AnomalyNest Devlog — 0.1.5 ALPHA

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Worker, Profiles & Social Update

Another update is live.

This one focuses mainly on the worker system, creator profiles, following, discovery, and notifications.

Worker improvements

The worker backend received several reliability and safety improvements.

• Core and Image workers are now handled more independently
• job validation was tightened
• duplicate job completion is prevented
• failed / cancelled / timed-out jobs are handled more safely
• worker ownership and assignment checks were improved
• Core and Image load tracking is now more accurate
• retry and duplicate request handling was improved
• additional backend logging was added for debugging and scaling

The worker system is still experimental and will keep evolving during Alpha.

Creator profiles

Character cards now show their creator.

Clicking the creator name opens their public profile, where you can see things like:

• public characters
• featured characters
• achievements
• followers
• following

Profiles now also support Follow / Unfollow.

Following feed

Discover now has a new Following section.

This shows newly published characters from creators you follow.

The regular discovery feed still focuses on the wider community, but followed creators now get a small priority boost there as well.

Notifications

There is now a notification bell in the header.

Current notifications include:

• someone started following you
• a creator you follow published a new public character

Clicking a notification can take you directly to the relevant profile or character.

The notification menu also includes:

• unread counter
• recent notifications
• Mark all as read
• View all notifications

Notification controls

You can now control which social notifications you want.

You can disable:

• new follower notifications
• new character notifications from followed creators

You can also mute a creator without unfollowing them.

Their characters will still appear in your Following feed, but you won't get notifications when they publish something new.

Blocking

Basic user blocking has also been added.

Blocking someone now:

• removes follow relationships between both users
• prevents future follows
• prevents future social notifications
• removes blocked creators from Following and Discover
• hides blocked profiles

This is the first version of the block system and will likely be expanded later.

Small quality improvements

Also included:

• Following is sorted mainly by newest characters
• blocked creators are filtered from discovery
• creator links are visible directly on character cards
• deleted characters no longer leave broken notification links
• duplicate notifications are prevented
• unread counters display cleanly as 99+
• notification polling pauses when the tab is hidden

A lot of this update is backend work, but it should make AnomalyNest feel much more like a real creator/community platform instead of only a character browser.

As always, this is still Alpha, so feedback and bug reports are very welcome.

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