We almost forgot to mention here that the wonderful folks at Symbolset have added us to their sweet set of social icons.

As any community grows, its ability to remain on an even keel is likely to be challenged. And while the vast majority of interaction on Letterboxd is respectful and good-natured, we’re aware that from time to time, have stepped over the line from voicing opinion to lodging personal attacks.

A few more changes today we hope you’ll like… Actor and director pages now show a photo and bio, if available on The Movie DB.

Happy Oscar day! We’ve just pushed a minor update to the site that addresses the following issues: Review text edited directly from the Diary page now retains its paragraph formatting. The Netflix controls in the poster’s Actions menu now behave as expected.

We’re thrilled to announce that after fifteen months of public beta, Letterboxd is no longer invitation-only.

At the end of our first full year, we thought it might be useful and fun to mine the data you’ve created in order to present a summary of 2012.

Until recently, Polish-born Marcin Wichary could be found at Google, where he spent time in several of the company’s key product groups, and assisted in the creation of many of its best-loved interactive Google doodles.

Wow. A quote from Ian Woolstencroft’s review of American Mary has made it onto one of the film’s promotional posters. Regrettably Ian is not credited as the author of the remark, but we’re chuffed to have contributed to getting his comment out there. Thanks to Scott Weinberg for the tip.

Somewhere in Scotland—often with the curtains drawn—lives our most prolific member, at least in of his tally of films watched.

Since launching our private beta almost a year ago, our most-requested feature (by quite some margin) has been a better mobile experience. Today we’re pleased to announce the first step: a mobile-optimized view of Letterboxd for visitors on handheld devices.

In the ten days since its release, Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises has—unsurprisingly—occupied the top position in our Popular Films list, accompanied by its two predecessors in the second and third spots.

Our newest product update includes improvements to adding films, watched percentages for lists, and more.