What changed, what shipped, and what got better.

This work fixes the old problem where selecting badges in one profile context could block or confuse another world profile. It also starts extending the same identity layer into feeds and comments.

• Per-world display slots: Social Circle, Social Lite, Circle Snap, Gamers Circle, and Circle Vision now each have their own displayed badge selection.
• Public profile consistency: World public profiles now read the selected badges for their own world, keeping global badges reusable and world badges properly scoped.
• Feed actor badge rollout: Gamers, Vision, and Circle Snap feeds started showing actor badges from the new selected profile badge system instead of the old account-wide featured flag.

This work is grouped under May 2026 because it was completed as a focused badge-system hardening pass rather than one public-facing feature drop.

• Profile identity badges: Social Circle, Lite, Snap, Gamers, Vision, and Complete Circle Identity badge definitions were seeded and backfilled safely.
• Launch badge structure: First 100 Members, Joined Before Launch, Launch Member, and June 10 Founder rules were clarified with exclusions, manual locks, and rerunnable backfill direction.
• Auditability: Badge grants now have stronger audit-row coverage and safer checks for accidental planned-auto/public-display mistakes.

This keeps the public update honest: compressed/exported media uploads work, storage limits were raised, and direct camera-original compatibility still needs a stronger future upload path.

• Storage limit alignment: Circle Vision and Gamers Clips buckets were raised to 1GB so the backend limits match the larger beta media direction.
• Product rules: Circle Vision is moving toward videos up to 5 minutes, while Gamers clips are focused on shorter 3-minute gameplay highlights.
• Video Upload v2 direction: The longer-term direction is better direct-camera support through resumable uploads and/or conversion, rather than asking users to understand formats.

Grouped under April 2026 because this work happened in a tight sequence of shell, layout, and world passes rather than one clean public ship per day.

• Website-first shell direction: Desktop surfaces moved away from centered app-panel framing and used browser space more intentionally.
• Open-layout consistency: Home Feed and world pages gained wider center lanes, cleaner helper rails, and less wasted side space.
• Approved screenshot alignment: Multiple high-visibility pages were pushed much closer to their approved desktop targets.

These items are grouped together because they were part of the same broader exact-match and alignment effort.

• Home Feed: Cleaner premium layout, restored product controls, and better visual identity.
• Social Circle / Snap / Lite / Gamers / Vision: Each world received deeper structural passes to feel more purposeful instead of like lightly tinted copies of one another.
• Right rails: Support cards were fixed and repositioned so they actually sit correctly in the desktop layout.

This work is grouped under April 2026 because the repo/project history clearly supports the month, while several smaller fixes were done in a tight sequence rather than one public ship note per day.

• Shell / safe-area cleanup: Installed-wrapper spacing, header behavior, viewport fit, and first-use auth/feed flow were tightened without a broad redesign.
• Key mobile surfaces: Messages, Circle, Social Circle profile, creator earnings, and comment input behavior were improved for smaller screens.
• Regression-oriented fixes: Wrapper clipping, fit-to-screen issues, tip visibility, and name fallback problems were targeted based on real device testing.

This grouping reflects the product-direction work around founder value, public badge display, and cleaner identity layering.

• Founder value clarity: Founder messaging became sharper and more honest about visibility without over-promising reach.
• Featured/public badge flow: Badge display direction moved toward a cleaner public/featured system instead of founder-only shortcuts.
• Identity layering: Name, world source, and displayed badge are now treated as separate product signals.

This month grouping keeps the wording honest about what is actually live versus what is only structural prep.

• Ledger as source of truth: Founder/support/tip flows now feed a clearer earnings and payout-review foundation.
• Manual payout review: Creator payout handling stays manual/admin-reviewed instead of pretending automatic payouts are already live.
• Stripe Connect prep only: Structural prep exists, but the product does not overstate a live Connect migration that has not happened yet.

Grouped under March 2026 where project history clearly supports the period, while staying honest about not pinning exact per-item public dates that are not proven here.

• Explore / discovery pass: Trending/new/staff picks patterns were refined so early users have better discovery paths.
• Seeding / empty-state improvements: Launch worlds gained clearer guidance and less empty-app feel.
• Launch-prep cleanup: Launch-facing wording and routes were tightened so the public surface feels clearer and more intentional.

These items are grouped together because they were part of the same broader platform hardening and polish period.

• Badge architecture: The live paid/supporter badge flow was aligned to a clearer long-term structure.
• Dead-weight cleanup: Low-value clutter was trimmed while protecting live supporter/founder surfaces.
• Product polish: Admin/account-adjacent flows gained better loading, empty, and action feedback.
• Analytics-lite: Admin gained a compact activity snapshot with more honest status handling around reports.

These items are grouped under February 2026 based on project work history and earlier audit notes, without inventing unsupported exact days.

• World config cleanup: World definitions, launch visibility, posting rules, and labels were centralized.
• Launch structure lock-in: The current five launch-visible worlds were stabilized under a clearer shared configuration model.
• Public profile routing: World-aware profile links were aligned so users land on the correct public surface for Social Circle, Lite, Snap, Gamers, and Vision.

Grouped honestly by month because the work is clearly real and completed, but exact public ship dates for each internal cleanup are not pinned here.

• Profile ownership cleanup: Social Circle profile saves no longer silently act like owner of all world identities.
• Friends/messages relationship alignment: Friend-based behavior and message access rules were moved toward one coherent shared model.
• DB truth-map + constants: Database surface usage was documented and repeated high-risk names were normalized through shared constants.