pinnet News

In the following we will inform you about developments regarding pinnet. Please bear in mind that the website is purely a leisure time project.


2026-04-20

  • The application code has been optimised in a number of areas and overall security has been improved.

2026-04-12

  • There was an error when subscribing to email notifications for a board if the user’s device was not set to English or German. This has now been fixed.

2026-03-29

  • The key length for transmission encryption has been increased from 2048 to 3072 bits.

2026-03-22

  • Resetting the admin password for a pinnet board was not working. This issue has now been resolved.

2026-03-01

  • Several security improvements in the application code.
  • Improved defence against bots.

2026-01-19

  • Cards can now also be sorted alphabetically by content. It is also possible to sort by a combination of colour & alphabet or stars & alphabet.
  • When board administrators set the sorting order, this default setting is saved for all new logins.
  • Password-free access from the same IP address as the board administrator has become more flexible: previously, this setting could only be used if the board owner was authenticated by a general pinnet member login, now admin access to a pinboard is sufficient.

2026-01-07

  • Users with many browser tabs or energy-saving devices were sometimes automatically logged out of pinboards. As a result, some buttons appeared not to work properly. Automatic resumption of expired sessions, especially for pinboards without password protection, has now been enabled in many places.

2025-12-29

  • pinnet boards that are configured with a confirmed email address will now only be automatically deleted after 120 days instead of 90 days as was previously the case. In future, board administrators will receive a reminder a good two weeks in advance (instead of one week as was previously the case) and then again three days before the deletion deadline.
  • The terms of use and privacy policy have been updated to reflect the extension of the deletion period.
  • Email notifications about the impending deletion of a pinnet board are now sent in the language configured for the board.

2025-12-20

  • pinnet now allows more member registrations within a short time frame.
  • When you log in as a registered user, pinnet now informs you if the extension for automatic deletion was set. This gives the user greater assurance that data will not be lost.

2025-11-09

  • Pinboard administrators can now specify for each card whether it can be modified only by them or by all users.

2025-10-12

  • Code improvements to the commenting feature and to the HTML structure.

2025-10-08

  • If a user already had a board open and then logged in with a general pinnet account, the possible new admin status for the pinboard was not assigned. This has now been fixed.

2025-07-20

  • Password reset mails for boards can only be requested every 5 minutes, in order to protect email accounts from spamming.

2025-06-30

  • Logged-in users can now change their display name, default language and also set an auto-extension to board deadlines.
  • Emails that were sent out after creating a pinnet board containted formatting errors. These have been fixed.
  • Several improvements to the English version.

2025-05-06

  • In the ‘View’ configuration, authorised users can reset all moved cards to their original location by one click.

2025-04-23

  • Board owners can now block and even delete subscriptions for daily summaries of their users.
  • As soon as a new subscription for a board has been registered, the board owner receives an information by email.
  • Several smaller improvements to the code in general.

2024-12-29

  • In some cases, deleting an account could lead to a confirmation error. This has now been fixed.

2024-11-08

  • The filter for inappropriate expressions has been improved: the vocabulary is larger and pinnet recognises more variants than before.

2024-10-17

  • The font size on cards in the desktop view has been slightly reduced to allow more content to be displayed at the same time.

2024-08-30

  • Automatically running background processes such as email reminders and deletion routines have been optimised.

2024-08-04

  • The filter for inappropriate expressions was improved: it contains a larger vocabulary and recognises more variants than before.

2024-07-07

  • Several technical security measures have been introduced or improved (e.g. CORS, CSP)
  • AI bots are no longer allowed to access any of the boards.
  • Overall code stability was improved.

2024-05-26

  • In your pinnet account you can now restart the expiration for several boards all at once. The 90-day retention period until automatic deletion then starts all over again.

2024-04-17

  • If a pinnet account has been created but not confirmed in time, the verification link expires. An alternative verification should be possible via the “Forgot password” method, which was previously prevented by an application bug. This bug has now been fixed.

2024-04-08

  • The efficiency of the programme code was improved.
  • In addition to GIF, JPG, PNG and WebP you can also use AVIF graphic files in the boards from now on. The support for AVIF is in a beta state.

2024-04-04

  • ⚠️ Server maintenance tonight at 22:30 CEST.

2024-03-26

  • Various improvements of database efficiency and some code maintenance.

2024-02-25

  • Various improvements of code efficiency and overall stability.

2024-02-06

  • If a board may only be edited by admins, all other users will access it in a auto-refresh mode.
  • When new boards are set up with password and email-verification, then the image upload will be enabled by default.

2024-02-05

  • You can now also add or remove images to/from existing cards.
  • If an expiry is entered for a card, it is now sufficient to enter the date - the time will then automatically be set to the end of the day (23:59).
  • URLs that contain a # are now correctly recognized.

2024-02-04

  • If a device is only used as a display screen, you can activate the automatic refresh for new content.
  • From now on, pinnet counts accessing a password-protected board as board activity. The same applies if a board is accessed from a registered pinnet account. Advantage: The pinboard is not considered inactive and therefore the 90-day deletion period is automatically extended.
  • Daily summaries by email sometimes were corrupted when new comments had links in them. That bug is now fixed.

2024-02-03

  • Various improvements of code efficiency and overall stability.

2024-01-15

  • Boards are now better protected against spam from automated bots.

2024-01-06

  • When creating a card that includes a picture, the image is shown already as a preview before uploading.
  • The rarely used feature of assigning a priority for certain cards on the board is now only available for board admins (and not for regular users anymore).

2024-01-04

  • When logged in with your pinnet account, you can now set and manage bookmarks for all your preferred boards. Setting a bookmark is possible on the “Settings” page of a board.
  • Automatic conversion of entered Internet addresses into clickable links has been improved.
  • English translation for the pinnet member area has been improved.
  • Several bugfixes, e.g. for emptying all trash bins via the pinnet account.

2023-12-31

  • Security for general logins and account registrations has been improved.
  • If you create a password-protected board while logged in to a verified pinnet account, then the option for picture uploads is automatically enabled.
  • Confirmation emails for password-protected boards contained a display error which is fixed now.

2023-11-11

  • Subscribers of daily board summaries receive emails that are visually more appealing. The summaries now also show the card colours, for example.
  • Caching has been improved: If an image is deleted and a new one with the same name is uploaded, the browser now immediately displays the new picture.

2023-10-09

  • The input fields for opening or creating pinboards no longer report an error when capital letters are used. Instead, the upper-case characters are automatically converted to lower case.
  • Various improvements of code efficiency and overall stability.

2023-09-18

  • If you use the same internet connection in your group (e.g. with the same wifi access point), then the obligation to enter a board password can optionally be omitted for you. That makes pinnet easier to use for seminars or for bulletin boards in offices.

2023-09-13

  • Using pinnet has become more comfortable for international users: system emails follow your language settings better, and the pinnet account pages can be used in English language, too.
  • pinnet now uses up-to-date security and validation mechanisms for all e-mails (DKIM, DMARC).
  • The visual styling of e-mails has been impproved
  • The display of board headers has been improved for smaller screens.

2023-08-28

  • In cards and comments you have more formatting options than before, e.g. [s]strikethrough[/s], [sup]superscript[/sup] and [sub]subscript[/sub]. The syntax is similar to HTML tags.

2023-08-04

  • Boards use available space on big screens better than before.
  • The subscription form under a board is using up less space on smaller displays.

2023-07-29

  • In addition to transferring cards to other boards, pinnet now allows to copy cards to other boards. All comments will be duplicated to the other board, too. If the card contained an image and the target board allows media files, images will be copied as well.
  • When transferring cards to other boards, image files are also transferred. If the target board does not allow media files, the entire card will not be moved.
  • When transferring a card to another board, permission settings are followed stricter than before.
  • A problem with uploads of animated GIFs has been solved.

2023-07-26

  • Bugfix: Linking of boards works again also for pinboards without pinnet user accounts.
  • Bugfix: Sometimes public links to non-existant boards led to a blank page. Now the “open a board” page is shown.
  • Users that are logged on to their pinnet account can now also access their boards as admins automatically when they access them via browser bookmarks or public links.

2023-07-01

  • Improved account creation and password reset features.

2023-06-11

  • Keep track of your boards and activities with a pinnet account: Click at “Login“ in the top menu and register a free account.

2023-03-23

  • Several minor bugs were fixed and the database integrity has been improved.

2023-01-27

  • The filter for inappropriate expressions is greatly improved: the vocabulary was vastly extended and pinnet recognises many more variants than before.

2023-01-09

  • User contributions are now better protected against attacks on the user's device, so that the user does not trigger unintended actions (Cross-Site-Request-Forgery).

2022-11-20

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