Changelog

A product that reached the board could not be taken off it by anybody. The code for it had been written and was reachable from no page at all.

Moderators can now take down a product, or one launch on its own. Both ask for the name typed back before anything happens, because a reason field accepts anything and a misclick should not be one word from succeeding.

Taking a product down now takes its forum, its threads and its comparison pages with it. They used to stay up — the last door open to a product the site had already removed.

A page that does not exist answers 404 now. Every missing URL used to answer 200 with the not-found page in the body, which search engines read as a bad page rather than a missing one.

A product that changes its address keeps the old one working, so a link someone shared last week still arrives in the right place.

Product logos are served from here rather than borrowed from the product's own site. A logo that will not load falls back to the product's initial instead of a broken image.

A profile used to open on a single optional paragraph, which meant almost every profile opened on the words "Nothing written here yet."

It now shows what someone has built, the best day one of those products had, when they joined and what they have been doing lately — all of which was already stored and shown nowhere.

You can also upload your own picture, instead of taking whichever one your sign-in provider had.

Reviews can be edited after posting, and the team behind a product can reply to one in their own name.

Comments can be reported, and a moderator can take one down — until now nothing on the site could remove a comment once it existed.

Search stopped caring about word order, so "notes meeting" finds what "meeting notes" finds.

The forums have a sidebar that stays with you when you open a thread, so you can move between topics without going back first.

Signal a thread from the list. The count next to a thread used to be a number you could only act on by opening the thread. It is the button now, on every list it appears on.

The group in the top nav was called Forums while containing four different things. It is Community, and Forums is one of them.

Rank is a mark now, not a number in a circle — first, second and third read differently at a glance, and the rest of the board stays quiet behind them.

Promotions can be edited after they go up, a placement can be given its own image, and the form says which field it is unhappy about instead of failing silently.

EarlyHound is live: a daily board of what launched, ranked by the people who tried it, with weekly, monthly and yearly boards kept as a permanent archive from day one.

Products get a page that outlives the launch — reviews with four rating dimensions, the tools they are built with, and the categories they belong to. People get an account, a profile and Scout Points with a published formula.

Forums, a moderation queue, and the admin behind both went up the same week.