Paste a festival programme instead of typing thirty events — Collr 0.14.0

Joining

You can join Collr from inside Telegram. Open @CollrAppBot and Collr fills in your name and suggests a handle from your Telegram account, so signing up is a couple of taps rather than a form. If you already have a Collr account you connect it to Telegram instead of starting a second one.
It still asks for your email address and still verifies it. Telegram makes the form quicker; it does not change what a Collr account is, and an account with no verified email cannot reset its password or be told anything.

If you run events

A festival's programme can be added in one go. Paste the page your line-up is published on — your own site, or wherever it lives — and Collr reads the events off it, shows you what it found, and adds the ones you tick as sub-events of the festival. Each one is an ordinary event you can open and edit afterwards. Typing thirty events in one at a time is why some programmes never got entered at all.
Setting an event's dates uses Collr's own calendar instead of whatever your browser felt like drawing. Every browser drew that box differently, some of them badly, and on a phone it was a lottery. It is the same picker everywhere now, in your theme, and it reads dates the British way round.
An event Collr brings in from elsewhere keeps the name of the venue it is at. Two sources were folding the venue into the address line, so a listing arrived as a street with no building.
A minimum age typed as a word — “eighteen” rather than “18” — is no longer stored as a broken number on your event defaults.
A recurring event's own page shows the right date on its banner. The poster had been showing the first date the event ever ran rather than the next one coming up.
An event added by a member who has not set a handle now says who added it. It credited them only when they had one, so some events looked like nobody had put them there.
The “Run by” panel on an event shows the organiser's picture rather than the first letter of their name.

Going to things

You can turn off event reminders. The “coming up soon” nudge before an event you said you were going to had no setting at all — it sent to everybody going, every time. There is a switch on your account screen now, and it starts on, so nothing changes unless you go and turn it off.
You are always emailed when an event you are going to is cancelled or postponed. That one had been filed with the reminders, so anyone who had turned reminders off in the only way there was would not have heard that a night was called off.
The “Log in to attend” button on a profile's upcoming event can be read on every theme. On several it was near enough invisible.

Your page

Video has come off Collr. You can no longer upload one to your page and the video wallpaper is gone. What a video shows can be made to differ from what it looked like when it was added, and not hosting that kind of content is what keeps Collr out of the age-verification rules. Nobody's page changes: no member had uploaded one.
A music or video block loads only when you press play, and says which site it is about to load. Nothing from Spotify, SoundCloud or YouTube runs on your page until a visitor asks for it, which is faster for them and quieter about who visited you.
Pasting a Mastodon post now makes an ordinary link instead of an embedded post. An embedded post shows whatever that post says today, which is not necessarily what it said when you put it on your page.
Your page loads considerably lighter. One theme's animated backdrop was being downloaded by every visitor to every profile, whether the theme used it or not; the five animated backdrops are now fetched only by the themes that draw them.
“In your own words” no longer explains itself with the word “markdown”. It says what to type to get a heading, a bold word or a list, which is what somebody who has never heard of markdown needed to be told.
The share card panel says what a share card is — the picture with a title and a description under it that appears when somebody pastes your link into a chat — instead of assuming you already knew.
The share card's description has room to write in: five lines instead of three, and a count down from 200 characters so you can use the whole of it.
The about page asks its questions in a better order, and two of them are worded for more people. “My first event” assumed you had been to one, and plenty of people have not; “How I got into this” asked about the route in rather than the reason.
Answering two questions on your about page no longer loses the first one. Opening a second question closed the first and threw away what you had written in it.
On a phone, the badges on a profile with a logo read as one line again, and a badge's icon is the size of the word beside it instead of a speck.
The theme picker says which themes can be re-tinted in your own colour and which keep their own palette by design. It had claimed all of them could, so choosing a colour on Pride or one of the community themes looked broken rather than intended.
The free colour swatches are named for the whole scene rather than after one community's colour code.

Your account

The “show password” button on the sign-in page works. It never has.
Saving a change no longer looks as though it did not work. Eight dropdowns across six screens snapped back to their old value the moment you pressed Save, while the change had in fact been saved — only reloading the page showed the truth.
Collr tells you when the automatic check puts a content warning on your profile. It used to happen silently, so the first you knew was that your page had a warning on it you did not put there.
Members can make packs again. Whether you could was being decided by a column that stopped being filled in some time ago, so for most people the answer had quietly become no.
You can see and remove the Telegram account connected to yours, under Account & settings → Security. This matters more than a settings tidy-up: opening Collr inside Telegram signs that account straight in with no password, so a connected Telegram account is a way into your Collr account, and until now there was no screen that showed the connection existed. Disconnecting asks first, then emails you to confirm it happened.
Cover images, profile logos and custom domains are Premium features, as the plans have always said. Each had a gate that was written and never switched on. Nobody loses anything: everyone using one today is already on a paid tier, and taking a picture or a domain off is never gated.

Analytics

Premium+ members can download their analytics as a spreadsheet. The download has worked since extended analytics shipped, but nothing on the screen ever offered it, so the only way to reach it was to know the address.

Around the site

The contact and “get listed” pages no longer say Collr lists “some UK/EU pup, leather, and rubber events”. Any event in the scene can be listed, wherever it runs — the old wording was wrong about where, and naming three parts of the scene told everybody else the site was not for them.