Documentation edition: 9 September 2026

Visitor and account how-to guide

Find a kennel

Open Find a Hash from the main menu. Choose the relevant location or use the directory's kennel/contact search. Check the listed website and contact before travelling; directory entries may be outdated. Use the listing's edit/report option if present, or the site contact route, to suggest a correction. A dead website does not necessarily mean a club has stopped running.

Create and use a Where account

  1. Open /where/ and choose Register Account.
  2. Fill in the form and follow the verification email. Check spam if it does not arrive.
  3. Log in and use My Counts to update countries, states and events.
  4. Use Hare Places for places where you have hared; use Races for the separate race fields.
  5. Use the page's Update/Save button, wait for confirmation and reload to verify changes.

Where the checklist enhancement is installed, typing in its filter hides unmatched choices but keeps existing selections. Clearing the filter reveals everything again. Filtering alone does not save data. An unsaved-change warning may appear when leaving an edited form.

Edit your profile

Open Profile & Password. Update your hash name, kennel and other details, then save and reload. Use a consistent kennel spelling to help the kennel leaderboard group members together. The profile's Hash Club field determines the group; it need not be your original mother hash.

A password-change field should be blank when you are not changing the password. If a browser password manager fills it, clear it before saving unrelated edits. A newer profile fix was discussed; confirm your installed form keeps the password unchanged when blank. Do not rely on placeholder text as proof of that behavior.

Hashspace is a legacy field and may not appear on the public Bio page. If it shows an email after reload, browser autofill or a field-binding issue may be involved; report it with the current form source. Do not keep overwriting values to compensate without checking the stored result.

Choose Forgot Password? if you cannot log in. Use the latest recovery email. The Where account password and Site Administration password are separate.

View lists, maps and Bio

My Lists, U.S. Map and World Map display your recorded selections. A missing highlight may mean a map-name mismatch rather than an unsaved selection. Check the list first. For example, Burma needs an alias to Myanmar, and a misspelled country label needs an explicit correction or alias. Do not change the order of the stored country list to fix map names.

The Bio link still uses awhere_blog.php?MyID=...; do not treat that filename as a broken link merely because the visible label changed.

Kennel leaderboards

Choose Kennel Leaderboards under Rankings & reports. Four views rank the top 50 kennel groups by combined countries, combined states, members' lifetime hashes or registered hashers. Only active profiles not marked hidden contribute. Blank and common placeholder kennel names are excluded.

Countries/states are added across members: two people each reporting 10 countries contribute 20 even if their destinations overlap. Lifetime hashes are members' personal totals, not runs organized by that kennel. Registered hashers counts participating profiles, not the club's actual membership or recent activity.

Capitalization and surrounding spaces are grouped; abbreviations and spelling variants remain separate. Equal primary totals share a rank, such as 1, 1, 3. The 50-group limit can cut across a tie.

Plates

Open Plates and search by hasher, kennel or notes where search is installed. With the lightbox enabled, tap a photo to enlarge it without leaving the list. Use Previous/Next or the left/right arrow keys. Close with the Close button, Escape or a tap outside the panel. Open original in new tab allows full-size inspection. Without the enhancement, ordinary image links still work.

To submit a plate or identify one, use the gallery's submission contact link and provide the photo, hasher name, kennel and caption context. An administrator adds it to the gallery; the submission link is not an upload form.

Songbooks

Open Songbooks for the story, cover links, complete PDF and numbered scans. The viewer is /songbook/showpage.php?pg=06, with previous/next and a scan selector. An archival scan is an image, not searchable text. Scan 86 was absent from the supplied archive; navigation skips missing files while retaining original numbering.

The root /showpage.php?pg=06 compatibility file redirects to the actual viewer. It must not be installed inside /songbook/, which would cause a loop.

My Milestones and Continent Clubs

My Milestones shows progress for countries/territories, US states, lifetime hashes and continents. Continents have targets of 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. Earned clubs remain visible and the page shows the next target.

Continents are calculated from your selected countries, counting each of Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, South America and Oceania once. The old nine checklist areas are not nine continent clubs. The administrator assigns one continent per country/territory; Australia is included in Oceania. Antarctica is required for the All Seven Continents Club.

A pending/unavailable count means a needed classification or lookup is missing. Ask the administrator to review it rather than changing accurate selections. The world-map profile displays the highest earned club and the next target.

Your kennel's global rank

The personalized link on My Milestones opens an exact-name kennel search. It is not displayed for blank or placeholder kennel names. A searched kennel keeps its global rank even if it falls below the normal top-50 display. Tabs preserve the search. Use Show top 50 to return to the general ranking.

If no match is found, check your profile's kennel spelling. A hidden/inactive profile does not contribute to the public grouping. Spelling variants are not automatically merged just because they refer to the same club.

Preview and download your certificate

Choose Export → Preview certificate to open the actual generated PDF in a new tab. Download PDF certificate saves it directly; browser Print is not required. The latest design has a trail motif, Continent Club ribbon, country, state, event, lifetime-hash and continent totals, plus continent names.

The following pages list selected countries, states, events, hared places, and any included bio or favourite memory. Review all pages before sharing. The site logo appears when the server has the existing logo file and image support. The certificate is a keepsake based on your saved record, not an independently verified award.

Long hash names scale to fit. The current PDF handles Western accents; names in other scripts may be transliterated or omitted. Use CSV to retain original UTF-8 text. Pending continent classifications do not prevent the other export information from being available.

Download your records as CSV

On Export choose Download CSV data. Open/import it as UTF-8 in a spreadsheet application. It includes profile fields and separate rows for places/events, continent count, club and continent names. It may contain your registered email and other personal details. Passwords and internal login data are excluded.

Export links belong to your current login session. If a link expires, return to Export and generate it again. You cannot export another user's private records by changing a map's MyID parameter.

Understanding differences in counts

Territories are counted using the site's existing country list. The map's legacy selection handling can differ from My Milestones/Export on older accounts. If totals or continents disagree, report the affected pages and expected selections; do not repeatedly save guesses to compensate.