Changelog: August 2026 in review

Week of August 3

NewThe public Growth page charts completed daily activity with latest-day totals and 30-day, 90-day and one-year ranges.

NewCreators can upload prerecorded video and schedule a processed video to air live with chat.

NewUpcoming prerecorded streams show a countdown, and prerecorded broadcasts keep their label in the live directory, player and on-demand page.

ImprovedSigned-out visitors can browse topics, posts, feeds, tags, search, text rooms, live channels, on-demand video and topic lenses.

ImprovedThe Topics page maps related audiences by shared followers, with circle size showing follower count and colour showing activity.

NewForum listings offer Compact, Standard and Expanded display levels with remembered display and sort choices.

NewMessages can carry up to ten ordered images from a device, the clipboard or the sender's media library.

ImprovedEach conversation keeps its own unsent draft, including its reply target and attachments.

NewActivity entries can be selected individually or in a range, then marked read or deleted together.

ImprovedNotification settings control in-app alerts and device push notifications separately, including when each registered device receives pushes.

NewPatronage accepts one-time or monthly support for Kuldron and offers private-by-default recognition with an optional public mark.

Week of August 10

NewA Yap is a short post with up to 300 characters, one to four images, or a quote of another Yap.

NewYap has Latest and Following timelines, and new arrivals wait behind a New Yaps control while someone is reading.

NewEvery Yap can be replied to, quoted, liked, reposted, reacted to, bookmarked and shared.

NewYap authors choose who may reply or quote, and can hide a reply from a conversation or detach a quote card without deleting another person's words.

NewConversations in Messages support end-to-end encrypted voice calls for two people or a group.

ImprovedTopic chat shows profile pictures and supports replies, reactions, author edits, unread-room marks and touch actions.

ImprovedEvery composer opens the same media picker for a person's media library.

NewGIF search is available wherever images can be added.

NewPosts, messages, Yaps and Kuldron link previews serve HDR images when an HDR rendition exists.

ImprovedContent labels use one ordered treatment across listings, feeds, media pages and Yaps.

NewProfile pictures and banners carry content labels and are veiled the same way.

NewPublic profiles open follower and following lists and show an account-age mark chosen by the profile owner.

NewScheduled prerecorded streams can be edited, and a failed video can be processed again from the retained upload.

Week of August 17

NewAuthors can delete their own message for one hour after sending it in topic chat, direct conversations and channel chat.

ImprovedA deleted message keeps a note only while replies depend on its place in the conversation.

ImprovedAn encrypted conversation remains ready while one of a person's devices is offline, and that device joins when it returns.

ImprovedChat searches the topic directory from one field and turns an unmatched search into a start-a-chat action.

ImprovedForum and gallery images open as a set with Previous, Next, arrow-key, swipe and trackpad navigation.

ImprovedPublic profiles organise Yaps, Posts, Media and Channels into tabs with filters and display choices.

NewThe Media tab collects images from a person's Yaps and posts into one grid.

NewAccessibility offers a searchable typeface list with previews, and keeps the choice on the device where it was made.

ImprovedPhone navigation places primary destinations along the bottom with the creation control above them and search across the top.

ImprovedLogging in from a page returns to that page.

Week of August 24

NewReaction Charts rank the Yaps and forum discussions people are reacting to in daily top tens without publishing reaction totals.

ImprovedEach person can leave one reaction on a Yap, forum post or forum comment, and choosing another replaces it.

NewYap engagement opens replies, quotes, reposts, reactions, likes and daily chart history from one view.

ImprovedChat and Messages share one conversation directory with a selector for topic rooms and direct conversations.

NewA topic-chat reply can open as a side thread and carry a compact summary back into the room.

ImprovedForum replies can be followed five levels deep with connected rails and keyboard movement.

NewAnimated images have Play, Pause, Collapse and Expand controls, with a per-device autoplay setting in Accessibility.

NewNotification settings can turn on and test a sound for new in-app notifications on the current device.

ImprovedYap and forum creation controls sit in their page headers, with keyboard shortcuts for feed width and primary destinations.

FixedReturning from a Yap restores the place that was being read while the timeline checks for newer information.