Change your email address, sneak preview, bugs fixed
This month isn’t over yet, but we still have some good news to share, like changing your own email address and a sneak peek at our upcoming design tweaks. Nothing major and most changes are in the background, but we’ve been busy! Learn all about it in this article.
Change your email address yourself
Up until last month, if you wanted to change the email address associated with your start.me account, you had to contact our support team. Not anymore. As of today, you can do it yourself.
Instructions
- Click the Me icon in the top right corner of your start.me page.
- Click Account Details to open your account settings.
- Under Email, locate the email address currently associated with your account. Click Change to change the email address.
- You’ll open a pop-up where you can enter the new email address you want to use.
- We’ll send an email to your old address, to confirm.
If this solution doesn’t work for you (for example, if you no longer have access to your old email address), you can still ask our support team to help you out. You can also check the support article for more detailed instructions.
Note: this change is about the email you use to log in. For changing your billing details, there’s a different procedure. You can read about that here.
Sneak Preview
A lot of our efforts these days go into improving the user experience. We wanted our design to feel less cluttered and easier to navigate. We also redesigned the search field so you can get quick access to your own bookmarks. Besides this, we also wanted to add new options to manage your unsorted bookmarks with drag and drop.
You’ll get an impression of our efforts in the images. Can you spot the differences with our current design? It’s still very much a work in progress, so don’t be alarmed to see some of these options a casualty of the raging design wars!
We plan to start publishing the first changes in March, and we’ll continue to publish new improvements as they come available, so stay tuned!
Bug fixes
A complex piece of programming like start.me is bound to suffer from the occasional bug or inconsistency. Fortunately, this usually doesn’t influence our uptime or overall reliability, but still, it’s not what we aim for. We know that our users rely on us, so we want to make sure everything works as expected. Various bugs were squashed.
Feel free to comment
As we see, we’ve been quite busy. Of course, this doesn’t imply that we’re no longer interested in the opinion of our users. On the contrary! So, do feel free to ask us anything, to make a (design) suggestion, or to contribute in some other way. We’re looking forward to your comments!
This article is entirely written without assistance from ChatGPT. Can you tell?
16 Replies to “Change your email address, sneak preview, bugs fixed”
Really like the new design. Keep up the good work!
Will do that, thanks for your support, Paul!
Start.me stopped working on the 16th of March 2023. It shows error 500.
We are aware of this issue, Dan. Our developers are working hard to solve it asap. We’re very sorry for the inconvenience, as we know how many people rely on our service. We’ll do our best to solve it soon.
Is there a way to manipulate the order widgets show up when in my phone’s browser? I have it set the way I like for 3 across widgets on the desktop, seems like recently the mobile ordering for 1 across changed a lot and has nothing to do with the order I have in on the PC.
This could be my tinkering, or did something change on your end? This is a great feature for me, I use it as a portal like the old igoogle, but recently the mobile version in Brave seems to have a mind of its own as far as what order they are.
Can I change the order of the widgets on mobile and not have it affect the desktop page?
Hi Jim, thanks for asking! The answer is simple: yes, you can change the order of your widgets on mobile without affecting the order on your desktop. We’ve separated the two, as we wanted to give our users a reliable and predictable experience. So, please try it out, and if you have any issues, please let us know again.
Thank you!
Sidenote: Is it possible to set widgets to autohide when the page is loaded up?
Hi Daniel, thanks for your comment. Yes, usually our system should respect the status you left the widget in, upon closing the window. So, if you have collapsed all widgets before closing the browser, you’ll see them all collapsed when you fire it up again. Is this what you intended with the word ‘autohide’? If not, please let me know, and we’ll see how we can help you out. On a side note: I have been advocating internally for a new option to ‘collapse all widgets’ on a page. Right now, you have to individually collapse them to hide the contents. Would you welcome this solution? Please let me know!
Hi Stefan,
Thank you for your reply. I understand that I can individually hide these for myself, but when visitors view a shared link widgets will all be expanded. Is there a way for me to set collapsed widgets?
Hi Daniel, Thanks for clarifying this for me. No, at the moment it’s not possible to set the status for a widget on a shared page. This is set on the account level, so it’s tied to the preferences of the user, not the creator of the page. We do have a slight workaround for bookmark widgets: you can set the display options to none, so users have to click the ‘show all’ link in the widget. This isn’t quite a collapsed widget, but maybe this works for you. That’s: More button (three dots in the top right corner) > Display settings > Visible icons > None. Does this help?
Thanks Stefan. It sort of helps however the padding is a little too large https://share.cleanshot.com/k93L5WZ0
It would be fantastic if there was a way to override user preferences for specific pages just to make the content more visually accessibile.
I think I understand your point: with all bookmarks hidden the widget is still quite big. I’ll pass on your request to the designers. Stay tuned!
Congrats for the very good job.
I love it a lot.
I would like to suggest, if possible, to make the name groups more visible. An option to put it in bold, for instance, would help a lot to navigate between them.
Thank you, Luiz, we’re happy to be of service! I think your request to make the name groups more visible is timely: I’ll pass it on to the designer and we’ll see what he comes up with. Stay tuned!
Keep up the wonderful work. It is truly appreciated.
You’re very welcome, Valerie. And thank you for your support!