A new era for branded communities
Supercharge your community with gamification, a new layout, and more.
What’s new?
Gamification
Boost your engagement by gamifying your community with points, levels, and rewards
Activate the weekly leaderboard to celebrate member activity
Reward your members with workflows as they move up levels
New layout
New top navigation bar
Cleaner, simplified sidebar
Redesigned event, member, and course tabs for a full screen browsing experience
Redesigned post viewer
Faster, simpler, and more intuitive
Easily sift through posts from a space without having to navigate back and forth
Improved likes and comments bar
And much more
Member leaderboard
Enable engaging conversations by letting users post, react, and leave comments.
Navigation header
We’ve elevated the top-level links in the sidebar to a new, customizable navigation header.
Member profile cards
Glance over a member’s profile information from anywhere in the app, without an extra click.
New typeface
We’ve upgraded the default font to Inter, a typeface carefully crafted and designed for a variety of devices and accessibility standards.
Redesigned directory tabs
We’ve redesigned the directory tabs to offer a full screen browsing experience for your courses, events, and members.
Customizable header
Re-order and rename the links in your navigation header.
How do I activate Circle 3.0 for my community?
Preview changes
Start by previewing 3.0 for your own admin account.
Verify your code snippets
While still in preview mode, head over to Settings -> Code Snippets. Take a look to ensure everything is working as expected, and if not, make necessary changes to your code snippets. Note that any code changes you make while in preview mode will only apply to the new design and not your current one.
Activate Circle 3.0
Click here to activate Circle 3.0 for all your members. And voilà! You’re done.
Frequently Asked Questions
Unfortunately, Circle’s new gamification features will only be offered on Circle 3.0.
Note that the gamification features and the leaderboard is an optional component of 3.0 — even if you choose to enable it, you don’t have to turn on gamification unless you want to, and you can turn it off at any time.
Thankfully not! Your color and code customizations should continue to work even once you enable Circle 3.0.
With that said, we recommend ensuring that the new layout doesn’t affect your CSS and JavaScript code snippets by previewing as an admin first. If it does, you can make adjustments to your code snippets before you turn on 3.0 for all your members.
Once you activate Circle 3.0, you will be able to revert back to 2.0 until November 30, 2024 by reaching out to support. After this date, Circle 3.0 will be automatically enabled for all communities.
