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OmniTrackr Changelog

What changed, why it changed, and how each update improves the media tracking experience.

Why Publish a Changelog?

See what has changed in your library and which new controls are available. Each update explains what you can do and how it affects your existing tracking.

October 20, 2026: Pin titles to your profile

Your public profile can now open with a showcase: titles you pick from your library, in the order you choose. Set it up under Account → Public profile.

  • Every member can pin three titles. Supporters can pin six.
  • Supporters can also put a banner across the top of their profile: aurora, film strip, pixels, pages, vinyl or stars, drawn in their accent color.
  • Titles from a category you keep private can't be pinned, and an old pin disappears if you later make its category private or delete the title.
  • Nothing changes on your profile until you pin something or pick a banner.

October 20, 2026: Shared lists

You can now build a list with other people: a watchlist for the two of you, an anime queue for the group chat, or a shortlist for book club.

  • Add friends to a list in one click, or send its link. Someone without an account can see what's on the list, sign up, and land back on it.
  • Everyone can add movies, shows, anime, games, books and albums, and each title shows who added it. Tap "Count me in" on the ones you want, and the titles most people want move to the top.
  • Mark a title watched, played or read when you get to it, let "Pick one for us" choose for you, or copy any title into your own library. A list never reads or changes anyone's library.
  • Find your lists under Shared lists in your library. You'll get a notification when someone joins or adds something, and only one until you open the list again.

October 19, 2026: Play through your Year in Review

Your Year in Review now plays as a set of full-screen slides you tap through, and ends with an image sized for Instagram, TikTok and WhatsApp stories.

  • New on the recap: your longest streak of days with something logged, your rating style, the director, artist or author you finished most, the badges you earned that year, and a one-line type for your year.
  • Shared recap links play the same slides. The story image, like the rest of a shared recap, leaves out shelves you keep private and never includes notes or reviews.
  • In December and January the weekly email links to your recap when you finished something that year, and your public profile links to it once you share it.

October 19, 2026: Member charts

Every kind of title now has a chart of what OmniTrackr members rate highest, built from the ratings in their own libraries.

  • Charts for movies, TV shows, anime, games, albums and books rank titles by a weighted member average, with a short quote from a public review where there is one.
  • A title needs at least three member ratings to chart. Members who keep a category private are never counted, and the charts never show who rated what.
  • Title pages show where a title ranks and, once five members have rated it, how those ratings split from "below 5" to "9 to 10".

October 18, 2026: Easier to use with a keyboard, a screen reader or a phone

We checked the signed-in app page by page with an automated accessibility checker, a keyboard and a phone-sized screen, and fixed what we found.

  • Account settings, friend requests, custom tabs and the other pop-up windows now announce themselves to screen readers, take keyboard focus when they open, keep the Tab key inside, and return you to where you were when they close.
  • Editing a title in your library moves the cursor straight to its first field, and Save or Cancel brings you back to the same row.
  • A "Skip to your library" link is the first thing the Tab key reaches.
  • Violet buttons, teal labels and some faint text in light mode are darker, so they are easier to read.
  • On touch screens, footer links and small buttons are at least 44 pixels tall, and the account settings fields are full width with the right hints for password managers.

Nothing in your library, your settings or your public reviews changed.

October 17, 2026: Easier to find the guides

The free guides are now the first thing the site points you to.

  • The menu at the top of every public page leads with Discover, In order, If you liked and the Daily puzzle. Public reviews and collections are still linked at the bottom of every page.
  • The homepage shows the newest guides, with the date each was last checked.
  • The About page now says who runs OmniTrackr, how the guides are written and how the site is paid for, and the new editorial standards explain how facts are checked, how spoilers are handled and how to send a correction.
  • The site map lists every guide, and the Daily archive shows the first clue of each past puzzle. Finished puzzles link to the guide about their answer when there is one.

Nothing in your library, your settings or your public reviews changed.

October 15, 2026: OmniTrackr Daily

OmniTrackr Daily is a new free guessing game: one movie, TV show, anime, game, book or album a day, guessed from six clues.

  • Every wrong guess or skip reveals a clue that is a little easier than the last. You have six tries.
  • Share your result as a row of squares that does not give the answer away, and keep a daily streak going.
  • When the game ends, read the editors' note on the title and add it to your library, or save it to your list before signing up.
  • Every past puzzle stays playable in the archive, with its answer and clues behind a spoiler.
  • Your games and streak are kept only in your browser. Nothing about how you play is sent to your account.

October 15, 2026: Tier List Maker

Rank anything from S to D with the new tier list maker, then save it as an image to share.

  • Start from a ready-made set, like this season's anime, the titles members track most, or the editors' picks, or search for titles and add any title by name.
  • Drag titles into tiers with a mouse, or tap a title and choose its tier on a phone. Rename any tier.
  • Members can turn their own ratings into a tier list in one click. Your library is not changed.
  • Boards are saved only in your browser. No account is needed, and nothing about your list is sent to OmniTrackr.

October 13, 2026: Release Dates in Your Calendar

Release Radar dates can now live in the calendar you already use, and they update on their own.

  • Every Release Radar page has Google Calendar, Apple Calendar and Outlook buttons. Subscribe to the highlights, or to just movies, TV premieres, the anime season or games. No account needed.
  • Members can turn on a private calendar from the "Coming up for you" card. It lists only new seasons, sequels and release days connected to titles in their library.
  • The private calendar shows titles and dates only. Ratings, notes and anything else in your library stay private. You can get a new address or turn it off at any time, and the old address stops working straight away.
  • Nothing in your existing library changes.

October 12, 2026: Pick for Me

Can't decide what to start? The new Pick for me page suggests one title at a time.

  • Choose a format, or leave it on Anything, and get one movie, TV show, anime, game, book or album with the reason it was chosen and a caveat to read first.
  • Every pick comes from OmniTrackr's own Discover trails, monthly editions and editors' collections. Nothing is based on anyone's private library.
  • Members can add a pick to their library in one tap. It is added as not started, and a title you already have is never changed.
  • Visitors can save picks to a list without an account. The list moves into the new library at first log-in.
  • Today's pick on the dashboard now has a "Find something new" link for when your own list runs dry.

October 12, 2026: Search Before You Sign Up

The homepage now opens with a search box, so you can start your list before making an account.

  • Type a movie, show, anime, game, album or book you love and tap a result to put it on your list.
  • The search covers titles OmniTrackr members already track. It never shows who tracks them, and categories members keep private are left out.
  • Your list stays in your browser until you create a free account. It moves into your new library the first time you log in.

October 12, 2026: Your Challenge in the Weekly Email

The weekly email now includes this month's challenge.

  • If you've taken the challenge, the email shows how many steps you've done, how many days are left, and the next step.
  • If you haven't, there's a short line about this month's challenge with a link to take it. This line stops appearing in the last week of the month.
  • The challenge never triggers an email by itself. Quiet weeks stay quiet.
  • Year in Review now ends with a short note about how OmniTrackr is paid for. Supporters see a thank-you instead.

October 11, 2026: Bring Your IMDb and StoryGraph History

The Import Studio now reads IMDb and The StoryGraph exports, alongside Letterboxd, Goodreads, and MyAnimeList.

  • An IMDb ratings, watchlist, or list file fills Movies, TV Shows, and Games in one go. Rated titles are marked watched, and episode ratings are listed rather than imported.
  • A StoryGraph file brings your books, with quarter-star ratings kept: 4.25 stars becomes 8.5/10.
  • The preview now says which format it recognized. As before, nothing is saved until you confirm, and titles you already track are never overwritten.
  • A new switching guide shows where each service keeps its export and what comes across.

October 10, 2026: Monthly Challenges

Each month now has a small, optional challenge with three steps, starting with October's "Stay with the strange".

  • Choose Take the challenge on your dashboard. Progress fills in from what you mark finished that month, including anything you finished before joining.
  • When every step is done you get a notification and can share a card that shows the challenge and its steps, never your titles.
  • There are no streaks or rankings. You can skip a month or leave a challenge at any time, and your library is never changed. Each challenge has a written guide at omnitrackr.xyz/challenges.

October 10, 2026: Notifications on Your Phone and Desktop

Your OmniTrackr notifications can now reach you even when the site is closed.

  • Open the notification bell and choose Turn on to get friend requests, takes, goals reached and release day alerts on that device.
  • It works in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, and in the installed app. On iPhone and iPad, add OmniTrackr to your Home Screen first.
  • It is off until you turn it on, it can be turned off from the same place, and signing out stops notifications on that device. Messages are encrypted for your device.

October 10, 2026: Know the Day It Comes Out

OmniTrackr now tells you when something connected to your library is released.

  • On release day you get a notification for titles you track on Release Radar, and for new seasons and sequels of shows, anime, films, and games already in your library.
  • Several releases on the same day arrive as one notification, and each release is announced only once, even if you dismiss it.
  • Alerts appear in the notification bell inside OmniTrackr. Nothing is emailed or shared, and your library is not changed.

September 28, 2026: One Look Across the Public Site

Every public page now shares the homepage's design, header, and footer.

  • Guides and tracking pages use a dark reading layout with clearer steps, callouts, and tables.
  • Public reviews put search and media-type shortcuts up front; each review page has a larger header and suggests more reviews in the same category.
  • Titles without artwork show a placeholder instead of a profile icon.
  • On phones, every section is one tap away in the menu.
  • About, FAQ, privacy and policy pages, the roadmap, site map, demo, and community collections now use the same design.
  • FAQ answers are always visible, including without JavaScript.
  • Broken or old links now land on a helpful page with ways back instead of a plain error.

September 27, 2026: Release Radar

The new Release Radar shows what is coming out across movies, TV, anime, and video games, and lets members track a title in one click.

  • Browse this month's films, TV premieres and new seasons, the full anime season, and games with a firm date, plus a few months ahead.
  • Read Radar notes calculated from each list: the busiest weeks, returning versus new shows, platform spread, and more.
  • Track a title to add it to your library as unfinished and to a private Release Radar collection. Existing entries are reused, never duplicated or overwritten.
  • See how many OmniTrackr libraries already hold a title. Only a count is shown, never who saved it.
  • A redesigned homepage puts the vortex front and center, shows what is coming out soon, and makes signing up or logging in quicker on phones.
  • The landing animation now loads as a lightweight WebP (about 96% smaller than before) and switches to a still frame when your device asks for reduced motion.

September 24, 2026: Find the Guide for Your Next Step

Guides now starts with four practical choices: start a library, bring an existing list, resume a title, and choose what to share.

  • Read guides in a consistent layout with clearer navigation, section links, and room for tables on small screens.
  • Compare tracking routines using official sources, honest limitations, and steps for previewing an import.
  • Move from an example to the demo, Import Studio instructions, or Discover when you are ready.
  • See how category sharing with friends differs from publishing a review, and where to keep reminders visible only to you.

September 24, 2026: Find What You Haven't Finished or Rated

Quick filters help you browse a large library without searching one title at a time.

  • Show unfinished or completed titles in any of the six media categories, and combine either view with Unrated.
  • Find saved episode, page, and chapter checkpoints with Has saved progress for TV, anime, and books.
  • Combine filters with search, sorting, and pagination. Clear search and filters in one click.
  • Try Books, Read, and Unrated in the public demo to find a fictional finished book ready for a rating.

Filters change what you see; your saved records and sharing choices stay intact.

September 24, 2026: A Calmer Place for Your Library

OmniTrackr has a more consistent appearance, with violet and teal accents, quieter backgrounds, and clearer controls in light and dark mode.

  • Find search and Add Anything in a cleaner header, with media libraries and personal tools grouped into separate navigation rows.
  • Use consistent search, sort, and action controls across all six media categories, with clearer desktop tables and mobile cards.
  • Read labeled add forms and use dialogs that match your chosen theme, including account settings, Import Studio, and progress.
  • Open Friends from a labeled button without shifting your library. The panel fits your friend list and scrolls when it reaches the available screen height.

Your tracking features, keyboard shortcuts, saved records, and sharing choices stay available.

September 2026: Know What Your Import Will Save

Import Studio now shows converted ratings, completion, and private notes before you confirm a CSV import.

  • Review every row with pages and filters for ready, duplicate, and invalid entries.
  • Corrected music completion and explicit column mappings. Invalid values identify the field to fix in your source file.
  • Changing files or options cancels outdated previews. Failed requests keep your file available for another preview.
  • Keep a completion summary and open the affected library categories directly.

Imports remain additive: existing records keep their own values and imported notes stay private. The import guide includes worked examples and format limits.

September 2026: Find the Right Starting Point

Three Release RadarDiscover trails now offer deeper guides to choosing your next watch, read, listen, or play.

  • One evening, well spent compares attention, emotional tone, and satisfying stopping points.
  • Finding your feet explores different kinds of fresh starts, from everyday independence to growing responsibility.
  • Beautifully strange worlds helps you choose how much uncertainty and exploration you want, without giving away discoveries.

Each guide includes a comparison, individual notes, related reading, and verified sources with an explanation of our editorial method. Read freely, then preview and save the picks you want to your private library.

September 2026: Less Scrolling, More Tracking

Search, Add Anything, and category navigation now sit above your daily suggestions, with account controls in their own row on smaller screens.

  • Continue puts two recent unfinished titles within reach. Expand Make it memorable when you want to rate or reflect on a finished title.
  • Next Up starts with a three-title preview. Use Manage queue to see everything and change the order; your saved order stays intact.
  • Open a suggestion or queued title directly, even when matching titles span several library pages.

Your records, private checkpoints, and sharing choices are unchanged.

September 2026: Pick Up Where You Left Off

Keep a private checkpoint for a show or book without editing its review or marking the whole title finished.

  • Use Update progress on TV shows and anime to save the last watched episode, with an optional season. Season 0 supports specials.
  • For books, choose the last read page or chapter. Add a short Private reminder for next time.
  • Keep completion, ratings, reviews, and title details separate. Clear progress removes only the checkpoint and reminder.
  • Checkpoints remain private even when friends can see a category or you publish a review. They are included in JSON backups.
  • Try the same workflow with fictional titles in the interactive demo. Sample edits reset on reload and never enter your account.

September 2026: Make a Shared Collection Your Own

Found a collection you want to keep? Preview its titles, choose your favorites, and save a private copy.

  • Return to your chosen collection after signing in or creating an account in the same tab.
  • See which titles are already in your library. Existing ratings, reviews, and progress stay yours.
  • Retry an interrupted save without creating another copy, then open your saved collection directly.

Saving requires your confirmation. New titles start unfinished and unrated, and later changes to the original collection do not alter your copy.

September 2026: Try Tracking Before Signup

The interactive demo lets you practice with a sample library before creating an account.

  • Browse media categories, add a sample title, mark it finished, and try a rating or note.
  • See library statistics update from your changes, then reset the samples whenever you like.
  • When you are ready, create your own library and use Add Anything to find your first real title.

Practice entries stay in the demo page and reset when it reloads. They are never published or copied into your account. The demo has no ads.

September 2026: From Community Reviews to Your Library

Public Reviews now puts member opinions first, with title search, media filters, and a clearer mobile layout.

  • Reviews stay visible while new results load. A failed request can be retried without losing the current list.
  • Save a reviewed title after previewing your library, with a return to the same preview after signing in.
  • Existing titles keep your own notes, ratings and progress. New titles start unfinished and unrated.
  • Open the exact saved title in your library when you are ready to continue.

Publishing a review remains a separate choice. Saving a recommendation does not publish your own notes.

September 2026: Faster Results in Add Anything

Search results now appear as each media source responds. You can choose a title while other sources are still searching.

  • A slow or unavailable source keeps its own retry button without clearing successful results.
  • Changing your search, choosing another media type, or closing the dialog cancels obsolete lookups.
  • Manual entry stays above the results, ready to use while a search runs.

Choosing a result fills the existing entry form for you to review. Your library changes only when you save that form.

September 2026: From Discovery to Your Library

Discover now helps you find a starting point and keep it through signup or sign-in.

  • Search trails by title, creator, or theme, and narrow them by media format. Each card previews the titles inside.
  • Return to the same recommendation after signing in, review your library matches, and save only the picks you choose.
  • Open your saved collection directly from the confirmation.
  • Fixed email-verification and password-reset links opening the ordinary login form for signed-out visitors.

Recommendations remain readable without an account. Existing ratings, notes, progress, and sharing choices are preserved when you save.

September 2026: A Calmer Way Back In

The Welcome Back Deck turns existing private library signals into one focused return moment instead of adding another permanent dashboard widget.

  • Offers the deck only after a successful login following at least three full days away and only after five built-in titles have been saved.
  • Composes the existing Next Up queue, Today’s Pick, Library Pulse, and Activity Journal into a primary choice, an alternative, an optional reflection, and a compact recap.
  • Temporarily replaces Today’s Pick and Library Pulse while visible, then restores the familiar dashboard after an item is opened or the deck is dismissed.
  • Keeps eligibility and a signed random activation proof in short-lived browser session storage rather than creating a server-side visit history.
  • Adds only anonymous daily shown, opened, and dismissed totals to the existing site-health panel. A non-reversible digest of the random proof is retained for up to seven days to prevent duplicate counting; it cannot be joined to an account or media record.
  • Batches queue lookups, aggregates journal recaps in the database, and prevents the Welcome Back Deck from racing Today’s Pick and Library Pulse during dashboard startup.

The deck does not send email or push reminders, create streaks, publish activity, use AI recommendations, or load ads in the private dashboard.

September 2026: Automated Collection Discovery and Recovery

This release completes the existing public collection workflow without adding another feed, paid moderation service, or daily human approval queue.

  • Reused the collection quality floor, gallery, content hashes, signed visitor cookie, reports, owner notifications, and aggregate health view.
  • Added one deterministic readiness result for the collection editor, gallery, detail-page indexability, and sitemap.
  • Made qualifying published collections discoverable automatically while keeping private collections private and share-ready-only pages out of search.
  • Replaced free-text collection allegations with fixed reasons, one report per signed browser and version, and a two-per-hour IP rate limit.
  • Temporarily unlisted an exact collection version after three independent reports and notified its owner without deleting the collection.
  • Made an owner edit clear the current report state, rerun readiness, and restore a qualifying revision automatically.
  • Removed the manual action queue while retaining aggregate site health and a narrowly scoped emergency block.

Existing accounts, collections, library items, privacy choices, direct links, and historic public-content decisions are preserved. Collection pages remain outside the ad-loader allowlist while their quality and usefulness are measured.

September 2026: Automated Review Quality and Safety

This release makes public review discovery sustainable for a two-person project without introducing a manual moderation queue or paid AI service.

  • Reused the existing opt-in review feed and divided it into transparent community-ready and search-ready tiers.
  • Reserved standalone pages, structured review data, sitemap URLs, prominent ordering, and ad eligibility for search-ready reviews.
  • Added editor feedback for character count, word count, complete thoughts, varied language, and public safety checks.
  • Reused the signed public-visitor cookie for fixed-reason, rate-limited reports without storing reporter IP addresses, fingerprints, or free-text allegations.
  • Automatically unlisted an exact review version after three independent reports, notified the author, and made a substantive edit restore the revision without a human queue.
  • Added aggregate report and unlisting totals to the existing privacy-conscious site-health panel.

No reviews are deleted or rewritten by these controls. Ordinary community-ready reviews remain browseable, while private notes and reviews that do not meet a public tier remain in the owner's library.

September 2026: Activation and Trust Baseline

This release smooths the first visit and adds site-wide counts that show whether new accounts get as far as saving a few titles, without tracking any one person. It extends the existing launchpad, Weekly playback, Library pulse, and moderator insights.

  • Added aggregate stages for account creation, email verification, first library item, five saved titles, and a post-activation return.
  • Stored only the most recent successful login time and a running successful-login count; no page history, searches, media titles, or private notes are collected for the return signal.
  • Moved Google Analytics out of the private dashboard and limited it to the standalone public landing experience.
  • Made the public analytics loader honor supported Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track signals while disabling Google signals and ad-personalization signals.
  • Aligned account-deactivation language around the actual 90-day self-service reactivation window.
  • Consolidated stale development notes into the README, test guide, current content review, and one growth-operations reference.

Return visits are counted from this release onward. Earlier visits are not estimated.

September 2026: Recommendation Postcards

Recommendation Postcards are for asking friends “what should I try next?” Members ask one question, pick which media types count, and collect a limited number of replies from friends or guests. Nothing is posted publicly.

  • Added unlisted, high-entropy guest links with a 3-to-30-day reply window and a configurable response cap.
  • Added direct invitations for accepted OmniTrackr friends and one-response-per-friend protection.
  • Added a private owner inbox with save, add to library, add to Next Up, and dismiss decisions.
  • Kept all replies out of the library until the owner acts; matching library items retain their existing rating, review, metadata, and completion status.
  • Excluded guest pages and APIs from search indexing, caching, public profiles, and advertising inventory.
  • Added duplicate prevention, a spam-trap field, guest submission rate limits, category restrictions, and safe text rendering.

The database change is additive. Existing accounts, media records, reviews, collections, friendships, journal entries, and privacy settings are not rewritten or deleted.

September 2026: A Smaller, Stronger Public Library

This release cut down which pages are offered to search engines and eligible for ads, keeping the ones that stand on their own. No guides, accounts, collections, or library records were deleted. Supporting pages remain available through the site navigation, but the XML sitemap now recommends a smaller set of original product guides, examples, public reviews, and human-edited Discover pages.

  • Reduced the core sitemap to the public pages with the most distinct purpose, while preserving every existing route for visitors.
  • Marked overlapping category guides, product updates, comparison pages, and policy pages noindex, follow. They are still linked and readable.
  • Limited prospective ad loading to six substantial public experiences and kept it off supporting, legal, and noindex pages.
  • Kept member collections shareable by direct link but out of search and sitemap inventory until a moderation workflow exists.
  • Promoted the Discover index and authored monthly edition while treating shorter themed trails as supporting reading.
  • Verified authentication, accounts, media CRUD, privacy, friends, statistics, reviews, Discover, collections, and frontend security after the change.

No data was migrated. Only search and ad settings on public pages changed; signed-in pages and member records are the same.

September 2026: The Private Activity Journal

The Activity Journal records when things happened. Members can log when they start, progress through, finish, revisit, or simply make a note about any movie, TV show, anime, game, album, or book already in their library.

  • Added one chronological, private timeline across all six built-in media types.
  • Added a weekly playback with moment, completion, reflection, and category counts using the member's local calendar week.
  • Connected the existing finish-reflection flow to one automatic completion entry without changing the underlying media record.
  • Kept manual logging independent from watched, played, listened, and read status so correcting a journal never rewrites the library.
  • Added journal data to versioned JSON exports while keeping older export files valid for import.
  • Kept the journal out of public profiles, search indexing, and advertising inventory.

Existing items don't get guessed dates. The journal starts with activity after this release, and each entry keeps a copy of the title and rating in case the library entry changes later.

September 2026: Bring Your Library Import Studio

The Import Studio is for people who already have years of history somewhere else. It reads Letterboxd, Goodreads, MyAnimeList, and spreadsheet exports, and it never overwrites a record you already have in OmniTrackr.

  • Added a no-write preview with ready, duplicate, and invalid outcomes before confirmation.
  • Added optional column mapping and downloadable templates for all six built-in media categories.
  • Kept migration imports additive: matching library records are skipped, never updated or deleted.
  • Bound confirmation to the exact file, format choice, category, and column mapping that produced the preview.
  • Made each confirmed batch atomic and kept imported reviews private by default.
  • Kept the established versioned JSON backup and restoration path backward compatible.

The migration API is authenticated, private-cache protected, and excluded from search indexing. No schema changes or existing-data migrations are required for this release.

September 2026: OmniTrackr Tasteprint

Tasteprint summarizes how someone watches, plays, listens, and reads, once their library is big enough. It works from totals across the categories you pick and the private journal, and the Tasteprint API never returns titles or review text.

  • Added observations, each based on your own numbers, for media range, library anchor, completion style, rating personality, home decade, recurring creators, and recent journal rhythm.
  • Added a minimum library size. Below it, new accounts see how far they have to go instead of conclusions drawn from too little data.
  • Excluded hidden and private categories by default while allowing the account owner to opt them into a specific calculation.
  • Added per-insight controls, an optional username, a copied text summary, and a branded PNG rendered entirely in the browser.
  • Kept Tasteprint private, unindexed, uncached, ad-free, and separate from friend profiles.

No new public profile, database table, or stored share-card record is created. Downloading a card does not publish it; the user remains responsible for whether and where it is shared.

July 2026: Review Quality, Freshness, and Public Discovery

The July update made public pages easier to browse and moved very short member snippets out of public lists, so a visitor sees full reviews before signing up.

  • Added a landing-page "Recently improved" section that points new visitors to the sample library, content quality policy, site map, and advertising transparency page.
  • Changed the public reviews API default to favor substantial reviews using the same review-length threshold used by the crawlable reviews page and XML sitemap.
  • Separated directory-quality reviews from standalone review detail pages so indexed review URLs require more complete review text before receiving sitemap or ad eligibility.
  • Raised the automated public ad-page content floor so eligible public pages must keep at least 750 crawlable words, structured data, one H1, multiple content sections, and canonical metadata.
  • Kept explicit broad review access available through min_chars=1 so existing public API callers can still request short opt-in notes without deleting or rewriting user content.
  • Documented public review quality expectations more clearly across the reviews page, review guidelines, content quality policy, and automated tests.
  • Verified that these changes do not modify account records, private libraries, ratings, friendships, imports, exports, or authenticated dashboard behavior.

Only public pages changed. The update does not modify account records, private libraries, ratings, friendships, imports, exports, or dashboard workflows. Short personal notes stay in private libraries, and public lists now show longer reviews first.

June 2026: Public Content, Privacy, and Ad Readiness

Before June the public site was mostly a login page. This update added guides and tracker pages that first-time visitors can read, and left the signed-in app as it was.

  • Added new public guides for comparing media trackers and planning cross-media tracking workflows.
  • Added pages on tracking TV shows and games.
  • Expanded the Privacy Policy with Google ads, advertising cookies, partner data use, and opt-out information.
  • Improved sitemap, robots.txt, and public metadata so search engines can discover the new evergreen content pages.
  • Kept public pages behind the hardened Content Security Policy without relying on unsafe inline scripts.

These changes do not alter existing user libraries, accounts, ratings, reviews, friendships, or privacy settings. They add public routes, templates, metadata, and tests, and the logged-in tracker works the same way.

Recent Security and Quality Improvements

Several security fixes went in around rendering and dependencies. The app no longer needs CSP unsafe-inline, public pages handle nonces better, HTML rewriting now goes through a parser instead of string patterns, and dependencies flagged by security scanning were upgraded.

Security scanning feedback also led to more focused regression tests. The test suite now checks that public content pages use nonce-based scripts, that generated API documentation is noindexed, that the AdSense loader is limited to eligible public pages, and that review text is not reinterpreted as HTML in the browser.

Recent Content Improvements

Visitors can now read guides, compare tracking methods, see how TV and game tracking work, read the privacy practices, and browse reviews members chose to share, all before creating an account.

Each category guide now covers what that medium needs: ratings and reviews for movies, season and episode for TV, seasonal backlogs for anime, platform and completion for games, albums and relistens for music, and reading status and authors for books.

Release Verification

Public-page changes are covered by automated tests for sitemap entries, robots.txt rules, page metadata, navigation links, content markers, CSP behavior, ad-loader behavior, public review filtering, and frontend safety checks. Changes to public pages must not break registration, login, adding and editing media, import/export, statistics, privacy controls, or friend features.

People already keep their libraries here, so a public-page update that touched member collections or account data would count as a failed release.

What Is Next?

More category guides, an easier first visit for new accounts, more sample libraries, and ongoing dependency and security updates. The roadmap has the detail.