Avatars, reading leaderboards, and Dev Card prompts

This release focuses on helping you personalize your profile and discover top readers, while smoothing out a few key parts of the signed-in experience.

It also includes a tracking fix so sign-ups can be attributed more reliably when they start from an X ad.

Now Available

You can now upload or remove your avatar from profile settings. New uploads automatically replace your previous avatar, and images are sized to fit the account menu, your public profile, and your Dev Card.

Reading leaderboards are now available, so you can compare longest lifetime reading streaks and total distinct reading days. You can also open ranked readers’ public profiles, and when you’re signed in you’ll see your own global ranking.

Quality of Life and Fixes

If you’re signed in but haven’t claimed a username yet, you’ll now see the Dev Card preview in feeds along with a clearer shortcut to finish setup in Your Dev Card. Navigation was also adjusted so you can open your public profile from Your Profile, or use Claim your username to complete setup.

The reading calendar header on public profiles is now simpler, with the article-count and UTC text removed.

Sign-ups that begin from an X ad now preserve the ad click ID through login and registration, so completed registrations can be attributed to the originating ad.