November & December 2025
The month in brief
Over the last two months, we have been driving user experience improvements, launching a redesigned, customised display panel for both fans and management teams, and undertaking multiple large AI-based projects that will come to life in early 2026.
Deep dive: A reimagined experience for customising how fans view a guide.
After almost a year of collecting usage data and thinking about how we can improve the way fans customise their experience with our products, we launched several significant improvements that introduce new functionality never before offered.
Complete Control Over Colour - Fans can now choose the colour combinations they prefer for reading content within guides. We have several predefined and tested colours, but now also support all 16.9 million available colours on modern displays.
10+ New Metrics Being Tracked - We have added tracking for a range of new fields related to colour and theming to ensure customers have complete visibility into how fans change their experience, helping bring those changes into offline media shared by venues and clubs.
3 New Optimised Colour Schemes - On top of now letting customers set their preferred default colour scheme to match their brand guidelines, we have rolled out a refresh on our “Dark”, “Light” and “High Contrast” colour schemes, bringing full support and testing to each on,e ensuring the end user will always have a tailored and perfected experience.
We are once again pushing the boundaries of what is possible, launching new features never seen before in an accessible experience, and, best of all, these significant changes are available to editors in our backend portal as well—a complete 360-degree accessible solution.
Changelog
Improvements
New Website - We launched a new website for Different Breed, making it more straightforward to communicate what we do!
Create Section - Editors can now create sections inline, matching the same user experience as adding content blocks to a page.
Fan Tracking - Tracking is now anonymous and enabled by default, increasing the amount of data we present customers about how their fans are their guides.
Landing Page - New identifiers have been added to indicate when a guide supports personalisation, and it is now shown as “Personalisation Available”.
Guide Actions - Search, Print & Share have now been moved to the top of the guide, making it easier for fans with screen readers to perform actions.
Guide Search - Moved to the top URL Bar to make the feature simpler to notice and use.
Required Fields - All required fields now no longer show the *. We discovered through our research that showing “(optional)” on fields that are not needed is a better approach for accessibility across the board for users with learning disabilities.
Access Categories - Short names like “CD” and “MPD” have now been removed in favour of showing the whole name.
Fixes
Tab Lists - New active indicators have been added to tab lists across the platform, making it easier to see which tab is active.
Password Field - A new password field has been added for integrations, allowing you to hide secret API Keys for services such as the Access Card.
Captcha Fields - A fix was released to handle captcha bot validation as we onboard more customers.
Combine Sign-In Emails - The sign-in code and new login detected emails have been merged, reducing the number of emails we send you.
Split Content Blocks - Increased the spacing around text to help larger content display better on desktop.
File Picker - The file picker is now available on all URL-based fields, making it quicker for editors to link related PDF’s within their guides.
British English for AI - All AI operations now return in British English, reducing the need for correcting spelling in your guides.
Timeline - Fixed an issue where the timeline would show a line when content is not publicly available.
Menu Items - Menu items added to guides will now open in a new tab, keeping the fan on the guide content.
Scroll Position - When editing guides and moving between pages, the scroll position is now maintained, making it easier to move to the next page.
Profile View - Fixed an issue where profile views were failing to track on Safari due to a privacy bug in WebKit.
Credits
Thanks to Dani at Mighty Hoopla for the feedback on the scroll position when editing.