A lot just got better. What's coming in the next update

We've spent the last stretch fixing things students told us were broken and opening up a feature that shouldn't have been locked in the first place. It all arrives with the next College Life update. Here's what's in it.

The Campus Marketplace is open to everyone

It used to be a Premium feature. That was the wrong call, and we've changed it.

Now anyone can browse the marketplace for free, and anyone can keep three listings up at a time at no cost. Premium lifts the cap if you're selling more than that. There are no selling fees, and there never will be. You keep every dollar.

Two things worth knowing:

• Listings run for 30 days. Every card shows how long it has left, so what you're looking at is actually still for sale. If something doesn't sell in a month, it comes off and you can post it again.
• You pay each other in person. College Life is a place to find the desk and message the person selling it. The handoff happens on campus, cash or however you two sort it out. We never touch the money.

A marketplace only works when there's something on it, so if you've got a mini-fridge you're not taking home, this is the moment.

Comments you can actually manage

You could leave a comment and then do nothing with it. Now you can edit it, delete it, or report someone else's comment. All from the "…" on any comment.

Edited comments are marked as edited. That's deliberate: a comment quietly rewritten after people have replied to it is how a comment section goes bad.

Reporting hides a comment immediately while our team reviews it. Every other part of the app already worked that way. The feed, the marketplace, profiles, and comments should have from the start.

Friends who are actually friends

If you accepted someone as a friend, the app used to still ask whether they could follow you. Two approvals for one relationship, which nobody asked for.

Now accepting a friend request is enough. You'll see each other's posts straight away.

We also fixed a bug where a follow request from a private account showed up as a notification and a badge and then didn't appear on the screen where you'd accept it. If you've had a request you couldn't find, it's there now.

Saving photos and videos works

If you tried to save a photo from a post and got a share sheet instead of a saved photo, that wasn't you. The save was broken, and it's fixed. Tap Save and it goes to your camera roll, where you expected it to go.

Same for photos you take inside the app while making a post. They're kept automatically.

Smaller things you'll feel

• The keyboard no longer covers what you're typing on Android.
• Buttons at the bottom of a screen no longer hide behind the navigation bar.
• Video plays back sharper, and only one clip plays at a time. No more two videos talking over each other.

Already there: the resume builder

If you haven't looked since it landed, the resume builder is in the app now. It starts from what College Life already knows. Your school, major, expected graduation, classes and GPA. So you're editing a draft instead of staring at a blank page.

It builds a single-column resume with no tables or graphics, which is what applicant tracking systems can actually read, and it puts education before experience the way a student resume should. Building it, printing it and sharing it are free. Exporting the finished PDF is a Premium feature.

Getting the update

Everything above arrives with the next version of College Life. If your phone doesn't update apps automatically, check the App Store or Google Play in the next few days.

Found something broken? Tell us at support@collegelife.app. Most of what's in this post came from students doing exactly that.