Public portal

Your portal is what your customers see. It lives at feedjolt.com/p/{your-slug}.

A typical portal has:

• A homepage with the full feedback feed — filter by board, sort by votes or date, vote inline — plus a submit call-to-action, search, and trending posts in the sidebar.
• One or more boards - collections of posts.
• A roadmap - posts grouped by status.
• A changelog - what you've shipped.
• An embedded widget - a "Feedback" button you can put on your own site.

The pages

• Roadmap - the columns customers love.
• Changelog - your "what's new" page.
• Widget - embed on your app or site.
• Branding - logo, colors, voice.

What's public, what's hidden

• Public boards - visible to anyone with the link.
• Authenticated boards - visible after sign-in (magic link).
• Invite-only boards - visible to invited end users only.
• Internal boards - never on the portal. Members only.

Within a board:

• Public posts - shown.
• Internal posts - hidden, even on a public board.
• Drafts (when moderation is on) - hidden until approved.
• Spam - hidden.

Signing in to a portal

Visitors don't need an account to browse a portal — boards, the roadmap, and the changelog are public. To vote, comment, or post under their own name, they sign in with just an email:

1. Click Sign in in the portal header (or just try to vote or comment).
2. Enter a name and email — no password, ever.
3. Type the 6-digit code from the email. Done: the vote or comment they were casting goes through automatically.

Sessions last 60 days. Anonymous feedback submission still works without signing in — those posts arrive as drafts for your team to review, without a public author name.

If your workspace uses JWT SSO with Require SSO enabled, email sign-in is disabled — your own app remains the only door.

URL structure

• feedjolt.com/p/{slug} - homepage.
• feedjolt.com/p/{slug}/boards/{board} - board detail.
• feedjolt.com/p/{slug}/posts/{id} - single post.
• feedjolt.com/p/{slug}/roadmap - roadmap view.
• feedjolt.com/p/{slug}/changelog - changelog view.

These are the canonical URLs. The redundant longer forms (/{locale}/portal/{slug}/...) work too but redirect to the short form.

Turning the portal off

The whole public portal can be switched off in one click: Dashboard -> Portal -> Public portal. While off, every URL under feedjolt.com/p/{slug}/... returns 404 - boards, roadmap, changelog, posts, the lot.

The embedded widget keeps working when the portal is off - so customers can still submit feedback from your own site while the public hub stays hidden. Handy for stealth-mode products, internal-only feedback collection, or temporarily winding down a product line.

Independent of that master switch, you can hide just the roadmap or just the changelog tab via the same Portal settings page.

SEO

Public boards and posts are indexed by search engines. Each page has its own title, description, and OG image. The portal exposes its own sitemap at feedjolt.com/sitemap/portal.xml.

You don't need to do anything for this to work - it's on by default. To stop indexing entirely, flip the master portal switch off (above).