Past Fixes on GS Poetry

August 27, 2026

• Recommended Poems on your stream actually recommends poems now. It had been sitting on "More poems to recommend soon" for everybody, because it was quietly built out of the leftovers of the Trending list beside it and only had anything to show once Trending held six poems or more. It has its own reading list now, drawn from what is rising and what has just been published, and it never repeats whatever Trending is already showing next to it.
• If you have boosted a poem, it moved with everything else. Boosting had one spot at the top of Discover and it does not any more, so instead your boost now rides the same new places promoted poems do: one poem in every five in the stream, the end of other people's poems, and your own profile. It keeps its own name and its own gold mark, because boosting and promoting are two different things you can buy and you should always be able to tell which one you are looking at. Nothing you already paid for was lost, and you do not have to buy anything again.
• Discover Poems is earned, the whole way down. The paid block that used to sit above it is gone, whether you are signed in or not, so the first thing anyone sees on that page is poems that got there on their own. Trending is the same and always has been: no amount of credits moves a poem into it.
• You can promote a poem now, if you are a GS Pro member. It buys readers, not a place at the top. Your poem is dealt into the stream as one poem in every five, shown at the end of other people's poems, and gathered together on your own profile, and it is marked Promoted every single time so nobody has to wonder. If you are not a member you still see what it is and what it costs on your own poem, rather than finding out it exists by being turned away from it.
• Promoted poems take turns, so paying is not a matter of outbidding anyone. Every poet gets one slot before any poet gets a second, and the slots move round through the day, so a poem that is not showing this minute comes round again instead of sitting behind someone else for the whole week you paid for. If you are the only poet promoting, you get the lot.
• A poem you promote lifts the rest of your work with it. Your promoted poems now show at the end of your other poems and under Poems on your profile, so a reader who came for one of them can find everything else you have written without going looking.

What we’re looking at

• A shelf you can visit on purpose, gathering everything currently paid to be seen, one tap from wherever you already are.

August 26, 2026

• If you centered a line, indented one, made some words larger, or set a line as a quote, the poem you published did not keep any of it. You set it in the editor, it looked right there, and then it saved as plain lines and the work was gone with no warning. Those four now survive being published, and they look the same on the poem page and in Focus Mode. Four other buttons still do not carry through, and we would rather tell you than let you find out: text color, highlight, links and images. Each is being worked out rather than forgotten.
• Boosted poems on Discover now take turns. If one poet boosted several poems at once they filled every slot, and everyone else's boost stayed invisible for the rest of the week they had paid for. Each poet now gets one slot before anyone gets a second, so a boost you buy is a boost readers can actually see. If you are the only poet boosting, you still get the whole row.
• Buying credits works. If you tried before today and the credits never turned up, nothing was charged either. No money left your account, and there is nothing owed back to you. We put a real card through it ourselves before writing this line.

August 24, 2026

• A profile you are not allowed to see now says so, in a sentence. Until today a poet who had set their profile to poets only got shown to signed-out visitors as a half-built page with their name on it: an empty picture, and a zero for their poems, their followers, the people they follow and their reads, none of which were their real numbers. Collections and the Trophy Case came back as errors when you pressed them, and Followers sat loading and never stopped. It now tells you plainly that the profile is not public, and offers you a way in: signing in brings you straight back to the page you were trying to reach. A poet who keeps their profile to their followers gets the same treatment, with wording that says it is their followers who can see it. The app gets the explanation too, instead of the error it used to show.

August 23, 2026

• A comment that has been changed since it was posted now says so, quietly, beside the time. It shows on the poem and in your feed, so nobody is left answering wording that has already moved on. Opening the box to look and saving without changing a word does not mark it as edited.
• The little menu on a comment starts with Edit and Delete now. They used to sit underneath whatever else that menu happened to be showing, so the two things you reach for on your own words moved up and down depending on whose poem it was. They hold the same place everywhere now.
• Those three dots were also small enough to miss with a thumb. They are a proper size to press now, and the comment makes room for them instead of squeezing them against the edge.
• When an edit will not go through, you are told why in a sentence. Until now a few of these came back as a word in capital letters, which told you nothing about what to do next. This covers comments on photos as well as on poems.
• The email we send about a comment now opens on that comment, the same way tapping the notification does. Before, it left you at the top of the poem to go and find it.
• Opening a settings page straight from a bookmark or a link could come back as an error page instead of your settings. Someone hit it on their phone this morning and it is fixed.
• Your profile carries your name now, in the tab at the top of the browser and on the card that appears when someone shares your link. It used to show only the name of the site, whichever part of your profile the link went to.

August 22, 2026

• Adding a recording, a photo or a cover image works again. For about a day none of them would attach. The file never left your device, so there was nothing on our end to see and nothing to warn you with, and everything looked normal from where we sat. A member wrote in about her recordings and that is how we found it. Anything you tried to attach in that window was not saved, so it will need doing again.
• Comments on a photo get the same proper box that poems got yesterday, when you open that photo from an album. Writing one, replying to one and editing one were all still a single line, so anything longer than a sentence ran off the side and you had to drag back through your own writing to fix a word. Opening a photo straight from a feed still gives you the old narrow box for now, and that is next.
• You can get to a comment you want to change from your home feed. Opening the comments on a post there gave you no way to edit your own, so the only route was to remember which poem it was on and go and find it. There is an Edit next to Like and Reply now, and it opens that poem at your comment so you land straight on it.
• When a poet closes comments on a poem, you get to finish what you were saying. You have always had a day to edit your own comments after that happens, and the notice on the page said so, but the button to do it disappeared the moment the poem closed, so the day was impossible to use. The button stays for that day now.