Changelog: July 2026 in review

Week of June 29

NewAccounts and topics take profile pictures. A crop step opens before anything uploads.

New"Continue with Apple" joins "Continue with Google" on the home, login and registration pages.

ImprovedSettings split into Account, Content and Privacy.

NewAccount deletion is self-service: a confirmation link, then a thirty-day grace period with a restore banner, then erasure.

ImprovedA display name is free text of up to twenty-five characters and no longer has to be a variant of your username.

ImprovedBrowse becomes a topic column with a left picker rail. The same rail backs the channel, topic, forum and message views.

ImprovedPosting, replying and tagging require an account and nothing more.

ImprovedPost lists show a compact relative age.

NewAn author's name opens a preview card.

Week of July 6

ImprovedA topic has one address, carrying its posts, its chat, the picker and a header with its picture and counts.

ImprovedForums becomes Topics and Videos becomes Watch.

ImprovedPost titles are links.

NewA comment's timestamp is a permalink that renders the comment with its ancestors and a page of replies.

ImprovedDeleting your own post keeps the discussion. The post becomes a tombstone, the title and body are erased, and the thread stays open. A copyright removal reads the same way and says which of the two happened.

ImprovedAction rows lead with the vote and collapse to icons below 1280 pixels.

NewBrowse becomes a topic map: bubbles sized by followers and recent views, pulled toward the topics that share their followers.

NewTopic and channel headers show followers, views, visits and authors. The counts are identity-free.

ImprovedOne lens covers a topic's posts and its chat together.

ImprovedChannel chat, topic chat and chat on a recorded broadcast become one panel.

Week of July 13

NewAn account can hold more than one channel. Follows, subscriptions, tips, clips, emotes and chat are per channel.

NewMessages arrive everywhere: a dock that follows you as you browse, a full-page inbox, and reply threads.

NewA first message from someone you do not know arrives as a request to accept or decline.

NewProfiles take a banner, either a still image or a short loop.

ImprovedFollowing splits in two: a channel for its broadcasts, or a person for everything they do.

ImprovedStandby and offline slates accept a still image or an animated loop.

NewKuldron can run invite-only.

ImprovedSubscribing reuses a saved card.

ImprovedA tip shows a receipt you can find again later.

NewA support page opens.

ImprovedThe API reference documents the WebSocket API.

Week of July 20

ImprovedThe live directory is ranked rather than ordered by start time. New and growing channels sit above the grid.

NewA quality floor filters the directory, judged on what a broadcast sustained rather than on what it was configured to send.

ImprovedWatch carries Live and On Demand as tabs. On Demand lists videos across every channel.

NewPosts and comments can be edited, and each keeps a revision history readers can open.

ImprovedEach broadcast carries the retention setting in force when it started.

ImprovedClips follow the video they came from.

NewRefunds are self-service within three days of a charge. Refunding a subscription ends it straight away.

NewChat can run in slow mode or be limited to subscribers.

NewLinks expand into embeds from providers you allow.

NewFollowing a link off Kuldron shows a confirmation first.

NewProfiles gain a Posts tab.

ImprovedProfile descriptions render as markdown.

NewProfiles show account age.

NewCreators rotate their own stream key.

ImprovedTap targets meet a twenty-four pixel minimum.

Week of July 27

NewNotifications arrive for go-live, replies, unread messages, follows, friend requests, subscriptions and tips. Every kind turns on or off on its own.

NewNotifications reach a device that does not have Kuldron open, switched on per device. On an iPhone that works once Kuldron is on the Home Screen.

NewDo not disturb silences the alerts and keeps collecting the notifications.

NewPosts carry images. The composer takes AVIF, PNG, JPEG and WebP, the first image is the cover, and a post can be images alone.

NewA link in a post shows a card for the page it points at. Whether the card's picture loads is a setting.

NewA conversation can hold more than two people. Who belongs to it is fixed when it starts.

NewMessages take reactions.

NewYou can set yourself online, idle, do not disturb or invisible, with a status of an emoji and a few words.

NewThe images you have uploaded are listed in one place, with per-image control over who reaches the original. Everyone else sees a copy with camera details removed.

ImprovedThe miniplayer resizes from any corner and keeps its controls at every size.

ImprovedSigned in, Kuldron opens on your feed.