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Changelog
What changed and when. Newest first.
Scaleway is on the subprocessor list
8 September 2026
The database backup has gone to Scaleway, a French company, in Amsterdam since the move to PostgreSQL on 1 September, and the subprocessor list, the privacy page, the data location page and the DPA said Bunny until today. Corrected on all four. The backup is encrypted before it leaves the server, so Scaleway holds ciphertext.
Share cards, a page for AI assistants, and every page as markdown
8 September 2026
A Kromdraw link pasted into Mastodon, LinkedIn or Slack now shows a card with the page's title and a picture of the board it is about. /ai-info says what Kromdraw is, what it costs, where it runs and what it does not do, on one page, and /llms.txt is rendered from the same file. Every public page, post and tutorial is also served as markdown: add .md to its path, or ask for it with an Accept header of text/markdown.
Page statistics without cookies
8 September 2026
Counting page views sets no cookie any more. A visit is recognised by a hash of the masked address and the browser string, which is why the site has no cookie banner. After ninety days the address is cut to its first number, the browser string to its name and major version, and the visit token is cleared. The privacy page names the two cookies the site does set and what each is for.
Posts have their own address, and the writing has a feed
7 September 2026
A post lives at /blog/its-title, so it can be linked on its own. There is an Atom feed at /feed and a sitemap for the search engines. Two small fixes the same day: a sticky note's box keeps up with its words again as you type, and New Board opens the board with its title selected, ready to be renamed.
The editor loads in a fraction of the time
5 September 2026
The editor's code went from 14.7 MB to 1.7 MB, so opening a board on a slow connection takes seconds rather than a minute. Nothing about the editor changed. The build was shipping React's development version next to the real one, unminified, plus diagram and formula libraries the editor only loads when asked.
/blog lists everything written here
5 September 2026
The blog is the single index over every post and tutorial, newest first. /tutorials is the same list filtered to the worked examples.
An account or organisation can be disabled without being deleted
5 September 2026
If we have to disable an account or an organisation, its boards, comments and files stay where they are, and it can be switched back on. A disabled user sees a message on the sign-in page that says why. Share links of a disabled organisation stop working until it is enabled again.
Page statistics, kept on our own server
4 September 2026
Kromdraw records which pages are opened, in its own database rather than with Google or another third party. Nothing leaves the server. The privacy page describes what is kept and for how long.
Subscribe by card
2 September 2026
Settings, Billing has the subscription: €9 per member per month or €90 per member per year. Checkout and invoices go through Creem, the merchant of record, so your card details never reach Kromdraw. The 14-day trial needs no card, and the sidebar counts down its last week.
A board lives at /boards, and a backup can restore to any minute
1 September 2026
The address of a board is /boards/... rather than /drawings/..., matching what the app calls the thing; an old /drawings link no longer works. The database moved to PostgreSQL with a continuous backup, so a restore can go back to any point in time rather than to the last nightly copy.
Seats follow the team
31 August 2026
There is no seat count to manage. Inviting somebody adds a seat, removing them releases it at the end of the period already paid for, and the invoice follows. Settings has its own sidebar now, with Profile and Organisation, and the organisation split into General, Team and Billing. A new account confirms its email address and starts a 14-day trial.
Sign-in asks your browser to do a little work first
31 August 2026
Before sign-in, registration or a password reset goes through, your browser solves a small puzzle, which takes a fraction of a second. A program trying thousands of passwords or registrations pays that fraction thousands of times. Nothing is stored and there is nothing to click.
Tutorials
30 August 2026
A section at /tutorials with five worked examples: shaping a feature the way Shape Up describes, running a standup and a retrospective, planning a weekend away with friends, and planning a bedroom. Each one is a board built in the editor and photographed at every step rather than a diagram drawn to illustrate the point, so the sticky notes, stamps, checklists and live cursors in the pictures are the real ones. The boards, the projects and the people on them are invented; the methods are other people's and are linked where they came from.
A canvas on the front page you can open full screen
29 August 2026
The editor on the front page is the real one, and it now expands to fill the window so you can actually work in it rather than peer at it. What you draw stays in your own browser either way. Pointing at a stamp to see who left it also works now for anyone who has motion turned down in their system settings; it used to be switched off along with the animation.
Checklists
27 August 2026
Press K and drop a card on the board: a title, a description, a colour, tick boxes and a bar counting what is done. Tab nests an item under the one above, four indents deep, and pasting a block of text turns each line into an item — indentation becomes nesting, bullets are stripped, and anything already marked [x] arrives ticked. A list is made of ordinary Excalidraw elements, so an export comes out drawn exactly as you left it and opens that way anywhere else — another editor draws the list, and only this one lets you tick it. Your boards page shows how much of each board is done.
A front page
25 August 2026
The site has a front page for somebody who has not heard of Kromdraw: what it is, a board three people are working on, and the editor itself, which you can draw on without an account. What you draw there stays in your browser. The dashboard moved to its own address.
Web embeds
24 August 2026
The web embed tool is in the toolbar: draw a frame, give it a YouTube, Vimeo, Figma or GitHub Gist link, and the page shows inside it. Pasting a link onto the canvas did this already; now the tool is visible, and the message for a site that cannot be embedded names the ones that can. A board's thumbnail writes the site's name across the frame instead of the whole address.
Pinch to zoom works over the toolbar and the panels
23 August 2026
Pinching while the pointer sat over the toolbar or a panel zoomed the whole browser page instead of the drawing. Every pinch now reaches the canvas, including the parts of the editor I do not draw myself.
N for a sticky note, M for a stamp, C for trace connections
23 August 2026
The three Kromdraw tools answer to single keys now. Since the editor decides when a key is live, rather than each tool deciding for itself, they stand down while you are typing and refuse to fire on a board you can only view.
Export a board, a folder, or your whole account
23 August 2026
One board comes out as a .kromdraw file. It is an ordinary Excalidraw drawing that also carries the title and the pinned comment threads, and it opens on excalidraw.com as if nothing had been added. A folder or a whole account comes out as a ZIP with your folders still folders. Import reads both formats back.
Point at a shape and see what it connects to
23 August 2026
Rest the pointer on a shape and the arrows bound to it turn orange, while everything it does not touch drops back to a quarter of its opacity. So a diagram with forty crossing connectors can be read one node at a time. Off by default, with a toggle beside the laser pointer.
Stamps
22 August 2026
609 animated emoji to drop on a board. A wheel of your eight most recent ones opens above the toolbar, and the hub in the middle opens a searchable picker. Picking one leaves the tool armed, so you go on stamping until you reach for something else. Point at a stamp to see who left it.
Sticky notes
19 August 2026
Click the canvas and you get a coloured note with your name in the corner, already open for typing. Ten colours, so one person's thinking stays apart from another's. Move it, turn it or resize it and the name goes with it; copy somebody else's and it comes out signed with yours.
A shape library that follows your account, not your browser
19 August 2026
Installing a library from libraries.excalidraw.com now comes back to the tab you left and puts the shapes in a library belonging to your account, so they are there in every board and on every device you sign in from. The save indicator moved out from on top of the button that opens the sidebar.
Comments pinned to the canvas
18 August 2026
A marker where you clicked, the thread in a popover, and a sidebar tab listing the opening comment of each one. A pin dropped on a shape rides along when the shape moves. Guests on a live link can read and write under a name they pick, shown as "(guest)".
A dashboard, and previews that look like the board
17 August 2026
The front page of the app is now a dashboard: what you changed recently, and what you visited recently. My Boards moved to its own page. A card shows a picture of the board rather than a placeholder.
Sidebar and overview redesign
17 August 2026
The page is tinted, the sidebar sits straight on it, and the content is a raised white panel. The gap between them is what separates them now, rather than a border. Sidebar rows are pills, and the active one is white to match the panel.
Old sessions and finished uploads are cleared out nightly
17 August 2026
A signed-in session that has not been used for 30 days is deleted rather than left in the database forever. The file behind a finished import is deleted 30 days after it finished, and the ZIP behind a finished export after seven.
A server built for connections that stay open
17 August 2026
Kromdraw moved to Falcon. It holds each live connection on its own fiber rather than on a thread from a pool, which is what makes a board full of collaborators cheap to keep open. Background jobs moved into a container of their own at the same time.
Import Excalidraw files and whole account exports
17 August 2026
Bring existing work in as a single .excalidraw file or a ZIP of them. Images embedded in those files are unpacked into real files, so boards open with their pictures. Folders in a ZIP become collections, and a folder whose name matches one you already have asks whether to merge before anything is created.
Security fixes from a production-readiness audit
16 August 2026
The serious one: any signed-in person could read and write any board's uploaded images by guessing an id, across organisations, and a view-only share link was enough to write into somebody's board. Sessions also never expired, so a session row was a credential that worked forever; they now expire 30 days after last use. Sign-in and password reset are rate limited.
A trash that gives things back
16 August 2026
Deleting a folder used to destroy it, and its subfolders with it. So an owner deleting a shared folder permanently destroyed every folder a colleague had built inside it. Folders and boards are archived now and restorable from a Trash page, and unsharing hands other people's folders back to them rather than burying them.
The sidebar says how you got a folder
16 August 2026
My Boards, My collections and Shared with me are separate sections now, so a folder's position tells you where it came from instead of a small badge on a flat list.
An invite link creates the account too
15 August 2026
Following an invite used to require an account already, which made the link useless to the person it was sent to. It leads to a page offering either signing in or creating an account now, and a valid invite is its own authorisation. So invites work even while open signup is closed.
Change your password from your profile
15 August 2026
Without going through the signed-out reset-by-email flow. Your current password is required, so a borrowed session is not enough to take an account over, and a successful change signs out every other device and emails you about it.