Changelog

• See your own activity in the feed: your collections, wishlist adds, display photos, contributions, follows, and posts now appear in your feed alongside the collectors, artists, makers & platforms you follow.
• Rich-text bio: format your profile bio with bold and italic using the new toolbar on Edit Profile.
• Numbered pagination on the Database — jump straight to any page instead of loading more.
• Live Wishlist, Collection & Display counts right in the sidebar.

• A new design system, app-wide: a black-and-white “gallery wall” with a single Signal Orange accent, three typefaces (Space Grotesk, Inter, Space Mono), square avatars, sharp corners, and a faint background grid.
• Custom in-house icon set — the whole app moved off a third-party icon font to a hand-drawn monoline set: faster, works offline, and fully on-brand.
• Profile redesigned: a dark “dossier” banner with the overlapping avatar, mono metadata, larger follow counts, and a refreshed Insights tab with a bold black archetype card.
• Item page redesigned: a bordered details board, mono spec labels, chip-style tags, and an orange Chase tag.
• Notifications are now fully clickable and take you to the right place — a follower’s profile, the post in your feed, a message thread, or the relevant catalog page.
• Database cards, filters, and sort restyled to the new system; sidebar refreshed with the wordmark logo, a cleaner nav, and an ink “Submit an item” button.

• Search now leads collector results with the @handle, so people are easier to spot among items.
• Renamed the release-date sort options to “Release Date (Newest)” and “Release Date (Oldest)”.
• Removed a stray black outline that appeared around the topbar and owner avatars.
• Fixed the “My Profile” sidebar item flickering when opening your own profile.
• Fixed the Database occasionally showing “No matches” from a stale cached view.

• Post as Toy Syndicate: admins can publish official announcements from the Toy Syndicate profile — shown to everyone in a distinct featured style with the Toy Syndicate mark.
• Hover-preview cards on The Feed: hover any collector, artist, maker, platform, or item in a post or activity to see a quick preview before clicking through.

• A new item release now shows as a single activity — “New item release from [artists] and [maker] on the [platform] platform” — instead of three separate posts.
• Official Toy Syndicate posts use a bold black featured card.
• All feed avatars are now circular, and the Toy Syndicate avatar uses the TS monogram.
• Posts support multiple photos — add up to six, with an add-more tile and preserved order.

• Fixed being signed out when opening the app in a new tab or after time away — sessions now persist reliably across tabs.
• Removing a photo from a post (or deleting a post) now cleans up its uploaded images instead of leaving them behind.

• Search inside any artist, maker, or platform page — covers all of that page's pieces, not just the ones loaded.
• Request an update on items, artists, makers, and platforms: anyone signed in can propose corrections; admins review each change side-by-side with the current data, and approving applies it.
• Mute updates on a followed artist, maker, or platform — keep following without their releases in your feed.
• Export your Collection or Wishlist as a CSV — every field plus picture links, ready for spreadsheets.
• Item sub-types: Blind Box, Gacha Capsule, Chase / Secret, DIY / Blank, and Glow-in-the-dark — shown on item pages and filterable in the Database.
• Item materials: Vinyl, Sofubi, Resin, Plush, Metal / Die-cast, Wood, Ceramic, Glass, and Plastic — also filterable in the Database.
• Six new item categories: Pin, Book, Apparel, Sneaker, Merch, and Card.

• Admin sweep console: fill missing descriptions, countries, and links for platforms, makers, and artists in reviewable 300-record batches — records with nothing found are remembered and never re-searched.

• Write/Fill with AI now understands what it's describing — artists get artist bios, makers get brand descriptions, platforms get line descriptions (previously everything was treated as a single toy).
• Platform descriptions now cover brands, studios, franchises, and licensed properties, not just toy lines.

• Stripped stray citation markup from AI-written descriptions.
• The sweep stops with a clear message when AI credits run out instead of spinning through errors.

• Submit an item — every collector can add missing pieces; submissions go to admins for approval and appear in the catalog once approved.
• Single-step Add Item for admins: the full editor (images, artists, production details) opens immediately; cancelling cleans up after itself.
• Fill with AI on the item editor: fills every empty field from the details you've entered, web search, and the item's own photo.
• @-mentions on The Feed for users, platforms, artists, and makers — with hover preview cards.
• "About the Item" on item pages, with collapsible About sections for the item, platform, artist(s), and maker.

• Item editor: Maker field, platform-filtered Series search with inline create, dimensions in inches, prices in dollars with a fixed USD label, single-value fields lock once filled.
• Cleaner tag fields — plain search input with chips below.
• Landing page: new "collector community" section showcasing the social features.

• Series choices persist when reopening the editor; variant-less items can be added and edited.
• AI descriptions are specific to the item (not its platform) and free of conversational filler.

• The Feed — a live timeline of everyone and everything you follow: posts, pickups, wishlists, display photos, catalog releases, and follows.
• Post composer with photos, feelings, check-ins, and polls; reactions and threaded comments with engager avatars.
• Emoji picker and :shortcode: autocomplete for posts and comments.
• Filter tabs, grouped activity bursts, infinite scroll, and a post menu (delete / report).

• Every catalog edit is logged as a contribution with review states — visible in the admin console and on profiles.
• Write with AI for entity descriptions (web-search informed).
• Profile Insights tab: collector archetypes, collection DNA, taste stats, and your overlap with any collector ("taste twins").
• Private user↔team messaging with categories; Propose-a-feature, Report-a-Bug, and Give-feedback shortcuts in the sidebar.
• Admins can add and edit Artists, Makers, and Platforms directly.

• Design-system pass across the admin console and every edit modal; structured locations (country/city/state) everywhere.

• Public collector profiles at /user/<handle>; unified layout with your own profile; clickable users everywhere.
• Pretty URLs for platforms, makers, items, and artists; profile-style headers on every entity page.
• Self-service email & password change.
• Search v3.1: alias matching, typo tolerance, and items surfacing for platform/maker queries.
• SEO foundation: robots.txt, a 323k-URL sitemap, and server-injected page metadata for crawlers.

• Upload framing for avatars and covers; consistent circular avatars; bio clamping with "+ more".

• Admin console with inline record editing on entity pages; four-role system (Super Admin, Curator, Artist, User).
• My Display for real: photo management, zoom, and item pin-tagging — tap a pin to jump to the piece.
• Notifications drawer and full page; Creator badges; info pages (About, Privacy, Terms, Contact).
• New landing page: 3D card tornado hero, live catalog stats, and wired CTAs.

• HEIC/iPhone uploads convert to WebP automatically; filter dropdowns and sort share one row; punctuation-tolerant search.

• The Toy Syndicate platform: the Database of designer-toy releases with artists, makers, platforms, and series.
• My Collection and My Wishlist with Want/Have actions on every card; collection value, filters, sort, and search.
• Cross-entity search (items, platforms, makers, artists) and the initial 300k-piece catalog import.