Changelog
What's new
on RC Paddock.
I'm actively building this, in the open. Here's what's changed — updated as new stuff ships.
October 2026
October 3, 2026
new Track pages now have a Racing here section: the next meet on the calendar, the latest race results members logged at the track, the setup sheets people ran there, and how many Regulars the track has. Tap a result to open that racer’s race-day page. Nothing logged yet? Log your result with the track already filled in, or share your setup, straight from the section. Results you mark private never show there.new The Events page now has a Past tab next to Upcoming, so meets that have already happened are easy to find, newest first, with where they were held. If nothing is scheduled yet, the page links straight to the past meets.fixed Tapping "You’re a Regular" on a place no longer drops you from it by accident. It now asks "Leave this place?" first, and joining or leaving shows a short confirmation.
September 2026
September 30, 2026
improved On a phone, the menu is shorter: Create is now one row you tap to open, like Community and the other groups, instead of a list of every "add" option that was always showing at the bottom.
September 29, 2026
improved The Places page is cleaner on a phone: the search box and Near me come first, the map is always right below them, and the type, events, country and ZIP filters sit behind one Filters button. The long list of country links at the bottom of the page is gone on every screen size.new Racing has a home: open Community in the menu and pick Racing to see everything the race record does and start yours. "Log a race result" is in the + Create menu, "My race record" is in your account menu, and the Features page has a Racing section too.new Every race day now has its own page you can share: practice, qualifiers and mains from one day at the track, grouped by track and class with the mains first, and a Share button. Open it from the new "Race-day page" link on each day of your Racing tab. Results you mark private never show to anyone else, on the page or in the link preview.new Share your racing career: the Racing tab has a Share racing card button. Post the link on Facebook, X, Discord or anywhere else and it shows a card with your wins, podiums, TQs, A-mains, race days and your personal best laps. Only results you have made public are on the card.new See if you are getting faster: the Racing tab now has a Lap times chart with your best lap on every race day at a track in a class, your personal best marked, and how much you have gained since your first race day there (for example "−0.412 s since Mar 2026"). Pick any track and class you have raced at least twice; tap a point to see that day.new Filter your Racing tab by season, class and track. The career numbers and the list of results both follow the filter, and the link keeps it, so you can share "my 2026 season in Mod Buggy" as it is. The top of the tab also shows the classes and tracks you race most; tap one to filter to it.new Winning a B-main (or a C-main) now shows a Bump-up badge on the result, and your career stats count your bump-ups and how many of them you went on to race in the main above. A bump-up still never counts as a win.new Race results now show your consistency: how close your average lap was to your best, as a percentage (a best lap of 16.48 and an average of 16.79 is 98.2%). Your career stats add your average consistency in mains and your most consistent main.new Raced at an event? Its page now has a Log your results button from the day it starts until two weeks after it ends. It opens the race form with the day, the track and the event already filled in, so you only add how it went.new See how a car and a setup actually race. A car's page now has a Race history section with every result logged with it, and a setup sheet shows the results raced on it with a summary like "2 wins from 3 mains". On your own setup sheet, Log a result opens the race form already filled in with the car, track, event, date and lap times from the sheet. Results you mark private stay visible only to you.new Import a race result from LiveRC: when you log a race, paste the link to that race's LiveRC results and tap your name. The class, session, finish position, number of drivers, laps, total time, best and average lap, TQ and the link fill in for you. Nothing is saved until you check the form and tap Save. Next time, the name you picked is suggested first.new Career stats on the Racing tab: your race days, mains, wins, podiums, TQs, how often you make the A-main, your average and best A-main finish, and total laps, with your personal best lap at every track in every class. Filter by season or class and every number updates. A B-main win counts as a bump-up, not a win. Results you mark private only count in your own view.new Race record: keep a history of your RC racing. Log each practice, qualifier and main with the track, class, where you finished, your best and average laps, the car and setup sheet you ran, and a link to the LiveRC results. Your results show on a new Racing tab on your profile, grouped by race day, newest first. Mark any result private and only you will see it. Tap "Save and log another" to add the rest of a race day without typing the track and class again.fixed Messages: if you have a lot of conversations, your inbox now always lists the most recent ones first. Before, once you had more than 50, the newest could be missing from the list. A long conversation now opens at its latest messages instead of its first hundred.improved Pages open faster. Opening a link straight to a listing, car or place no longer downloads parts of the home page it doesn't use, visitors reading in a language other than English no longer download the English text as well, and garage and car lists load with far fewer trips to the server.fixed Translations now follow the numbers and names around them. "1 comment / 3 comments" style counts are correct in every language, including Polish, on comments, questions, replies, the sign-up page and the saved-search email. Place pages read naturally in French, Portuguese, Italian and German whatever the country or state is called. Polish and French no longer assume you are a man, and paint commissions say "blank" instead of "car body", which also makes sense for aircraft.improved Clearer names in a few languages: the Dirt track surface no longer shares a name with the RC Cars space in Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese, and Wanted is "Demandes" in French so it no longer looks like saved searches. Payment methods are spelled PayPal, Cash App, SEPA and PayNow everywhere.improved Places pages for a country or region now use the words people in that country search with (for example "circuitos" in Spain, "RC-butiker" in Sweden and "Vereine" in Germany) and show how many places they list. A region that appeared twice under two spellings, like "Stockholm" and "Stockholms län" or an old French region and the new one that replaced it, is now one page, and the old address takes you there.improved All 30 guides have been rewritten so the answer comes first: each one now answers its question in the opening paragraph, before any story. Nine were rewritten from scratch and are shorter and easier to scan, including the ones on scales, car classes, brushed vs brushless motors, NiMH vs LiPo, and troubleshooting a car that won't run. We also corrected some technical details, such as which gear pitch on-road cars use, what droop does on a setup sheet, and which brushed motors crawlers run. The trading guide now explains how trade offers work on RC Paddock.improved The home page (RC Cars and RC Planes) now has even spacing between its sections: the same gap before every new section, and a smaller one where a section continues the one above it, like the sold listings under "How trades work".improved On a laptop or bigger screen, a guide's "On this page" list now sits at the right edge of the page instead of right beside the text, so the article no longer leaves an empty strip on the right.improved RC Paddock now speaks the hobby's language in every translation. Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Swedish, Polish and Italian use the words racers in each country actually use, the same word for the same thing everywhere, and several setup sheet labels that named the wrong part are fixed. Dates, prices and ratings are also written the way your language writes them, and "3 months ago" style times now read correctly for one or many.fixed A few bits of English that slipped through in other languages are now translated: the "For sale" and "Sale pending" labels on garage cars, the map's zoom buttons, and the example email address in the claim and feedback forms. In Polish, the "Sign up" button at the top of the page no longer runs off the edge of a phone screen.improved Aircraft specs now read "Wingspan 1,400 mm" and "All-up weight 1,800 g", with the unit next to the number instead of in the label, and numbers written the way your language writes them. On listings, the "Wheels & tires" heading is now "Wheels, tires & body", since the body is listed there too.improved More saves now show the "Changes saved" note: editing your creator profile, a paint work or your painter bio, renaming a garage, editing a build log entry, renaming a setup sheet PDF, your shop blurb, and editing a saved address.fixed Places, events, wanted posts, creators, painters, guides, Garage of the Month and the claim pages no longer flash "Loading…" for a split second when they open quickly. The message only appears if something is actually taking a moment.
September 28, 2026
improved Photos on listing, car and garage cards now fade in gently as you scroll instead of popping in. The first row still appears straight away, so pages open just as fast.improved Saving changes to a car, a place, an event or a wanted post now shows a short "Changes saved" note at the bottom of the screen, so you know it worked. It disappears on its own after a few seconds, or tap it to close it.fixed If you move around with the keyboard, the outline showing where you are is easier to see in the light theme: it was a pale orange (pale blue in RC Planes) that was hard to spot on white, and is now a stronger shade. Setup sheet pages also no longer flash "Loading…" for a split second when they open quickly.improved On a tablet, listings, garages and cars now show three to a row instead of two, so a screen holds half as many again, and the cards are no longer bigger than on a laptop. The same goes for the cars in a garage, your garage and your wishlist.fixed Guides: the "On this page" list now keeps up when you jump back to the top of an article (it used to stay stuck on the last section), and "Keep reading" at the end no longer repeats the previous and next guides shown just above it.improved In Messages, the line under the other person's name now links to the listing, wanted post or commission the conversation is about, so you can jump back to it in one tap. Block and Delete moved into the ⋯ menu instead of sitting as two big buttons at the top of every chat.improved RC Planes: an aircraft's page now opens its specs with the aircraft itself (type, discipline, channels, weight, wingspan and prop) in a compact list, with the electronics after, and aircraft in a hangar are labelled by discipline, like "Scale / warbird · Electric", instead of just "Electric".improved Editing a car is easier to find your way around. The edit form is now split into the same sections as the car page (Basics, Electronics, Wheels, tires & body, and your notes) instead of one long list of boxes, and the surface buttons are easier to tap on a phone. When you review a listing before publishing, it now looks like the page buyers will see, tells you plainly what is still missing (like a shipping cost or a pickup area), and gives you a button straight to each unfinished step. On your own car's page, a spec section you haven't filled in yet (like Electronics) is now a single "Nothing added yet" line with an Add button that takes you straight to it, instead of a long column of dashes.fixed Dark mode is easier to read in a few more places: the red Delete and Withdraw links on My listings were too dark against the dark background and are now a brighter red, and some pale orange boxes (on the claim pages, the demo and the commission-sent note) no longer glare against the dark page. Links inside sentences, such as "contact page" on the changelog and FAQ, are now underlined in both themes so they stand out from the text around them.improved Listing specs are easier to scan. The basics (category, brand, scale, condition and the rest) now sit together in one list instead of under separate headings that often held a single line each, and installed parts like the motor, ESC, wheels and tires each get their own line with the part name under its label, side by side on a bigger screen.improved Finding your chassis's setup sheet is quicker. A brand's setup sheet page now lists its sheets as a tidy list grouped by discipline, with buttons at the top to show just one (On-Road, Off-Road 4WD and so on), instead of one big card per sheet. A discipline page shows the first few sheets from each brand with a link to the rest. On a computer, a setup sheet's own page shows the sheet big on the left, with the name and the Download and Use buttons beside it staying in view while you look it over, and its brand link now opens that brand's sheets.improved Pages across the site now line up. Browsing and detail pages share one full width; forms, reading pages like the terms, FAQ and changelog, and The Paddock share one comfortable column; and sign-in pages share one small card. The Paddock is a little wider as a result, so posts and the creator videos row have more room. Gear we use and the guides now line up with the rest of the site too.improved The Places directory now starts near you. It opens on tracks, clubs and shops in your country instead of an A–Z list of the whole world, and one tap on "Use my location" sorts them nearest first, with the distance on each. If you have already allowed location for RC Paddock, it does that for you. On a computer a big map sits on the left and stays in view while you scroll the list beside it, and pointing at a place in the list marks it on the map.improved The Paddock now leads with what members are doing. New creator YouTube videos used to fill almost the whole feed; they now sit together in a "New from creators" row you can swipe through (or step through with the arrow buttons on a computer), after the first few member posts and then every so often further down, so new cars, listings and events are no longer buried. Your Following tab is unchanged.improved Brand lists work the same way everywhere: a grid of brands with the most popular first. The brands directory now shows the brands that actually have something on the site (listings, models or cars in members' garages) instead of a long alphabetical list where most led to an empty page. The setup sheet library opens as a grid of brands with the most sheets first, so the big names are right at the top; tap one for all its sheets, or search to see matching sheets straight away.improved Browsing garages and hangars now only shows ones with at least one car or aircraft in them, so you no longer tap into an empty garage. Your own garages still show for you while they are empty, so you can find them and fill them up.improved Filters on a phone are shorter. On the marketplace, painters and creators pages, a filter option with nothing behind it, the ones showing (0), is now hidden on a phone instead of sitting there greyed out, and a whole filter group disappears when none of its options would find anything. On a tablet or computer they stay visible but greyed, so you can still see every option.improved Starting a setup sheet from a template no longer names it after the template, so sheets stop all looking like "XRay X4 (X42022)". You give it your own name, such as the track, the conditions or the event, with an example to get you going.improved The Setups page now starts from your car. Pick your brand and chassis at the top to go straight to its blank setup sheet and the setups other racers have shared for that brand, or jump in from a row of popular brands. A short "how it works" line (find your car's sheet, fill it in, share and compare) sits above it, and you can hide it once you know. Every setup now shows who made it, with their picture and a link to their profile, plus where and when it was run, the first few key numbers, and a PDF tag when there is a printable sheet inside. Each one has its own Compare button, and a bar at the bottom of the screen takes you to the side-by-side view once you have picked two. On a phone the discipline filters sit right above the results. A filter with nothing in it offers the blank sheet and a way to share the first one, instead of an empty page. Brand and discipline template pages show the racers' setups too.improved Setup sheets are much quicker to make and easier to read. Starting one is now three short steps: pick your car's template PDF and fill it in right on the page (or upload your own), say where and when you ran it, and optionally add the key numbers racers compare first: shock oil, springs, ride height, camber, toe, diff oil, tires and gearing. The long list of every possible setting only shows up if you don't have a PDF. On a sheet, the key numbers sit at the top in Front and Rear columns, beside the PDF on a computer and first on a phone. A fully typed-in sheet reads like a real setup sheet: suspension, shocks, diffs and tires each in one table with Front and Rear side by side, in a sensible order, with words like "Emulsion" instead of codes. Owners change their sheet from a single Edit sheet button. Compare setups now lines sheets up by name ("Shock oil, front / rear") rather than by code, starts with where each ran and the key numbers, can show only the differences, and keeps every other setting one tick away.improved Finding your car's template when you start a setup sheet is quicker: type part of the brand name to jump straight to it, with the number of templates shown beside each brand.improved Setup sheets now take a centre diff on on-road cars and short-course trucks, not only front and rear, so 4WD touring cars and 4x4 trucks like the Slash 4x4 can record all three. It is in the key numbers as well as the full sheet.new Setup PDFs open full screen. A Full screen button on any setup sheet PDF fills the whole screen with the sheet so it is easy to read and fill in, with zoom buttons for small fields on a phone. Anything you have typed carries over, you can save the filled PDF without leaving, and Done (or Esc) takes you back.improved Order pages on a phone now start with what matters: the total, where the order stands and who it is with, right under the order number — they used to be three screens down. A dispute that has been resolved folds down to a single line you can tap to open, instead of taking up the top of the page.improved The guides library uses the whole screen on a computer — two columns instead of one long list — with buttons at the top to jump straight to Getting started, Skills & maintenance, Tracks & community or Buying & selling. The Gear we use page is two columns too, without an empty picture box beside every item.improved Notifications are easier to use on a phone: tap anywhere on a notification to open it, and the filters sit in one row you can swipe instead of wrapping over three lines.fixed In dark mode, orange brand tags (like a car's brand) were hard to read — light orange text on a pale background. They now sit on a dark tinted background. The "This event has already taken place" note is easier to read too, the compare boxes on setup sheets and a few "Try it" links are easier to tap, setup sheets no longer say "Cloned 0×", and region pages outside the US no longer invite you to "explore every state".improved Browsing on a phone shows twice as much. Listings, garages and cars now sit two to a row instead of one big card per screen, so you can scan a page of results without endless scrolling — and car and garage names get two lines so model names are no longer cut short.improved Visiting someone's profile now opens on what they actually have. A member with a garage and nothing for sale used to open on an empty shop; now you land on their garage (or their paint work, for painters) straight away.improved Brand pages show the brand's cars from members' garages — real builds with photos — right on the page, instead of behind a button. An empty listings section is now a single line instead of a large empty box.improved The Deals page hides expired retailer deals by default (the Hide expired switch still shows them), and a retailer picture that fails to load shows a tidy placeholder instead of a broken image.improved Flying field pages are much easier to read. A club's hours, what you can fly there, any restrictions and its facilities used to arrive as one long paragraph; now the hours sit under their own heading, activities show as tags, restrictions stand out in a note of their own, and facilities are a two-column checklist. Addresses no longer repeat the town twice.improved Car and aircraft pages show the build at a glance. On a computer the specs now sit right beside the photos instead of two screens below them, and they are grouped under clear headings — Electronics; Wheels, tires & body; Ownership — with each part name on its own line under its label, so a long name like a motor or ESC model no longer wraps into a hard-to-read block. The owner's notes get a section of their own, and the wide banner at the top no longer repeats the first photo right above it. The grid of photos under the thumbnail strip is gone too — the strip already shows every photo, and tapping the main photo opens it full screen.
September 27, 2026
improved Empty pages now invite you in. A marketplace, garage list, guides page or place type with nothing in it yet used to just say "no results"; now it offers the way to add the first one — list your gear, add your car or aircraft, add the slope spot you fly at, or tell us which guide to write next.improved A clearer menu for the whole hobby. The top bar is now one entry per part of RC Paddock — Garages, Marketplace, Places, Setups, Community and Learn — so everything is one tap away: Wanted, Deals and Gear we use sit under Marketplace, The Paddock, creators and painters under Community, and the guides lead Learn. The setup template library now leads the Setups menu.new A Create menu. Signed in, the new ＋ Create button (in the menu on a phone) takes you straight to selling something, adding a car or aircraft, starting a setup sheet, posting a Wanted, adding a place or hosting an event.improved Your account menu is grouped — your own things, buying and selling, and your account — and gains a shortcut to your setup sheets. The footer is now a map of the whole site, with Events and the guides included.fixed The Brand hubs card on the Features page now links to the brands directory, and The Paddock's page title shows in your language like everything around it.improved Better for screen readers and keyboards. The sections on listing, place, event and wanted pages — Basics, Specs, Activity, Announcements, Looking for, the track map and others — are now proper headings you can jump between, and the maps on the home page and the Places pages are announced as a map, with their zoom buttons reachable by keyboard. Creator pages also load much smaller pictures: channel icons and video thumbnails come in the size they are shown at instead of several times larger.fixed In the Android app, a thin line of the page could peek out between the phone's status bar and the top bar while you scrolled. The top bar now sits flush.improved The Places directory gets to the tracks faster on a phone. The big map used to fill the screen before the first track, club or shop; on a phone the list now comes first, with a Show map button right above it when you want the map. Tablets and computers keep the map as before.improved Your own lists — orders, commissions, My listings, saved searches, your events and your setup sheets — now share one tidy row: the title, one line of details, and the status or price on the right, with the whole row tappable. On a phone your garage shows your cars the same way, with a small photo and a ⋯ menu for Edit, Move and Delete, so you can see several cars at once instead of one big card per screen.improved Your garage gets to your cars sooner. The Collection photos section under each garage now starts folded, showing just its title and how many photos it holds — tap it to open the photos and add more. If you open it, it stays open for that garage next time.improved Car pages load much faster on a phone and use far less data. A car with lots of photos used to download every full-size picture the moment the page opened — close to 4 MB for a well-photographed car — even though you only see one at a time. Now it loads the photo you are looking at and the next one, and fetches the rest as you swipe. The same applies to listing photos and photo viewers across the site.fixed A few labels were too faint to read comfortably: the "Add cover photo" hint on empty garage and car covers, and the red unread-count badges on the bell and messages icons. Both now meet accessibility contrast guidelines.improved My listings works on a phone. It used to show a wide table where only the titles fit on screen — the status, price and the Edit, Publish and Withdraw buttons were hidden off to the right. On a phone each listing is now one tidy row with its status, price, views and date, and its buttons right underneath. Across your account pages — notifications, settings, your garage and the sign-in page — small links and buttons are easier to tap, and text-style buttons now line up with the text around them instead of sitting slightly indented.fixed On phones and tablets you could not remove a photo you had uploaded — to a listing, a car, a cover or your avatar. The little × only appeared when a mouse hovered over the picture, and a touch screen has no hover. It now shows on touch screens all the time, and the avatar help text no longer tells you to hover. Also on phones: your Messages inbox no longer sits on top of a tall empty box, and in RC Planes the hangar line that read "0 view" now shows the full "1 aircraft · 0 views".improved Small controls are easier to hit on phones, tablets and in the app. Filter chips, the country and region links on Places, the A–Z letter bars, the brand and class links on setup templates, the category tags on creators, "See all" links, the footer icons and the light/dark switch all respond to a thumb-sized area now, and text boxes and dropdowns are a little taller on touch screens. On a computer nothing changes.improved Cars and garages now look the same wherever you meet them — the home page, browsing garages, a garage page, your own garage, your wishlist, profiles and Garage of the Month all use one car card and one garage card. Every card shows size and power on one line, a for-sale or retired tag in the same corner of the photo, and a clear "no photo" tile instead of a blank or broken image. Each car in the garage browser is now a single tap target rather than a card with two tiny links underneath, and the buttons on your own cars (reorder, delete, remove from wishlist) are easier to hit with a thumb.improved Painter pages show a portfolio you can actually browse: one tile per paint job with its best photo and how many more there are, instead of every photo of every job one after another. Tap a tile for the full set.improved Event pages on a phone now start with when and where the event is, before the RSVP and host details. Long creator bios fold down to a few lines with a Show more link, and setup sheets no longer show big empty boxes when the owner has not added a PDF or details yet.improved Car pages in garages are much shorter on a phone and only show what the owner has actually filled in. Empty spec lines, an empty setup-sheets box and an empty build log no longer take up the page for visitors (owners still see the gaps, so they know what to add), and the photo grid under the main photo now appears on bigger screens only — on a phone the strip of thumbnails already shows every picture.improved Listing pages are quicker to read on a phone. Condition, shipping or pickup and the seller now sit right under the title; the price, how it gets to you and who is selling come straight after the photos instead of below every spec; and the specs are one tidy section that skips anything the seller left blank, instead of a stack of boxes full of dashes.improved Listings look the same wherever you meet them — browsing, the home page, deals, your wishlist, seller profiles and brand pages all use one listing card now. Titles get two full lines instead of being cut off next to the price, the savings badge no longer hides under the quick-view button, and listings without a photo say so clearly instead of showing a blank grey box.fixed On brand pages, a listing from RC Planes opened its RC Cars address instead of its own.improved The home page is shorter and gets to the point. Tracks, clubs and shops near you now come straight after the introduction instead of halfway down, followed by the latest garages and listings. On phones the "pick your corner" map is a compact grid of icons, the selling and custom-paint sections are each gathered into one place, and a couple of sections that repeated each other are gone.improved Track, club and shop pages are easier to use on a phone. The map and the Get directions button now come first, right under the name, instead of two screens down behind an empty members box. Website, Share and Like sit together in one row, the description and the address are gathered into a single About section, and an empty events calendar no longer takes up space when nothing is scheduled.improved Buttons across the site are easier to tap on phones and tablets, including in the app. Small buttons now respond to a thumb-sized area around them, so you no longer have to aim for a narrow strip — nothing looks any different.fixed Nearly a hundred bits of colour across the site were never actually showing. Notices that a listing, garage or car had been removed by a moderator had no red at all; warnings and success messages in several places came out in plain black; and hints meant to sit quietly in grey were printed as loud as the text around them. The colours were asked for under names our design system does not have, so the browser silently ignored them. They now show as intended, and the site can no longer be built with a colour name it does not recognise.fixed Dropdowns, date pickers and the picture-card choosers on our forms never showed you which one you had missed. If you submitted a form with a required dropdown left empty — adding a car to your garage, listing an item, filling in an event — the box you needed to fix looked exactly like every box you had already filled in. The only clue was a line of red text underneath, which on a long form is often below the bottom of the screen, so the form simply appeared to do nothing. These controls now turn red when they need attention, matching the ordinary text boxes beside them.
September 26, 2026
fixed Prices in currencies that have no pence or cents — Japanese yen and Korean won — showed up 100 times too small in several places: a ¥12,000 listing read as ¥120 on seller profiles, brand pages, class and category pages, and in the listings suggested on a wanted post. Sending a yen listing to Facebook Marketplace pre-filled the same wrong price. Every one of those now shows the real amount. Dollar, euro and pound prices were never affected.fixed The Creators directory had stopped picking up new videos in the middle of August. Every channel showed the same uploads it had on 18 August, and new videos from the creators you follow stopped appearing in the Paddock feed. YouTube quietly switched off the public feed we were reading, for every channel at once, so nothing looked broken from the outside — the lists just stopped moving. Creator pages now read the latest uploads directly from YouTube again, once a day, and the feed picks new videos back up.improved When an upload is turned down — a photo or PDF that is too large, a file that is not really the type it claims to be, or too many uploads in a short time — the uploader now tells you why, in your own language, instead of showing a short technical message in English. Photos and setup-sheet PDFs are now checked on our side after they arrive, not just in your browser, so a file that slips past the browser check is caught with a clear message rather than quietly failing later.fixed Deleting your account failed with an error if you had ever bought or sold anything, left or received a review, or opened a dispute — which is to say, for most people who had actually used the marketplace. It now works. Your account and your personal details are removed as promised, but the other person’s record of the deal is not: their order, the reviews on it and any dispute stay in their history, with you shown as “Deleted user” and no link to a profile.fixed Pressing an order or commission button twice in quick succession — or you and the other person acting on it at the same moment — could record the same step twice, or let the second action overwrite the first. Now only the first one counts, and the other gets a message asking you to refresh and see where things stand.
August 2026
August 27, 2026
fixed The maps on Places — the track, club and hobby-shop directory — had "API KEY REQUIRED" stamped diagonally across every tile, on the website and in the app. Our map supplier began requiring an API key for the map imagery, and the message was printed onto the map pictures themselves rather than arriving as an error, so nothing on our side reported a problem. The maps are back to normal.fixed Signing in with Google, Facebook or Apple was impossible if you had two-factor authentication turned on. You would come back from the provider, be asked for your six-digit code as normal, type it in — and be told your sign-in had expired and to start again, however fast you were and however correct the code. The code was never actually being checked; the sign-in was being rejected a step earlier, so trying again could not help. Signing in with an email address and password was unaffected throughout. This had been broken since 16 August.
August 24, 2026
new If an order goes into dispute, the buyer and the seller can now add notes to it. There is an "Add evidence" box on the dispute panel on the order page, and both of you see everything that has been added, with who wrote it and when. Until now there was no way for either side to add anything after the dispute was opened — yet we were still emailing people to say their seven-day window to add evidence had closed. That window is now real: it holds open for seven days, both sides can write to it in that time, and once it closes the box goes away rather than quietly accepting notes nobody asked for. Photos still go through Messages. As ever, RC Paddock keeps the record so both of you and a moderator can read it — we do not decide the outcome.fixed Deleting your account while a paint commission was still running quietly destroyed the job for the other person too — the painter holding your shell, or the customer waiting on theirs, was left with a dead link and no record of what was agreed. Deleting is now blocked while any commission you are part of is still open, exactly as it already was for orders, and the message tells you which one is holding it up with a link straight there. Finished, declined and cancelled commissions do not block anything.improved The Paddock feed now says how long ago something happened — “5d ago”, “2h ago” — instead of stamping every post with a date and time. A feed full of dates reads like a logbook, and a post from Tuesday looked ancient when it was nothing of the sort. The exact time is still there if you want it: hover the age, or let a screen reader read it out.improved An empty Messages inbox now gives you a way to start a conversation. It used to say “start one from a listing or profile” and then offer nothing to click — which is the first thing almost every new member sees. There is now a Browse listings button right there, and it keeps you in the space you are already in, so a pilot browsing air stays in air.fixed Your notifications list was hiding things behind “3 updates”. When several notifications of the same kind arrived together they were rolled into one line, and only offers, orders, messages, reviews and disputes had a name for that line — everything else, including every paint commission, every comment on your garage or a place or an event, every claim you filed, new followers and reactions, just said “N updates” and told you nothing until you opened it. Rolled-up lines now say what they are: “3 commission updates”, “2 new comments”, “1 new follower”. Saved-search matches were caught by the same bug and now read as matches again.fixed Your notifications no longer merge unrelated things into one line. Updates about the same order or the same commission still group together, as they should — but reactions on five different cars, comments on different garages, or two separate paint commissions on the same day used to collapse into a single row that only opened one of them, leaving the rest with no way in from the list. Everything about a different thing now gets its own row.improved A car page in a garage now opens with the photo shown whole. Until now every photo on that page was a cropped tile, and the only way to see the full shot — the whole shell, the whole airframe — was to click one open. There is now a large main image at the top that fits the photo rather than trimming it, with arrows, a thumbnail strip and swipe on a phone. The grid of tiles is still underneath for scanning, and still opens the full-screen viewer.fixed A paint commission was offering a “Receipt PDF” from the moment you asked for a quote — a receipt for a job with no quote, no agreement and nothing paid, which said “Not quoted” where the total should be. The receipt now exists from the point you accept a quote onward, which is when there is actually something to record. Completed commissions are unaffected, and the finished document is exactly as it was.fixed If a parcel was sent without tracking, the commission page showed an empty line under “Tracking” that looked like something had failed to load. It now says “No tracking”, on both the shell going out and the finished body coming back.fixed The commissions list was shouting people’s handles in capitals — @yourname turned into @YOURNAME, which is not the handle and does not match the profile address. Handles now appear exactly as they were chosen.fixed An event that had already happened looked exactly like one coming up — it still offered Going and Interested, still said “No one’s RSVP’d yet — be the first”, and still offered to add itself to your calendar. Past events now say so, drop the RSVP buttons and the calendar button, and show who came instead of asking you to sign up. RSVPs to a finished event are refused by the server too, not just hidden.
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