What's New

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.

Something still not right? Send us a note and we will write back.

• August 20, 2026

What we fixed

Boosting a poem was close to impossible to find. Everything told you to highlight the poem first, which was correct, but then the button to actually boost it was nowhere near your highlighted poems. It sits with them now. Go to your own profile, look at the row of highlighted poems at the top, and under each one there is a small rocket that boosts that poem for seven days. Tap it once, then once more to confirm. The poem has to be public for the rocket to appear.
Someone who leaves a comment is now someone you can actually get to. Tap their name or their picture and their profile opens. That works on a poem, on a photo, on replies to either, and in the lists where you look at comments on your own work. Some of those already linked the name but not the face beside it, so half the row did nothing when you pressed it. Both halves work everywhere now.
Clicking a notification about a comment used to drop you at the top of your poem, so you had to scroll down and hunt for the comment you were trying to read. It now takes you straight to that comment and lights it up for a moment so your eye lands on it. Replies too, which are the easier ones to lose. This works on notifications you were already sent, not only new ones.
If your membership was given to you rather than paid for, the page promised you 100 free credits every month and you were not getting them. You are now, once a month, counted from your first one. This starts from here: it does not fill in the months that already went by.
The panel for adding a cover photo to a poem has been redrawn. It now sits up off the page as its own card, with a line of color across the top, and it looks and behaves the same whether you are writing a new poem or editing one you have already published.
The little box in the corner for telling us something is here to stay. It was built for the alpha and was set to disappear when the alpha ended, which would have left you with no way to reach us from inside the site at exactly the moment there are most of you.

• August 18, 2026

Nearly all of today came from you writing in to tell us something was wrong. If you reported one of these, this is it fixed.

What we fixed

Poems marked as mature had stopped appearing in Discover, in Trending, in the poem of the day, and anywhere else you would browse for them. That included for the poet who wrote them, so you could publish something and then not be able to find it. They show up again now when you are signed in.
Links to highlighted poems on a profile were leading to a page saying the poem could not be found. That included your own. They open properly now.
Every notification about a new poem said the poem was called "Untitled", whatever it was really called. They carry the real title now. This one had been wrong for every single new-poem notification we have ever sent.
A poem you started as a draft and published later was slotting into New Poems at the moment you first began writing it, not the moment you published, so it landed pages down the list and looked like it never went out. It now shows up at the top when you publish it.
Your home stream could come up completely empty. One broken item in it was enough to take the whole list down with it, and a stream that shows nothing looks exactly like a stream with nothing in it. One bad item can no longer hide everything else.
Coming back to the sign-up screen holding your verification code sometimes showed a blank box with nowhere to type it. The form keeps its shape now while it finishes loading.
The page for writing a poem, and some help articles, were failing to open for a small number of people. Both are fixed.
The note box in the corner for telling us something was written as though everything you might say is a problem report, so an idea or a compliment had nowhere natural to go. It now asks a question that fits whichever you picked, the Send button stays on screen while you write, and nothing about it suggests you only get one sentence. Say as much as you want.
Scheduling a poem from a phone did not work: tapping the date and time box did nothing, so there was no way to pick when your poem goes out. On a phone you now get your phone's own date and time picker, which is how it always should have worked.

• August 17, 2026

What we fixed

Collections can now be shared with a link. You turn sharing on from the collection itself, and anyone you hand the link to can open it without needing an account.

• August 16, 2026

What we fixed

Your setting to stop people right-clicking and selecting your poems was not actually doing anything. It works now, including in Focus Mode, and you can still select and copy your own work. It discourages casual copying, it cannot stop someone who is determined.
Deleting your profile photo left a broken picture behind wherever your face used to be. Your photo now clears properly, and any picture that fails to load shows the plain letter avatar instead of a broken image.
Poet cards now put the photo on top with the name and country underneath, so every card in a row is the same height. A long username no longer wraps onto a second line: it trims with dots and shows in full when you hover it.
Suggested Poets was showing a single poet, because it only offered someone who had filled in every part of their profile. Poets who are actively publishing now show up there, with the fuller profiles first.
On the homepage, the Today's Poem label and date moved off the poet's photo and onto the page itself, so the date stays readable no matter how bright that day's picture is.
The Today's Poem card opened on a strip of empty space instead of the photograph, and it was worst on a phone. The card now starts on the picture, and the label and date are bigger.
On Discover, the poems you land on first are the newest ones. New Poems now sits ahead of Trending and is the tab that opens for you.

• August 15, 2026

What we fixed

Today's Poem sometimes featured a poet who had taken their photo down, so the card showed an empty space where their face should be. When that happens now, the card points you to Discover instead.
The feedback button in the corner had a tiny, faint envelope on it. It is a proper envelope now, and big enough to see at a glance.
The homepage is new. It walks you through what GS Poetry is, one section at a time, and ends by inviting you in instead of just stopping.
The activity ticker on the front page was mostly rows of people signing up. It shows a wider mix now, more of it, and you can click straight through to a poem.
Poems with no cover picture were being handed a stock photo, so a poem could show a picture that was never yours. A poem without a cover now simply has none.
Poem titles in some lists led to a page saying the poem was not found. Poem links now work everywhere a poem is listed.
A long poem posted to the stream ran the whole length of the screen. Long posts now show the opening and let you expand the rest right where you are.
Pasting a poem in from somewhere else could drag its colors and highlighting along, sometimes leaving the words unreadable. Pasted poems now match the site.
Today's Poem showed zeros for reads, likes and comments, and your Activity Overview disagreed with your Top Performers. Those numbers are right now.
On Discover, New Poets now leads and opens straight away, and the country list starts on the United States.
Poets without a photo now all share the same GS Poetry letter avatar, poet cards no longer show a bio nobody wrote, and cards stop clipping their top edge on hover.

What's New

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.

Something still not right? Send us a note and we will write back.

• August 20, 2026

What we fixed

Boosting a poem was close to impossible to find. Everything told you to highlight the poem first, which was correct, but then the button to actually boost it was nowhere near your highlighted poems. It sits with them now. Go to your own profile, look at the row of highlighted poems at the top, and under each one there is a small rocket that boosts that poem for seven days. Tap it once, then once more to confirm. The poem has to be public for the rocket to appear.
Someone who leaves a comment is now someone you can actually get to. Tap their name or their picture and their profile opens. That works on a poem, on a photo, on replies to either, and in the lists where you look at comments on your own work. Some of those already linked the name but not the face beside it, so half the row did nothing when you pressed it. Both halves work everywhere now.
Clicking a notification about a comment used to drop you at the top of your poem, so you had to scroll down and hunt for the comment you were trying to read. It now takes you straight to that comment and lights it up for a moment so your eye lands on it. Replies too, which are the easier ones to lose. This works on notifications you were already sent, not only new ones.
If your membership was given to you rather than paid for, the page promised you 100 free credits every month and you were not getting them. You are now, once a month, counted from your first one. This starts from here: it does not fill in the months that already went by.
The panel for adding a cover photo to a poem has been redrawn. It now sits up off the page as its own card, with a line of color across the top, and it looks and behaves the same whether you are writing a new poem or editing one you have already published.
The little box in the corner for telling us something is here to stay. It was built for the alpha and was set to disappear when the alpha ended, which would have left you with no way to reach us from inside the site at exactly the moment there are most of you.

• August 18, 2026

Nearly all of today came from you writing in to tell us something was wrong. If you reported one of these, this is it fixed.

What we fixed

Poems marked as mature had stopped appearing in Discover, in Trending, in the poem of the day, and anywhere else you would browse for them. That included for the poet who wrote them, so you could publish something and then not be able to find it. They show up again now when you are signed in.
Links to highlighted poems on a profile were leading to a page saying the poem could not be found. That included your own. They open properly now.
Every notification about a new poem said the poem was called "Untitled", whatever it was really called. They carry the real title now. This one had been wrong for every single new-poem notification we have ever sent.
A poem you started as a draft and published later was slotting into New Poems at the moment you first began writing it, not the moment you published, so it landed pages down the list and looked like it never went out. It now shows up at the top when you publish it.
Your home stream could come up completely empty. One broken item in it was enough to take the whole list down with it, and a stream that shows nothing looks exactly like a stream with nothing in it. One bad item can no longer hide everything else.
Coming back to the sign-up screen holding your verification code sometimes showed a blank box with nowhere to type it. The form keeps its shape now while it finishes loading.
The page for writing a poem, and some help articles, were failing to open for a small number of people. Both are fixed.
The note box in the corner for telling us something was written as though everything you might say is a problem report, so an idea or a compliment had nowhere natural to go. It now asks a question that fits whichever you picked, the Send button stays on screen while you write, and nothing about it suggests you only get one sentence. Say as much as you want.
Scheduling a poem from a phone did not work: tapping the date and time box did nothing, so there was no way to pick when your poem goes out. On a phone you now get your phone's own date and time picker, which is how it always should have worked.

• August 17, 2026

What we fixed

Collections can now be shared with a link. You turn sharing on from the collection itself, and anyone you hand the link to can open it without needing an account.

• August 16, 2026

What we fixed

Your setting to stop people right-clicking and selecting your poems was not actually doing anything. It works now, including in Focus Mode, and you can still select and copy your own work. It discourages casual copying, it cannot stop someone who is determined.
Deleting your profile photo left a broken picture behind wherever your face used to be. Your photo now clears properly, and any picture that fails to load shows the plain letter avatar instead of a broken image.
Poet cards now put the photo on top with the name and country underneath, so every card in a row is the same height. A long username no longer wraps onto a second line: it trims with dots and shows in full when you hover it.
Suggested Poets was showing a single poet, because it only offered someone who had filled in every part of their profile. Poets who are actively publishing now show up there, with the fuller profiles first.
On the homepage, the Today's Poem label and date moved off the poet's photo and onto the page itself, so the date stays readable no matter how bright that day's picture is.
The Today's Poem card opened on a strip of empty space instead of the photograph, and it was worst on a phone. The card now starts on the picture, and the label and date are bigger.
On Discover, the poems you land on first are the newest ones. New Poems now sits ahead of Trending and is the tab that opens for you.

• August 15, 2026

What we fixed

Today's Poem sometimes featured a poet who had taken their photo down, so the card showed an empty space where their face should be. When that happens now, the card points you to Discover instead.
The feedback button in the corner had a tiny, faint envelope on it. It is a proper envelope now, and big enough to see at a glance.
The homepage is new. It walks you through what GS Poetry is, one section at a time, and ends by inviting you in instead of just stopping.
The activity ticker on the front page was mostly rows of people signing up. It shows a wider mix now, more of it, and you can click straight through to a poem.
Poems with no cover picture were being handed a stock photo, so a poem could show a picture that was never yours. A poem without a cover now simply has none.
Poem titles in some lists led to a page saying the poem was not found. Poem links now work everywhere a poem is listed.
A long poem posted to the stream ran the whole length of the screen. Long posts now show the opening and let you expand the rest right where you are.
Pasting a poem in from somewhere else could drag its colors and highlighting along, sometimes leaving the words unreadable. Pasted poems now match the site.
Today's Poem showed zeros for reads, likes and comments, and your Activity Overview disagreed with your Top Performers. Those numbers are right now.
On Discover, New Poets now leads and opens straight away, and the country list starts on the United States.
Poets without a photo now all share the same GS Poetry letter avatar, poet cards no longer show a bio nobody wrote, and cards stop clipping their top edge on hover.