Changelog

New

We now set the loading=lazy attribute on many images to improve the load and rendering performance of our scrollable pages, especially when network connection isn’t the best.
Improved

You can now choose to apply a Code of Conduct later in the event options to ease the Create event workflow while improving the Code of Conduct representation as well.
Improved

Improved line-height for Server Error and Maintenance mode headlines to be better readable.
Fixed

Fixed an exception with event series images.
Fixed

We fixed the "create event" page that showed a 404 error since we made an internal change to event series today.
Fixed

Fixed an exception on the account unlock page.
Fixed

Fixed an exception with existing search items after we made an internal change to event series today.
Fixed

We fixed an issue with the photo attribution not being displayed when the cookie bar is present.

Fixed

We fixed an issue where we showed an “unpublished” label for speakers even when though they were already published.

Improved

We made the header and title of the “Create your event“ page more clear and simple.
Fixed

We fixed the handling of invalid URLs in the “Import event” workflow and now validate correctly and show useful errors instead of an service exception.

Improved

We updated the homepage a bit and made the text easier to read, swapped the background image and added clearer sections.
Fixed

Fixed multiple exceptions inside the event coverage that could be triggered by invalid (or not found) links.
Fixed

We fixed the article list view on our blog which looked broken if you had a specific category selected.
Fixed

We fixed a service error that occurred when someone called an invalid event date URL. This now returns a “404 Not Found” error.
Fixed

We fixed a confusing UI issue for organizers who saw the “Publish event” button on events that are not yet approved and then ended up on a “404 Not found” page. The in this case useless button is now gone.

Fixed

We fixed a bug where people couldn’t claim their event due to an internal server error.

New

We implemented a Cronjob to delete (spam) newsletter subscribers that don’t confirm the subscription within two days.
New

We’re introducing Topics, a new way for you to find events and content of interest.
Improved

The account sidebar navigation items now have clearer labels.
Improved

If you don’t have an active subscription, you can go directly to the upgrade page from the account sidebar instead of seeing an empty subscriptions overview page (but we improved the look of this one, too).
Improved

In your account settings, you will now only see the privacy options about the supporter page appearance if you have an active subscription (and thus, are affected).
Improved

If an event is organized by only one person, we use the singular of oranizers and show the profile card centered on the event page.
Improved

We introduced URL history for AJAX actions before, now we made it optional so user actions that shouldn’t alter the URL don’t do it anymore.

New

We now allow you to import your existing event website into Colloq. Right now this will parse your HTML to find some details and prefill them for you. In the future this will be extended by more advanced import mechanisms.
New

If your public profile is missing details, we now show you a notice to make it more useful on the homepage.
Improved

We now show the “create event/suggestion” navigation to logged out visitors as well and improved the path to the signup on the login page.

New

We now offer you a list view in addition to the grid view on our event overview pages.
New

You can now write event news and announcements.
New

We added a new section to the homepage that explains who is behind the service.

New

Event teams can now have a custom sort order, manageable through the event team pages.
Improved

We finally added our team photo to the About page so you can see the entire team in one place.
Fixed

We fixed another regression that caused cities to not be ordered by population in city search and autocompletion.

New

Team members of conferences can now opt out of being shown on the team page.
Fixed

We fixed an issue where the new cities functionality prevented some cities to show up in the city/location autocomplete fields.

New

We now have city pages for events so you can see all conferences, meetups or other events in a city of your choice. Read more in our blog article.

Improved

We’ve updated the copy on the About page and renamed the download to better reflect its content.
Improved

We added the calendar subscription feature to Premium plan on our pricing page.
Fixed

In our last fix to correctly escape text, some of our explanations including HTML had been missed and eventually received the correct treatment.

New

When creating new events, admin users are no longer added as owners of the event, which they might not actually be after all.
Improved

In our codebase the spelling of "organizing" has been jumping between British and American english, and for consistency we’ve changed it to "organizing", which has been previously used.

Fixed

We’ve updated our mailing address, since we no longer have a P.O Box
Fixed

The "Organizing" section on public user profiles now correctly displays a user’s organized events again.
Fixed

We’ve made some small changes to the wording in the terms of service.

New

To make it easier for you to keep track and stay on top of conferences, we now allow you to subscribe to events that you are organizing, following or attending in your calendar. Learn more in our blog post.

Fixed

In dark theme mode, the text in the navigation search bar is now readable again.
Fixed

We fixed an issue where organisers couldn’t add new members to event teams.

New

Added a maintenance mode to perform migrations more easily. This will improve the reliability even in the case of larger updates.
New

Event news articles now have the author stored and shown in order to attribute them properly.

New

We have refactored the event ownership entirely from a technical perspective to improve reliability.
New

On each user profile we now provide Atom feeds for the events that a user organises, speaks at, attends or follows.
Fixed

Fixed an exception that could happen when a new event adition was added to an existing event series.

Improved

We added acceptance and regression tests to our internal Metrics endpoint to ensure its output is working correctly and we can monitor our platform data and server status properly.
Fixed

We fixed an issue where users who weren’t signed in got an error on our newsletter page.