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.

When searching for specific tags in the search page it will autocomplete for any used tag on the site, starting at two letters (writing te will show you test as a possible tag). You can still use tags that have never been used before, but it should help to remind you what a tag you want is called. This also works when editing/suggesting tags and creating new pawprints.

Underscores and spaces are used synonymously in search now too, so 'test_tag' and 'test tag' will work the same.

I've added the character's tag to the character page so anyone drawing it knows exactly what to tag it with.

On everyone's profile, there's now a characters tab, this feature was highly requested! It's pretty basic right now, but you can:

- Create any number of OCs for people to read about and draw.
- Set up to 6 colours that can be copied to recent colours, letting you draw in exactly the right colours.
- Set a reference URL, either to an image (ideally not NSFW if it's just an image) or a page somewhere with your character's references.
- Set a tag to be associated with that character, the gallery on the character's page will show all pawprints with that tag.

Also, you can now add tags if there were none before, and suggest tag changes on any pawprint! The 'owner' of the pawprint will get a notification to accept/deny the changes.

Added tools for basic circles, rectangles, and the classic MSPaint spray tool. Also a dedicated eraser for mobile users.

(Avatar editor will be modernised soon..)

Your usernames are now the colour of your profile level, instead of role. It makes things a little bit more colourful around here, I think!

Don't ask why, but I redesigned the drawing component to look a bit like the old Microsoft Paint. I think it's cute, let me know what you think :3

The profile has shifted around a bunch to fit the new drawing component, this is subject to change also - still need to consider how to make it look the best.

A note about Pawception games: they aren't there for you to get art of something specific you want, starting prompts should be open to interpretation to make funny misinterpretations of drawings. Goku fighting Vegeta = BAD, Two anime characters battling it out, when suddenly... = GOOD

If starting prompts are bad to the point that you can't think of what to draw, try to just draw the first thing that comes to mind when you see the prompt, it's not derailing if it's what you are thinking at that moment.

In other news, I fixed the fill tool on mobile devices and some other bugs breaking the site - specifically with NSFW pawprints and blacklisted tags.

Avatars are now stored in their own separate database table. With this, there's now an avatars tab on your profile where you can select (and delete) all of your previously saved avatars. I've been unable to restore all of the previously used avatars (I don't know which one belongs to who, I have to re-add it manually) but if you want me to restore one for you just let me know.

Any new avatars will automatically add to this history section.

Just a few lil' changes (also remember we have a Discord server now, you can join through the info dropdown on the top or the discord button on the bottom)

- Blocked users' pawprints are now properly filtered out everywhere, whether they were the author or the profile it's posted to.
- Updated the styling of how pawprints are shown on the profile and homepage. I think it looks nicer. A lot more pages are also using the same pawprint display code now, so changing one changes all of them.

Join the discord here -> https://discord.gg/wpJ2qjnmJu

Usernames are no longer alterable (and all forced lowercase for consistency), and there is a new display name section in your profile settings. These allow for spaces and are what is shown to everyone, instead of your username, if you set one. Your username is still relevant (its what you log in with), but it won't change unless you specifically request me to change it, so any links aren't broken in the future.

Some people asked for this, so I set up a new discord server for Pawprint.ing with webhooks (it'll automatically post a bunch of stuff that happens on the site, sfw only with those of course)

Join Here

It'll be a much faster place to report bugs and make suggestions. I'll add some integration with levels, badges 'n stuff later.

Woo. Comments now show the pawprint you're commenting on, and it links back to the main pawprint image view. This is great for notifications as before you had absolutely no idea what you were commenting on. It also doesn't automatically remove the notification after you view it once.

When drawing pawprints anywhere, you should now be able to use CTRL+Z (undo), CTRL+SHIFT+Z (redo), CTRL+C (copy) and CTRL+V (paste). Thanks to DrowsyPuppy for supplying me with some easy code to add!

Now that I'm not sleep deprived...
- I fixed pawception pawprints from showing up in the 'user created pawprints' section. This is meant for ones that go on profiles, it'll show up if you copy it. I also fixed prompts not submitting to pawceptions.
- Migrated the events system to use pawprints instead of their own save functions, it should work the same as pawceptions now.
- One pawception submission managed to get deleted as it got set as unconfirmed and the user rejected it. This should not happen. I added a check and recovered it, but if you get the ability to reject a pawception in the future please tell me before doing anything!

So, until now, when you save a pawception drawing, it saves as its own thing. This means when you copy it to your profile later it actually has to run some code to create a 'new' pawprint and put it on your profile. Wildly inefficient and made me have to have multiple functions that do the same thing, for pawprints, pawception pawprints, and event pawprints.

What I've done today basically makes it so they're created as pawprints from the start, allowing for tags + blocking tags with relative ease. Copying to your profile now adds a little flag to the pawprint telling it to display on your profile, instead of creating a whole new one. Deleting it removes that flag, so you can re-add it later if you want. With this, paws ups and comments are now a thing in pawception games (once I add the UI for it)

If you notice anything broken let me know right away. I will be doing the same with events soon.

For some reason when people highlight their pp's and put it on display to everyone, people that didn't wanna see it still could, so your pp is no longer shown to everyone if it has blocked tags. People that don't want to see such pp's will not see the pp.

I made it so mods/admins can make badges directly from the site, also added two new badges - one for getting a first place win in an event, and one for participating in at least 5 different events.

Copying NSFW Pawception entries to your profile now require you to input at least 3 tags, the same as how it works when you create one on your profile. I will soon add this to NSFW events also.

Entries are no longer shown in the drawing phase to keep them more of a surprise. You will see them / be able to copy them once voting starts!

Submitting a drawing to an event will also now clear your pawprint draft, so it doesn't show up elsewhere. I didn't notice this <.<

Some kinda boring admin changes, I can now add, edit and delete updates directly from the site! (woah it's the future now). Events should be fairly autonomous, I set up a bunch of events in a row and they should automatically switch between upcoming, drawing, voting and completed phases then move onto the next one.

You can now copy event entries to your profile, just like pawception games. You can do this in any stage, just go into the event page and look for your one!