Historically, Shorebird had two kinds of organizations: the personal org every account got by default, and the team orgs you created to work with other people. That split showed up all over the product. Personal orgs couldn’t have members, so if you wanted to share an app from one, you added people to that app as collaborators.
To reduce the complexity and inconsistent behavior, we’ve consolidated; now, there’s only one kind of org.
Personal orgs are now just orgs
Your personal org is now an ordinary org. The Shorebird server and console no longer handle it as a special case, so it works like any other org.
- You can add members to it. On Pro and above, if you’ve been sharing apps from your personal org through app collaborators, you can make those people members of the org.
- You choose how far access goes. Every member of an org can access that org’s apps. On Pro and above, if someone should only see some of your apps, create a new org and move those apps into it.
- Unused personal orgs are going away. Personal orgs that were never used (no apps, no other members, and still on their default name) will be removed, so your interface looks cleaner.
- Orgs can generate service accounts. Our new service accounts are available on every plan, including the free plan.
Enterprise: one place for your whole company
If your company runs several orgs, Enterprise gives you one place in the console to manage its people, orgs, SSO and audit log. It also adds the App Manager role, which can create and manage apps without being an org admin. More is on the way.
Interested in Enterprise? Please reach out to our Sales team. If you’re already an Enterprise customer, you’ll receive new improvements automatically.
Sunsetting app collaborators
As part of improving org-level collaboration, we’re also sunsetting our app collaborator feature. This feature collides with our improvements to orgs, and has been very underused. You can no longer add new app collaborators. Existing collaborators keep their access, but to share an app with someone new, add them to the org that owns it. On Pro and above, you can move your existing collaborators over the same way.
What’s next
We have been busy. We recently shipped service accounts and automatic patch signing across every plan, and there’s more on the way.
