Everything that has changed on Collr, newest first. If you have an account, the same notes are in your dashboard under What’s new.
Answer once, for every event
v0.19.0
Organisers answer the questions about their events once and every event carries the answers, badges ask for most answers rather than every one, and an explicit event shows a padlock until you sign in.
If you run events
Standing answers are set once and forgotten. Saving them fills the gaps on every upcoming event you already have, as well as on the ones you add or import later, and never changes anything an event already says.
Standing answers are the one place for them. Your import source's page keeps the feed's name and town and points you there, so the door, photography and access answers reach your hand-made events as well as your imported ones.
A badge asks for most of those answers, not every one. A Partner event answers over half of the door and access questions, and for every badge, house rules count when they are written out; the tick-box rules are optional.
Finding events
An explicit event shows a padlock for its picture until you sign in, so it is clear at a glance that signing in shows it.
EARLIER RELEASES
Saved searches, and email you control
v0.18.0
Save a search and hear when a new event matches it, bring your links over from Linktree and similar pages, switch any event email off from the email itself, find people by town in the directory, organisers can change one date of a repeating event, and closing an account is safer and can be undone.
A second account keeps its own connections and can be the non-sexual one, a community or role on a profile explains itself when tapped, and release notifications are now opt-in during the beta.
Accessibility options in every header, a published accessibility report, after parties linked to their events, events filed under the right category, and badges that are easier to tell apart.
Near me can remember your home area if you ask it to, Collr has a status page for when something seems wrong, and a round of accessibility fixes across event badges and printables.
Make a business card, flyers, a poster, a table tent and a square for social posts, each with your own QR code. Events with a badge now tell you what you need to know before you go, and on a phone the event filters and long descriptions fold away until you want them.
Search for events near a postcode, a town or where you are, without Collr keeping any of it. Events with a badge come first on their day, there is a new Trusted badge between Verified and Partner, and any event can be reported from its page.
The dashboard is sorted by what you are doing: your page, your events, the people you know, and you. Everything for running events is in one place, settings have tabs you can link to, and the sidebar tells you when something is waiting. The front page shows the organisers Collr works with, and there is a page on how to use the Collr logo.
A light and dark switch in the header, any Font Awesome icon on your links, and custom icons now free for everybody. Eight more categories for the events already here, so a title contest and a pub social stop being filed as the same kind of night. Festivals lead with their programme instead of four panels saying nobody has answered. Several events knew their address but not their country, which is now fixed — including a whole festival that was one lookup away from being pinned in France. There is more than usual under Earlier releases this time — a few of them arrived together.
Getting tested, and a contact form that knows who to wake
v0.14.3
Collr now has a page about sexual health and testing — where to go, how often, and the things a clinic can give you that most people have never been told about. You can say on your profile that you test regularly, if you want to. The contact form asks what your message is about, so a security problem or a report of somebody's behaviour reaches a person instead of a queue. And events imported from elsewhere arrive with their full description and the right address.
Your logo, your theme's header, and spam kept off the contact form
v0.14.2
If you have a logo you can now choose between the big logo header and your theme's own header with your logo in it — which is what an event page usually wants. Both the sign-up and contact forms quietly check your browser before they accept anything, because spam had started coming through, and that check runs on Collr's own machines rather than sending you to anybody else. The privacy policy has been corrected on two counts and now says plainly what happens to a banned account's data.
Both Launch Edition themes are now on offer from launch day to 31 December, and the theme picker finally explains what a Launch Edition is — including the part everybody asks about: wearing one for a second and switching straight back still keeps it for good. The Howl theme is called Nightcall. Sharing your about page now shows your card instead of a bare link. And your photo gallery is photos, with video where it belongs.
Paste a festival programme instead of typing thirty events
v0.14.0
You can join Collr from inside Telegram, through @CollrAppBot. A festival's whole line-up can be added in one go. Setting a date uses Collr's own calendar rather than whatever your browser felt like drawing. Video has come off the site. And a long list of things that quietly did not work — show password, answering two questions on your about page, making a pack, being told when an event you are going to is called off — now do.
Fourteen new themes, including seven that belong to the communities they are for, six that come back every year, and one limited edition. Your theme now reaches the parts of your page it never used to — your about page, your QR code, your tags, your event dates. You can hold a second account, say your kink is not a sexual one, and fix your email if you typed it wrong.
Put the same night on again without typing it twice
v0.12.0
Running a night every month? Duplicate copies an event and leaves you the date to set. Editing your own event works again — saving had been failing for everyone who isn’t staff. Partner events carry their badge on their own now, and music blocks finally look like they belong on your page.
An event can now say how it runs — ask before you touch, the dress code, whether there’s a welfare team — rather than leaving it buried in a description. Badges say which event they were earned at. The blog says which scenes a piece is for, so you can read what was written for yours, and there’s a proper editor behind it for the people writing. Plus a fix for the events that were telling you there was a price on the door when you have to book ahead.
If you got stuck being told to verify your email, and every link you opened said it was invalid, that was us. Asking for a fresh email was deleting the link already in your inbox, so the message arriving at that moment was dead before you opened it. Fixed — and the links now last a day instead of an hour.
A bug in yesterday's release put the dropdowns on Your page back to “Rather not say” as soon as you saved, and saving again wrote that down over what you had picked. That is fixed, and if it caught you, setting them once more will now stick. Signing up also asks the three short questions from the about page, so a new page has something on it from the first day.
Pick everything you're into rather than five fixed labels, and choose what your page leads with. There's a longer about page if you want one — and if you'd rather keep a short bio, that's a finished profile and nothing will nag you. The blog has a Guides section, posts take headings and pictures now, and events that can only be booked ahead finally say so instead of looking like you can turn up.
Premium pages get photos and video, and there's a blog written by the community. The card people see when they paste your link works again — it had been coming out blank on nearly every theme since 0.8.0, and apps that cached your old picture will finally let go of it. Imported events now carry the door and camera rules that were buried in their descriptions, events that welcome first-timers can say what to expect, and Collr has stopped filling up with events that already happened.
0.8.0 went out with a public header a phone could not use: no way to reach Events or the directory, and a wordmark wide enough to push the sign-up button on top of itself. This fixed it.
The biggest release since Collr opened. Every event can now say what it actually takes to turn up — the door, the building, the cameras, the access — organisers answer those questions once instead of on every listing, nights that are called off say so and tell everyone, you can follow an event without saying you are going, and your account gains two-factor sign-in, a data export you can actually read and a proper share card on your link.
You can now mark yourself going to an event and be counted without being named, organisers can see who's coming and run their door, and events can show how full they are.
Anyone can now correct a wrong time or a dead link on an event, verified members can vouch for people they know, badges arrive on their own, and organisers can add the link where their tickets are actually sold.
Event pages can now show their next events on their own site, setting up asks for your dashboard's colour, and the dashboard is that colour all the way through.
The design editor puts your page's preview beside the controls and works properly on a phone. Invite codes can come with Premium, and signing in is more secure. You'll be asked to sign in again once.
Show the people in your life on your page, with more kinds of relationship and a clear mark for the ones you've both agreed to. Notifications move to a bell at the top of your dashboard.
The events anyone can browse without signing in now look and work like Events in your dashboard, event posters show up more reliably, and member pages are kept out of search engines.
A new dashboard, a simpler page builder and better events
v0.5.2
Our biggest update yet. Every screen in your dashboard has been rebuilt to be clearer and to work properly on a phone, your page is now built in one place and saves as you go, and events are easier to browse, plan and follow.
