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    <title>MentionDrop Changelog</title>
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    <lastBuildDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</lastBuildDate>
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      <title>[Fixed] Sign-in warning for in-app browsers</title>
      <link>https://www.mentiondrop.com/changelog#2026-04-27-in-app-browser-sign-in-warning</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Banner on the sign-in page detects LinkedIn, Instagram, X and other in-app browsers so users know to switch to a real browser before Google blocks them.</description>
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If you opened a MentionDrop link from inside the LinkedIn app, Instagram, X, or another in-app browser, then tapped Sign in with Google, Google blocked you with a 403 error. That is Google's policy against OAuth from embedded webviews, not something we could fix on our side.

Now the sign-in and sign-up pages detect the in-app browser, name the app you are in, and tell you to open the page in Chrome or Safari before signing in. There is also a one-tap button to copy the page link.
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      <title>[New] Tell the AI when it gets a mention wrong</title>
      <link>https://www.mentiondrop.com/changelog#2026-04-26-mention-feedback</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Thumbs up and thumbs down buttons on every mention card. The AI takes the hint and gets sharper at scoring future mentions for that keyword.</description>
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Every mention card on your dashboard now has thumbs up and thumbs down buttons. Hit thumbs down on the ones that miss the mark, thumbs up on the ones that nail it. The AI takes the hint and gets sharper for that keyword from there on out.

The more you mark, the better it gets at filtering out the noise: the listicles, the aggregator pages, the "10 alternatives to..." posts that tend to slip through.

Two things worth knowing:

1. It only affects future mentions. Existing ones keep their current scores.
2. If your needs change, just keep marking. It adapts.
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      <title>[New] Keyword suggestions email for stalled signups</title>
      <link>https://www.mentiondrop.com/changelog#2026-04-24-keyword-suggestions-email</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>If you signed up but did not add any keywords, you will get a one-off email three days later with concrete suggestions based on your website.</description>
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A common pattern: someone signs up, gets distracted, and never adds a keyword. The product never gets a chance to prove itself.

If you fall into that bucket, you now get a single follow-up email three days after signup with three specific keyword suggestions based on the website you entered during onboarding. One click adds them, and the alerts start flowing.

This only fires once. If you ignore it, that is the end of it.
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      <title>[New] Reply drafts now branch into reply or outreach mode</title>
      <link>https://www.mentiondrop.com/changelog#2026-04-24-reply-draft-modes</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Generated drafts adapt to whether you are replying in-thread or sending a fresh outreach email, with proper subject lines for the latter.</description>
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When MentionDrop drafts a reply for you, it now picks between two modes based on the source of the mention.

Reply mode is for when you are jumping into an existing thread (a Reddit comment, a forum reply, a discussion thread). Drafts skip the formal greeting and read like the next message in the conversation.

Outreach mode is for when the mention came from a blog post, news article, or somewhere else that needs a fresh email. Drafts include a subject line and the kind of opening you would actually use cold.

The right mode is picked automatically. You can still edit before sending.
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      <title>[New] Day-7 coaching email for free users</title>
      <link>https://www.mentiondrop.com/changelog#2026-04-23-day-7-coaching-email</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A short founder-voice email goes out a week after signup if you are on the free plan and have not yet hit your first useful mention, with concrete advice for getting there.</description>
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If you signed up, are still on the free plan, and have not received a useful mention by day seven, you will now get a short coaching email from me.

It covers the most common reasons people stall (keyword too generic, keyword too narrow, missing exclusions) and points to the fix. No upsell, no fake urgency. The goal is to get you to the value, because if MentionDrop never lands a useful mention for you, the upgrade conversation never happens anyway.
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      <title>[Improved] Onboarding now asks for your website first</title>
      <link>https://www.mentiondrop.com/changelog#2026-04-23-onboarding-website-first</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Entering your website URL up front lets MentionDrop research your company and suggest better keywords from minute one.</description>
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The first onboarding step now asks for your website URL. MentionDrop fetches the page, summarises what your company does, and uses that context to suggest keywords that actually fit your business instead of generic guesses.

If you would rather skip it and add keywords manually, you still can. But spending the extra ten seconds gets you a much better starting set.
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