Rosa Patch Notes: August 2026

Highlights

Around the site

• Fixed a bug where signed-in sprouts saw a “Sign in” button on the legal pages.
• Fixed a bug where signing in failed if you had opened the site through its www address.
• The www address of the front page now sends you to the main site, like every other page already did.
• Added a sign out button to the menu on phones, which had no way to sign out at all.
• Fixed the phone menu overlapping the top bar, and it now closes when you pick a page or tap outside it.
• Fixed menus in the top bar turning invisible when opened over the artwork on the front page.
• Fixed the “Apply to join” and “Sign in” buttons being nearly unreadable in dark mode.
• Fixed two theme switches that could disagree about whether the site was in light or dark mode.
• The sun and moon in the corner now rise when you switch themes and then leave, instead of staying on every page.
• The moon icon now looks like a moon. The old one was two blobs.
• Following a link now lands you at the top of the next page instead of partway down it.
• Links to the site shared in Discord now show a preview picture and the Reserve’s color stripe down the side.
• Artwork across the site is sharper, now that it’s no longer squeezed to a lower quality on the way to you.
• Every species on the roster now has its artwork, including nine that were missing.
• Clicking a species on the front page now scrolls straight to its artwork and rests it in the middle of the strip.
• Removed the dark bar that ran across every section banner on the front page.
• Fixed a line that ran across the screen wherever an artwork strip met the page.
• The front page’s count of playable creatures now matches the list below it. It said 34. The list said 35. The list was right.
• The front page no longer says the other mods we run as though we made them.
• Fixed the footer listing News twice and running it into the changelog link. It read “NewsWhat’s new”, which isn’t a page we have.
• Times are now shown in your own time zone, and “2 minutes ago” keeps counting while a page is open.
• Every time on the site now uses the 12-hour clock, like 7:40 pm.
• Every date on the site now spells out the month, so none of them can be read two ways.
• Tables now fit on a phone, with each row shown as its own card instead of running off the side of the screen.
• Long lines with no spaces, like a divider made of symbols, now wrap instead of making the whole site zoom out on phones.
• Confirmation boxes now open in the middle of the screen instead of the top left corner. Up there, they looked like something had failed to load.
• Every button now shows a spinner while it’s working, including the ones written as plain text, so you don’t press twice.
• Pages now show an outline of what’s coming while they load, instead of leaving the old page sitting there.
• Search results now show that they’re still loading while a new search runs.
• About 40 buttons that said things like “Look at it” or “Remove it” now name what they act on.
• Messages across the site now say what went wrong and what to do next.
• Errors now come with a reference code you can give staff, so they can see what went wrong.
• The site now uses American English throughout, including the legal pages.
• Older changelog headings now name the change directly.
• Empty lists now show a small fern and a line about what fills them.
• Everything on the site and in the bots now calls you a sprout, not a member.
• The Sprouts link in the menu now only shows once you’re signed in.
• The sprout list now narrows as you type, and a link to a search still opens it filtered.
• The sprout list now shows 20 sprouts to a page, with page numbers you can press.
• The line above the sprout list now counts sprouts instead of pages.
• A page number past the end of the sprout list now offers to take you back to page 1.
• Cards on the sprout list now have shadows and light up when you hover over them.
• The sprout list and the page editor now fit on narrow phones without scrolling sideways.
• Your own card on the sprout list now opens your page instead of the editor.
• Fixed a bug where everyone on the team showed a Backstage badge instead of their own job.
• Role cards now look the same on every page, even on a page with its own styling.
• Role cards now use the team’s own description of each role.

Your page and pictures

• Saving your page no longer switches the site back to light mode.
• Links to your page show your picture again when pasted into Discord.
• Some pages were missing a join date, and every page now shows one.
• Pressing Enter now starts a new line in anything you write, and pressing it twice leaves a gap. A small thing, until you try to write a list.
• Underscores inside a word, like in a name or an ID, are no longer read as formatting.
• Bold, italics and links can now sit inside each other without the asterisks showing.
• Writing that’s too long is now refused with a count instead of being cut off without warning.
• A stylesheet over the limit is now refused with a character count instead of being cut in half.
• Layered backgrounds in your page styling no longer vanish without a word when they run long.
• Nested rules in your page styling now work, instead of being applied halfway.
• Your saved styling now opens by itself in the editor instead of hiding in a closed box.
• A saved layout only says it’s in use when your page is actually using it.
• Saving a layout now includes your latest changes, and saving and picking layouts happen in one place.
• The styling preview now shows your real page, scaled down, instead of a rough copy of it.
• Styling previews now use the name your page shows instead of your Discord username.
• A gradient on your name now shows both colors instead of only the first one.
• Ready-made looks no longer leave pale text on a pale background.
• Headings and links in a color close to your background are now adjusted just enough to stay readable.
• Captions, cards and badges on a styled page now keep the page’s own colors in light and dark mode.
• Styled pages now have space below the top bar, so their rounded corners show.
• Menus and the reaction picker on a styled page are no longer see-through.
• Your page styling now reaches the character cards on your page.
• Headings on styled character pages are no longer rounded at the top and square at the bottom.
• The notice about who can see your page now sits above your page, in the site’s colors.
• Your name now sits below your banner photo instead of on top of it.
• Your banner now shows exactly the part you cropped, and a little taller on computers.
• Your first approved banner now goes on your page by itself.
• Removing or reframing a banner works again. Both buttons had been doing nothing, without so much as an error.
• All your approved banners now share one set of controls instead of each having its own copy.
• Short captions no longer leave an empty strip under a gallery picture.
• Pictures placed inside your writing no longer have a thin border around them.
• The side panel on a page no longer slides under the top bar or loses its first line on short screens.
• The save button now follows you down the page editor and the styling card.
• Saving in the page editor no longer sends you back to the top.
• The styling card now says that your own stylesheet wins over the options above it.
• Approved pictures now say “approved” everywhere, instead of “shown” in some places.
• Messages about your pictures and your page now link to your page and say which picture they mean.
• Removing a picture, removing a banner and deleting a saved design now ask first.
• Deleting your page now lists everything that goes with it, including your styling, saved designs and comments.
• Declining or reporting a comment on your page now asks first.
• Clicking outside the reaction picker or pressing Escape now closes it.
• Reactions with a deleted emoji now disappear instead of leaving a broken square.
• Fixed four server emoji that showed as broken squares in the reaction picker.
• A page or a comment can now have up to 20 different reactions, so the row stays readable.
• Joining a reaction someone else started no longer counts toward your own limit.
• You can no longer react to your own page.
• Pronouns are now written in lowercase on every page, including ones already saved.
• You can upload up to 12 pictures a day, and pictures the screener turns away count too.
• Files that aren’t really pictures are now refused right away, with a note on what to do instead.
• Animated PNGs and WebPs now keep moving after upload instead of turning into a still on a white square.
• A full upload slot now tells you which kind of picture is full.
• Web buddy pictures now show on a checkerboard while you choose, so a white background stands out.
• A web buddy without a see-through background is no longer turned away, and you’re told what arrived instead. On a Mac or iPhone, picking an animation from Photos can hand over a flat copy. Pick the file from Files or Finder instead.
• Long web buddy captions now wrap instead of stopping after one line.
• The figure in the corner of a page is now called a web buddy everywhere.
• The picture screener now adds up its two checks, so it catches explicit drawings it used to let through.

Characters, nests and courtship

• Nine commands, including /familytree and /adopt, were refused for everyone, and they work now.
• Claiming an egg now records the skins it carries too, so they keep passing down after the second generation.
• Subspecies now pass down to hatchlings instead of being lost after a generation.
• Joining a nest as a second parent now asks which character you mean instead of picking your first one.
• Picking your character’s carried skins twice in a row no longer ends in an error.
• Character screens now respond right away on busy evenings instead of seeming to freeze.
• The species list, the skin field and the reply for having no characters now say what they’re asking for.
• Courtship and nesting buttons now name their action, like “Accept new partner” or “Start courtship”.
• Choices that delete something in the character, catalog and shop menus now say what stays and what can’t be recovered.
• Character, nesting and shop messages now say what to change when something fails.
• The shop’s page buttons work again, and now read Previous and Next. On a middle page, two buttons shared a name and Discord refused the whole message. First and Last now only show when there are more than two pages.
• The switch that leaves paid skins out of a genetics roll now leaves out personal, partner and bug tracker skins too.
• Your characters are now listed once on your dashboard instead of in two lists with the same name.
• The roster on the front page now marks apex species next to their names.
• Character and giveaway messages now use American spelling.

Reports, penalties and appeals

• Screenshots on a report no longer disappear overnight, because Rosa now saves a copy as soon as you post one.
• Clip links are now accepted from 11 sites, including Twitch, Outplayed, Reddit, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive and Gyazo.
• Appeals now accept links to clips as evidence, not only uploads.
• A large clip attached to an appeal no longer wipes the form if saving fails.
• Withdrawing an appeal now asks first, and says that a penalty can only be appealed once.
• Fixed a misspelling of Rhamphorhynchus that stopped an apex suspension from covering it.

Tickets

• Fixed a bug where nobody could open a ticket once a second kind of ticket had been opened.
• Fixed /open failing on the evening of August 23.
• Transcripts now show what Rosa Support said, instead of a blank line under its name.
• Tickets no longer open with a gray line saying the bot pinned a message. It was true. It just wasn’t useful.
• The line above a reply in a transcript now quotes the message as plain text, with names instead of number strings.
• A deleted message in a transcript now shows the message first, in red, with a small note saying when it was deleted.
• Transcripts now fit on a phone screen, and printing one no longer gives a solid black page.
• Clips your browser can’t play now show as a file with a note, instead of a black box.
• The picture from a link preview is now saved with the ticket, so the transcript no longer shows an empty box.
• Pasting a Discord link to a picture in a ticket now saves it the same way as uploading it.
• Longer recordings posted in a ticket are no longer skipped when they take a while to copy.
• A missing file in a transcript now says whether it was too large to save or couldn’t be copied.
• Reading a transcript no longer loads anything from the site a link preview came from.
• Trying to open a kind of ticket that’s switched off now names which kind it is.
• An escalated ticket now tells you it went to more senior staff and what happens next.
• A ticket staff open with you now names both the staff member and you.
• Ticket buttons now say “ticket”, and messages say plainly who claimed it and where to find the transcript.
• The opening message no longer promises that nothing leaves the channel, and asks for the whole problem up front.
• The revive ticket is now only for revives, and appeals go through the website.
• Renaming a claimed ticket now keeps the claim emoji in the channel name.
• Your list of tickets on the site now shows 5 at a time, with pages.

Joining and applications

• The section on applying now says where you apply, and its button shows as soon as applications open.
• The application form now fills in the dashes in your Alderon ID as you type.
• The application form now asks for your Alderon ID and in-game name, and refuses an ID that isn’t 9 digits before you send it.
• Linking your account now says you’re verified, not whitelisted.
• Verifying your account no longer tells you that staff changed your registry entry.
• Linking your account no longer says the game server is unreachable while the game connection is switched off.
• Registry entries now show only your Discord and Alderon names and IDs.
• Registry details are now posted as plain text, so you can copy a single ID.
• Registry changes made on the website now show in the registry channel, like changes made in Discord.
• An Alderon ID that’s already on someone else’s registry entry now gets a reply saying to clear it from that entry.
• The registry card on your dashboard now says anyone can find you by your handle, not only staff.

In the game

• If you can log in to the game server, the registry now marks you as whitelisted, even if nobody had yet.
• An apex suspension is now checked when you log in, so it applies in the game and not only on paper.

Discord and the bots

• All four bots now reply to commands the same way, and a bot that just restarted no longer answers twice.
• Commands you can’t use no longer show up in your command list.
• Added replies to direct messages, so each bot now tells you where to ask, with a dinosaur fact at the end.
• Bot buttons now name what they act on, like “Claim ticket” or “Enter giveaway”.
• Bot replies now say which action they’re about, in American English.
• The note shown when a command takes a while no longer guesses at the cause.
• The /whoami hint no longer mentions a feature that was removed.
• The welcome, the check-in button and the role menus now come from Rosa Wildlife Reserve.

Accessibility

• Animated web buddies are now hidden if your device is set to reduce motion.
• If your device asks for less motion, switching themes now happens without the sun and moon animation.
• Confirmation boxes now have names screen readers can announce, and the phone menu keeps focus inside it while open.
• Tables shown as cards on a phone now keep their structure for screen readers.
• Links that were too faint against the cream background in light mode are now darker.
• Screen readers now get the exact date and time behind every time shown on the site.

Speed and reliability

• The front page loads faster, and each section now fades in at once instead of line by line.
• Your dashboard now shows up right away, with your tickets, characters and Patreon cards filling in just after.
• Pictures now load faster on phones, sent at the size your screen needs.
• Messages from the site that Discord turns away now go out again within a couple of minutes, instead of the next day.
• Expired sign-ins, unfinished account links and unused growth codes are now deleted every week.