v0.5.1
11 November 2026
Member area
- 📅 Thunderbird has its own button for the personal calendar, which finds the calendar in every version over an encrypted link.
v0.5.0
11 November 2026
Website
- 🔎 Search engines are now more likely to find the site by searching for it's name with spaces between the words.
- 📷 The home pages list the organisation's Instagram profiles as organisation schema.
- 🌍 The language switcher shows how much of each language is translated.
- 🎬 A click on a video preview starts the video on the page instead of leaving for the player page.
- 💬 The online community on defendanimals.now links to our Discord server.
- 📝 The texts of the briefing, dress code, get active, join, our activism, outreach, quiz and values pages have been reviewed and polished.
- 📅 Calendar feeds can be subscribed to in Thunderbird.
- ⚖️ he privacy policy and the terms of use show the date of their version, and the privacy policy names our host, our mail service and the basis for transfers to the US.
- ⚖️ The terms of use set a minimum age of 16 for accounts, with a parent's consent below 18.
Member area
- 📋 Membership requests come with a questionnaire, answers are stored in the account and deleted when no open request or membership remains.
- 🔒 Pack leaders see the answers only after the person has agreed for their pack, and the consent can be withdrawn on its own page.
- ✉️ Pack leaders can ask people with an older request to answer the questionnaire, and are told when the answers arrive.
- 🐾 Packs chosen at sign-up wait as drafts until the questionnaire is sent, with one reminder before they expire after 60 days.
- 🐾 Pack leaders, regional coordinators and admins join other packs directly, and pack leaders can step down on their own.
- 🐾 Pack names in "Your memberships" link to the public pack page.
- ⚖️ Changes to the privacy policy or the terms of use are announced by mail and accepted on a page that lists what changed.
- 📝 Pack leaders get a task and a mail to file the attendance report once a stand has ended.
- 📅 The personal calendar can be added to Outlook.com and Microsoft 365, the Apple Calendar button works, and its link is always passed on encrypted.
- 📱 The member area no longer scrolls sideways on phones, and the navigation keeps the current page in view.
- 🪧 Closing cards are marked for the printing condition ISO Coated v2, so print shops know how the colours were prepared.
v0.4.3
7 November 2026
Website
- 🔎 Search engines find a sitemap in every language and better descriptions of pages, packs and stands.
- 🎬 The Dominion video on defendanimals.now only loads after a click, which saves mobile data and sends nothing to the video host until then.
- 📝 The texts about us, the animals, our values and the learn page have been reviewed and polished.
Member area
- 🔒 Admins can reset a lost second factor, and the person is told by mail.
v0.4.0
5 November 2026
Website
- 📅 All stands can be subscribed to as a calendar in every language, described on a new API page.
- ✉️ The contact form offers new topics such as legal help, translations, donations and bug reports, and the error pages link to the bug report form.
- 🐾 Pack pages have moved to /pack, and old links keep working.
- 🔗 Links to other sites open in a new tab.
- 🗺️ Maps stay below the header while scrolling.
- 🐷 The logo on defendanimals.now leads to theyaresomeone.org.
- 🍪 The privacy policy names each cookie by what it is for.
- ⌨️ Fields for names, addresses and codes are no longer marked by the spellchecker.
Member area
- 📅 Members get a personal calendar with the stands of their packs, managed on the new calendar page.
- 🕰️ Every pack has its own time zone, and the days and times of its stands follow it.
- ✏️ Stands can be changed or cancelled until they end, and pack leaders can send a mail about the changes to everyone who said yes.
- ↩️ Replies to mails from pack leaders go to the pack's address.
- 🌍 Mails and the calendar use the language of the account.
- ✉️ Logged-in members get a copy of their message from the contact form, and admins can show a note that replies take longer than usual.
- 📖 The side navigation shows which guides are unread or have been revised since the last visit.
- 📊 Admins find site statistics with figures and charts for the last 12 months.
- 🏷️ The changed mark of a stand sits next to its time, so the reply buttons stay in one row.
- 🧭 The competence check speaks of becoming a Pack Leader.
Technology
- 🌍 Translators see notes on the context of texts.
v0.3.1
5 November 2026
Member area
- 🪧 Closing cards print at 55 × 55 mm, the size they were designed for.
v0.3.0
4 November 2026
Website
- 📜 New changelog listing the changes of every version.
- 🎨 The landing page of defendanimals.now has a new design with large answer boxes, videos, first steps and cards for the ways to get active.
- 🏠 The homepage of theyaresomeone.org leads to the videos and first steps on defendanimals.now.
- 🧤 The starter pack offers disposable and reusable black gloves.
Member area
- 🪧 New closing card generator for printable cards with the QR codes of members, packs and shared codes.
- 🔗 Codes are shown with their complete link, a copy button and, for personal codes, their QR code.
- 📝 Applications have notes and coloured labels for the induction team.
- 🐾 The page of an application shows its pack, its pack leaders and other open applications for the same place.
- 🔢 The side navigation counts the applications waiting for the team and leads straight to them.
- 📋 The list of applications shows phase and labels in one compact row.
- 🖼️ Applicants can use the profile picture generator once they passed the competence check, and the account guidelines link to it.
- 📥 The inbox no longer repeats the link to a form as a separate button.
- 📱 The Instagram guidelines keep the display name out of the bio.
- 📚 The briefing uses the term Stand throughout.
Technology
- ⚡ Faster automated tests.
v0.2.3
2 November 2026
Member area
- 🖼️ New profile picture generator for the packs' Instagram accounts.
- 🔎 The inbox and the applications can be filtered, sorted and paged.
- 📚 The pack leader resources consistently use the term pack leader.
Technology
- ✉️ Mail buttons stay visible in dark mode.
- 🪶 Smaller images for the profile picture generator.
v0.2.2
1 November 2026
Website
- 🧤 New pages for the starter pack and the dress code.
- ✅ Every form is checked in the browser before it is sent.
Member area
- 📍 Applications name one place, avoid duplicate packs and show contradictions at once.
- 📞 Contact options of an application are added one by one.
- 📚 The organiser resources are now called pack leader resources.
v0.2.1
1 November 2026
Website
- 🔗 Link previews are drawn for pack and Stand pages.
- 🐾 The confirmation of a pack request lies over the join form.
Member area
- 🪪 The identity is asked for again only where it protects the account.
v0.2.0
31 October 2026
Website
- 🔗 Every page has a description and a link preview.
- ✊ The our activism page tells the story of the Stand for Justice.
- 🏷️ The action finder shows the logos of the organisations.
- 📖 The story form is shorter and shows the progress of its upload.
- 🐷 All animal texts are filled in.
Member area
- 🐾 Logged-in people join a pack without the sign-up form.
- 👑 Admins and regional coordinators can become pack leaders of packs they belong to.
- 🤝 Pack leaders are members of the packs they lead.
- 📣 New announcement generator.
- 📅 Upcoming Stands link to their pages.
- 💬 The pack leader tasks link to the next outreach question.
- 📋 All recovery codes can be copied with one button.
- 📱 The authenticator key survives a reload, and setup on phones is easier.
- ✉️ Mails have a shorter footer.
Technology
- 🌐 Alias domains redirect to the main domains.
- 🔒 Security improvements.
v0.1.0
31 October 2026
The first version of the new website.
Website
- 🎨 New design system across the whole site.
- 🏠 Home, about us, our values, about them, our activism, learn, get active, quiz, join and contact pages.
- 🐮 Animal of the day and a quiz with one question at a time.
- 🧭 Outreach guidelines as unfolding flowcharts on the learn page.
- 📱 QR landing page on defendanimals.now.
- 🗺️ Join map with packs as cards, their next Stand and a place search.
- 📸 Public pack pages with group photos and contact buttons, and public Stand pages.
- 🔍 Action finder and contact form.
- 💌 Stories for "Did you know someone?".
- 📰 Newsletter sign-up.
- ⚖️ Imprint, privacy policy and terms of use in German.
- 🌍 Language switcher, including German Sign Language.
Member area
- 👤 Accounts with sign-up, login, two-factor authentication, password reset and account deletion.
- 📊 QR codes for members with monthly statistics as charts.
- 📥 Inbox with tasks, notifications, mail settings and unsubscribe links.
- 🎟️ Shared code invitations.
- 🏘️ Organiser area for packs, regions, master data and the map position of a pack.
- 🎓 Applications and induction of pack leaders, including the competence check.
- 📷 Stands with attendance reports and group photos; several pictures can be uploaded at once and are cropped in the browser.
- 🛠️ Admin area for structure, profiles, inactive leaders, stories and the audit log.
- ✉️ Inactive leaders whose role is revoked are informed by mail.
- 📚 Pack leader resources: values, accountability, briefing, conflict management, feedback guide and social media guidelines.
Technology
- 🧩 One Go application serves both domains.
- 🚀 Automatic deployments to dev, staging and production, for amd64 and arm64.
- 🌍 Translations managed in Weblate.
- 📈 Visitor statistics with Umami.
- 🚨 Error reporting from the browser.
- 🔒 Security review with fixes.