Changelog

Listings

• Listing cards can be compact or wide — wide cards span the full row and leave more room for descriptions and attributes
• Choose how listing logos appear on cards: a small tile, a cover image, or hidden entirely — with separate size controls for each
• The category path on listing cards can now sit above the name, below it, at the bottom edge, or be hidden
• The listing grid column count is configurable, including a single column of wide cards

CPanel

• Appearance → Listing Card shows a live preview of real cards on desktop and mobile while you edit
• The notifications bell now reports new form submissions — repeated answers roll into one notice that counts up until you read it
• Forms in the sidebar show unread submission badges, and custom forms can be pinned right into the menu with an icon of your choice

Custom Forms

• Edit a form right from its submissions page

CPanel

• "What's new" dialog in the header — new releases are highlighted until you read them

API

• Create API keys for programmatic access — experimental, endpoints may still change

General

• It is now much easier to connect custom domains to directories — we now have managed DNS servers.

AI Assistant

• An AI Assistant for the page was improved — now it understands the intent of the page

MCP Server

• Custom pages are now editable too by our favorite agentic tool

AI Assistant

• Users can now enqueue messages
• Improved UI for the current streaming state

Page Builder

• You can now use simple WYSIWYG operations (like bold text or links) in many places where we used to have only plain text

CPanel

• Bulk actions are back — remove listings in bulk or move to another category

Sites

• Redirects editor is back as well — now you can move pages around, keeping the traffic

Accounts

• You can now delete the directories. Restore within 30 days window; otherwise will be deleted permanently

MCP Server

• Added new tools: category create/update, blog post/listing/category deletion

Page Builder

• New "Comparison Table" block

Analytics

• Your page views will be not counted when you open the directory from CPanel via the "Visit Directory" button

Custom Forms

• Create custom forms — as modals or embedded on the page

Listings

• You can now allow users to claim the listings ownership

Monetization

• Another monetization option — you can protect the leads behind a paywall

MCP Server

• You can now manage your directory via your favorite AI Agent tool

Theming

• Emails are sent in the theme you selected for a directory
• Fixed a few small bugs when the theme tokens weren't applied everywhere

General

• Sites should get another performance improvement, around 10- 20 ms in page load speed

CPanel

• Directory owners can now change the *.makedir.site subdomain (once in 30 days)

Sites

• Fixed logo sizing — square logos can take up more space
• Fixed image display for user uploaded generated images with <svg> metadata
• Fixed the Timeline block styling

CPanel

• Fixed a bug when the OG image preview hasn't been displayed on Appearance tab
• Fixed a bug when AI directory onboarding was failing to create the listings
• Fixed a bug when longer AI chats weren't displaying the recent messages

Sites

• Fixed a bug when users were getting an error submitting the listings/re-requesting emails

General

• Your brand — your site. Long-awaited theming arrived!

Listings

• Rich text content is now importable/exportable via CSV

Sites

• Paid *.makedir.site are indexed
• Redirects from *.makedir.site to custom domain (preserving path)

General

• Fixed case when the page paddings were stripped on desktop

Page Builder

• Improved AI Assistant system instructions
• Fixed a bug when the feature cards couldn't be updated

Sites

• Improved UX by moving the user focus from "Resending" the email to the email verification

AI Assistant

• Show the Chain of Thought ("Thinking") transcript to give understanding that the process is not stuck
• New AI tools: photo_search, generate_image
• Permission System for paid tool calls (allow/ask/deny)
• Improved tool call budget — chats work longer for the same price
• AI Chat now has "Stop Auto-scroll" function with "Jump to latest" to re-enable
• Assistant now collects the facts about your directory (memory)

Analytics

• Track scroll deps and unique visitors per breakdown

Page Builder

• Introducing AI Assistant
• Move the SEO parameters to Page Builder screen
• App will ask if you want to leave with changes unsaved

CPanel

• Show directory icons in switcher

SEO

• Serve /llms.txt for all paid plans

… and many more small bugfixes here & there

General

• Fixed a bug when the filters weren't applied on page refresh for some pages

Onboarding

• New directories will now scrape full data only for 3 of ~12 listings from the initial discovery

Listings

• Fixed rare business identification issues, leading to reviews not being downloaded

General

• Improved page loading — document loading will take 10-30ms less

Analytics

• Classify ChatGPT/Claude and other assistants as "AI" channel

Sites

• The "Filters" block now display the human-readable custom attribute labels

Page Builder

• Extra option in the analytics cards will now be hidden behind "More" button when there are more than 4 views
• Fixed a crash when using YouTube block and switching the viewport size

Content

• Fixed slug generation so that it generates srodmiescie from Śródmieście instead of rdmiecie