Changelog

Edit

• New Draw from image history is available in Edit too, with automatic references, progress updates, and an "Inspired by..." trail while preserving the current image and explicit attachments as the primary inputs
• Fix Removed extra space between Add characters and Aspect Ratio

Create

• New Create automatically finds relevant earlier images when your prompt refers to them and makes a new design, with an "Inspired by..." trail afterward
• New Draw from image history starts on and remembers your choice in this browser; the renamed toggle uses a single label without a separate description, and switching it off skips automatic history lookup
• Improved Create and the generation queue show preparation, generation, finishing, retry, and reconnecting updates without treating a long wait as a failed image
• Improved Completed images show "Inspired by..." only when past images were used, without a note when no inspiration was found
• Improved History now ranks images by relevance, looks beyond the newest matches, avoids repeated edit variants, and distinguishes remembered subjects from visual styles without assuming you mean only your own images
• Improved Style requests now prefer two or three complementary past images when strong matches exist; subject recall can still use one clear reference without adding weak matches
• Improved Moved the past-images inspiration toggle directly below the main prompt composer and removed the Settings heading
• Fix Reference-search notes now use high-contrast light text on the dark generation overlay in Create and Edit
• Improved Removed the generic history-lookup delay note from generation overlays and the queue while keeping actual stage updates

Search

• Fix Gallery search now uses the full-text relevance index correctly instead of falling back because of a ranking-query error
• Improved Search and automatic inspiration now use structured image details and known character names; older images are upgraded gradually in the background, reusing existing descriptions where possible

Gallery

• Fix Because Cody came back madder than ever about broken search layouts, Gallery cards now recalculate after search and resize updates instead of occasionally overlapping
• Improved Reset Filters now stays red while filters are active and uses the same icon size as the other Gallery controls
• New Image details now show a lighter hedgehog participation note with italic text after the prompt

Interface

• Fix Because Cody was angry about the padding, close and dismiss buttons now use a larger, more balanced X and stay square beside long text while keeping the same easy-to-click target

Image Generation

• New Create and Edit can now increase hedgehog participation so the required hedgehog joins the requested action instead of remaining in the background

Reactions

• Fix Reaction emojis no longer show the page grid through their transparent backgrounds

Edit

• Fix Opening a completed image from the queue no longer shows progress messages from another edit still running

Image Generation

• Improved Create and Edit now place High Quality (GPT 2.5 Sunburst) on the left and select it by default, with Fast (GPT 2.5 Flare) on the right

Image Generation

• New Generate and Edit now offer Fast by default with GPT-Image-2.5-Flare or High Quality with GPT-Image-2.5-Sunburst
• Improved Removed LoFi Draft now that Fast generation is available, and Daily remix now uses Sunburst for maximum quality
• Improved Image records and Gallery metadata now capture both the selected model profile and exact deployment name
• Fix Create and Edit now reset generation settings to their defaults, while Edit preserves the loaded image's aspect ratio across generations
• Improved Fast and High Quality options now show their GPT 2.5 model names directly in the selector
• Improved Image details now show the model used directly beneath the prompt

Edit

• Fix Parent thumbnails now open the previous image for editing

Daily Digest

• Improved Daily Digest emails now match the redesigned site's colors, typography, image cards, and controls
• Improved Long prompts in Daily Digest image cards now stop after four lines
• Improved Capped digests now show how many additional images are waiting in the gallery

Gallery

• Fix Returning from an image now reuses loaded Gallery pages and restores the same position without fetching them again
• New A floating action appears deep in the Gallery for returning directly to the top
• Fix Opening a Gallery image on a narrow screen now starts at the top of Edit instead of the bottom

Interface

• Improved Create and Edit now pair inviting labels with clear, sentence-cased guidance for styles, character mentions, and pasted images

Reliability

• Fix Expired sign-ins now show an in-page prompt to refresh and sign in again instead of leaving the site unresponsive
• Fix Daily remix generation now retries occasional image-safety rejections before giving up
• Improved Daily remix now starts one hour before Daily Digest, leaving more time for automatic recovery

Daily Digest

• Improved Daily Digest blurbs now receive the names and descriptions of known characters included in each image, helping them identify characters accurately

Admin

• Fix Add Character now saves new characters instead of attempting to update an undefined character
• Improved Character controls and forms now appear above the list with clear spacing, and Edit scrolls the full form below the header

Edit

• Fix Opening another gallery image now shows a compact loading panel instead of briefly displaying the previously opened image or a large blank card

Gallery

• Fix The gallery loading indicator now appears in a clear panel over the image grid instead of shifting it when loading finishes

Interface

• Improved The collapsed generation queue now shows a spinner while an image is still being generated
• Improved Reloading the page now preserves queued requests and resumes tracking unfinished generations in the same browser tab
• Fix Return to Gallery remains legible when hovered on the image-generation overlay
• Improved Navigating to a completed queued image from anywhere now removes that request from the queue
• New The queue now transitions smoothly between open and collapsed states and uses a clear grip to drag it to either side of the browser
• Improved Create and Edit requests now open in the queue as soon as processing begins, and switching to Create leaves them running without carrying over the old Edit state

Edit

• Fix Character and attached-image thumbnails load consistently, fall back safely when previews fail, and no longer leave an invisible lightbox blocking the rest of the app
• Fix Edit restores the tighter production spacing between the prompt, attachments, characters, settings, and centered actions
• New Image edits can return to Gallery once safely processing and remain independently tracked alongside new image requests

Interface

• Improved The generation queue automatically collapses into a compact side tab so it does not cover Create actions, and reopens when selected or when a request finishes

Reliability

• Fix Local development no longer runs daily remix, digest, character ordering, or image backfill schedules; they remain enabled on the deployed server

Interface

• Improved Create now uses a spacious two-column form for prompts and image options
• Improved The prompt and open character picker now use two-thirds of the Create form, with top-aligned image attachments, right-column settings, and right-aligned Generate and LoFi Draft footer actions
• Improved Create now stays in its dedicated layout while generating, then the whole view fades into the separate Edit view when the image is ready
• Improved Generating from Create now shows a full-page overlay with rotating status messages and an elapsed timer until the image is ready
• New Send multiple image requests, return to Gallery once each is safely processing, and track every request independently until it is ready to view

Gallery

• Fix The Gallery search field now has a clear surface, border, and readable text in light mode
• Improved The search and filter panel now uses the same compact close control as other dialogs and panels
• Fix Parent images use a subtle navigation overlay in light mode so more of the thumbnail remains visible
• Fix Gallery load failures now show a proper alert icon instead of a broken character

Interface

• Improved Mobile headers now keep Create close at hand while a compact, evenly spaced profile summary, themes, and account actions live in a full-screen menu
• Improved Primary green accents plus green and red statuses and action buttons now use the same vivid colors in light and dark modes
• Fix Previous and Next image controls no longer remain available after leaving Edit mode for Create
• New Your light, dark, or system theme choice now follows your account across browsers and devices
• Improved The New Tab page now shares the site's themes, typography, design tokens, and controls, with a responsive theme picker
• Fix Switching between Search and Generate no longer stacks a heavy focus rectangle inside the prompt control

Admin

• Improved The Admin section selector now uses a down caret instead of a second hamburger icon
• Improved User requests and character suggestions now share the same section surfaces and spacing as other Admin tools, and All Users expands fully without an internal scrollbar
• Improved Character cards are larger with more padding, clearer thumbnails, and centered actions
• Fix Sidebar focus rings are no longer clipped, and the Admin heading now uses the shared serif display type
• New The Admin dashboard now counts Daily remix images separately from Super Evolution Remix and shows Memifier-created memes

Access

• Fix Local mock-auth sessions no longer create duplicate access records when identity IDs change

Gallery

• Fix Search, filter, and refresh controls now use the same text size
• Fix Gallery card footers now use light surfaces in light mode and dark surfaces in dark mode
• Fix Edit-page image details, navigation, character suggestions, and action icons now match the selected color theme
• Fix Opening a gallery image now shows Edit Image immediately without briefly flashing Create Image

Interface

• Improved Monochrome icons now follow their control colors across themes and use clearer sizing in image attachment controls
• Fix The New Tab Extension control now uses matching text, icon, badge, and surface colors when hovered or focused
• Improved Dark, light, and system options now include recognizable icons and a checkmark for the selected theme
• Improved The site logo now matches its original desktop size while retaining the compact mobile header
• Fix Suggest a Character opens correctly from the profile menu again
• Improved Theme and profile dropdowns now share the same components and automatically close when the other menu opens
• Improved Newsletter and character suggestion inputs now share the same compact form-control styling
• Improved Primary and secondary actions now share button sizing, typography, padding, and corner radius across dialogs and the Memifier
• Improved Fraunces headings now use the same medium weight throughout the site

Interface

• Improved Generation, Gallery, Family Tree, Super Remix, Changelog, and Admin now share a quieter, image-led design system
• New Choose a dark, light, or system color theme from the header and keep that preference across visits
• Improved Shared navigation, dialogs, loading states, filters, cards, and administrative tools now use accessible reusable components while retaining existing workflows

Characters

• Fix Uploading images while editing a character now adds them without removing existing reference images
• New Character reference images can now be pasted directly into admin add or edit forms and the Suggest a Character form
• New Remove uploaded or pasted previews before saving, and delete existing character images while editing

AI Models

• Improved AI features now consistently use the configured Azure deployment names, so models can be upgraded without code changes
• Fix Daily remixes now recover when an AI response includes an extra structured-data wrapper

Image Generation

• Fix Aspect ratio choices now use contrasting text and backgrounds in Chrome dropdowns on ChromeOS
• Improved Edit prompts now preserve unaffected regions and correct quality drift without unnecessary restyling

Gallery

• Improved Gallery cards now reserve space while images load and settle into the masonry layout individually without scroll jumps
• Improved The next gallery page now loads through a browser observer instead of repeated scroll measurements
• Fix Scrolling near the end of the gallery now consistently loads the next page

Image Generation

• Improved Generating or editing an image now scrolls the page all the way to the top
• Improved Generation time now appears in translucent white beneath the rotating loading message instead of under the Generate button

Image of the Day

• Improved Daily actions now account for the source image and selected character

Characters

• New From an image’s Edit page, move and resize a selection by its corners, then use the crop as a reference for a new character suggestion
• Improved The Edit-page action now matches the person-plus icon in the profile menu
• Improved Suggest a Character keeps its desktop button styling below the image card on mobile with no full-width background bar

Gallery

• Improved Keep scrolling past the 500 most recent images to load older stored images

Profile Menu

• Improved Admin access now appears at the bottom of the profile menu behind a divider, and only shows for administrators

Memifier

• Improved Edit text directly in each layer row, with a clearer Re-memify action for existing Memifications
• New Add auto-sizing Comic Sans speech and thinking bubbles with draggable placement, eight tail directions, connected speech tails and cloud-shaped thinking bubbles whose thought trails stay attached as they resize
• Improved AI edits now warn when the current meme will be baked in and its layers will no longer be editable

Memifier

• New Memify any gallery image from the Edit screen with as many draggable text layers as you need
• New Style each layer with font, size, fill, outline and alignment controls
• Editable Reopen a Memification to change its original layers without baking text over text
• Connected Memifications carry their source lineage, display a gallery badge and can continue through the regular AI Edit Image workflow

Characters

• New Type @ in the prompt box to bring up a character menu, and keep typing to narrow it down — fuzzy matching means @pork finds The Porker
• Improved Adding characters from the character menu now writes them to the end of your prompt, like “a hedgehog on a bike - With @The Porker & @Sonic”
• Improved Deleting a character’s name from the prompt removes it from the selection, so the two always stay in sync
• New Added characters are highlighted in the prompt box, and Backspace, Delete and the arrow keys treat the whole name as a single item instead of one letter at a time

Characters

• Improved Characters are now ordered by how often they’ve been used to generate images, instead of a manual sort order
• New Characters added in the last 14 days float to the top of the list so they get a fair chance to be discovered
• Faster The character list is served from a cached manifest instead of a database lookup on every page load, refreshed daily and on every character change
• New The admin character grid shows all-time usage counts, plus a Rebuild Order button to recompute the order on demand

Super Evolution Remix

• New Admins can run a finite chain of 1-20 successful remixes, with each completed image becoming the next image’s parent
• New A dedicated Super Remix gallery keeps experimental low-resolution results separate from the main gallery and search
• Reliable Progress, cancellation, failure limits, queue recovery, and stale-lock handling keep batches bounded without branching the lineage

Security & Authentication

• Private content enforcement — Hedgehog feed and content APIs now require sign-in, so unauthenticated clients can no longer browse image feed, conversations, messages, reactions, or profile pictures
• Protected image actions — Image generation, editing, and analysis endpoints now require authentication, preventing anonymous API usage against model-backed features
• Defense-in-depth access checks — Access control is now enforced at both the Static Web App route layer and API handler layer, reducing the risk of accidental public exposure

Reliability & Verification

• Auth guard regression coverage — Added automated tests that validate authenticated-principal parsing and confirm protected APIs keep authentication guards in place

Azure OpenAI API Guidance

• API version clarified — Confirmed that image generation and edit calls still require a dated api-version on deployment-style Azure OpenAI endpoints, while Responses API calls use /openai/v1/responses without an api-version query
• Current preview version check — Confirmed 2025-04-01-preview is the current preview version to keep for the existing image endpoint pattern

Maintenance Mode

• New Dedicated maintenance page with the site logo and a friendly "down for maintenance" message, so visitors see a proper notice instead of an error when the site is offline
• New The GitHub deployment workflow can now be swapped between maintenance mode and the live site by copying a single backup file

Search & Analysis

• Fix Image analysis (used for search text) now reliably completes instead of being silently killed by the server, which was causing many images to have no search text
• Fix Image analysis descriptions are no longer truncated mid-sentence
• New Reanalyze button in the admin image inspector to re-run analysis on any individual image
• New Search Analysis backfill tool on the admin page finds all images missing analysis and processes them with a live progress counter

Characters

• New Select named characters (like Hedge Hogan) when generating or editing images to automatically include their reference photos and descriptions, helping the model reproduce them consistently
• New Collapsible Characters panel on the generate/edit page shows character thumbnails you can toggle on or off
• Improved Selecting characters reduces your available upload slots (10 total), and the dropzone updates to show the adjusted limit
• New Character reference images appear in their own “Characters” section when viewing image details, with names shown on hover
• New Suggest a Character — submit character ideas with reference images from the profile menu for admin review
• New Admins can create, edit, and delete characters from the admin page with reference image uploads and display ordering
• New Pending character suggestions appear on the admin page for one-click approve or deny
• New The Admin menu item shows a notification badge when character suggestions are waiting for review
• Improved Selected characters are cleared when you start a new session, create a new image, or load an existing image for editing
• Improved Admin page shows image stats and pending suggestion count at the top for a quick overview
• Improved Characters on the admin page are displayed as a compact card grid instead of a tall list
• Improved Styled file upload buttons in the suggest dialog and admin character form match the site design

Upload Drop Zone

• Improved The upload area now says “Drop images here to add” instead of “to edit”, which better describes what happens when you attach images
• Fix The paperclip icon in the drop zone is now visible on dark backgrounds instead of rendering as black-on-dark

Content Safety

• Fix When the image model accepts a prompt but blocks the generated image later, the site now detects this and shows the content safety warning instead of silently timing out
• Fix The content moderation warning now clears automatically when you navigate away from the page

Admin Tools

• New Each image on the admin page now has an Inspect button that shows the full database object in an overlay
• Fix The Rebuild Manifest button on the admin page works again

Images API Migration

• Improved Image generation and editing now call the image model directly instead of routing through an intermediary, eliminating silent content-oriented rejections that were causing generation failures
• Improved Content moderation detection is now simpler and more reliable — a single clear error code instead of three ambiguous failure modes
• New Search indexing now happens in the background after you see your image, so generations feel faster while images remain searchable

Performance

• Improved Post-processing (image resizing, uploads, and database writes) now runs in fully parallelized phases, shaving seconds off each generation

Image Quality

• Fix The hedgehog instruction now works correctly even when asking to remove or change the background

Testing

• New Integration test suite covering all image paths: generate, edit, transparency, inpainting, content filtering, and search analysis
• Improved Tests use fixed input images for reproducible results — run with --save to inspect generated outputs
• New Pushing to main now automatically runs tests when API files have changed, blocking the push if any fail

Edit Image Timeout Fix

• Fix Edit requests now send image URLs directly to OpenAI instead of downloading and re-encoding them, making edits significantly faster
• Improved The original prompt is now always looked up for edits, giving the AI better context for your changes
• Improved Post-processing (image resizing, uploads, and database writes) now runs in parallel instead of sequentially

Generation Timeout Fix

• Fix The OpenAI API calls in both generate and edit functions now have an explicit 3-minute timeout, preventing the function from hanging indefinitely on a stalled model response during its 45-second execution window
• Improved Documented that the 40-second client-side timeout is intentionally set just below Azure Static Web Apps’ hard 45-second API limit, so the client cleanly aborts and switches to polling before the platform kills the connection

Edit Instruction-Following Improvements

• Improved Your edit instruction is now the leading text the AI sees, instead of being buried after long context — the model follows edit requests more accurately
• Improved When editing an existing image, the context sent to the AI uses your original short prompt (capped at 300 characters) instead of the expanded 1000+ character revised description, preventing context bloat during back-to-back edits
• Improved Quality policies and the hedgehog requirement now live in a separate system message, so they don’t compete with your actual edit instruction for the model’s attention

Responsive Layout

• Fix On narrow screens, the profile avatar now stays in the upper-right corner next to the logo instead of dropping down to a new row below the navigation

Caption & Sources Layout

• Improved The image caption and source thumbnails now sit side-by-side: prompt text on the left, source images on the right
• Improved Attached source images now load 128px WebP thumbnails instead of the full 1024px originals for faster display
• New The parent image thumbnail shows an angle-right arrow overlay, distinguishing it from attached images that open the lightbox
• New The prompt text now has a “Prompt” heading, matching the “Attached” and “Parent” labels on the source thumbnails
• Improved Source labels shortened to “Attached” and “Parent” for a cleaner look
• Fix Closing the lightbox now clears the previous image, preventing a flash of the old image when opening a new one

Content Safety Improvements

• New When the model declines to generate without an explicit error (e.g. copyrighted characters), the model’s explanation is shown instead of a generic error
• Improved Removed speculative timeout-based content filter detection that was causing false positives; only explicit API confirmations are reported now
• New 91 automated tests covering all content moderation paths

Concurrent Generation Fix

• Fix Image polling is now scoped to the specific conversation — fixes a bug where two users generating at the same time could receive each other’s images
• Improved New generations and edits create a conversation ID client-side, ensuring polling always targets the correct request

Other Changes

• New Added a link to the changelog in the user profile dropdown menu
• New Added a reusable Copilot prompt file that automatically summarizes session changes and updates both changelog files
• New A git pre-commit hook now reminds you to update the changelog before committing
• Improved Removed shortcuts.md — learnings are now captured in the structured prompt file

Content Safety Feedback

• New When Azure OpenAI blocks a request due to content safety filters, the site now detects it instead of showing a generic error
• New Content filter warnings appear as an amber banner directly below the prompt input — no more confusing error toasts
• Improved The warning clears automatically when you start typing a new prompt
• Improved Content moderation is returned as a normal 200 response, so there are no red errors in the browser console

Source Image Provenance

• New When you create or edit an image using pasted, drag-and-dropped, or file-picked images, those source images are now saved alongside the result
• New Source thumbnails appear below the prompt caption on the edit page — click any to view full size in the lightbox
• Improved Deleting an image also cleans up its associated source images from storage
• Improved Prompt caption now sits below the image at all screen sizes instead of overlaying it
• Improved Download and Share buttons appear inline next to reaction emojis for a more compact layout

Search & Filter

• New Full-text search — search the gallery by what's in the images: scenes, objects, colors, mood
• New AI-powered image descriptions — every image now has a rich text description generated by gpt-5-mini vision
• New BM25 relevance ranking — search results ranked by relevance using Cosmos DB full-text search
• New Multi-reaction filtering — select one or more reaction types to filter the gallery
• New Combined search + filter — use text search and reaction filters together
• New Unified filter panel — search and reactions in a collapsible panel, open with click or / shortcut

Responses API Migration

• Improved Image generation and editing now use the Azure OpenAI Responses API with gpt-5 as the mainline model
• Improved Every prompt is rewritten into a detailed scene description (1000+ chars) for richer search metadata
• Improved All 449 existing images analyzed and indexed for search

Search & Filter UI Polish

• New The "Search & Filter" button now highlights when the filter panel is open
• New A "Reset Filters" button appears in the toolbar when any filters are active
• Improved All toolbar buttons now use consistent solid-fill hover styles — red for reset, green for the others
• Improved Filter panel now smoothly slides open and closed with a fade transition
• Improved Search input redesigned as a solid rounded pill with a lighter fill background
• Fixed Header navigation no longer wraps to two lines on mobile screens

Other Changes

• Improved Analyze button removed from the image action bar (API endpoint kept for future use)
• New 156 unit tests covering image processing, prompt construction, API response shapes, and more

Hedgehog-Themed Loading Messages

• Improved Status messages now appear directly on the loading overlay instead of as toast notifications
• New Loading messages are now hedgehog-themed (e.g. "Lovingly adjusting quills...", "Carefully nibbling around the edges...")
• New While waiting, the overlay cycles through fun follow-up phrases like "Still foraging for pixels..." and "Rustling through the bushes for your image..."

Gallery Auto-Refresh

• New Gallery automatically checks for new images — every minute at first, slowing to every 10 minutes
• Improved Auto-refresh pauses when you switch tabs and resumes when you come back
• Improved Clicking the site logo while on the gallery now refreshes it
• Improved Navigating away and back resets the check frequency

Site Migration and Official Domain

• New We official now, hogs! New domain: hedgehog-generator.com
• Improved Moved off Supabase backend and refactored to Node.js running on Azure
• Improved Migrated all site assets and database to Azure

Authentication

• New So our AI model doesn't get spammed by randos, the site now requires log in with a Microsoft account, but with the caveat that all image generation is all still anonymous
• New User badge in header showing logged-in alias with sign-out link and optional user profile picture feature

Inpainting Mode

• New Draw directly on images to define areas for the AI to edit, with brush/eraser and adjustable size
• New "Use inpainting mode" toggle in the options panel when editing an image
• New Mask toolbar with Brush/Eraser switcher, size slider, Undo, and Clear controls
• New Masks sent via the OpenAI mask parameter with dimension validation

Transparent Background Option

• New Background dropdown in settings to choose between Solid and Transparent backgrounds
• New Generate and edit functions now support true PNG transparency via Azure OpenAI
• New Checkerboard pattern behind all images (edit view, gallery, visualizer) to reveal transparent areas

Simplified Settings

• Improved Removed Quality and Style dropdowns — always uses HD quality and Vivid style
• Improved Settings now show just Size and Background in a clean single row

High Input Fidelity for Edits

• Improved Image edits now use high input fidelity, preserving finer details like faces, logos, and textures

Custom SVG Icons

• Improved Replaced emoji icons with custom SVG icons across the entire app
• New Action buttons use new icons: eye (Analyze), file-download (Download), share-square (Share)
• Improved Gallery nav, refresh, close buttons, empty state, visualizer badge, and file upload all use SVG icons

Navigation Overlay

• Improved Prev/next buttons now float over the image instead of beside it
• Improved Buttons hidden by default and fade in on hover for a cleaner look

Gallery Image Navigation

• New Prev/next arrow buttons on the edit view let you step through gallery images
• New Left/right arrow keys navigate between images in the edit view
• Improved Navigation always available — loads full image list automatically

UI Cleanup

• Fix Reactions and action buttons now properly centered under the image
• Improved Removed the noisy "Image loaded" toast notification
• New Click an image in the edit view to open it full size in a lightbox overlay

Jar of PASTE™ Reaction

• New Added Jar of PASTE™ reaction emoji to the picker
• New Database migration to support the new paste reaction type

Visualizer Loading State

• Improved Visualizer waits for all thumbnails to download before calculating layout
• New Loading spinner shown while images are downloading
• Improved Grid fades in smoothly once images are ready

Bandwidth Optimization – Multi-Size Images

• New Images stored in three sizes: original (1024px), medium (512px), thumbnail (128px)
• Improved Aspect ratio preservation instead of square crops
• Improved Gallery loads medium images, reducing bandwidth ~76%
• Improved Visualizer uses thumbnails, reducing bandwidth ~95%
• New Backfill complete — all 227 existing images processed
• Improved Graceful fallbacks for older images without size variants

Image Sizes & Analysis

• New Multiple image size options for generated images
• New AI-powered image analysis with automatic tagging
• New Backfill tool to analyze existing images
• Improved Gallery now displays image metadata

Firehog Hearthog Reactions

• Improved Replaced llama-fire emoji with new firehog emoji
• Improved Migrated all existing llama-fire reactions to firehog
• New Updated Hearthog reaction graphic

Gallery Masonry Performance Optimization

• Improved Rewrote gallery layout engine for smoother performance
• Improved GPU-accelerated positioning with CSS transforms
• Improved requestAnimationFrame batching for paint-synced updates
• Improved ResizeObserver for efficient resize detection
• Improved Batched DOM operations to minimize reflows
• Improved CSS containment with contain and will-change properties
• Improved Left-to-right ordering with true interlocking masonry

Family Tree Visualizer Redesign

• New Responsive masonry layout for family tree cards
• New Hierarchical tree visualization with connector lines
• Improved All family trees fully visible by default
• Improved Responsive columns: 3 on large, 2 on tablet, 1 on mobile
• Fix Preview popup now shows images at natural aspect ratio

Reactions

• New Emoji reactions on gallery images with custom emojis
• Improved Reaction counts and display on gallery items

Family Tree & Editing

• New Family Tree visualizer to explore image lineage
• New Image editing with inpainting via mask drawing
• Improved Navigation with shared header component

Visualizer Page Improvements

• Fix Rewrote tree connector logic for proper parent-to-child lines
• Improved Full-screen layout with content scrolling under sticky header
• Improved Removed redundant visualizer-specific header
• Improved Preview panel now appears near the clicked image

Gallery Enhancements

• New Infinite scroll — loads 16 images at a time
• New Masonry layout with left-to-right reading order
• New "Original" tags for top-of-lineage images
• New Loading spinner with "Loading gallery…" text
• Improved Gallery items fade in together to prevent layout jumping

UI/UX Design Updates

• Improved Cooler, muted sage green and gray color palette
• Improved Smaller, more minimal navigation header
• Improved Individual bordered filter pills
• Improved More subtle shadows and hover states

Bug Fixes

• Fix Restored sticky header by moving positioning to #shared-header
• Fix Restored frosted glass backdrop blur on header
• Fix Added missing loading overlay CSS for edit view
• Fix Added missing CSS for toggle switches