What we fixed and what we're working on at GS Poetry
When you tell us something is broken or awkward, it lands here once we have fixed it. Newest first, with the date it reached the site. If you reported it, you should be able to find it.
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• August 26, 2026
All three of these came from poets writing in to tell us something was wrong. If you reported one of them, this is it fixed.
What we fixed
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
One thing, found on a poet who had only just joined. If you have your profile set so that only poets can see it, this is about what everybody else was getting instead.
What we fixed
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
Comments again, mostly. Yesterday you got a proper box to write in. Today is the small print around it: knowing when something was changed, being able to reach the menu, and being told why in words when something will not go through.
What we fixed
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
Finishing yesterday, and one of ours that was broken from last night until this afternoon. The comment box got fixed on poems, and the rest of these are the places that fix had not reached yet.
What we fixed
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.
• August 21, 2026
A long day of small things, and one we got wrong yesterday and put back the same morning. Thank you to the person who wrote in about it.
What we fixed
Tapping a notification takes you to the thing that happened, and nowhere else. Yesterday we made the name of the person in a notification open their profile, and that was a mistake. Their name is the first and boldest thing in the row, so it is the natural place to press, and pressing it took you to their page instead of the comment you were trying to read. The whole row does one job again. If you want to get to the poet, tap their name on the comment itself, which is where it was asked for and where it still works.
We told you yesterday that older notifications about comments would take you straight to the comment. For some of them that simply was not true, and they still left you at the top of the poem to hunt for it. We found the ones that were still wrong and they all land properly now.
A notification about someone liking or commenting on your work now tells you who it was. When it genuinely cannot work out who, it now says nothing rather than filling the gap with something that was never right.
Tapping the name of someone who has not picked a username yet used to take you to a page that does not exist. It no longer offers you a link that goes nowhere.
A recorded reading your browser cannot play now says so, instead of doing nothing at all and taking the rest of the page down with it. This mostly affects older recordings opened in Safari. Those recordings still will not play there, and that is a separate thing we are working on, but you will at least be told rather than left pressing a button that does nothing.
The daily writing prompt has been quietly turning over since June, long before any of you were here to read one. Fifty-nine of them came and went with nobody to see them. Starting tomorrow we are putting those fifty-nine back, one a day, in the order they were written, before the list carries on where it left off.
The box for writing a comment is a proper box now. It used to be one line tall, so anything longer than a sentence ran off the side and fixing a word in the middle meant dragging back through your own writing to reach it. It starts four lines deep, grows as you write, and you can put a thought on its own line with shift and return. That covers leaving a comment, replying to one, and replying as the poet on your own poem.
Editing your own comment is something you can find. It was tucked behind three faint dots beside your name and that was the only way in. Edit now sits next to Reply and Like on your own comments, and the box it opens holds the whole thing rather than one line of it. The dots are still there, and are easier to see, for everything else.
If you edit a comment and it trips the poet's word filters, you are told it is waiting on their review. Until now you got a tick and the word updated, and then the comment quietly went missing from the poem with nothing to explain why.
