v2.0.0 — Badges, Sign in with Apple & scheduled poems

Stanza's first big update: recognition, easier sign-in, and poems that publish when you want them to.

Badges

Badges celebrate milestones and contributions. They show on your profile and beside your name.

• Medal wall — your badges appear on your profile.
• On feed cards — up to two badges appear next to your name (never on anonymous poems).
• Earned moments — a small card tells you when you've earned a new badge.
• Your choice — hide any badge you'd rather not show in Settings › Badges.
• Early adopter — profiles created in Stanza's first months are recognised automatically. Some badges are awarded by staff.

Sign in with Apple

• Every platform — Sign in with Apple now works on the web, iOS, Android and desktop.
• Clearer buttons — Google and Apple sign-in buttons follow each brand's guidelines, in light and dark mode.

Schedule a poem

Pick a date and time, and your poem publishes on its own.

• Set it in compose — on the web and in the app.
• Keep track — the poems on your profile are split into tabs, so scheduled work is easy to find.

Email from Stanza

• Welcome — a welcome email when you join.
• Follows — an email when someone follows you.
• Weekly digest — a Monday round-up of what you missed.
• Account safety — an email when a moderation decision or an appeal affects your account.
• Unsubscribe — a one-click unsubscribe page for marketing email.

Confections

• Clearer sending — a confection sent on its own needs a message. Send stays disabled until everything is valid, and errors are shown instead of failing silently.
• New default — anyone can now send you a confection by default. You can change who may send them in your settings.

Fixes

Notifications could lead nowhere.

• Before — tapping a follow notification could open a “not found” page, and some poem notifications had broken links.
• After — notifications open the right poem or profile.

Follow requests disappeared after you answered them.

• Before — accepting or declining a request removed the notification entirely.
• After — it stays, marked Accepted or Declined.

Swiping back closed the app on Android.

• Before — a back swipe on some main screens closed Stanza.
• After — it goes back, as expected.

Reliability, security & accessibility

• Image cropping — aspect-ratio presets, and the crop toolbar no longer hides behind the Android status bar.
• Desktop audio — fixed a crash when playing audio on Windows.
• Get the app — a new Apps page, with a waitlist for the Android beta.
• Readable menus — the poem options menu is legible in light mode.
• Security — patched dependency advisories.