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Xen

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gay flag lgbt flag GB flag He/Him Male September 30, 1995
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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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Notifications, Paws Ups, and Drawing Improvements

2025-01-09T19:53:18

Added notifications for new pawprints on your profile. There's a bell icon at the top right in the navigation bar that will update whenever you get a new notification for something. I will be adding to this in the future with more features.

Added the ability to copy and paste pawprints. The main reason I added this is just in case the site breaks, you can copy a drawing in progress and paste it into notepad to be restored later.

You can now stabilise your brush like in many popular drawing programs. This will slow down the drawing to make it easier to draw smooth lines. The value of stabilization can be changed at will.

Added the much requested undo/redo feature! You can now undo any mistakes. This may not fix a broken marriage.

Added the ability to embed your personal drawing canvas onto any website, letting people send you pawprints from afar. The link to this is in your own profile page.

Added the paws up feature. This is effectively a ratings or likes system for pawprints, letting people show just how much they like a drawing!
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Symmetry and Privacy

2025-01-10T20:32:06

In something I personally wanted to add, you can now toggle symmetry while drawing! This will switch between horizontal, vertical, and both.

You can also now set your profile to private, which will stop your profile, or any pawprints sent to you, from being shown elsewhere on the site. You can still receive pawprints, but only you will know they exist! You can change this from your profile settings.

On the theme of privacy, you can also now block users. Blocked users cannot interact with you and their content will be hidden from you. Use this if someone makes stuff you don't like!

Added a very basic rules page, accessible from the navigation bar at the top, to explain our basic rules when it comes to pawprinting.
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Feed Updates

2025-02-12T21:23:18

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!
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Pawprint.ing

2025-01-08T22:36:25

Welcome to Pawprint.ing! This is effectively a social platform targeted at the furry community, similar to miiverse or swapdoodle. What I hope will make this site unique is the fact every drawing has to be done on site, no uploading here. Let me know what you think and how I can improve!
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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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Warnings & Return To Sender

2025-03-08T13:18:56

Janitors, mods and admins now have the ability to warn users for rule breaks (they should've had this ages ago tbh). If you receive a warning, it doesn't mean you're gonna be banned, you just won't be able to use the site until you acknowledge it.

Deleting a pawprint made by someone else will first send it back to the author instead of outright deleting it, if the author then deletes it themselves it will be deleted for real.
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Scrapbook

2025-02-07T18:19:45

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.
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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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Event and Profile Changes

2025-01-25T14:10:54

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!
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Name Colour Changes

2025-09-20T00:03:07 | 4 comments

You can now change your level colour to any level you've reached, from level 1 to whatever you are currently at. This is a new option in your user settings, so go have a look!
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Cloudflare Outage

2025-11-18T13:41:08 | 11 comments

There's a cloudflare outage, causing some images to not load. This is out of my hands and we'll have to wait for cloudflare to restore services. Please keep an eye on here to see: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
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Mascot Update and Sessions

2025-01-21T20:12:22

I redrew the mascot in my usual style! I've named him Maple, and he's a lot more furry and a lot less corporate now. Along with this I've changed up the navigation quite a bit, there's dropdowns now to save on space.

Added some new stuff with login sessions to hopefully fix the issue with users logging out. Please let me know if it's any better now! They should last for at least 31 days.

You are now able to copy pawprints from completed pawception games to your profile if you'd like to. There's a new button on the pawception game page beside any drawing you made!

Profile now shows 12 pawprints per page instead of 4. Let me know if this is fine, or if it's too many for mobile.

Middle-clicking or opening a pawprint in a new tab will successfully open the little pawprint window now, instead of just redirecting back to the main page.
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Requests Update

2025-10-11T16:12:46 | 4 comments

I've expanded the requests system a bit, it now tracks if requests have been seen by the artist, and artists are able to pin requests to keep them on top of others. You're also able to personally edit and delete your requests, and any you've made are listed on the same page you make them.

There's now a lot more settings in your user settings for requests. You can now:

- Add notes to show people who are making requests, can be used for likes/dislikes!
- Allow anonymous requests (when logged in, you can check a box to hide your name when requesting something)
- Allow/disallow editing seen or pinned requests.
- Allow more than one request per user at a time.
- Set a cooldown between requests, ranging from 1 hour to 1 month.

I've also fixed some stuff with notifications, a lot of them now properly clear when you visit whatever the notification was about.
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Character Page and Tag Suggestions

2025-01-30T00:55:10

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.
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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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Pawprint Update

2025-09-28T06:45:33 | 2 comments

- Panels on pawprints (that's the tool bar, sliders bar, and now the colour bar) can now be moved around by dragging the top of them. The X to close buttons have been removed, and the buttons that used to open them again are toggles instead. I think this is a lot easier to work with - similar to how an actual drawing program would let you re-arrange the interface.
- Login/registration has been updated, it's now a pop-up window instead of a separate page.
- Fixed avatars not setting properly, they were still trying to look for a rating for some reason, even though only SFW ones are allowed.
- Fixed marking not working.
- Fixed account deletions again, removing guides/updates broke it a lil.
- Fixed general not counting as setting a rating when drawing pawprints, causing people to have to pick higher ratings.
- Fixed searches not searching for partial tags (e.g. just 'maple' was returning no results because it was missing the '(xen)' part. Now it should work!)
- Updated the header/sidebar to be a bit prettier. It's very subtle, but icons fit better on there now.
- Removed admin updates because I'm using this journal now.
- Removed guides, they weren't really used and I'm trying to cut bloat from the site. Would rather have a few really good and used features than a lot that aren't used and make the site look like a ghost town!
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Pawception

2025-01-14T18:52:33

A new collaborative drawing game, Pawception, is now accessible from the homepage or navigation bar. In this game, players draw and describe what they see, with anywhere from 6-12 unique players. Players will receive notifications upon a game's completion.

In preparation for adding e-mail features such as resetting passwords, new registrations now require an e-mail. You can add your own e-mail in the profile settings window, which I highly recommend.

While adding the e-mail to registration, I also reworked the login and register pages to be way prettier and added a footer to the bottom of all pages. Another change is in the avatar editor - it stretches to the window, making it easier to actually draw your avatar.
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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 Updates

2025-02-04T23:39:53

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.
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