What's new on Spored, newest first.
Activity feed avatars now show your real mushroom look plus context icons, and the component library moved from a public URL to gated super-admin access
Aug 24, 2026
Admin action to activate a neighborhood, auto-derived neighborhood slugs (name-city), and neighborhood creation form polish (state/territory label, country/timezone dropdowns)
Aug 24, 2026
Colored ring + corner glyph badges distinguish business/POI/neighborhood icons and collection cards at a glance
Aug 23, 2026
Public profile redesign with a Top Caps section and share button, three new "Top Cap" leaderboard badges, activity points shown in every feed, a venue leaderboard on the neighborhood Leaderboard tab, and level badges through level 20
Aug 23, 2026
Location page redesign with a route-per-tab bar (Spore Feed, About, Reviews, Coupons, Events, and a new Leaderboard tab), plus "Top Caps" and an "Open now" pill for business/POI pages
Aug 23, 2026
Neighborhood page redesign with "Top Caps" (top 3 recent visitors, shown on the leaderboard alongside lifetime points), plus neighborhoods are now a collectible forager species
Aug 23, 2026
Account page redesign -- level-progress ring on the profile card, a divided stat strip, underline tabs, playing-card-styled collection, and day-grouped activity feeds
Aug 22, 2026
Push notification when a followed event is starting soon, plus per-category notification toggles (including new coupons at a favorited venue) in Account Settings
Aug 22, 2026
Marketing homepage revamp — sprouting mushroom decorations, notifications and collection sections, and a matching 404 page
Aug 22, 2026
Added "Continue with Microsoft" sign-in alongside Google, for both login and signup
Aug 22, 2026
Fixed venue/POI enrichment refresh, which was failing against Google's Places API on every call
Aug 21, 2026
Monitoring tab for super admins -- error tracking, request volume/latency, DB query latency, and Google Places API call charts, rolled on our own Postgres tables rather than a third-party service; also a custom on-brand 404 page
Aug 21, 2026
Analytics tab for business admins -- check-ins over time, a check-ins-by-day-of-week chart, and coupon claims over time for their venue
Aug 21, 2026
Analytics tab for neighborhood admins -- check-ins over time, a locations-by-category breakdown, and a top-venues leaderboard
Aug 21, 2026
Automated lint/typecheck/test checks on every code change (CI), fixed 14 flaky gamification tests and 10 React strict-mode bugs, cleaned up internal links and legal-page text escaping
Aug 20, 2026
Collection detail modal with swipeable cards, deep-linked push notifications, Next.js 16.3.1
Aug 20, 2026
A "Getting started" checklist for new accounts, a proactive push-notification opt-in banner, clickable profile stat tiles, a fixed check-in accordion, and clearer mushroom customizer pickers
Aug 19, 2026
New Forager collection tab -- checking in or connecting with a neighbor collects a unique mushroom species you tap to reveal, with a new Collection profile tile and a 10-to-1000-species badge tier
Aug 18, 2026
Leaderboard is its own tab again, the neighborhood profile's default tab is now a renamed "Spore feed", admin's account menu matches the main nav, and chanterelle/enoki mushrooms support all 6 spot counts
Aug 17, 2026
Report a missing venue from Send Feedback or the check-in page, notifying your neighborhood's admins -- who get a triage page with a one-click Google Places investigation tool
Aug 17, 2026
Admin surfaces are now mobile-friendly, followed-venue events surface in the Spore Feed, and in-progress events are now followable
Aug 17, 2026
Ten new mushroom silhouettes join the generative avatar system, and the super admin Users list gets a mushroom column, signup method, and push status
Aug 16, 2026
A "Top Cap" wooden sign names the top visitor next to a neighborhood/location's mushroom mosaic, and every profile's own patch
Aug 16, 2026
Fixed a hydration crash on event/timeline dates and removed a no-op service worker handler flagged by Chrome
Aug 16, 2026
Neighborhood/location mushroom mosaics now reflect the last 60 days of live activity with a size boost for repeat visitors, and profile cards show one live mushroom per neighbor
Aug 15, 2026
Feedback tab badge, consistent Join/Favorite/Connect button styling, review dates and a latest-3 cap on venue reviews, dev component library split into linkable per-section URLs
Aug 15, 2026
Fixed POIs missing from the check-in page, and made the Locations tab's merged list truly alphabetical
Aug 15, 2026
Super admin Feedback tab with push notifications on new submissions, feedback menu color fix
Aug 14, 2026
Push notifications for neighbor check-ins, connection requests, and new signups
Aug 14, 2026
PWA install prompt and web push notifications, plus a super-admin test-send tool
Aug 14, 2026
Super admin interface with a platform user list and category taxonomy, Google Places now scoped per neighborhood, hidden locations included in boundary review
Aug 14, 2026
Username field accepts uppercase while typing, dropped unused phone column from user accounts
Jul 29, 2026
Marketing homepage polish: real Phinneywood data, honest single-neighborhood pilot messaging, accurate business pitch
Jul 29, 2026
Feedback submissions with badges, BETA label, level threshold raised to 100, /account tabs get dedicated URLs
Jul 29, 2026
Venue coupons with check-in-gated claiming and slide-to-redeem, replacing business announcements
Jul 20, 2026
Business claims require an account, admin claims show the linked account, theme and activity-feed timestamp fixes
Jul 20, 2026
Follow events, event/neighbor-connection activity feeds, Event Scout badge, My Activity tab
Jul 17, 2026
Browse-only signed-out flow (no more anonymous accounts), email-confirmation login fix
Jul 17, 2026
FAQ page, in-app changelog, Google Places attribution, category dropdown sort fix
Jul 16, 2026
iCal/webcal event feed import, neighborhood-admin Events tab
Jul 16, 2026
Neighborhood switcher, unified account menu, merged mushroom fields, public/mushroom defaults
Jul 16, 2026
Neighborhood join prompt + auto-home, POI type removal, mushroom loader, checkin/header polish
Jul 15, 2026
Reimport Locations button, super admin role, dense-area sync fix
Jul 15, 2026
Mushroom fingerprint stamps on connections and check-ins
Jul 15, 2026
Google auth branding, admin logo/pill fixes, live-counted POI challenge
Jul 15, 2026
Unify business and neighborhood admin under /admin
Jul 14, 2026
In-progress challenges, forager/founder/neighbor badge polish, gamification fixes
Jul 14, 2026
Mushroom avatar customizer, spot count/shape redesign, expanded palette, brand refresh
Jul 14, 2026
Neighborhood-admin dashboard redesign, Locations tab improvements, bug fixes
Jul 13, 2026
GA4 analytics, SEO (metadata/sitemaps/robots.txt/JSON-LD), Terms & Privacy pages
Jul 13, 2026
Public profiles, profile gating, check-in unlock animations, account tab improvements
Jul 13, 2026
Connect with other users, activity feed links, neighbor rewards
Jul 12, 2026
Neighborhood and location summary cards, growing mushroom fields, check-in/favorite counts
Jul 12, 2026
Mushroom avatars, profile summary card growing-mushroom field, badges/challenges stats
Jul 12, 2026
Badge rule engine, check-in result card, Summer Series challenges
Jul 11, 2026
Happening now, Recent activity, and reworked neighborhood tabs
Jul 10, 2026
Venue and POI merged into single location entity with in-place kind switching
Jul 10, 2026
Brand guidelines page, spotted mushroom logo, new favicon/app icon
Jul 10, 2026
Marketing site split into apps/marketing, dedicated /checkin page
Jul 9, 2026
Profile check-in timeline, comprehensive theme migration, and map theme fix
Jul 9, 2026
Marketing homepage, All neighborhoods search + counts
Jul 9, 2026
Hamburger menu with theme picker, /neighborhoods split, unified check-in gesture
Jul 9, 2026
Spored visual rebrand with dark theme support
Jul 9, 2026
Expand Google Places field mask (hours, contact, multi-photo/review)
Jul 8, 2026
Fix check-ins from a newly-linked device not attributing to the account
Jul 8, 2026
Badges on public profile and account pages
Jul 8, 2026
POI landing pages, profile stat cards
Jul 8, 2026
Bulk Google Places review and boundary redraw reconciliation
Jul 9, 2026
Locations tab: full POI management, merged with venues
Jul 9, 2026
Venue omission and reclassification
Jul 8, 2026
Admin portal neighborhood boundary drawing, check-in cooldown message fix
Jul 8, 2026
Badge icons, neighborhood page subnav tabs, tighter mobile padding
Jul 8, 2026
Fix check-in points not being awarded
Jul 8, 2026
Account settings page, founding member badge, points backfill
Jul 7, 2026
Account page profile summary + nearest-venue check-in, proximity sort
Jul 7, 2026
Challenges, points, and neighborhood leaderboard
Jul 7, 2026
Public user profiles, Google avatar seeding
Jul 7, 2026
User profiles, homepage blurb, version footer
Jul 7, 2026
Neighborhood-admin unification, slug URLs, join-button fix, docs reorg
Jul 7, 2026
Instagram links and social media integration
Jul 7, 2026
Category taxonomy management
Jul 6, 2026
Venues on the neighborhood page, home link fix, dark mode form fix
Jul 7, 2026
Fix landing page showing no neighborhoods in production
Jul 6, 2026
Neighborhoods on landing page and user profile
Jul 6, 2026
Neighborhood profile pages
Jul 7, 2026
Fix business claims not linking to submitter's account
Jul 6, 2026
Business owner venue dashboard
Jul 6, 2026
My account page
Jul 6, 2026
Neighborhood admin roles
Jul 6, 2026
Category mapping admin tool
Jul 6, 2026
Google social sign-in + account promotion
Jul 6, 2026
Favorite venues
Jul 6, 2026
Real user authentication
Jul 6, 2026
Venues map view
Jul 6, 2026
Business claiming + GPS check-in
Jul 6, 2026
Fix venue photos rendering as broken images in production
Jul 6, 2026
Fix deployed API 502 on all routes due to eager Supabase client init
Jul 6, 2026
Venue detail pages with on-demand enrichment cache
Jul 6, 2026
Fix deployed API health check unreachable at localhost
Jul 6, 2026
Google Places sync, dedup, category normalization; Netlify + Supabase grant fixes
Jul 6, 2026
Data layer schema scaffold + Netlify build fix, Yelp dropped from plan
Jul 5, 2026
Adopt Netlify + Supabase as hosting plan of record
Jul 5, 2026
Web app scaffold: Turborepo monorepo with Next.js, Express API, shared types
Jul 6, 2026
Add backlog system and contributing guide, sequence web app first
Jul 5, 2026
Initial commit with build plan README
Jul 5, 2026