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Slido’s new interface is now available for all users – with the ability to switch to the old interface remaining for some time.

 

Our new interface was designed with ease of use and efficiency at the forefront. The core functionalities (polling and Q&A) are stronger, quicker, and more intuitive than ever. However, this does mean that a few features had to be deprecated.

 

See below for the most up-to-date details about Slido’s feature continuity.

 

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Features returning in the future
 

  • Ability to enable/disable Q&A or polling within your slido
  • Improved ability to test the participant experience
     
  • Ability to search within your Q&A
     
  • Improved ability to share announcements with your audience
     
  • Reuse polls you’ve previously created
     
  • Ability to moderate open text poll responses

 

 

Features that may return

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If you are using either of the below features and you’re willing to share your use case, we’d love to talk to you.

 

  • Filter Q&A by Label in Present mode: This feature is rarely used, but we are open to exploring more relevant use cases.
     
  • Poll templates: As mentioned above, the ability to reuse previous polls is coming soon, but our teams are still evaluating the value of Slido’s native poll library. ​​​​​​​​​​​​However, we are already leveraging AI to make poll creation easier and smarter than ever. ​​​​​​​Check out our Suggest Polls BETA feature and see how to create polls in seconds based on your PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation.

 

 

Features leaving permanently

 

Developing the new interface gave us the opportunity to look critically at our product and understand how it was being used. As a result, there are elements of Slido that we will be sunsetting.

 

  • Agenda/Session: We developed the agenda feature when we were mostly used at conferences. In 2024, Slido is mostly used within companies to help facilitate conversation between leaders and their teams. This means that the agenda feature has very low usage and so we decided against the investment it would need to modernize the technology it’s built on.
     
  • Ideas: The Ideas feature was designed in a way that makes it difficult to evolve. We are currently exploring other brainstorming poll designs, including an enhanced open text poll, that will better address the needs of our users.
     
  • Show results as pie chart (multiple choice poll): This is another feature with low usage. The improvements needed to match our quality standards are simply too costly.
     
  • Switcher app: ​​​​​​​With Slido for PowerPoint now supporting macOS, there’s less and less need for Switcher. The Switcher app is currently used by less than 1% of all users and used within less than 1% of all slidos – which means we simply couldn’t justify updating it for the new interface.
     
  • Star a Q&A question: This feature was replaced with our more powerful Q&A Labels function.
     
  • Archive a Q&A reply: This has been replaced with the Delete reply action.

 

Students can post questions on my Slido for 2-3 days prior to each teaching session. 100 is a bit of an exaggeration, but there may be 20-30 questions. On the morning of the session i add labels to each, and then think about the order in which I want to discuss them. Then, in the teaching session, I will bring up the questions associated with a label on my display and ‘star’ them, which will show them to the audience on the projector screen (in the presentation view). So, at any one time, there will only be 1-3 questions on the screen that they can see. When I’m done discussing those 1-3 questions, I mark them as answered (or whatever the option is), which drops them from the presentation view, choose the next label, and repeat the process above. 

It appears as though I will no longer be able to do this. It seems that if I want to discuss all 20-30 questions with students, I will soon need to just have them all up on screen, and scroll up and down looking for the ones I want to discuss. Is this the case? If so, this is a massive reduction in functionality. 

 

 

Hey @PJA ,

Thanks for your feedback, if you’re willing to share your use case a bit more, we’d love to talk to you. 

Please utilize the calendly link above to meet with us directly so we can understand your feedback first hand and use it for further development of the New Interace.

Best,

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