Sep 22, 2026: Events, Media and a Faster Experience
Major features
- Click any avatar or cover photo to open it full screen.
- Event pages show clearer timing details, and you can download a calendar invite straight from the event.
- You can filter the events list by past events, and event cards show the right button depending on whether you are registered.
- Uploading audio or video now shows a progress bar, and videos you drop but never post are cleaned up automatically.
- Blogs, events, products, plans, groups and courses now load through the new API, so listings and tab counts come back faster.
- Reported content is now marked as such on blogs, events and products, so flagged items are easy to spot.
- A public status page tracks community uptime, and excessive requests are throttled to keep things stable.
Improvements
- Hovering the top navigation icons and your avatar now shows a label.
- The Save Changes button on your profile only turns on once you have actually changed something.
- The onboarding welcome banner has a new look.
- Bot profiles no longer show connection and follower counts, and members in chat can be filtered by the Bot role.
- Overall platform stability and reliability improved.
Fixes
- Public blogs no longer show an access expiry date and now read as always available.
- Usernames are set once when you register and can no longer be changed afterwards.
- Your own profile no longer shows a mutual connections count.
- Event filters return the right results for cancelled and published events.
- Event search matches on the event title and shows the newest first.
- Members can open an event from a shared link again.
- The same member no longer appears on more than one page of search results.
- Tooltips, chat windows, report dialogs, reaction menus, the emoji picker and the mention list no longer hide behind other parts of the screen.
- Connection and follow requests are marked as read once you accept or reject them.
- Reporting a comment or reply now shows the Reported Successfully confirmation.
- Large comment images are scaled down, so mobile no longer crashes or shows a blurred full screen view.
- Duplicate share buttons are removed from the blog page.
- Group banners now say the right thing when your subscription gives you access but you have not joined yet.
- The group action button no longer errors out.
- Link previews on social media fall back to the community logo when no image is set.
