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.

- Added a default avatar instead of a placeholder, could someone draw one sometime that I could use? (gray, something to represent someone without an avatar)
- Fixed the create raffle button not showing up for Level 2+
- Login/register should now keep you on whatever page you were on instead of yeeting you back to the homepage.
- Requests now have a setting to require a user to be following you in order to accept a request.
- Fixed an issue where pawceptions weren't allowing enough words in a prompt.
- NSFW pawprints and flipbooks can now be viewed directly by the view URL without needing to be logged in after accepting a content warning, for sharing purposes.

Back when Pawprinting was first created, it was inspired heavily by strawpage - the anonymous doodles people would receive, with little needed for the person drawing other than a creative spirit. Later into development, I scrapped the idea of people drawing without having an account due to the worry of spam or extreme/questionable content.

With how pawprinting has grown, I'm ready to bring it back. In your user settings under visibility, you will find a new setting for allowing guest pawprints. This will let anyone, account or no, to draw on your profile - link people directly to your draw page from anywhere on the internet and they'll be able to draw for you anonymously or with a guest name they can set. They will not have drafts saved or loaded, but that's a trade-off for not having an account.

Any pawprints sent this way will be unconfirmed, and you will have to confirm them for it to show up publicly. As this is opt-in and people can't just spam your profile, I feel like it's a lot safer to bring this feature back now.

Another change I did is on confirming pawprints - instead of just a big 'accept' and 'reject' button, it now goes to the settings of the pawprint giving you the opportunity to change tags, make sure the rating is okay, or even hide it if you want.

Heya, there was a bug in one of the event entries for the current event, so I've fixed it and reset all the votes. Please vote again! Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

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.

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

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.

- 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.

The formatting for character tags has changed as I've noticed some characters have more common names that coincide with other things. If your name is not very unique (somewhat likely to be tagged in something unrelated), please set your character tag to "name (username)", for example, "maple (xen)", similar to how characters are tagged on e621. I've done the vast majority of this myself and updated all pawprint tags to match, but I might've missed some.

I'd like to remind everyone that inserting your own OCs or your friends' OCs into Pawception games is not permitted. If the previous turn directly involves your OC, continuing that context is fine. However, adding your own or a friend's OC to a drawing or prompt when it is not relevant is not allowed. Please refrain from doing so.

Additionally, I've made several backend improvements to Pawception. While these changes should enhance stability, there is a possibility of unintended issues. If you encounter any bugs, please let me know. I've also increased the maximum number of turns to 24 to allow for greater participation and longer games.

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

Blocked Tags: I added a new setting under the blocked tags on the user settings page. When enabled, you will see SFW pawprints with blocked tags, meaning the blocked tags will only block NSFW content.

Tag Predictions: Tags on pawprint and user settings now has a dropdown of relevant tags, to make it easier to tag the right things.

Name Colours: Starting from level 21, colours have gotten a little more interesting. Users who reach this milestone will be given some fancy gradients instead of just a solid colour!

Levels Page: You can now see the XP required and colour of all the levels here.

Boring Janitor Stuff: Made the janitor tag page a bit faster, since we have well over 22,000 tags now the page was taking far too long to load before.

I just uploaded the beta of the new drawing window everywhere you could draw pawprints. I recoded a lot of the old awful stuff that's been there since the beginning and tried to modernise it a bit - you can now close/open the tools and sliders, meaning the overall drawing window is much bigger than it was before!

I paid special attention to making it work properly on mobile/smaller devices, but as it's a beta, I'd love to know if anything doesn't work and what you think in general.

Extra Fixes/Changes:
- Made panning smoother. It shouldn't lag behind your mouse when you try to move the canvas around now.

Certain tags (adjustable by mods and admins) now have aliases and parents. Aliases basically act as synonyms or common misspellings of a tag, so if there are multiple words that could mean the same thing they will show up the same in searches and also get blocked if necessary.

Parent tags are a system similar to how e621 works; if a tag has a parent, it will also be added alongside the tag. This is for when a tag implies something else, like 'watersports' implying 'urine', and just helps to catch edge cases where someone might forget to add a useful tag.

Let's do an example - if you block the tag 'two', which is an alias of the tag '2', it will be treated as if you also blocked '2'. As '2' has a parent of '1', it will also block anything with '1' and its alias 'one', and so on until there are no more parent tags.

Fixed unconfirmed pawprints not showing up to the user who needs to confirm them. Oops. Also fixed an issue where some pages were broken due to my bad coding.

Fixed a possible XSS issue where HTML was being rendered in pawprint comments.

Updated search to actually work with multiple word tags and it now properly searches for parts of tags instead of the entire tag! (e.g. 'pika' will show you 'pikachu')

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 ^^

It's not perfect (far from it), but there's a basic fill tool available in the drawing canvas. It sometimes leaves anti-aliasing artifacts around lines but they should be much easier to touch up than how people were filling colour before. It might also think two similar-looking colours are the same thing but it's the best I can do for now!

Updated the index pawception game list to have a maximum, and default to 'in progress' games. You can view every single one from the standalone pawception page, but the index is meant just for a summary of the latest things.

Profile followers/following views now have a scroll bar to stop the page becoming unbearably long, and are ordered by most recent follower/followed user.

Hopefully fixed a bug where you can accidentally submit duplicate pawprints (if refreshing or lagging I assume), it now checks to see if you have tried to submit the same image within the last minute.

- Artists can now choose to accept requests from other users, this is a toggle in your profile settings (look for 'allow requests'). If enabled, you and anyone viewing your profile will see a new Requests tab in-between the draw and scrapbook tabs.

- As a visitor, you can leave artists with requests enabled a short message (up to 300 characters), sending them a notification and putting it into an easy to view list. When done, artists can simply delete the request from the tab.

...with this, sending pawprints or comments to specifically request art when it's not related (for example, an artist making a pawprint asking for requests would be fine) is now against the rules. This is simply to stop a lot of the recent spam I've been seeing.

More boring update today. I've made it so clicking on a pawprint will open a little window with a full-size view of it, and some extra information. While doing this I've updated pawprints in general to be consistent everywhere.

Fixed some issues where right-click was not erasing while drawing, re-added missing buttons to highlight and delete pawprints, and added notifications for anonymous and guest pawprints.

You can also now select from latest, random, and top for both pawprints and profiles on the homepage!

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.

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.