Welcome to the renewed social network for pups and handlers

Hi all,

It's been a busy couple of months behind the scenes, and this is the biggest update we've ever made to the site. Almost every corner of Puppy Pride has been touched: a brand new feed, an app you can install on your phone, a huge upgrade for events and tickets, better account security, and a fresh, rounder look across the whole site.

There's a lot here, so grab a bowl of coffee (or tea)!

NEW FEATURE - Puppy Pride as a PWA!

Puppy Pride can now be installed on your phone or computer to look and function just like an app. Look for the "Install app" button, or use "Add to Home Screen" in your browser. It opens full screen, has shortcuts straight to your feed, chat, notifications and events, and lets you share pictures from your phone straight into an album.

You can also turn on push notifications for each of your devices, so you'll hear about new messages and notifications even when the site is closed. Pick which notifications get pushed from your notification settings.

We are also working hard on bringing Puppy Pride onto the Play Store and App Store for Android and iOS as native apps soon!

NEW FEATURE - A brand new feed!

We've rebuilt the homepage feed from the ground up. As well as posts from your friends and follows, it now shows you more of what's happening around you: upcoming events, new groups and members, birthdays and anniversaries, pups near you, popular pictures, busy discussions, event recaps and more. It also refreshes by itself, without reloading the page.

You can now repost things to your profile, or quote them with your own comment
Reply directly to someone's comment, and get notified when someone replies to you
Posts and statuses are now separate things. Write posts to the feed as before, and set a short status next to your name with an emoji or icon. Statuses can clear themselves after a set time, and you can set your status to an event you have a ticket for

NEW FEATURE - Search anything!

There's now one search bar at the top of every page. Find pups, groups, events, albums, pictures, blogs, discussions and tags all in one place. Searching for people has also been improved, to make finding other pups easier.

NEW FEATURE – Tickets!!!

Features for Organisers:

Events can now have tickets, both free and paid!
Organisers can create as many tickets for an event as they like
Ticket categories and rules: limit how many one person can hold, stop certain tickets being combined, or require another ticket first
Set your own checkout questions: phone numbers, dropdowns, and questions for specific tickets only
Set tickets to appear or hide at set times, and even have hidden VIP tickets!
Organisers can choose to approve ticket requests before they're issued
Option to only sell tickets to age verified users!
Option to display ticket buyers Name & DOB on check in, to verify ticket holders identity
Tickets will show on the event page, can be reordered, and can have their own icons
Group organisers can set any number of users with check in permissions, to help streamline the check in process
Set optional discount codes
Fully intergrated systems for refunds
Pick if you want to pass on the booking fee, or have it part of the ticket price
Get monthly reports with ticket sales, and VAT breakdowns, for easy accounting

Features for attendees:

Tickets are pre-populated with your details for ease of purchase
You can also gift tickets to other pups, without knowing their details, who accept them on their account!
When you purchase a ticket you'll get an email with a QR code for quicker check-in, and you can save your ticket as a PDF or to Google Wallet
All tickets are stored on your Puppy Pride wallet, 1 tap away while on the app!
A button to resend a ticket email
All receipts stored in your account, with easy PDF downloads
The option to share your ticket on social media, and display where you're going on your profile
If you're a Puppy Pride Supporter you'll never pay booking fees!

NEW FEATURE - Event schedules, pages and more!

Event organisers, this one's for you. On top of tickets, events have had a massive upgrade to help you organize them all in one place:

Schedules: build a full timetable across days and locations, with "on now" and "next up" shown on the event page. Keep it private while you build it, choose who can see it, and make items exclusive to certain tickets
Event pages and menus: add your own pages to an event, like venue info or a code of conduct, and arrange them in a menu under the event banner
Branding: give each event its own logo and accent colour
Event updates: post announcements about an event, shown on its page to everyone who can see it, ticket holders included
Add to calendar: add any event to your calendar with one click
Exports: download ready-made spreadsheets to print badges, for your event team, and for importing into LASSIE lost and found

NEW FEATURE - Keeping your account safe

You'll find all of these in your security settings here: https://puppypride.social/profile/settings/security

Passkeys: sign in with your fingerprint, face or device PIN instead of a password
Two-factor authentication with an authenticator app
Sign in with a QR code on your phone, by scanning it from a device you're already signed in on
Emails when someone signs in from a new device, or when your password, email or security settings change
See every device signed in to your account, and sign them out

NEW FEATURE - Advertise on Puppy Pride

Want to show the community your event, shop or project? You can now run your own ad campaign on Puppy Pride. Upload your pictures, pick where they show and how many impressions you want, and follow how they're doing. Every campaign is reviewed by our team before it goes live.

Supporters never see ads, and ads are never shown next to NSFW pictures. Find out more here: https://puppypride.social/advertise

Feature Improvements – Groups

Massively improved group page layouts
Group announcements: post updates to your members, with links, and notify them by email and notification
Add your own pages to your group and manage its menu
Groups can now ask to become public, and public groups show their albums to visitors
Visitors who aren't members yet see a friendly "join the group first" message instead of an error
Third party integrations, making it super easy for you to automate posts to your socials advertising your upcoming events, and past galleries!

Feature Improvements - Chats

Complete overhaul of the live chat system to make it easier on mobile
Easier to swap between recent chats, quicker updates,
Can now send messages which includes emotes and images

Feature Improvements – Supporter perks

A big thank you to everyone who supports the site! Supporters now get:

A coloured border around your profile banner, to match your avatar ring
A choice of fonts for your name, from script to comic to pixel, shown everywhere your name appears
A choice of badge next to your name, or the option to hide it
Larger video uploads
No ads, anywhere on the site

You can also now subscribe via Stripe, with loads of easy ways to pay and control your subscription!

You'll find the new options here: https://puppypride.social/profile/settings/appearance

Feature Improvements – General functionality

A fresh, rounder design across the whole site, with smoother page transitions
Redesigned chat and sidebar, and a much better experience on phones
A new emoji and icon picker, in chats, statuses, tickets, blogs and announcements
Puppy Pride is now available in Dutch and Norwegian
An optional little bark sound when you bark at something (can be toggled off in Site Preferences)
A notice about AI art when uploading images (Please don't upload any)
Reports now have categories, and you'll be told the outcome once our moderators have reviewed yours
More formatting options like links, nested lists, etc
Warnings when opening external links to unknown sources
You can now read past notifications up to a year old
Notification settings reworked and improved for your convenience

Updated Legal Policies

While obviously we're really happy to announce all the new features, we also have to announce the new legal documents that come with it.
We have completely updated our website's terms of service, cookie list, and privacy policy.
Continued use of the website implies acceptance of the new terms.

To read them please see here:

Terms of Service: https://puppypride.social/legal/terms-of-service
Community Guidelines: https://puppypride.social/legal/community-guidelines
Privacy Policy: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/77784316
Services & Cookies: https://development.puppypride.social/site/cookies

And some new policies for those they apply to:

Advertisers Policy: https://puppypride.social/legal/advert-policy
Event Organisers T&C (for tickets): https://puppypride.social/legal/event-organiers-t-c

Bugfixes

You can reply to statuses again
Permissions on public groups work properly again
Deleted users no longer leave strange entries behind in the feed
Image-heavy pages now load and paginate properly
Fixed some settings not saving

Behind the scenes, we've also upgraded the framework the site runs on and applied a number of security fixes, which keeps Puppy Pride fast and safe for years to come.

We hope you enjoy the new features as much as we enjoyed building them, and thank you all for your continued support.

If you spot any issues on the website, or things not working as they should, please let us know here: https://puppypride.social/site/bug-report

Thank you,

The Puppy Pride team