Release Notes & Update Announcements
Here is a quick rundown of a few things we have updated recently. 4 features in total, mostly small quality-of-life stuff, plus one bigger one: anonymous threads for more privacy.
Anonymous rating threads
Ever wanted to ask for photo advice without putting your name on it? Now you can. Threads in the Photo Advice forum have a new "post anonymously" option, when it's checked, your username gets swapped for "Anonymous" everywhere it would normally appear: the thread itself, quotes, alerts, replies, the activity feed, search, all of it.
A few details worth knowing:
For now this is enabled for Photo Advice only.
Typing indicators
You can now see when someone else is typing in a conversation or in a thread, similar to the typing bubble in Discord. Small thing, but it makes back-and-forth feel a lot more alive instead of wondering whether the other person saw your message.
Not a fan? You can switch it off entirely in your preferences for both sending and receiving, so you won't broadcast your typing and won't see anyone else's either.
Pinned posts
You can now pin posts, both on your own profile and inside your own threads. A pinned post stays visible at the top so the important stuff doesn't get buried under new replies.
Depending on your permissions you may not be able to pin in every sub-forum. If the option doesn't show up somewhere, that's why.
Follow counter
Your follower count now shows directly on your profile, so you don't have to open your profile details just to check the number.
That's the whole update. If anything looks broken or behaves weird, drop it in Suggestions & Feedback so we can take a look.
New Features Update
Here is a quick rundown of a few things we have updated recently. 4 features in total, mostly small quality-of-life stuff, plus one bigger one: anonymous threads for more privacy.
Anonymous rating threads
Ever wanted to ask for photo advice without putting your name on it? Now you can. Threads in the Photo Advice forum have a new "post anonymously" option, when it's checked, your username gets swapped for "Anonymous" everywhere it would normally appear: the thread itself, quotes, alerts, replies, the activity feed, search, all of it.
A few details worth knowing:
- Only head admins can see who you are. No moderator or other staff member can link an anonymous thread back to your account. Not from the post, not from the IP, not from the mod tools.
- Why not fully anonymous? Because a fully anonymous system is also an unmoderatable one. If someone posts illegal content, ban-evades, or otherwise abuses the feature, we need a way to track and remove them. We'd love to have made it truly anonymous, but the only people with access to identity data on these threads are the 3 head admins, that's the trade-off.
- The checkbox is on by default when you reply to an anonymous thread, so one careless click won't out you. Untick it if you want to switch back to your normal username for that reply.
- You're hidden from "users viewing this thread" for 15 minutes after you post, so nobody can spot you from the viewer list either.
- IP access is hidden from moderators on anonymous posts entirely. Only the head admins can see it.
- Likes still work normally, including liking your own anonymous post, if you feel like it.
For now this is enabled for Photo Advice only.
Typing indicators
You can now see when someone else is typing in a conversation or in a thread, similar to the typing bubble in Discord. Small thing, but it makes back-and-forth feel a lot more alive instead of wondering whether the other person saw your message.
Not a fan? You can switch it off entirely in your preferences for both sending and receiving, so you won't broadcast your typing and won't see anyone else's either.
Disable here:
It looks like this above the reply field:
It looks like this above the reply field:
Pinned posts
You can now pin posts, both on your own profile and inside your own threads. A pinned post stays visible at the top so the important stuff doesn't get buried under new replies.
Depending on your permissions you may not be able to pin in every sub-forum. If the option doesn't show up somewhere, that's why.
On profiles:
In threads:
In threads:
Follow counter
Your follower count now shows directly on your profile, so you don't have to open your profile details just to check the number.
That's the whole update. If anything looks broken or behaves weird, drop it in Suggestions & Feedback so we can take a look.