Changelog

More room to tell your story

Add more detail to your profile and move more easily between editing sections.

• Write an About description of up to 1,200 characters.
• Keep Manage profile focused with one section open at a time, without losing your drafts.
• Update a verified profile's category while keeping its verification.
• Choose directory filters from any page before leaving it.

Clearer account access and page navigation

Find your account and profile more easily, with smoother page transitions and clearer profile previews.

• Refreshed header, logo and mobile navigation.
• Open your profile from the menu, desktop header or mobile navigation.
• Sign in or create an account from the account card.
• Track your profiles and submissions with clearer totals and filters.
• Preview saved profile changes without leaving Manage profile, with clearer save feedback.
• Simpler public contact editing, direct email links and multiline addresses, while hidden details stay private.
• Smoother page transitions.
• Clearer category and location labels.
• Find newly verified people and learn what verification means.
• Discover a varied mix of profiles, or switch to newest added.

Clearer discovery and submission tracking

Preview similar public profiles before creating a listing, then return to your draft or continue with a new profile.

• Sort People and Business by newest added, oldest added, or name while keeping your search and filters.
• Browse clearer matching cards without leaving your draft.
• Suggest another person or business when signed in, with up to 10 new suggestions in 24 hours for members.
• Track profile submissions, ownership claims and reports with status filters and separate profile previews.
• Move between Account tabs and profile previews without losing your place.
• See clearer guidance about how many profiles you can create.

Smoother profile browsing and controls

Browse profiles in place, open directory filters from any page, and use clearer search and touch controls.

• Return to the same page, scroll position and edits when you close a profile.
• Open shared profile links in a full profile page.
• Use directory filters from any page while keeping your search text.
• Filter profiles by whether they have been claimed.

More recognizable profile links

Profile links now show brand icons for Bluesky, Medium, Pinterest, Threads, Yelp, Spotify, Dribbble, Behance and Vimeo.

Clearer confirmation and request history

Follow request conversations and confirm your connection with clearer instructions.

• New ownership email checks give you 24 hours to confirm, with expired checks easier to notice.
• See when an email check is requested and read earlier request conversations together.
• Refresh notifications when opening the menu without clearing the updates already shown.
• Return to your submissions list after submitting a profile.
• Keep your account name separate from the names of profiles you submit.

Clearer request reviews and updates

Follow your profile requests with clearer review details and simpler notifications.

• Start your own profile submission before signing in, then continue securely.
• Add a profile beside your account's profile counts.
• Read and reply to review questions more comfortably on phones.
• See fewer redundant notifications, mark updates read when opened, and load older updates.
• Find unread updates more easily in the notification menu.

Track your profile requests

Submit or claim your personal profile and businesses you own, then follow each request from your account.

• Own 1 personal profile and up to 5 business profiles, with suggestions kept separate.
• Reply to review questions, confirm an associated email when needed, or ask for another way to provide evidence.
• Open request updates directly from notifications and cancel pending requests from their details.
• Ask for a private review of an incorrect claim while preserving the public listing.
• Request an invitation from the create-account form, with helpful prompts and clearer sign-in actions.
• Read longer request details more comfortably on phones.

Clearer feedback and form guidance

Send feedback with clear field guidance and a confirmation when your message is sent.

• See required fields and character limits before sending, with consistent hints across forms.
• Return to the directory after sending feedback.
• Choose whether to keep editing or discard an unfinished profile draft.

Keep editing without losing your place

Profile drafts stay with you while you edit, and browsing more profiles takes fewer steps.

• Keep unsaved changes when collapsing profile sections or checking your public preview, with a warning before leaving the editor.
• Open the editor directly from a public profile you own.
• Browse more profiles as you scroll, while keeping your place when opening and closing a profile.
• Read full category names in the category menu.

Smoother browsing and profile updates

Directory browsing stays steady during updates, and profile owners can update their display name.

• Keep browsing while directory results update.
• Return from profiles and information pages without losing the directory's loaded results.
• Update an owned profile's display name from Public Details.
• Follow clearer profile submission steps and retain your draft if you need to sign in again.

Clearer account and reporting options

Account navigation and profile reporting now have clearer steps.

• Find account controls in the Settings tab and land in your account after registration unless you have a task to finish.
• Report a profile while signed in and follow your report from your account.
• Request profile removal for privacy or ownership concerns without creating an account, using an email confirmation step.

Join Faces with an invitation

Invited visitors can now create a Faces account using the code in their invitation.

• Enter your invitation code, then confirm your email to finish creating your account.
• New invitation codes are shorter and grouped for easier typing.
• Existing members can continue signing in as usual.

Smoother account navigation

Improved signed-in navigation and kept account content visible while checking for updates.

Clearer submission steps

Made submission steps easier to follow and improved the move to Account Submissions after submitting a profile.

Added submission tracking

Track submitted profiles, review status, and next steps from Account Submissions.

• Added a cleaner submission list with expandable details.
• Added status tracking for suggestions and owner-submitted profiles.
• Added clearer labels for approved, claimed, pending, rejected, and not-public submissions.
• Clarified claim and ownership states so approved unclaimed profiles can be claimed by the rightful owner.

Improved profile ownership flows

Create or claim a profile with clearer account and ownership steps.

• Added a clearer account step before creating or claiming owner-managed profiles.
• Improved the claim flow so visitors can request management access from the profile they are viewing.

Expanded directory categories

Expanded the official Faces category list so people, businesses, local services, public organizations, retired individuals, athletes, healthcare professionals, and more can choose a better fit.

• Added broader categories for professional, local, healthcare, sports, community, creative, and personal profiles.
• Improved category consistency across directory filters, submissions, and profiles.

Browse the Faces directory

Introduced directory browsing, profile details, and core information pages.

• Open profiles without losing your place in the directory.
• Improved public menu behavior for signed-in and signed-out users.
• Added a public changelog page for tracking user-facing updates.