We&#39;re excited to unveil a new feature for the Cosmic Community: the Powered&nbsp;by Cosmic Badge.Here&#39;s how it looks 😍&nbsp;<img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cosmicjs/51fe54d0-4f6e-11e9-9f32-8d001da69630-powered-by-cosmicjs.svg" style="width: 180px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> Add the badge to the footer of your website to let your visitors know how you power your content (API-first!). Enable sharing to allow others to clone your content to their own Bucket.You will get a Free Personal plan forever for helping us spread the word. Here&#39;s how to do it:&nbsp;1. Navigate to <a href="https://cosmicjs.com/login">Your Bucket &gt; Settings</a> and turn sharing on.<img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cosmicjs/82f3f120-4f6f-11e9-94c4-7f4f4d5a285a-Screen-Shot-2019-03-25-at-7.32.58-PM.png" style="width: 150px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib fr-fil">2. Copy and paste the code to the footer of your website using HTML or markdown.<img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cosmicjs/a9b03560-4f7b-11e9-94c4-7f4f4d5a285a-Screen-Shot-2019-03-25-at-9.00.00-PM.png" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">3. <a href="/contact?subject=Clone%20on%20Cosmic%20Badge">Reach out to Cosmic support</a> with a link to the badge and we&#39;ll upgrade your Bucket of choice to a free Personal plan forever! Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/ImcUkZ72oUs?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">israel palacio</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Unsplash</a>

Introducing the 'Powered by Cosmic' Badge

You can now edit your images on the fly using the new editor available on every image Metafield.To see the new feature, <a href="https://cosmicjs.com/login" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">login to your Cosmic account</a> and go to any Object with an image Metafield and you&#39;ll notice a button to edit &quot;Settings&quot;. (Note: you will need to have a role that includes developer features) <img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cosmicjs/86c75810-3f9c-11e9-b5af-c5755d786de5-edit-image-button.jpg" data-action="zoom" class="fr-fic fr-dii" style="width: 100%;"> Click the button and you will be able to edit and optimize the image using <a href="https://imgix.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">imgix</a> query params.<img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cosmicjs/338705a0-3f93-11e9-ae29-f5a87a57ad39-imgix-inline-editor.gif" data-action="zoom" class="fr-fic fr-dii" style="width: 100%;"> If you have any questions about this feature or others, <a href="https://cosmicjs.com/community">join the conversation on Slack</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/cosmic_js" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reach out to us on Twitter</a>.

Optimize images on the fly with the new image settings editor 📷 🛠

We&#39;re happy to release a new feature that helps you collaborate with your team members easier using Cosmic. Introducing View as Editor. As a developer, getting a CMS set up for your content creators requires a certain level of empathy. It&#39;s your job to make a technology choice that allows them to work in a comfortable environment and only see what they need to get their job done. With the new &quot;View as Editor&quot; toggle now available in your Bucket for the developer and admin roles (see gif below), you can preview the entire Bucket experience from the vantage point of your content creators hiding all developer features and settings. <img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cosmicjs/1e608ec0-3549-11e9-918c-59ca5baebb7d-view-as-editor.gif" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib" data-action="zoom"> So now when you add your content creators in the editor role, you can be sure that you are giving them an intuitive and easy-to-use editing experience. I&#39;d love to hear your thoughts on this and other ways to make it easier for teams of developers and content creators to collaborate. <a href="https://cosmicjs.com/community" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Join the conversation on Slack</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/cosmic_js" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reach out to us on Twitter</a>. Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/-udZnjsCzsE?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Scott Webb</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Unsplash</a>.

View as Editor

2022 was a productive year for us at Cosmic. I am proud of the progress we&#39;ve made this year and stoked for more great things to come in 2023. Read about some of the highlights in the recap below:<h2>2022 Highlights</h2>New dashboard progress Over the course of the year, we have been building, what can only be described in my humble opinion, as the best content management system in the world. Starting from the ground up, we have reimagined the experience, building it with hand-crafted precision.Special thanks goes to the customers who have been helping to provide feedback along the way 🙌 We are coming very close to a beta release, and are looking forward to getting it into your hands for wider release, so stay tuned!<video autoplay="" class="fr-draggable fr-fvc fr-dvi" loop="" muted="" playsinline="" src="https://cdn.cosmicjs.com/a0804990-8167-11ed-a98f-051589794d26-dashboard-preview.mp4">Your browser does not support HTML5 video.</video> The beautiful new dashboard 😍 Infrastructure updates We are grateful to you for choosing Cosmic to host and deliver your mission-critical content. With this trust comes our commitment to providing a resilient and performant service for your team and your customers, wherever they are in the world. This year we shipped <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/blog/global-infrastructure-updates">a big update</a> to make our global infrastructure more resilient, adding multiple regions to our data centers as well as making the dashboard up to three times faster.<img src="https://imgix.cosmicjs.com/fb967680-e4a9-11eb-aaa7-f94d35ca882e-1626270428681.jpg?w=1200&auto=format" data-name="1626270428681.jpg" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">Educational resources Along with updates to improve the service experience, we&#39;ve continued efforts to teach about the value of decoupling content from code to make your team more efficient and productive.We offered new educational resources in <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/changelog/new-docs-examples" rel="noopener noreferrer">our documentation</a> to help you learn about the powerful capabilities of the Cosmic API.We provided how-to articles to help you learn how you can use Cosmic to power content for various use cases such as a <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/apps/developer-portfolio" rel="noopener noreferrer">developer portfolio</a>, <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/apps/nextjs-restaurant-website" rel="noopener noreferrer">restaurant website</a>, and <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/apps/nextjs-non-profit-website" rel="noopener noreferrer">non-profit website</a>.<a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/apps/developer-portfolio" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img src="https://imgix.cosmicjs.com/ab80e820-f7c6-11ec-8f84-3f01a4a22fe2-developer-portfolio-cover-2.png?w=1200&auto=format" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"></a>As the year ends, and the web3 world seems to have vanished like a thief in the night, we offered a <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/apps/unft-marketplace" rel="noopener noreferrer">digital art marketplace website</a> powered by good old fashioned centralized API services: Cosmic and Stripe.<a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/apps/unft-marketplace" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img src="https://imgix.cosmicjs.com/d2327370-0195-11ed-b7be-d956591ad437-home-dark.gif?w=1000" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"></a>We even <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/blog/introducing-build-time-a-new-podcast-by-cosmic">launched a podcast</a> to help you learn more about Cosmic and the latest technology trends to help you build modern apps using powerful tools (Follow Build Time on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@CosmicJS" rel="noopener noreferrer">YouTube</a> and <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2KKUCT7VbhJD6yzwGWZbfr" rel="noopener noreferrer">Spotify</a>!)<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@CosmicJS" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img src="https://imgix.cosmicjs.com/d6c91900-11f0-11ed-b476-13ceb56f12f2-banner.png" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"></a><h2>2023 and onward 🚀</h2>I&#39;m proud of our accomplishments in 2022 and excited for what&#39;s to come in 2023. This year, we not only focused on building a world-class product for our customers, we&#39;ve also focused on building and strengthening a world-class team. And for
the Cosmic team I am very proud and grateful. But our work is not done yet, it is just beginning!At Cosmic, we will continue to focus on helping teams build great products to better share their content with the world. It&#39;s a beautiful mission that I feel fortunate to be working on.Cheers to a productive 2022 and we can&#39;t wait to see what you build in 2023 🥂 Tony Spiro Cosmic CEO

Cosmic Year in Review

We are pleased to share that we have expanded our global infrastructure to include coverage
of more regions around the globe to ensure greater service reliability and performance. Regions now include:<ol><li>US West (<code>us-west-2</code>)</li><li>US East (<code>us-east-1</code>)</li><li>Ireland (<code>eu-west-1</code>)</li><li>Australia (<code>ap-southeast-2</code>)</li></ol>&hellip; more regions coming soon What does this mean? With this update comes increased resiliency and performance for our global customers.<ol><li>Resiliency: If there is ever an outage in a region due to an upstream cloud service provider outage (for example if US West goes down) the DNS will automatically route to the nearest regional deployment (US East).</li><li>Performance boost: Customers should now notice performance improvements from our dashboard and API (between 2x-3x faster) which should make your dashboard workflows and API requests more responsive and faster wherever you are in the world.</li></ol> Recent issues We recently experienced two service outages due to an upstream issue with one of our cloud service providers. Because of an over-dependence on a single region, our dashboard and API (non-cached requests) were down for up to 30 minutes (though cached API
requests were still reachable). This is unacceptable. Our response This is our response to this incident. It fixes this vulnerability to ensure that this issue never happens again as well as brings the performance benefits stated above. Uptime matters. It matters to our customers and it matters to the Cosmic team. By choosing Cosmic we understand that you are entrusting us with your mission-critical content to be ready when and where you need it. We are committed to constantly improving
our service to continue building your trust with maximum uptime and service reliability. On this solid foundation, we know great things can be built. We are pleased to share this update with you to further help your team build great products together
with reliable uptime and improved global performance.Please let me know if you have any questions. <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/community">Join our community on Slack</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/cosmicjs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">follow Cosmic on Twitter</a> for the latest updates.Tony Spiro Cosmic CEO

Global infrastructure updates

With a variety of <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/headless-cms">headless CMS</a> choices out there, how do you know which one to pick? Image hosting, content writing experience, and developer experience are all things to consider during this tedious process.In this article, we&rsquo;re going to dive into the many factors to consider when choosing a headless CMS. If you&rsquo;re new to headless CMS, let this be your guide to confidently making the best choice for your project and team needs.<h2>The evolution of CMS</h2>Founded in 1982, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileNet">FileNet</a> was the creator of software to help enterprises manage their content and business processes. Although this software is much different from a modern CMS, it could be coined as the very first CMS ever created.About two decades later came the rise of the monolithic CMS. WordPress and Drupal would take a huge slice of the pie in this market, with WordPress being one of the most used CMS in the world. In the year 2022, there are about <a href="https://www.manaferra.com/wordpress-statistics/#:~:text=The%20number%20of%20WordPress%20websites,the%20total%20number%20of%20websites">835 million WordPress sites</a> currently active on the internet.With the rising demand for omnichannel content delivery, headless CMS entered the scene with a solution that would allow content to be stored in a single content management system and delivered to several mediums using an API. A headless CMS cuts the
coupling between the presentation and content layers, allowing you to code your user interface and fetch content directly to your website or application.<h2>Content creation experience</h2>Organization and editing experience should be important factors when choosing a headless CMS. You have to consider what kind of user experience your content creators, marketing team, or editors should have.<ul><li><a href="https://docs.cosmicjs.com/api-reference/object-types">Content Types</a></li><li>Writing experience (<a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/features/rich-text-multimedia">Rich text</a> and <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/blog/markdown-metafield-now-available">markdown</a>)</li><li><a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/features/media-management">Managing media</a></li></ul>A great headless CMS empowers the user (of the CMS), providing them with many features and a pleasant content creation experience. An organized dashboard, limitless content types and content creation capabilities, and versioning/scheduling features are
all things that a great headless CMS is capable of.<h3>Media management capabilities</h3>Images on the web are heavy. Choosing a CMS with built-in media management and <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/knowledge-base/image-api-and-cdn">image optimization</a> is crucial. In the modern web, images make up the <a href="https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2021/page-weight#fig-5">largest number of requests on a web page</a>.Many CMSes come optimized with an <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/image-cdn">Image CDN</a> service, so lots of the heavy lifting is done for the developer. If you care about user experience, delivering optimized images will ensure that users around the globe are getting the best user experience when visiting your site.When choosing a headless CMS, it&rsquo;s important to consider how media is managed in the dashboard and under the hood. Images, videos, and documents are all things that deserve some optimization out of the box. It would be a bit of a pain to have to
access your media from another service other than your headless CMS.Consider the experience your content creators and editors will endure. They will be the ones constantly uploading and accessing media within the dashboard, and a good headless CMS will provide them with a smooth and understandable process.<h2>Developer experience</h2>Whether you are a developer or not, a developer will be needed to implement the headless CMS into your codebase. A great headless CMS should provide them with educational <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/articles">resources</a>, code examples, and templates
to lower the learning curve.<ul><li><a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/features/rest-graphql-apis">RESTful and GraphQL APIs</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/cosmicjs/cosmicjs-node">SDKs</a></li><li><a href="https://docs.cosmicjs.com/">Documentation</a> and <a href="https://docs.cosmicjs.com/examples/basic-queries">examples</a></li><li>Integration with web frameworks (like <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/react-cms">React</a>)</li><li>Pre-built <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/apps">application templates</a></li></ul>While the initial time spent integrating a headless CMS into your application or website may be higher than a monolithic CMS, great documentation, how-to guides, SDKs, and pre-coded templates will speed up this process for the developer. Don&rsquo;t hesitate
to explore the website for the headless CMS you are inquiring on. Are there plenty of articles and blog posts relating to headless CMS topics; &ldquo;how-to&rdquo; guides? Is there in-depth documentation? Can you read it from a technical perspective and
understand it from a non-technical perspective? The value is not just in the product itself, but also in the ecosystem of resources supporting it.The next type of developer consideration is the integration capabilities. Many headless CMSes take on an <a href="https://tyk.io/blog/res-what-is-api-first/">API-first</a> approach, improving the underlying functionality of the CMS. Developers love having options, and having a choice between <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/features/rest-graphql-apis">Rest and GraphQL APIs</a> could be a make-or-break factor. Furthermore, having an <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/cosmicjs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NPM module</a> is highly beneficial, making it easier to connect your code with your content, fetch data, perform CRUD operations, and handle file uploads. Being able to <code>npm install</code> a package provided by the headless CMS makes it that much easier to connect to the API.Community is key. Look for an official Slack or Discord channel, as it will have developers that actually work on the headless CMS itself. They&rsquo;re there to help answer questions, walk you through problems, and consider feature integrations based
on feedback. The community will also have developers using the CMS for work, personal projects, and freelance. If developers enjoy using the headless CMS, chances are they&rsquo;re happy to help others when they run into an issue as well. This is a sign
of a healthy, active community that uses the CMS frequently.<h3>Architecture and support</h3>Ever implement a software product or service into your application, only to get stuck on a particular step of the process or find that a crucial feature is missing? This could be the make-or-break factor of your decision. Having great support from the
headless CMS provider is important.Good support means direct conversation with the engineering team, guidance on the implementation of the headless CMS, and sometimes features built specifically for your company&rsquo;s case.<ul><li>Maintenance and scalability</li><li>Security</li><li>Customer support</li><li>Feature updates</li></ul><h3>Composability and content modeling</h3>When considering a headless CMS as a content management system, people often consider the composability aspect. A headless CMS simply does not care how you structure your content. It is entirely up to you how you build your landing pages, blog posts,
and menus. A monolithic CMS like WordPress or a website builder like Squarespace often lays out your content structure for you, whereas a headless CMS gives you the individual building blocks themselves.Text fields, number inputs, radio switches, markdown editors, JSON blocks&hellip; the list goes on. Having a variety of <a href="https://docs.cosmicjs.com/api-reference/metafields">metafields</a> to choose from equals freedom. Constructing a cohesive experience for your content is an art in itself, and a great headless CMS allows you to be creative in this process.When crafting your content model, content relationships are like superpowers. When selecting a headless CMS, take note if it provides the capability to create content relationships. This can streamline content reusability and related content fetching.The API should make it possible to access related content easily. When fetching one content type, it should provide any related data without any additional API requests or technical challenges. For example, when fetching a single blog post it should also be possible to provide the related author and category information.<h2>Team workflows</h2>With any content management system, it&rsquo;s important to pay attention to the collaboration aspect. When you have a team working within a headless CMS, you will often have an array of roles like developers, editors, and administrators. Sometimes, you
may even need to simply share content externally.Different tiers of permissions will be needed for different roles. For example, a manager should get access to several editing properties in the project itself. Creating new groups of content and setting the template for what content will be
accepted within that piece of content. An editor should really just be able to do simple tasks related to editing the actual content within the content. Editing copy and filling in input fields should suffice.Some CMS solutions are innovating on content approval workflows, incorporating a Git-like process for branching and merging numerous pieces of content. Changes are made within a CMS and the author of the changes saves them to a <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/blog/introducing-merge-requests">merge request</a>.
Other members of the project can view the changes (the before and after), reviewing and iterating as needed. Once approved, the changes are then &lsquo;merged&rsquo; into the production &lsquo;branch&rsquo; of the content.Another great feature is preview mode. Preview mode in a headless CMS will allow content updates to be previewed before changes go live. With this feature, you make changes in your headless CMS, save them as a draft, then are able to share a preview link with anyone. Anyone with the link will be able to access draft content. <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/articles/how-to-use-nextjs-preview-mode-with-the-cosmic-headless-cms">Using Next.js preview mode with a headless CMS</a>, you can achieve this through <a href="https://nextjs.org/learn/basics/api-routes">Next.js API routes</a>.Small teams may not feel the effect of these features, though when it comes to larger teams of ten or even hundreds with access to a single project, they will be felt. These workflow features are crucial for high-performance teams prioritizing content velocity.<h2>In conclusion</h2>The market of headless CMS is plentiful, and this is a good thing. With many choices comes many things to consider, and with the right direction and information, you should have no problem finding the right headless CMS for your project. After all, one
size does not fit all, and you should test around a bit and choose the solution you enjoy using the most.I hope this guide gave you a better understanding of the foundational features of a headless CMS and what to look for when choosing one.

Choosing the right headless CMS [A universal guide]

We&#39;re excited to share new dashboard updates and fixes with you. Read below and <a href="https://app-v2.cosmicjs.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">sign up to get on the waitlist</a> to preview the new dashboard.<h3> 🎨 Color and emoji Metafields</h3>Say hello to a couple of new Metafields, color and emoji.<video autoplay="" class="fr-draggable fr-fvc fr-dvi card-shadow video-popout lazy-load" data-video="https://cdn.cosmicjs.com/1f901ce0-3372-11ed-8a37-f1952c73e588-color-emoji.mp4" loop="" muted="" playsinline="">Your browser does not support HTML5 video.</video>Color Metafield The color Metafield has been one of our most-requested additions and it&#39;s now available! Select a color using a color picker, or simply add any valid HEX value.Emoji Metafield Why not? Select from numerous emojis to create even more expressive content 😉&nbsp; <h3>🌎 Improved localization</h3>We&#39;ve made some nice quality of life updates to our localization feature. We think you&#39;ll agree that the experience of localizing content in the new dashboard is simple and intuitive.<video autoplay="" class="fr-draggable fr-fvc fr-dvi card-shadow video-popout lazy-load" data-video="https://cdn.cosmicjs.com/21085310-3374-11ed-8a37-f1952c73e588-improved-localization.mp4" loop="" muted="" playsinline="">Your browser does not support HTML5 video.</video> <h3>📜 Fixed HTML editor toolbar scrolling</h3>The fixed HTML editor scrolling toolbar makes it easy to update your content with the available tools wherever you are on the page.<video autoplay="" class="fr-draggable fr-fvc fr-dvi card-shadow video-popout lazy-load" data-video="https://cdn.cosmicjs.com/563cbfa0-3377-11ed-8a37-f1952c73e588-fixed-editor-toolbar.mp4" loop="" muted="" playsinline="">Your browser does not support HTML5 video.</video> <h3>🐛&nbsp;Content model editing fix</h3>We fixed an issue where the model was not being updated when you navigate from editing a Content Type to the Object page. It&#39;s fixed now!<video autoplay="" class="fr-draggable fr-fvc fr-dvi card-shadow video-popout lazy-load" data-video="https://cdn.cosmicjs.com/31848490-3372-11ed-8a37-f1952c73e588-model-update.mp4" loop="" muted="" playsinline="">Your browser does not support HTML5 video.</video><a data-ved="2ahUKEwj73tjz4Iz4AhUsoY4IHRjCDPkQFnoECAMQAQ" href="https://emojipedia.org/laptop/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://emojipedia.org/laptop/&ved=2ahUKEwj73tjz4Iz4AhUsoY4IHRjCDPkQFnoECAMQAQ"></a><h3> </h3><h3>🖥️ Try it out</h3>We are on a mission to build the best content management solution in the world. There&#39;s more work to do, so if you haven&#39;t joined, please <a href="https://app-v2.cosmicjs.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">sign up to get on the waitlist</a> to try it out during this alpha development phase, and help us by providing your feedback.We&#39;re excited to be closing in on the beta release, the majority of the work ahead is mainly preparing for migration. We will be to sure to let you know soon what steps will be needed (if any) to prepare your projects for the new dashboard.Follow us <a href="https://twitter.com/cosmicjs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">on Twitter</a>, subscribe <a href="https://www.youtube.com/cosmicjs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">on YouTube</a>, and join our team <a href="https://cosmicslack.herokuapp.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">on Slack</a> to stay in touch with the latest Cosmic news and feature updates. Sincerely, Cosmic Team

New dashboard updates: Metafields, localization, and more

We&#39;re excited to share a big release for the new dashboard. Read below and <a href="https://app-v2.cosmicjs.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">sign up to get on the waitlist</a> to preview the new dashboard.<h3>🛠️&nbsp;Content type updates</h3>Content modeling is at the heart of the Cosmic content management experience. And with this latest release, content modeling got even better. Now whenever you update your content model in your content type settings, ALL of the existing Objects in the type will be
updated.<video autoplay="" class="fr-draggable fr-fvc fr-dvi card-shadow video-popout lazy-load" data-video="https://cdn.cosmicjs.com/4d8c5b20-17ef-11ed-a6f1-796d8d81420f-content-model.mp4" loop="" muted="" playsinline="">Your browser does not support HTML5 video.</video>Prior to this update, updating the model on all of your existing Objects was manual and cumbersome, now it&#39;s automatic! We think you&#39;ll enjoy this improvement when working with ongoing updates to your content model.<h3> 🧭 Global nav updates</h3>The navigation has been dramatically improved with this release. You&#39;ll notice that everything is centered and easy to get to. This is a small update that makes a big difference to improve your navigation efficiency.<video autoplay="" class="fr-draggable fr-fvc fr-dvi card-shadow video-popout lazy-load" data-video="https://cdn.cosmicjs.com/d170b300-17ef-11ed-a6f1-796d8d81420f-global-nav.mp4" loop="" muted="" playsinline="">Your browser does not support HTML5 video.</video> <h3>🤝&nbsp;Roles and permissions</h3>We&#39;ve made a big update to how roles and permissions are done. You can now set roles at the Project level (If you have a Workspace, it&#39;s done at the Workspace level). This will enable teams to more efficiently add team members for collaboration.<video autoplay="" class="fr-draggable fr-fvc fr-dvi card-shadow video-popout lazy-load" data-video="https://cdn.cosmicjs.com/4c32c920-17f0-11ed-a6f1-796d8d81420f-roles-permissions.mp4" loop="" muted="" playsinline="">Your browser does not support HTML5 video.</video><h3> </h3><a data-ved="2ahUKEwj73tjz4Iz4AhUsoY4IHRjCDPkQFnoECAMQAQ" href="https://emojipedia.org/laptop/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://emojipedia.org/laptop/&ved=2ahUKEwj73tjz4Iz4AhUsoY4IHRjCDPkQFnoECAMQAQ"></a><h3>🖥️ Try it out</h3>Note: If you have already been testing the new dashboard in the private alpha release, and had previously added content, you will notice that your content has been removed. This is because we made lots of content model updates. You can still log in with your alpha testing account.We are on a mission to build the best content management solution in the world and there&#39;s more work to do! If you haven&#39;t joined, <a href="https://app-v2.cosmicjs.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">sign up to get on the waitlist</a> to try it out during this alpha development phase, and help us by providing your feedback.A lot of folks have asked us when this will be ready for wider release and the answer is VERY SOON. We&#39;re excited to be closing in on the beta release. Follow us <a href="https://twitter.com/cosmicjs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">on Twitter</a>, subscribe <a href="https://www.youtube.com/cosmicjs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">on YouTube</a>, and join our team <a href="https://cosmicslack.herokuapp.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">on Slack</a> to stay in touch with the latest Cosmic news and feature updates. Sincerely, Cosmic Team

New dashboard updates: content type model improvements, global nav updates, and more

We are excited to announce our new podcast: Build Time, now available on your favorite podcast platforms.<a href="https://youtu.be/Q-m09YsyBC0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><img src="https://cdn.cosmicjs.com/655f6540-11ef-11ed-b476-13ceb56f12f2-ytlogorgblight.png" style="width: 300px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"></a><a href="https://youtu.be/Q-m09YsyBC0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Watch on YouTube</a> <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2KKUCT7VbhJD6yzwGWZbfr" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><img src="https://cdn.cosmicjs.com/b490d540-11ef-11ed-b476-13ceb56f12f2-SpotifyLogoCMYKGreen.png" style="width: 300px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"></a> <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2KKUCT7VbhJD6yzwGWZbfr" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2KKUCT7VbhJD6yzwGWZbfr" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Listen on Spotify</a> <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/build-time/id1637206506" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><img src="https://cdn.cosmicjs.com/d349f9d0-11ef-11ed-b476-13ceb56f12f2-USUKApplePodcastsListenBadgeRGB.svg" style="width: 300px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"></a> <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/build-time/id1637206506" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Listen on Apple Podcasts</a> Why did we start a podcast? Our mission at Cosmic is to provide the best content management service in the world. And we believe educational content is critical to helping you get the most out of Cosmic.By offering a podcast, we are giving you another way to learn how to build great content-powered products using Cosmic and other applicable tools and services.Our goal is for listeners to learn more about features offered by Cosmic and provide insights into techniques, libraries, frameworks, and collaboration tools in the content management and app development space. Episode #1 Our first episode discusses the article&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/articles/how-to-use-nextjs-image-with-a-headless-cms" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to use Next.js Image with a headless CMS</a>. We show you how to use the Next.js Image component to optimize the delivery of your Cosmic-hosted images. We also discuss general best practices and techniques to optimize images for page speed and website user experiences. Show ideas We are committed to helping our customers build great products using the best technology. And since we are also passionate about building great products, Build Time will serve as a way for us to stay up-to-date with the best techniques to build modern
products and share our experience with you.We are happy to consider your ideas for Cosmic features you would like us to highlight as well as any other topics you would like to see featured in the show. For episode ideas and any guest requests, please reach out to us on <a href="https://cosmicslack.herokuapp.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Slack</a> , <a href="https://twitter.com/cosmicjs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, or&nbsp;<a href="mailto:support@cosmicjs.com">email us</a>. Happy listening! Cosmic Education Team

Start building today