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 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

• August 14, 2026

A busy day of fixes, most of them from things you told us about. Keep the reports coming.

What we fixed

Poems now publish looking the way they did while you wrote them. Line breaks and spacing no longer shift after you publish
The Enter button on the front door was refusing tester codes. It lets you in now
GS Pro was failing to switch on for people who were gifted it or started a preview. It switches on properly now
A few emails from us were quietly failing to send. We now notice when that happens and retry the important ones

What we’re looking at

Carrying the rest of your toolbar styling, like alignment and indents, through to the published poem just as faithfully

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 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

• August 14, 2026

A busy day of fixes, most of them from things you told us about. Keep the reports coming.

What we fixed

Poems now publish looking the way they did while you wrote them. Line breaks and spacing no longer shift after you publish
The Enter button on the front door was refusing tester codes. It lets you in now
GS Pro was failing to switch on for people who were gifted it or started a preview. It switches on properly now
A few emails from us were quietly failing to send. We now notice when that happens and retry the important ones

What we’re looking at

Carrying the rest of your toolbar styling, like alignment and indents, through to the published poem just as faithfully