We recently took the Academy public. For about a year, this has been a closed community while we built everything behind the scenes, and we just switched on public indexing. That means over the next few weeks, you will start seeing the Academy in Google and other search engines, which is a big step for us.

Going public also meant hardening the security of the site and the server. It was the right thing to do, but it quietly broke a couple of features, and we did not catch it right away.

Two things had stopped working: reactions (likes and emotions) on posts since the 2nd of October, and reference pack downloads, both the ZIP and the individual images.

First, a big thank you to Cheryl for spotting both of these. Good news, both are fixed now. Reactions are back, and downloads work again. If a download still looks off, just refresh the page once.

I’m really sorry about this. Every drawing from those days deserved all the love it couldn’t get.

Thank you Cheryl, and thank you all for being patient with us.

If you notice any other issue, please let me know. I have also started looking for any other silent issues on my own, but your help would mean a lot. Thanks again, everyone.