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Everything we’ve shipped, and why

Orthodate is built in the open. Every release that changes what you see, who can reach you or what we store gets written up here in plain language, including the parts that went wrong.

10 releasesLatest 29 September 2026

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Latest releaseCommunity4 min read

This page, and seven new guides

We started writing down what we ship. Also: seven new guides, taking the library past a hundred.

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What changed

  • A public changelogEvery release, dated, with what changed and why. Subscribe by RSS if you would rather not check.
  • Seven new guidesAsking someone out at your parish, converting for marriage, living together before marriage, mental health, name days, Holy Week, and marrying across jurisdictions.
  • 102 guides in totalAll free, all public, none of them behind a sign-in wall, and every one carries the date it was last reviewed.

September 2026

9 releases
  • Community4 min read

    You can now chip in for the servers

    A support link, handled off-site by Buy Me a Coffee. Not tax deductible, and deliberately attached to zero features.

    • Handled off-site, in one link
    • Not tax deductible
    Read it
  • Safety7 min read

    The verified mark is here

    Hold a pose the server picks at random, and the mark on your name says the photos are really you.

    • The video never leaves your device
    • A person makes the decision
    Read it
  • Discover7 min read

    Discover is fifteen people a day now

    An infinite feed rewards scrolling. A daily batch rewards reading. We rebuilt Discover around the second one.

    • Fifteen a day, frozen
    • You can see why somebody is there
    Read it
  • Community6 min read

    We mapped every Orthodox parish we could verify

    A searchable map of Orthodox parishes across the US and Canada, with a page for every state and province. Open to anyone.

    • Every jurisdiction in one place
    • A page for every state and province
    Read it

Every release is filed under one part of the product: Discover, Safety, Profiles, Messaging, Community.

How this gets decided

The roadmap is a public board, not a secret

We read all of it. When something ships because you asked for it, the release note says so by name.

  1. You post it

    Anyone can put an idea on the public board. No account on this site required, and no form to fill in twice.

  2. Other members vote

    The board is public, so you can see what else people want and whether yours is the common complaint.

  3. It ships, and we say so

    When something is built because you asked for it, the release note says so and quotes the request.

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Questions

About these releases

How often does Orthodate ship updates?

There is no fixed release schedule. Changes go out when they are ready and tested, and anything that affects what members see, who can reach them or what we store gets written up on this page.

Where do feature requests go?

To the public feedback board, where anyone can post an idea and vote on the ones they want most. The distance options released in September came from a single post there and shipped the same week.

Do I need an account to read these?

No. This page and every release note on it are public, and so are the parish directory, the guide library and the city guides they link to.

Is there a feed I can subscribe to?

Yes. The updates feed is available as RSS at /updates/feed.xml, and the editorial guide library has its own feed at /feed.xml.

Will you announce changes to privacy or data handling here?

Yes, alongside the change itself. The privacy policy carries its own review date, and any release that changes what we collect, store or show explains that in its release note.

See the latest changes for yourself

The most recent release is “This page, and seven new guides”. Create a profile and everything on this page is already waiting for you.

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