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.
Photos and video on your page
Premium pages can carry photos and video — twelve pieces, or twenty-four on Premium+. Give them captions, put them in the order you want, and pick one to lead the page.
You can paste a YouTube or Vimeo link instead of uploading a file. It shows as a still with a play button, and nothing loads from either of them until somebody presses it, so nobody is tracked for looking at your page.
Anything you mark 18+ is blurred until a visitor asks to see it, and a page carrying a content warning doesn't send its photos at all until that warning has been cleared.
The gallery takes its look from your theme, like everything else on your page.
Any photo on a profile can be reported on its own, so one bad image doesn't mean reporting the person.
The link you hand out
Sharing your profile link shows a picture again. Since 0.8.0 the card Collr draws had been coming out empty for anyone using one of the textured themes — which is nearly all of them — so a link pasted into a chat arrived with nothing on it.
Apps and messengers stop showing the picture they cached for you months ago. They keep an image against the address it came from and many never look again, so a profile shared before 0.8.0 still went out as the old cropped avatar. The address now changes whenever your card does.
The card Collr draws is what your link shows by default. If you uploaded your own image before, it's still there and one click away — it just isn't used until you say so.
Your page shows you the card itself rather than describing it, whatever your tier, so you can see what a link to you looks like before you paste one.
A card stays readable even when the colours it's built from aren't. If your accent all but disappears into your own background, Collr lightens or darkens it on the card alone — your page keeps exactly the colours you picked.
What's on
Imported events now carry their door and photography rules. On the sites Collr imports from, "bring photo ID", "members and guests only" or "no cameras in the play space" is a sentence in the middle of a description; Collr now reads what it safely can and fills in what the organiser hasn't answered. Those lines say they were read from the listing rather than stated. Access facts are never guessed at — a wrong "step-free" sends somebody on a journey that ends at a flight of stairs.
Collr only brings in events that haven't happened yet. Sources publish their whole back catalogue, so one organiser's feed could add a year and a half of socials that were already over. What's listed should be what you can still go to.
An organiser's logo carries across their events instead of being uploaded month after month, so the month somebody forgets no longer shows a grey placeholder on the homepage.
Writing, and finding your way in
There's a blog now, at /blog — written by members of this scene, explaining corners of it to people outside it. What pup play is, how somebody gets into leather, why any of it matters. Open to anybody, no account needed, and findable in a search engine, which is the point of it.
You can ask to write for it, from Blog in your dashboard. Asking means sending a few paragraphs of what you'd actually write rather than a note saying you'd like to — and it isn't a guarantee; somebody reads every request and answers either way.
An event that welcomes first-timers can now write its own page saying what to expect at that night: where to go, who to look for, what to wear, what nobody will expect of you. In the organiser's words, because they run the night and Collr only lists it.
Elsewhere
There's an About page now, at /about — what Collr is, who it's for, who runs it, where your data lives, and how it got here from PawPup. It's in the menu and on the homepage.
The messages the public pages show you — a password that didn't match, a code that worked — are readable again rather than being small mono capitals that looked like a system fault.
Small grey text on the public pages is a step lighter, which brings it above the contrast level it was failing.
Events with explicit content are now labelled "explicit" rather than "18+". Nearly every event here is adults only, so the old label said the wrong thing — and it's the mark that keeps an event out of search engines, so an organiser going by it could have hidden an ordinary night from anyone not logged in.
