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Fellow travellers and hosts,

the summer is about to start and the big BeWelcome event in Toulouse is about to happen this weekend, so our motivation is high to improve this site. Here is what we've done:

• Made profile updates more intuitive by adding "Edit" links when viewing own profile
• Improved map search to return more relevant results
• Fixed a couple of errors when editing profile data
• Showed the "Family and close friends" feature some love

Read all the background and discussion in the 10 tickets mentioned in the detailed changelog.

Also, we'd like to know your opinion on two smaller changes we've made to the profile pages:

• Firstly, when viewing your own profile, you also see "Edit" links on the groups, comments and pictures boxes although you can't directly edit things on the following pages. Should we rename the link to "Manage" there, or is this clear as it is?
• Secondly, the "Family and close friends" list had no limit anyway, that's why we removed the "Show more" link. This means the box currently always shows all friends, which is already a very long list for some members (bonjour du Sud de la France). Should we limit this box to 3, 5, 10 or more friends, or even let you set this in your preferences?

Please write your opinion in the comments below!

I'd like to thank crumbking and mahouni200000 for testing and contributing code to this release. Also toub is currently working on liberating us from using commercial mapping technology, more details on this once it's there.. ;)

Happy travels from Dracula land, and may non-profit hospitality exchange prevail! :)

Dear members,

We kept pushing more and more things into this release, changed the date a few times, but finally it is here! The most important changes:

• Fixed reporting of profile comments, note the new flag button on comment pages
• Added group name and link to recent forum posts list on personal start page
• Changed (increased) message sending limits for new users and always allow replies to messages

See the detailed changelog for some technical background and 10 more smaller changes and developer related improvements.

Regarding reporting of comments please note that if you have reported problematic comments in the past and have not heard back from us, please report them again by clicking on the flag symbol. This time you can be sure that we receive your feedback. ;)

For the next release we have not set tasks or a focus yet, so please tell us in the comments below what you think is most important to be fixed next!

May non-profit hospitality exchange prevail! :)

Hello everyone,

February has been a pretty quiet month for the BeWelcome "devs". No major spamming, no major technical development. ;) So also this release is a pretty small one with four issues solved:

• Fixed display of country and region for members in some exotic places
• Fixed blog comment counters to only count active members (not spammers)
• Changed donation page to display donations for the whole year instead of the current quarter only
• Changed member banning behaviour to log out currently logged in banned members (stops a spammer right after being discovered)

Good morning Bewelcome !

How about visiting Toulouse under the sign of the Duck over a bright (long) week-end, from Wednesday the 9th of May to Sunday the 13th ?
A lot of entertaining activities organized by toulousian hosts will take place. They include tasty meals, a bunch of nice little gigs, a big barbecue, an international picnic, a pub-crawl, and much more to be discovered in the detailed programm !

An official webpage has been created, where you’ll find the detailed program or information about how to come to Toulouse : have a look at it! There is also a BW forum where you’ll find some updates, car-sharing propositions, etc.

Bisous and see you soon !