Been here before? Here’s what’s new and what’s changed, newest first. Pages that changed also say New or Updated under their title.
November 7, 2026: The app, under construction
Version v2026.11.07.1
- New: the StrayCats app is now being built, in the open. It’s an early, very simple first version, and you can watch it take shape in The App, Under Construction, with screenshots of each step, newest first.
November 6, 2026: Reversible collars
Version v2026.11.06.1
- Updated: The Paper Collar and What If Every Cat Could Carry an Open Identity? now show a concept mockup of reversible collars, with a pattern on one side and the StrayCats details on the other. Both are ideas, not products yet.
November 6, 2026: A picture for the open identity idea
Version v2026.11.06
- Updated: What If Every Cat Could Carry an Open Identity? now has a cover image, a concept mockup of reversible breakaway collars with a QR code and an NFC tag. They are an idea, not a product yet.
November 5, 2026: A picture for the dumping idea
Version v2026.11.05.5
- Updated: Make Help Easier to Find Than Dumping now has a cover image, a concept mockup of what finding help could look like on a phone. There is still no app.
November 5, 2026: The Paper Collar
Version v2026.11.05.4
- New: The Paper Collar, an idea for a loose, tear-away paper strip that asks a friendly cat’s owner to get in touch, and that could bring people who don’t use StrayCats to the site.
November 5, 2026: The logo on the home page
Version v2026.11.05.3
- Changed: the StrayCats logo is back at the very top of the home page, above the introduction.
November 5, 2026: How we describe StrayCats
Version v2026.11.05.2
- Changed: the site now describes StrayCats as a growing open-source project instead of an idea at the concept stage, on the home page, About, Press and the card for your site. The facts haven’t changed: there’s still no app or code, and the first software comes after the ideas are shaped with the people who care for cats.
- Changed: the name is now written as one word, StrayCats.
- Changed: the home page has a new look and a clearer introduction.
- New: the site name in the header now shows the address, StrayCats.love.
- Updated: About has three photos of Saibo and a dedication to him, and the Ideas page now lists the newest first.
November 5, 2026: A new logo
Version v2026.11.05.1
- Changed: the Stray Cats logo now includes the .love in a heart, and Saibo’s portrait is a little larger and sharper. The tab icon is his face on sunset orange.
- Updated: the Press page and its brand kit have the new logo, icons and link-preview image, in both languages.
November 5, 2026: A home of our own
Version v2026.11.05
- Changed: Stray Cats now lives at straycats.love. The old address keeps working and sends you to the new one.
- Updated: the card for your site and the Press page now use the new address. Cards already on other sites keep working.
November 1, 2026: A card sized for phones
Version v2026.11.01.1
- New: the Stray Cats card now comes in a medium size made for phones and narrow columns, between the full card and the small footer version. See how to add it.
November 1, 2026: Add the Stray Cats card to your site
Version v2026.11.01
- New: a small card that any clinic, shelter or rescue can add to its website to link to Stray Cats, with a compact version for footers. It keeps itself up to date, in English and Spanish. See how to add it, or find it on the Press page.
October 30, 2026: Easier to read and use
Version v2026.10.30.6
- Changed: text is larger across the site, especially the footer, captions, tags and page details, and it now follows your browser’s text-size setting.
- Changed: colours are a little darker in light mode so small text is easier to read.
- New: a “skip to content” link, clearer keyboard focus, and labels for screen readers, in both languages.
October 30, 2026: Chip in, if you like
Version v2026.10.30.5
- New: you can now chip in toward keeping the site going, from Get involved. There are no rewards and no commitments, and it’s completely fine to just say hello instead.
October 30, 2026: Pages that match the idea
Version v2026.10.30.4
- Changed: the Press page, the Ideas, Get involved, Feedback and Talk pages now speak to anyone who cares for a cat, not only strays. Get involved asks which situation you’ve lived, whether that’s your own cat, a neighbor’s, a stray, a new adoption, a cat you had to give up or one left behind, and what would have made it easier.
- Changed: a few ideas gained the cases that were missing, like giving up a cat, and a neighbor who dies and takes a cat’s story with them.
October 30, 2026: Who this is for
Version v2026.10.30.3
- Changed: the home page now says who Stray Cats is for: anyone who cares for a cat, whether it’s their own, a neighbor’s, a stray, a new adoption, one they had to give up or one left behind. The idea is to make caring easier by letting people see a cat’s story. The About page and the site description say the same.
October 30, 2026: A clearer home page
Version v2026.10.30.2
- Changed: the home page now says what Stray Cats is for: giving every neighborhood cat a name, a history and the people who care about it. That means pets, strays, wanderers and lost cats, not only strays. The About page and the site description say the same.
October 30, 2026: Easier ways to get in touch
Version v2026.10.30.1
- New: a Get involved page, with ways to help from a one-line hello up to a proper chat: email, Telegram, WhatsApp, GitHub, sharing a cat story, offering a skill, or passing the project on.
- New: every idea and story now ends with one specific question, and buttons to reply by email, Telegram or WhatsApp. Your message is prefilled with the page title.
- New: a contact strip at the bottom of every page.
- New: friendly forms on GitHub for sharing a cat story, reacting to an idea, offering to help, or reporting a problem with the site.
- Changed: the menu now has Get involved in place of Give Feedback. The feedback page is still here.
October 21, 2026: Saibo, the face of Stray Cats
Version v2026.10.21
- New: the site has a logo. It’s a portrait of Saibo, the cat this project is dedicated to, resting in front of a sunset over the rooftops. You’ll see it at the top of every page, on the home page, in your browser tab, and as the icon if you add the site to your phone’s home screen.
- New: sharing a link to Stray Cats now shows a picture: the page’s own cover photo, or the logo for pages without one.
- New: a Press page for journalists and bloggers: the project in brief, the logo and artwork to download, and how to get in touch.
October 20, 2026: An open identity for every cat
Version v2026.10.20.1
- New idea: What If Every Cat Could Carry an Open Identity? A breakaway collar with an NFC chip and a QR code that anyone can scan without an app, built on an open standard no single company owns, connected to existing microchips, and private by design.
October 5, 2026: When a cat goes missing
Version v2026.10.05.1
- New idea: When a Cat Goes Missing, suggested by Michael, a newsletter reader: reaching the people who’ve met a missing cat, noticing when a stray stops turning up, remembering a cat that doesn’t come back, keeping alerts safe, and whether Stray Cats should one day be for all pets.
October 5, 2026: From the first conversation
Version v2026.10.05.1
The first Let’s talk conversation, with Les, brought new stories and ideas.
- New story: Ninja, the talk of the town. How a cat who was skin and bone became the neighbourhood favourite, and why loving cats isn’t the same as being able to feed them all.
- New idea: Education & Awareness: sterilisation, poisoning (accidental and deliberate), black cats, and what happens when feeding stops.
- New cat: Carlitos, a skittish grey tabby, on the cat cards. Tenkilo’s card now explains the name: almost ten kilos.
- Updated: The Care Network (love isn’t the same as money), Privacy & Animal Safety (poisoning), Stray, Pet, or Somewhere in Between? (many homes, many claims), Encounters (from cradle to grave) and The Building Blocks.
October 5, 2026: Let’s talk
Version v2026.10.05
- New: Let’s talk. Book a relaxed 30-minute chat about the cats in your life and your ideas for Stray Cats. The page explains how the conversation is transcribed and how what you say is (and isn’t) used.
- Updated: you’ll find the invitation in the menu at the top of every page, on the home page, on the Ideas page and Give Feedback, and in the reply box at the end of every story and idea. (Tags moved out of the menu; they’re still on each page.)
October 4, 2026: The whole idea, in depth
Version v2026.10.04.5
- New: a 38-minute audio deep dive on The Building Blocks, Remembering the Cats Nobody Owns: the stories, the ideas, the open questions and what’s new. It has the same normal and 1.5× speed buttons, and replaces the earlier 20-minute one.
- New: the Spanish site has its own deep dive, in Spanish.
October 4, 2026: Listen in 90 seconds
Version v2026.10.04.4
- New: a 90-second audio introduction on the About page, Giving Stray Cats a Permanent History, with buttons to play it at normal or 1.5× speed. It replaces the earlier five-minute overview.
- New: the Spanish site has its own audio introduction, in Spanish.
October 4, 2026: A What’s New page
Version v2026.10.04.2
- New: this page, in the menu at the top of every page. It used to be called “Release notes” and was hard to find.
- New: pages now say New or Updated (with the date) under their title, and in the lists on the home page, so you can spot what’s changed while you browse.
October 4, 2026: Meeting a cat
Version v2026.10.04.1
The biggest update so far: what if meeting a cat took one photo, and every meeting helped the cat?
- New idea: Meeting a Cat. One photo gets you the cat’s card in seconds; you keep a list of the cats you’ve met; and every meeting adds to the cat’s story and can carry a quick note about its wellbeing. With cards for the cats of the house.
- New story: A photo is an introduction.
- Updated: The Building Blocks, with two new concepts (Meeting and Card) and two new principles: meeting, not owning, and fun is the doorway, not the destination.
- Updated: About, with those principles and one more: no popularity contests.
- Updated: Encounters (what a meeting can record), Cat Identity (“is this the same cat?”), The Care Network (from meeting to caring), Stray, Pet, or Somewhere in Between? (meeting isn’t claiming), Privacy & Animal Safety (celebrating cats without exposing them) and Open Data & Tech.
- Updated: two new questions on Give Feedback.
October 4, 2026: A small fix
Version v2026.10.04
- The version number at the bottom of each page was showing the previous version. Fixed.
October 3, 2026: Meet the cats
Version v2026.10.03.2
- Updated: the photos across the site now name the cats: Ciccio, Hootie, Lucia, Mika Ella, Ninja and Tenkilo, plus Mountain Lion, whose real name nobody knows.
- Updated: Ninja, Naranja, or Milo?. The cat on the cover isn’t Ninja after all: it’s Mountain Lion. The real Ninja is on The Building Blocks.
October 3, 2026: Listen to the idea
Version v2026.10.03.1
- New: a five-minute audio overview on the About page.
- New: a 20-minute audio deep dive on The Building Blocks, about why street cats are a hard problem for software.
- Both were made with Google’s NotebookLM from the pages on this site, so the voices are AI-generated.
October 3, 2026: The site opens
Version v2026.10.03
- Five stories about the cats of Puerto Escondido, starting with The cats nobody owns, and seven ideas.
- Everything in English and Spanish, with photos of the cats, search, and a way to reply to every story.
- The project is dedicated to Saibo, 2010–2026.
About the version numbers: each update is numbered by the date it was published
(year.month.day), with .1, .2 and so on for later updates the same day. For the
technical details of every change, see the change history.