What's new
Recent changes to the archive.
April 23, 2026
City search now finds the small places
The city picker on your settings page (and the one new members see when they sign up) has been rebuilt on a better map provider. Small hamlets and unincorporated communities that used to show up as something generic like 'Regional District of Central Kootenay' are now findable by their actual name — Krestova, Kaslo, Rossland, the list goes on.
Your existing city pick still works and nothing on your profile has changed. Next time you open the picker to update your location you'll just see more of the places you actually climb out of.
April 23, 2026
Earn badges for contributing to the archive
There's a new trophy case in your dashboard — /dashboard/achievements — that tracks nine starter badges for the meaningful moments: your first listed guidebook, your first borrow request, your first approved loan as owner, your first completed return, your first review, and your first in-thread message. Three rarer badges celebrate listing the first guidebook from a country nobody else has (Cartographer), participating in ten completed loans (Veteran), and — for members who joined before the end of May 2026 — a charter-member badge called First Ascent.
Badges you've already earned from past activity have been added to your trophy case silently, dated to when you actually qualified rather than today. Going forward, earning a badge pops a quick celebration on screen and lands in your notification bell. Earned badges appear on your public profile.
- Nine badges across two tiers — six firsts plus three rarer ones
- First Ascent is only available to members who joined before June 2026
- Profile badge chips show on /users/[id] for everyone to see
- Trophy case at /dashboard/achievements lists earned + locked badges
- The rarer badges get a confetti moment when you earn them
April 23, 2026
Community leaderboards are live
There's a new page at /leaderboard celebrating the archivists who keep this library running — the members with the fullest shelves (the Keepers), the most generous lenders (the Benefactors), and the most prolific borrowers (the Stoke Seekers). You'll also see your own rank on your dashboard.
Along with the leaderboards we're switching our display-name policy from opt-in to opt-out. By default, your display name can now appear on public loan history and the leaderboards. If you'd rather stay anonymous, head to Settings → Privacy and flip off "Show my display name in public places" — your ranks will still show on your own dashboard, but you'll be omitted from public listings.
- Top 10 per category with a podium for the top three
- Your own rank card on the dashboard, linking back to the full leaderboard
- Opt out any time in Settings — it takes one click
April 23, 2026
Books from owners without a city still show up in distance-filtered searches
If you're browsing with a distance limit set (the default is 100 km), the library will no longer quietly hide books whose owner hasn't picked a city yet. Those books can't be sorted by distance, but they'll still appear in your results so you can discover them.
Distance sorting is unchanged: books with a known distance come first, and unknown-distance books sit at the end of the list.
April 22, 2026
Multiple copies of the same guidebook now group together
When two or more members list the same guidebook, the Discovery Archive now shows it as a single entry instead of separate cards — with a badge telling you how many copies exist and how many are available right now.
Click into a grouped entry and you'll see each individual copy: who owns it, how far away they are, which edition and condition, and whether it's currently on loan. Pick the copy you'd like to borrow and the rest of the request flow works exactly as before.
- Library list shows "N copies available" on grouped entries, with the nearest distance across all copies
- Detail page lets you pick a specific copy before asking to borrow
- Filters (country, climbing type, distance, availability) still work — a grouped entry shows up whenever any of its copies matches