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gay flag lgbt flag GB flag He/Him Male September 30, 1995
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The Postbox

2025-11-17T11:39:10 | 3 comments

Suggestions have been moved to the Postbox - a new page that houses bug reports, user reports and suggestions in one location. It's fundamentally the same thing, except I get notified when a bug report / user report is sent and you can put them all into categories.
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Suggestions Batch

2025-11-15T09:33:00 | 8 comments

- Added the ability to hide your own suggestions when browsing the list of suggestions.
- You can now delete your own suggestions, until they are accepted/rejected.
- There's now a jitter setting for the spray tool, letting you increase/decrease its radius.
- Raised pawprint description limits to 1000 characters.
- Raffles can now offer +1 entry for a pawprint drawn for the raffle creator. It must remain visible and won't count unless its accepted (if the artist has auto-confirm off), if it gets hidden/deleted the entry is removed.
- Raffles now show the creator how many entries each user has.
- Avatars now keep their source pawprint when set, and clicking on an avatar in a profile will open a window showing who made it and link to the original pawprint it came from.
- Styling update for a lot of the site, removed rounded edges where they weren't needed, made spacing a bit more consistent.
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Drawing updates

2025-11-13T23:45:18 | 3 comments

- You can now merge down layers. There's a new button next to layer visibility that will merge it with the layer below.
- When moving a layer, you will be prompted to confirm the movement which will cut off any parts outside of the canvas and allow you to draw where you might not have been previously able to.
- Editing now counts time on top of the original drawing time.
- Inactivity for the timer to pause has been changed from 5 minutes of inactivity to 1 minute.
- You can now set your local timezone in user settings, which should change all dates shown on the site.
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Fixes 'n stuff

2025-11-13T01:32:59 | 2 comments

- Added a 'SFW Mode' toggle. It's the shield icon next to the theme toggle on the top of the page. This will quickly switch you to SFW only rating, but you will still be able to receive pawprints of your previous rating. Toggling it off will put you back to your previously selected rating.

- Seen/unseen notifications no longer group together, and have an indicator to tell you if they are seen or not. In order for this to work, I had to adjust how notifications get marked as seen - if it doesn't have a link to something like a pawprint, it will mark as seen as soon as you view your notifications. If it has a button/link, clicking the button will mark it as seen.

- Mobile view should now show messages/notifications on the top.

- Fixed pawzzle merging not working, and it should now combine the drawing time of each tile.
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Fixes

2025-11-12T10:15:39 | 8 comments

Blending modes should now be identical between firefox and chrome browsers, I was able to personally confirm that they are equal - though there may be some things that I forgot to test still.

I've also added a new tool - a colour replacer. Clicking on something you've drawn will change all pixels of that colour to whatever colour you have selected, within the same layer.

I have allowed the custom colour picker to pick from the canvas, but firefox does not support colour pickers outside of the canvas area, that is a browser-level issue and not one I am able to personally fix. The only solution is to use a chromium-based browser (google chrome, brave, etc) if you'd like to use the chromium-based features of the canvas. Chrome, Opera, and Microsoft Edge all support the colour picker. Firefox does not.

An alternative I can think of is a downloadable desktop version of pawprinting's drawing system using electron that would contain the chromium-based elements and not require a browser installation, though I have a feeling people would be uncomfortable installing something like that.

I would also like to repeat here that I'd appreciate a bit of leeway when things go wrong - I am a single individual working on this site, for free, at a substantial personal cost. I have no monetary incentive to keep this site running or working, I do because I enjoy seeing what people create and generally people really enjoy what I do.
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Staff Updates & Other Stuff

2025-11-11T22:57:57 | 7 comments

Whew, some bigger changes here:

- All pawprints you draw are now put on your profile, even if you've sent them to someone else. You can hide them from your profile which doesn't delete them and you can return them back to your profile through the pawprint settings. This way you can always show off all art you drew and put them into collections without having to rely on the scrapbook.
- Statistics and avatar history are back, in your user profile. I've added a few extra stats too.
- You can now use NSFW pawprints as avatars, but you have to crop them in a way that isn't outwardly NSFW (a lil' nonspecific fluid is fine, but no outright genitalia or obvious sex acts).

For janitors:

- Janitors are no longer allowed to edit a user's profile that isn't their own. Honestly I kinda forgot they could do this and it should be an admin thing only. (There's only like, one active janitor that does any janitor work so this wasn't really used at all anyway).
- Janitors can now edit the tags of each entry in a pawception before the game ends, in case some tags need to be fixed.
- All staff can now delete the avatar of a user if it's a bit too NSFW and send them a message as to why it was removed.
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More Suggestions

2025-11-10T00:22:29 | 6 comments

Settings
- User-set notes for others to read when drawing have been increased to 300 characters from 200. This is supposed to be short so I'm not comfortable increasing it too much.
- New notification setting for pawception-related notifications.
- New 'browsing' section under the visibility tab. You can enable text only pawprints on the homepage as well as change the minimum drawing time required for a pawprint to show up there.
- Fixed an issue where dark mode would reset when saving settings.
- New tab for stats, showing all recorded stats for your account.
- New tab for avatar history, letting you see and use old avatars.

Reports
- You can now send reports anonymously.

Homepage
- Latest pawprints on the homepage will now only show ones that took at least 10 minutes to draw, in an effort to filter out some spam.

Pawprints
- Rating dropdown now doesn't show ratings above what the viewer can see, you also will not be able to send a pawprint that has a rating higher than their maximum.
- You can now send tag suggestions anonymously.
- Fixed an issue where hotkeys stopped working after messing with the settings panel.

Raffles
- Raffles are now shown to everyone regardless of content rating.
- Content rating of a raffle is a 'maximum' not what must be drawn.

Notifications
- Notifications group together where they can to reduce spam.
- A lot of notifications have been fixed to correctly say display names.
- A new notification is sent to followers when a pawception is created.
- Fixed an issue with the notifications page breaking when there is no author on a pawprint.

Pawzzles
- Pawzzle tile claims now expire after 24 hours, to stop people holding on to them forever.
- Pawzzles no longer automatically finish once every tile has been drawn, the creator must press a button to confirm it, giving everyone time to fix stuff or finish sketches.
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Settings Update

2025-11-08T21:58:25 | 2 comments

Settings are now organised into their own sections that can be opened/closed at will. I've also added an entirely new section to the drawing tab, where you can selectively disable any tool from showing up, if you want to get rid of any of the fancier/new tools I've added since the site launched.
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Suggestions Batch

2025-11-08T10:15:46 | 10 comments

- Added a mirror/flip tool for the current layer in the pawprint drawing program.
- Fixed website links not saving properly.
- Your brush settings (everything in the settings panel) now save and load, so you don't have to keep setting them.
- Online status is now tracked in your profile and name, this can be turned off for privacy in settings.
- Requests now allow up to 1000 characters instead of 300.
- There's a new staff page that will automatically show any staff members on the site: https://pawprint.ing/staff
- Staff can add their own 'staff bio' that will show up on the staff page.
- Setting in the visibility section to hide marks/paws ups from your own pawprints.
- Doubled the amount of layers you can have to 20 from 10.
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Drawing Update

2025-11-07T18:05:36 | 2 comments

- There is now a move layer tool. Due to the limits of the canvas, you won't be able to draw outside of the 'normal' box, so if you move a layer slightly outside the drawing area there is a toggleable border to show you where you can/can't draw on that layer (this won't show up on the final image). There's also a button to reset the layer position if it gets lost.

- Tool buttons to zoom in/out for mobile users.

- Shape tools are in their own menu to save space.
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Character updates and other fixes

2025-11-05T04:22:23 | 3 comments

- You can now have up to 10 recent colours instead of 6, and characters can have up to 10 colours in their colour scheme.
- Added new options for relationship status, age, if NSFW is allowed, etc.
- Added likes/dislikes (can also be used for kinks if your character is more NSFW inclined).
- You can now add multiple reference links, and mark them as NSFW if needed.
- Added a new tool to drawings, allowing you to fill transparency - effectively erasing a section of the same colour.
- Added a new setting to privacy in user settings to hide your name from the Furdle leaderboards.
- Pawprints in events/pawceptions now instantly get copied to your profile once the event or game is over, as people seemed to be forgetting them a lot.
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More drawing improvements

2025-11-04T21:56:45 | 4 comments

Something that's been bothering me for a while - you can now start drawing from 'outside' the main canvas, making it easier to draw things from the edges of the canvas. You'll see what I mean if you try drawing from the gray background behind the actual drawing canvas.

Gonna be focusing some energy on improving drawing even more, since it is the main aspect of the site and all.
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Drawing update

2025-11-04T00:06:57 | 1 comment

You can now select between square and circle brushes for both eraser and brush tools.

You can zoom in further than before, and it will show an accurate pixel grid to make pixel art easier.

The brush cursor preview has been updated to be more accurate.
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Timers & e621 setting

2025-11-03T19:52:40 | 1 comment

In the user settings around the e621 integration section, there's a new checkbox to allow or disallow artists from sharing pawprints to e621 if it is on your profile. This way you can stop artists from sharing stuff that's related to you, like characters you don't want shared on e621. Pawprint.ing is an officially recognised meta tag for oekaki art on e621 now!

Pawprints will also now somewhat track how long it took you to draw. This will be used for other things in the future, but I'm trying to include stuff that you'd find in older oekaki boards!

I've also now included winrates in furdle, so you can see how many people managed to get the word.
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e621 integration

2025-11-03T00:31:58 | 1 comment

In your user settings in the first tab, there's a new section for connections - allowing you to input your e621 username, API key (you can get this on your e621 account settings), and preferred artist tag. When these are set and correct, you will be able to share any pawprints directly to e621 in the pawprint settings page, assuming you are both the artist and the owner of it.

This is completely opt-in, you control everything and your API key is encrypted so even I cannot see it.

I will like to say that e621 has quality control - it's possible lower quality pawprints may be removed, so use this for ones you're especially proud of and would otherwise upload somewhere else anyway :3
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Furdle

2025-11-01T05:32:21 | 13 comments

Got bored so I made a furry clone of Wordle. If you've never played it, there's a random 5-letter word you have 6 chances to guess every day. Orange means you got the right letter in the wrong place, green means right letter in the right place. Check it out here: https://pawprint.ing/furdle

For janitors - we can add new 5 letter words in the janitor/admin panels. Try to aim for 'real' words that someone could reasonably guess :3
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More DM Updates

2025-10-30T20:16:07 | 2 comments

You can now edit/delete messages you've made, along with a few additions to your settings pages. In 'visibility' there's a new section for messages - you can choose who is able to DM you (everyone, friends only, following only, or no-one) and disable read receipts if you'd like no-one to know you haven't seen their messages!
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Comments and DMs refactor

2025-10-30T06:56:50 | 3 comments

DMs are now a little more like discord - you can close conversations (only for you) and use bbcode to format your text. You're also able to add pawprint images using their ID (there's a button to add pawprints).

In DMs and comments, you can also now use new lines - it's no longer all forced to be on a single line.
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Custom colour picker

2025-10-29T00:26:33 | 6 comments

I've implemented a custom colour picker with hex/rgb/hsv sliders that should be the same for all browsers. The eyedropper tool may not work on Safari, but it lets you pick colours from any window on your screen.

Also fixed an issue with fill tool needing two undo clicks to actually undo.
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Comment Update

2025-10-26T02:49:27 | 6 comments

You can now edit and delete your own comments, as well as delete any comments made on your own pawprints and journals. Been meaning to fix this up for a while, but the suggestion reminded me ^^
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