What's new

The menu has been rearranged

What you use most is closer now, and everything personal has its own place.

We looked at what gets clicked most and sorted the menu by it.

On your phone, the bar at the bottom holds Start, Search, Contribute, Read and Mine. Every other section is in the menu at the top left, where groups fold open and closed and "Recent" remembers where you were.

On a computer, the bar on the left holds Start and Contribute at the top, then the content sections (Stories, Audio, Pictures, Polls, Discover, Comments) and the community (Timeline, Community, Inbox).

Everything that is only about you now lives in one place: tap Mine on your phone, or your profile picture at the top right on a computer. There you find your profile, My area, your favourites, settings, your reports and the light/dark switch; on the phone also notifications, inbox, continue, your subscriptions and your posts.

If something is missing, tell us in the Community under Vorschläge & Kritik.

The community is here

The old forum has moved into Schambereich. Under Community you find Café Eros, Ich bin neu hier, Vorschläge & Kritik and the story forum with all the old topics.

Link your forum account: if you wrote in the forum, link your forum account once under Community. After that your old posts, subscriptions and messages are yours again.

Messages: a new mailbox with pictures, receive settings and blocks. Old forum messages come along with the link.

The old forum is switched off. Old forum links lead into the community, where you find topics and posts again.

Questions and wishes about it belong in Vorschläge & Kritik.

Stories to listen to

Audio versions: more and more stories can be read to you, uncut and by an AI voice. Members listen for free and the site remembers where you stopped. Without an account you get a one-minute sample.

Profile and account: your profile now leads with your text and your interests, and every setting sits in one place. You can pick your profile picture from your own images and crop or pixelate it in the browser.

Search: pictures, stories, surveys and members have their own tabs with hit counts. The exact phrase is searched first.

Found a problem or have feedback? Use the contact form or the forum. Thank you for being here.

Similar content, series and @names

• Similar pictures and stories: every picture and every story carries suggestions that match its subject. They come from the tags, not from your behaviour.
• Subscribe to a series: a multi-part story can tell you when it continues. The author cannot see who subscribed.
• Address someone: type @ and a name in a comment and you get suggestions. The name becomes a link and the person is notified.
• Both notifications can be switched off separately under Privacy.

Keep reading, favourites and lists

• Keep reading: if you leave a story unfinished, Schambereich remembers where you were. Find it again with one click on the story and in the story list, no account needed.
• Tidy your favourites: every card in your favourites now has a remove button.
• Stories, surveys and tag pages load more as you scroll, just like pictures.
• The sign-in page now tells you what you need an account for when you click favourites, timeline or contribute as a guest.
• Pictures of undressed men without an undressed woman do not fit the theme of the site and are held back on upload. The uploader is told.

Since 2000: a tour through the history

The link at the bottom left leads to a museum tour through 26 years of Schambereich, with exhibits from the real old versions of the site, from 2000 to today.

Improvements in August

We kept working after the relaunch. The essentials:

• Your stories are yours: edit them at any time and withdraw them again, not just shortly after posting.
• New and edited stories get a short check and are usually online within minutes. The bell tells you.
• You can withdraw your own pictures at any time as well.
• Under your pictures and stories you can hide individual comments.
• The start page shows you a mix of new posts, what is popular right now and finds from over twenty years of archive.
• The picture list loads faster, and when you come back from a picture you land in the same spot.
• Uploaded pictures keep their full quality, we no longer downscale them.
• To protect your privacy we automatically strip all metadata from pictures on upload, such as camera details and location.
• Schambereich is now available in English. Switch at the bottom left.

A new look for Schambereich

After months of work it is done: Schambereich has a new face. A calmer design with light and dark mode, finally really good on the phone, a new Discover page for browsing and dedicated pages for multi-part stories. Along the way we carefully tidied thousands of stories and strengthened security and moderation behind the scenes.