Release Notes

Features

Ascents

• Add a Change Log option to the ascent menu, allowing contributors to view the history of changes made to an ascent.

Features

Lists

• Add a new First Ascents by Women page showing first ascents by women in bouldering (8B+), sport (9a+) and trad (E8+), with tabs for each discipline.

Features

Media

• Align media embeds on the home page so captions of different lengths no longer cause misaligned Instagram and YouTube embeds on desktop.

Ascents, Climbers, Media

• Prevent exact dates more than 2 days in the future from being entered for ascent dates, dates of birth, dates of death, and media dates.

Fixes

General

• Fix an inconsistency where contribution counts on the contributors page and the user profile page could differ.

Features

Crags

• Add a map-based location picker for setting a crag's location from the more menu.
• Support direction-first coordinate formats when pasting coordinates (e.g. N48° 23' 29.7852'', E2° 27' 22.6764'').

Library

• Split the library item edit modal into two columns with notes on the right, and add a reference quick-add input.

General

• Tidy up the more menu on crag, climb, climber, area, and library item pages with dividers between sections.

Fixes

Areas

• Fix an issue where deleting an area did not persist.

Features

Games

• Add sport routes and trad tabs to the ranking game.

Features

General

• Add filters to the change log page.

Fixes

Media

• Fix an issue where the media edit modal would not load.

Features

Climbers

• Support non-binary gender on climber profiles.

Fixes

Climbers

• Fix duplicate entries appearing in best efforts when a climber has multiple ascent styles.

Fixes

Climbers

• Fix an issue where uploading a picture for a climber would clear all of the climber's data.

Summits

• Fix an issue where uploading a picture for a summit would clear all of the summit's data.

Features

Climbers

• Support a non-binary option for climbers, removing gendered references from quick info and metadata when enabled.

General

• Add the ability for moderators to suspend and unsuspend users from their profile page.

Fixes

Climbs

• Fix a missing emoji on climbs marked as currently unclimbable.

Features

General

• Add timezone support so times are displayed in your local timezone across the site.

Navigation

• Group profile and sign out links into a dropdown menu in the navbar.

Ascents

• Show the ascent edit form in two columns on desktop for a better layout.

Fixes

Media

• Fix an issue where minutes were displayed as months in timestamps.

Features

Search

• Include alternate names for summits in search results, so summits can be found by their other names.

Features

General

• Split edit modals into two columns on desktop, with details on the left and notes on the right, making it easier to edit longer notes.
• Move the media upload form on climbers and summits into a separate "Upload Picture" / "Upload Media" option in the "More" menu.

Features

General

• Move the delete button from the edit modal to the "More" dropdown menu across all entity pages, with a dedicated confirmation modal.
• Add an optional redirect when deleting climbs, crags and summits, so deleted pages can point to another entity for deduplication.

Features

Climbers

• Add a dedicated podcasts page for climbers with many podcast appearances, with a link to view all when the list is truncated.

Summits

• Add a dedicated library items page for summits, with a link to view all when the list is truncated.

Summits, Areas, Library

• Show contributor details on summit, area and library item pages.

General

• Show more contributors per row and use smaller text in the contributors section across all pages.

Features

Climbs

• Show "(project)" in the page title and meta description for climbs marked as projects.
• Add keyboard shortcut (a) to focus the climber input in the add ascent form on climb pages.

Fixes

Climbers

• Fix a crash on the ascent graph when a climber has no dated ascents.
• Fix fetching IFSC competition data for climbers after the IFSC site was rebuilt.

Crags

• Fix display of website links on crag pages after data migration.

Features

Crags, Summits

• Accept UK Ordnance Survey grid references (e.g. SH 612 567) in the coordinates input when adding or editing locations.

Media

• Support embedding YouTube Shorts videos alongside regular YouTube videos.
• Show caption, attribution, source and date on the featured article's lead media on the home page.

Lists

• Enable sorting on any column by clicking the column header.

Climbs

• Add keyboard shortcuts for navigating between ascents (j/k) and opening the ascent edit modal (e) on climb pages.

General

• Add a custom 404 page for when a page cannot be found.

Fixes

Crags, Climbs, Climbers

• Fix an issue where the contributors section would show stale data after an edit, requiring a second page reload to update.

General

• Fix an issue where refreshing the page after posting a comment on a thread would submit the comment a second time.

Features

General

• Improve the mentions autocomplete to search across the full query, making it easier to find common names.
• Automatically convert bare URLs into clickable links when saving notes, descriptions and captions across the site.

Crags, Summits

• Accept coordinates in more formats when adding or editing locations, including degrees/minutes/seconds and decimal degrees with direction.
• Simplify the location fields into a single coordinates input with validation feedback.

Fixes

General

• Fix an issue where the mentions autocomplete menu would remain visible after a mention was completed.
• Fix an issue where selecting a mention from the suggestions would duplicate the last typed character.

Fixes

Lists

• Fix a bug when creating a new list.

Features

Summits

• Remove the Himalayan Database section, which is now hosted on its own dedicated website.

Features

Ascents

• Show hidden notes to contributors on ascent rows.

Fixes

Ascents

• Fix padding on the exclude reason display.

Features

Climbers

• Include ground-up ascents when calculating a climber's hardest grade.

Features

Lists

• Expand the Recent Hard Ascents page to include more women's ascents.

Fixes

Media

• Fix an issue where media linked to deleted ascents was still being displayed.

Lists

• Fix a date boundary bug on the Recent Hard Ascents page.

Features

Media

• Add date range fields to media, allowing photos and videos to be dated

Users

• Add badges to user profiles for contribution milestones, posts and early users
• Add posts heatmap to user profiles
• Heatmaps now adapt to available screen width instead of scrolling

Climbers

• Add ascent style filter to the timeline tab

Features

Lists

• New Recent Hard Ascents page showing the hardest ascents logged in a recent time window
• The Lists page now filters by list type, and the navbar Lists link is a dropdown for quick access to each type

Climbers

• The Timeline tab now shows an ascent count badge, matching the other tabs
• Filtering the timeline now shows a summary of how many results are displayed

Features

Navigation

• Add a new Browse menu with links to Climbers, Climbs, Summits, Crags, Areas and Library.

Climbs

• Add a collapsible Suggested Grades section to climb pages, showing a breakdown of grade suggestions per grading system.

Climbers

• Ascent tabs on climber pages now load dynamically, improving page load times for climbers with many ascents.
• The timeline sort order no longer triggers a full page reload.
• Add filters to the timeline tab: climb type, year range, first ascents only, successful ascents only, and comp results.

Crags

• Move the new crag form to the bottom of the crags listing page.
• Move the new climb form to the bottom of the crag page.

Library

• The library listing page is now visible to all users. Adding new items remains restricted to admins.

General

• Edit modals now show a loading spinner while data is being fetched, preventing the form from flashing as fields populate.
• Split the sitemap into smaller per-type sitemaps with a sitemap index at /sitemap.xml.

Features

Recent Contributions

• Add include and exclude user filters to the recent contributions page, allowing admins to filter contributions by specific users.

Climbers

• Add date helper to date of birth and date of death fields in the climber edit modal, matching the existing behaviour on ascent date fields.

Fixes

Crags

• Automatically update reverse geocoding when a crag's coordinates are changed.

Fixes

Home

Fix broken instagram embeds appearing on home page.

Ascents

Fix bug for contributors which was breaking the More menu for unsuccesful ascents.

COntributors

Add horizontal scrolling to tabl for small devices.

Features

Ascents

Split ascent edit modal into smaller pieces: edit, meta, upload media, delete. This keeps the most commonly used features easily accessible without crowding out the rest of the modal.

Moving functionality to the menu also makes space for more options in future.

Features

Crags

• Add Website and Wikipedia meta data to allow adding external links for crags.
• Add a form for adding new climbs directly from a crag page.

Climbers

• Improved age display to support approximate ages when date of birth or date of death is not an exact date.

Tools

• Add a page listing broken Instagram embeds with links to the associated climber and climb.

Fixes

Contributors

• Improve load time of /contributors by optimising underlying query and adding caching.

Features

Thread

If you are logged in you can now add reactions to posts in threads.

Climber

Date of birth and date of death are now stored as date ranges rather than metadata entries. This allows for more flexible dates — for example, "born in 1985" or "born in the 1960s" — using the same date range system already used for ascent dates. Existing date of birth and date of death metadata has been migrated automatically.

Fixes

Media

Instagram embeds break over time — posts get deleted, accounts go private, or Instagram blocks embedding. Previously there was no way to detect this, so broken embeds would appear on the site as blank or error states. We now check embeds periodically to see if they're broken and if they are we hide them from the media API so they won't appear on climb or climber pages.

New Features

Climb

• You can now add a climb to a crag directly from the climb edit modal using a new crag dropdown. This also allows moving a climb to a different crag, or removing it from a crag entirely.

Crag

• You can now add a crag directly from the new /crags page. The form includes a map picker for selecting the crag location, and reverse geocoding is run automatically on submission.

New Features

Climber

• Fix a bug when initialising a climber page where the climber doesn't have any ascents on their timeline.

New Features

Climber

• Added a Pseudonym meta key, to indicate when a climber in the database is using a pseudonym. Generally should be pretty obvious, but good to flag it anyway as it could be useful when writing queries against the database.
• When adding an ascent, the ascent type now defaults to something sensible based on the climb type e.g. boulder problem -> bouldered.

New Features

Summits

• Added many new summits to the database.
• Added reverse geocoding so we can see which country a summit is in.

Features

Threads

• Add Mark all read for threads.
• Add a thread count to the More menu for relevant resources.

Features

User

Add Current Streak and Longest Streak numbers to the user profile, where a streak is consecutive days where the user has made one or more contributions.

Fixes

User

Improved page load time for /user endpoint by adding some caching for expensive queries and by optimising queries.

Features

Featured Content

The featured content system was pretty broken which meant it wasn't possible to add new climbs or climbers. We've added a new tool for selecting lead media (i.e. the piece of media that appears on the front page alongside the article) and cleaned up a lot fo the background logic to make the functionality much more usable.

Fixes

Metadata

Following feedback from contributors that meta data table was too prominent I've shrunk the table a bit.

Features

FAQs

Added a new FAQs section where we can answer common questions.

Maps

Added buttons to link out to some more external map services (OSM, Apple and Bing).

Fixes

Search

The / keyboard shortcut for focusing the search box now no longer overwrites the contents of the search if there was text already there.

Climbers, Crags

Tabs for separating climb types now scroll horizontally rather than overflowing on mobile.

Change Log

Fixed an issue where extra change log entries were being made when editing ascents with non-null ascent_dt_start or ascent_dt_end. Thanks to GaryTC for the report. This includes some minor tweaks to contribution numbers.

New Features

Users

• Added a new contributions heat map to the top of each user page.

• Added a heat map for all contributions

Fixes

Ascents

• Fix bug where contributions weren't being calculated correctly after an ascent edit was made.

Fixes

Library

• Refactor of maps related functionality
• Map now zooms to accomodate included crags correctly
• Summits now included on maps in some circumstances
• Summits now included on library item pages

Maintenance

• Improve type hints on Area class

New Features

Admin - Refactor of rate limit code including a few bug fixes - Added page for managing rate limits - Added page for monitoring site traffic. Note this is mainly aimed at identifying abusive use. Data is stored for 24 hours before being deleted.

Fixes

Climber, Climb

• Several small styling fixes for issues on mobile

New Features

Areas

Added the idea of areas. These are geographic regions defined by a geoJOSN file which describes the boundary. This should allow us to answer questions like "what are the hardest boulder problems in the peak district?"

Sign Up

• Added password reset functionality
• Fix issue which was causing some users to have 'required' appended to their email address

New Features

Meta Data

• Added a page for viewing, adding and editing meta data keys.
• Added new Ex-Resident meta data for a person who has spent significant time living in a country.

Fixes

Significant refactor to make code more manageable going forward.

New Features

Ascents Tables

• Ascents tables on climber and climb pages have been redesigned, making long tick lists easier to browse.
• Notes are shown by default
• Click any row to collapse or expand its notes
• Use "Expand All" / "Collapse All" to toggle all rows at once
• Your Expand All / Collapse All preference is remembered between visits

New Features

• Release notes page added to track site updates

Sortable Ascent Tables

• The Sport Routes, Boulder Problems, Trad Routes, and Other tabs on climber profiles now have sortable tables
• Click any column header to sort by that column
• Click again to reverse the sort order

New Features

Quick Date Buttons

• The ascent edit modal now has quick buttons for common dates
• One tap for "Today" or "Yesterday" - no more fiddling with date pickers

Bug Fixes

• Indoor bouldering now uses the standard boulder grading system
• "High Mountain" climb type has been simplified and hidden from most views

New Features

Better @Mentions

• When mentioning other climbers in your notes, names that start with what you're typing now appear first

Bug Fixes

• Aid climb grades now display correctly
• Renamed "Big Wall" to "Aid Climb" for clarity

New Features

• Static files (images, stylesheets) now load faster thanks to improved caching
• You can now add Pictures to the library

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the page would reload unnecessarily after editing climb details

New Features

Homepage Updates

• Climbs marked as projects are now more clearly indicated
• Approximate grades now show a ~ symbol so you know when a grade is estimated

Bug Fixes

• Improved spacing on mobile devices for climb and climber pages
• Competition dates are now formatted consistently with ascent dates
• Added breathing room around embedded videos on the homepage

New Features

Library Additions

• You can now add 3D Models to the library for crags with 3D scans available

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where pictures of climbers weren't loading correctly due to an assumption about the media having a title.