November 2025 Update: Security Enhancements and Admin Tools

We're excited to share the latest improvements to CorpusCraft, focused on enhancing security, streamlining administration, and improving the overall user experience for our growing community of researchers and linguists.

Enhanced Security with Bot Protection

Protecting your research data is our top priority. We've integrated Google reCAPTCHA v2 into our signup process to prevent automated bot registrations and ensure that every CorpusCraft account belongs to a real researcher.

This invisible layer of protection works seamlessly during registration, requiring no extra effort from legitimate users while effectively blocking malicious automated signups. Your corpora and research data remain safe from spam accounts and potential abuse.

Powerful Admin Tools for Institution Managers

For institutions and research teams managing multiple users, we've introduced comprehensive bulk user management capabilities in the admin panel:

• Mass selection - Select multiple users at once with convenient checkboxes
• Bulk delete - Remove inactive or unauthorized accounts efficiently
• Bulk suspend/activate - Temporarily restrict or restore user access with one click
• Bulk tier reassignment - Upgrade or modify subscription tiers for multiple users simultaneously

These tools are particularly valuable for academic institutions managing cohorts of students or research organizations with rotating team members. What previously required individual account management can now be accomplished in seconds.

Built-in Safety Features

To prevent accidental self-lockout, the system automatically prevents administrators from performing destructive actions on their own accounts. This ensures you'll never accidentally suspend or delete your own admin access.

Improved Analytics Dashboard

We've resolved several technical issues with the admin analytics page, ensuring that usage statistics, user growth metrics, and platform insights display correctly. Institution administrators can now rely on accurate data when making decisions about resource allocation and team management.

Better Navigation for All Users

Previously, logged-in users had difficulty accessing the Features and Pricing information from the footer links. We've fixed this by creating a dedicated landing page route that's accessible to everyone, regardless of login status.

Now you can easily share links like /landing#features or /landing#pricing with colleagues considering CorpusCraft, and they'll see the full information even if they're already logged in.

Looking Ahead

These improvements are part of our ongoing commitment to making CorpusCraft the most reliable and user-friendly corpus linguistics platform available. We're actively working on exciting new features, including:

• Enhanced source attribution for better research documentation
• Temporal visualization tools for diachronic analysis
• Expanded collaboration features for research teams

Your Feedback Matters

These updates were driven by feedback from our user community. If you have suggestions for features that would improve your research workflow, we'd love to hear from you.

Thank you for being part of the CorpusCraft community. We're committed to building the tools you need for rigorous, efficient linguistic research.

Happy researching!

The CorpusCraft Team