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.

August 2026

August 20, 2026

fixedSetup sheet pages were saying the brand twice — “Schumacher Schumacher Mi6”, “Kyosho Kyosho MP11”. The template title already carried the make and the page was adding it again in front, which affected the large majority of the sheet library. Titles now say it once, unless the brand genuinely is not in the title (a Hot Bodies sheet still shows HB Racing).
improvedThe setup-sheet library, the brands directory, the places directory and the creators directory now link down into their own sections — sheets by class and by brand, places by country, creators by discipline. Those section pages existed and were reachable from search, but nothing on the site pointed at them, so the only way in was to already know the address.

August 19, 2026

newBrowsing listings now tells you when new ones turn up, instead of you having to refresh to find out. A small "new listings" button appears at the top of the results while you browse; tap it and they drop in. Nothing moves on its own — the page you are reading stays exactly where it is until you ask for the new gear, so you will not lose your place mid-scroll. If you have filters on, the button will not put a number on it, because a listing arriving somewhere else on the site may well not be one you asked to see; tapping it then simply checks, and quietly clears if nothing matched.

August 17, 2026

newPost what you are hunting for and we will tell you when it turns up. Wanted posts already showed matching listings if you went back and looked, but nothing ever told you — so unless you happened to revisit your own post, a match could come and go unnoticed. You now get a notification, at most once a day per post, and only for listings you have not already been told about.
fixedOn the RC Planes side, wanted posts were being matched against car listings. The matching quietly assumed everything was on the car side of the site, so a post looking for an airframe could be shown a buggy. Flying wanted posts now only match flying listings.
fixedIf a host moves an event to a different time after the day-before reminder has already gone out, everyone who said they were coming now gets a fresh reminder for the new time. Before, the reminder was sent once and never again, so a rescheduled meet left people holding a note about a time that no longer existed. Small tidy-ups to the time do not re-notify anyone.
new"Add to calendar" now works in the phone apps too, not just the website. It had been hidden there because of how app browsers handle downloads; the file now comes from a proper link, which also means a calendar invite can be shared or emailed.
fixedTurning on two-factor authentication was failing outright — the security tab would error instead of showing you a QR code. An update to the login library we use started recording something the database had no room for. Anyone who already had two-factor turned on was unaffected; if you tried to set it up recently and gave up, it works now.
newWhen a track, club or shop you are a Regular at schedules an event, you now hear about it. Until now a club could put a race night on its page and none of the people who had signed up as Regulars there were told — the only way to find out was to happen to look. Only new events send this, so a host tidying up the details later will not keep pinging everyone.
newThere is now a "My events" page, under your account menu, holding everything you have RSVPed to, everything you have already been to, and everything you are hosting. The reminder the day before an event has worked for a while, but there was nowhere to go and check what you had said yes to.
newEvents have an "Add to calendar" button that drops the meet straight into your own calendar app. It is not in the phone apps yet — only on the website.
newTrack and club pages now keep their past events, tucked behind a collapsed "past meets" line under the upcoming ones. A club that runs a meet every month used to look empty between them, because everything that had already happened simply disappeared.
newYou now get a notification when someone follows you. Until now a new follower arrived in complete silence — the only way to find out was to notice the number on your profile had moved.
improvedWinning Garage of the Month now actually gets your garage shown off. The crown used to be a private message and nothing else; the winner is now first in line for the garage we post to our social accounts, so the build that earned it gets seen outside the site too.
improvedScreens with nothing on them yet now tell you what to do next instead of stopping dead. A search with no matches offers to clear your filters, save the search so we can tell you when something turns up, or post what you are hunting for; an empty wishlist, offers list and orders list each point somewhere useful.
improvedThe garages directory now leads with garages that have photos in them. It was ordered purely by whatever changed most recently, so brand-new empty garages crowded out the finished builds — which is the opposite of what a page full of other people's cars is for.
fixedLooking at your own profile, the Garages and Painter tabs used to talk about you in the third person — "this user hasn't published anything here yet" — and gave you no way to add anything. They now speak to you and offer the button. Your profile also no longer opens with "0 sales · 0 purchases" before you have ever bought or sold; follower counts show instead, including when they are zero.
newPainters now show their star rating and review count in the directory and on their profile. The ratings existed, but only the two people already in a job could see them — which is no use at all to someone choosing a painter.
newSetup sheets now say which sheet they were cloned from, and link back to it. If that sheet has since been made private or deleted, the line stays but the link does not.
improvedThe creators directory has a "Recently active" sort, and the "New video" badge now means it. The badge used to appear on any channel that had ever posted anything, so a video from two years ago was labelled new; it now only shows for uploads from the last fortnight.
fixedOn the flying side, event types read "Race day" in two places — the events list on a flying field's page, and the type picker when creating an event. Both now say the flying wording, like everywhere else.
fixedThe "more places" list on a track or flying field page now actually shows the ones near it. Every place page was offering the same handful of links regardless of where it was — a track in New York suggested the same eight as one in California, and flying fields got no local suggestions at all. They are now the closest places in the same state, nearest first.

August 14, 2026

newThe creators directory now matches the space you are browsing — RC Cars shows car channels, RC Planes shows flying channels, and creators who cover both appear in each. Plus a first wave of RC flying creators, from foam-board builds and giant scale to FPV freestyle.
fixedCreator profile pictures now show up across the site. Channels whose picture comes straight from YouTube were falling back to a coloured initial instead — the image was there, it just was not being allowed to load.
improvedPages load noticeably faster on a first visit, especially on a phone or a slow connection. About a fifth of what the site had to download before it could show you anything has gone — code that was being sent to everyone but only ever used on a handful of pages.
improvedYour unread counts for messages and notifications now refresh the moment you come back to the tab, instead of waiting for the next check. A tab left open in the background also stops checking until you look at it again — before, it kept polling all day whether or not anyone was there.

August 13, 2026

improvedOn a phone or tablet, the light/dark switch is now in the header next to the bell, where signed-out visitors have always had it. Signed in, it used to be tucked inside the account menu — two taps away, and easy to miss entirely if you never opened that menu. On a desktop it stays in the account menu, where there is no room for it in the header.
newA bar across the top of every page now switches between RC Cars and RC Planes, with each side in its own colour — so you can see at a glance which one you are in, and that the other one is there. Before, the only way across was a small arrow beside the logo that showed up on wide screens only, so most people never found out the flying side existed.
improvedNew accounts now start with both a garage and a hangar, whichever side of the hobby you signed up from. Before, you got whichever one matched the page you joined on, and the first time you looked at the other you had to create it before you could add anything. Both are empty and private-feeling until you put something in them — they stay out of the public directory until they hold their first model.
fixedIf you were on the flying side and opened your own hangar before adding an aircraft to it, there was no way back to your garage from that page. Both controls that offer the switch — the one in the header and the "switch" button on the empty page itself — put you straight back where you started, so the only way out was to edit the address bar. Switching from that page now takes you to your garage, and your cars are where you left them.
fixedIn the guided tour, a seller countering an offer saw the amount box labelled with the word "undefined" instead of the currency. Only the tour was affected — a real counter-offer has always shown the right currency.

August 12, 2026

improvedThe sign-up page now shows what is actually in the space you are browsing — an air visitor sees hangars and aircraft listings instead of garages and car setups.
improvedA member profile that sells in more than one space now marks each listing and each completed sale with the space it belongs to, so a land visitor can tell an aircraft sale at a glance instead of guessing from the title.
fixedOptional dropdowns could not be emptied once you picked something — the scale on an aircraft, the condition on a car. They now offer a "None" choice, so a value you set by accident is not permanent.
fixedIn dark mode, two things were nearly unreadable: the number inside a grouped pin on the places map, and the "No photo yet" label on a car or aircraft with no picture yet. Both are now legible, and both look the same as before in light mode.
improvedA venue that hosts both land and air events now shows its whole calendar on its own page, with each event marked for the space it belongs to. Before, a club that both races and flies showed only half its calendar there — the rest was reachable only from the events index.
fixedAdding an aircraft from a hangar page failed with no explanation unless you happened to pick a scale — a field aircraft are not asked to fill in. The same form on your own hangar page worked, which made it look like the page rather than the form.
fixedClearing a text field on a car or aircraft — the motor, ESC, servo, radio gear, body or notes — appeared to save but kept the old value. Emptying a box now actually empties it.
fixedThirteen actions that could be refused by the server used to fail in complete silence — deleting a saved search or a draft listing, withdrawing a listing, marking a wanted post found, deleting an event or a setup sheet, marking notifications read. Nothing happened and nothing was said, which is indistinguishable from a button that does not work. Every one of them now tells you what went wrong.
fixedA suspended account is now taken to a page that explains the suspension, instead of being left to browse a site where nothing it does works. Signing in used to look completely normal — your name in the header, your garage where you left it — while every attempt to change anything quietly failed.
fixedCreating a garage or hangar that the server refused told you nothing: the dialog stayed open and no garage appeared. It now explains what went wrong, like every other action on that page already did.
fixedIf your account is suspended, the site now says so in your own language wherever it comes up. Most of those messages had been showing the bare English word "Banned" no matter which language you were using, and a few showed an internal code instead of a sentence.
fixedSharing a profile or a garage in a language other than English attached English text to the share. The image description and the "N sales" line under a profile were written in English no matter which language you were browsing in, so a German or Portuguese link posted to a forum arrived half-translated. Both are now in your language, everywhere the site is offered.
improvedHangar, aircraft-listing and flying-event pages now describe themselves the same way in search results as they do in the browser. The two descriptions had been written separately and had drifted apart, so what a search result promised and what the page said were not quite the same sentence.
fixedThe warning you get before deleting your account now describes what deleting it actually takes with you. It listed only some of what it removes, and it named things using words from one corner of the site — so depending on what you had built, the warning could read as though parts of your account would survive. The account settings and sign-up pages have had the same treatment: they now describe your profile, your listings and your comments without assuming what kind of models you keep.
fixedTwo notifications were written with the wrong grammar in Italian and Portuguese. Both were about something you own, and both got the agreement wrong — the sort of mistake that reads as though nobody who speaks the language has looked at the page. The moderation emails in Portuguese and Swedish had the same problem and have been rewritten too.
improvedThe guided tour now shows you the hobby you are actually in. It walked everyone through the same sale, so if you came in through the flying side you were shown a 1/10 buggy changing hands. There is now a version for each, with the same step-by-step through offers, an order and delivery — only the model being sold differs.
fixedSigning up at the same moment as somebody else with the same display name no longer fails without saying why. The two accounts wanted the same handle, and the one that arrived second simply did not get created — the form sat there with nothing to tell you. The second person now gets the next handle along.

August 11, 2026

fixedWhen a moderator settled a dispute and closed the order, the order history never recorded it. The order showed as closed at the top of the page while its timeline still ended at "Disputed", for both the buyer and the seller — so the one place that explains what happened to an order stopped short of the part people most wanted explained. Closing a dispute is now written into the history like every other step, and says who settled it.
fixedSales and purchases that ended in a settled dispute were not counted on either profile. A seller who completed the sale and had the dispute closed in their favour saw their completed-sales total stay where it was. Those orders now count for both sides. This applies from today onward — earlier dispute-closed orders are not counted retroactively.
fixedAdding a place to the directory started with "Hobby shop" already ticked, so unless you noticed and unticked it, whatever you added was filed as a hobby shop first and as the thing you actually chose second — a track or a flying field would show up under the wrong heading. Nothing is pre-selected now; the form asks you to pick, and tells you if you have not. If you have added a place that looks wrong in the directory, editing it and unticking the extra type will put it right.
fixedAdding an aircraft to your hangar could do nothing at all. If you left Scale blank — which is fair, since it is optional on the flying side and its choices are car scales — the Add button simply did not respond: no aircraft, and no explanation. Picking a scale you did not want was the only way through. Scale is properly optional now, and the same problem stopped edits saving on aircraft that had never had one.
fixedSigning out from the flying side dropped you on the driving side, and stayed there — the next time you opened the site you were on the wrong side of the hobby again. You now sign out where you were.
fixedThe piece count on a painter’s card in the directory now matches the work you can actually see. It was counting pieces that had been taken down, so a painter could show a higher number than their portfolio had in it.
fixedA saved search that filters on tyres now keeps that filter when you re-run it. If you saved a search with a tyre keyword in it, the "run this search" button and the link in the match email both dropped that one word and showed you everything else you had asked for — so the results were wider than the search you saved. Every other filter was carried through correctly; tyres was the one that was not.

August 10, 2026

fixedThe "discard unsaved changes?" prompt now speaks your language. If you started filling in a listing, an event or a setup sheet and then navigated away, the warning that saved you from losing it appeared in English no matter which language the rest of the site was in. It is the same prompt on every form, so it was the one piece of English left in the middle of an otherwise translated page.
fixedA hangar page that is private or no longer there now says "Hangar" in the browser tab and in search results, rather than "Garage" — and it says it in your language instead of always in English.
improvedBrand pages are becoming worth landing on. Eighty-four brands have been given a real description this week — what they actually make, the platforms people recognise, and whereabouts they sit in the hobby, rather than a paragraph you could swap another brand’s name into. A handful of the descriptions we already had were only a line long and have been rewritten. Some brands have also gained their model lists, so you can see what a maker actually builds. More will follow; brands we cannot describe accurately have been left alone on purpose, because a page that gets a company wrong is worse than a page that says nothing.
newBrand pages now link out to the maker themselves. Where we have been able to confirm it, a brand hub carries the company’s official site alongside the accounts they actually run — YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, X, TikTok — plus their parts shop and their manual archive where those exist, which for most people are the two links worth having. Every one of these was checked against the brand’s own website rather than collected from a search, so a link here is one the company itself publishes. Brands we could not confirm show nothing rather than a guess.
fixedThe Brands link that search engines were being shown underneath a brand page pointed at the setup-sheet index rather than the brand directory. If you arrived from a search result and used it, you landed somewhere unrelated.
fixedThe places page now tells you when it is not showing you everything. Two ceilings have always been there: one on how many pins the map will draw, and one on how many places the list under it will show for the area you are looking at. Whenever either was reached, the missing places simply were not there — and neither drops at random, so it was the end of the alphabet that vanished from the map, and the longest-established places that vanished from the list. You now get a line saying which of the two it is and what to do about it: filter to a country, or zoom in. Every pin stays on the map either way.
newYou can now browse places by country and by region. The Places page has a directory at the bottom: every country we have places in that has its own page, with a count, and once you pick a country its states or regions appear the same way. These pages already existed — a search engine could find them and you could stumble into one from a place you were already looking at — but there was no way to get to them from the site itself. Both spaces have their own, so Air links Air fields and Land links Land tracks.
newBrands is now in the Discover menu at the top of the page, instead of only in the footer. The Air space gets its own brand list rather than the Land one.
fixedThe brands directory now shows every brand we carry, not just the ones with something listed against them right now. It was hiding any brand with no listings, models or garage cars — which on the Land side meant 104 of 130 brands were missing from a page whose own description says it lists every brand. If you were looking for a maker we cover but nobody happens to be selling this week, it looked like we did not know about them. Air was already showing all of its brands. Brands with nothing on them yet simply show no counts.
improvedBrowsing is faster, in every space and on every sort. Sorting by newest, price or most viewed was making the site read through the whole catalogue and put it in order each time you turned a page, which nobody would notice today and everybody would notice later. The listing count, the filter chips and the brands page got the same treatment. Nothing you see has changed — there is just a lot less work happening behind it.

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