Release notes

What's new on bask and what's been tightened up, newest first.

6 November 2026

Security

When an account is deleted, by you or by us, it is signed out on every device straight away.
Deleting your account now removes the photos you sent in chat as well.
A chat message can no longer show another member's photos as if you had sent them.

5 November 2026

New and improved

You can now deactivate your account to take a break, or delete it, from My account.
A listing that is already live is no longer switched off, or emailed about, for a missing type or species name. A new listing still needs them before it goes live.

30 October 2026

New and improved

We no longer email you when a listing's photos are getting old. My animals now flags those listings instead, with a note at the top and a "Photos getting old" tag on each one, so you can fix them next time you're updating your stock.

25 October 2026

New and improved

In the stock room, you can now clear a buyer you named on a sale even after deleting the advert, and naming the same buyer again no longer sends them a second review invitation.
When a sale can't be reversed, the stock room now tells you why.
Opening a chat with someone you haven't messaged before no longer shows an error.
A hold's end date now shows the day you picked, whatever time of year you set it.
Help pages now open with an "On this page" list, and every section has its own link you can share. The help links on your seller pages open in a new tab, so a half-filled form stays put.
The "On this page" list on guides and help pages now shows which section you're reading, and you can pinch to zoom a picture you've opened full screen.

Security

Your messages are no longer copied into the site's internal activity log. They live in your conversations and nowhere else.
Signing in and resetting your password now only work through the sign-in pages themselves, where all of bask's sign-in protections apply.
Sign-in codes and password-reset tokens are no longer kept in the site's activity log either.
New listings can only go into sections that are open for them, however they're added.

24 October 2026

New and improved

The stock room is open for every store on the Breeder plan: your whole stock on one screen. Type a line and press Enter, change a count or a price where it sits, and mark a sale as sold in store or sold on bask with one click. It also gives your store a livestock list in trade notation that you can share or copy into a post. Find it in your account menu.
There's now a help section at /help, covering signing up, setting up your store, listing one animal or a whole clutch, importing your listings from an export file, and the stock room.

12 October 2026

New and improved

Each species in a section now has its own page with its own address, such as blood pythons under short-tailed pythons, so you can bookmark or share the exact animal you're after. The Snakes and Lizards menus take you straight there.
The trail at the top of an advert now links to the animal's species as well as its section.
The morph filter now opens on the full list, with the popular morphs first, so you can pick one without knowing how it's spelt. Typing narrows the list, and picking a ticked morph takes it back out.

7 October 2026

New and improved

You can now send photos in messages: up to five at a time, 10 MB in all. Handy for an updated shot of an animal, a weight on the scales or a setup. Each photo is checked as you add it, and only you and the person you're talking to can see it. Photos unlock once your email is confirmed and your account is a week old.
Notifications from the Android app now arrive as bask, with its own icon and its own notification settings on your phone, not as Chrome.

6 October 2026

New and improved

Milk snakes now have 19 more kinds to choose from, such as Stuart's, Mexican, Andean and Eastern, each with its scientific name. If you import from an export file, a milk snake now lands on its own species.
Kingsnakes have 12 more too, such as Durango Mountain, Scarlet, Prairie and California Mountain kingsnakes, each with its scientific name. A California mountain kingsnake can name its locality, such as Sierra or San Diego.
Cave geckos and leaf-tailed geckos are now listed by species, such as Hainan and Vietnamese cave geckos or satanic and mossy leaf-tails, each with its scientific name. Scorpion-tailed geckos have their own kind too.

4 October 2026

New and improved

When you mark an animal sold, you can now note what it went for. It's optional and only you can see it. Once enough sales are noted, the prices will go into guides showing what each morph really sells for, with no names or stores attached. You can add or change it later on the listing's edit page.
The Snakes and Lizards menus and the morph search now keep working after you've been on one of your own pages, such as your animals or your dashboard. Before, they could stop responding until you reloaded the page.
Listing a morph is now a pick from a list for 43 more species, from retics, blood pythons and kingsnakes to tokay geckos and blue-tongued skinks. Localities and subspecies are there too where a species has them, such as dwarf and super dwarf retic islands.
Can't find your morph, combo or locality in the list? There's a "Morph not here? Let me know" button under the morph picker on your listing. Tell me what's missing and I'll add it.

3 October 2026

New and improved

You can follow a breeder straight from their advert, with a button beside their store link, and you'll hear when they list something new.
On your phone, an advert now opens with the price and the message button in reach, and when you write to a seller the Send button stays on screen however long your message gets.
Importing your stock from an export file now brings every animal over. Up to your plan's room goes live and the rest arrive as drafts, ready to switch on when there's room, and the import shows what the next plan costs, or your free months if you haven't used them.
The live count on your animals page now counts only live listings, the same way your plan does, so drafts no longer make your plan look fuller than it is.
The home page now shows only animals that have just been listed. Renewing still puts your listing back at the top of its section, but it won't bring it back to the home page.
When you renew several listings at once, they now go to the top of the section one after another, 15 to 45 minutes apart, instead of filling the page all at once. Your animals page shows when each one is due.

2 October 2026

New and improved

You now have a dashboard. Tap Sell in the top bar and it opens on what is waiting for you, such as unread messages, buyer questions and listings you haven't finished, then every tool you have, with your own numbers beside the ones that have them.
The Buying side shows what has changed since you last looked: price drops on animals you've saved, ones that have sold or gone on hold, answers to your questions, replies in chat and new listings from stores you follow.
If you sell on bask and sign in with no page to go back to, you now land on your dashboard. If you only buy, you land there when something is new for you. It's also the first item in your account menu.

30 September 2026

New and improved

You can now offer any mix of collection, a live-animal courier and delivering the animal yourself within a set distance. Price the courier as included, a flat fee or a from-and-to range, and buyers see every option on the advert.
Diet now takes everything your animal is eating, from rodents, quail and rabbit to crickets, roaches, greens and complete diet powder, and each species only offers the foods that suit it.

29 September 2026

New and improved

Species sections and listings now show where you are at the top, like Home / Snakes / Pythons / Royal Pythons, so you can step back up to all snakes or the whole section in one tap.
Replying to a buyer in chat no longer counts towards the new-conversation limit, so you can answer everyone who messages you, however busy the hour.
When a message, follow, review, report or question can't be sent, the page now tells you why instead of looking as if it went through.
Price-drop alerts on a saved listing now come at most once a day.
Paying for a membership with your bank's extra check (3-D Secure) now sends your confirmation email.
Your animals and equipment pages now say when nothing matches your filters, with a button to clear them, and offer to try again if they fail to load, instead of saying you have nothing listed.
A new equipment listing is no longer created twice when its photo fails to upload on the first save.
Sorting a section by price, age, weight or title no longer repeats or skips listings from one page to the next.
New API keys for connecting your stock software now last a year, and the date shows beside each key on your store page. Keys you already have keep working.
Asking about equipment now shows you the seller's policy before you agree to it, and doesn't ask at all when the seller hasn't written one.
Clicking outside the enquiry box no longer throws away a message you've started typing.
On a narrow phone, the menu button no longer slides off the edge of the screen when you're signed in.
Your browser can now fill in your name, address and store details for you on your account and store pages.
The breeders page now shows only stores with animals for sale. Pick a species to see just the breeders who have it listed, and each card shows what else that breeder keeps.

Security

Store names and locations can no longer include phone numbers, email addresses or links.
A listing whose title names a prohibited morph is now refused in every section.
Signing up with a social account only skips the email check when that provider has already confirmed your address.
Forms on public pages are now rate limited, and feedback posts and listing questions have an hourly limit per account.

28 September 2026

New and improved

Each species now has its own morph list, so an Eastern hognose or a panther chameleon is no longer offered another species' morphs.
Hets and supers are now part of the morph you pick: add Clown once and set it to het, 66% het, 50% het or possible het, or set Pastel to super, instead of hunting for a separate entry. Browse can filter by het too.
A MorphMarket "Pos Clown" now comes across as a possible het Clown, where it used to arrive as a morph of its own.
The livestock spreadsheet is switched off for now while we rebuild how you manage stock. Importing from MorphMarket and bulk add still work.
Boa and panther chameleon sellers can now say where an animal comes from: pick its locality or subspecies, with a percentage if you know it, and buyers see "Pure Hog Island" or "Ambilobe × Nosy Be" on the advert and can filter by it.
Boas from Argentina or Paraguay are Argentine boas, so listing one now asks for its Article 10 certificate number, the same as any other protected species.
Pick a combo like Firefly and the genes behind it come with it, so buyers searching Pastel find it too. You can also add the line your animal comes from.
Crested gecko morphs are now grouped by what they change — colour, pattern or structure — to make the picker quicker to scan.
Morph pages for strain genes like Albino or Snow now group their variants in one place, so you can browse the family together.
When pairing two genes makes a named, genetically distinct result, like Blue-Eyed Leucistic or Super Stripe, the advert now says so.
When your species gets its own morph list, the morph description you typed stays on your listings and still counts until you pick morphs from the list, so nothing is switched off in the meantime.
Changing a listing's category or type now asks first and tells you which morphs and localities it will clear, instead of clearing them without a word.
On a listing, the price and the enquiry button now sit much higher, especially on a phone. A morph's welfare warning still comes before the price. Its breeding guidance now folds away under the buttons, and the enquiry form shows it in full above the box you tick to say you've read it.
The Snakes and Lizards menus now open onto families like pythons, boas and colubrids, down to the individual species, and only list what's actually for sale.
Most species you keep now have a section of their own: kingsnakes, milk snakes, rat snakes, carpet and green tree pythons, rainbow, tree and rosy boas, skinks, monitors, tegus, iguanas, the less common geckos and more. Kingsnakes and milk snakes you've already listed have moved into their new sections for you, and their links still work.
Locality pages like Hog Island, and their rows in the morph list, now price pure animals apart from crosses, so a 60% cross no longer sets the "available from" price, and you can show just the pure ones. A locality with nothing listed as pure says so in its heading. On Browse, a subspecies, locality or pure filter now shows as a chip you can remove, and picking a subspecies only offers its own localities.
The home page now opens on the latest snakes and the latest lizards, each led by its own pick of the week, under a shorter header.
Listings now sit six to a row on a wide screen, four on a tablet and two on a phone, and a page of results always ends on a full row.
A sale no longer makes its card taller than the rest of the row. The end date and the saving are on the listing itself.
Compare is no longer offered on phones, where its tray covered too much of the screen.
The home page and the footer now link to Responsible Reptile Keeping, where you can donate or join.
Looking at a reticulated, amethystine or scrub python, or a big monitor like a Nile, water or white-throated? The listing now links REPTA's pre-ownership guidance and assessment form, and you tick to say you've read it before you enquire, so the seller knows too.
Morphs REPTA's welfare policy prohibits are now refused under more of the names keepers use for them, like Skull Face, Super Motley or a Melanistic crested gecko, and on every hognose, not just westerns.

Security

Admin tools the site doesn't use are now switched off entirely, so there is less behind the sign-in for anyone to reach.

25 September 2026

New and improved

Listing photos load faster, especially on phones: each page now fetches a size that fits your screen instead of the full-size photo.
An animal on sale now stands out. Its card shows the saving in pounds and when the sale ends, on a tinted strip under the photo. On the listing page, the reduction and end date now sit with the price instead of below the buttons.

24 September 2026

New and improved

Every listing now links to PAAG's advice on selling a pet as well as buying one.
Listings follow PAAG's advertising standards more closely. The morph line, parent names, store pages and published answers are checked as well as the title and description, for swaps, postal delivery, pregnant animals, contact details and species bask can't list, such as Burmese pythons, crocodilians and red-eared sliders.
A listing needs a price of at least £10 to go live, so free animals can't be listed. If you're rehoming, list at a nominal price and say why in the description.
The livestock sheet no longer has a Trades column: swaps aren't allowed on bask.
Adverts now ask where the animal was bred (captive-bred or self-produced) and exactly what species it is: pick a type where the section has them, and name the species if you choose Other. Farmed, captive-hatched and wild-caught animals can't be listed.
Adverts now ask for at least one morph. For a wild-type animal, pick Normal.
Baby listings now ask you to confirm the animal is eating on its own (at least three feeds), and the advert says so. You can tick several at once from My animals.
Listings for Annex A species now ask for their Article 10 certificate number, one animal per listing. A boa with an Argentine-line gene asks for its certificate number, or your confirmation that it isn't an Argentine boa.
Photos must be your own. Imported listings marked as using a representative photo come in without it, ready for yours.
Adverts now show when their photos were added. If a young animal's newest photo is more than two months old (six months for adults), we'll remind you to add a new one. You can turn the reminder off in your notification settings.
When a listing can't go live yet, a card at the top of the edit page lists everything that's missing, not just the first thing, and takes you to each field. Items tick off as you fill them in.
For now, anything missing from those shows as a warning and your listings stay as they are. We'll email you the date they're needed from, at least 15 days ahead, and a live listing still missing something then gets 15 days' notice before it comes off the site. Nothing is deleted.
The livestock sheet has four new columns. Make a fresh copy of the template to get them.
Every advert now explains that a live animal only travels with an APHA-authorised courier or is collected in person, and new listings start on collection.
Seller types have one name everywhere: Private keeper, Licensed seller and Trade seller, each linked to what it means.
Listings in the Other sections now link to our keeping handbook.
Each species care guide now has a one-page quick reference you can download and print.
Reporting an advert now alerts our moderators the moment you send it, and if you're not signed in, the report button points you to our complaints page.
When bask refuses a listing for breaking the rules, the attempt is now recorded for a moderator, and repeated attempts to list something bask doesn't allow can lead to a strike.
The sign-in and registration forms show what each box is for again: the labels had turned white on the white boxes.
You can put an animal on sale straight after cutting its price. Only a price rise in the last 15 days holds a sale back, and the sale still has to be below the price now.
Browse every snake or every lizard on one page, with a photo for each section and how many are for sale. Find them at the top of the Snakes and Lizards menus.

Security

A seller suspended from bask can no longer come straight back with the same details, and a new account doesn't wipe the slate clean.

23 September 2026

New and improved

Morph pages now open with what's for sale: the cheapest visual and het, and how many of each are listed.
The morph picker, search and the livestock sheet no longer offer 149 morph names nobody sells, such as Whitesmoke and Super Acid. A listing that already carries one keeps it.
This page: what's new on bask, day by day, linked from the footer.