Changelog: week of June 8, 2026

Watching without an account

An account is no longer required to watch. A logged-out visitor can play a live channel, a VOD, or a clip, and can read chat on both live and recorded broadcasts. Sending a message still requires signing in.

Viewing without a funded wallet is paid for by advertising: the player runs about a minute of ads, then plays free for a stretch before the next break. Any positive wallet balance means no ads.

Pasting a Kuldron link into a site or app that expands links now yields a playable embed rather than a bare URL, and channels, VODs, and clips each produce a share preview card. Every one of them offers copy-paste embed markup, and embedded players work for signed-out viewers.

Friends and messages

Friendship is its own relationship, separate from following: send a request, accept or decline it, unfriend, and block. The friends page lists requests and friends, and a watching module shows which friends are watching something right now; that signal is friends-only and can be turned off.

Direct messages arrive with an inbox and per-conversation threads, delivered live. Who can message you is a setting: friends only, people you follow, or anyone. Profiles show whether that person follows you or subscribes to you.

Streaming and audio

A streamer can send separate audio tracks over enhanced RTMP, and viewers mix them: a mixer icon beside the volume control opens one fader per track under a master volume. Streamers name their own tracks, and those names label the faders. The Kuldron OBS plugin sends multitrack audio and multistreams, and now ships installation and getting-started guides.

Video-only RTMP sources now start: a silent audio track is supplied. A broadcast ended for exceeding the bitrate cap or the keyframe-interval limit says which one in the end banner, and the 60 Mbps ingest ceiling is documented.

A VOD thumbnail can also be set by hand: scrub to a frame and press Set as thumbnail.

Channel moderation

Channel owners can appoint moderators. In chat, owners and moderators get hover actions on a message: delete it, time the sender out for 10 minutes, 1 hour, or 24 hours, or ban. Moderators carry a badge. Manage pages cover the moderator roster, the ban and timeout list, and an activity log.

Player

Navigate away from a live stream or a VOD and it keeps playing in a corner dock until you close it.

The stats panel is now on the VOD and embed players, not just the live channel, and reports the transport in use (HTTP/3 or HTTP/2) and the rendition bit depth. Theatre mode hides the title and tabs as well as the navbar.

[ and ] toggle the side panels, q shows a QR code of the page, and g g and Shift+G jump to top and bottom.

Wallet and channel metrics

The wallet transaction view is a stacked spend chart over a chosen timeframe plus a flat, paginated table carrying the metered quantity and unit. Hovering the chart breaks a bucket down by category and channel. The balance updates when an add-funds payment clears, without a refresh.

The Growth page under Metrics charts followers and subscribers over time, with tables beside it.

Developers

The public API reference lives under /reference/developers and covers both the HTTP and WebSocket APIs. It is searchable with Ctrl-K, filterable, split per section, and documents the auth model it enforces: session tokens, guest tokens, and API keys.

API keys are long-lived, scoped, and revocable, for bots and browser sources that cannot hold a session. Platform events, covering follows, subscriptions, tips, stream lifecycle, and moderation, stream over the WebSocket or read back through a cursored list.

Two pages cover limits: a reference page for the defaults, and an account page showing the ones in effect for you.