Pile of Potential Version v1.1.0

16th April 2025

We're very excited to announce the release of Pile of Potential v1.1.0! 🎉

This version marks the re-release of Pile of Potential following a change of ownership to The Hobby Room, featuring a complete backend rebuild focused on a seamless migration, enhanced security and foundations for upcoming features.

Although the backend has undergone major change, care has been taken to ensure minimal initial impact to the user experience. As such, screens, UI and all URLs have been left unchanged (including profiles, projects and other functionality) meaning bookmarks and external references will continue to work as before.

What's new?

While efforts have been made to maintain equivalent functionality, a handful of quality of life changes have been made based on existing user suggestions and team frustrations, including:

• Removed nested scroll behaviour, improving mobile friendliness
• Increase login lifetime

We've also improved validation and resolved a series of vulnerabilities and bugs. In order to facilitate this, some features (including search) will exhibit minor functionality changes that dramatically improve security and performance.

The site and its data has also been migrated to scalable infrastructure, protected and optimised by an external web application firewall and content delivery network. We expect access to your Piles of Potential will be reliable, secure and even faster!

What's next?

As the initial migration of Pile of Potential is complete, work to alter the database has commenced to better align it with our roadmap, currently comprised entirely of features previously requested by the community.

Join our Discord, follow us on X and watch this space for news and feature releases in the coming weeks!

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