Hey Pickful community!

This update brings new draft management features and a series of UI refinements.

✨ New Features

📝 Enhanced Draft Management

• Create empty drafts — Start a new draft anytime, capture ideas instantly
• Delete #drafts — Clean up unwanted drafts, keep your list tidy
• Redesigned drafts page with intuitive controls

🎨 UI Improvements

Articles Page Redesign

• Project design system (Space Grotesk font)
• Compact card layout for better reading experience
• Optimized avatar sizes and spacing
• Added hover animations

Detail Fixes

• Cover images — Full image display in article lists, no more cropping
• Topic titles — Fixed private badge wrapping issues
• Invite form — Equal-width grid layout for topic member invitations
• Crypto theme — Improved button text readability in dark mode

⚡ Technical Improvements

Dependency Cleanup

Removed 3 unused or redundant monitoring gems, reducing ~7MB of dependencies:

• grover (unused PDF generation)
• newrelic_rpm (redundant APM)
• appsignal (redundant error tracking)

Now using Skylight as the unified performance monitoring tool.

Test Coverage

Added 500+ lines of test code covering:

• Comments (create, edit, delete, nested replies)
• Favorites
• Chat rooms and messages
• Topics and topic member permissions

Code Cleanup

• Fixed deprecation warnings in routes and specs
• Removed empty placeholder test files
• Cleaned up debug statements

🔜 What's Next

• Continue polishing UI details across more pages
• Unify pagination components
• More theme colors

Thank you for using Pickful! Feedback always welcome 💬 #article

— Pickful Team

February 3, 2026