🎖️ Leaderboard: new signal of prominence for users who bring in clients through generating referral links.

• 🏆 Refer and win. Send your overflow of opportunities from trusted peers and clients, and receive appreciation from the community.
• 💰 Reap rewards. Earn Amber from bringing in the most opportunities and contributing to constant deal flow for all members of the community.
• 🤝 Rise up the ranks. Gain recognition for your network-building and referral skills and earn reputation as a trusted broker of opportunities.

🧐 Top Referrers Sidebar: New sidebar on home page celebrates most active dealmakers in the community.

🛍️ Benefits Store: new ways to shop for benefits.

• ➕ Claim multiple quantities of a benefit, whenever applicable.
• ﹪ Discounts are now displayed for some benefits for budget-savvy users.
• 🛒 View all benefits. See all available benefits by default, then browse based on your region.

🧴 Homepage Filters: switch between swarms, TBHs, and Opportunities from the homepage.

💎 ⚜️ Amber: is a signal of value, created by, with, and for members of the Swarm community. It can be exchanged for benefits and perks that help you live your best fractional life.

• 🎁 Earn Amber by referring builders, introducing clients, getting scouted for Swarm opportunities, and receiving gifts from other users.
• 🛒 Browse cool perks such as fitness classes, store credits, and subscriptions to essential work tools on the Amber store.

🔗 Client Referrals: Generate custom referral links to share with clients and earn referral rewards for every successful hire they make via Swarm.

• 🏅 Gain reputation in the community as a broker of vetted and impactful opportunities.

💎 Rates & Services: Let everyone know what they can hire you for by adding your rates & services to your profile.

• 💰 Add a price range to your profile.
• 👁 Toggle the visibility of each service.
• ⚙️ Choose between a Fixed-rate and an Hourly-based rate for each service.

🫣 Metapreview: Sharing Swarm links are now more eye-catching and informative.

🏆 Opportunities: Freelance projects are now called Opportunities.

• 🪧 Post an opportunity. Add headlines, skills or expertise needed, details, time commitments, budget ranges, and timezone preferences to find the right builder. Any Swarmie can post an opportunity.
• 💁 Apply as a builder or refer someone you know. Either way you earn money!
• ✈️ Share opportunity pages publicly. Sign-up to refer or apply.

🏠 Updated Home Feed: We’re putting everything (opportunities + swarm discussions) on the home feed. Bye bye Bzzaar 👋🏻

• 👀 Choose your view. See everything all together or filter your feed to see either opportunities or Swarms only.

🌻 Direct Praise: You can now give praise directly on a profile.

• Get to know what a Swarmie is like as a collaborator, influencer, mentor, or mentee.
• Give and receive feedback on working with and learning from each other.
• Praise Swarmies for the amazing human/collaborator they are.

🗣 Improved testimonials: Gain more context behind a testimonial, such as connections declared, skills praised, and date given.

🌀 Empty states: We added illustrations on profiles for empty testimonial and project sections.

🪴 Discussion reply button: You can load Swarms faster now that the rich text editor only comes up once you press a reply button.

👀 Profiles are now public: profiles can be viewed even if not logged in. Social share links added.

⭐️ Project opportunities: Update your profile to get introductions and referrals to project opportunities. Access to projects in the Swarm network happen through referrals to complete profiles.

🧳 Profile projects: we increased featured projects up to three so you can showcase more of your best work.

💖 Profile testimonials: we increased number of testimonials to three on profile overview.

🌼 Praise: any skill can now be added when praising someone.

🔒 Data and privacy: turn off tracking and request account deletion.

🖼 Profile: Projects. Showcase your past works on your profile.

🤠 Profile: Role Preferences. Declare the project roles you want to take.

🗓 Profile: Project Availability. Let everyone know when you’re available for work.

🐦 Profile: Twitter Link. Add your twitter account to your profile.

🍯 Profile: Reputation Points. The pollen you get from fellow swarmies now shows as your reputation points (a.k.a Honey)

🏆 Profile: Skills. Fellow swarmies can now see the skills you’ve been praised for!

🌍 Profile: Timezone. Let potential collaborators know where you’re working from.

✅ Profile: Verified Badge. You can now show off your verified status on the platform.

🌼 Pollen. Award swarmies for helpful answers on discussions. You get 3 pollen everyday.

🙌 Praise. Praise fellow swarmies for sharing their skills, insights, and advice using pollen!

🍯 Honey. Increase your reputation and credibility on Swarm with each pollen you receive.

☀️ Invites. Use your invites to let up to 5 friends join Swarm.

🤝 Builder referrals. Refer a trusted collaborator to a project, and get $75 if they land the role.

🪲 Bug fix: New swarms email. Get notified for new content on the forum.

🎪 Post a project. Post your project directly from the Bzzaar page! 🏃

📥 Bzzaar project email notifs. Get updated on new discussions on your project!

🎪 Bzzaar marketplace. Make your idea come to life by building it with the Swarm community. Find teams of expert builders ready to make your MVP happen.

🛰 Search. You can now stalk your fellow Swarmies! Find potential collaborators, teammates, and builders for whatever purpose.

💅🏼 New discussions format. We streamlined the reading experience on swarms by making the UI vertical.

👈🏼 Going back. Never lose scroll progress on the timeline ever again. We all never liked going back to the top, right?!

🧚🏻 Projects onboarding. Easier onboarding for busy founders and project posters.

🔍 New Navbar. Explore Swarm with the new navbar: now bigger, better, and with bee-autiful icons!

✨ New Swarms Emails. Get cool new swarms delivered fresh to your inbox weekly.

⬆️ Upvotes &️ Downvotes. Amplify swarms you want to see more buzz on, and bump down swarms that don't bring value.

🔔 Notification Settings. Manage all your Swarm email preferences in just one page.

💌 Mentions are live! Let people know you're thinking of (and typing about) them with @mentions! ✨

• Get email notifications when you're mentioned
• Let fellow Swarmies know they're on your mind 💛
• Mention anyone on Swarm with a quick @

🗑  Delete Reply. We all make mistakes — but now, on Swarm, you can erase evidence of them forever. 😉

• Delete replies
• Never think about them again

💌 Email notifications have a fresh new look!

We now send you a freshly redesigned email about the swarms you follow. Never miss a message again.

• Launch Swarm straight from the email with one click.
• See how many discussions and swarms are waiting for you.
• It's simpler and streamlined, so you can quickly see what's up.

💰 Rich text support makes your swarms look ✨ F A N C Y  ✨

Sometimes, you just want that extra touch of oomph. Or maybe a little sideways-leaning sass. Maybe you just want swarm.work to stand out in the middle of your text.

Whatever the reason, we've got you covered with:

• Bold & Brash
• Italics
• Auto-recognition of links with a juicy purple

all packaged in a pretty little bottom toolbar (we like to call him Richard — don't ask).

• Multiline comments support (shift+enter)
• Automatic inline link highlighting (in descriptions and comments)
• Timestamps on swarm comments
• Follows
  
• Email notifications
  
• Mobile responsiveness