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Application form keeps photos on errors, adds a phone country picker

Week of June 14, 2026

Two improvements to the advocate application form (your /join page).

• Photos survive validation errors — previously, if an application bounced back for any reason (a missing field, an invalid phone number, and so on), the applicant’s attached photos were silently cleared and they had to re-attach them before resubmitting. Now photos upload as they’re selected and are restored — with thumbnail previews and a remove button — when the form re-renders. Applicants only attach once.
• Phone country-code picker — the phone field now has a country selector beside it, defaulting to your community’s country. Applicants can pick their country and enter a local number; we normalize it to a valid international number on submit (correctly handling national prefixes like the UK’s leading 0). The list of countries reflects the ones your community operates in.

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