Guest Pawprints
Back when Pawprinting was first created, it was inspired heavily by strawpage - the anonymous doodles people would receive, with little needed for the person drawing other than a creative spirit. Later into development, I scrapped the idea of people drawing without having an account due to the worry of spam or extreme/questionable content.
With how pawprinting has grown, I'm ready to bring it back. In your user settings under visibility, you will find a new setting for allowing guest pawprints. This will let anyone, account or no, to draw on your profile - link people directly to your draw page from anywhere on the internet and they'll be able to draw for you anonymously or with a guest name they can set. They will not have drafts saved or loaded, but that's a trade-off for not having an account.
Any pawprints sent this way will be unconfirmed, and you will have to confirm them for it to show up publicly. As this is opt-in and people can't just spam your profile, I feel like it's a lot safer to bring this feature back now.
Another change I did is on confirming pawprints - instead of just a big 'accept' and 'reject' button, it now goes to the settings of the pawprint giving you the opportunity to change tags, make sure the rating is okay, or even hide it if you want.
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Raffles
- You can now set a journal to be an entry method for your raffle - users will have to make a new (non draft) journal that includes the link to the raffle to enter.
- You can set any number of entry methods to be required, meaning they cannot enter the raffle unless that specific method has been completed.
- You can now set the maximum amount of entries users can get in the raffle.
- The raffle index now has pages, to help speed up loading.
- Entry pawprints (the ones you have to paws up/mark to enter) now get the 'Raffle Entry' tag automatically, and will become hidden when the raffle ends.
- You can now see ALL entries in a completed raffle (as the creator) by clicking a switch. By default it will only show the winners.
Journals
- You can now set a journal as a draft, if you don't want it public yet or have your followers notified about it.
Requests
- Requesters can now set a maximum content rating for what they'd like to receive.
- Requesters can now add a reference link to their requests.
- You can now set an active request limit (per user) in your settings.
- You can now set a character limit (from 100-1000 characters) for requests.
- Requests can now be accepted/considered/rejected, much like how the postbox works.
- Artists can send a note back to the requester to explain whatever decision they made with their request.
Other Changes
- Fixed templates not loading correctly.
- Added a search bar to the postbox.
- You can now set a country flag to be displayed on your profile.
- Fixed flipbook playback speed when previewing them.
- You can now set commission status in your profile along with a URL to find out more information about commissions.
- Profile has been updated to look nicer and be more responsive overall.
- Allowed 'closing' the drawing timer by clicking on it.
- Added a toggle to the move layer tool that allows you to move ALL layers at once.
- You can now send pawprints with 'allow remixing' to other users, they're still able to manually turn it off if they'd like however.
2025-12-11
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New Settings
There is now a second rating selection in the content section of your settings. This is for what rating pawprints can be sent/drawn for you, separate from which one you can see.
There's also privacy settings for hiding your level/XP and badges, either from everyone, or just others.
Other Fixes/Changes:
- All confirmations have been replaced with fancy popups instead of relying on the browser to do it
- Sped up the pawception index as it was incredibly slow to load
2025-12-07
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Alerts & Raffle Changes
As a way to possibly patch issues where raffle prizes are forgotten about, I've updated raffles to require the creator to set the prizes after they're drawn before they can make a new raffle. Along with this is the alerts system, which are notifications that cannot be removed and stay at the top of the list until whatever they're alerting you about is done - some examples include claiming a pawception turn, a pawzzle tile, or having a raffle with no set prizes. They won't show a count though, as that would even annoy me -w-
I know this might be annoying for people who have had several raffles, and to make it up each submitted prize gives you +20 XP, which is actually a decent chunk compared to what other things on the site gives you. It should work the same way as setting the parent while drawing - except it will only show you valid pawprints (ones drawn after the raffle started, by you, for the winner). You can also put in the pawprint ID directly if it's not in the most recent list.
Once set, the pawprint's page will show that it was a raffle prize and link to the raffle it came from.
This still needs to be tested fully, so please let me know if anything breaks. Hopefully the raffle alerts all group together, but if not, some of you might have a ton of them until they're finished!
2025-12-06
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