Hello Polkadot & Polkassembly Community!
Polkassembly has the aim of pioneering the development of new governance experiences and continuously upgrading the platform based on the community feedback.
The ultimate goal is to empower users’ participation in the Polkadot ecosystem.
Our team has been hard at work, listening to your feedback and implementing improvements to make Polkassembly even better. Let’s leverage this forum to dive in and explore these latest additions!
The biggest update from the Polkassembly team was the deployment of our search feature on 30th June!
Community members can now leverage search to →
In addition to all this, with the click of a simple button, you can now search for all the above cross network using SUPER SEARCH!
Our launch announcement → https://twitter.com/polk_gov/status/1674765923033686016
There’s been more in this past month!
Let’s have a look at another one of our largest releases 
The much awaited Notification Engine!
If you’d like notifications & search enabled for your chain, please reach out to us on hello@polkassembly.io! !
Our team believes in delivering innovation and leveraging the latest technology in our quest to do so!
Announcing the launch of a feature which quickly became a go to for our entire community.
AI Powered summary of proposals!
Now, participating in governance proposals on Polkadot & Kusama is easier than ever.
Stay informed with concise breakdowns, empower democracy, & shape the future together!
Please engage with our social handles or this thread to share any more use case of AI that you would like us to integrate.
Building towards the ecosystem’s benefit has been one of Polkassembly’s primary goals.
The community members informed us of a persistent problem. They continue to use existing web2 forums and platforms to engage and discuss but it is impossible to login with Polkadot wallets on these forums.
NOT ANYMORE!
We now support all our ecosystem partners wallets with an open source code for anyone looking to allow Polkadot wallet sign in into their app/website! 
A single message, summazing everything we have been experimenting with in our new listing view!
What more would you like us to tinker with? 
GIF GIF GIF! 
A discussion & governance forum needs GIFs, for the community to engage!
So here they are 
Polkassembly now offers support for the following via its text editor
Join us at Polkassembly as we Demystify Governance!
We at Polkassembly are proud to present the community with our latest feature which helps the ecosystem move away from the complex proposal creation process!
Say hello to hassle-free proposal creation on Polkadot! 
Struggling with OpenGov pre-image & proposals?
Not anymore! Follow these 3 simple steps:
Demystify Governance with us and join the movement for a transparent and efficient future! Visit http://polkadot.polkassembly.io and click on the menu icon to know more
Announcement Post - https://twitter.com/polk_gov/status/1691424678810898433
Simplifying On-Chain Identities for You! 
Understanding and managing on-chain identities can be quite a puzzle, right? 
Users often grapple with mistrust, proposal rejections, and endless hassles.
But guess what? 
We’re changing the game at Polkassembly! We’ve crafted a custom interface right on our app, making the whole process a breeze. 
No more confusion, no more headaches. Join us in embracing a new era of seamless on-chain identity verification! 
Announcement: https://twitter.com/polk_gov/status/1703749864054562842
Introducing the All-In-One Vote Interface at Polkassembly!
View Every Detail: Self & Delegated Votes Split, Voting Power, and More - All in One Place!
Launch Announcement - https://twitter.com/polk_gov/status/1704857880355274758
Polkassembly’s user profile & navbar upgrades!
What is new at Polkassembly?
A quick update for October’s top releases -
Dark mode: is now live at Polkassembly! 
Tip: your favourite Governance Participants, Proposal / Discussion Creators, & community members via a sleek interface 
Quick View: To identify how long governance participants have been around for, view their display pictures and social handles
Vote Unlocks: Single button click to unlock all your votes from your profile on Polkassembly
Join us at https://twitter.com/polk_gov to stay up to date with all our releases & take Polkadot’s voice out to the world
A lot of stuff has been moving around on Polkassembly since our last update 
Lets dive deeper into it 
New Feature Updates
Microfeatures including - all tab view for viewing all referenda together, collapsible track metrics, create new proposals from track view, tooltips on all technical terms
Improved proposal management by introducing action slider cards on the Polkassembly UI for all pending actions
Vote count for number of Aye and Nay votes
Nudges during proposal creation and detailed visibility post proposal creation for users
Creation of proposals with multiple beneficiaries from Polkassembly
The much awaited Polkassembly dark mode
Existing Feature Updates
Twitter post highlighting our stats on the identity feature
Twitter post 1 & 2 highlighting our stats on the proposal creation feature
Hey Everyone, wish you very happy holidays! 
Our biggest feature update of the year is the launch of The Technical Fellowship Product curated by Polkassembly, with guidance from several fellows including Dr. Gavin Wood!
Announcement - https://twitter.com/polk_gov/status/1736791807273710003
There is a lot to be excited about →
An evolving activity feed with quick actions, public profiles, members page, RFC Proposals, Rank Requests & a lot more
We aim to bring the best of minds to the fellowship & provide them with the best experience as our product evolves!
Hey folks!
A quick round up for everyone who has not been following these exciting few months at Polkassembly.
To stay up to date with all the latest updates in real time, we recommend everyone to join our community at - Twitter or Telegram
Now, quickly on to what is new →
A tonne more of microfeatures, social announcements, blogs and banter available on our twitter handle!
Looking forward to your feedback 
Add Advanced Templates functionality
When you create a Discussion in Polkassembly, and likewise with Proposals and Referendum, it uses a ContentForm component, which uses this TextEditor component here polkassembly/src/ui-components/TextEditor.tsx at 1f9f151f79c77056bcd412234a9fd5040590e9d2 · polkassembly/polkassembly · GitHub, where that TextEditor uses a TinyMCE library (tinymce-react), which offers an "Advanced Templates" feature, as shown in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG2CVnYCObY.
There’s a interactive demo showing how you can use example “Advanced Templates” here https://codepen.io/pen, and also shows the extensive formatting options that comes with it.
Try it in the preview window, by going to “Insert > Template…”, choose a template, and click “Insert”.
But for that “choose a template” functionality, Polkassembly would have to be using TinyMCE Professional edition, which costs $130/month. This would require an OpenGov proposal an ongoing payments by the treasury.
The UX benefit is that users that create Proposals and Referenda in OpenGov may choose to use one of the templates. For example, if they were creating a Proposal in response to a Wishlist item or creating an RFP that is specific to Marketing and Events, then they could choose the appropriate standardised Polkadot template.
Ideally there’d be an app that would prompt users for inputs and automatically populate the relevant chosen template, but I’m not sure if that’s possible with TinyMCE “Advanced Templates”.
In comparison, Subsquare does it differently from Polkassembly in that it doesn’t allow you to select a “Topic” when you create a Discussion, but it lets you add labels (like tags), but only up to 2 of them for some reason. Subsquare uses their own custom open-source OSN Rich Text Editor here subsquare/packages/next-common/components/editor/index.jsx at 3d92a4806ad74bd891f73ae50a04fcefe3d01acd · ltfschoen/subsquare · GitHub, and its open-source source code is here GitHub - opensquare-network/rich-text-editor. So another option could be to improve the OSN Rich Text Editor, but I think it would be a substantial amount of work to make it similar to TinyMCE, but could be an future option if the TinyMCE “Advanced Templates” functionality becomes unaffordable or discontinued, and might make it easier to create a feature that prompts users for various inputs and auto-populates the chosen template.
If none of the above options sound attractive, then the standardised templates would need to be stored somewhere else in an organised fashion, or a separate app would be necessary.
I think this should be discussed at an AAG meeting or mention it at OpenGov.Watch.
Links:
We’ve got some awesome updates to make your governance experience even smoother!
Use GIFs and Videos to Show and Tell!
Videos and personalised GIFs can now be simply embedded on Polkassembly. Clearly explain the situation, chuckle a little, and get everyone’s attention.
Elevate Your Profile & Reputation!
With our new profile features, you can see all of your conversations, mentions, and responses in one location.
Thanks @ltfschoen for bringing up this interesting idea about implementing Advanced Templates and a new text editor for Proposals and Referenda!
This would definitely improve the user experience for creating standardized content. The options you outlined, including using TinyMCE Professional or enhancing the OSN Rich Text Editor, are something we are actively looking into.
Thank you!
Polkassembly Updates for the month are here:
