# July to November 2023

2023-11-20 · Updated 2026-09-07

Since the month of July, we worked on stabilizing the performance of SchoolMaker after a large amount of new users joined the app, it's now more stable,...

Since the month of July, we worked on stabilizing the performance of SchoolMaker after a large amount of new users joined the app, it's now more stable, and we have a few new features to announce!

### Improved performance

      
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After several weeks of improving the performance of every corner of SchoolMaker, we're happy to announce that the application is more than 2 times smoother for you and your students!

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### DM Privacy control

      
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In your community settings, you now have more control over who your members can start conversations with in their DMs.

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### Member onboarding flow improvements

      
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In the onboarding form of your members, we added additional optional fields to help you have more members who completed their profile information, which makes your community more lively! We're currently working on a way of showing this form only if you want to.

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### Zapier integration

      
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We just released a brand new Zapier integration that allows you to add a member to an offer. This means that you can use the free version of Zapier to add new members to your school via PayPal for example!

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### PDFs available in rich texts.

      
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You can now add PDFs to rich texts as attachements in your lessons and in the community.

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### But also

- ✨ **Signatures**: Members can now reset their signatures on their profile.
- ✨ **Referrals**: Referrers's sales now show who the client is.
- ✨ **Milestones**: Clicking on a milestone from the program page now redirects to the related lesson.
- ✨ **Lives**: Members now see a link to configure notifications for lives in live-related emails.
- **🐞 Programs**: Fixed bug with program progression calculation.
- **🐞 Programs**: Fixed issue with granularity.
- **🐞 Programs**: Fixed a UX issue when saving programs.
- **🐞 Milestones**: Fixed an issue with milestones on member profiles.
- **🐞 Exports**: Fixed an issue with exporting paragraph steps.
- **🐞 Spaces**: Fixed an issue with space selection.