LeraLink Development Update: 5–12 November 2026

Release date: 12 November 2026. This was one of LeraLink's busiest weeks so far. Events became a complete way of organising conferences and gatherings, conversation found its own place inside the platform, the Studio was rearranged around the people who use it, and public pages became faster and calmer to read.

Events: from a single talk to a whole conference

Programmes. A conference, each of its days, its sessions and its talks can now be built as one connected programme in the Studio. Readers see it as a timeline or as a list, and the timeline opens at the present moment and can fill the whole screen.

Event pages. An event's page is made of sections you choose and order yourself: the programme, the people, the place, calls for submissions and materials. Each section can have its own title and description in every language. The top of the page can show registration, an open call, a cover image and up to four buttons of your own.

Places. An event shows where it is held, down to the hall or room. A conference spread over several venues lists each one, with its rooms and address.

Registration elsewhere. When an event is registered for on the organiser's own website, its button takes readers straight there.

Reminders for a collection of events. Members can follow a whole collection of events, such as a city's agenda for the year. They receive one short summary a day when events are added or changed, and word of a cancellation at once. Every message reminds them to register with the organiser, and every message lets them stop the reminders with one click.

Tickets and prices. An event can now say whether it is free and what its tickets cost: one price or a range, in its own currency, with a short note in each language for concessions.

Busy programmes and phones. Programmes with many events at the same time stay compact and easy to scan. On a phone the timeline runs from top to bottom. A project with several events can show each of them separately or all of them together.

The Conversation Room

Every LeraLink community now has a Conversation Room, and a project, a conference or a class can have a room of its own. People can be invited by name, or by who they are: everyone registered for an event, its speakers, or the holders of a role. Conversations can have a set duration and can carry voice messages and pictures. Important messages can be marked, and moderators can stay out of view. Writing works comfortably on a phone, and the names of the people in a conversation now always stay in place.

A Studio arranged around people

The Studio's menu is now organised into a few clear areas, following what each person may do. On a phone the menu takes the whole screen. When you move between pages, the Studio remembers where you were and what you had filtered, and an editor returns you to the place you came from. Every member also has a Personal Studio: an overview of their own work, with saved bookmarks, notifications and recent activity.

Editorial work

The editorial desk was redesigned, with a clear "Ready to publish" step. A Publisher can now prepare a work for publication in a stage of its own: names, credits, search information, picture and reading options. Checklists now accompany the editorial desk, peer review, revision and production. Each item is done, still open, or skipped with a stated reason, and items the platform can confirm tick themselves. Messages to administrators now show a member's public name instead of their email address.

One work in more than one place

A collection inside one project, such as a conference's proceedings, can now also appear in another project of the same community. It is shown there, not copied: the work, its authors and its credits stay in one place, and every change appears everywhere at once.

Faster, calmer public pages

Public pages now reach readers already complete. They appear sooner, especially on phones and slow connections, and nothing on the page jumps or rearranges itself after it appears.

Languages that stay as you chose them

LeraLink keeps two languages for every reader: the language of the interface and the language they read in. When you choose a language to read in, the interface follows where your community offers it. Both now stay as you chose them while you move from page to page. Changing the language of a page is smoother: the text you are reading stays on screen until the other language arrives. Collections and event pages now offer their languages in the same way as individual pieces.

Protecting communities

Communities have new tools to keep automated sign-ups out without disturbing anyone who already belongs. An administrator can choose how new people join: openly, with approval, or by invitation only. Members never meet any of these checks.

Images, sharing and import

You can now add a picture by pasting its web address, wherever you add or change an image: on a piece's page, in the Studio and in the editor. The picture is kept in your community, just like an uploaded file. Sharing a passage to social media now follows a clear order of cover, words and picture. Imported works can now carry each person's role, and a person can have more than one role.

What comes next

We continue to make event pages faster and to refine how large knowledge collections are explored. As always, every change reaches LeraLink communities only after it has been tested.