Changelog

25-Oct-2026

CHANGE: Blogotex is now easier to use on phones and tablets, with layouts that fit smaller screens, clearer navigation, and a consistent light and dark appearance across the website.
NEW: A redesigned public website introduces Blogotex to brands, event organizers, and bloggers, with clearer package comparisons and guidance for getting started.
CHANGE: Help documentation is now built into the main website, making it easier to search for answers and follow setup guides without leaving Blogotex.
NEW: The Contact page now lets visitors send an enquiry without an account and choose a reply by email or in Second Life. Signed-in members can contact Blogotex through Direct Messages.
CHANGE: Post feedback and messaging are easier to follow, with clearer conversations, clickable links, and fewer popups interrupting everyday tasks.
NEW: Owners can permanently delete a brand or event from Your Brands List, with any remaining business balance returned to their personal balance.
FIX: Various fixes improve login, post submissions and counts, notifications, and balance transfers. The "Blogged product is not in this list" option is available again when submitting a post.

07-Oct-2026

NEW: Event product details now help bloggers find where products are available during and after an event. Managers add the event location and closing date, while designers provide their in-world store or Marketplace storefront links. Bloggers can see these details alongside the products, making it easier to include shopping links in their posts and direct people to the designer's store once the event closes.
CHANGE: Submitted post links now show icons for more websites.
NEW: Images can now be dragged into the image upload dialog, cropped, and uploaded. Drop another image to replace the current selection, or use Choose File as before. File requirements and cropping guidance are also clearer.

04-Oct-2026

NEW: Bloggers can now submit the same post links to up to 5 brands at once, selecting up to 5 taken products and adding a separate optional manager message for each brand. Each brand reviews its submission independently, and later edits apply only to that brand. This option is available for active blogger memberships in brands, excluding events and repositories.

25-Aug-2026

NEW: Bloggers can now reply directly to the latest human review comment on a submitted post when no further resubmission is available. Replies are limited to 250 characters and can be edited or removed, while managers and designers can read the blogger's reply.

07-Aug-2026

CHANGE: Manager notes on bloggers, recipients, and designers now remain available as people move between application and status lists. Blogger waiting-list and rejection feedback, as well as post-review feedback, can now contain up to 1,000 characters, and feedback formatting is displayed more clearly.
NEW: Direct Message conversations can now be archived and restored. An optional Account Settings preference can automatically archive read conversations after 30, 60, 90, 180, or 365 days without a new message, while new activity returns them to Recents.
FIX: Bloggers and other collaborators can now see a paused brand or event in Your Brands List for 10 days instead of it disappearing immediately. Opening it explains that the service is temporarily paused.
FIX: Clicking a Direct Message conversation row now opens the conversation, while the participant's profile opens only when their name is clicked.
NEW: Website links in announcements, Dashboard Chat, and Direct Messages are now clickable and open in a new tab.

29-Jul-2026

NEW: Bloggers now see a Products to Blog overview on Home. It lists products taken during the last 30 days that have not yet been blogged, highlights overdue items, supports filtering by brand, and provides shortcuts to product details and post submission.
CHANGE: The Hide blogged products choice is now saved separately for each brand or event. Bloggers can also set their preferred default for all brands and events in Account Settings.
CHANGE: Users leaving a brand or event can now include a note of up to 1,000 characters. Managers can review the full leaving note from the Left lists for bloggers, designers, and recipients.
CHANGE: User profiles can now be opened directly by clicking a name or profile image in Direct Messages.
CHANGE: Login sessions now remain securely active across browser restarts. If you do not log out, Blogotex can restore your account for up to 30 days of inactivity and no later than 90 days after login. Session renewal is also more reliable during brief network interruptions and safer when multiple tabs or accounts are used.

09-Jun-2026

CHANGE: The Help Improve Blogotex board is now available to all logged-in users. Its notification badge has also been refined to highlight only relevant new suggestions and comments, with updated items clearly marked when you open the board.

06-Jun-2026

FIX: Canceling a future vacation request now correctly unfreezes affected posting deadlines. In some cases, especially after vacation requests sent to multiple brands, canceled vacation requests could leave old deadlines frozen while new active deadlines continued to appear.

23-May-2026

NEW: Direct Messages now support editing and deleting your sent messages within 24 hours of sending. Click on your message to reveal edit and delete options. Edited messages show an "(edited)" indicator. Message history loading has also been improved for more reliable scroll-back without duplicates or missing messages.
NEW: Dashboard Chat has been completely redesigned. You can now edit and delete your messages within 24 hours, attach images to conversations, use an emoji picker, and enjoy smoother real-time updates across browser tabs. This update is currently being rolled out for brand managers and co-creators only.
NEW: Added the "Help Improve Blogotex" page — a community feedback board where you can submit feature requests and bug reports, browse existing suggestions, filter by type and status, and upvote ideas from other users. This update is currently being rolled out for brand managers and co-creators only.
FIX: Several stability improvements to chat polling and image upload handling.

15-May-2026

CHANGE: Badge eligibility on Posts Review now uses a rolling 14-day window instead of a weekly reset. Managers can award badges on any post reviewed within the last 14 days. Posts older than 14 days from their review date are no longer badgeable. Event brands with active event rounds are unaffected — badges remain available on all posts within the round regardless of age. Weekly badge quotas still apply as before.

25-Apr-2026

NEW: Brand and event managers can now award specific blogger badges from an expanded manager badge set. Badge issuing is limited by the brand or event package's weekly allowance, and event-round badge awarding is available throughout the active event round while the weekly allowance still resets each week.
NEW: Users with unread private direct messages now see a compact one-time prompt after login. The prompt is only for private messages and does not appear for badge or other notification types.
CHANGE: Badge presentation has been improved across post review, accepted posts, user profiles, badge logs, and the blogger profile dialog. Badge lists now wrap more cleanly, already-awarded badges are shown consistently, and badge details open in the same badge information dialog across the interface.
CHANGE: Blogger profile headers and About Me sections were refined to better match the existing Blogotex interface, including clearer profile metadata, cleaner empty states, and improved layout alignment.

12-Mar-2026

NEW: If the brand has added its social links to its profile, bloggers can now find them in the brand’s Rules section.

17-Jan-2026

NEW: Each blogger suspension by a brand is now recorded in the blogger’s profile. Suspension tracking starts from this release date and includes bloggers who are currently suspended. Suspension history is shown only if the blogger has suspension statistics; otherwise, this information is not displayed. Brand managers can use this data as additional context when reviewing repeat applications.

12-Dec-2025

NEW: Bloggers can now upload portfolio images to showcase their skills and get discovered by brand owners. Brand owners can browse blogger portfolios, bookmark matching content, and invite selected bloggers to collaborate in one click. This streamlines blogger discovery and speeds up collaboration between brands and bloggers.
CHANGE: New invites no longer automatically switch the brands list from Active to Invited. Instead, a review notification is shown above the brands list, allowing users to notice and review invites without losing visibility of their active brands.

03-Dec-2025

NEW: Bloggers can now edit the selected products on a submitted blogpost as long as it is still pending review.
CHANGE: Unnecessary confirmation popups on the blogger submission page were removed to make the workflow smoother.

02-Dec-2025

NEW: Added a set of blogger performance metrics to the brand Dashboard, including Product Blog Rate, Active and Suspended Bloggers, Top Posters, and Top Product Diversity. Time-based metrics use the appropriate windows for each calculation, and rankings automatically filter out tied positions to display only clear top performers.

20-Oct-2025

NEW: Bloggers can now manually cancel vacation requests, whether they’re newly submitted or already approved for future dates.

12-Aug-2025

FIX: Small bugfixes and maintenance updates.

26-Mar-2025

NEW: Subscription management now allows both upgrades and downgrades. When downgrading, the system analyzes whether your account meets the selected package's limits and provides a list of necessary adjustments before proceeding. This option is available to brand owners and can be accessed from the Dashboard, next to the remaining days and package name, via the "Change" button.

13-Jan-2025

NEW: Added an option for managers to forcefully end vacations for bloggers whose vacations exceed 30 days. This is useful for correcting mistakes where a manager accidentally approves an excessively long vacation (e.g., 300 days). The "End Vacation" button is accessible in the Bloggers section when the Status filter is set to "Vacation".

27-Oct-2024

NEW: Added Direct Messaging. Users can now send direct messages by simply clicking any username displayed on-screen. This opens the user’s profile, where a “Send Message” button is available. Messages can include text, emojis, and images, with real-time notifications for incoming messages. Additionally, users can mute unwanted contacts—all within Blogotex, without ever needing to leave the platform.
FIX: Resolved an issue preventing message sending from the Dashboard chat on mobile devices.

13-Oct-2024

NEW: Added the option to mark a product as a free gift. When set, any team blogger can claim it without affecting the taken/blogged ratio, reducing inventory requests, or obligating them to blog the product. A small gift icon is displayed before the product name in the product list to indicate it’s a free gift.
FIX: Resolved an issue where bloggers without assigned categories saw a badge displaying the total number of all available products in the top menu. Now, no badge is shown if the blogger has no access to any products.

08-Oct-2024

FIX: Resolved issue where the incorrect number of announcements was displayed on the dashboard in certain cases.

03-Oct-2024

NEW: In the Your Brands List, managers will now be able to see the number of pending posts directly. This update includes a clear count of posts that are awaiting approval, along with pending deadline change requests, giving managers better visibility and control over their brand activities.
FIX: Resolved an issue where payments for ads were not being deducted when ads were shown, clicked, or applied to. Additionally, ads were not running if the total ad budget spent exceeded the allocated amount. These issues have been corrected to ensure proper budget tracking and ad operation.
FIX: Several minor bug fixes.

29-Aug-2024

NEW: The product description now consists of two optional sections: Regular notes, which are unique to each product, and Global notes, which are appended to all product descriptions. This feature is particularly useful for including consistent information across all products, such as store landmarks, shared instructions, or other common details you may want to quickly edit for all your products at once.
NEW: Your Dark / Light mode preference is now saved. When you log in and switch between modes, your selection will be remembered, ensuring that your preferred mode is automatically restored on your next login.
CHANGE: Your Brand List now displays the status set date for pending, inactive, and canceled statuses.
CHANGE: The Bloggers list under Bloggers section is sorted by status set date in descending order for entries with the statuses “Invited,” “New Apps,” “Suspended,” “Rejected,” “Left,” and “Blacklisted,” ensuring the most recent ones appear at the top.
CHANGE: The notification badge for the Bloggers menu has been upgraded to offer more comprehensive insights. It now reflects the total of new applications received as well as bloggers suspended, and bloggers who have left since your last visit check-in. Opening the section provides detailed information on these recent changes. This enhancement removes the guesswork, keeping you informed about recent changes.
FIX: The blacklisting option in a blogger’s profile was still using the outdated threshold of 35%, which led to cases where the blacklisting button was not appearing. This issue has now been resolved.

26-Aug-2024

NEW: Global Vacation Request. Bloggers can now submit a single vacation request to all their active brands simultaneously. This option is available via an additional checkbox in the vacation request dialog.
FIX: Dropbox Redelivery Device. The issue with the redelivery device for event round designers, included in the notecard for new event round setup, has been resolved.

16-Aug-2024

FIX: Blacklisted users list was not showing the entries.

14-Aug-2024

CHANGE: Increased the maximum allowed characters in the rules section from 1k to 8k.
FIX: Product stats links are now visible for products with expired deadlines.
FIX: Editing links in already published Ad was not working.

5-Aug-2024

NEW: You can now set your brand’s social URLs under Brand->BrandProfile, which will be displayed on application forms. Social URLs allow applicants to verify their interest in your products before applying.
FIX: When accessing blogotex.com while logged in, users are now correctly redirected to their home page at blogotex.com/home.
FIX: False out-of-range warning removed when setting the product-related deadline’s number of days.

30-Jul-2024

NEW: A new subscription package called “Repository” has been added. This package is designed for brands that want to distribute their goods to a group of recipients without any additional requirements. There are no blogging obligations, no deadlines, and no inventory limits. It serves purely as a repository, allowing anyone with a recipient role to freely take items.
NEW: To help you easily identify the currently active brand in your brands list, it will be highlighted with a different background color.
NEW: When bloggers submit a new post and select products from the dropdown, their selections are displayed below the dropdown for easier review.

19-Jul-2024

FIX: In certain circumstances, deadline change requests were incorrectly marked as accepted with the comment ‘Auto-granted by system upon post accept!’ while the deadline itself remained unchanged.

18-Jul-2024

FIX: Requesting deadline assignment change did not add the deadline assignment details.
CHANGE: Subscription owners, cocreators, and managers will see “Service Paused: Awaiting Payment” for their brands that have not been paid and got paused.

17-Jul-2024

FIX: Resolved issue preventing deadline manipulations from the blogger profile.
CHANGE: Deadline change requests not reviewed within a specified timeframe are now auto-granted by the system.

15-Jul-2024

NEW: We have introduced Red Flagging, enabling managers to warn bloggers about unsatisfactory performance and provide an opportunity for improvement. For detailed instructions on how to use this feature, please refer to this section: Red Flagging
CHANGE: Brands list is no longer divided into pages; it is displayed as one long list.
CHANGE: Brands that have not paid for a subscription are completely removed from your brands list.
FIX: Inability to zoom out the page on mobile.
FIX: Once logged in and no brand is selected, browser refresh does not refresh the brands list.

06-Jul-2024

NEW: Managers can now view all the vacation requests a blogger has made and that have been accepted in the past directly from the blogger’s profile.

03-Jul-2024

NEW: Added an extra confirmation for bloggers when they take a product with a demo. They must now confirm that they have tried the demo and that the product meets their needs.
NEW: Added an inworld payment terminal as an alternative for increasing the Blogotex balance.
CHANGE: Removed the confirmation window for accepting or rejecting posts and deadline requests. Optional comments are now moved back into the table as in version 1.
CHANGE: Changed how information about L$ deposits is displayed in payment popups.

01-Jul-2024

NEW: Added ability to quickly reuse past URLs in blogpost submission and brand application forms.
NEW: Added centralised idea and bug report submission form.
FIX: Lots and lots of bugfixes and stability improvements.
FIX: login data is not persistant across multiple browser tabs.

26-Jun-2024

Blogotex has undergone a significant rewrite and has been updated to version 2. Although the core layouts and functionality are similar to the previous version, there have been extensive changes behind the scenes and countless small additions. This date will serve as a starting point for this changelog.