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.
Knowing what you're walking into
Events can say what it takes to get through the door: whether photo ID is asked for, whether it's members or invitation only, whether you have to book ahead, whether it's cash on the door, an age limit and a last entry time. The cost of leaving these blank is somebody travelling across a city and being turned away.
Photo ID has three answers rather than two, because plenty of doors run Challenge 25 — ID from anyone who looks under 25 and nobody else. "Photo ID required" would keep away someone who left their passport at home for no reason; "No ID needed" is what turns a 22-year-old around at the door.
Events can answer the questions that decide whether you can actually be there: step-free access, an accessible toilet, gender-neutral toilets, somewhere to sit, a quiet space, whether it's alcohol-free, and assistance dogs. Nobody has to ask an organiser in a DM and hope.
Every event has somewhere to say what the rules are on cameras — where you may take photos, whether consent is expected, whether the organiser has a photographer. Not knowing is its own reason to stay home.
Organisers can mark an event as welcoming to first-timers, and you can filter to just those. It means the organiser has said yes, never that they haven't said no.
When things change
Organisers can say a night is off — cancelled or postponed, which are different news. The event stays listed and marked rather than vanishing, because somebody standing outside a locked door has to be able to find the answer.
Everyone going or interested is told once, and told again if it's back on. Being told a night is off and left to discover on your own that it's back is the worse half of the same failure.
You can follow a single event and hear if it moves, without saying you're going. A venue change a fortnight out is exactly the thing you want to know and exactly the thing nobody remembers to check.
Collr now tells you when an event falls inside something you're already going to that runs for days. If you're at a fetish week abroad and open a munch happening while you're away, it says so.
Finding what's on
Event pages show a map — or rather, they show one for the first time. Collr has been turning imported addresses into coordinates for months, but the map was only ever used on profiles and the coordinates never reached the page that needed them. Any event Collr can place now shows where it is.
You can filter events by town. Country was the only way to narrow down where, which is far too coarse for deciding whether you can get to something on a Tuesday. Only towns that actually have an upcoming event are offered, so choosing one never quietly hides anything.
Imported listings say how recently they were confirmed, so you can tell a listing Collr checked this morning from one that has not been touched in a month.
If you run events
Answer once what your events are like — the door, the building, the photography rules — and it fills in on every event you add, instead of typing it out each month. Events → the cog → Standing answers.
If Collr imports your events from your own website or calendar, you can claim that feed as yours. Staff check it first; once it's yours, you describe the venue once for everything imported from it.
Imported events now arrive knowing what the venue is like. An importer can read a night's name, time and price, but it cannot know the building has step-free access or that photography isn't allowed on the dancefloor — so those answers are kept against the place instead, and fill the blanks on every listing that comes from it.
The Events screen opens with your events again. The two privacy questions that used to sit on top of it are settings you set once, so they have moved into the cog beside Add an event.
Your account, your data, your link
You can turn on two-factor sign-in, with an authenticator app and ten recovery codes for when your phone isn't there.
You can download everything Collr holds about you and actually read it — and it names what deliberately isn't in it.
Sharing your profile link now looks like something: pasting a Collr link into a chat draws a proper card with your name, handle, bio and picture in your own theme colour, rather than a bare avatar cropped by whatever app is showing it.
The two privacy choices that come with saying you're going now sit together behind a "Who sees this" cog on the event, and the first time you say you're going to anything, Collr explains them: that you're counted rather than named, that the organiser sees you either way, and that the event shows on your profile by default and can be turned off.
You can keep events off your profile entirely, and only the ones you chose to publish are shown.
Around the site
Collr has a menu on a phone. The header used to drop its navigation entirely on a small screen, so arriving on the front page left you no way to reach Events or the directory at all, and no way to log in if you were signed out. There is a menu button now, with all of it in there.
The header fits on one row on a phone. The full Collr.app logo is wider than a small screen can spare next to the sign-up button, so on a phone you get the collar mark with Collr beside it; the full logo is back as soon as there is room for it.
Release notes are public, at collr.app/changelog, with a page for each release so one can be linked to. Signed in, What's new opens with the newest release and lists the earlier ones a line each, rather than printing all nine in full.
There's a page for designers who want to build a Collr theme, at collr.app/themes/develop. A theme is a block of JSON rather than code, and the sandbox previews one in a browser with nothing to install.
Profiles with a pale background of their own are readable again — the name, handle, social icons and tag chips were drawn in near-white whatever the page behind them looked like.
Adding an event no longer scrolls sideways on a phone. The photo-ID question has four answers, one of them Challenge 25, and the row refused to wrap, so the whole page was wider than the screen and drifted as you scrolled.
New events price in pounds. The currency picker listed the euro first, so events created without touching it were priced in euros on a site that prices in pounds everywhere else. Events already saved keep what they were set to.
Calendar downloads say Collr rather than PawPup. Events already in your calendar are untouched.
The browser tab says "Wandered off?" rather than "Gone walkies?" when you switch away. Collr is for the whole scene, so the character dotted around it should read the same whether you are into leather, rubber, gear or pup.
