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.
Light or dark, your choice
There is a light/dark switch in the header now, on the site and in the dashboard. Collr still opens dark — that is the site — but the lights are one press away from any page, and it remembers. If you are signed in it follows you to another browser.
It has gone from onboarding and from Account & settings, because a switch you can reach in one press does not need to be two screens deep as well.
Your links
You can put any icon on a link — around two thousand of them, searchable by what the thing is: beer, camera, paw, calendar. The row of social marks is still there for the usual places; this is for everywhere else.
Uploading your own icon is free. It used to be part of Premium, and it should not have been: the right icon is what stops a page looking like a form.
If something has gone wrong
The contact form takes appeals. If your account has been suspended or banned you cannot sign in, so there was no way to ask anybody to look again — an appeal now goes straight to the people who make those decisions. Write from the address on the account and we can find it.
Finding events
Eight more categories: contest, play party, market, fundraiser, furry, bear, neoprene, and bondage & rope. Twenty-seven events were sitting in “Other” and seventy-two in “Meet & Social”, which is the catalogue admitting it could not describe what it holds. Each has its own colour, taken from its scene’s flag where there is one.
A festival’s page leads with its programme again. The panels above it — the door, access, photography, house rules — said “nobody has said” four times over and pushed the list of nights a screen and a half down the page. A festival now leaves out a panel it has not answered; each night still carries its own.
A festival’s individual nights know what country they are in. They all have full addresses, and none of them carried a country, because only top-level events were being placed on the map.
A festival that runs across a dozen venues is listed at the centre it actually takes place in, rather than at whichever of its bars came up most often. Its own entry had been picking the most frequent venue of the week, which told you a festival happens in one room.
If you run events
What you have answered about your event now beats what Collr worked out from the listing. An event that came in from a ticketing platform kept saying “Book ahead — no entry on the door” after its organiser had said you can pay on the door: Collr had filled the blank with a guess, and then nothing would displace it. A guess now counts as a blank until somebody answers it properly.
Around the site
The header groups the sections beside the logo, and “The page” has gone — it pointed at a spot on the front page rather than a page, so from anywhere else it threw you home and jumped. The logo is the way home. About moved down to the footer with the other “who are you” links.
Opening What’s new clears its notification, however you got there. Arriving from the bell already did; the sidebar, a bookmark and the screen’s own “Read more” did not, so the badge sat there over news you were looking straight at.
The About page had two things wrong about Collr itself: it said nothing here needs an account, when explicit events always have, and it told the story of the rename backwards.
