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✨ New

  • Weight progress bar redesign — smooth gradient from green to red with target marker showing your goal
  • Bag weight breakdown — see individual bag weights in pack detail view with overage indicators
  • Weight distribution tips — activity-specific advice for balancing load across bags
  • UX tooltips — helpful hints explain locked fields and AI extraction status
  • Edit your own gear category — creators can change the category of community gear they added
  • Add as new brand — quickly create a brand when no match exists in suggestions
  • Variant search feedback — contextual links to report issues with web search results
  • In-app feedback form for submitting bugs, feature requests, and questions
  • Delete your own photos — remove images you uploaded from community gear pages
  • Report wrong brand websites — click "Wrong? Report" next to auto-detected URLs to submit a correction
  • Generic CSV import — import any spreadsheet format with smart column auto-detection and confidence scoring

🔧 Improved

  • Smarter brand website detection — auto-fills when confident, shows options to choose from when multiple matches found
  • Smarter gear categorization — enrichment now presets the category dropdown (tents → shelter, sleeping bags → sleep system, etc.)
  • Renamed "Packs" to "Packing Lists" throughout the app for clarity
  • Brand creator attribution — brand detail pages now show who added the brand
  • Extraction source display — see which website provided variant specs during discovery
  • Dynamic placeholder hints — gear name field guides you to select a brand first for better results
  • Faster page loads — images below the fold now load lazily
  • Smart brand search during import — autocomplete suggestions and "Did you mean?" prompts help match unknown brands when importing from CSV or LighterPack
  • Smart search in import review — search the community database while reviewing imported items, with brand-scoped filtering and automatic weight enrichment
  • Quick edit from pack view — click any item name in your pack to jump directly to its edit form in your gear closet, then return to your pack at the exact item you edited

🐛 Fixed

  • Better manufacturer detection for tricky brands like OMM, MSR, and ULA (short names no longer confused with retailers)
  • Water containers now have volume options when adding gear
  • Delete and action buttons now visible on tablets and touch devices in gear closet
  • Tabout hint now reappears when typing more characters in gear name field
  • Variants now display correctly when selecting web search results with pre-loaded specs
  • Smart search now finds weights for products like Nalgene where manufacturer pages list variants but not weights
v1.9.0 December 27, 2025

Visual Refresh & Polish

✨ New

  • Founding Member badge — first 500 users get a 💎 badge displayed next to their name throughout the app
  • Google sign-in — sign up or log in with your Google account for faster access
  • Report gear issues — flag incorrect data, duplicates, or spam for community review
  • Gravatar profile pictures — opt-in to display your Gravatar on your profile and community pages
  • Share closet photos with the community — check a box when uploading to contribute your image as a community product photo (+5 rep)
  • Image moderation — community photos are reviewed to ensure quality and accuracy
  • Bags as gear items — link bags (panniers, frame bags, stuff sacks) to your gear closet for accurate container weight tracking in pack totals

🔧 Improved

  • Contributor attribution — community gear pages now show who added the item, with link to their profile
  • Visual refresh — refined homepage hero with mobile-optimized stats, scroll reveal animations, interactive audience badges linking to filtered packs, and glassmorphism touches throughout
  • Activity feed redesign — events now have distinct styling by type with better visual hierarchy
  • Enhanced empty states — helpful illustrations guide you when lists are empty
  • Clickable gear closet rows — click anywhere on a row to edit, with action buttons revealed on hover for a cleaner table
  • Variant selection redesign — intuitive chips for quick switching between sizes and configurations
  • Flexible variant creation — switch between manual entry and web search anytime, with all fields always editable
  • Password reset UX — resend email option with cooldown timer, password strength indicator with visual feedback
  • Accessibility improvements — better keyboard navigation and cleaner error messages
  • Smarter gear suggestions — select a brand first and see that brand's gear items immediately as you type
  • Editable variant search — customize the web search query when adding new variants
  • Community gear sort by date added — find recently added gear with the new "Added" column in the community database
  • Unsaved image indicator — see a subtle badge when your photo change hasn't been saved yet
  • Gear closet search — instantly filter your gear by name, brand, or category
  • Variant switching when editing — change to a different size or configuration without recreating the item

🐛 Fixed

  • Weight contribution prompt only appears when you have a measured weight — no more prompts when only manufacturer weight is set
  • Browser reload now returns to the same page instead of redirecting to sign-in
v1.8.0 December 26, 2025

Community Members

✨ New

  • Community members page — browse public members, see top contributors leaderboard, and search by name or reputation
  • Item images — upload photos of your gear to help others identify exact products and conditions

🔧 Improved

  • Profile pages now show gear items — view a member's collection with brands, weights, and community-verified status
  • Password reset — recover account access via email if you forget your password
  • Profile ratings now show item names — see which gear or pack was rated with clickable links to item pages
v1.7.0 December 25, 2025

Import & Community Stats

✨ New

  • CSV import — migrate from LighterPack or PackWizard with automatic format detection
  • Import matching — links imported gear to community-verified weights with confidence scores
  • Import destinations — add items to your closet only, or create a new pack with everything
  • Edit gear closet items — change weight, name, brand, category, and notes for any item in your closet
  • Community stats on homepage — see verified weights, gear items, shared packs, and contributors at a glance
  • Link to Community — connect unlinked gear items to community-verified weights with variant selection

🔧 Improved

  • Duplicate detection during import — warns about items already in your closet
  • Duplicate detection when forking — see similar gear before creating duplicates

🐛 Fixed

  • Add to Closet button now works when creating new gear from web search results
v1.6.0 December 25, 2025

Smart Discovery & Mobile UX

✨ New

  • "Add as new gear" option — quickly create custom items when no match exists

🔧 Improved

  • Intuitive variant naming — editable name field with quick-fill chips from manufacturer specs
  • Web search refinement — edit your search query directly in the results dropdown without starting over
  • Smarter gear search — finds matches regardless of word order, tolerates typos, and shows confidence scores with weight ranges
  • Sortable lists throughout the app — sort gear, packs, brands, and pack items by name, weight, category, rating, and more
  • Brand detail pages now show all gear items — browse products with variant counts and verification status
  • Unified search in the "Add Item" modal — search your closet and the community database simultaneously with automatic import
  • Pack lists show total weight — see weights at a glance without opening each pack
  • Public packs search now triggers instantly as you type with no button needed
  • Private items shown as summary in public packs — weight is included but details stay hidden
  • Smarter weight extraction finds weights more reliably when searching the web for gear specs

🐛 Fixed

  • Pack delete button now accessible on mobile — previously hidden behind hover effect
  • Creating a new pack now opens it immediately instead of staying on the list
  • Modals are now accessible on mobile — submit buttons stay visible with scrollable content
  • Gear name suggestions dropdown now displays properly without content bleeding through
  • "Add as new gear" button now reliably shows web search results instead of disappearing
  • AI-powered gear lookups are more reliable with automatic retry on rate limits
v1.5.0 December 24, 2025

Ratings & Community Feedback

✨ New

  • Ratings & reviews — rate gear, packs, and brands with stars, optional dimensions, and written reviews. Reputation-weighted scores surface the most helpful feedback.
  • Roadmap voting — cast up to 3 votes to influence which features get built next
  • Fork-to-edit lets you customize community-linked gear without losing the connection
  • Variant switching when changing dimensions — switch to existing variants or create new ones
  • Contribution prompts when saving community gear — optionally share your verified weight
  • Mobile footer with accordion navigation for Features, Changelog, About, and Privacy links
  • Feedback links in navigation — easily share suggestions and report issues

🔧 Improved

  • Locked field indicators show which fields come from community data
  • Smoother gear discovery — collapsible web results, variant chips for quick selection, and cancelable AI extraction

🐛 Fixed

  • Opening packs no longer fails with a rating error
  • Variant search now works with malformed manufacturer URLs — falls back to web search automatically
  • Adding items to packs now works reliably when multi-bag is disabled
v1.4.0 December 23, 2025

Bag Weight Tracking & Pack Mode

✨ New

  • Bag weight breakdown shows exactly how much each bag weighs
  • Multi-bag view toggle to switch between category and bag organization
  • Bag notes and weight limits for planning
  • Pack Mode — plan trips with trip names and dates
  • What's New page to track updates

🐛 Fixed

  • Empty bags now show and can be deleted properly
v1.3.0 December 23, 2025

Multi-Bag Organization

✨ New

  • Organize gear across multiple bags — perfect for bikepacking, motocamping, or hiking with hip belt pockets
  • Activity-aware bag presets with custom bag support

🔧 Improved

  • Homepage and features repositioned for all packing activities

🐛 Fixed

  • Theme contrast issues across variant chips and modals
v1.2.0 December 22, 2025

Smart Gear Entry

✨ New

  • Web search finds gear specs when not in our database — searches manufacturer sites and extracts weights automatically
  • Progressive enrichment fetches full product page for accurate weight and variant data
  • Brand enrichment with automatic logo and manufacturer details

🔧 Improved

  • Inline validation hints guide correct data entry
  • Dark mode contrast for better readability
v1.1.0 December 21, 2025

User Profiles & Community Features

✨ New

  • Public profile pages showcasing your verified weight submissions and public packs
  • Settings page with unit preference (metric/imperial) that syncs everywhere
  • Pack discovery — browse and view public packs from other users
  • Copy any public pack to your collection as a starting point
  • Pack categories — organize your pack lists by activity (hiking, bikepacking, motocamping, etc.)
  • Activity feed shows recent weight submissions and pack updates
  • Public notes with voting on community gear — share tips and reviews
  • Merge review system for community gear updates
  • Gear variant system — track fabric types, dimensions, and specifications
  • Condition-based weight submissions — submit weights for new, used, or modified gear
  • Outlier control slider — adjust threshold to filter unrealistic weight submissions

🔧 Improved

  • Privacy controls — anonymous mode hides your identity on all contributions
v1.0.0 December 20, 2025

Launch

✨ New

  • Personal gear closet to track everything you own with weights
  • Pack builder with category organization (shelter, sleep, cook, etc.)
  • Community gear database with verified weights from real users
  • Weight consensus algorithm filters outliers for accurate averages
  • Reputation system rewards quality contributions