Versions

Changelog posts and patch notes show new pictures from the Reserve

The newest changelog post and both months of patch notes now open with fresh in-game shots from the Reserve.

Inspector Spino looks for pages that are missing

A link that leads nowhere now shows a hand-drawn detective on the trail, with a way back to the Reserve and your dashboard.

Planned maintenance shows a construction crew at work

When part of the site is closed for maintenance, you see two dinosaurs in hard hats, when the work started, when it should be back, and every update staff have posted.

Every error screen now looks like the Reserve

A page that fails to load, a part of the site that stops working and the whole site failing all share one calm look, and each says what happened in its own words.

A closed part of the site keeps the menu and footer

The screen for a closed part of the site now has the menu at the top and the footer at the bottom, so the rest of the site stays one press away.

The daily draw rules say your page setting counts for characters

A character only goes into the front page draw when your sprout page is set to Anyone with the link. The rules under Today’s profiles now list that for both kinds of page instead of for sprout pages alone.

The header no longer has a second link to the roster

On the front page, the header and the section bar both jumped to the roster. The section bar and the footer still take you there.

Versions opens the same way as the changelog

The Versions page has the same title, short description and row of tabs as the changelog and the patch notes, so the tabs stay in the same place as you switch between them.

Changelog posts and patch notes are easier to scan

Changelog posts group new features under a few themed headings, each with a bold first sentence. Patch notes open with the month’s highlights, then list every fix by area.

The patch notes list every fix of the month

The August and September patch notes now cover every fix you could notice, several hundred in all, instead of a short selection.

Versions is now a tab next to Changelog and Patch notes

The exact version history sits in the same row of tabs as the changelog and the patch notes, on all three pages, so you can move between them both ways.

Copy a link to any changelog post

Every changelog post and every month of patch notes has a Copy link button next to its date. The link opens the page right at that post.

The picture behind your page shows again

A background you chose yourself could stay blank, even after you picked it again. It shows again now, and you don’t need to upload it again.

A Version history button at the top of the changelog

The changelog and the patch notes now have a Version history button next to their tabs, so you don’t have to scroll to the bottom to find it.

The website gets to the point faster

Page titles, descriptions and hints are shorter, and long paragraphs are split up or cut to what you need to know.

The changelog now starts where the Reserve began

Changelog posts and patch notes now go back to April, when the first Rosa bot and website went up, and the ticket system in May. Every post is shorter and easier to read.

The version history is easier to follow

Every line in the version history was rewritten to say plainly what changed for you.

The changelog is now written as posts, with patch notes every month

The changelog now has two lists: posts about new features, and patch notes that round up each month's fixes once the month is over. The exact version history is still one link away.

A What’s new window shows the latest changes when you come back

The first time you open the site after a new changelog post goes out, a small window lists its highlights, with a link to the whole post. It shows once per post in each browser.

We've rewritten the website's wording to be clearer

Buttons, empty pages, errors and confirmations now say plainly what happens and what to do next. Rules, penalties and privacy wording mean the same as before.

A status page shows whether the Reserve is working

Visit rosarealism.com/status or status.rosarealism.com to see if the website, the bots and Discord messages are working, and how each did over the last 90 days.

You can follow an outage on the status page

Every incident and planned maintenance has its own place on the status page, with each update in order. The post about it in Discord links there.

The status page stays open while the site is closed for maintenance

When the whole site is closed, the status page still opens, so you can read what is going on and when it ends.

Pictures you marked private stay out of family trees

Family trees no longer show pictures their owner marked private, or pictures of a character whose page is suspended.

The site no longer stores your Discord sign-in key

When you sign in with Discord, the site uses the key Discord gives it once and doesn't save it. Keys saved before this change are deleted within a day.

Deleting a character also takes its pictures off the site

When a character is deleted, its approved pictures are taken off the site at the same time.

A copy of your data includes what the game server recorded about you

The copy now lists the game server events tied to your Alderon ID, such as your logins and deaths.

A copy of your data opens on its own page in plain words

The link to your data copy opens a page that explains every record in plain English, section by section. You can download or print it, and the file uses the same plain words.

A copy of your data leaves other people out

If a record is also about someone else, like a report another member filed about you, they're only named where you already saw their name. Staff who made a decision about you are named.

Deleting your data now removes everything you made

Your pictures, earlier versions of what you wrote, your birthday, your playtime and any copy of your data are now deleted too. A character in someone else's family tree shows as deleted, so their tree stays whole.

The privacy statement says how page text is checked

What you write where others can read it is checked for words the zero tolerance policy bans, and matches are shown to staff. Nothing is changed or hidden, and your private character notes aren't checked.

The area around an opened picture is dark in both themes

In the dark theme, the area around an opened picture used to be pale. It's now dark in both themes, and so is the background behind the age question.

Opened pictures now cover the whole page

On a character page, the Nestings heading used to show on top of an opened picture. Nothing covers an opened picture now.

The front page shows new profiles every day

The characters and sprouts on the front page used to change once a week, on Monday. A new random pick is now made every day at midnight UTC, and no page is picked two days in a row.

A countdown shows when the next profiles are drawn

Under the profiles heading on the front page, a line counts down the hours and minutes to the next draw. When it reaches zero, the page shows the new profiles without a reload.

The front page explains how pages get picked for the daily draw

Open "What a page needs to be in the daily draw" under the profiles heading to see the rules for character and sprout pages, with links to edit yours. Meeting them gives your page a chance, not a promise.

Search boxes no longer take letters away while you type

Typing quickly in a search box, like on the penalties list, used to drop letters while the list caught up. Every letter now stays put.

Every list calls its page buttons Previous and Next

Lists in date order used to say Newer and Older, and other lists Back and Next. All of them now say Previous and Next.

Pictures on the site load much faster

Pictures used to load at full size, often as a large PNG. Each one now has smaller copies, and a page loads the size it shows, so a page of cards loads about thirty times less.

Animated pictures now load as smaller files

Animated pictures are now turned into smaller animated copies with every frame kept, instead of sending the full GIF to everyone who opens the page.

Success messages now show as a small note in the corner

When something works, like saving your page, a small note appears in the bottom right corner, or along the bottom on a phone, and closes by itself. Problems still show next to the form.

The front page address no longer grows with each section button

Pressing buttons in the row at the top of the front page used to stack up the address, such as /#profiles#seasons#lore. The address now names only the section you went to.

This week's profiles section has its own banner

The section with the weekly profiles on the front page now opens with a picture across the page, like the other sections.

Only pages with a picture are picked for this week’s profiles

A character needs at least one approved picture that its owner shows to everybody, and a sprout page needs a banner. The cards on the front page are built around that picture.

The section buttons at the top of the front page no longer look cut off

The row of buttons only fades at an end when there are more buttons that way. On a wide screen, where all of them fit, the first and the last button are no longer faded.

The save button under a character story says what it saves

The button under the story of a character now reads Save the story, and the one under your private notes reads Save your notes. Both used to say Save notes.

The front page menu has a button for this week’s profiles

The row of section buttons at the top of the front page now takes you straight to the weekly pick of member profiles.

You can post updates on how your character is doing

On the page where you edit a character, pick what happened, such as an injury, an infection, hunger or growing up, and how bad it is. The character page shows the newest update first, with your note and a line from the Reserve under it.

You can give each character an age

Pick an age from Hatchling to Elderly. It shows on the character page and on the character card. Posting a growth update sets the age for you.

A character that died can show how it died

Pick a cause of death, such as predation, infection or old age, when you edit a character that died. It shows on the character page and on the character card.

The front page shows a new pick of member profiles every week

Every Monday, three herbivores, three carnivores and three sprouts are picked at random. Only public pages are picked, every page has the same chance, and none is picked two weeks in a row.

You can search the news

A search box above the news finds every edition that mentions a word, in its title, its summary or its text.

You can see the news as a grid of pictures

Press Grid above the news to see the editions as cards with their cover on top, three to a row on a computer. The page remembers your choice for your next visit.

Saving a family tree picture now shows its progress

The button says it's drawing the picture, and a note in the corner shows about how long is left. It tells you when the picture is saved, or why it couldn't be.

A saved family tree picture is named after the character

The file is saved under the name of the character followed by "family tree", instead of a string of letters and numbers.

Large family tree pictures are drawn much faster

A family of four generations used to take about fifteen seconds to draw. It now takes a few seconds.

The news and events buttons on the front page are easy to find

The front page news and events sections now have a button with an icon beside the heading. If there's no news or no upcoming event, that half says so and links to the page.

Family tree lines now connect where they should

The line between two parents crosses the middle of both cards, and the line to their young starts exactly between them. Each young hangs from one shared line by a short drop to the middle of its card.

A parent who married in brings their own parents into the tree

The parents of someone who married into a family now stand above them in the same tree, instead of in a separate tree with that parent drawn twice.

The saved picture and the Discord picture match the page

Saving a family tree and the /familytree command draw the same tree as the character page, with the title "family tree".

Wide family trees open centered on your character

When a tree is wider than the screen, it scrolls to the character the page is about, and the rest is one swipe away.

You can delete a character you just made

For ten minutes after you make a character, you can delete it yourself from your characters page. That covers a typo or a character made twice.

You can delete a character that nobody else is linked to

A character with no family, courtship or nest can be deleted by you at any time. When other members are linked to it, the delete button says so and points you to a ticket.

A character page calls its family section Family tree

The tab and the heading on a character page used to say "Their line". They now say "Family tree", the same name the Discord command uses.

A deleted character keeps its place in family trees

When staff delete a character that is part of a family, it shows as "Deleted character" in the tree. Its children keep both parents, and nothing else of it is shown.

The changelog shows twelve releases per page

Page numbers under the changelog go to older releases. A search still looks through every release and shows the matches together.

Older news editions are on numbered pages

The news page shows the newest editions first, and page numbers under the list go to earlier ones.

Your tickets and appeals show fifteen per page

Your ticket list and your appeals now have page numbers instead of stopping after a set number. The ticket search looks through every ticket you can read.

You can pick three favorite characters for your page

Press the star on a character on your own page to make it a favorite. Your favorites show first, in the order you picked them, and the rest are behind "Show more characters".

The header on a phone sits right under the status bar

On an iPhone, a strip of the page used to show between the clock and the header as you scrolled. The header now reaches the top, is a bit shorter, and has the theme button next to the menu.

The dark theme no longer shows a bright line above the header

The thin white line along the top of the header is meant for the light theme. In the dark theme it showed as a bright stripe, and it's now barely visible there.

Every picture inside a news edition shows again

The cover of an edition showed again after the last update, but most pictures inside an edition stayed blank. They all show now, and so do evidence pictures and other files staff open on the site.

Your birthday is celebrated across the whole site

On your birthday, a line on every page wishes you a happy birthday, your dashboard opens with a birthday card, and Rosa messages you in Discord. Only team birthdays are stored, and only the team sees them.

News pictures show again

The pictures on the news list and in every edition were blank after the files moved to the new storage. They show again.

Pictures open in a viewer on the page instead of a new tab

Pressing a picture in an email, on an appeal, in a report or in the picture queue opens it large on the page, and the arrow keys move to the next one. Before, each picture opened in a tab of its own.

The button to edit your page looks like a button

At the top of your own page and your own character pages, the link to change them is now a button in a bar of its own. The link staff use to open a member on the staff screen is a button too.

New members show on the sprouts list as soon as they're registered

A member added to the registry gets their page address right away, so they're on the sprouts list at once instead of after first opening their page.

Checkboxes, choices and sliders have their own look

Every checkbox, choice button and slider now uses the site colors with a clear check mark, in both light and dark themes. Number fields no longer show the small up and down arrows.

New pages start out open to anyone with the link

The page visibility setting said a new page is hidden from everyone. Since every sprout now gets a page, it actually starts open to anyone with the link, and the setting now says so.

Every page of your account has the same width and the same tabs

The dashboard, your page, your characters and your tickets are now as wide as the top bar, with the same four tabs at the top of each. Before, each page had its own width, so the content jumped when you moved between them.

The site uses more of a wide screen

The top bar, the footer, the front page and the pages with lists and forms, such as the sprouts, events, appeals and documentation, are wider on a large screen. News articles and policies stay narrow, because long lines of text are hard to read.

The account menu names the dashboard and your page

The entry that opened the dashboard was called Your profile. The menu now says Dashboard, and a new entry, Your page, opens the editor for your own page.

Pictures on sprout pages show again

Banners, backgrounds, page buddies and other uploaded pictures were blank after they moved to the new file storage. They show again on every page.

Every sprout on the registry now has a page

The sprouts list shows every member on the registry and everyone with a character. An empty page shows the registry facts, the characters and their family trees, and anyone can open it.

A ban stops you from changing what other people see

While you're banned, your page, characters, pictures and family trees stay up, but you can't change them on the site or through the bots. Every form and command says so and names the day the ban ends.

Every link and button looks like something you can press

Back links, links between pages and small actions like stopping an upload or removing a file are now clear buttons or underlined links. Every one is big enough to press on a phone.

The Habitat Inspector badge has a new picture

The badge next to a Habitat Inspector on the staff list and on their page now shows a purple net instead of a pink outline.

You can ask by email for a copy of your data

The privacy notice now says to email legal@rosarealism.com to use any of your rights, instead of opening a ticket. Your copy comes as a link to one file with every record about you, valid for fourteen days.

Page numbers on lists no longer jump back to page 1

Pressing Next or a page number on the sprouts list, the staff log, penalties or reports used to open that page and then jump back to the first one. The list now stays on the page you picked.

The front page answers the questions people ask before they apply

Under Applying, a list answers common questions: how to get in, whether the server is open, which map it uses, where the mods are, and what realism means here. The answers stay current, including whether applications are open.

Your name and picture stay in the top bar while you move between pages

Moving between pages used to blank your name and picture in the top bar for a moment, which looked like being signed out. The bar now keeps them until the next page has loaded.

The section bar on the front page shows where you are

The bar under the top bar highlights the section you're looking at as you scroll. Its scrollbar is gone, and on a phone the apply button just says Apply so it fits.

You can add the site to your phone's home screen with its own icon

Adding rosarealism.com to your phone's home screen now gives it the Reserve name, logo and olive color, instead of a page title and a screenshot.

Search engines now find the right address for every page

Links with a search or a page number no longer count as copies of the front page. Pages that need a sign in are left out of search results.

You can upload several pictures at once

Pick, drop or paste as many pictures as you have room for, caption each one, and send them together. Each shows its own progress, and one that fails says why while the rest keep going.

Every upload area takes a dropped file or a pasted screenshot

Every upload area works the same way: press the button, drop a file on it, or click it and paste. It tells you which files it takes and how large they can be.

Pictures that are too large are shrunk before they're sent

A still picture over the size limit is resized in your browser, and you're told when that happens. Animations are never resized, because they'd lose their movement.

Clips on an appeal are now shared as links

Upload screenshots as files, and put clips on YouTube, Medal or Streamable and paste the link. The clip stays watchable and your appeal sends faster.

Uploads now go straight to storage

Your browser sends the file straight to storage, and the site checks what arrived. The progress bar shows the real upload, and large files no longer wait in the middle.

Pictures up to 15 MB and animations up to 25 MB are accepted

Still pictures can be up to 15 MB and 8192 pixels on a side, so artwork fits at full size. Animations, documents and clips can be up to 25 MB, and anything larger is refused before it's sent.

Approved pictures load at the size a page needs

Every approved picture is saved at three sizes, and each page loads the one it shows. The original is saved untouched and never enlarged.

Taken-down pictures leave the site at once and are deleted after thirty days

A picture that's taken down or turned down disappears from the site right away. The original is saved for thirty days in case the decision is reviewed, and then deleted.

Picking many evidence files at once no longer fails

Files are now sent one at a time, so the last ones in a big batch are no longer refused for going too fast.

Your characters are one press away from any page

The account menu at the top right has an entry for your characters, between your profile and the application form. The menu on a phone has the same entry under Your account.

The documentation shows one line per command

Each command is a closed line with its name, who can run it and what it does. Press it to see options, an example and notes, and a search opens every matching command.

The changelog opens on the newest releases

The twelve newest releases show when the page opens, and older ones are behind one button that says how many there are. Search still covers every release.

Each dashboard list has one See all button

The characters and tickets lists on your dashboard each have a See all button beside the heading, showing how many items there are. The extra buttons are gone.

The evidence field on an appeal names one size limit

The field said 25 MB in one line and 40 MB in the next. It now names the 40 MB limit once, and a limit is written without a decimal.

The account menu works with the keyboard

Opening the menu puts focus on the first entry, and the arrow keys, Home and End move between entries. Escape closes it and returns focus to the button, and the page you're on is marked.

Your characters have a page of their own

The page lists every character you play, ten at a time. Search by name, species or skin, show only those in play or retired, and open any character to change it.

The search box for your characters is always there

The search box used to appear only once you had six characters or more, so most members never saw it. It is now at the top of the characters page for everybody.

Your dashboard shows your three newest characters and tickets

Each list has a View more button that opens the full page, where you can search and change everything. The heading of each list is a button that opens the same page.

You can switch between your dashboard, characters and tickets in one press

A row of buttons at the top of those three pages shows which one you are on and takes you to the other two.

Saving a character brings you back to where you were in the list

Renaming, retiring or changing who may read about a character now returns you to the same search and page number, with a message about what was saved.

You can search your characters by name or species

Your list on your account page is one line per character now, with a search box above it. Type part of a name or species to narrow the list, or show only retired characters or those in play.

Each character now has its own edit page

Open one of your characters to add pictures, write their story, choose who can read it, keep private notes, or rename or retire them. Everything from your account page is there too.

You choose which picture of a character comes first

Any approved picture can go first. It's the large picture at the top of the character page and the one shown when someone shares a link to the character.

The open tickets figure now always opens your tickets

The tile used to do nothing when you had no open tickets, which is exactly when you'd look for a closed one.

The Reserve now has Habitat Inspectors

Habitat Inspectors test new features and updates to make sure they work before they go out. The job has its own emblem and shows on a profile like every other job.

The changelog now has a page for Rosa Relay

Rosa Relay is the new bot that reads the chat aloud in a voice channel and writes what is said there back into a channel. Its releases are listed alongside the other four bots and the site.

Every release is now posted in the changelog channel automatically

Releases used to be posted only when someone pressed a button, and ten piled up unannounced in one day. Each release is now posted as soon as it goes live.

The menu on a phone closes when you tap the page behind

Before, the only way to close the menu was the cross in the corner. Tapping the darkened page behind the menu now closes it too.

Links in the bar and the footer are easier to hit on a phone

Links in the top bar and the footer were about twenty pixels tall, easy to miss with a finger. They're now a third taller and look the same.

The line at the bottom of the footer is no longer cut off on a phone

The copyright, the version number and the hosting credit shared one line, so the version got cut off on narrow screens. They're now on separate lines.

Closing an incident thread uses the same message every time

The closing message says the issue is resolved, links to the post with the full story, and says to open a ticket if something still looks wrong.

The Critter Coordinator has an emblem like every other job

The Critter Coordinator was the only job on the team without a picture beside it. It now has a cicada.

The Critter Coordinator has an emblem like every other job

The Critter Coordinator was the only job on the team without a picture beside it. It now has a cicada.

Status posts say what you can't do and when the next update is

Each post names what isn't working for you, what still works, and when the next update comes, instead of guessing when it'll be fixed.

A closed page names the part of the site you were trying to use

Closed pages used to say the site was having a problem. They now say which part is down and whether it broke or is planned work.

Status thread updates show whether the problem was still going

Each update now has the same colored mark as the post at the top, so you can see which updates came during the outage and which came after the fix.

Closed pages now say why instead of failing

When something is broken or being worked on, the page it affects shows what's wrong, the latest updates and where to follow along. Before, the page just failed or acted up.

Planned work is announced before it starts

Maintenance is posted in Discord with the times it runs between, and nothing is closed until the start time passes. The times are shown in your own time zone.

You can follow an outage in a thread

Every post about a problem has a thread. Press the button on the post to join it and get each update without watching the channel.

Typing /status tells you whether anything is down

The /status command lists what's down right now, what it affects on the website and the latest update on each. When everything works, it says so.

The lockout screen says you are on the blacklist

The lockout screen used to say the account was blocked, a word used nowhere else. It now names the blacklist and gives the address to write to.

The age screen says what you answered

The heading used to read "This account is closed" without saying why. It now says you answered that you're under thirteen, with a way to change your answer.

Twenty sentences across the site were rewritten in plainer words

Unclear hints on the settings and game server screens were reworded, and the word "simply" was cut from eleven places where it added nothing.

A selected button shows its label again

Selected tabs and filters looked empty because their label was the same green as the button. Labels on filled buttons are readable again.

The header and the footer reach the edges of the window again

The header and the footer were pushed in from the sides, leaving an empty band down each edge. They now reach the edges again.

Your avatar and name stay in the header while a page loads

Moving between pages threw the header away and built it again, so the avatar and the name disappeared for a moment and the row jumped as they came back.

A sprout page keeps the background and the layout it was given

A page a sprout had designed was drawn inside a second copy of its own frame, which reset the background and moved everything on it.

A note in the corner says how many files are still going up

On a long form, the file rows scroll out of sight while uploading. A note in the corner shows how many files are left, and the tab asks before closing while they're still going.

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

A picture now opens over the page, and the arrow keys move through every picture in the ticket. A middle click or right click still opens the file itself.

Copy a transcript link with one press

A button at the top of a transcript copies its link, so you don't have to select it from the address bar.

Everyone is called by the same name on every screen

The list of people in a ticket used account names while the rest of the page used nicknames, so someone could show up twice. Every screen now uses your nickname, or your account name if you haven't set one.

Selected text stays readable in dark mode

Selecting text used to put a pale highlight behind light text, making it unreadable. Selected text now keeps its color on a soft green highlight.

Moving between pages no longer flashes

A new page used to fade in from nothing after the old one had gone, so the screen went blank for a moment. The fade now starts most of the way in.

An account on the blacklist sees only one screen when signing in

The screen says the account is on the blacklist and gives an address to write to if that is a mistake. No page of the site loads behind it.

Pages now fade in instead of jumping

Each new page fades in over a fifth of a second, short enough that moving through several pages doesn't feel slower.

A bar at the top shows when a page is loading

A bar runs across the top of the window while the next page loads, and in the staff area the menu entry you pressed is marked. Before, nothing showed after you pressed a link.

Error pages now look like part of the Reserve

The pages for a missing address, a page that failed to load and the whole site failing now share one look, with artwork instead of a sentence on a blank page.

Pages open faster

Most of the site is now prepared in advance, with only the parts about you filled in when you visit. The front page, the changelog, the documentation and the policies open without waiting.

You can search your own tickets

Type a ticket number, a kind of ticket, or why one was closed, and the list narrows as you type. It searches every ticket you can read, including the ones not on screen and the ones already closed.

Your five newest tickets show first, with the rest one press away

The list used to show five tickets a page with Newer and Older buttons, so finding an old ticket meant a lot of pressing.

You are asked your age once, when you sign in

Discord and the Reserve both require you to be at least thirteen. The question shows over the site until you answer it, including over the application form.

You can change your answer if you said no by mistake

Saying you're under thirteen closes the account, but the screen that says so has a button to change your answer. A wrong press won't cost you your account.

The page editor calls the banner a banner

The editor used to call it "a band across the top" in its heading and help text, then "banner" on the button. It's a banner everywhere now, for screen readers too.

The error pages say what failed

The error pages used to say something failed on our side. They now say whether the page or the whole site failed to load.

Sponsors and early worms get a badge on their page

The badge sits beside your rank on your page and in the member list. Hover it to see the role, or press it for a card with the emblem and description.

The page editor now uses the words banner and background

The picture across the top of your page is the banner, and the picture behind it is the page background. They used to be described in different words in different places.

The email we send when a case closes is plainer

The closing email thanks you by name, says the case is closed, and explains that replying opens a new case with a new reference.

Replying to us keeps you in the same conversation

Replies are now matched to your case by what they answer and the reference in the subject, not just your address. Writing from another address or changing the subject no longer starts a new case.

Writing to a case we closed opens a new one and says so

A closed case stays closed as the record of what was decided. Your reply opens a new case, and our answer names both references so you know which to use.

You get an email when your case is closed

The email says the case is closed and what to do if you think it closed too early. Before, a finished case just went silent.

Case references are now random instead of numbered

References used to count up, which showed how much legal email the Reserve had received. They're now eight random characters, without letters that are easy to mix up.

What you write to us is no longer copied into Discord

Staff used to get the text of your email in a private Discord message, where we can't delete it later. The alert now only says an email arrived, and staff read it on the site.

The automatic reply says how long an answer will take

Anyone who emails us now gets a reply saying we aim to answer within one calendar month, and usually much sooner. Before, it only said someone would read it eventually.

Our emails are now written in everyday English

The automatic reply and our standard replies used to sound stiff and formal. They now say the same things the way a person would.

An email from us greets you by name

If we have your name, our emails now open with it. If not, they open with a plain "Hello" instead of "Hello there".

Emails from the Reserve now match the look of the site

Our emails now use the same deep green, cream and warm brown as the site, so you can tell they're from us at a glance.

Links in our emails are dark enough to read

Links used a light green that was too pale on the cream background. They now use the darker green the site uses for text links.

Emails from us mention the plain text copy

Every email comes in a formatted version and a plain text version. You can switch to the plain one in your mail app, and the email now tells you so.

Replies from the Reserve now look like they come from us

Replies used to arrive as bare text, which is hard to tell apart from a scam. They now carry the Reserve's name, colors and case number, plus a plain copy for mail apps without formatting.

You can email a question about the terms or the privacy policy

Both documents now name legal@rosarealism.com. You can still open a ticket in our Discord server, but if you've left the server, email is the way to reach us.

Every file you attach gets a row of its own

Each file you attach now has its own row with its own progress. If one fails, it says why and lets you send that file again while the others stay attached.

You can stop an upload without leaving the page

Every file being sent has a button to stop it. The file stays selected, so you can send it again without picking it from your folders.

You can paste a screenshot straight into an upload area

Click an upload area and press Ctrl+V to add a screenshot from your clipboard without saving it first. Dragging a file in still works.

Upload areas say what they accept before you pick a file

The file types and size limit are shown under every upload area, instead of appearing as an error after you choose a file.

Applying asks you to confirm you're 13 or older

The terms have always said the Reserve is for people 13 and over. The application form now asks you to confirm it, and no date of birth is asked for or stored.

The terms say how to report a copyright problem

Some pictures, screenshots and clips on the site were made by someone else. The terms now give an address for copyright owners to write to and say what the email must include.

Wording across the whole site is plainer

Every sentence on the site was reread. Sentences now name what they're about, explanations get enough room, and error messages also say what to do next.

The Field Kit download and update check now find the newest version

Both offered 0.9.1 while 0.10.0 was out, so the app never knew about the update. Version numbers are now compared properly instead of trusting the order they arrive in.

In-game commands no longer say they failed after working

Commands like skipping your shed or handing out marks worked, but then whispered that nothing happened. The reply now matches what the game server actually did.

A slow game server no longer makes a command look failed

Sometimes the server takes too long to confirm a command it already carried out. You're now told we can't be sure it worked and asked to check in game, instead of being told to type it again.

In-game commands now tell you when they didn't work

Commands that heal you, move you or hand something out used to give their usual reply even when nothing happened. Now you're told, and staff are told too so they can fix it.

The sound on a page is now a real forest recording

Press listen on a page that offers it and you'll hear a recording made in a real forest. Nothing downloads until you press the button.

Sharing your page link shows your page's scenery

When someone pastes your link, the preview card now shows the picture behind your page, your colors, your name and your tagline. It used to be a banner strip and a block of color.

Pages with pictures load much faster

Pictures on member pages are now sent at the size they're shown, in a lighter format. One page dropped from 7.5 MB to under 2 MB, which saves most of a second on a phone.

Your longer stylesheet allowance now works when saving

If you've been granted a longer stylesheet, saving no longer refuses it, and the counter shows your real limit.

Your layout can now fade things out at the edges

You can now use masks in your stylesheet to fade a picture or text out instead of cutting it off. They follow the usual rule: a gradient or a picture from this site, never a file from elsewhere.

The back to top button is just an arrow on phones

On narrow screens, its label covered what you were reading. It's now just the arrow at the same size, and screen readers still hear the label.

Every page now has slowly shifting background colors

Two soft washes of color move slowly behind the site. If your device is set to reduce motion, you get the same colors, standing still.

Your layout can style the missing character message

The message that says a character isn't here now has a name your stylesheet can target. You can add your own content there, not just change its colors.

The page sound is now wind, water and birds

It plays wind in the trees, distant water, rustling leaves and the odd bird call. It's made in your browser, only starts when you press the button, and never repeats.

Sharing your page link shows your page, not your avatar

When someone pastes your link, the preview now shows your banner, your colors, your name and your tagline. It used to show your Discord avatar.

A missing character link now lands on the member's page

A link to a deleted or mistyped character used to show the site's not-found page. It now shows that member's page, in their colors, with links to their other characters.

Your page can now play a soft water sound

You can add a button that plays a soft water sound. Nothing plays on its own, and it costs nothing until someone presses it. Switch it on next to your scenery settings.

Pages with custom colors look the same in light and dark

The shade over a backdrop picture, the card shadows, and text boxes and scrollbars used to follow the reader's theme. They now use the page's own colors.

Your page can change with the reader's time of day

Your layout can look one way at dawn and another at night, based on the reader's own clock. The page is marked as dawn, day, dusk or night, with the exact hour too.

Your page always lists your characters now

The option to hide them is gone, because family trees link through each character's page. Each character's own settings still decide whether its story and pictures show.

Save only appears once you've changed a character's name

The save button used to show as soon as you opened the row, which made every character look like it had unsaved changes.

Stylesheets still can't load files from other sites

Even with pictures allowed, a page can only use pictures written into the stylesheet or served by this site. A file from another site could tell that site who read your page.

Pages can now use the Cormorant Garamond font

A font only shows if the reader has it installed. The site now serves Cormorant Garamond itself, so it always works, and your browser doesn't fetch it from another company.

Confirming an action now shows it's in progress

After you confirm something like deleting a character, the dialog stays open with a spinning button until it's done. The cancel button is disabled meanwhile, since it can't stop the action.

The banner preview now matches your real page

The preview used to be a small strip, so the crop you approved wasn't the crop you got. It now shows the same shape, the same portrait placement and the bottom fade if it's on.

Banners are no longer refused as the wrong file type

Some browsers saved the cropped banner in a different format than its name said, so the upload refused it. Exporting again never helped, because the problem was on our side. It's fixed now.

The switch between current and past characters is clearer

It used to be plain text, so it was hard to tell which list you were looking at. Both choices now show, and the one you're on is marked.

Your page shows 3 characters and folds the rest away

Members with lots of characters had everything else, including their writing, pushed far down the page. The rest are one press away and stay open once you open them.

The section on your page now says characters

It said creatures, which isn't the word the rest of the site uses.

Your own background now shows on pages with a backdrop

On pages with a backdrop picture, the site's own panel covered the background you set. It looked right in the preview but not on the page. Now it shows on both.

The preview now shows the fade at the bottom of your banner

The fade was on your page but not in the preview, so it was hard to find the setting. It's the "Fade the bottom of the banner into the page" box under Pictures.

Tags, species and gender always show as written

Your page can still set their color, size and font. It can't lowercase a tag or space out its letters anymore, because that made similar tags hard to tell apart.

Gender and diet now start with a capital letter

Cards and character pages showed "female" and "herbivore" in lowercase, while every other fact started with a capital.

Your own page sits at the top of the members list

It's marked as yours and stays first however you sort the list. When you search, it only shows up if it matches.

You can now sort the members list three ways

Recently updated is still the default. Oldest first shows who's been here longest, and A to Z helps when you know the name.

Linking your Patreon account finds your pledge again

Everyone who linked Patreon showed as not supporting, whatever they pledged, because the site asked Patreon for the wrong thing. Link it again and your pledge will show.

Changes that couldn't be saved no longer look saved

Your dashboard notepad and character boxes said "Saved" even when nothing was saved. Now your text stays in the box and the page tells you what went wrong.

Renaming, retiring and deleting characters now explain refusals

A one-letter name, or a character that was already deleted, used to close the dialog and change nothing without a word. Now you see why.

Pictures that can't be used no longer say they were removed

Choosing a banner, backdrop or buddy that couldn't be used said the picture was taken off your page, even though nothing changed. Now you see what went wrong.

The map now says when the game server didn't answer

It used to say nobody was online, which looked like a quiet server when the server simply didn't respond.

Applications say when the next round opens

If a round is scheduled for Friday, the page now shows the date and time instead of "applications are not open". A round that has ended says when it closed.

The member directory no longer reloads in the background

The search box kept asking the server for results four times a second while the page was open. You couldn't see it on screen, but it's fixed now.

Character pages now show traits instead of code

Traits used to show up as "[object Object]". Now you see the actual traits.

You can jump to any part of the front page

A row of links under the figures takes you to any of the nine sections in one press. On a phone, the figures are now two columns instead of one long strip.

A sprout's page now opens with what you came for

Their characters, pictures and comments are one press from the top. On a wide screen, their details sit beside their writing instead of above it.

Character pages show the name before the picture

The name, tag, species and status now sit above the artwork, so on a phone you don't scroll past a tall reference sheet first.

A member card no longer cuts off the in-game name

The in-game name, pronouns and local time used to be squeezed into one clipped line, and taglines were cut off. Both wrap now, and screen readers announce the result count as it changes.

The privacy notice counts the bots correctly

It said three Discord applications and then named four. There are four: Rosa Terminal, Rosa Conservatory, Rosa Front Desk and Rosa Wildlife.

The privacy notice now explains file uploads clearly

Two paragraphs described the same thing in conflicting ways. A copy of your file is stored in a private channel only staff can see, and we record where, because Discord links expire within a day.

Your dashboard is easier to find your way around

Four figures at the top link to what they count, with two columns below. The page is half as tall, and everything is one press away on a phone.

Applying now reads as clear, numbered questions

The introduction is one block instead of three cards, each question shows its number out of the total, and the two account fields now have proper labels.

Your appeals now show above the new appeal form

The form used to be four screens down, under a long explanation of what an appeal isn't.

Every ticket now shows whether it's open or closed

Only open tickets used to show their state, so a closed one looked like something was missing. Each ticket card also opens with one press.

Upcoming events now show above the calendar

The list shows what's next, and the calendar helps you find a date. The arrows and day marks are also big enough to tap on a phone.

Newsletters, events and policies now open the same way

Each has a link back to its list and its key facts in one block. A canceled event is marked next to its date instead of in the middle of the text.

Both legal pages now have a contents list and section links

The list sits beside the text on a wide screen, folds into one row on a phone, and marks where you are. Each section also has its own link you can share.

Legal pages show the version and date under the title

The version used to sit inside the first section, where nobody looks for it.

The skip to content link now works on both legal pages

The link that skips past the menu had nowhere to land on those pages. It now takes you straight to the text.

The sign in button now comes before the explanation

There were five sentences between you and the only button. The heading, any error and the button now come first.

Cases and transcripts now lay out their facts the same way

The facts at the top of both are laid out alike, with labels clearly set apart from their values. Each state has a mark as well as a color.

Hints, timestamps and labels are easier to read

We checked every piece of text on the site and found about six hundred that were too faint. The two lighter text colors are now darker on every background, in both themes.

Your page editor is split into four parts

What you write, who can see it, your pictures and how it looks each have their own screen and their own save button. It used to be one very long screen.

Saving one part of your page leaves the rest alone

Saving your writing no longer touches who can see your page, and the other way around. The address remembers which part you're in, so you come back to it after saving.

The card at the top shows where your page stands

It shows your page's address, who can open it, pictures waiting on staff and comments waiting on you, all above the editor.

Deleting your page is now with the visibility settings

It used to be at the bottom of the styling, where nobody looks for it. It now sits with the other settings about who can see your page.

Only staff can record family relations now

The dashboard card for recording relations and answering requests is gone. Family trees are seen by the whole Reserve, so staff add those links, and the screen names both characters by tag.

Record how two characters are related on your dashboard

Pick one of yours, name the other by its tag, and choose the relation. Two of your own are saved right away. If the other is someone else's, they can accept or decline on their dashboard or in Discord.

Family trees now show found family

Found family shows beside a character like a sibling does, and is labeled as found family instead of drawn as an adoption.

A character's second picture is no longer cut to a strip

It was cropped into a wide strip, which cut the top and bottom off screenshots. Both pictures now show the way their owner framed them.

The Use this frame button now crops your picture

Pressing it used to change nothing and say nothing. Cropping now works on every picture: characters, banners and pictures on your page.

A young character with a mate now sits under its parents' line

The line from the parents used to land between the young one and its mate, and the line across the row stopped short. Both ends now meet.

Character pages can show a second picture

The first picture keeps its uploaded shape. The second sits beside the facts, filling space that used to be empty.

Character stories now use the full page width

A story used to be as narrow as the picture above it, with empty space beside it all the way down.

The line between two mates now looks different from family lines

Both used to be the same thin line, so a mate link looked like a row of young. It's now dashed with a knot in the middle, and all lines are easier to follow.

Family trees have more room and lighter labels

Cards are bigger, rows are further apart, and each relation is written as text instead of a box. The shape of the tree is easier to follow.

Family tree lines from a clutch no longer double up

Each young had its own line running all the way up next to the parents' line, which looked like two connections. Lines now stop at the rail above the young.

Young named on a clutch now link to their page

If an egg was claimed before its owner made the character, the name had no link. The name is now matched to the character and opens their page.

Clutches on a character page now list the young by name

It used to say how many eggs were taken, but not who took them. Each young is now listed by name and opens their page.

Clutches say what the character was in one word

Mother, father or offspring, then the species, season and day. The clutch a character hatched from is marked as its origin clutch, with links to the other parents.

The line from a clutch now lands on the right young

When a young had a mate, the line came down between them, so the mate looked like a sibling. It now lands on the young itself.

Your characters now have a heading and clear buttons

The story, pictures, privacy and notes under each character were plain colored text. They're buttons now, and the section has its own heading like the rest of your dashboard.

Retiring a character keeps its place in the family tree

The option used to say retire or delete, but only staff can delete. It now offers only what you can do, and says a retired character stays in every family line.

Family tree pictures really show up now

Last time, pictures were prepared correctly but still came out blank. They're now drawn straight into each card.

Someone who had young with your son is now named a partner

A mate who joined the family sat where a niece or nephew would, so the tree called them that. They're now named after who they had young with, like daughter's partner or brother's partner.

Character pictures are back on family tree cards

Most pictures were in a format the tree couldn't read, so cards showed an empty band. Pictures now show properly, and a character whose picture can't be loaded shows its species.

Letters like y and g are no longer cut off in page names

Two-color names cut off letters that hang below the line, so Spyre read as Sp,re. It's fixed whether you used the color picker or your own stylesheet.

The dashboard card now follows your banner fade setting

The fade was built into that card, so it still showed even after you turned it off.

Rounded banner corners now look right

A filled panel sat behind the picture, so the rounded corners showed as a square with the corners cut off.

You can reframe any picture, not just your banner

The frame picker is now under every picture in your gallery. Pull the slider all the way out to get the whole picture back.

You can reframe a picture while it waits for staff

You used to wait for a decision before you could fix a badly framed picture.

Character names on your dashboard now open their page

The name was the one thing on the row people tried to press, and it did nothing. Staff viewing someone's dashboard can open it the same way.

Character pictures are no longer cropped to fit a box

Cards and character pages cut every picture to the same shape, so tall sheets lost their head and feet and wide screenshots lost their sides. Now you see the whole picture.

Applications sent back can now be sent in again

Fixing the field you were asked about and pressing send said required questions were empty. The check now only looks at the fields you were asked to fix.

Written answers need to be at least 200 characters

You see this as you type, not after pressing send. A one-word answer wastes your attempt and a reviewer's time.

Each answer you need to fix has its own reason

One reason for the whole application left people guessing which answer it meant. Each reason now sits beside its answer, on the page and in the message.

Long answers show how much room is left

Long answers stop at 4000 characters and short ones at 200. The box used to cut off your text without warning, so you could send a paragraph missing its ending.

The form says how long it is, who reads it and when you'll hear

Three lines above the questions answer what people used to open tickets to ask.

The question you're answering is highlighted

Every card used to look the same. The one you're typing in now stands out and the rest fade back.

Account details no longer look like a question

You copy them from another screen, so they no longer sit in the same kind of box as the questions.

The end of the form says what sending does

It says whether sending is final, how many attempts you have, and that nothing is saved until you send.

The front page button says Apply when you're signed in

It used to promise two steps to people who had already done the first.

Being accepted now names what you actually gained

The message said you got the sprout role, which everyone has from day one. It now says you're on the whitelist, which is the new part.

Your application is now called an entry application

It used to be called a Sprout form, which is a settings screen name. You're applying to get in, so that's what the message says.

Application decisions are written more plainly

If yours is sent back, you're first told your answers are saved, then what to look at again. The buttons now say what they open.

Staff can send your application back instead of declining

Staff can ask you to fix just one answer, and everything else you wrote stays saved. A correction doesn't use up an attempt.

You'll hear the decision on your application in Discord

Whether you're accepted, sent back or declined, you're told in a channel with the reason and what to do next. Before, you could be accepted and never hear about it.

Application forms can ask more kinds of questions

Forms can now use tick boxes, yes or no, and numbers, alongside multiple choice and written answers. Questions can also have a link and a note.

Declining an application now sends the reason

The reason used to go only with an acceptance, so a decline arrived with no reason at all.

You can't end up with two applications on one form

Sending one twice quickly could leave two in the queue. Now only one can be waiting at a time.

Opening applications now shows the button on the front page

The front page kept saying applications were closed even when staff had opened them. It now checks whether any form is open, including ones staff add themselves.

Being accepted on the site gives you your Discord role again

For two weeks, people accepted on the site were registered and whitelisted but didn't get their role. Anyone affected can be given it by hand.

Supporter roles are removed again when a pledge ends

The same problem stopped the site from removing roles, so supporter ranks stayed after pledges ended.

Your tagline, share button and reaction counts are readable again

On pages with custom colors, some phone browsers couldn't work out the color of quieter text, so it nearly vanished. The color is now worked out before the page is sent.

Dark mode no longer makes custom pages unreadable

Some colors on a styled page still came from the site's theme. At night, a comment on a light page showed as dark text on a dark card. Every color on a styled page now comes from that page.

Cards in every page look are now solid

Eight looks drew their cards see-through, so scenery behind the page showed through the text. Cards are now solid, so you can read them.

The band on your dashboard card no longer covers your picture

On some phones, the band at the top of the card cut the top off your portrait. It no longer sits on top of the picture.

Character tags now read STYRA-001 instead of STY-001

Species codes used to be three or five letters, so lists didn't line up. Every code is now five letters, and existing tags were updated too. Your character is the same, just with a matching tag.

Comments on pages with a backdrop are readable now

Comment cards were see-through, so the backdrop picture showed through the text. Cards are now solid, in the page's own color.

Character cards show species, looks and genes on any page

The quieter lines on a card were colored to match the site, not the card, so they faded into dark pages.

Your dashboard portrait no longer loses its top

The band at the top of the card was drawn over your portrait and cut it off in a straight line.

You can now show your banner without the bottom fade

The banner fades into the page at the bottom. A new switch next to the banner picker, on by default, lets you turn that off to show the whole picture.

Long tags now find their character

Searching by tag stopped at six digits, so a character with a longer tag number couldn't be found by typing it.

Tags with a number in the species code can be found

Some species codes end in a number because the obvious letters were taken. Characters with those tags couldn't be found by tag at all.

A newsletter's gallery now shows all its pictures

The gallery only showed pictures that weren't placed in the text, so some editions had no gallery. It now shows everything, cover first, and clips play right there.

Your portrait is no longer cut off where it meets your banner

The banner's bottom fade was drawn over your portrait. On custom-colored pages, that looked like a straight cut across the top of the picture.

A missing banner picture no longer leaves an empty frame

If a banner's file was deleted, the page showed an empty frame with no explanation. It now looks the same as a page with no banner.

The terms and privacy notice list all four Discord bots

Both named only three of the four bots they cover. Rosa Wildlife was missing.

The terms explain what a sprout is

The word appears four times in a document you read before joining, and nothing said it means a member. Now it does.

Newsletter covers and character pictures are sharp again

Six pictures on the site were saved at a lower quality than the rest, which showed most on dark screenshots. They now match.

Uploaded pictures keep dark scenes clean

Uploads used to turn blocky in the shadows, like a character under trees at night. They're now saved in a sharper format that's also smaller. Pictures already uploaded aren't changed.

Messages now name things the way you would

Messages said "the selected picture" or "the selected layout" about something you'd just named. They now use plain words.

Colors now match across every page

About sixty files used their own shades of brown and sand. They all follow the theme now, so dark mode looks right on pages where it was only close.

Text is the same size for the same job everywhere

Hints under fields were different sizes on almost every screen. They match now.

The button under a closed list now says show

It used to check the card around it instead of the list, so a list nobody had opened offered to hide itself.

Your characters card starts closed on the dashboard

Each character has its story, pictures, notes and privacy settings, so an open card filled most of the dashboard. Press the heading to open it.

Your tickets page shows how many are still open

Three numbers sit above the list: open, closed and total. Each ticket has a colored bar for its state, so you can tell them apart at a glance.

Seven changelog lines now say plainly what changed

Some entries described a change by comparing it to something else. They now say what changed. The version numbers, dates and changes are the same.

Appeals can include up to ten pictures and clips

The limit used to be one. Each file shows its size and can be removed, and files upload one at a time so the progress bar is accurate.

The apply page clearly says when applications are closed

It used to be a plain sentence that looked unfinished. The tabs above only show when there's more than one form to pick from.

Every newsletter published so far is on the site

The five editions sent in Discord are now here with their pictures, the date they were posted and who wrote them.

Clips in a newsletter play right on the page

The gallery under an edition now includes clips. Each has a play mark, and opening one plays it full size, with the arrow keys still moving through the rest.

Old notices leave the list when a newer edition comes out

A notice is about something to do now, so it drops off the list once a new edition arrives. Its link still works.

The footer is now four short groups

It used to give a third of the width to the name and stack seven links in one tall stack.

The header now highlights where you are on the front page

The Reserve, Roster and Applying now light up as you scroll past them, like News and Events do on their own pages.

Events now show as a list of dates

Each event starts with the day, then the time, how soon it is, and where. The month bar shows the month first, with arrows and a way back to today beside it.

You can use server emoji in newsletters and pages

Type the name between colons and the emoji shows up. Text pasted from Discord works as it is, so you don't have to tidy it up.

You can place clips in your writing like pictures

Clips show with play controls and never start on their own. They're stored alongside the pictures, so they still work a year from now.

A YouTube link on its own line becomes a video

It uses YouTube's privacy mode, which sets no cookie until you press play. A link with other words around it stays a link.

Dropdowns now use the site's own arrow

The browser drew its own arrow, which showed as a pale box in the dark theme.

You can react to a newsletter edition

The same reactions you see on member pages now sit under every edition, with the server emoji in the picker. Press one to join in, or press yours again to remove it.

Your dashboard opens with four numbers

How many characters you have in play, whether anything is waiting on the team, whether a penalty is running, and whether you can join the game server. You used to scroll to see all four.

Text links now have a faint underline

Actions written as text were only colored, which looked the same as headings. The line fills in when you point at it.

Options and tick boxes can be pressed anywhere on the row

Each is a bordered row that fills with color once picked, so choices are easy to tell apart. The whole row is pressable, which helps most on a phone.

You can drag pictures and clips onto the upload area

The upload area shows what you picked and its size, and takes files you drop as well as ones you choose.

The appeals page clearly shows what can't be appealed

That part is now a warning with each case on its own line. You can only appeal a penalty once, and people were using it on reasons that never qualified.

Pressing the site name takes you to the top of the front page

On the front page with a section in the address, it did nothing. It now clears the section and goes to the top.

The member list shows three per row on wide screens

Portraits also light up when you point at them.

Your characters show three at a time

Each character has its story, pictures, notes and privacy settings, so a long list pushed everything else down. The rest are one press away, and the whole card folds from its heading.

The footer now shows just this year

It used to show a range starting from the year the Reserve opened, which nobody needed.

Filter the documentation by staff or member commands

Two more filters sit next to the bot names. They show for anyone who can see both kinds of command.

The front page picture now fades into the page

The corners of the opening picture are softer, the title is bigger, and the bottom of the picture fades into the page instead of ending in a hard line.

The front page numbers now line up as a set

Each number sits on a line with its label in small capitals below, and the digits line up.

Warning dialogs now look different from regular questions

The dialog slides in as the page dims, with a colored bar and icon, so a warning no longer looks like an ordinary question.

Form fields now show errors on the field itself

The border turns red, the field is tinted, and screen readers hear which sentence explains the problem.

The top bar now blurs the page underneath

It used to be a flat strip. It now blurs what's behind it and casts a soft shadow, so it clearly sits above the page.

Every page now opens with a clear heading

The title, the label above it and the description have more space, with a line separating them from the page.

Notices now have a colored bar down the side

Success, warning and error notices looked alike from a distance. The colored bar tells them apart.

Form fields now look like places to type

Fields were outlined boxes on the page background. They're now slightly sunken, and brighten when you click into them.

Reaction limits are explained in plain words

They called reactions "marks" and described the limit vaguely. They now name the limit and say what you can still do.

A character with no family now says so plainly

The line used to read "One creature, with nobody recorded either side of it yet". It now reads "No parents or offspring on record yet".

Confirmation dialogs name both choices

The second button used to say Cancel. It now says "Keep as it is", so both buttons describe a result.

Command documentation is easier to read

Explanations were in the small hint size. They now use the normal reading size, with shorter lines.

Command cards now highlight when you hover over a card

There are 148 cards on the page, and nothing showed which one you were about to read.

The member list is now called Members

It used to be titled Sprouts, with a description that didn't say what the page was for. It now explains what you can search by.

Member pages name whose characters they show

The heading said "Their characters" on every page. It now uses the member's name, and the link beside it says what it shows.

Empty member pages explain what's missing

When a member has no characters in play, the page now says retired and dead ones may still be on the registry, instead of just "No living characters".

Your characters are now at the top of your dashboard

They used to be below the notepad and Patreon card, so you had to scroll past everything else.

Your dashboard is split into sections

Your page and characters come first, then your registry details and record, then tickets and notes. Each section is named so you can find things fast.

The whitelist row says whether you can join the server

It used to read like a permission with no explanation. It now says you can join, or that you're not whitelisted yet and what to do.

The site has a new font for body text

Headings still use Fraunces. Everything else now uses Instrument Sans instead of Inter, which is a little warmer and suits the site's colors.

Headings and labels are the same size on every page

Page titles, section headings and number tiles changed size from screen to screen. They now use one set of sizes.

Number tiles you can open now lift on hover

Tiles that only show a count used to look the same as tiles you could open. Now you can tell them apart before you click.

Every page now has the front page's paper texture

Your dashboard, the settings and member pages were flat color while the front page had a paper texture, so they looked like two different sites.

Buttons and links now react the moment you press down

They changed on hover but not when tapped, so on a phone you couldn't tell a press had worked until the page moved.

A heading no longer leaves one word alone on the last line

Long character and article names used to wrap with the last word alone on its own line, which looked broken.

Numbers in lists and tables now line up

In the body font, a 1 is narrower than a 0, so lists of counts looked uneven. Numbers in tables, tiles and timestamps are now all the same width.

Search engines now know which pages exist and when they changed

The list updates itself, so a newsletter, event, policy or character shows up as soon as it's published and disappears when it isn't.

AI assistants asked about the Reserve get a plain summary

A plain file says what the Reserve is, how to join, which species are playable and what our words mean. Assistants no longer have to guess from the front page.

Shared news articles and events show their date and summary

Pages now say clearly what they are, so a search result for an event shows when it starts.

Pages behind a sign in stay out of search results

The dashboard, staff area, tickets and transcripts ask search engines not to list them. Member pages shared with sprouts only are left out too.

A new documentation page lists every command

It shows what each command is for, what it asks for, an example you can type, and what game server commands send. Find it in the footer under This site.

The documentation shows the commands you can run

Signed out, you see every command any member can use. Sign in and the commands your rank can run show up too.

Staff commands now say STAFF in their description

Staff commands now start with STAFF: everywhere, including the Discord command list, so members know they're not for them.

Roster and Applying links now work from any page

They only worked while you were on the front page. From anywhere else, they dropped you at the top.

Sections you jump to no longer hide under the header

The top bar sits over the page, so a heading at the very top of the window ended up behind it.

Every page now has a back to top button

It used to be only on the changelog. It appears once you've scrolled far enough down.

Long character names no longer overlap their family tree

The heading had room for one line, so a name like The Stampeding Dutchwoman spilled onto the cards below. It now has room to wrap.

Characters with no family can still be saved as a picture

The save button only showed on trees with other characters in them. It now shows for every character.

Pages set to nobody now hide playtime too

A page set to nobody still showed how long someone had played. That number is now hidden like the rest.

Every sprout with a page now shows on the sprout list

Setting your page to nobody hides what you wrote, not that you exist. Your name, accounts and characters show on the list either way.

Searching the sprout list only matches what a page shows

On a page set to nobody, search only matches the names and in-game name, never the pronouns, tagline or what was written.

Setting your page to nobody now hides your writing, not everything

Your names, accounts, join date, registry date and characters stay visible. What you wrote, your pictures and anything left on your page are hidden.

Character pages stay visible even if the owner's page is private

Family trees, nests and lineages run through other people's characters, so they can't stop at one private page.

Character pages number their clutches and link to the posts

Clutches are numbered 1, 2 and so on, in order, with the same numbers on both parents' pages.

Family trees now mark gynandromorphs separately

They have their own mark instead of the dash used when no gender is recorded.

Character pages now say expressed and carried

These replace dominant and recessive, to match the bot. Expressed is the skin the character wears, and carried are the ones it can pass on.

Character pages list every nest the character was part of

You see the clutches it parented and the one it hatched from, who else was there, how many eggs were taken, and a link to the Discord post.

The nest log is on the character, not its owner

A nest involves other people's characters, so the log lives on the character page. Anyone who can open the page can read it.

Gallery pictures are no longer cropped to a strip

Every tile used to be the same height, cutting the top off tall pictures and the sides off wide ones. Each picture now keeps its own shape.

News articles now show unplaced pictures at the end

Pictures uploaded to an edition but never placed in the text were hidden. They now show in a gallery at the end.

You can swipe between pictures on a phone

The viewer only had arrows for a mouse. Swipe sideways to move on, and the next pictures load ahead so they don't show up blank.

A partner's parents now show in the same family tree

Someone who married into a family used to have their parents drawn off to the side as a second tree. Both sets of grandparents now sit above the pair, in one drawing.

The line over a clutch now sits above the young

It was drawn too low and ran along the top of the cards, so the short lines up from each young had nowhere to go.

The line between two parents now touches both cards

When a parent had their own parents above them, the line between the pair floated in the gap instead of reaching either card.

Your page can be private, but character pages can't

Family trees run through other people's characters, so character pages stay open. You can still close your own page to anyone you like.

You can keep a character's story and pictures private

Use the two switches under "Who may read about them" on your dashboard. Name, species, skin and family stay visible, and others are told you've kept the story private.

Hiding your characters from your page keeps their pages

You can still turn off the list on your page. Each character keeps its own page, so family trees that point to it still work.

Characters of private pages stay out of search results

Anyone with the link can open the character page, since family trees need it. Search engines follow your own page's setting, though.

Family tree lines no longer stop short

The line over a clutch assumed every young was the same width, so when one had a mate, the outer young's line didn't reach it. Lines now reach every young.

Save a family tree as a picture to share

A button under the tree gives you the whole family as one picture, named after the character. Screenshots only caught part of a tree that scrolls sideways.

Saved trees follow the same privacy rules as the page

If someone can't open a character's page, they can't get its tree picture either.

Family trees now show a picture of each character

Each card shows the character's picture, its name and who plays it, instead of just a name.

Any character in a tree opens its own tree

Press one to see the family from that character's place, so you can follow a line from either end.

Family trees label how each creature is related

Every creature in the tree now says what it is to the one you're viewing, like mother, sister or niece. You no longer have to trace the lines to work it out.

A creature's gender is easier to see on its card

It used to be a faint symbol that was hard to spot in both themes. It's now a badge with its own color, and the color is never the only way it shows.

Character pages now show the whole family tree

Parents and offspring used to sit in two separate boxes. The page now draws the family as a tree, with partners side by side and their clutches underneath, across every generation.

The family tree shows every generation

A creature can now see all of its ancestors and descendants, not just one generation up and down. Every name in the tree links to that creature's page.

Adopted creatures are marked as adopted in the tree

An adopted creature is no longer drawn as if it hatched from its adoptive parents. Creatures raised alongside this one without a shared parent are listed under the tree.

The footer now shows a copyright line

The bottom of every page now names Rosa Wildlife Reserve and the years the site has been running, next to the version number.

Character pages show the skin and the condition separately

These used to share one line, so you couldn't tell which skin a creature with a condition wears. They're now listed separately on the page, on character cards and on your dashboard.

The privacy statement explains what happens when you leave

Leaving now clears your Alderon registration, deletes your registry entry and signs you out of the site. The privacy statement now says so, and lists what stays behind and why.

Bot messages keep their layout in transcripts

Bot messages used to show up as plain text in a transcript, so it was hard to tell the bot apart from people. They now look like they did in the channel. Older transcripts stay as they were.

Saving something on your page says what was saved

Changes to your banner, background, styling, web buddy and page used to show only Saved. Each one now names what changed and what it looks like now.

Sending a picture or comment says who sees it next

These used to show only Sent. They now say what was sent and who looks at it before anyone else can see it.

Empty pages say what would show up there

Pages that said "Nothing published yet" now name what's missing, like policies or newsletters. That way an empty page doesn't look broken.

The events and birthday pages read more plainly

Both pages now say what you're looking at and what's optional.

Case transcripts say when they open for reading

Opening a transcript before the case is closed now tells you it opens when the case is done, and that you'll get the link then. A private report shows only your own channel.

You can zoom your banner back out after framing

Framing your banner used to cut off the rest of the picture for good. Your original upload is now saved, so you can reframe it any time or go back to the whole picture.

Banners no longer have a pale line along the edge

A thin line was drawn around the banner, and on dark pages it showed up almost white. It's gone now.

Pictures that aren't fully on your device are caught early

A picture stored in iCloud can be picked without being on your phone, and the upload failed halfway. The page now checks it right away and asks you to save a copy first.

A failed upload keeps you on the form

You used to land on an error page. Now the message shows on the form and your picture stays selected.

You can write 1,000 more characters about yourself

The About section on your page now allows 5,000 characters instead of 4,000. The counter under the box shows how many you've used.

Picture uploads no longer stop at an unhelpful error

The upload with the progress bar sometimes failed before the file reached us. When that happens, the page now finishes the upload another way. It takes a moment longer, but it works.

You can read a case back on the site

The channel where a report was discussed is saved and can be opened here, with the report and cited rules at the top. Public cases are open to anyone signed in; private ones only to the people involved and staff.

Long web buddy captions are no longer cut off

A caption used to stop after one line. It now wraps onto as many lines as it needs.

The figure in the corner is now called a web buddy

It's the same drawing as before, with an easier name. Every screen now calls it a web buddy.

Hover over a web buddy to see its caption

Point your mouse at the buddy on a page and its owner's caption appears above it.

The species you click now lands in the middle of the strip

The artwork used to stop against the left edge. It now stops in the center, and swiping by hand does the same.

The panel over your background matches your colors

The see-through panel used to work only with the default cream look. It now uses your own background colors, and the preview next to the sliders shows the real result.

Clicking a species goes straight to its artwork

The strip used to jump and sometimes stop on the wrong card. It now scrolls smoothly to the right picture and highlights it for a moment.

The front page no longer breaks after the first visit

A new news and events strip made the front page fail for everyone after the first visitor. That's fixed.

The front page shows the latest news and next event

A strip near the top shows the newest edition and the next event on the calendar.

Species names on the front page link to their artwork

Click a species in the list to jump to its picture in the gallery, instead of scrolling through it.

The front page says right away if applications are open

The row under the opening artwork now shows whether applications are open, with a link to the form.

The front page loads faster and moves more smoothly

The artwork and banners are smaller files with no visible difference. Each section now fades in all at once instead of line by line.

Empty lists now show a small fern

Every screen with nothing to show now has a small fern above its message.

The sprout list is easier to read

Cards on the sprout list now have shadows and react when you hover over them. Empty or filtered lists say what to do next.

The site asks before you lose unsaved changes

Leaving a page you were editing used to throw away your changes without warning. You're now asked whether to stay or leave.

Your dashboard shows up faster

It used to wait for everything to load. The top of the page now appears right away, and your tickets, characters and Patreon cards fill in just after.

Pictures load faster on phones

News covers and character pictures are now sent at the size your screen needs, not the full original.

Files that aren't really pictures are refused right away

Uploads used to be checked only by file name, so a broken file could slip through and fail later. The file's contents are now checked, and you're told what to do instead.

The whole site has a fresh, warmer look

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

Your dashboard shows the useful things first

It starts with what needs doing, then your page and your standing, then your own tools.

The writing across the site is plainer

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

Signing in and your tickets are easier to follow

The sign-in page and your tickets were rewritten so each screen clearly says what it shows and what to do.

A gradient on your name now shows both colors

The gradient used to stretch across the whole width, so a short name only got one color. It now fits your name, like the preview showed.

Name styling previews use the name your page shows

The previews used your Discord username even when your page shows a display name. They now use the same name your page does.

Web buddy pictures without a see-through background are allowed again

A picture with no see-through part used to be turned away. It now goes through, and you're told what arrived.

You're warned when Photos flattens your picture

On a Mac or iPhone, picking an animation from Photos can give a still copy with a white background. If that happens, pick the file from Files or Finder instead.

Web buddy pictures are checked for a see-through background

A web buddy has to be cut out. One that wasn't used to wait two days for staff and then show as a rectangle. You're now told right away, and how to export it again.

Your web buddy shows on a checkerboard while you choose

A white background looks the same as a see-through one on a pale card. The checkerboard shows the difference right away.

You can jump to any page of the sprout list

The page numbers under the list are now links, always including the first and last page.

The sprout list counts sprouts, not pages

The line above the list now says how many sprouts have a page and which page of the list you're on.

You can add to every reaction on a page

Adding to a reaction someone else left no longer counts toward your limit. If a page has 6 reactions, you can join all 6.

You can start up to 3 reactions on a page

The limit only counts new reactions you start. Remove one of yours and you can start a different one.

The same reaction limits apply to comments

Join any reaction under a comment, and start up to 3 of your own. A page still shows at most 20 different reactions.

You choose how much of your background shows through

Two sliders set how solid the panel behind your writing is and how blurred the background picture is. You see the result as you move them.

You can search the changelog

Type a word or version number and the list shows only the releases that mention it.

Every release has a link you can share

Click a version number to jump to that release and copy its link. The newest release is always at rosarealism.com/changelog#latest.

A button takes you back to the top of the changelog

It shows up once you've scrolled far enough down. You no longer have to scroll all the way back up the longest page on the site.

Saving no longer sends you back to the top

The editor now keeps you where you were. Changing a caption or trying a color used to jump you back to the top of the page.

The color picker works the same in every browser

We've added our own picker, with a shade square, a rainbow slider and boxes to type a color code. Before, what opened depended on your browser, and some had no way to type a code.

All your page pictures are now in one card

Your gallery, banner, web buddy and background each have a section for uploading, checking review and choosing what your page shows. These used to be spread across separate cards.

You choose how big your web buddy is

A slider sets it anywhere from half to double its normal size, with a preview while you move it. On narrow screens it still stays small enough not to cover your writing.

Start a line with -# to make it small

This works like it does in Discord, everywhere you write on the site. Use it to credit an artist, date a list or add a side note.

Approved pictures now say approved

Your picture used to say shown while the message about it said approved. It's now called approved everywhere.

Role cards look the same on every page

On pages with custom styling, the card explaining a role could come out see-through and hard to read. It's now drawn outside the page's styling, so it always looks the same.

Role badges now explain what each role does

Hover over someone's badge to see a short line, or press it to open a card with the emblem and a sentence or two. Every rank and team job now explains itself.

The Rosa Staff badge shows its emblem in the sprout list too

It used to show only on a sprout's page. It now shows in the list as well.

The page editor groups uploading and choosing pictures

Everything you upload is now in one card, and every choice about what your page shows is in the next. Before, the two were mixed together down the screen.

Web buddies and backgrounds upload to the right place

Both were landing in your gallery and taking up gallery slots. They now have their own: 5 banners, 3 web buddies, 2 backgrounds and 3 gallery pictures.

A full upload slot tells you which kind is full

Running out of web buddy slots used to say your page was full, so people deleted gallery pictures for nothing. The message now names the kind you were uploading.

The Rosa Staff badge shows the Backstage emblem

A team member's page now shows the ticket emblem on the Rosa Staff badge, next to the emblem for their job. The sprout list stays plain.

Badges show each person's team job again

For a few hours, everyone on the team showed as Backstage. Badges now show the specific job again, like illustrator or curator, and only show Backstage if there's nothing more specific.

The Reserve has a news page

The team now writes editions, with the newest one at the top. Each has its own page and link, and sharing a link shows its cover picture and opening line.

Every role now has its own emblem

The badge under someone's name shows the emblem for their role, like a rose for a founder or a palette for illustrators. It shows on their page and in the sprout list.

You can choose to show retired characters on a page

A link above the character list on someone's page shows or hides retired ones. Their pages now open for everyone, so family trees can link back through them.

Characters are no longer deleted, only retired

Retiring takes a character off your page and can be undone. To delete one for good, open a ticket, because deleting it also removes it from other people's family trees.

Supporters and staff can upload their own page background

The Reserve scenery is still there for everyone. Supporters and staff can upload up to 2 of their own, and staff review them first. Pictures that are calm in the middle work best.

Supporters and staff can add a web buddy to their page

Put a cut-out drawing of yours in the left or right corner of your page, and it stays there as you scroll. GIFs and animated PNGs up to 3 MB keep moving. Staff review it first.

Animated web buddies are hidden if you turn off motion

If your device is set to reduce motion, animated web buddies aren't shown to you. Still ones are shown as usual.

Animated pictures keep moving after upload

Large animated PNGs and WebPs used to turn into still pictures on a white square. They now keep moving, and one that's too large is refused with a reason.

The dark bar across the section banners is gone

A dark stripe ran across every banner on the front page. The shading now fades up from the bottom behind the heading, and the rest of the photo stays clear.

You can put a Reserve picture behind your page

Pick from 10 scenes from the front page gallery, from a misty lake to a redwood forest. The picture stays still as you scroll, and your writing sits on a panel so it's easy to read.

Pictures in a ticket stay visible in the transcript

Ticket transcripts used to link to Discord files that expire within a day, so pictures showed as broken. Files are now saved when they're posted, and a missing one explains why.

Artwork strips no longer have a line across the page

A dark stripe used to run across the screen where a photo met the page. The photo now fades smoothly into the page.

Pictures in your writing no longer have a border

A thin outline was drawn around every picture in your text. It's gone, and you can add one back with your own styling if you want.

The count of playable creatures is always correct

The front page said 34 while the list showed 35. The number is now counted from the list itself, so it updates when creatures are added.

Creature page headings now have even corners

On pages with custom styling, the heading was rounded at the top and square at the bottom. That's fixed.

Expired sign-ins are now deleted

Closing your browser left an expired sign-in stored forever. The weekly cleanup now deletes expired sign-ins, unfinished account links and unused growth codes.

Messages on the site say what went wrong and what to do

Upload, page, event, ticket and settings messages now name what they're about and how to continue.

The site now uses American English throughout

Labels, notices, legal pages, page tools and older changelog lines now all use American spelling.

A page or comment can have up to 20 different reactions

Too many different emoji made the row hard to read. Once 20 are there, no new kinds can be added, but you can still join any reaction already there.

Your page shows your team job, not just your rank

Illustrators and event hosts used to show as Sprouts. Their page now names their job, and everyone on the team gets a Rosa Staff badge.

You can react to comments, not just pages

The same row of emoji under someone's name now shows under each comment on their page. Anyone who can read the page can use it.

Every time on the site uses the 12-hour clock

Times like 7:40 pm now look the same on every screen, instead of showing as 19:40 in some places.

Every date on the site spells out the month

A few screens still showed dates like 25/08/2026, which read differently depending on your country. Every screen now writes it as 25 Aug 2026.

Times follow your local clock format

The site used to show every time on a 24-hour clock. It now uses your browser's format, and a page shows its owner's local time in the format of their time zone.

You're called a sprout everywhere now

Your rank has always been called Sprout, but screens and messages still said member. Now they all say sprout.

You can turn your custom styling off and on

Turning it off keeps everything you wrote and shows your page with your chosen colors and shape. Turning it back on restores your own styling exactly.

You can preview your page while choosing a look

The preview used to be hidden in the custom styling section. It's now at the top of the card and updates with every choice.

The styling card says which choice wins

Your own styling is applied last and overrides the options above it. The card now explains that, and warns you when your styling already sets the thing you're about to change.

The save button follows you down the styling card

There's one save button for the whole card, and it used to sit at the very bottom. It now stays on screen while you choose.

Your page styling now applies to character cards

The character cards on your page kept the site's default look no matter what you chose. They now match the rest of your page.

You can combine text formatting

A bold link or a bold word inside italics used to show the asterisks. Formatting can now go inside other formatting.

Three asterisks make text bold and italic

One asterisk is italic, two are bold, three are both. Underscores now underline text, like in Discord.

Underscores inside a word are left alone

Names or IDs with underscores used to be read as formatting. Underscores now only format at the start and end of a word.

The side panel on a page no longer loses its first line

On short screens, the panel slid past the top of the window, hiding whose page it was. It now stays put and scrolls on its own when needed.

Actions you can't undo now ask first

Declining a comment on your page, reporting one and withdrawing an appeal now ask before going ahead. A penalty can only be appealed once, so withdrawing an appeal is final.

Removing a picture or banner asks first

Both buttons sit right next to the caption box, and neither could be undone. The question says you'll lose the picture's place in the review queue.

Deleting a saved design asks first

The confirmation says that deleting a saved design doesn't change the design on your page right now.

Deleting your page lists everything you will lose

The question used to name only your pronouns, time zone and About section. It now also names your styling, saved designs and comments.

Messages about your page now link to your page

When a picture was approved or your page was hidden, the message didn't link to your page. It now does, and names which picture it means.

Writing that's too long is refused, not cut short

Long page text used to be trimmed without warning, which could cut off your last sentence. The editor now refuses anything over 4,000 characters.

You can place pictures inside your writing

Pictures used to show only in a row at the bottom of your page. Copy the line shown under a picture and paste it into your text to place it there. It then no longer shows in the bottom row.

Your banner now matches your crop exactly

The crop tool used a different shape than the page, so part of your banner was cut off. They now match, and the banner shows at a taller size on computers.

Text-style buttons show when they're working too

Links like removing a picture, declining a comment or leaving a reaction gave no sign they were working. They now show a spinner like other buttons.

Search shows when it's still looking

The old results used to stay on screen while a new search ran. The list now shows that it's still searching.

Every button shows when it's working

Buttons used to look the same while saving. They now show that they're working, so you don't click twice.

Pages show an outline while they load

Instead of the old page sitting there, you now see an outline of the new one while it loads.

Removing a banner works again

The button did nothing and showed no error. Reframing a banner had the same problem, and both work now.

Banner controls are all in one place

Each approved banner used to have its own identical controls. Now there's one set that acts on the banner you've picked.

You can keep 5 banners instead of 2

You can now keep up to 5 approved banners and switch between them.

Your characters are listed once on your dashboard

There used to be two lists with the same name, one short and one detailed. They're now one list.

A stylesheet that's too long is refused, not cut

A long stylesheet used to be trimmed when saved, which could break your page. The editor now shows a character count and refuses one over the limit.

Short captions no longer leave a gap under a picture

Gallery cards in a row share a height, which left an empty strip under short captions. The caption area now fills the card.

You can reframe a banner that's already on your page

Drag and zoom it the same way you did the first time. It doesn't go back into review, because it's part of a picture staff already approved.

You can remove an approved banner

An approved banner could be swapped or turned off, but never removed. Now you can take it down for good.

Preview your banner on your page before uploading

Under the crop frame, you now see the banner the way your page shows it, with your profile picture and name.

Layered backgrounds on your page no longer vanish

Background values over 500 characters were thrown away without a word, and even line breaks counted. There's now much more room, spacing doesn't count, and going over tells you.

The styling preview now shows your real page

The old preview only approximated your page, so some styling looked wrong in it. It now shows your actual page, scaled down to fit.

Saved styling opens automatically in the editor

The box with your custom styling used to start closed. It now opens by itself when there's something in it.

A saved layout only shows as in use when it is

After changing colors, the old layout still said it was in use. It now says it has changed, and you can put it back in one press.

Long unbroken text no longer shrinks the site on phones

A long line of symbols with no spaces made the page wider than the screen, so phones zoomed out. Long text now wraps.

See your page next to the styling box as you type

You used to save and open your page in another tab to see changes. The preview now updates as you type, and anything refused is listed right away.

Your dashboard starts with your page

It now opens with your banner, page link, who can see it and pending comments, plus a button to open your page.

The sprout list and page editor fit narrow phones

Both pages were a little wider than small screens, so you had to scroll sideways. They now fit.

The page visibility notice now sits above your page

The notice used to sit inside your page design and could be hard to read on a dark page. It now sits above your page in the site's own colors.

Buttons name what they act on

About 40 buttons said things like "Look at it" or "Remove it". Each one now names the thing it acts on.

The page editor shows your link and visibility

The top of the editor now shows your banner, page link, who can open it, how many pictures are up and whether anyone is waiting on you.

The save button follows you down the page editor

It used to sit below all the visibility settings. It now stays on screen while you edit.

Your own entry on the sprout list opens your page

It used to open the editor. It now opens your page, and the editor is one click away from there.

Pressing Enter starts a new line

Every line used to run into the one before it. Enter now starts a new line, and pressing it twice leaves a gap.

Comment author names open a page preview

Click a commenter's picture or name to see their picture, tagline, rank and characters. You can open their full page from there or close the preview.

Menus on styled pages are no longer see-through

The reaction picker could turn transparent on a styled page. Menus now use their own readable colors, and emoji no longer show as broken squares.

You can nest rules in your page styling

Your custom styling now supports nested rules, with & standing for the current selector. Before, a nested rule could be applied only partly without telling you.

The sprout list filters as you type

Search used to wait until you pressed the button. Results now update as you type, and the link still saves your search so you can share it.

Rosa has its own emoji for reactions

An emoji doesn't have to be added to the Discord server first anymore. Rosa's own emoji show in the picker and can't be lost when the server's list is cleaned up.

Clicking outside closes the reaction picker

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

Deleted emoji disappear from reactions

A deleted emoji used to leave a broken square that still counted toward the limit. It now disappears right away.

Names now sit below banner photos

A name drawn over a pale photo was impossible to read. Only your profile picture overlaps the banner now.

Pages show someone's Discord and in-game names

Every page shows both names. Signed-in visitors also see the Discord ID and Alderon ID.

Headings close to your page color are readable again

A dark accent on a dark background made headings and links nearly invisible. Your color is kept, but adjusted just enough to be readable.

Every character has its own page

Each character page starts with a picture, next to the species, diet, skins, markings, hatch date and parents. The character's story is shown in full underneath.

Sprout pages are now laid out as one page

The picture at the top shows the person, and their details sit next to what they wrote instead of repeating down the screen. Their characters are picture cards you can open.

The picture screener no longer lets explicit drawings through

The screener could let an explicit drawing pass because it looked at two related scores separately. It now adds them together, and puts uncertain pictures at the top of the staff queue.

Every text box shows how much room is left

Your page text, tagline, captions, layout names and comments all had limits that weren't shown, so the end of a long one could be lost on save. A counter now shows from the first character.

Saved layouts are all in one place

The save field sat at the bottom of the card while your saved layouts were hidden in the styling section. Saving and picking layouts now happen in one section.

Saving a layout includes your latest changes

Saving a layout used to store the version from before your last edit. It now saves what you just wrote.

Your first approved banner shows on your page automatically

You used to have to go back to the editor, pick the banner and save again. The editor now also points out any approved banner that isn't showing.

Ready-made looks no longer make a page unreadable

The two custom color fields used to override a ready-made look even if you never touched them, which could leave pale text on a pale background. Custom colors now only apply when you turn them on.

Light and dark mode no longer change a styled page

A few parts of a styled page, like captions and cards, used to switch to the site's colors. A page with its own styling now keeps its colors in both modes.

Styled pages have space below the site header

A styled page used to run right into the header, hiding its rounded top corners. There's now space around every edge.

The sun and moon now leave after a moment

One of them used to stay in the corner the whole time you were on a page. Now it rises when you switch themes, stays briefly, and goes.

The moon icon looks like a moon

The old moon was two shapes that were hard to make out at its size. The new one is a clear crescent.

You can comment on someone else's page

Write a short comment with bold, italics, links and lists. The page owner has to approve it before anyone else can see it.

Nothing shows on your page without your approval

Every comment waits for you. You can approve it, decline it without the writer being told, or report it to staff, which hides it while they look.

You can turn off comments on your page

Turning off comments keeps the ones you already approved. Reactions have their own switch, so you can allow emoji without allowing comments.

Declined comments are hidden, not deleted

A declined comment is hidden but staff can still see it. This helps staff spot the same problem across several pages.

The sun sets and the moon rises when you switch themes

There's now a sun in the corner in light mode. Switching to dark sets it and brings up the moon. If your device asks for less motion, the switch happens without the animation.

You can style your name with fonts and colors

Choose from 8 fonts, 6 effects and 8 color pairs. Every option previews your real name, so you don't have to guess what Carved looks like.

Save and switch between 5 page layouts

Each saved layout has a name and a short description. You can try new things without losing a design you want to keep.

Pronouns look the same everywhere

Some pages said She/Her and others said she/her. They're all lowercase now, including ones already saved.

Banners are now their own picture that you frame

A banner used to be a crop of a gallery picture. You can now upload a separate banner and drag and zoom it to choose exactly what shows.

You can frame event pictures too

Event cards use a wide frame, but artwork often has a different shape. You can now pick the part that shows, and Discord shows the same crop as the site.

You can't react to your own page

Reactions on your page now only come from other people.

Events, tickets and your page open with artwork

These three pages started with a heading and a form. They now open with artwork like the rest of the site.

You can leave a reaction on someone's page

The picker has every server emoji plus standard ones, and you can search it. Leave up to 3 reactions on a page, press one again to take it back, and hover a count to see who reacted.

You can turn off reactions on your page

Reactions are on to start with. If you turn them off, existing ones are saved and come back when you turn them on again.

Uploads show their progress

Attaching a clip to an appeal or a picture to an event used to show nothing, sometimes for a minute. The file now uploads with a progress bar and a preview, and the form saves right away after.

Large attachments no longer wipe your form

A long clip could make saving fail and lose everything you'd typed. The file and the form are now sent separately.

Events in a voice channel can be joined from Discord

Typing a channel name as the location gave Discord nothing to link to. Pick the channel instead, and the Discord event gets a join button.

Event pictures show in Discord too

The artwork used to show only on the website. It's now sent to Discord as well, only when it changes, so fixing a typo still saves right away.

Pick how your page looks without any code

Choose from 6 ready-made looks, accent and background colors, and several fonts. Your whole page updates, and writing your own styling is optional.

Put one of your pictures across the top of your page

Choose one of your approved pictures as a banner above your page.

You can write your own page styling if you'd like

There's a box for your own stylesheet, with the name of every part of the page listed next to it. Anything that gets left out when you save is named, so you know why.

Page styling can't load anything from other sites

Pictures on your page only come from your own approved ones. That means visiting someone's page doesn't reveal your address to anyone outside the Reserve.

Uploading a picture no longer erases your writing

Everything you'd typed on your page was wiped when a picture finished uploading. That no longer happens.

You can see how far an upload has gone

A progress bar now shows while your picture uploads, so you don't press twice. It's shown separately from the review step.

Pictures open on the page instead of in a new tab

Clicking a picture used to open the bare file in a new tab. It now opens over the page with its caption, and the arrow keys move between pictures.

You can edit a picture's caption later

Captions often credit the artist, so a typo shouldn't be permanent. You can now fix one without uploading the picture again or waiting for review.

The site tells you what happened to your picture

Picture decisions used to arrive only by direct message, which was easy to miss. The decision now stays on your page until you've seen it.

You can share someone's page with one button

The share button opens your phone's share menu, or copies the link if there isn't one.

Saving your page keeps you in dark mode

Saving used to switch the site back to light mode. Your theme now stays as you set it.

Links to your page show your picture again

Pasting your page link into Discord showed a blank space instead of your picture, because the picture sent was too small. It shows again now.

Type a command in the game to get an answer

Type !hunger in game and the answer is whispered back to you. Thirst, stamina, health, growth, playtime and the season work the same way, and !commands lists all of them.

Using an in-game command is logged

We save which command you used, when you last used it and how many times. That's what makes the limit on how often you can use it work.

Confirmation boxes now show in the middle of the screen

Every confirmation box appeared in the top left corner, which looked like something had failed to load. They're now centered.

You can keep retired characters on your page

Retired and dead characters used to disappear from your page with their stories. A setting now keeps them visible, marked as retired or died.

The sprouts page now opens with artwork

It used to start with a heading and a list. It now opens with artwork like the other main pages.

Clips your browser can't play now say so

Mac screen recordings often won't play outside Safari, and showed as a black box in transcripts. They now show as a file with a note to open it somewhere else.

The front page roster marks apex species

A suspension can stop you from picking an apex species, so the roster now marks them next to their names. You can see this before you choose.

Your page no longer asks for your birthday

The birthday box is gone from the editor, along with the age and the birthday message. Birthdays people had entered have been deleted.

The dashes in your Alderon ID are added for you

Type the 9 digits and they're formatted as 000-000-000, on the application form and the registry screen. No more being told the format is wrong after you press save.

You need your Alderon ID and in-game name to apply

Both are used to create your registry entry when your application is accepted, so staff don't have to ask later. The form refuses an ID that isn't 9 digits right away.

Transcripts play attached clips

Videos, voice messages and audio play right on the page. Documents show what they are, and link previews look the way they did in the channel.

Transcripts match the color of their ticket type

A report and a perk redeem are as easy to tell apart on the site as in Discord. Staff can turn this off for a ticket type.

The sprout list shows in-game names

Sprouts often know each other by in-game name, so each card on the list now shows it.

The privacy statement covers pictures you link to

A picture you paste a link to is now copied the same way as an upload, and section 2 of the privacy statement now says so. This is version 1.8.

Manage your characters from your dashboard

You can rename, retire or delete a character from your dashboard. A retired character keeps its records but no longer shows up in pickers.

You're told when staff edit your character

The message names the character, says what staff changed and gives their reason.

Actions you can't undo now ask first

Deleting, retiring and closing now each say exactly what's about to happen before you go ahead.

The site now has a changelog

The changelog lists every release by bot or website, and explains each public change in plain words.

Your page can show your pronouns, time zone and characters

Add your pronouns, time zone, an About section and your characters. You choose whether to share your page by link or keep it private.

You can browse other sprouts' pages

Signed-in sprouts can browse the pages shared with the Reserve. The list isn't public.

The events calendar shows the whole month

Every event has its own page with a picture, the details and a link that looks right when you share it.

Canceling an event on the site cancels it in Discord

That way nobody gets a reminder for an event that isn't happening.

Add 3 pictures to a character and 3 to your page

Character pictures have to show that character. Pictures on your own page can show anything the community guidelines allow.

Pictures are checked on our own server

Picture screening runs on Rosa's own server. Your uploads aren't sent to another company to be checked.

You can ask staff to review an automatic refusal

If the automatic check refuses your picture, you can ask a staff member to look at it. A refusal made by staff is final.

The zero tolerance policy and guidelines are easier to read

Both are now laid out as proper documents. Founders can update them from the settings.

You can read a ticket after it closes

Your transcript has a link that keeps working after the ticket channel is gone.

The site now has a dark mode

Every page has its own dark design, not just inverted colors, so the site is easy on the eyes at night.

Every dashboard was redesigned

Dashboards show the same information with clearer spacing, grouping and contrast.

Times are shown in your own time zone

Dates and times now show in your local time, so you don't have to convert them.

Every character has a family tree

Each character page shows its parents and descendants across every generation in the records.

Errors now come with a reference code

Send staff that code and they can see exactly what went wrong, without asking you to describe it.

You can sign in with Discord

Use the Discord account you already use in the Reserve. There's no separate password to make.

Link Patreon to get your supporter roles

Linking Patreon keeps your supporter roles up to date.

The dashboard shows your own Discord name

The dashboard now shows the name and profile picture of the Discord account you signed in with. It showed a sample member before.

Signing in takes you to your dashboard

After you sign in with Discord, you now land on your dashboard instead of the front page.

A failed sign in says what to try

When signing in with Discord fails, a page shows the reason and a few things to try. A button on that page lets you try again.

The menu has a button to sign in with Discord

The menu at the top of every page now has a button that opens the Discord sign in. The bottom of the page shows the site version.

Gallery pictures have the right captions

A picture of two Miragaia was labeled as an Amargasaurus herd. The gallery captions now match what each picture shows.

The Join Discord button opens our server

The button on the front page pointed at an invite that did not exist. The button now opens the invite to the Reserve's Discord server.