New Stuff - You can now set optional pride flags (both identity/sexuality) and pronouns in your user settings. - You can now select how visible you'd like your birthdate to be. - Blacklists should no longer hide your own art. - Tag update suggestions should no longer stack 'Notes:' every time they're edited. - Added a searchable help system (see the question mark button on the top right) - Advanced search, allowing you to search by content rating, artist, specific timeframes and more. - Staff can now send out site-wide notifications for important things that people need to see. Other Changes - Added a bot trap for those trying to find vulnerabilities in the site (hint, don't try to go to a page with .php at the end of it...) - Some URLs have been handled so you go to a correct place instead of seeing a 404 error - for example, /user now goes to /user/xen instead of erroring. - Added the ability for users to be banned from specific parts of the site if necessary. - Fixed placeholder/default avatars in the messages list not showing up correctly.

I've added the ability for users to comment on pawprints, accessible by clicking the message box icon below a shown pawprint image. These will create relevant notifications to whoever will need to see them. Please don't spam or abuse this feature -w- In a throwback to the forums of old, I've also made a badges system! Completing certain milestones, or being awarded certain ones by moderators, will give you special badges that are shown on your profile. You will get a notification when badges are earned.

- You can now hide/unhide your own comments. This can be used to 'delete' your own comments. I've also adjusted the styling so longer reply chains look better. - Added more level colours (up to level 50!) - Fixed an issue where empty tags would show up on character pages - Fixed an issue where empty tags would show up on pawprints - Fixed profile settings showing the wrong referrer based on which profile you're looking at

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.

The problem: Drafts were too volatile. Since they were saved on your PC in browser storage, clearing your cache or looking at it wrong could wipe it, which kinda sucked if your power went out and you lost something you were working on. The solution: Drafts are now fully server-side, being stored in the database. It may take half a second longer to load/save a draft, but you do get to see a fancy lil' load/save spinner while drawing! This way you will never accidentally lose a WIP draft and it will always be tied to your account, not your computer. If you have an alt account, it won't load drafts from your main account.

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.

- 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.

Looking for janitors to help tag pawprints and manage NSFW/SFW status. The role is for active users who are familiar with tagging and willing to adjust posts as needed. Janitors should avoid joke tags and respect NSFW definitions (only explicit content counts). You'll get a broom icon next to your name to indicate your role as a Janitor. Message me here or on Discord if you're interested! I'd like people to go through and tag pawprints with no tags or few tags with anything relevant, SFW or NSFW, just to help people find what they want by searching.

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.

Today, almost every pawception game had been derailed by a select few users, almost all of them to do with cookies of some kind (cookie run kingdom?), I'd like to reiterate that it is against the rules to derail games to try to get art of some obscure thing you want. Your submission to a pawception game MUST be related to the turn you're responding to. I will be deleting turns that derail from now on, and issuing warnings and potentially pawception bans for repeat offenders.

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.

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.

I've added a referrals system - in your profile settings window you will find a referral link you can send to friends. When signing up with this link (or writing your username in manually) it will increase your referred users statistic. I've also added a badge for referring a certain number of users :3 I've added the skeleton of a very basic animation system for pawprints, allowing some of them to record the drawing process and be replayed later. This isn't currently active as it's wildly inefficient, but it's a start. Some pretty big styling changes; in Pawception I've added little badges to show the current game state, and also hidden the current turn entirely if you've already participated to make it more of a mystery. The index page has also been completely reworked, making the profiles smaller and giving regular members their own username colour. In the profile I've added BBCode support and allowed new lines. You can now make 'em a bit prettier with links, colours and other stylings. There's buttons in the editor to show you exactly what you can do!

Changed up the user settings page a bit, it's now divided into tabs with some new settings specifically on drawing - you can now selectively disable drafts, layers, layer filters, and set defaults for new pawprints if you'd like all of them to be friends only for example. You can also easily enable/disable all notification settings. I fixed an issue with profile journals not loading, and re-added the ability to pan with the space bar.

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.

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.

- 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.

When drawing a new pawprint (or nuking any existing draft), you will get an option of which canvas you'd like to draw on - 500x300 (normal), 300x500 (vertical), or 500x500 (square). These are the biggest pawprints you can currently draw, and gives you extra space needed for some more advanced poses. I'm interested to see what people do with this! You are also able to zoom out slightly further than you could before.

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

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.