It's been roughly a month since my last post on #CritterChat so I figure it's time for another update post! Here's the changes since then:

- Private group conversations are now supported including a room invite system!
- Introduced privacy settings so users can control whether they're seachable or invitable on an instance.
- Several usability tweaks, several UI layout tweaks, several small bug fixes (none big enough to warrant their own call-out)
- Emoji updates including a few missing emojis as well as an entirely new country flag section
- A few new UI features for administration
- A bunch of backend tests have been written, a bunch of refactoring has been done to enable easier maintainability
- Fixed incompatibility with Python 3.13 and 3.14

All in all not that much changed compared to the last update.

Fork it or grab the code to run an instance at https://github.com/DragonMinded/critterchat

Help test the alpha instance at https://alpha.dragonminded.com (DM me here to be activated after signing up)