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.
Before you travel
An event page now has a house rules panel: the few things that recur — ask before you touch, a dress code, take part rather than watch, a welfare team on site — and whatever else the organiser wants to say in their own words. It sits with the door, access and photography panels, and an event running under an event page shows that page’s standing rules underneath its own.
An event you have to book for no longer quotes you a price at the door. Nights that can only be booked ahead were saying “Book ahead — no entry on the door” and “Free on the door” in the same breath; they now read “Free, but book ahead”, and how you pay at a door you can’t use has gone.
If you’re going to a free event, Collr has stopped telling you its price changed when it hasn’t. That notification fired on every import of a free listing and said the same thing on both sides of “was”.
Badges
A badge earned at an event says which event, and links to it. Crew, welfare, DJ and host told you what somebody did and never where — anybody can be told they crewed, but a badge that names the night and links to it is something you can check.
Organisers can put their own crew forward for those badges from the event’s own screen. Collr staff confirm each one before it appears on anybody’s profile, because a badge is a claim about a person who didn’t ask for it.
The blog
A piece can name up to three scenes it’s written for, from the same list you pick from on your own profile. They show on the piece and lead to everything else written for that scene — a piece about harnesses is for pup people and leather people both, and under one category it was findable by neither.
Writing for the blog is buttons now rather than markdown: headings, bold, lists, quotes, links and pictures, over a page that looks like the page it will become. The markdown is still there for anybody who prefers it.
A piece can be marked explicit. It stays readable on Collr behind a warning, and is kept out of search engines and Collr’s channels — so the writing can exist without putting the rest of the site’s search listing at risk.
Your page
You can say your profile picture is explicit. It turns on the content warning before your page and shows the default picture everywhere else on Collr — the directory, pack and group pages, anywhere your name appears — because a warning on one page is no use when the same picture is on twenty others.
