The feed now shows new users and avatars. As before, if you don't want your stuff to appear on the feed, you can disable it with the 'hide from feed' option in your profile settings!

There's now a live feed of activity on the site, accessible via the button on the left side of the page. If you prefer not to appear in the feed, you can disable it in your profile settings. Mobile users can swipe from the left edge of their screen to open it. The feed updates periodically, along with the index page, which now refreshes live. You'll be notified of new activity, including pawprints, comments, characters, event entries and votes, as well as Pawception games and submissions.

There's a new setting at the bottom of your profile settings called 'Ironpaw Mode'. This will disable most fancy tools while drawing, limiting you to just the basics and a standard colour palette. Use this if you want a tougher drawing experience! It will also save to the pawprint itself which mode you're on, showing everyone if it was made in Ironpaw Mode.

There is now a collections panel next to the gallery in your profile. Here you can organise pawprints on your pawprints into folders, and it still works perfectly with the latest/random/top tabs. When creating a collection, you're able to set a name, icon to use, and a parent. This basically means you can create subfolders (at most 1 level deep, so no sub-subfolders) and organise pawprints even further. If you wish to re-order them, simply drag them around by their name and it will save the new position! You can add pawprints to a collection the same way you delete or highlight them, click on the little action menu under the pawprint image, and select 'collections'. You can add a pawprint to as many collections as you'd like.

There's now a new tab on your profile for a Scrapbook, it's effectively replacing the created pawprints page with a scrapbook-style grid of all pawprints you've drawn, accessible from your profile directly. The size of pawprints in your scrapbook is determined by how many paws ups its received - 10+ is medium, 20+ is large.

You're now able to set website links on your profile with support for twitter/X, bluesky and deviantart, and up to 3 custom URLs for other sites you want to link to. They only show up for other users if they're set.

- There is now a pan tool that lets you move the canvas around. This can also be accessed by holding space while the canvas is focused (e.g. you clicked on it) - There is a button to reset zoom and pan to default, in case you lose the canvas or want to get it back to how it was originally. - Fixed hotkeys working from anywhere on the page if the pawprint drawing window is there. You have to focus the canvas to use ctrl+c / ctrl+v or any other of the keyboard shortcuts.

- Put all actions for pawprints on your profile in their own little menu instead of having a ton of buttons on every pawprint. - You can now send a pawprint from your profile to anyone else's, this is helpful if something was accidentally drawn for the wrong user or you just want to save to your profile before sending it to someone for real. The user it's sent to will have to manually confirm it. The profile that any pawprint is on can be changed with this, if you have any of your own pawprints you'd like to send to other people. - Fixed the completed page for events being way too bright on dark mode. - Fixed some other dark mode-related issues with various pages.

I fixed the styling and adjusted how Pawception looks, with a new logo specifically for it. Let me know what you think!

The canvas no longer scales up, instead you can zoom to make it fill the area. This is so you can see exactly what it's supposed to look like when fully zoomed out. I've also updated the code a bit so now where you click is almost exactly where you'll draw - useful on the pixel level. I also removed the blur that kinda masked what the final drawing was gonna look like.

You can now crop pawprints on your profile into avatars, it retains the correct author when doing so. Look for the funny theatre mask icon by pawprints on your profile! This is fairly limited (no zooming or anything, strict 200x200 crop) as I still think drawing avatars is better! Fixed alt-tab causing colour picker and drawing to get stuck.

Users can now set who referred them to the site in their profile settings. This can only be set once, and will disallow you from changing it if it is set. Unconfirmed pawprints being confirmed will now send a notification to the discord, as other pawprints do.

Okay I didn't wanna bury the transparency stuff so soon but I've just enabled sending avatars to any user. By switching to avatar mode when drawing on anyone's profile, you can draw them an avatar which will go into their avatar history section and they will be able to set it as their current avatar! Hooray. Remember, you can click on the 'Latest Update' text above this on the homepage to view all past updates, or just info -> updates in the navigation bar at the top of the page.

Pawprints and avatars now start out as transparent with the cool checkerboard pattern. I realised there's no real point in disallowing it, so you're welcome to make pawprints with transparent backgrounds if you wish! (simply fill the canvas with a colour if you don't want a transparent background) The preview lets you toggle backgrounds so you can see how it looks against a light or dark theme.

It was a lot harder than I expected, but DM messages are now live and even show you if the other person is typing. This should sort a lot of the issues that people were having with the old DM system, and it feels a bit more like discord chatting! Now I have this system, I can implement things like live updates or even a twitter-style feed that updates without having to refresh.

This should be the last time you get logged out. I've moved login sessions to the database, so they're more permanent instead of the volatile filesystem they were on before. Also, added a robots.txt and sitemap to help search engines find us! :3

- I've added a lot more to the rules page. Please read through it when you get a chance! - Profile settings now give more of an explanation on what everything does. - Allow guests lets logged out users view your profile, disabling it will stop search engines from crawling your profile. - You can now set your birthdate, which isn't shown to others, but will put a nice little cake next to your name everywhere on your birthday. - Brought back the anonymous pawprint functionality, so you can send pawprints as anonymous. - You can no longer send pawprints while logged out due to flagrant abuse of the system in the early hours. If someone wants to spam the n word over 20 times they can do so while logged in where I can see their IP address and actually find out who's doing it. It was fine before, but now there's more traffic to the site, I need to lock down harder to stop potential abuse.

- I have used the power of MATH and SCIENCE to remove the forced anti-aliasing from lines. This will make flood fill a lot more reliable, and finished pawprints look a lot sharper now :> - The avatar editor has been removed, and integrated into the normal pawprint drawing canvas. There's a toggle for avatar mode on the top right, allowing for use of all the tools and brushes found in the regular pawprint canvas. - Undo/redo and drafts are independent of each mode. Avatars and pawprints have their own history for undo/redo, and drafts will only load and save for each mode. - Drafts shouldn't randomly disappear anymore, I've made them a bit 'sturdier' until something is saved. - NSFW avatars are no longer allowed, sorry! It makes it a pain for me to hide them all from everything. Old ones will remain but no new ones can be created. Pls make SFW avatars as soon as you can! - While drawing, it will no longer stop drawing if your mouse leaves the canvas area, allowing you to easily draw along the edges and just feels more fluid to draw with overall - this includes shapes, also! - On larger screens (sorry mobile users), there's a preview window next to the avatar canvas to show you what it looks like at its 'real' size (200x200 pixels). - Added a tolerance slider for the fill tool. The lower it is, the more precise the fill tool will be in checking for similar colours. Raise this if you can't quite get the fill you're expecting. - Added a straight line shape tool, similar to Microsoft Paint. - Added an eyedropper colour picker tool for those with browsers that don't have one. Holding alt will automatically switch you to the eyedropper on PC so you can quickly switch colours. For events.. - Fixed some issues that were gonna break it, but it seems like the first event was a success! Almost completely automated from start to finish, it'll be real easy for me to set them up now. - The homepage now shows the previous event's winners. - Pawprints from the event get a permanent badge on them to mark their place, with the top 3 getting little medals.

I've added Bluesky integration, so updates and events will get posted to our profile over at: https://bsky.app/profile/pawprint.ing Give us a follow if you use the silly blue website!

Fixed zooming while drawing. Using your scroll wheel will zoom in to where your mouse is, and vice versa, making it easier to draw finer details. This doesn't work on mobile, sorry mobile user(s)! I've also re-ordered the pawception games list - ongoing will have the oldest first, completed will have the newest first, so old ones don't get hidden by all the new ones we've been getting.