Polish season: Week #4

We’re into the 4th week of polishing our UI, SDKs, and backend as part of our commitment to making a world-class product.

We’re back after taking last week off to put together our roadmap for 2025 at our offsite in Berlin.

Here’s what we polished this week:

App improvements

Let users create new features on Bucket by using flag.new
Added a tooltip to the targeting UI to clarify the “Some” targeting rule conditions
Put a “Give feedback” button on the app sidebar
Added ID columns to the Users and Companies tables
Polished the Slack alerts for access rules and release stage changes

Added SDKVersion and ServiceName to feature flag events to make them simpler to debug
The React SDK and Browser SDKs now use new-style exports
Improved the automated survey documentation to explain how to position the modal when using requestFeedback

Improved the positioning of the automated survey popover widget so it always stays in the viewport
Cleaned up legacy code and feature flags, which included making flag targeting validation stricter
Fixed an occasional glitch where the “Hide feature sidebar” button didn’t appear in the Feature tab

With polish season coming to an end, this everything we've shipped over the past 4 weeks to make Bucket a robust, reliable, and intuitive product.

Overhauled the code instructions block. It’s simpler and actively listens for real-time checks or usage tracking
Drastically improved internal data processing service start up times (reduced by 98.4%!) by initializing from stored aggregated values
Included a feature view selector on the individual company screen under the Features tab
New card design for the Analyze widgets.
Simplified headers across the app.
New card design for the Targeting environment rules.
A rounded border-radius was added to buttons, inputs, and cards.
Simplified the app and environment picker in the sidebar
Polished the overall design of the feature sidebar
Redesigned the main content area as a card
Added a guide for feature entitlements
Improved load times and stopped spinners from blocking the feature UI
Updated the free trial indicator in the left sidebar for better clarity
Added a new environment activity indicator to the feature sidebar
Refactored some of the internal segment size estimation endpoints for increased simplicity
Added a new profile menu to the bottom of the app sidebar

Send feedback using the feature key instead of the feature ID.
Added the requestFeedback function to allow users to implement the “Get feedback” button

Now, it automatically sends user and company details to Bucket when either bindClient or getFeature(s) calls are made. This ensures that up-to-date information is pushed to Bucket so companies can be used immediately. Previously, you had to call updateCompany and updateUser manually.
Introduced the enableTracking option to disable the sending of track, user, company, and flag events. This is useful when you’re impersonating other users, for example.
‍Updated and expanded the SDK documentation
Introduced offline mode to improve the behavior of the SDK in tests and on localhost
Added options to set local feature overrides for localhost development
Improved logging
Made improvements to the installation and getting started process
Introduced file and environment variable-based configuration
Fixed a rate limiter issue where it would keep accumulating data

Streamlined the STARS funnel step icons.
Filters no longer show errors when you open the popover.
Updated autocomplete selectors so they all work the same
Reduced loading flicker in autocomplete selectors when a user is typing
Changed how rules were stored to stop some flag rules from being misrepresented as OR instead of AND.
Fixed an ingest issue where remote contexts overrode the given context
Solved an occasional bug where users were prompted to create a new organization after receiving an invite link

Happy shipping!