Guest Pawprints

Xen 2025-10-15 Edited 2025-10-15 General 18 views
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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