Changelog

Chat has been quietly in testing with the organisers, and it's now open to every
member. You'll find it in the sidebar under Board — or the speech-bubble icon
on your phone.

• Channels for everything — shared channels for the club, direct messages, and
  private group channels with their own member list. Your tables and game nights
  get their own channels automatically, so it's easy to sort out plans and keep the
  banter going between sessions.
• Say it your way — share images with a caption, forward a message to several
  channels or DMs at once, drop in a GIF, react with emoji, and link straight to any
  message. Links to YouTube and other sites show a preview card.
• Roll dice and run polls — roll dice right in the chat (including a proper
  d100) with a tap-to-build roller, and start a quick poll with /poll.
• Make it yours — pick a colour theme, choose Compact, Normal or Large text, and
  decide whether Enter sends your message.
• Notifications that fit you — set each channel to notify you about Everything,
  only Mentions, or Nothing, mute individual channels, and switch on Do Not Disturb.
  You can also get chat notifications on your phone — turn on On this device in
  the Notifications card on your profile.

A few things worth knowing before you dive in: the chat runs on the club's own
server rather than a third party, messages are kept for two years and images for 30
days, and club organisers can read messages — including direct messages — for
moderation. You'll see a short notice covering this the first time you open chat,
and the full detail is in our Privacy Policy.

Type /help in chat if you're feeling lost, and please tell us if anything doesn't
work the way you'd expect.

We've overhauled how the site looks after your data, in line with EU data-protection rules:

• You'll be asked once to accept our updated Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and to confirm you're 18 or older — that's the prompt you'll see on your next visit.
• The new Privacy Policy spells out in plain English what we store, why, for how long, and your rights. It now also lists exactly what the site keeps on your device — the few essential cookies that sign you in, and the settings you choose, like light or dark mode. We don't use tracking, analytics or advertising cookies, and we never have.
• Download everything we hold about you from your profile. It now arrives as a tidy archive you can open in your browser — a readable summary page, your photos and images, and a machine-readable copy — chat messages included.
• Delete your account whenever you like, with a choice to also erase everything you said in chat.
• Chat messages now clear out automatically after 2 years, and chat images after 30 days.
• Any chat message can be reported from its ⋯ menu — including as illegal content — and you'll always be told the outcome. If a moderator ever removes something of yours or restricts your account, you'll be told what was done and why, and you can ask an admin to take another look.

A few smaller things in the same update:

• A preferred name on your profile — optional, and the name you'd like to be called at the table. Other members never see it: only club admins, event organisers and the DM of a table you're in, so they can find you on the night when you've RSVP'd under a handle.
• You can clear the settings this site has saved on your device, any time, from your profile.
• The Terms and Privacy pages were hard to read in light mode — their section headings have been fixed.
• The site has a new icon on your browser tab and home screen.
• When someone deletes their account, their old chat messages now show as Deleted user rather than a long internal ID, and their join/leave lines disappear with them.

(The live chat itself is still being trialled with organisers and will open to everyone soon.)

A few things reported from the crypt are now sorted:

• Fights no longer carry on after a trap kills you mid-battle — and you can't win one you already lost.
• One-per-rest abilities like Lay on Hands now actually cost a charge when used from your character sheet.
• A fallen hero comes back properly instead of returning stuck at zero health. If your character was already stuck that way, they'll be put right the next time you play.
• Pop-up text is harder to skip by accident when holding a key down.
• Grease is now a bonus action, by request of Greasy Sid himself.

A bundle of quality-of-life fixes across the site:

• Notifications — the bell panel no longer hides behind maps or other page content, and it finally has a proper ✕ button. On phones you can also flick it away with a sideways swipe.
• Sharing from the installed app — the app has no address bar, so we've added Share buttons where they were missing: World Wiki pages and maps, the info pages, and each update on this changelog. There's also a new Share this page option in the profile menu and the phone's More sheet that works on every page.
• World Wiki maps — zoom with your mouse wheel, and pins are now little flags, colour-coded by their wiki group, with a legend on the map telling you what's what.
• A proper tab icon — your browser tab now shows the club crest instead of the old placeholder d20.
• For organisers — crediting raffle door sales is much quicker: type a few letters of a member's name instead of scrolling a giant list.

You can now get real notifications from the club on your phone or computer — even when the site is closed. Open your profile, find the Notifications card, and switch on On this device. You'll get a ping for the things you already have turned on — approvals, mentions and so on — plus chat messages and @-mentions sent to you.

On iPhone, first add the site to your Home Screen (tap Share, then Add to Home Screen), and turn notifications on from inside the installed app. Rolling out over the coming days.

Typing in the chat on an iPhone is much nicer now: the keyboard matches the site's dark theme instead of flashing white, its return key says Send, and the page no longer ends up zoomed and off-centre after you finish typing. Photos are easier too — swipe a picture down to close it (or swipe sideways to flip through an album), and the close button is bigger and no longer hides under the iPhone notch.

If you've added the site to your iPhone's home screen, the top-bar buttons — menu, notifications, your account — no longer hide under the notch, and the bottom tabs stay clear of the swipe bar. Typing in the chat on iPhone is smoother too: the message box no longer glitches and jumps around when the keyboard pops up.

Most buttons and small forms around the site now do their work in place — a little confirmation pops up in the corner instead of the whole page reloading, which feels much snappier, especially on phones. Dismissing notifications, updating your profile and preferences, recording game night attendance, library requests, and the admin tools all respond instantly now. And if you mistype something in a form, the problem is pointed out right under the box you typed in.

Tap your profile picture and it opens up large — with a "View code" button that flips it around to reveal your personal QR code. At special events, show that code at the door: an organiser scans it and you're checked in. Nothing to print, nothing to buy — it's simply how we count who came along on the night (and it helps with the raffle draws).