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A new cover now cleanly replaces the old one, the main photo loads at full resolution on large screens, and line breaks in descriptions show up as written.

Rooms booked through FareHarbor list their open times again, and the times now match the venue's local clock.

Choose your booking system, connect your account right there and pick the matching offer from a list instead of copying IDs.

See who plays, reviews and puzzles the most, which rooms the community plays right now and which mini-games were just played, all under “Community”.

Comparison, price, team-event and provider tables sort by any column; a third click restores the original order.

Room pages show each jury year and rank history, room cards carry the award badge, the best list filters by year, tier and country, and search can show only awarded rooms.

With the option switched on, your last-active time is no longer stored or visible to anyone.

Every tile of the dark map carried an "API KEY REQUIRED" watermark stamped across it. It is gone, on the map page and anywhere else a map appears.

A location whose only offer was a box or an online room lost its management row entirely.

Signed-in operators can now create their business on the providers page and manage it right away, locations and rooms included. If the venue is already listed, the dialog offers to take over the existing entry instead of creating a duplicate.

Two to four people against an assistance system that shows each of them something different. One of those views is a forgery — and only the group can tell which.

Send someone the link to Room Zero or Last Instance and the preview shows the vault door or the cold aisle.

Until now a single missing stylesheet replaced the whole page with an error screen; the page now loads and only that bit of styling is missing.

The clock stops the moment an act falls, you see what that act alone cost you, and the room only moves on when someone opens the next one. The switch panel now needs a chain of contact pairs that nobody knows alone, and each device only takes input from the role holding it.

It said "no points yet" over 4,000 points, "log where you have been" to someone with 300 rooms, and "nothing to do, honestly" when the data had simply failed to load. Cards now tell loading, empty and broken apart, and offer another try instead of a verdict about you.

The link used to lead to room search, where none of them were. It unfolds the card instead, and the friends view points at your friends list.

Everyone who has not scored yet shares one starting place instead of being left out — and the number above the list finally says how many members the site has.

They had been blank since the list opened: the weekly snapshot they compare against was wiped seconds after it was taken.

The wire board and the tally sheets now have a single pair of hands, and everyone else sees the picture move as it happens — so the person holding the rules has to say them out loud instead of everyone quietly doing the same thing alone.

Instead of "nothing to do" it now points at the milestone you are closest to, or at a room that has been waiting on your wishlist. Friends who switched their activity log off no longer show up in your feed, and the page loads with four fewer requests.

Pages like the team-building and bachelor-party comparisons stopped rendering the moment their data arrived. They come up normally now.

Three acts for one to four players — share a six-character code, take one of four roles, and piece together what none of you can see alone.

Two, three and four instead of three, four and five — the chain you have to keep in your head is shorter, and one slip no longer wipes out the hits before it.

The four arrow buttons now fill the width of the cabinet, so dodging the searchlight is about the puzzle and not about hitting a small key.

It used to show the city you had played most and jump somewhere near your place instead of to it.

Each Ko-fi tip or membership payment appears as a heart on its own day — amounts stay in your own calendar only.

It used to offer one game; the other six were only reachable through your awards list.

Four of the seven were impossible to finish, and the others never said why a clean run missed the award — now they tell you.

Inputs and chips inside a device drew light text on a light background, so search boxes looked empty.

Rooms that cost nothing are labelled as free everywhere, and the price calculator steps aside for them.

The full A-to-Z list sits under the room cards, and the provider list finally matches the number the page names.

Searching for a provider to claim, transfer or upgrade also matches its short link, and each result lists its cities and how many locations it has.

Landing page, country picker and the platform map read their figures straight from the database instead of quoting numbers typed in months ago.

Solve the letter grid on the back of an escapers flyer, enter the word, and the Paper Key is yours.

Opening or sharing the link to an achievement used to end in a server error; only clicking through from inside the site worked.

In Rohrpost you have to work out what your own levers do — by pulling them, while the next canister is already falling. All the games now live at /minispiele.

In Sprungwerk the number on a bolt tells you both how much work it still needs and how far the pulse travels next — so every strike is your progress and your steering at once.

In Nachbild a beam of light opens three of nine compartments — and behind the closed ones, things quietly get swapped.

The searchlight opens the seals and catches you in the same instant. Push the crates so the light reaches a seal while you stay in the shadow. Every game now takes the space bar without clicking into it first and has a restart button, and Ausbruch no longer rewards you for failing.

A short guide sits above each game: what you are playing for, what to press, the one rule you would never guess, and what the award actually requires.

Each game opens with its goal, three numbered steps in the order you perform them, and the one rule you would never guess — instead of four paragraphs describing the machine.

The fourth ring closed without the display ever showing it, and the losing message counted locks from zero. Ausbruch also announces its state to screen readers now, and Rohrpost highlights the path a canister will actually take after you pull a lever mid-fall.

The server sets the ring targets, the browser only reports when it pressed which ring, and the server replays the run. Space now works on every game's button again, and Zeitschloss no longer loses a finished round to a dropped connection.

Every mini-game's condition was checked against what the server actually grants the badge for. Six of seven said something different — Zeitschloss in particular read like luck when it is pure deduction.

Points for rooms played, reviews written, contributions accepted and badges earned - and the full calculation is open on the page.

A one-time tip counts towards this month's goal, and everyone on the one-time supporter wall wears the Ko-fi coin next to their name.

Anyone who doesn't hide their real name now appears with it, and operator accounts carry a visible label.

The changelog stayed internal while its entries were still raw notes. Every version since day one is now readable, and the version number in the footer links straight to it.

The home page carried the sign-in headline as its search result title, admin-managed meta texts were served in German on every language version, and the preview image pointed at the small logo while claiming banner dimensions.

ItemList entries now carry the room URL, so search engines can connect them to the detail pages.

Meta templates no longer promise reviews the site cannot show, prefixed URLs without a snapshot are served a page in their own language instead of the German one, and the server keeps the main entry pages reachable once snapshot folders exist.

Under “Everywhere”, the activity card only ever pulled reviews and new members — so it could look days out of date while someone was logging rooms in the very same hour. It now carries the same events as the friends feed: rooms played, wishlist entries, reviews and awards.

“33 rooms are waiting for your verdict” used to offer nothing but a jump to your logbook. One of those rooms now sits in the card itself: five stars, an optional sentence, done. Arrows skip to the next room if you would rather rate a different one, and the next one slides in as soon as you save.

Cooperative, in the browser, two to four players on separate computers. Act 1 is playable with eight devices — picking a lock, a cipher wheel, a laser corridor, a cable board, an archive, a logic grid, a keypad and a key rack.

Vienna, Zurich, Delft and Paris pointed at an address that only exists for German cities. Every city link is now built in the one place that knows both cases.

Outlook drew a fixed 280×50 box instead of the HTML, so a label that did not fit was cut off top and bottom — and across seven languages there is no width that fits. The fixed box is gone; the button grows with its label.

The brand and the call for providers used to sit alone on the left, leaving a hole between them and the link columns, and empty space on the right. Both now share one column, and the three link columns spread across the rest of the row.

Podium, conquest map, favourite genres, awards and the activity calendar are stored a moment after you change them — the save button is gone. A line at the bottom tells you whether a change is still on its way or already saved, and switching to another page does not lose the last one.

Sign-up confirmations, password resets and invitations arrive in the language you use the site in. The templates had been multilingual for weeks — nothing ever recorded which language a person wanted, so every email resolved to German.

Files replaced by a new build used to disappear from the server the same minute, so a browser still holding the previous version asked for parts that were already gone. Replaced files now get a grace period, and a page that runs into it anyway reloads itself once.

Whether something is an on-site room, an at-home box or an online game now sits on the gallery image — for a box together with how it reaches you ("shipped nationwide"), because that decides whether the offer reaches you at all.

Measured live in all six languages: /pl/blog answered with a redirect to the German /blog, and /en/escape-room-prices with one to an address that does not exist. It hit exactly the pages the language prefixes were built for.

Instead of a wall of numbers: what happened since your last visit, one clear next step, your inbox, rooms near your door, your escape year, trophies, the logbook, what your circle is playing, teams — and the little escape game. Four counts that were silently cut off above a thousand entries were fixed on the way.

Rooms could be marked indoor, outdoor or "both". Of 10,558 active rooms exactly three used "both" — and none of them was a classic escape room. All three were at-home boxes, where the question does not apply: a box is played wherever you unpack it. "Both" is gone, so the filter now means what it says.

Until now a box reached you in one of two ways — you picked it up, or it was shipped. Five providers do a third thing: they come to you with the material, set it up and sometimes run the game. That is now its own delivery option instead of an empty field.

Room pictures created with AI now carry a small marker, so you can tell a photograph of a real room from a generated image.

A new block in blog posts lays out how on-site rooms, at-home boxes and online games differ, and where each of them shows up on escapers. Links inside a post now also keep you in the language you are reading.

Opening the search no longer leaves out two thirds of the catalogue: on-site rooms, boxes and online games all appear, each in its own section. RoomMatch still starts with on-site games, because its questions build on a place and a date.

Cover images marked as AI-generated now carry the label on the map and in the RoomMatch map view, not just on tiles and detail pages. Images uploaded from now on are never marked automatically — whoever uploads one knows where it came from.

A private profile reported "0 rooms played" to friends and to admins, although the page was built to let them through. They now see the real list.

The theme button switches straight between light and dark instead of cycling through a third "automatic" step. Your first visit still follows your system setting.

Pick a date and the page lists the times the operator still has open — only where the booking system can actually be asked, because an empty calendar would otherwise read as "nothing free" when it means "we do not know". Next to it: how many people played the room, put it on their wishlist or made it a favourite.

At-home boxes and online games now appear on a provider page next to the classic on-site rooms.

Claiming a single venue deliberately leaves your account role alone — which left a confirmed owner in front of a locked door: no provider chat, no permission to place links, "user" on their profile, while they were already running the venue. The price editor in the room form had the same gap. Both now ask whether you own this location instead of which role you carry.

The three fields that steer the filters can now be corrected through the same narrow review door as the rest — but only with a source URL and a literal quote from the provider's website. An assessment is not enough here: a wrong value pushes a room out of search entirely.

The main stylesheet went from 1.4 MB to 332 KB (129 to 43 KB over the wire). It held 16,356 rules with 11,733 different class names — the home page used 304 of them. Icon and text fonts dropped from 254 KB to 78 KB and are now requested right away instead of after the stylesheet is parsed. The download is smaller; more importantly, there is far less for a phone to work through before the first paint.

Every picture used to be delivered at its original size: a 299 KB room photo for a 380 px tile, a 307 KB provider logo for a 44 px chip, city pictures up to 598 KB in the grid on the home page. Images are now scaled to the space they occupy and served as WebP. The German home page went from 2,402 to 765 KB of images, the Polish one from 6,960 to 752 KB.

Content appeared, disappeared for about 380 ms and came back. The app was holding everything behind a loading screen until the session check returned — for every visitor, including the vast majority who are not signed in and never have a session to check. It now waits only when there actually is one.

Pages that exist in a single language — rooms, providers, cities, blog posts — also answered under every language prefix. Each of them now redirects to its one address, so search engines see one page instead of seven near-identical ones. The interface language you chose is kept.

Rooms without a location produced titles like "Escape Room in " — the preposition stayed behind when the city was empty. It now disappears together with the placeholder. 45 indexed pages were affected.

Snapshots now reference two unhashed files instead of hashed asset names, so they survive any deploy. A push is build and upload again, roughly two minutes instead of eleven; snapshots refresh nightly at 04:10 UTC or on demand.

The kind of game was one filter among others, but it changes the vocabulary rather than narrowing a set: "with an actor" is not a narrower question for an at-home box, it is no question at all. Search, RoomMatch and provider pages now show only the filters that mean something — and for a box the location question becomes a delivery or pick-up question instead of vanishing.

A layer above the city pages — escape room prices, a comparison, a best-of list, the numbers, five occasion pages and a page explaining how they are put together. The cut is the language, not the country: everything you can play in German, across fifteen countries.

The bot check on forms only shows itself when it actually needs you to confirm something.

RoomMatch showed "28 € per person" while the search ran for three people. Result cards now use the group size the results were found with, and the calculator appears whenever there is something to adjust — a flat 135 € is 67.50 each for two people and 11.25 for twelve.

Country and city addresses carry the country name as well as the path segment, and only the prefix was swapped: /en/escape-rooms/united-kingdom/canterbury turned into an address the German site does not know, so the switch landed on an error page. Both parts are translated now, in every direction.

Opening the search no longer fires off a query with filters nobody picked, and no longer asks for your location before you have done anything. Shared links and restored searches still run by themselves — there, someone did ask.

It used to sit in the avatar menu, behind a click that looks like account settings. It is now in the main bar, visible to providers only.

The currency defaulted to euros no matter the country: 464 rooms outside the eurozone, 41 of them showing visibly wrong amounts. Price and currency now go through the same narrow review door as the rest of the data — a source URL and a literal quote from the operator, or the field stays empty.

A hiccup while loading data made pages such as /en/escape-rooms/germany/stuttgart answer with the "page not found" screen, including the instruction to search engines to leave them out. A reading error is now told apart from a page that genuinely does not exist, and it is retried before anything is given up.

Addresses with three parts — a country page with a city, such as /laender/polen/wroclaw — answered with a server error instead of the page. Every one of them works now.

The Spanish and English homepages listed German cities under "popular cities" while the numbers above them already counted every country. They now show the biggest cities worldwide, and the daily spotlight picks from everywhere.

Every German city with escape rooms has its own page now. Berlin and Brandenburg were missing entirely.

City pages used to exist in German only. They are now reachable in all seven languages, and each version points to the others.

A city with no picture on file answered with an error instead of simply showing the page without one.

The new pages were reachable by search engines but not by clicking. Popular cities on the homepage and the city lists on every region page now link straight to them.

The buttons at the top of a provider page stacked into a staircase on phones.

The staggered tile heights are a desktop effect; on a narrow screen they left a gap.

A price used to be a bare number with a guessed unit — around 1,900 rooms were labelled wrong. A room now carries a real price model: one price per booking, a price per person, a base price that includes a few people with a surcharge for each extra one, or a table per group size — each with an optional evening and weekend window.

Athens, Piraeus, Corfu and eight more cities could not be turned into a web address, so they never got a page. Greek, Cyrillic and other scripts are now transliterated.

Wroclaw carried 47 rooms under one spelling and 19 under another; Sofia and five other cities had the same problem. Each city now counts all of its rooms.

Search engines and messenger link previews receive the finished page instead of an empty shell. The snapshots are rebuilt with every deployment, so they can no longer fall behind.

Six cities were missing a federal state and appeared on no region page; two more were filed under the wrong one. Their locations were resolved from their own coordinates.

Every update now gets a dated entry here, so you can see what changed and when.

The last tile of the daily spotlight no longer collapses on small phones.

Closed a path that allowed a signed-in account to raise its own permissions.

If one part of the page fails to load, the rest keeps working instead of going blank.

Used only to offer you the right market — never to change what a page shows. Detected from your time zone, so no IP address is processed.

The site is available at /en, /fr, /es, /nl, /pl and /cs. Share a link and it stays in the language you were reading. Search engines can now find all seven versions instead of only the German one.

Every country with escape rooms has its own page in its own language — /laender/polen, /pl/escape-roomy/polska, /en/escape-rooms/poland — listing all cities and providers.

The room list stayed empty on country pages.

Cities outside Germany now have their own page in the local language. The homepage at /pl, /fr, /nl and /cs shows that country: its cities, its numbers and its featured rooms instead of the global ones.

Signing in with Facebook now imports your picture at a higher resolution.

Autofill from a password manager reaches the sign-in button again.

Pages shared to WhatsApp, Facebook or Slack now show the right title and description in every language.

German city pages stay exactly where they were, unchanged.

Open Graph tags and the share image are part of the served HTML, so platforms that do not run JavaScript still get a proper preview.

One URL for everyone, served as static HTML — no user-agent sniffing, no blank page for clients without JavaScript.

The staging password is gone and search engines are allowed in: indexing is switched on, robots.txt permits crawling and the sitemap lists 12,889 URLs.

Every public page shipped "noindex" for a few hours after launch. The SEO configuration row was not publicly readable, and a filtered row comes back from the API as an empty success — so the frontend fell back to its defaults, where indexing is off.

Dead bundle weight removed, routes and the map are loaded on demand, and the requests a page needs are bundled instead of fired one by one.

2,187 of 5,405 translation keys are only ever used behind /admin but were shipped to every visitor. The public language chunk dropped from 90.5 kB to 56.4 kB gzipped — per visitor and per language.

Facebook joins Google and Discord. The Meta app is through review and live.

The account settings can now swap your login address, confirmed from both the old and the new one.

Both used to redirect to an edge function. Now they are plain files, which removes a redirect and a cold start from every crawl.

The tile services no longer see visitor IP addresses. Tiles are cached on our side, as the OpenStreetMap tile usage policy requires, and upstream cache headers are honoured.

A reset link occasionally logged the visitor straight in instead of opening the form to set a new password.

Three rooms and two providers, picked for the whole day rather than per page view — the same selection for every visitor, a new one tomorrow.

Safe by design: it writes coordinates only when the result is unambiguous.

Logo, badge and embed code in one place, ready to put on your own website.

Coordinates are only corrected when a second, independent source agrees: the provider website, an official register or a strict geocoding pass. Everything else stays untouched rather than guessed.

Postcode, city and street are filled in from the geocoding answer instead of staying empty.

Two matching hits for one location no longer end in a coin flip.

Names are canonicalised before they are stored, and a change cools down before the next one is allowed.

Avatars from Google, Discord and Facebook are imported once into our own storage instead of being loaded from the provider on every page view.

The 404 and browser-error logs accept bounded, de-duplicated entries only — a broken page can no longer flood the table.

The fifth showcase for your profile: one square per day, so a year of playing is visible at a glance. The old map showcase is now the conquest map.

A date entered once shows up on both sides, with clear rules about which side it came from.

It now explains that an account is needed instead of hiding the action entirely.

Leaving a team no longer takes its chat history with it.

The sign-in and invitation pages follow the automatic light and dark theme, including the logo.

The today outline was also being clipped at the right edge.

Useful when an owner gets in touch by phone or email instead of using the form.

Answers "what is actually claimed" without exporting anything.

Previously only the website domain counted, which locked out owners whose contact address sits on a different domain.

Eleven requests and 9.4 MB became one request and 1.0 MB. It also removed a silent trap: the API caps every answer at 1,000 rows, so rooms beyond that simply never appeared on the map.

Pending claims, contributions and feedback count up without a reload.

Two things the self-hosting migration quietly left behind: live updates and the trigger that creates a profile for a new account.

It was a genre and a scare level at the same time. Also: the concept type is gone and the team note is editable.

Reactivating an entity, Bookeo detection, and extended add-room and verify-room doors.

Database, authentication, storage, edge functions and cron moved from the cloud to supabase.escapers.de. The JWT secret came along, so nobody was logged out by the move.

Repository, issues and CI live at git.escapers.de with a resource-limited Actions runner. Deployment runs over FTPS via lftp.

A two-pass lftp mirror instead of uploading the whole build every time.

Repositories, the Forgejo database and attachments end up in the same archive flow as the database and storage, with the same progress display.

On a self-hosted instance the config file that used to enforce this has no effect, so each function verifies its caller itself.

If a profile is set to keep the full name private, the name never leaves the database — instead of being hidden by the page that displays it.

Self-hosted mail templates cannot reach the build output, so the image comes from a public bucket.

The GitHub Actions workflow was removed after the move to Forgejo.

The site now speaks seven languages.

One click, and it lands on a real board: the admin ToDo planner with drag and drop, tags and priorities.

Plus a way to clear a chat instead of deleting message by message.

The circular badge became a shared helper, and the profile heat map clusters instead of stacking pins.

The reviews tab is gone, every block got a "show all" link, and the podium is searchable.

The blog and the platform map had German hardcoded into their detail heading.

escapegame.fr brings providers and rooms with direct website links. Companies that closed are recognised from the sitemap instead of staying online forever.

French bounding boxes decide the country, and a four-digit postcode beats the coordinate box — that is what tells Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg apart from France.

Directories only list the extra languages, which made every French room look English-only.

One setting decides which countries appear anywhere on the site.

Together with a dark mode and mobile pass across the app.

Admins see on the room page why it is not showing up publicly.

Verifying a room, adding a room, merging two rooms and deactivating an entity are the only ways in — each one takes evidence and writes exactly the fields it was given. No bulk overwrite, no guessed values.

ALL CAPS names were rewritten across every country, with two fixes to the algorithm along the way.

Interface labels, player-count captions and marketing sentences no longer end up as rooms.

Its postcode pattern matched any four-digit number, which was enough to drop "1001 Nachten". It now requires context in front of the number.

The street prefix "ul." was not understood, so 126 of 219 Polish locations silently fell back to the middle of town — with plausible-looking coordinates.

Fareharbor company embeds without an item key and supersaas.nl alongside the .com domain.

Two entries for the same address can be merged; anything more than 750 m apart is refused rather than silently combined.

Slugs are unique across the whole database, so a second "The Vault" used to fail. It now gets a city or counter suffix.

The template design was replaced by a design of our own — one central place for colour, type and shape tokens, light and dark, and no leftovers from the old theme.

Two plans, per-room highlighting, vouchers and a price table.

A provider manager runs the company, a location owner runs one venue. Claims, approval and release are separate steps, all visible in the admin overview.

New rooms go through review before they go live.

The data wizard walks a country provider by provider and treats the operator website as the truth, with the directory as a hint.

Several booking systems serve nothing at all to an unknown user agent.

A whole-record fingerprint rejected the entire change when any unrelated field had moved in the meantime.

Tips and memberships arrive by webhook and earn mascot medals.

The guided room finder is open to everyone.

Both relied on the development server proxy and quietly failed once deployed.

SuperSaaS, BookingKit and Bookeo are detected automatically, so free slots come from the operator instead of a hand-maintained list.

Providers and rooms from lock.me, in two separate pipelines so a bad provider record cannot spoil the room data.

Import, provider consolidation, splitting wrongly merged companies, health checks and a worker queue for the long-running jobs.

Every difference between our data and a website becomes a KEEP, REMOVE, MOVE or ADD — reviewable instead of applied blind.

Plus bulk actions on providers, so a scan result can be worked through in one pass.

Database, storage and accounts in a single local file, startable from an admin page and restorable by path.

Posts are written once and translated into every site language.

Tiered awards with holder counts and a public page per award.

Countries became a first-class part of the data model instead of an assumption.

What the finder suggested is kept, and a team gets suggestions based on what its members already played.

Rooms can be filtered by the things people actually pick by.

Better than a generic silhouette for everyone without a picture.

Including icon and colour per genre — the list is data, not code.

A scan can be stopped and times out on its own, and imported images are reviewed before they go live.

One central configuration, an admin page, a switch to keep the site out of search engines, and robots.txt and sitemap generated from live data.

It runs through a dedicated function, so a failure is visible instead of silent.

Providers, locations and rooms in one data model, with search, filters and detail pages.

Private teams with invitations, friends with online status, an ignore list, and a chat for teams, direct messages and everyone.

Favourites, played and wishlist, all in the same card layout as everywhere else.

Rooms within a distance of a place, not just inside a city boundary.

Pick what your profile puts on display.

Candidates are found automatically and merged in the admin panel rather than created twice.

Users, providers, locations, rooms, reviews, contributions and site settings in one place, on one table standard.

Every 404 is recorded, so a broken link shows up instead of being reported by a visitor.

Including proper icons for installing the site as an app.