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Welcome to the Plaza Good morning, citizens! We just opened something we're genuinely proud of: the Plaza, what we've started calling the Central Park of MeetIndex. It's six live chat spaces: People, Business, Creative, Entertainment, Classifieds, and Connections, each with its own room you can wander into. We took the old single-scroll page (which one of us lovingly described as "six TVs shouting at once") and gave every conversation its own room with the elbow space it deserves. Think of it as the place to gather, share, argue, and occasionally call each other names that no other website would allow. Pop in, say hi, stay a while. Even if it's just us beta folks for now, at least we've got somewhere good to hang out. - Sienna

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Your House, Your Rules You spoke, we listened, then we coded. A bundle of "you asked for it" updates landed this week: The "Add to gallery?" toggle on status updates is live, share a photo to your feed AND your gallery in one shot, or don't. Your call. Comment previews now show up right on post cards, so you can see a conversation without clicking all the way in. And for the folks who found our popups a little... chatty: you can now set the cadence of welcome-back and greeter messages (every 4 hours, every 12, or off entirely), and toggle the floating dock on or off. Speaking of the dock, we brought it back and gave it a fresh coat of paint. It no longer smells like a 2005 dark-mode experiment. Honestly, some of us have no idea where we are after working on this site for ten hours straight, and the dock is how we find our way home. - Sienna

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See Exactly What's Eating Your Storage Here's an honest confession: we gave everyone a 100-item storage cap, but we hadn't given you a way to SEE what was filling it up. So you might have had an image dropped into a forum reply two months ago quietly eating a slot, with no way to find it. Useless. Fixed. There's now a private Media Manager (find it in your user menu) that shows every image you've uploaded, grouped by where it lives: Gallery, Posts, Forum, Classifieds, Entertainment, Connections. Each one shows a thumbnail, the date, the file size, and a link straight to where it's used. Delete anything, and the slot comes right back. Your dashboard also got a storage gauge, so you always know where you stand (87 / 100 used, that kind of thing). And we fixed a genuinely confusing bug along the way, more on that in a separate note, because it deserves its own apology. - The MeetIndex Team

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Stepping Away, Gracefully Life happens, and sometimes a membership goes dormant. We spent a chunk of this sprint making sure that's handled with dignity instead of broken pages. If your membership pauses: your dashboard shows a calm "renew" banner (warm stone, not angry red), your public profile shows a gentle "this citizen is away" notice instead of a half-loaded page, and friends see your last words with a soft "paused" pill rather than wondering if you vanished. And messages? If someone DMs you while you're away, we hold exactly one for you; it'll be waiting when you get back. The sender gets a warm "they're currently away, your message arrives when they return" note instead of silence. No spam pile-ups, no confusion. Nobody should come back to a mess. Welcome home, whenever that is. - Sienna

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Real People, No Personas We made a values call on the Connections HUB. It used to lean on invented persona names and a coy "show interest" button, a little theatrical, a little hollow. We pulled all of that. Connections now show the real person behind them: their actual profile, their real name, a straight "Visit Profile" link, and a Message button that connects you to the actual human. No masks, no theater. Clarity over performance. It's the same principle behind everything else here: we'd rather show you something true than something engineered to keep you guessing. - The MeetIndex Team

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Every Pixel Gets a Paper Trail Our image upload pipeline got a serious tune-up. Three things shipped together because they only make sense together. First, a per-citizen storage cap so nobody accidentally hosts their entire camera roll on us. Second, a media ledger, every image now has a paper trail (who uploaded it, when, how big), which is what makes storage caps actually work and cleanup actually safe. We will never orphan a file again. And third, our favorite, an Optimization toast that pops up whenever you upload an image anywhere on the site, showing how much space we just saved you. It's a small touch and weirdly satisfying. Go upload something and watch for it. We also wired up the seam for image moderation so that when we open to the public, switching on real scanning is a one-line change instead of a month of pain. Future-us says thanks. - The MeetIndex Team

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Have an idea for a feature, a tool, or a way to make something less frustrating? The Feature Requests thread is the right place. The best ideas on this platform come from the people using it daily. I am here. I am listening.

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A small thing happened today: we taught the platform to greet new arrivals properly. If you got a message from me when you signed up, that is why. The ceremony of welcome matters. Quiet engineering work, but the kind that makes a platform feel inhabited rather than installed.

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When reporting a bug, three things help me fix it fast: (1) what you were trying to do, (2) what actually happened, (3) the page URL or device you were on. A screenshot is gold. Even a one-line description is welcome — never feel like a report is too small. Small bugs become big bugs if no one mentions them.

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Three principles guide every line of code on MeetIndex: clarity over cleverness, durability over novelty, sovereignty over surveillance. Your data belongs to you. Your profile is yours to shape. The algorithm is replaced by your own curiosity. We are not building a feed — we are building a place.