Pawzzles & Bug Fixes

Xen 2025-09-23 Edited 2025-09-24 General 2 views
I've just launched the beta of the Pawzzle system to complement Pawceptions, another activity you can do on here. They’re basically collaborative mosaic artworks where multiple artists can work together on a shared grid canvas. Imagine a giant puzzle where each “piece” is a drawing made by a different person! Except instead of snapping physical pieces together, we’re building one big picture through everyone’s artwork.

Creating a Pawzzle: On the left sidebar you'll be able to see a new puzzle piece icon. From the pawzzle index, there'll be a 'create pawzzle' button if you do not already have one ongoing. There's a bunch of self-explanatory settings, but the grid size is how big the overall pawzzle will be and how many pawprints are part of it. Once you've created it, you'll have to start it off with one tile so others can build off of it.

Drawing: There's no rotation or parents in pawzzles, but you will be able to see neighbouring pawzzle tiles as you draw - so assuming you're not the first, you will easily be able to connect your art to others.

Check my test pawzzle here to see how they can all connect: https://pawprint.ing/pawzzle/view/4

Bug Fixes:
- Made the adjacent pawzzle tiles while drawing full opacity so you can properly match colours.
- Removed the obnoxious hover effect on everything, it's now only on specific things.
- Added the ability to change your password in user settings.
- Fixed issues with special characters like apostrophes on the search page.
- Fixed drafts loading/saving on pawzzles, also fixing them not being saved properly elsewhere.
- Added more comprehensive checks for muted/blocked users, also adding pawzzles and templates to it.
- Fixed some pawprints not showing the collections list in settings.
- Pawzzles are now ordered oldest uncompleted -> newest uncompleted, then newest completed -> oldest completed. This is so ones in progress don't just get pushed to the back.
- Pawzzles now merge together into one giga-pawprint when completed, and get given to whoever created the pawzzle. This is so it shows up on the homepage and profile gallery as a real pawprint!
- Fixed characters not getting properly filtered out by blocks/mutes.
- Fixed NSFW pawzzles showing up for users who are logged out.
- Fixed pawzzle tiles not loading in tags when editing.
- Notifications now have their own page, and live count changes are back.
- Fixed some things showing up to guests when allow guests is disabled.
- Updated how tags are set for pawprints, now much fancier and harder to mess up!
- Tags now save/load with pawprint drafts.
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