of $4 billion online on November 2nd and 3rd and they've spent over $20 billion online since the beginning of November. This represents a 21% increase on 2019 - which, for many, was already a record-breaking year - and, with shops in many countries still closed and shoppers more likely to stay at home and buy online, the next few weeks could continue to set new records.

And if you want to be part of those records, you'll need a website that meets the expectations of your visitors. 47% of customers expect web pages to load in 2 seconds or less and 57% of visitors will leave your site if load times are longer than 3 seconds. Scary I know, but with Prismic you can make sure that your content loads quickly and looks great.

To help you make any last-minute changes or improvements, we're dedicating our next Product Meet-Up to eCommerce, so make sure to join us next Tuesday to hear about our features and any upcoming changes to our product.

We're also hosted a SEO best practice session today, or yesterday if you don't check your emails very quickly (shame on you). You can sign up to our Prismic Events newsletter to receive the recording and to make sure that you hear about our upcoming events before they happen.

We've been hard at work in preparation for this busy period and we've got an improvement to our Integration Fields feature to tell you about.

Write API for Integration Fields

The Integration Field feature allows you to connect to your legacy systems, eCommerce CMSs, or custom APIs directly to Prismic. This allows your content or marketing teams to choose an element from the external API, such as a product from your eCommerce catalog, and incorporate it in your Prismic content.

This feature tends to be most popular with our eCommerce users as it is how they will connect their product catalogs to Prismic and integrate product details directly into their content.

To ensure that these details are always correct and that a change in your catalog is displayed on your website, Prismic automatically updates the data to ensure that you always have the most up-to-date content.

Up until now, the content was refreshed every 30 minutes, but we know that there are use cases where you want to ensure that your content is always, and instantly, up-to-date. So we have developed a new enhanced connector that will instantly refresh and reflect any changes that you have made to an external catalog.

We are opening an API that allows you to push your updates without having to wait for our next refresh. Your updated content will be instantly available, meaning that, say you are running an eCommerce website, your price updates will be reflected on your website as soon as they are updated on your eCommerce CMS.

So, no more headaches when it comes to worrying about if your latest change in pricing is being properly displayed on your website.

But our features for eCommerce don't stop there.

Scheduling and Releases

The next few weeks will probably see a lot of you launch several different campaigns. Campaigns for Black Friday might be replaced a couple of days later for Cyber Monday and you don't want to find that your new campaign launches a few hours late.

So, to make sure that your content goes live at just the right time you can create Releases in Prismic. With Releases, you will be able to set exactly when certain content goes live, including wholesale changes or groups of content - thus ensuring that your visitors aren't confused when they see your Black Friday deals on Christmas day.

Now, one of the best things about this is the fact that you can set the date and time that you want something to go live and then just forget about it. The magic of Prismic will do the rest. So you can sit back, relax, and spend the night slow-cooking your Turkey instead of pushing a button to launch that campaign at midnight.

I'm sure that the Prismic developers would prefer that I not refer to their work as magic and that I instead provide some detailed explanation of how this features makes sure that all of your content is displayed when and where you want it to be.but I don't work on the features and they don't work on the newsletters.

Previews

It's no good setting your content live only to discover that you've pushed the wrong version or included a typo. To prove this point, I have undoubtedly included typos in this email that will show you that you should always review content multiple times before sending it off into the internet.

Now, I could have avoided some of these mistakes if I had been able to easily create a preview of my email and then share that link with colleagues or friends to check before it is published. Now, you might be quick to tell me that many platforms provide just that sort of feature for emails, but you have quickly forgotten that I lost all of my friends to my marble addiction.

But, back to my original point, with Prismic, you can instantly generate a shareable link that perfectly previews your content. Previews allow you to see what the finished-product will look like and share the link with anyone else, whether they are a Prismic user or not, so that they can review your work.

What's that you say? You've shared the link and then instantly noticed a mistake and corrected it before Sharron in Sales can tell you that you've only included one 'm' in 'accommodate'. Don't worry. You can edit it and the link will be updated. Sharon will be none the wiser.

Impressive. Isn't it? You'd be more impressed to know how many times I had to make sure that I was actually spelling accommodate the right way.

Slices

If we send you an email and it doesn't mention Slices, is it really a Prismic email?

I don't know, it's one of those great questions that philosophers will be discussing for centuries to come, but that still doesn't take away from how useful the feature is to our eCommerce users.

In fact, it's part of the reason why we recently dedicated a content modeling best practice session to eCommerce. Slices allow marketers and content creators to easily design and build new pages, campaigns, and CTAs without having to rely on your developers or design team.

And, much like a faster website will almost certainly result in more sales, a faster marketing team will do just the same (at least, this is what I tell them during my annual performance reviews).

The Slices feature is one of Prismic's big differentiators and it effectively turns a CMS into a quasi-website builder. We've decided to call this a component-based CMS, but for any marketers or content creators out there it ensures that you can build or design brand-consistent pages by inserting pre-built website sections.

We're working on making Slices even more powerful and the upcoming addition of Shared Slices and Slice Variations will mean that the feature will be a time-saver for developers and a boost for content creators.

If you aren't already using Slices you are missing out.

Image Optimization

Speaking of speed and performance, images are often the thing that make websites load more slowly and we've addressed this issue by partnering with Imgix and providing built-in image optimization.

This feature not only means that we support next-gen images, but also ensures that images are optimized for the end-users device and browser. This can not only have a huge impact on website performance, but also on SEO.?

We're in the process of putting together some great content and events relating to improving your SEO, but if you want to make sure that you've got everything right when it comes to your images, we would suggest that you check out the Imgix guide to SEO.

See you at the meet-up

Did you get this far only to remember that you really hate reading? Happens to me all of the time. That's why we're organizing events where you can ditch the hassle of the written word and enjoy the modern marvel of images and sounds.

As I mentioned at the top, our next Product Meet-Up is on the 24th and will focus on Prismic and eCommerce. We'll also be using the event to announce the winners of our Slice Contest.?

Two lucks winners will have the choice between a PS5 and a Shure microphone and, even if you don't win, you can fake that you're a good person for a few minutes and pretend that seeing other people win things makes you feel good.

So, a very happy (early) Thanksgiving to all of our American users and I hope to see you at next week's meet-up,

Edward

Hi Noah,

User feedback and feature requests play an incredibly important part in our product roadmap. We know that this can often feel like a one-way conversation, so, in order to improve that process and experience, we''re launching a new series of live product meet-ups that will provide users with the chance to interact with our product team and get further insights into our vision and what we are working on.

The first of these sessions will be next Friday, the 21st of August, and the topic will be ''the future of Slices''. Most of you will be aware of our recent launch of Slice Machine and we want to take this opportunity to tell you about how we are working on improving one of our most popular features.

Register for the future of Slices product meet-up

Sadek and Renaud will not only give an overview of Slices best practices and real-world examples, but also preview some upcoming improvements that we are working on - including Shared Slices.

Component-based web development is at the heart of what we''re working on at Prismic, but don''t think that this is a meet-up that requires a high level of technical skills or previous experience with Slices.

One of the best parts about Slices is that it is a feature that has clear benefits for every type of Prismic user. Developers and designers can use it to create flexible building blocks that can be used by content creators and marketers when building new pages. With that in mind, we see this as a session that will be useful for any type of Prismic user.?

The session will also involve a Q&A at the end, but you can share any questions that you have with us ahead of time by responding to this email or by tagging us in a question on Twitter (@prismicio).

You can even get help with your existing projects by bringing or sending screenshots of website sections so that we can discuss the challenges of modeling them in Slices. Sadek, Renaud, and other members of the Prismic team can then take a look at what you''re working on and provide tips and advice on how to make the most of Prismic and Slices.

Don''t worry, whilst the event is only an hour long, we''ll be happy to continue any conversations that come up via email, Twitter, or by scheduling a call.

Can''t make it to the event? The session will be recorded, so if you register for the event the video will be shared with you even if you can''t make it on the day.

Don''t want to miss out on future Prismic Events? We will typically only share these updates as part of our newsletter or to users that sign up for our Prismic Events mailing list. So, to make sure that you don''t miss out, please subscribe to the mailing list below.

Prismic Events Mailing List

Look forward to seeing you on Friday,

Edward?

Hi Noah,

Every once in a while we like to send you a little update on what we've been doing and reassure you that we're still finding ways to get work done despite our crippling candy crush addictions.

The last few months have been busy for the various Prismic teams, but here are some of the new developments that we don't think you should miss.

Our New Community Forum

We know. We know. You've been searching the internet for a place where you could talk about nothing but Prismic and we've only gone and created it.

The Community Forum is a big step for our Education Team and something that we think will help every Prismic user to get the most out of our services.

The Forum will not only become the go-to place for you to ask and find answers for all of your Prismic related questions, but it will also be the best place to get tips and inspiration.

Our team will be active on the forum and will ensure that they answer all of your questions there, but we also know that our community will have first-hand knowledge of use cases and fixes that we have yet to encounter.

Having the Forum resource will also allow our Education Team to focus on the more complicated issues that you might have.

You will still be able to get in touch with us via the chat button, but we would like you to use the forum as your first port of call. The Forum will also be replacing our Slack Club, so those of you in the Slack will need to move over to the Forum.

You can sign up here and we will be rewarding the first 10 users who ask or answer questions with some Prismic swag.

We''ll even be sweetening the deal by sending a swag pack to the top user of every month. So get on there and start posting and you might find that your real-life mailbox is a little fuller in the near future.

That's the big news on how you can get in touch with us, but we've also got some pretty major product updates to tell you about.

Integration Fields

Our Integration Fields feature has proven to be one of our most popular features, particularly with e-commerce websites.

Integration Fields allow you to connect Prismic to any third-party data source that uses an API, making it the perfect feature to help you manage your products. The thing is, we never want Prismic to be the thing that holds your website back, so we've improved the Integration Fields feature so that it can handle catalogs of up to 100,000 items. Do you have more than that? First off, congratulations, but, if you do, get in touch and we will be happy to speak to you about possible solutions.

We've also got a new dashboard for the feature that will make it even easier to manage your catalogs and updated our native Shopify integration so that it can support the latest version of Shopify's API.

Boolean Fields

Does this interest you: yes or no? If no, you can move on to the next section. If yes, you will be happy to know that our Boolean Fields feature has been fully deployed and available to all Prismic users. Not sure what a Boolean Field is? Well, then you probably don't need one.

Webhooks

Up until our latest update, we were sending you webhooks for a wide range of events - causing your Website to rebuild even though you might have just been creating a new release in your Writing Room. With this in mind, we worked on an update that will give users finer grain control with an improved interface and the possibility of greater configuration.

Webhooks can still be fired off for the creation of releases regardless of other settings, but you can now configure other triggers to cause the publication to fire.

All of this should provide you with a greater degree of control - for example allowing you to configure specific URLs that deal with each webhook.

You''re still reading this?

Well, that should fulfil your daily requirement for reading-an-email-that-you-didn't-ask-for. I'm off to see which of my five marbles will roll down my stairs the fastest.my money is on blue. Want to know who the winner is? Just reply to this email and I'll send you the results.

Until next time,

Edward

Hi Joseph,

It's nearly 2021 and, whilst most of us will be very pleased to see the back of 2020, this is also an opportunity for us to think back on what we have achieved this year and a look ahead at what's to come.

As it has been for everyone else, this year has been a challenge for us, but one that we felt as though we've dealt with very well. We're appreciative of how fortunate we are to work in an industry that has been (relatively) unaffected by this year's events and we're proud that we've been able to continue providing our users with uninterrupted service and ever-improving features and functionalities. But we haven't just been able to maintain the status quo, we've actually released some new things that we are really proud of.

Now, I know you won't want to read a long email about how pleased we are with ourselves and there's a good chance that you'll all be given some books over the next few weeks, so you can skip the rest of this email and just attend next week's product meet-up if you'd like to.

.although I would like it if you did keep reading. I did actually work on this newsletter and it's nice to pretend that people read the entire thing.

But we'll be using our meet-up on the 16th to take a quick look at some of our major updates from the year and to look ahead at what we might be releasing in 2021. I say might because, as this year has shown, things can be a bit unpredictable and priorities can always change over the course of a few months.

So, before you read any further, register here and come and say hello to us for one last time in 2020.

That was the year that was

It's hard to keep a review of 2020 light and cheerful, but we truly our proud of what we've achieved over the past 12 months.

This year saw the release of Slice Machine, the first time that Prismic has branched off to launch a new product, and we've been delighted with the response from the community. In just a few short months we've seen the project grow from just an idea into a fully-fledged product that is being used to build websites for a wide-variety of use cases.

Slice Machine already supports Next and Nuxt (more on that later) and its community continues to grow. In fact, just last month, we ran a Slice library competition that had some incredible entries, and we've already got a new contest planned for the start of next year.

But we didn't just focus on new projects and we also used the past year to make plenty of improvements to Prismic itself - we even introduced a new feature that helps you test out our nw features.

That's right, we introduced Development Environments so that you could create a sandbox in which you could test new Prismic features or just play around with your existing repos without putting your live websites at risk.

Speaking of reducing risk, we also released user roles per locale that allow you to assign different levels of rights to your users. We added finer grain control to our webhooks, scaled Integration Fields, introduced a write API function for Integration Fields, improved our toolbar, improved our dashboard, and a bunch of other stuff that the product team is going to get really upset with me for leaving out.

It was a busy year and, whilst we weren't able to do everything that we would have liked or address every need that our users had, it was another step on the Prismic journey towards building the CMS that we've always wanted.

But that's enough about what we've already done, what have we got planned?

What's coming in 2021?

The UN has declared 2021 to be the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour and, next year, Prismic promises that we will finally stop relying on underaged workers.

Just kidding, we don't do that, but next time you ask us why we still haven't released that new feature you should consider the fact that we don't ignore child labor laws.

In all seriousness, 2021 promises to be a great year. Slice Machine will continue to grow and the the fist focus is on supporting more frameworks, onboard more technologies, and continuing to improve the developer experience. Remember, it's an open source project, so if you'd like to have next year be the year that you start contributing to the project, you can take a look at our forum for more details about how and where you can help out.

Does it count as child labor if you are underage and contribute to an open source project, but we don't pay you? I don't know, let's not think about that.

Back to what's to come...

A major focus will be improving the workflow for content editors within Prismic. The first step will be the introduction of bulk actions, but, much as we did with user roles per locale, we'll also be taking a closer look at how users collaborate.

We'll be releasing Shared Slices and Slice Variations and have a number of other features in mind as well as plans to make our API even more stable.

As is always the case with our roadmap, it is very much influenced by our users and you can actually use this form to submit topics and features that you would like to be addressed in our next product meet-up. We'll use this as the first few guiding questions for the discussion and also as another indication of areas that you'd like us to focus on in the project.

Just as a reminder, you can register for that event here.

And 2021 will also see us continue to invest in our events. If you've somehow missed out on the fact that we've been organizing a lot of virtual events, we're now basically at two sessions a week and this will continue next year.

We'll have an events page going live on our website in the near future that will make it easier for you to see what we have planned and access old recording, but you can also sign up for our Events Mailing List to make sure that you get all of our latest notifications.

Happy Holidays

That's it for this newsletter and this is the last time that you'll be hearing from me in 2020. Don't worry, I'll be back in 2021 fuelled by the presents that the Prismic elves will have delivered to me.

We hope that you have a wonderful holiday season and a very happy new year.

Edward

Hi Noah,

As many of you will know, we partnered with Imgix to provide all Prismic users with out-of-the-box image optimization and next-gen images. We know that optimized images can have a huge impact on SEO and website performance - especially in an era when your visitors will be accessing your website from an ever-increasing range of browsers and devices.

So, to make sure that you make the most of this feature and know about all of the advantages and best practices that Imgix can offer, we''ve organized a live webinar with the Imgix team.

The webinar will take place this Thursday, December 10th, at 12 noon ET (6pm CET).

Can''t make it to the live event? Don''t worry, you can register for the event and we''ll send you the recording.

And, before I leave you, if you''re wondering what else we''ve got planned, you can join us for our next Product Meet-up on the 16th of December. We''ll be using this as an opportunity to look ahead to 2021 and discuss some of the features and improvements that we''ll be working on.

See you Thursday,?

Edward

Hi Noah,

It's nearly 2021 and, whilst most of us will be very pleased to see the back of 2020, this is also an opportunity for us to think back on what we have achieved this year and a look ahead at what's to come.

As it has been for everyone else, this year has been a challenge for us, but one that we felt as though we've dealt with very well. We're appreciative of how fortunate we are to work in an industry that has been (relatively) unaffected by this year's events and we're proud that we've been able to continue providing our users with uninterrupted service and ever-improving features and functionalities. But we haven't just been able to maintain the status quo, we've actually released some new things that we are really proud of.

Now, I know you won't want to read a long email about how pleased we are with ourselves and there's a good chance that you'll all be given some books over the next few weeks, so you can skip the rest of this email and just attend next week's product meet-up if you'd like to.

.although I would like it if you did keep reading. I did actually work on this newsletter and it's nice to pretend that people read the entire thing.

But we'll be using our meet-up on the 16th to take a quick look at some of our major updates from the year and to look ahead at what we might be releasing in 2021. I say might because, as this year has shown, things can be a bit unpredictable and priorities can always change over the course of a few months.

So, before you read any further, register here and come and say hello to us for one last time in 2020.

That was the year that was

It's hard to keep a review of 2020 light and cheerful, but we truly our proud of what we've achieved over the past 12 months.

This year saw the release of Slice Machine, the first time that Prismic has branched off to launch a new product, and we've been delighted with the response from the community. In just a few short months we've seen the project grow from just an idea into a fully-fledged product that is being used to build websites for a wide-variety of use cases.

Slice Machine already supports Next and Nuxt (more on that later) and its community continues to grow. In fact, just last month, we ran a Slice library competition that had some incredible entries, and we've already got a new contest planned for the start of next year.

But we didn't just focus on new projects and we also used the past year to make plenty of improvements to Prismic itself - we even introduced a new feature that helps you test out our nw features.

That's right, we introduced Development Environments so that you could create a sandbox in which you could test new Prismic features or just play around with your existing repos without putting your live websites at risk.

Speaking of reducing risk, we also released user roles per locale that allow you to assign different levels of rights to your users. We added finer grain control to our webhooks, scaled Integration Fields, introduced a write API function for Integration Fields, improved our toolbar, improved our dashboard, and a bunch of other stuff that the product team is going to get really upset with me for leaving out.

It was a busy year and, whilst we weren't able to do everything that we would have liked or address every need that our users had, it was another step on the Prismic journey towards building the CMS that we've always wanted.

But that's enough about what we've already done, what have we got planned?

What's coming in 2021?

The UN has declared 2021 to be the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour and, next year, Prismic promises that we will finally stop relying on underaged workers.

Just kidding, we don't do that, but next time you ask us why we still haven't released that new feature you should consider the fact that we don't ignore child labor laws.

In all seriousness, 2021 promises to be a great year. Slice Machine will continue to grow and the the fist focus is on supporting more frameworks, onboard more technologies, and continuing to improve the developer experience. Remember, it's an open source project, so if you'd like to have next year be the year that you start contributing to the project, you can take a look at our forum for more details about how and where you can help out.

Does it count as child labor if you are underage and contribute to an open source project, but we don't pay you? I don't know, let's not think about that.

Back to what's to come...

A major focus will be improving the workflow for content editors within Prismic. The first step will be the introduction of bulk actions, but, much as we did with user roles per locale, we'll also be taking a closer look at how users collaborate.

We'll be releasing Shared Slices and Slice Variations and have a number of other features in mind as well as plans to make our API even more stable.

As is always the case with our roadmap, it is very much influenced by our users and you can actually use this form to submit topics and features that you would like to be addressed in our next product meet-up. We'll use this as the first few guiding questions for the discussion and also as another indication of areas that you'd like us to focus on in the project.

Just as a reminder, you can register for that event here.

And 2021 will also see us continue to invest in our events. If you've somehow missed out on the fact that we've been organizing a lot of virtual events, we're now basically at two sessions a week and this will continue next year.

We'll have an events page going live on our website in the near future that will make it easier for you to see what we have planned and access old recording, but you can also sign up for our Events Mailing List to make sure that you get all of our latest notifications.

Happy Holidays

That's it for this newsletter and this is the last time that you'll be hearing from me in 2020. Don't worry, I'll be back in 2021 fuelled by the presents that the Prismic elves will have delivered to me.

We hope that you have a wonderful holiday season and a very happy new year.

Edward

Hi Joseph,

As many of you will know, we partnered with Imgix to provide all Prismic users with out-of-the-box image optimization and next-gen images. We know that optimized images can have a huge impact on SEO and website performance - especially in an era when your visitors will be accessing your website from an ever-increasing range of browsers and devices.

So, to make sure that you make the most of this feature and know about all of the advantages and best practices that Imgix can offer, we''ve organized a live webinar with the Imgix team.

The webinar will take place this Thursday, December 10th, at 12 noon ET (6pm CET).

Can''t make it to the live event? Don''t worry, you can register for the event and we''ll send you the recording.

And, before I leave you, if you''re wondering what else we''ve got planned, you can join us for our next Product Meet-up on the 16th of December. We''ll be using this as an opportunity to look ahead to 2021 and discuss some of the features and improvements that we''ll be working on.

See you Thursday,?

Edward

Hi Joseph,

Every once in a while we like to provide you with a little update on what we've been up to and, well, it's that time again. So, strap yourself in and prepare for some thrilling updates from your favorite CMS.

The past few months have included a number of updates, large and small, but here are a few highlights.

Prismic Events

Growing our community has been a major focus of our's for some time now. Of course, part of this comes from our own selfish interest in having more customers and making more money, but it isn't just about the bottom line.believe us. Do you believe us? Can we be more convincing?

We believe that a strong community will not only help us to grow, but will also ensure that our existing users will be armed with all of the resources, materials, and knowledge that they need to make their projects a success. With that in mind, we've started to host our own meet-ups. Now, these are obviously virtual for the time being, but this may change in the future.

We''ve mentioned it in a previous email, but our next event is tomorrow (nothing beats some good advanced warning) and will be our first ever live product meet-up. This type of event will give us a chance to provide an overview of a feature, preview upcoming changes and developments, and interact with our users to get feedback and answer questions.

Picking where to start is always a challenge, but we thought it would make sense to get things underway with one of our most popular features and so we've decided to have the first meet-up focus on slices and the upcoming improvements that we have planned (I know, we never talk about slices).

The session will involve a Q&A and you can send us any questions that you have ahead of time by email or by tagging us on Twitter. You can also send us screenshots of any designs of websites that you are working on so that we can discuss real-world examples of how you can model a design using Slices.

Sounds interesting? Then sign up. Not able to make it? Don't worry, if you register for the event we will make sure to send you the full video so that you can watch, rewatch, and watch it again.

We know that we''ve spoken about this event quite a bit, but we are aiming to build some momentum behind the Prismic events, although we will eventually only speak about them through the Prismic Events mailing list. So sign up for that if you haven''t already.

Awesome Prismic

Speaking of providing our community with all of the resources that we need, we've recently launched our Awesome Prismic GitHub repository.

Like other 'awesome' repositories before it, Awesome Prismic will be a curated list of some of the best resources for all aspects of your Prismic projects. We often share useful resources through Twitter or our forum, but Awesome Prismic will ensure that they have a place where they can be easily found and won't be lost in the internet ether.

The best part about it is that you can submit resources of your own via a pull request - meaning that Awesome Prismic will live and grow as it gets more attention from our users. So, if you have something that you've been working on or you've found an article, video, or anything else that's been really useful, please submit it.

User roles per locale

Now, growing that community and getting better feedback from our users wouldn't serve much of a purpose if we never listened to you. We know that you will always want new features and functionalities and the realities of managing a product mean that we can't always deliver them right away, but we do have a new feature coming out that will please a lot of you.

It might seem like we are almost burying the most exciting update in the newsletter, but we are pleased to announce that we are introducing user roles per locale. Adding increased user roles has long been one of our most requested features and so we are certain that this will be popular news.

Although we believe that some user roles can have a negative effect on the publishing experience, offering user roles per locale will mean that you can ensure that teams working in different languages or locations won't be able to edit content in other locales (unless you want them to, of course).

All Prismic users will still have access to all of the content in repositories that they are a part of, but you will now be able to decide who can create, edit, and publish content in different locations.

When a user is assigned to a locale they can have the role of either writer or publisher. If they are not assigned to the locale, but part of your repo, they will still be able to see the content a a viewer, but they will be unable to make any changes to it.

Many Prismic users manage multi language and international websites and we know that this update will help you to improve your workflow and overall management of your content.

Gatsby-Prismic plugins

As we have your attention (probably?), this is also a good chance for us to make sure that you didn't miss our update on our recommendation on plugins for Gatsby and our approach to previews in Gatsby.

We know that many of you will be aware of some of the challenges of offering multi-session previews in Gatsby and, whilst we are not changing our commitment to providing our full preview feature to all of our users, we are recommending that you use a different plugin for the time being.

We will continue to work on a more suitable long-term solution, but we want to ensure that our users are not frustrated by a plugin that is difficult to implement or not reliable. We're tremendously grateful to the work that Birkir and Prismic team members put in to the first plugin, but unfortunately it has been difficult to maintain.

We've been working closely with the Gatsby team on being a first-class integration for Gatsby Cloud and on finding the best solution for providing Gatsby users with full Prismic previews. You can read all of the details about the situation and our recommendations, but this second plugin fetches REST API, is more stable, and more aligned with the approach that Gatsby has adopted over the past few months.

You've made it to the end

That's about it for now. We have some more exciting updates, events, and projects planned for the near future, but you'll just have to wait for our next newsletter to hear about them.

We hope to see you tomorrow,

Edward

Hi Joseph,

We''ve hinted at it before, but the day has finally come for us to make our big announcement!We''re delighted to announce the release of Slice Machine.?

A project that we believe will change the way you build websites and drastically improve your component management and workflow.

You can get a better look by watching our demo from our Lightning Launch at Jamstackconf. Just click on the image below?

Introducing Slice Machine!

We''ve spent the last few months working closely with Nuxt, Netlify, and other industry leaders and experts (including Sara Soueidan).

Slice Machine is a tool that allows you to merge your frontend and backend components, simplifying your build process and improving your overall experience.

Not only that, but it will also give you access to open-source libraries of components that can inspire you and serve as a useful resource.Whilst Slice Machine is a developer tool, it will also improve the experience for non-technical Prismic users. Increasing the power of our Slices feature means that building pages has become easier than ever before.

A Prismic repo paired with Slice Machine will make building and managing websites easier for developers, designers, and content creators.

Try it for yourself

Slice Machine is now in its beta phase and you can start using it today.

Go and check it out at the Slice Machine website.

And read more about it in this in-depth article from Hugo, one of the key members of the Slice Machine team. (TO ADD LINK TO ARTICLE ONCE PUBLISHED)

The project will continue to evolve over time with the community at its core. All components are open-source and fully customizable. We will be adding new frameworks and technologies to Slice Machine''s capabilities in the near future.

Your feedback and involvement will be invaluable to this process, so please share your thoughts on the forum and contribute to the open-source project and start creating your own components.

We''re really excited about this, so we hope that you try it out and let us know what you think.

Thank you,

Edward

Hi Noah,

It's back to school, the summer is over, and we thought we would cheer you up with a Prismic newsletter to help you make it through your day.

We know that a lot of you will skip the newsletter. Who needs updates from their CMS anyway? But some of you still reading may be interested to know that we much prefer a two-way conversation and, with this in mind, we have started organizing monthly live product meet-ups where you can speak directly to our product team.

It is the perfect opportunity to learn about upcoming changes and updates, have a better understanding of our roadmap, and share your feedback and ask any questions that you might have.

So, now that we've started with that bit of news, let's talk about the events that we have coming up.

Event(s on the) horizon

Product meet-up - September 30th

We hosted our first product meet-up last month and if you didn't attend you can read about it and watch the recording. We were really happy with the turnout and the feedback that we got from users and we are pleased that this kind of live interaction can help us to have a better understanding of how you are using Prismic and how we can improve.

So, we've gone and planned a second one.

Our next product meet-up is taking place next week on September 30th. You can register here and the focus will be our new roles per locale feature and updates on Slice Machine, but the session will also include a Q&A and you will have the chance to ask us about anything Prismic-related.or even something not Prismic-related if you think that we can help.

Our product meet-ups will take different formats in the future. We had a live coding session in the first meet-up and we will look to do more of that in the future, but meet-ups will also include demos and interviews.

Feel free to let us know if there is a particular type of content that you would be most interested in. This is also a good opportunity for us to remind you that you can sign up for our Prismic events mailing list to get all of the details and recordings of everything that we organize as soon as they are available.

More interested in just learning about real-world examples of how to get the most out of Prismic? We've got you covered.

Arkade webinar - September 29th

Next week is a busy one in the Prismic events calendar and we will also be hosting a webinar with Arkade on using Prismic for eCommerce projects.

The webinar will be on the 29th of September at 9am CET, so more of one for our EMEA and Asia Pacific users, but if you can''t attend you can register for the event and we will send you the recording of the webinar.

Arkade have used Prismic on some large eCommerce websites and the focus will be on how Prismic plays a key role in their strategy of aligning content, commerce, and customer.

We know how important storytelling is to a visitor's experience and this webinar should be a fascinating look at how improving content, product listings, and customer journey can radically change the eCommerce experience.

And, speaking of making the most out of Prismic, we've also got a great demo and training session planned for the start of October.

Best practices for content modeling - October 8th

Content modeling can make or break your website and it's obviously pretty integral to the Prismic vision and experience, so this is a great chance to learn our best practices.

The session will be hosted by Nathan and he will be going over what our user's do best, some of the common mistakes that they make, and answering any questions you might have.

The session will take place on the 8th of October and it''s a great chance to learn more about Prismic and how to make the post out of our product and features.

But it's not all about us, we'll be attending some external events as well.

We're sponsoring some conferences

Just a quick note to say that we will be sponsoring both Jamstack conf (October 6th-7th) and Next.js conf (October 27th) and we are very proud to be playing our part in both.

Just like last time, we will have a booth at the Jamstack conf and a roundtable discussion with some great guests (more news on that to come). You can register for the conference using our referral link (it's free), it will just help us to have a better sense of the size of the Prismic audience and to see how many of you get this far down our newsletters.

Next.js is also free and you can register here. It's going to be the largest virtual event that we have taken part in and it is going to have some fairly heavy-hitting speakers, so it will definitely be worth attending. Do stop by our booth to say hello.

Now, let's focus on some Prismic updates.

Shared Slices and Slice Variations

We actually broke this news at our first product meet-up, so it's a good example of the kind of updates that you can expect from those events (and just another reminder that you should totally sign up for the next one).

These are two fairly significant future updates to one of our most popular features and two changes that we think will greatly improve the Slice experience.

Shared Slices

One of the great things about slices is that you can create a component and then use it all over different parts of your website. But one of the pain points that this has created is the fact that you might update a slice in one location only to find that this change has not been reflected everywhere else.

To solve this problem we are introducing Shared Slices. This update will fix this in the most straightforward way possible by simply allowing you to update every version of a slice when you make a change in one location.

And we've made using slices even easier with Slice Variations.

Slice Variations

With variations, you will be able to do exactly as it sounds and create a single slice that has different versions that you can then choose from when adding it to your website. This might mean that one slice has an image on the left and the other has an image on the right, whilst another version has no image at all.

Not only will this make managing your slice library far easier, but it will also make the Prismic experience feel more like a website builder for content creators.

We know that you will be excited to try out these new features and we expect Shared Slices to be available within the next couple of months and for Slice Variations to be available around the end of this year or in early 2021.

Changes to how we handle SVGs

We've recently disabled the use of SVG's with the Imgix integration. This isn't the most exciting update that we'll ever tell you about, but it is an important and one that may impact a few of you.

We've made this change as a result of security vulnerabilities with SVGs and, whilst this is obviously a good thing, it does mean that you will either need to replace your SVGs or create a workaround in your web application.

Not sure what SVGs are? No, it''s not the latest spin-off from CSI, but if you don''t know then you can rest assured that this probably doesn''t apply to you.

That being said, this article will cover the full details of why we made the change and the workaround that you can put in place.

That's about all.for now

Well, I've probably gone on for long enough and given you more than enough links to click on. So I should end it here.

We are really looking forward to the events that are coming up and I hope that we will see you there. If you do attend you can use the chat to say that the newsletter made you do it.that way they may give me some extra snacks next month.

See you soon,

Edward

Hi Noah,

Back in May, we announced Slice Machine. It was our version of a spin-off and, luckily enough, the initial feedback showed us that we were closer to Frasier than we were to Joey.

Building websites with components - the next big step in improved developer experience

The reaction to the beta was even better than we could have expected and it showed us that our goal of improving developer experience and allowing our users to easily build websites with components was something that was wanted and appreciated by the community.

But, it was just the first iteration and there were obvious areas where we could improve. As an open-source project, we''ve been lucky to be able to get feedback and contributions from people throughout the community and our close work with the teams at Nuxt and Next have also allowed us to improve its functionalities and increase its support.

We're ready for a big announcement

And we''re excited to say that we''re ready to show you the next step in that journey at our product meet-up on the 28th of October.

We''ll be using this as an opportunity to give you a first look at this next step. Sadek and Renaud will demo the new version and answer any questions that you might have about Slice Machine, the future of Slices, or anything else related to Prismic.

We used our first ever product meet-up to show you upcoming improvements to the Slices feature, including Shared Slices and Slice Variations, and we know how excited many of you are for those updates to go live. This time around we will not only be able to talk more about upcoming improvements to Slices, but also to show you what the next version of Slice Machine will look like.

As an open-source product, it seems natural to use a public event to launch the new version and get some instant feedback - especially as feedback and contributions from the community have played such a crucial role in the development of the product.

Developer experience: connecting the dots

This has been a process of connecting the dots with the help of our partners and our users and this new version will be just another piece in the puzzle on our way to improving your workflow and allowing component-based website development to fulfil its potential.

Don''t worry if you can''t make it to the event, if you register for it we will make sure to send you the summary and the recording of the session.

Want to attend more of our future events? Including webinars, best practice sessions, and more? Sign up for our Prismic Events mailing list.

Need that link again for the event? Here it is.

See you there,

Edward

Hi Noah,

Every once in a while we like to provide you with a little update on what we've been up to and, well, it's that time again. So, strap yourself in and prepare for some thrilling updates from your favorite CMS.

The past few months have included a number of updates, large and small, but here are a few highlights.

Prismic Events

Growing our community has been a major focus of our's for some time now. Of course, part of this comes from our own selfish interest in having more customers and making more money, but it isn't just about the bottom line.believe us. Do you believe us? Can we be more convincing?

We believe that a strong community will not only help us to grow, but will also ensure that our existing users will be armed with all of the resources, materials, and knowledge that they need to make their projects a success. With that in mind, we've started to host our own meet-ups. Now, these are obviously virtual for the time being, but this may change in the future.

We''ve mentioned it in a previous email, but our next event is tomorrow (nothing beats some good advanced warning) and will be our first ever live product meet-up. This type of event will give us a chance to provide an overview of a feature, preview upcoming changes and developments, and interact with our users to get feedback and answer questions.

Picking where to start is always a challenge, but we thought it would make sense to get things underway with one of our most popular features and so we've decided to have the first meet-up focus on slices and the upcoming improvements that we have planned (I know, we never talk about slices).

The session will involve a Q&A and you can send us any questions that you have ahead of time by email or by tagging us on Twitter. You can also send us screenshots of any designs of websites that you are working on so that we can discuss real-world examples of how you can model a design using Slices.

Sounds interesting? Then sign up. Not able to make it? Don't worry, if you register for the event we will make sure to send you the full video so that you can watch, rewatch, and watch it again.

We know that we''ve spoken about this event quite a bit, but we are aiming to build some momentum behind the Prismic events, although we will eventually only speak about them through the Prismic Events mailing list. So sign up for that if you haven''t already.

Awesome Prismic

Speaking of providing our community with all of the resources that we need, we've recently launched our Awesome Prismic GitHub repository.

Like other 'awesome' repositories before it, Awesome Prismic will be a curated list of some of the best resources for all aspects of your Prismic projects. We often share useful resources through Twitter or our forum, but Awesome Prismic will ensure that they have a place where they can be easily found and won't be lost in the internet ether.

The best part about it is that you can submit resources of your own via a pull request - meaning that Awesome Prismic will live and grow as it gets more attention from our users. So, if you have something that you've been working on or you've found an article, video, or anything else that's been really useful, please submit it.

User roles per locale

Now, growing that community and getting better feedback from our users wouldn't serve much of a purpose if we never listened to you. We know that you will always want new features and functionalities and the realities of managing a product mean that we can't always deliver them right away, but we do have a new feature coming out that will please a lot of you.

It might seem like we are almost burying the most exciting update in the newsletter, but we are pleased to announce that we are introducing user roles per locale. Adding increased user roles has long been one of our most requested features and so we are certain that this will be popular news.

Although we believe that some user roles can have a negative effect on the publishing experience, offering user roles per locale will mean that you can ensure that teams working in different languages or locations won't be able to edit content in other locales (unless you want them to, of course).

All Prismic users will still have access to all of the content in repositories that they are a part of, but you will now be able to decide who can create, edit, and publish content in different locations.

When a user is assigned to a locale they can have the role of either writer or publisher. If they are not assigned to the locale, but part of your repo, they will still be able to see the content a a viewer, but they will be unable to make any changes to it.

Many Prismic users manage multi language and international websites and we know that this update will help you to improve your workflow and overall management of your content.

Gatsby-Prismic plugins

As we have your attention (probably?), this is also a good chance for us to make sure that you didn't miss our update on our recommendation on plugins for Gatsby and our approach to previews in Gatsby.

We know that many of you will be aware of some of the challenges of offering multi-session previews in Gatsby and, whilst we are not changing our commitment to providing our full preview feature to all of our users, we are recommending that you use a different plugin for the time being.

We will continue to work on a more suitable long-term solution, but we want to ensure that our users are not frustrated by a plugin that is difficult to implement or not reliable. We're tremendously grateful to the work that Birkir and Prismic team members put in to the first plugin, but unfortunately it has been difficult to maintain.

We've been working closely with the Gatsby team on being a first-class integration for Gatsby Cloud and on finding the best solution for providing Gatsby users with full Prismic previews. You can read all of the details about the situation and our recommendations, but this second plugin fetches REST API, is more stable, and more aligned with the approach that Gatsby has adopted over the past few months.

You've made it to the end

That's about it for now. We have some more exciting updates, events, and projects planned for the near future, but you'll just have to wait for our next newsletter to hear about them.

We hope to see you tomorrow,

Edward