The website

A long web buddy caption is no longer cut off

The caption used to stop after one line, which cut off the name of the picture right where somebody was reading. It now wraps onto as many lines as it needs and stays inside the window.

The figure in the corner is now called a web buddy

The drawing in the corner of a page is the same as before, under a name that is easier to say. Every screen that mentioned the figure in the corner now says web buddy.

Pointing at a web buddy shows its caption

Hold your mouse over the buddy on a page and the caption its owner gave the picture appears above the drawing. A buddy without a caption behaves as before.

The artwork you clicked for now rests in the middle of the strip

Landing put the picture against the left edge of the strip, which read as almost arriving. The strip now centers the picture, and swiping by hand rests cards in the middle the same way.

The panel your writing sits on follows your chosen colors

The panel over a picture behind your page used to work only on the standard cream look: pick Night, or paint your own background, and the solidity slider moved nothing you could see. The panel is now your own background thinned to the slider, fades into a second color included, and the preview beside the sliders shows the real thing.

Clicking a species in the roster lands exactly on its artwork

The trip from the front page roster to a picture in the strip used to lurch and settle a card off as often as on. The strip now glides straight to the exact spot and the picture lights up for a moment, so there is no guessing which one you meant.

The front page stayed up for the first visitor and broke for the next

The new strip with the latest news and the next event kept its dates in a form that did not survive being held for the next visitor, so the first view worked and every view after it hit the error page. The dates are now stored in a form that survives, and the page stays up.

The front page shows the latest news and the next event

A strip near the top carries the newest edition and whatever is next on the calendar, so coming back to the site shows the Reserve moving instead of the same page as last month.

Species names link to their artwork

A species in the roster list with a picture in the gallery is now a link that scrolls the picture into view, instead of leaving you to push the strip along and read captions.

Whether applications are open is said right under the opening screen

The row of figures below the artwork now ends with the application status and a way straight to the form, so deciding to join does not require scrolling the whole page first.

The front page loads lighter and settles calmer

The opening artwork and the section banners are served smaller with no visible difference, and sections now ease in as a whole rather than one paragraph at a time.

The theme switch can follow your device

The button in the header now cycles through light, dark, and following your device. Pick the last one and the site changes with your phone or computer, including when it switches at sunset.

An empty list now carries a small fern

Every screen that has nothing to show draws a quiet sprig of fern above its message, so an empty corner of the site still looks like the Reserve rather than like a missing part.

The sprout pages list reads better and lifts under your pointer

The cards on the community list sit on proper shadows, respond when you hover them, and the messages for an empty or filtered list now say what to do next.

Leaving a page with unsaved typing asks first

Editing your page, or any form in the staff and settings areas, and then clicking away used to discard the typing with nothing said. A dialog now asks whether to stay or to leave and discard the changes.

Your dashboard shows up before the slow parts have loaded

The page used to wait for everything before showing anything. The header, registry, and record now appear at once, and the tickets, characters, and Patreon cards fill in right after.

News covers and character pictures load lighter on a phone

Pictures on the news pages and on a character page are now served at the size your screen actually needs, instead of the full original every time.

A file that is not really a picture is refused with a clear reason

Uploads used to be checked only by the name a file carried, so a broken or mislabeled file could be accepted and then fail later where nobody could see why. The contents are now read, and a file that is not the picture or clip it claims to be is refused on the spot with what to do instead.

The whole site has a fresh, warmer look

Every screen was rebuilt to match, with clearer type, calmer colors, and layouts that work properly on a phone.

Your dashboard puts the useful thing first

It leads with what needs doing, then your profile and your standing, then your own tools, so you are not hunting for the part you came for.

The writing across the site is plainer

Buttons, messages, and empty screens now say what they do and what happens next, in plain English.

Signing in and your tickets read more clearly

The sign-in page and your tickets were rewritten so it is obvious what each screen shows and what to do there.

A gradient on your name shows both colors on your page

It ran across the full width of the space your name sits in rather than across the name itself, so a short name landed in the first sliver of the gradient and came out one flat color. The sample beside the picker was right, which is why it looked like your page had ignored the choice.

Styling your name shows the name your page uses

The samples used your Discord username even when your page shows a display name, so somebody called Niunia was styling the word niunishka. A different word at a different length is a different result, which only turned up once the page was open.

Sending in a figure for the corner is no longer blocked

Yesterday a picture with nothing see-through in it was turned away. It goes through now and you are told what arrived, because there is a case where somebody picks the right file and the wrong bytes are handed over.

Picking a picture out of Photos can flatten it, and the message says so

On a Mac or an iPhone, choosing an animation from Photos hands the page a still copy with white where the see-through part was, under the same name and the same size. If that is what happened, pick the file itself from Files or Finder and send that copy instead.

A picture with a filled in background is turned down straight away

A figure for the corner of your page has to be cut out, and one that is not used to be accepted, wait two days for staff, and then sit on your page as a rectangle. You are told the moment you send it, and told how to export it again.

Your figure is shown on squares while you are choosing

Against a pale card, a drawing with a white background looks exactly like one with no background at all. On squares the difference is the first thing you see, so nothing about it is a surprise once your page is drawing it.

You can jump to any page of the sprout list

The numbers under the list are links, and the first and the last are always among them. Getting to the fifth page used to mean pressing Next four times, and getting back to the first meant pressing Back until it stopped.

The line above the list counts sprouts rather than pages

It used to say how many pages there were and then which page you were on, and both numbers were called pages. It now says how many sprouts have a page and which page of the list you are reading.

You can join every mark on a page, however many there are

Pressing one somebody else already left is agreeing with them, and there is no limit on it any more. A page with six marks under it can now have you in all six.

Three of the marks on a page can be ones you started

The limit is only about putting something new there, not about how much you can agree with. Take one of yours back and you can put a different one up in its place.

The same rule holds under a comment

Join anything already under it as often as you like, and up to three of what is there can be yours to have added. A page still carries twenty different marks at most, so the row stays something you can read at a glance.

You decide how much of your background shows through your page

Two sliders set how solid the panel your writing sits on is and how blurred the picture is behind it, with the result drawn while you move them. There used to be one setting for everybody, so a map behind your page was either buried under the panel or not worth choosing.

The changelog has a search box

Type a word or a version number and the list narrows to the releases that say it. Finding when something was fixed used to mean reading down a page hundreds of releases long.

Every release has a link you can send

Pressing a version number moves the page to that release and copies its address, so you can point somebody at the exact thing you are talking about. There is also a standing link to whatever is newest, at rosarealism.com/changelog#latest.

A button takes you back to the top of the changelog

It appears once you are far enough down to want it. Reading to the bottom of the longest page on the site used to leave you scrolling all the way back.

Saving something no longer throws you back to the top

The editor puts you back where you were pressing. Changing a caption or trying a color used to send you to the page header, with whatever you were working on somewhere below the fold.

Choosing a color works the same way for everybody now

There is a picker of our own, with a square of shades, a rainbow, and boxes for a six digit code or three numbers. What used to open was whatever your browser felt like showing you, and on some of them there was no way to type a code at all.

Every picture your page can carry is in one card

The gallery, the band across the top, the figure in the corner and what sits behind your page each have a section that covers sending a picture in, watching staff look at it, and choosing what your page does with it. Those three steps used to be two cards apart, with the band across the top in neither of them.

You choose how big the figure in the corner is drawn

A slider moves it between half and double the size it comes at, and shows you the corner of the page while you move it. A narrow screen still keeps it to a share of the window, so it never lands on top of what you wrote.

Writing -# in front of a line makes it small and quiet

This is the marker Discord uses for the same thing, and it works everywhere you write on the site. Use it to credit an artist, date a list, or say something beside a sentence rather than inside it.

A picture staff have approved says approved

The picture used to say shown while the message that told you about it said approved, which reads as two different things happening to it. One word covers that state everywhere now.

The card explaining a role is no longer restyled by the page it opens over

On a page with its own look, the card came out see-through and over-rounded with the page showing through the words. What a role means belongs to the Reserve rather than to whoever owns the page, so the card is drawn outside everything a page can style and reads the same wherever you open it.

A role badge tells you what that role does

Resting on somebody’s badge gives you the line, and pressing it opens a small card with the emblem and a sentence or two. A name on its own says nothing to somebody who has not been here long: now every rung and every job on the team explains itself where you meet it.

The Rosa Staff badge carries the Backstage emblem in the member list too

It was on a member page and not in the list beside it. Both show it now, so the same person reads the same way wherever you come across them.

The page editor keeps sending in a picture beside choosing a picture

Everything you send in is in one card and every choice about what your page uses is in the next one, instead of the two alternating down the screen with the styling in between. The pointers between them were also backwards, telling you to look further down the page for something that was above it.

A figure or a backdrop lands in the slot you uploaded it to

Both were arriving in the gallery instead, and each one took one of the three gallery slots on the way in, so somebody with a full gallery could not upload either at all. They keep their own shelves now: five banners, three figures for the corner, two pictures for behind the page, and three for the gallery.

A full shelf says which shelf is full

Running out of room for figures used to report that your page was full of pictures, which sent people to delete gallery pictures that were not the problem. The message names the kind you were uploading, and the count beside each uploader is that kind’s own.

The Rosa Staff badge carries the Backstage emblem

A page belonging to somebody on the team now shows the ticket beside the words, next to the emblem for the job they do. The member list is left plain: the same picture on every row of a long list is decoration rather than information.

A badge names the job somebody does again

Everybody working here holds the Backstage role, and for a few hours the badge read Backstage for all of them: the illustrators, the curators, the explorers and the coordinators alike. The badge names the particular thing again, with the emblem that goes with it, and falls back to Backstage only for somebody who holds nothing more specific.

The Reserve has a news page

Editions written by the team, with the newest one large at the top and the rest under it. Each has its own page and its own address, and sharing one shows its cover picture and its opening line wherever the link is pasted. Nothing is announced anywhere: it is there for whoever goes looking.

Every role carries its own emblem

The badge under somebody’s name now shows the emblem that goes with their role: a rose for a founder, a bird for the trails, a palette for the illustrators. It appears on their page and in the member list.

The creatures no longer in play are the reader’s choice to show

A link above the list on somebody’s page turns them on and off, instead of a setting only the owner could reach. Their pages open for everybody as well: a family tree points back through creatures that are gone, and a lineage that stops at the first one is not a lineage.

Characters are kept rather than deleted

Retiring takes a creature off your page and can be undone. Removing one for good now goes through staff, because a family tree points back through them and deleting one takes a piece out of somebody else’s lineage as well as your own. Open a ticket and staff will look at what it would take with it.

Supporters and staff can bring their own picture for behind their page

The scenery from the Reserve stays there for everybody. Supporters and staff can put up one of their own instead: up to two kept, one showing at a time, and staff look at it first. A wide picture that is quiet through the middle works best, because your writing sits on top of it.

Supporters and staff can put a figure in the corner of their page

A drawing of yours, cut out, sitting in the left or right corner and staying there while the page scrolls. A GIF or an animated PNG keeps its movement, up to three megabytes. Staff look at it first, the same as any other picture.

A figure that moves is left out for anybody who asked for less movement

If your system is set to reduce motion, a figure in the corner that animates is not shown to you. A still one is: it does not move, so there is nothing to take away.

An animated picture keeps its movement when it is uploaded

An animated PNG or WebP over the resize limit was quietly turned into a still picture on a white square, because only a GIF said out loud that it moves. Whether a picture moves is now read out of the file itself, and one that is too large is refused with a reason instead of being flattened.

The dark bar across the section banners is gone

A dark stripe ran the full width of every banner on the front page, well above the heading it was meant to be helping. The shading now sits along the bottom under the words and thins out upwards, so the photograph reads as a photograph.

You can put a picture from the Reserve behind your page

Ten pieces of scenery from the front page gallery are now in the profile editor, from a misty lake to a redwood forest to an evening sky. The picture stays still while the page scrolls, and your writing sits on a panel over it so it stays easy to read. There is nothing to upload and nothing to wait for.

Pictures and clips posted in a ticket stay readable in the transcript

No copy of a ticket attachment was ever kept, so a transcript pointed at a Discord link that expires within the day and drew a torn corner where the picture had been. Attachments are now copied the moment a message arrives, and a transcript that genuinely cannot show a file explains why instead of drawing a broken picture.

Artwork strips no longer have a line drawn across the page

Where a photograph met the page there was a dark stripe the full width of the screen, brown on the sunlit bands and gray green on the rest. The page color now simply thins out over the edge of the picture, so the two meet without a seam.

A picture placed in your own writing has no box drawn around the edge

Every picture inside a paragraph was drawn with a thin outline, which put a drawing that already had its own white edge inside a second frame. The outline is gone, and a stylesheet can put one back for anybody who wants it.

The number of playable creatures counts the roster instead of repeating an old figure

The front page said thirty four while the list below it held thirty five, because the figure was written into the page when the roster was shorter. It is now counted from the roster itself, so adding a creature or changing what it eats updates the figure as well.

A creature page heading no longer rounds only the top corner

The heading on a creature page was rounded at the top and square along the bottom on any page with its own styling, because it was given a corner meant for the cards further down. Headings are no longer treated as cards.

Expired sign-ins are deleted rather than kept

Signing out ended a sign-in and closing the browser did not, so an expired sign-in was kept for good. The weekly tidy-up now clears expired sign-ins, account links nobody finished, and growth codes that ran out unused.

Settings and profile controls use complete action labels

Save, remove, upload, publishing, and transfer controls now name the affected record and the result. Confirmations state what remains unchanged when somebody cancels.

Older release notes use concrete standalone headings

Historical changelog headings now name the feature or outcome directly while preserving the behavior recorded by the original commits.

Website messages name the problem and the next step

Upload, profile, event, ticket, and settings messages now identify the affected item and explain how to continue. Labels no longer rely on nearby text to explain what they control.

The website uses consistent American English

Labels, notices, legal pages, profile tools, and older changelog entries now use clear American spelling throughout the website.

A page or a comment holds twenty different marks at most

A page with up to 120 reaction buttons becomes a wall instead of a useful row. After twenty different emoji are present, nobody can add another kind, but people can still use every reaction already shown.

Your page says the job you do, not the rank you happen to hold

Somebody who draws for the Reserve or hosts the events was shown as a Sprout, because a rank was the only thing the site knew about anybody. Their page names what they actually do, and everybody on the team carries a Rosa Staff badge beside it.

You can leave a mark on a comment, not only on a page

The same row of emoji that sits under somebody’s name now sits under each comment on their page. Anybody who can read the page can use it, so agreeing with what somebody wrote no longer means writing a comment of your own.

Every time on the site reads as morning or afternoon

A time such as 7:40 pm now uses the same twelve-hour format on every screen instead of appearing as 19:40 in some places. Two people looking at the same time can now read the time aloud the same way.

Every date on the site spells the month out

Three screens still used numeric dates. A date such as 25/08/2026 can be misread or look invalid depending on the reader’s country, so every screen now writes the same date as 25 Aug 2026.

Times follow your local clock format

Every time on the site previously used a twenty-four-hour clock. Your browser now chooses the local clock format, and a profile also shows its owner’s local time in the format used in the owner’s time zone.

Everything calls you a sprout now, because that is what you are

Your rank has said Sprouts since the day it was made, and every screen and every message still said member. One word for one thing is easier to trust than two.

Your stylesheet has a switch now, so trying a ready made look costs you nothing

Turning it off keeps every character of what you wrote and shows the page as the colors and the shape describe it. Turning it back on puts your own work back exactly as it was.

You can see your page while you are choosing, without saving anything

The panel that shows your page as it will look sat inside the section for people who write CSS, so almost nobody ever saw it. It is at the top of the card and follows every tile you press.

The card says which of your choices wins

Anything you write yourself is applied last and beats what you picked above it, and there was no way to know that. Three lines at the top explain the order, and if your stylesheet already decides the background or your name, it says so beside the thing you were about to press.

The button that keeps how your page looks follows you down the card

There is one save for the whole card and it sat underneath everything, so picking a color meant scrolling past the picture chooser and the stylesheet to find it. It now stays in front of you while you are choosing.

A page you have painted now paints the creature cards too

The cards under Their characters were being left on the site’s own corners and edges whatever you picked, and a layout of your own could not reach them at all. They take the shape and the colors of the rest of your page now.

There are fourteen colors to pick from and half of them are gradients

Pick one and the whole page follows it, the way choosing a theme in Discord does. Nothing has to be typed, and you can still move any single color afterwards.

Six shapes for your page, from ruled paper to a printed chapter

A page shape controls the corners, card borders, and text layout without changing the selected colors. Every shape works with every color theme, so layout and color remain separate choices.

Your name can run from one color into another

Choose a font, gradient, glow, outline, or shadow for your display name. Every option previews your actual name immediately, so you can see the result before saving.

Your background can fade from one color into a second

Two color pickers create a background gradient without requiring CSS. The site checks text contrast against both ends of the gradient, keeping the writing readable across the page.

The details beside a page no longer slide under the bar at the top

The panel with somebody’s username and their time on the server followed you down the page and parked itself behind the header, taking its first line with it. It now stops just below the bar.

Formatting markers can go inside each other now

A bold link, a bold word inside an italic sentence, a link with code in the label: all of these used to reach the page with their asterisks showing, because only one marker at a time could be read. Any of them can hold any other now.

Three asterisks give you bold and italic at once

One asterisk is italic, two are bold, three are both. Underscores underline instead of italicizing, which is what they do in Discord and what everybody was already typing.

An underscore in the middle of a word is left alone

A name or an ID with underscores in it used to be read as formatting, so everything between the first and the last one changed shape. Underscores only format when they sit at the edge of a word.

The details beside somebody’s page no longer lose their first line

On a short screen the panel followed you down and then slid past the top of the window, so at the foot of the page you could read every detail except whose page you were on. The panel now stays put and scrolls inside itself when there is more than fits.

Every button that cannot be undone now asks first

Turning a comment on your page down, reporting one to staff and withdrawing an appeal each stop and say what happens next. Withdrawing an appeal is the one worth reading: a penalty can only be appealed once, so withdrawing ends it for good.

Taking a picture or a banner down asks first

Both buttons sit an inch from the caption box and neither could be undone. The question names what is actually lost, which is the place in the queue the picture already has rather than the picture itself.

Deleting a saved design asks first

The confirmation explains that deleting a saved design does not change the design currently shown on your page.

Page deletion lists everything permanently removed

The question named your pronouns, timezone and about section, so somebody who had spent an evening on a stylesheet could read it and think their design survived. Your styling, your saved designs and anything anybody wrote underneath are named now.

Every message about your page carries the address of your page

A picture approved, a banner up, a page hidden or put back: each one used to describe what happened and leave you to go and find the page yourself. The link is in the message now, and the message says which of your pictures is meant rather than saying "a picture".

Writing that is too long is refused instead of quietly shortened

Long profile text used to be cut to fit and saved without a warning, which could remove the final sentence. The editor now refuses text over four thousand characters.

You can put your pictures inside what you wrote

Profile pictures previously appeared only in a row at the bottom of the page. Copy the insertion line shown under a picture and paste the line into your profile text to place the picture beside the relevant writing. A placed picture no longer appears again in the bottom gallery.

The band across your page is the shape you cropped it to

The crop tool used a three-to-one frame while the profile displayed a wider frame, cutting off about one-fifth of the selected height. The profile now uses the same three-to-one ratio and displays the complete crop at a taller desktop size.

The actions written as plain text say when they are working too

Half of what you can press here is a line of text rather than a button: taking a picture down, turning a comment down, signing in, leaving a reaction. Those were still silent for the whole round trip, because only the ones shaped like buttons had been given a spinner.

Searching shows that it is still looking

Typing a few letters and seeing the same rows sit there for a moment reads as a search that found the same people, rather than as one still going.

Every button on the site says when it is working

Saving requires a server request, but the button previously looked unchanged while the request ran. Buttons now show a working state, preventing repeated clicks and duplicate saves on slower connections.

A page you are opening shows its shape while it arrives

Instead of the old page sitting there until the new one is ready, you get the outline of what is coming: where the writing goes, where the pictures go. Your eye is in the right place when the words land.

Taking a banner down actually takes it down

The button did nothing at all, and said nothing about it either. Reframing had the same fault.

Changing a banner is one place instead of one per banner

Every approved band had its own fold, all of them called the same thing, so two banners meant reading "Change this banner" twice with nothing to say which was which. The controls follow whichever one you have picked.

You can keep five banners instead of two

The previous two-banner limit was based on storage concerns rather than how people design profiles. You can now keep five approved banners and switch between them.

Your characters are listed once on your dashboard

There were two lists, one above the other, both called the same thing: a short one with the buttons and a long one with the detail. They are one list with both.

A stylesheet too long is refused rather than cut in half

An oversized stylesheet used to be trimmed and saved, which could cut a rule in half and break the page. The editor now shows the character count and refuses stylesheets above the limit.

A short caption no longer leaves a gap under a picture

Gallery cards in the same row share a height, but short captions previously left an empty strip below the text. The caption background now fills the available card height.

You can reframe a banner that is already on your page

The framing you picked in a hurry was the framing forever, and the only way out was taking the band down and sending the whole thing back through review. Drag it and pull the slider the same way you did the first time, and it changes where it stands: nothing goes back into the queue, because a smaller piece of a picture staff already said yes to is not a new picture.

A banner can be taken down again

An approved band could be swapped for another one or switched off, but never actually removed, so a picture you were done with stayed on the site on your behalf.

Preview a banner on your profile before uploading

A wide strip on its own tells you very little. Underneath the frame you now see the band as your page draws it, with your picture over the corner of it and your name below, which is the part you were framing for.

A layered background on your page stops vanishing

Anything longer than five hundred characters was thrown away and nothing said so, which is most of a background built from several gradients. Worse, the indentation counted: putting each layer on its own line to read it was enough to lose the lot. There is far more room now, formatting does not count against it, and going over says so.

The page beside your stylesheet is now the page itself

The old preview approximated the page layout and could misrepresent rules for panels and fixed-size gradients. The preview now renders the real page at full width and scales the result to fit.

Saved CSS opens automatically in the profile editor

The box holding it was folded shut, so opening your editor showed a closed row with everything you had written hidden inside it. It opens on its own now when there is something in it.

A saved layout only says it is on your page when it still is

Pressing one and then changing the colors left the old layout marked as the one in use, which was not true any more. It says it has changed since you used it, and putting it back is still one press.

A long line of characters no longer shrinks the whole site on a phone

Somebody drew a divider out of box characters, which a browser reads as one enormous word with nowhere to break. It pushed the page wider than the screen, and the phone answered by zooming everything out until it fitted. Anything typed can break now.

Your page is drawn beside the box while you write its stylesheet

Trying a color used to mean saving, opening your page in another tab, looking, and coming back. The page is next to what you type now, built by the same rules a saved one gets, and anything refused is listed underneath as you write it rather than after you save.

Your dashboard opens with your page rather than a list of links

The dashboard now opens with your banner, profile address, visibility, and pending comments, plus a button that opens your profile. Previously, the address was buried in a sentence beside a vague "Look at it" button.

The sprout list and the page editor fit a narrow phone

The sprout list and profile editor extended a few pixels beyond narrow screens, causing horizontal scrolling. Both pages now stay within the viewport.

The line telling you who can see your page sits above the page

The visibility notice used to interrupt the profile design and could become unreadable on a dark page. The notice now sits above the profile in the site’s own colors.

A button says what it acts on instead of saying "it"

About forty of them across the site said things like "Look at it", "Remove it" and "Put it up". Each made sense to whoever wrote it and none of them made sense on their own, which is how a button is read.

The profile editor shows your address and visibility

The top of your editor now shows your band, your address, whether anybody can open the page, how many pictures are up, and whether somebody is waiting on you. The address was three cards down and who could see the page was a small mark beside the save button.

The save button follows you down your page editor

The save button used to sit below every visibility setting. The button now stays within reach while you edit the page.

Your own page on the sprout list opens your page

Pressing it on a list of pages used to put you in a form. The editor is one press from your page, which is the right way round.

Pressing return starts a new line

Laying out an introduction was impossible: every line landed against the end of the one above it and nothing said why. Return breaks the line now and pressing it twice leaves a gap, which is how it works everywhere else you write.

Comment author names open profile previews

Select a comment author’s picture or name to open a profile preview with their picture, tagline, rank, and characters. You can open the full profile from the preview or close the preview without leaving the current page.

A menu opened on a painted page is no longer see-through

The reaction picker inherited colors that could make its background transparent on a styled profile. Floating menus now use their own readable colors, and emoji fonts load correctly instead of showing broken squares.

One rule can be written inside another when you style your page

Profile stylesheets now support nested CSS, with an ampersand representing the current selector. Previously, a nested rule could be applied only in part without reporting the problem.

The sprout list narrows as you type

The sprout search used to wait for the submit button. Results now update as you type, and the address still records the search so you can share a filtered list.

Rosa can carry an emoji the server does not have

Something worth reacting with no longer has to be added to the Discord server first. An emoji kept by Rosa itself sits in the picker beside the rest and cannot be lost when somebody tidies up the server list.

Clicking outside closes the reaction picker

The reaction picker used to stay open until you pressed its small button again. Clicking elsewhere, pressing Escape, or choosing a reaction now closes the picker.

Removing an emoji also removes its reactions

A deleted emoji previously left a broken square and still counted toward the reaction limit. The broken reaction now disappears immediately, and its stored record is removed during overnight cleanup.

Profile names sit below banner photographs

A name drawn over a photograph disappeared whenever that photograph happened to be pale, and no color fixes it, because the next person uploads a different picture. Only your profile picture overlaps the band now.

A page says how somebody is known here

Their name on Discord and their name in game are on every page. The two account numbers are there as well once you are signed in, and never to somebody who is not.

A heading in nearly your page color can be read again

A dark accent on a dark background left every heading and link findable only by dragging the cursor across it. The color you picked is kept and only moved far enough from the page behind it that the words come back.

Every creature has a page of its own

Each character page leads with a picture and lists the species, diet, skins, markings, hatch date, and parents beside it. The character’s story appears underneath instead of being reduced to four lines of gray text on the owner’s profile.

Sprout pages read as one page instead of a stack of sections

The picture at the top now carries the person, and everything the Reserve knows about them sits beside what they wrote instead of being repeated three times down the screen. Their creatures are picture cards you can open.

The picture screener stopped letting explicit drawings through

The picture screener compared two related results instead of combining them, which could let an explicit drawing pass. The screener now combines both results and covers uncertain pictures at the top of the staff queue.

Every box says how much room is left

Your page, the line about you, a caption under a picture, the name of a layout, a comment: all of them had a limit and none of them mentioned it, so the last sentence of a long one could disappear on saving with nothing having warned you. The count is there from the first character now.

Saved layouts share one clearly labeled section

The save-layout field previously sat at the bottom of the appearance card while saved layouts were hidden inside the stylesheet section. Saving and selecting layouts now happen together in one visible section.

Keeping a layout keeps what you just wrote

Saving a layout used to keep the version from before your latest edit because the text and layout used separate forms. One form now saves both together.

An approved banner goes onto your page by itself

After staff approved a banner, you previously had to return to the editor, select the banner, and save again. The first approved banner now appears on your profile automatically, and the editor identifies any approved banner that is not currently displayed.

You can write the line people see before they open your page

Write one introductory sentence for the directory and Discord link previews. Previously, both places used the opening of your full profile text, which was rarely written as an introduction.

Buttons name the thing they act on

Send it, Take it off, Add it, Delete it: every one of those made you work out what "it" was from where you happened to be standing. They say the noun now.

Picking a ready made look no longer makes a page unreadable

The two custom color fields previously overwrote a ready-made look even when nobody had selected the fields, which could combine a pale background with pale text. Custom colors now apply only when enabled, and the site adjusts text contrast for every selected background.

Light and dark no longer reach into a page somebody has styled

Most of a styled page followed its own colors and a few pieces did not, so a picture caption or a card could turn up in the site’s colors in the middle of somebody’s own. A page you have styled is now yours in both, and a page you have not is still the site’s and follows you.

Styled profiles have space below the site header

A styled page used to run directly into the site header, which hid the page’s rounded top corners. The page now has clear space around every edge.

The sun and the moon go away again

One of the two used to sit in the corner of every page for as long as you were on it, which is a decoration nobody asked for on top of everything already on the screen. Now it rises when you switch the lights, holds for a moment, and goes.

The moon looks like a moon

The moon icon was drawn as two overlapping shapes that became unclear at its displayed size. The replacement has a recognizable crescent shape.

You can write on somebody else’s page

Write a short comment with bold text, italics, links, and lists. The profile owner must approve the comment before anybody else can see it.

Nothing goes on your page without you

Everything written to you waits for a yes. You can put it up, turn it down without them being told, or hand it to staff, which takes it off your page while they look at it.

Your page can be closed to writing entirely

The profile owner can stop new comments without removing approved comments. Reactions use a separate switch because allowing emoji responses does not have to allow written messages.

A comment that was turned down is kept rather than deleted

A refused comment becomes hidden but remains available to staff. The retained record helps staff recognize repeated problems across several pages.

The sun sets and the moon rises when you switch the lights

Switching between light and dark used to be a setting changing and nothing else. There is a sun in the corner by day now, and pressing the toggle sets it down and to the right while the moon comes into its place. Anybody whose computer asks for less movement gets the swap without the journey.

Your name can be set in a face and colors of your own

Choose from eight fonts, six effects, and eight color pairs. Every option previews your actual name, so labels such as Carved do not require guesswork.

Save and switch between five profile layouts

Each saved layout has a name and short description, like the ready-made looks. Keeping five layouts lets you experiment without replacing a design you want to use again.

Pronouns are written the same way everywhere

One page said She/Her and the next said she/her, which reads as two different kinds of entry rather than the same field typed by two people. They are all lowercase now, including the ones already saved.

A banner is its own picture now, and you choose which part shows

A banner used to reuse and crop one of your three gallery pictures. You can now upload a separate banner, position the picture, and adjust its size before saving the exact frame shown in the preview.

The picture on an event is placed the same way

Event cards use a wide frame, but uploaded artwork often uses a different shape. You can now choose the visible crop, and Discord displays the same crop as the website.

You cannot leave a reaction on your own page

Profile owners can no longer react to their own profiles, so reaction totals represent responses from other people.

Events, your tickets and your own page open with a band of artwork

The rest of the site already did. Those three were the pages that started on a heading and a form.

You can leave a reaction on somebody’s page

The searchable picker includes every server emoji and a set of standard reactions. Each person can leave up to three reactions on a profile, select the same emoji again to remove it, and hover over a count to see who reacted.

Your own page can have reactions switched off

Reactions start enabled, and the profile owner can disable them. Existing reactions remain stored and reappear if the owner enables reactions again.

Every upload on the site says how far it has got

Attaching a clip to an appeal or a picture to an event used to be a button that went quiet, sometimes for a minute on a phone. The file goes up on its own now, with a bar and a preview, and the form saves in an instant afterwards.

Large attachments no longer erase a form submission

The file used to travel inside the same request that saved the form, so a long clip could fail the save and lose everything typed with it. The two are separate now.

An event in a voice channel is one you can join from Discord

Typing the name of a channel into the location box read the same on the site and gave Discord nothing to link to. Picking the channel instead puts a join button on the Discord card and drops people straight into the room.

The picture on an event shows on Discord as well

The artwork was only ever on the website, so the event in Discord was a wall of text next to it. It is sent now, and only when it has changed, so saving a typo is still instant.

Pick how your page looks without writing anything

Choose from six ready-made looks, accent and background colors, and several body fonts. The complete profile updates from those controls, so custom CSS is optional.

Put one of your pictures across the top

Choose one of your approved pictures as a banner above the profile. A personal banner makes the profile recognizable without requiring custom styling.

Write the whole thing yourself if you would rather

There is a box for your own stylesheet, with the names of every part of the page written out beside it so you are not guessing at them. Anything left out when you save is named, so a layout that does nothing tells you why.

A layout cannot fetch anything from anywhere else

Other games let a layout pull a background off a stranger’s server, and that server then learns the address of everybody who reads the page. Pictures here come from your own approved ones, so looking at somebody’s page tells nobody but us that you did.

Uploading a picture no longer throws away what you were writing

Everything typed into your page was wiped the moment a picture finished uploading, so people wrote about themselves, added a photograph and lost the writing. The two no longer touch each other.

You can see how far an upload has got

An upload used to show no progress, which made a second press likely on a phone. A progress bar now distinguishes uploading from the picture review.

A picture opens on the page instead of in a new tab

Clicking one used to drop the bare file into a tab of its own, without the caption and without a way back except the back button. It now opens over the page, and the arrow keys walk through the rest of them.

The line under your picture can be changed afterwards

The picture caption often credits the artist, so a typing mistake should not be permanent. You can now correct the caption without uploading or reviewing the picture again.

You hear on the site what happened to your picture

Picture decisions used to arrive only through a direct message that could be closed, muted, or missed. The decision now remains on your page until you acknowledge it.

There is a button to share somebody’s page

The share button opens your phone’s share sheet or copies the link when a share sheet is unavailable.

Saving your page keeps you in dark mode

Saving a page used to reset the site to light mode. The selected theme now remains active after saving.

A link to your page shows your picture again

Pasting one into Discord gave a card with your name and your writing and a blank space where you should have been. The picture was being sent at the size of a thumbnail in a table, which is small enough that it was quietly dropped.

Typing a command in the game gets you an answer

Type !hunger where you are standing and the answer is whispered back to you there. Thirst, stamina, health, how grown you are, how long you have played and which season it is all work the same way, and !commands lists everything you are allowed to ask.

Using one of those commands is written down

We keep which command you used, when you last used it and how many times. That is what makes a limit on how often anybody may use it mean anything. Nothing else about the line is kept beyond what the chat log already holds.

A question that asks before it does something sits in the middle of the screen

Every confirmation box was pinned to the top left corner, which reads as a panel that failed to load rather than as a question waiting for an answer.

You can keep a character on your page after it is gone

Retired and deceased characters previously disappeared from your profile along with their stories. An optional profile setting now keeps those characters visible and clearly marks whether each character retired or died.

The sprouts page opens with a picture

The sprouts page used to open directly on a heading and list. The page now opens with artwork like the other main pages.

A clip your browser cannot open says so instead of pretending

A screen recording made on a Mac is a kind of file most browsers other than Safari will not play, and a transcript showed one as a black rectangle with no way to press play. It now appears as the file it is, with a line saying to open it elsewhere.

The pictures on the front page say which species are apex

A suspension can prevent you from selecting an apex species, so the roster now marks apex species beside their names. You can see the restriction before choosing a species.

Your page no longer asks for your birthday

The box is gone from the editor, along with the age it worked out and the message on the day itself. Whatever anybody had given has been deleted rather than left sitting there unread, which is the only honest way to stop using something like that.

The dashes in your Alderon ID appear on their own

Type the nine digits and it arranges itself as 000-000-000, on the application form and on the registry screen. Being told the format was wrong after pressing save was never a useful moment to find out.

Your Alderon ID and in-game name are now required to apply

The Alderon ID and in-game name create your registry entry when staff accept the application. Requiring both fields prevents a follow-up request, and the form immediately rejects an ID that does not contain nine digits.

Transcripts play attached clips

Video, voice messages and audio play on the page, documents say what they are, and link previews are drawn the way they looked in the channel.

A transcript is colored like its kind of ticket

A report and a perk redeem are as easy to tell apart on the site as they are in Discord. Staff can switch it off for a kind whose color was only ever meant for a channel list.

The sprout list shows in-game names

Players often recognize each other by in-game name, but sprout cards previously omitted the in-game name. The sprout list now shows it.

The privacy statement covers files you linked to

A picture you pasted a link to is now copied the same way an upload is, so section 2 says so. Version 1.8.

Manage your characters from your dashboard

The dashboard lets you rename, retire, or delete a character. Retiring preserves the character’s records while removing the character from active pickers.

Character owners receive staff edit notices

The notice names the character, explains the staff change, and includes the reason supplied by staff. Character owners no longer have to discover an edit by chance.

A button you cannot undo asks first

Deleting, retiring, closing: each one now spells out what is about to happen, in those words. Nobody has ever read "are you sure".

A changelog you can read

The changelog groups every release by bot or website and explains each public change for the people affected by the change.

Pronouns, timezone, an about section and your characters

Your profile can include pronouns, a time zone, an about section, and your characters. You choose whether to share the profile by link or keep the profile private.

A directory of everybody else

Signed-in sprouts can browse profiles shared with the Reserve. The directory is not visible to the public internet.

A month at a glance, and a page per event

The calendar shows the month at a glance, and every event has a page of its own with a picture, the details, and a link that looks right when you share it.

Calling an event off does it in Discord too

Canceling it here cancels the Discord event as well, so nobody is left holding a reminder for something that is not happening.

Three pictures on a character, three on your page

Character pictures must show the selected character. Pictures on your personal profile can show any subject allowed by the community guidelines.

Nothing is sent to another company to be checked

Picture screening runs on Rosa’s own server. Uploaded pictures are not sent to another company for moderation.

Turned down automatically? Ask for a person

You can appeal an automatic refusal and ask a staff member to review the picture. A refusal already decided by a staff member is final.

Zero tolerance and the community guidelines

The zero-tolerance policy and community guidelines now use a readable document layout. Founders can update both policies from the settings area.

Read a ticket back after it closes

Your transcript is yours, at a link that keeps working after the channel itself is gone.

The site follows your dark mode

Every page has a purpose-built dark appearance instead of simply inverting colors. The website remains readable while avoiding a bright background at night.

Every dashboard redrawn

Dashboard layouts now present the same account information with clearer spacing, grouping, and contrast.

Every time is shown in your own clock

Dates and times now appear in the reader’s local time zone, removing the need to convert from the server time zone.

Every character has a family tree

Each character page shows parents and descendants for every generation available in the Reserve’s records.

An error gives you a reference

Send staff that code and they can see exactly what went wrong, instead of asking you to describe it.

Sign in with Discord

Use the same Discord account you already use in the Reserve, without creating a separate website password.

Patreon linked to your roles

Linking Patreon keeps supporter roles synchronized so your support is visible in the Reserve.