Release Notes

What's new on TownVue. Most recent first.

v2026.04.16 — April 16, 2026 — Community editor, listing slugs, and pricing

Community posts: richer editor with styled block embeds for more expressive formatting.
You can now edit the URL slug on your business, event, experience, and trading post listings so the link reads how you want.
Service area selection on trading post listings now validates the area properly.
Homepage surfaces more community content in expanded widgets.
Pricing page promotes articles, blog, and the new showcase video benefits for subscribers.
Animated SVG logos now keep their animations when you upload them.

Detail pages now include canonical URLs so search engines don't split authority across duplicates.
Inactive and past listings are marked noindex and stay out of search results.
Login and sign-in links no longer waste crawl budget.
Community posts are now included in the public sitemap.
Links to TownVue pages shared on Facebook, X, LinkedIn, and iMessage now show rich previews with an image and summary (Open Graph / Twitter Card).
The experience details page's "More from this Host" section now shows listing thumbnails.

Add a showcase video to any business, event, experience, or trading post listing — a featured video that appears at the top of the details page.
AVIF image uploads are now supported alongside JPG, PNG, and WebP.
Cleaner cards on the community and home pages, with brand-colored share icons.
Claim and Get-Listed pages: layout polish and live stat counters.
New Get-Listed marketing page for cold-outreach traffic to learn about TownVue before signing up.
Claim landing page rewritten with clearer CTAs that route directly into subscription signup.
Sitemap cleanup: added several missing static pages, removed dead entries.

Community posts now have analytics, favorites, search, and draft support.
AI Assist on community posts is disabled until you've entered a title, and defaults to a 300-word length.

Fix: deleting a photo from a business listing no longer throws an error.
Fix: Account → My Listings now shows your current photos instead of cached older ones.

TownVue support receives an email notification whenever a new subscription is purchased.

Community post editor: preview, inline validation, and a tone selector to steer AI Assist.
Fix: listing types now display correctly for users on unlimited plans.
AI Assist buttons disable after a successful request so you can't accidentally fire it twice.
Additional SEO optimizations across marketing pages.

Background job assembles newsletter content; Go High Level can now pull it through the API.
You'll receive an email notification the moment someone sends you a message on TownVue.
Password reset email refreshed with updated styling.

Background sync pulls a curated list of disposable and spam email domains daily.
Dynamic MX lookups - and user-entered business email flag typos and unreachable mailboxes.

Emails are trimmed on save so trailing spaces never block sign-in.
Claim flow has clearer step-by-step instructions.
Login and registration pages autofocus the email / first-name field so you can start typing immediately.