App Update — Version 1.4.0 "Manual Uploads, Vault Comments & Grading Enhancements"
Manual Uploads, Vault Comments & Grading Enhancements
This release introduces Manual Upload + Pricing, launches Vault Comments, enhances Advanced Grading calibration, adds new defect categories, and delivers major UI/UX improvements across Collections, Filters, and Uploads.
Released December 3, 2025
Merged in PR #153
🚀 Overview:
This release introduces Manual Upload + Pricing, launches Vault Comments, enhances Advanced Grading calibration, adds new defect categories, and delivers major UI/UX improvements across Collections, Filters, and Uploads.
🆕 Features Released:
📤 Manual Upload + Pricing (Requested by @drawgs_)
- Upload comics without AI grading
- Grade selection required before pricing
- Issue number validation with clear messaging
💬 Vault Comments Are Live
- Comment, upvote/un-upvote, delete your own comments
- @mention users + receive interaction notifications
- Positive community guidelines enforced
🧠 Advanced Grading & Calibration (Thanks @SwampThingTom)
- Better calibration for books under 8.0
- More conservative defect scoring
- Clearer design-note vs defect detection
- Improved high-grade verification (9.6–9.7)
📚 New Defect Category: Spine Rolls
Fully detected and penalized in Advanced Grading.
💧 Water Damage Penalty
- Increased minimum penalty
- Stronger weighting vs other defects
🔍 Enhanced Collection Filtering
- Stack multiple filters
- Filters update dynamically based on selection
- Publisher/title normalization
- Cleaner, mobile-friendly filter chips
- Fixed dropdown height with scrolling
(Note: Pricing filtration not included — pending separate discussion with @BadAstronaut & @SwampThingTom)
🏷️ Publisher/Title Normalization (Global)
- Standardizes inconsistent labels (DC Comics → DC, Marvel Comics → Marvel)
- Supports slash publishers (DC/Marvel)
- Applied to filters + pricing filtration
🗂️ Sticky Collection View Preference
Compact vs Regular grid view now persists via sessionStorage (Suggested by @BadAstronaut)
🔢 Issue Number Required
- Must be entered before pricing
- "Not visible" shown in red
- Mobile toast for validation failure
📸 Image Upload Size Validation
- 6MB client-side limit
- Instant toast error
- No scan deduction for oversized uploads
(Shaped with @BadAstronaut)
🐞 Bug Fixes:
👍 Vault Post Upvotes (Found by @BadAstronaut)
- Upvotes now work properly in full post view
- Corrected user ID comparison logic
📊 SnapSearch Confidence
- Confidence updates correctly when removing sales
- Improved filtered pricing pool logic
⚙️ Other Improvements
- Mobile navigation now includes quicker "Add Comics" option
- Improved notifications: pagination, unread accuracy, better "View more"
- Vault cards show comment count on mobile
💬 Feedback Welcome
As always, we'd love your feedback. Join our Discord community to report bugs, suggest new features, or share ideas on how we can improve tagging, issue tracking, and collection tools. Everything we build continues to evolve based on how you use it.
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