Changelog: week of April 20, 2026

Registration

Registration is open. Creating an account no longer depends on being on an approved list. The terms of service and privacy policy render in full inside the signup flow rather than as links out of it.

Channels

An account can hold up to five channels, each with its own display name, stream title, RTMP URL, and stream key. Channels are created and listed under your account, and a picker at the top of the management sidebar switches between them. Starting, stopping, and editing a stream all apply to the channel you are on.

Display names are separate from usernames. A display name accepts a wide range of characters, does not have to be unique, and is what appears in chat, in breadcrumbs, on wallet transactions, and on channel pages. Usernames are now editable as well, once every 30 days; inside the window the field shows the date it unlocks.

Channels are addressed by channel id in URLs and in API endpoints, including the chat WebSocket, which was previously keyed by username.

Past broadcasts

Past broadcasts have public playback pages. A channel page carries a strip of its recent recordings, and the recordings list opens each one in a player. Watching a recording meters against your wallet the same way live viewing does.

Chat replays alongside the recording. Messages appear as the video crosses their timestamp and disappear when you scrub back, in a right rail on desktop and stacked below the player on smaller screens. Channel owners can delete a message inline from the replay.

The recordings list shows the title, date and time, duration, and size per broadcast. A title is captured when the broadcast starts, so renaming a channel later does not rewrite the titles of old recordings, and owners can rename a past broadcast directly. Recordings cover the full length of the broadcast, and are written on every path that ends one.

Going live

The broadcast page was rebuilt around a lifecycle rail: one entry per state with a running timer for how long the broadcast has been in it. The copy tells you when to hold off connecting your streaming software and when to connect, and switches to an explicit ready message once capacity is available. If setup runs long, the panel says so. Cancel is available for the whole of that window.

Stop closes the incoming connection immediately and finalizes the recording rather than waiting for a timeout.

The ingest settings panel is always on the broadcast page, so the RTMP URL and stream key are readable before the first broadcast rather than only once one is running. Broadcast copy refers to streaming software generically; any RTMP client works.

Chat and viewers

Channel pages show a live viewer count next to the title, counted once per viewer regardless of how many tabs they have open. Chat history is retained and served back for past broadcasts.

Navigation and reference

The signed-in interface is split into a user area and a channel area, each with its own sidebar and breadcrumb trail. Channel navigation is Details, Broadcast, VODs, VOD settings, Storage usage, then Metrics, Money, and DMCA sections. User navigation is Profile, Channels, Subscriptions, Wallet, and Claims. The account menu is down to Settings, Reference, and Sign out.

Channel and recording lists render as tables, with the first column linking to the item. The wallet balance and the stream key both sit behind a Show and Hide control. Wallet transactions are labelled with the channel display name.

Reference documentation is reorganized into General, Money, Streaming, Watching, and Legal. Pricing, monetization, streamer, and DMCA pages moved accordingly.