Three recent additions have finished rolling out and are now on for everyone. The profile-first signup (you fill out your profile first, then confirm your email with a code at the end) is the default for anyone opening Anketta for the first time. The Early Supporter certificate with your member number now shows up at the bottom of the profile for every eligible account, and it still arrives wrapped in its little sealed envelope for the first reveal. Nothing about how these work changed — if you were already seeing them, your experience is identical. If you were in the "not yet" group, they're here now.
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Unfair Advantage is now actually unfair. People on the top subscription tier are guaranteed to show up in other readers' feeds rather than only appearing when they happen to score high or land in the exploration tail. Roughly one in every ten swipe candidates is now an Unfair Advantage subscriber, drawn from the same pool of active readers in your city and preferences and passing the same "never shown twice" rule as everyone else — they just can't get edged out of the queue by someone who hasn't paid for reach. If you're on Unfair Advantage, you should see a meaningful lift in how often other people encounter your manuscript. If you're not, you'll encounter a few more Unfair profiles in your feed than before; they still have to pass every filter to appear.
The recommender is a bit sharper at picking up what you highlighted. When you dwelled on a short phrase — "в баню" in "я люблю ходить в зал и в баню", or "особенно грузинские" in "обожаю вылазки в рестики, особенно грузинские" — the system used to quietly drop those fragments because on their own they don't carry enough meaning. It would try to match your highlight against a longer chunk that included them, or fail to match at all, and the preference wouldn't appear in Settings → Preferences. Now the recommender borrows the verb from the surrounding sentence ("люблю ходить в баню") and, for dangling modifiers, fills in what they're referring back to ("обожаю грузинские рестики"), so short highlights become proper preferences you can see and manage. You'll notice this mostly in the "Preferences" list: phrases you highlighted in passing now tend to show up where you'd expect them.
Saving a manuscript is a touch quieter when nothing really changed. If you tapped into your manuscript, added a blank line or a trailing space, and hit save, the app used to treat that as a content edit and run the whole re-processing pipeline in the background. Now purely cosmetic whitespace edits don't trigger any re-processing — your saved text stays as you typed it, but the system isn't re-doing work it doesn't need to.
Two small follow-ups after last release.
Text selection in the swipes tab no longer bleeds across the line. When you dwelled on a word or dragged across one, the glowing amber bar was painting not just around the selected letters but also as a wide box that stretched across the whole line behind them — two highlights at once, the narrow one honest and the wide one phantom. It looked as if you'd selected more than you had. The wide box is gone; now only the narrow highlight under your finger stays.
The first onboarding step where you write about yourself has its Russian back. The title field above each section was quietly showing "Section title…" in English even when the rest of the app was in Russian — an English string that slipped through translation. It now reads "Напишите заголовок…" on Russian and "Write a section title…" on English.
Three fixes to things that quietly broke, now all working again.
Text selection is working again in the swipes tab. If you opened the main swipes feed and tried to dwell on a word to highlight it — green for like, red for pass — nothing happened. The same gesture on the onboarding "this is how it works" step and on the Unfair Advantage reader worked fine, which made the bug feel random. The cause was a mount-order issue: the swipes feed briefly shows a loading state before the manuscript appears, and the selection engine was giving up before the real text was on screen. It now patiently waits for the manuscript to show up and wires itself in the moment it does. Dwell, drag, and desktop click-drag all highlight again.
Onboarding works on a fresh phone. If you opened Anketta for the first time in a fresh private tab and started typing your name, the page would flash and reset on every second keystroke — before the first suggestion could appear. The culprit was an invisible handshake: the name and city autocomplete were sending you through a "logged-in only" door, and because you didn't have an account yet, the door was slamming the page shut and reloading it. The suggestions door is now open to people arriving for the first time, with appropriate safety limits in place so it stays safe. Type your name, see real suggestions, pick one — all without the page blinking.
The first-manuscript step now opens the keyboard on iPhone. Previously, when you reached "Tell us about yourself" from the preferences step, the cursor would land in the title field but the software keyboard stayed closed — you had to tap the field again to start typing. iOS Safari only opens the keyboard when a focus happens inside the exact same tap gesture, and our transition happens across several render steps, so the tap token was gone by the time we tried to focus. We now hand the keyboard a placeholder to hold onto the moment you tap Continue and pass it to the real title field as it appears, so the keyboard is already up and waiting.
Subscription prices are changing by a small amount to reflect what our payment provider now charges us. The provider takes a 5.5% processing fee on every payment, and 22% Russian VAT is added on top of that fee. We were previously absorbing the VAT portion ourselves, which meant every subscription was netting about 1% less than intended. Starting today, the subscription total includes that VAT. Concretely: Try It goes from 265 ₽ to 270 ₽ (+5), I Want to Read from 320 ₽ to 325 ₽ (+5), Read — Annual from 1 120 ₽ to 1 130 ₽ (+10), Lifetime from 1 060 ₽ to 1 080 ₽ (+20), and Unfair Advantage from 15 880 ₽ to 16 080 ₽ (+200). Your current subscription period is unaffected — the new prices apply only to the next renewal, or to new sign-ups. The checkout screen still shows a single commission row, now at the new amount.
Two small polish fixes to the new sign-up flow. The theme-switcher icon no longer shows up twice in the top-right corner of onboarding steps — there's just one now, where it always should have been. And when you reach the step where you write your first manuscript, the title field now waits for you with your cursor already in it and a soft amber underline glowing underneath, so it's obvious where to start typing. The underline fades away as soon as you do.
Your lucky number is about to arrive in person. If you're one of the first 100,000 people to join Anketta, the certificate at the bottom of your profile no longer just appears — it comes wrapped in a small kraft-paper envelope, sealed with wax. Tap the seal three times to crack it open, watch the flap unfold, and your ticket flies out to the centre of the screen with a quiet gold sparkle for you to hold for as long as you like. Tap anywhere to tuck it back into place. The unboxing happens at most once per device — afterwards the certificate appears straight away. A small thing, but feels like unwrapping a letter someone sent you personally. Rolling out gradually — it may not be visible for everyone at first.
Signing up is getting gentler. We're rolling out a new sign-up experience where, if you're visiting Anketta for the first time, you'll get to write your profile and your first manuscript before we ask for your email. The last step of the onboarding carousel becomes a small email + 6-digit code screen that both confirms it's you and saves everything you just wrote. Nothing you fill in disappears if you close the tab halfway — the draft stays in your browser until you finish. If you already have an account, there's a quiet "Already have an account? Sign in" link on the first step that drops you straight into the classic login. And logging out now fully resets the state on that device, so your next visit starts with the new flow again instead of the old email-first screen. This is a gradual rollout — it may not be visible to everyone yet; if you're already registered, nothing changes for you.
Your match feed is updating again. For about two days, the recommendation engine was silently stalling behind the scenes — every time it tried to refresh your queue of potential matches, it hit a snag in the scoring step and froze, so new highlights you tapped and new profiles that became eligible never made it into your feed. We fixed the stall, and your feed now learns from your new highlights the moment you leave them.