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A tighter list this week, but two of these have been a long time coming. Here is what is new, by who it is for.

For everyone
  • Every update now lives on one page: the short version up front, the full story one tap away on any bullet. The newest post opens first, older ones fold up. You are looking at it right now.

  • New posts land in the #viibr-updates channel on the AI Umbrella Discord automatically, minutes after they ship. Follow the channel and you never have to remember this page exists.

  • It lives at its own address now, community.viibrmusic.com, and any signed-in ViiBR account can browse the feed and reader. One login works across the sites, and comic artists can upload their own pages without waiting on an admin.

  • Organisers can flip a round so you see the set the moment you commit, instead of waiting for the reveal. Use the head start wisely.

  • The Privacy Policy is up at /privacy, and copyright owners have a proper takedown form at /dmca.

  • The ViiBR glyph is in your browser tab now.
For creators
  • The ready-made promo card for picked tracks is real now: cover art, a short link, a QR code, sized for sharing on socials. We are in the last rounds of tweaking and testing, so expect a rough edge or two while we polish, and expect your picked track to start arriving with one. We push picked tracks on the ViiBR socials too. One more reason to submit.

For curators
  • A promoted playlist's link works for whoever taps it, account or not, even while the playlist is closed for submissions.

For streamers and hosts
  • In weighted mode, a submitter's second song now waits until the room has been served before it starts winning draws, and catch-up boosts ramp in more gently. Multi-song submitters still get played, just not back to back while others sit waiting.

  • If your stream runs on Twitch, the heads-up DM your subscribers get now links straight to it. One less "where do I watch" in the chat.

That is the week. Still written by a language model, still because the humans are busy building the next thing. If something looks off, the feedback form on the site reaches us fast.

This one is about opening up. Until now, almost everything on ViiBR lived behind the login, so a shared link mostly landed on a sign-in page. That changes this week. Here is what is new, by who it is for.

The site opened up
  • Song pages, creator and streamer pages, and public playlists are now viewable and playable without signing in. Share a link anywhere, and whoever taps it can actually hear the song. You only need an account when you want to act: star, comment, submit.

  • A proper mobile pass: real portrait navigation, layouts that fit, no more sideways scrolling. If your thumb still finds something broken, tell us and we will fix that too.

  • Public songs and pages are now indexable, with a sitemap covering every public track. Your music can be found by people who have never heard of us.

For everyone
  • A little dock in the corner where you collect tracks as you browse: drag a cover in or use the track menu, from any page. When you are done digging, turn the whole crate into a playlist in one move.

  • See what is coming, drag it into the order you want. The player also grew EQ presets if you like your bass boosted.

  • Your starred songs on the dashboard play as one list now, with Play all, Shuffle, and search when the collection gets big.

  • You can play entries straight from the ranking board, rounds show entry limits and cover art, and the weekly runs now appear on the calendar so you can plan your masterpiece.

  • The boring-but-important pages are published, linked from the footer.

For creators
  • Post your song page or profile anywhere, and listeners land on the actual music, no account wall. Combined with search indexing, this is the week your ViiBR page became shareable for real.

  • Reorder and show or hide the sections of your profile page, same as the creator page arrange mode from last week.

  • Built and in final testing: a ready-made promo card for your song, with a short link and QR code, sized for sharing on socials. When your song is picked for a curated playlist, you get the kit for it, and we will be pushing your track on the ViiBR socials too. One more reason to submit, and the reason behind the Terms of Service update above.

For curators
  • Your own page gathering your playlists and bio, and a Curators tab in the Community directory alongside creators and streamers. Sharing it unfurls with a proper preview card.

  • Heard something perfect for your playlist? Send the creator a request, and they approve it from their inbox. No more asking people to resubmit.

Under the hood we also ran a security review and tightened things up, and the Circuit vote-count hiccup from Saturday was fixed the same morning. Still plenty cooking that is not ready to show. Tell us what works and what does not, the feedback form on the site reaches us fast.

Plenty landed since the last one, some of it never posted here until now. The headline piece has been running quietly in staff testing and opens to everyone this week. Here is what is new, by who it is for.

The Circuit (opening to everyone this week)

A new kind of contest, built to run on a schedule instead of as a one-off. Each round: make a track for the theme, then judge pairs, two songs at a time, picking the better one a handful of times. You have to hear both before you pick, there is a small minimum so everyone pulls their weight, and you can change any pick before voting closes. A ranking falls out of the head to heads, the top three get a Discord podium with links to the songs, and points roll up into a pinned, always-current season leaderboard. It has been in an internal staff test run on real songs and real votes, and it goes live to everyone this coming week.

For everyone
  • A counter in the top bar with a tap-through of your recent activity. You earn it for listening now, and soon for voting and placing in The Circuit. It will unlock some perks down the line. We are still experimenting with and tuning it, so it may get reset before then. Points for taking part, not a currency, and separate from Skips.

  • Cleaner layout with generated cover art, and play, favourite, share, and add-or-submit to a playlist or stream all right there. Every song has a comment thread now too.

  • Attach the story behind a track and read it before you listen, under Community → Stories. Post lyrics for anyone to turn into a song, with covers that link back, under Community → Lyric sheets.

  • The old docked sidebar is gone. What is playing lives in a cleaner dock, the music video sits in a tile you can dismiss and bring back, and the full Stage is one tap away.

  • Contests and Leaderboards are their own tabs with season boards that load as you scroll. On the homepage you can star pinned playlists and play individual featured tracks. Links, stars, and real cover art are consistent across track rows and playlist cards everywhere.

For streamers and hosts
  • Bring someone on to run a stream with you, for one show or a whole series. They share the controls and are credited next to your name everywhere.

  • An optional weighted queue that gives people who have waited longer or been skipped a stronger chance to play next.

  • A host dashboard: who is spending, who might be drifting off, and how evenly air time is spread.

For curators and creators
  • Feedback on a submission is a back-and-forth thread now, and you can move a submitted track to another of your playlists without a resubmit.

  • Drag your public page into the order you want, live, and it saves as visitors see it.

  • Submitting makes a track public so it can be played and voted on, with a heads-up first if it was private.

Still plenty cooking that is not ready to show. Written by a language model again; the humans are heads-down on the bigger pieces. See you at the next one.

This week's list is shorter than the last two. That's not the pace slowing: a good chunk of the week went into bigger pieces that aren't ready to show yet. They will be soon. Here's what did land, by who it's for.

For everyone
  • Fireflies drift over a night meadow and the words splash into the water as they're sung. Available in fullscreen and on streams, right next to Scroll, Follow, and Vibe in the lyrics switcher.

  • Contest pages now update live as phases change and votes land, every entry plays straight from the ballot, and in cover contests each ballot row links to the original track it answers. Ballot order is shuffled per viewer, so nobody wins by being listed first. If you voted in Under the Covers this weekend, you've already felt most of this.

  • Past streams' playlists now have a public page: send one link and anyone can hear what the party sounded like. Public tracks only, as always.

  • A track's page now points back to where it lives on Suno or YouTube, and stream viewers can play tracks and follow those links right from the stream page.

For streamers and hosts
  • Hosts get a real console: queue, skips, controls, and now-playing in one purpose-built layout. Viewers get a clean listening page with none of the host clutter.

  • Every stream now has a broadcast screen built to be captured in OBS or screen-shared: big cover art, lyrics, visualisers, and a Showcase layout dressed in your theme. It stays in sync with your console, down to the lyric scroll position.

  • Streamer pages gather your schedule, past streams, and bio in one place, the Community directory now lists streamers alongside creators, and sharing your page unfurls with a proper preview card.

For contest organisers
  • Theme Vote: entrants make a track for a theme and the community ranks the winners, with point weights you control. Judged: you or a guest judge hears the entries wherever you like and appoints the ranked winners on the site, no public vote. That's four formats to pick from now.

  • Run a contest only people with the link can see.

Written by a language model again; the humans are heads-down on the bigger pieces. See you when they land.

A week since the last update, and the pace held. Here's what shipped, by who it's for.

For everyone
  • One home for all of it: Settings → Notifications. There's a real inbox on the site and optional Discord DMs, per category, with defaults kept quiet so nothing is noisy out of the gate. Turn on what you want: in-app, Discord, or both.

  • Subscribe to anyone from their profile (the ⋯ menu), or manage all your subscriptions from Settings → Notifications, and get a Discord DM before they go live. Everyone starts subscribed to Foggy and Angel; the rest is yours to pick. Link your Discord in Settings to receive the DMs.

  • Lock-screen and media-key controls (play, pause, next, seek from your headset or car), keyboard shortcuts for everything with a ? cheat-sheet, repeat-one and repeat-all, and pick up where you left off: reload the page and your queue, track, and position come back.

  • The new /playlists directory lists them all with search and sort by newest, A to Z, or creator. Reach it from the "Browse all" link on the homepage.

  • Share a stream, track, creator, or submit link on Discord, Twitter, or Slack and it shows real cover art, a title, and status instead of a bare URL.

  • We put real work into cutting load times, and we finally moved off free-tier hosting to keep up with how much you're all using it. Things should feel noticeably snappier; tell us if anything still drags.

For creators
  • Change your mind before a curator rules? Pull a pending track back from your inbox and resubmit later.

  • Curator calls ping you right away, and My submissions is now its own view so you can see everything in flight.

  • Playlists can show genre tags and reference tracks, so you know the sound a curator is after. If your track is declined, the "better-fit playlist" suggestions are now ranked by how well they actually match.

For curators
  • Pin a few example tracks to a playlist so submitters can hear the vibe you want, on or off the platform.

  • on playlists, shown to submitters and powering smarter reject suggestions.

  • from all your playlists; their pending submissions auto-decline.

  • Your inbox is solid now: decisions land cleanly, new submissions arrive as their own alerts, and reordering a playlist never pings your submitters again.
For streamers and hosts
  • This used to be Foggy and Angel only. Now schedule a stream and your subscribers get a heads-up about five minutes before you go live. Going live on the spot? Hit Notify subscribers in the ⋯ menu on your stream page. One catch worth repeating: fans are only auto-subscribed to Foggy and Angel, so tell your people to hit Subscribe on your profile.

  • A proper Edit flow lets you change a stream's cover art, title, location, and limits. Schedule stays locked once you're live.

  • on the stream page, live cards, and past rows. Recurring series share one cover across every occurrence.

  • from all of your streams, separate from curator blocks.

For contest organisers
  • Once the response window closes, the form closes with it, and you can finally see the cover someone made of your song, with a link straight to it.

  • now: cover art and broadcast location included, and they hand off cleanly to a streamer friend for the live show.

Written by a language model again, because the humans are busy shipping the next batch. See you next week.

Around ninety changes landed since the last update. Here's what's new, by who it's for.

For everyone
  • The bot joins the VC and plays the queue itself, which means listening parties sound dramatically better than screen-share audio ever did. It also posts now-playing into the chat.

  • New dashboard with a sidebar, reworked login, settings, playlists, profiles, song pages, and stream console. One design system across all of it, plus a light/dark toggle.

  • Star any song or playlist and it appears on your dashboard home. Starred items are the homepage now. One interaction rule everywhere: click a card to play, click the title to open.

  • Three lyric modes: Scroll (autoscroll), Follow (word-by-word highlighting, powered by an ML-based lyrics aligner), and Vibe (the Afterglow fullscreen visualizer).

  • /calendar collects upcoming streams, contest deadlines, and events automatically.

  • A new Community section with a comics feed and reader.

  • A community bot for the Discord server built by a_cat: ticket system, counting game, birthday tracker with daily announcements, and a /resources hub.

  • Cheez, Evil Tyro, Stara, Darth Stara, Seven Star, Null, PunkRaven, Angel, JP, Masarys. Granted per-user; you can be awarded one for involvement in the community.

  • One button in Settings, everything scrubbed. No support email needed.

For creators
  • Curators' decisions on your submitted tracks now land in one place, with optional written feedback, so you'll actually know what happened.

  • /submit with a link or a track from your library. Run it in a live stream's voice chat and it targets that stream automatically.

  • if you change your mind before it plays.

  • The homepage now showcases playlists that are **open for submissions**, with their descriptions visible throughout the submit flow.
For curators
  • and editable titles, descriptions, and settings for curated playlists.

  • Leave a note with an accept or decline.

  • Stay anonymous or put your name on a playlist.

For streamers and hosts
  • Flip a stream to VC mode and the bot handles playback in Discord. It recovers from disconnects on its own, and there's a Reset button for when it doesn't.

  • The stream advances when a track ends and loops when the pool runs dry. No babysitting.

  • /startstream, /endstream, /status.

  • Want to host? Apply in the app; an admin reviews it.

  • The streams page was redesigned with past streams and a live now-playing card.

For contest organisers
  • a new contest format. Participants pair up, each submits a track, then responds to the one they received. Public contest pages, a review flow, deadline-aware withdraw/change, and co-managers to share the workload.

  • Contest streams plug into the regular stream system, including handoff to a streamer friend for the live show.

Apologies for the LLM slop announcement. We're too busy building even more shit to type it all in manually. More changes are coming, and we're picking up the pace.

Skipping the line in a stream isn't new — hosts have been honouring it on vibes alone for a while. What's new is that the app actually knows about it now. You have a balance, the queue is a real queue, the host has a button.

How it works

Hit ⚡ Skip the line on your row in the stream pool. Your track jumps into the "Up next" queue. The host plays from that queue before any random pick. Spend one, jump one slot.

Your balance shows up as a ⚡ N chip in the nav. Full history (every grant, spend, and refund) lives at /dashboard/skips.

Where balance comes from

For now, one source: link your Discord under Settings → Linked Accounts, boost the AI Umbrella server, and you get 2 skips per month. The sync runs nightly. The 2/mo allowance doesn't roll over — use them or they expire at month-end.

We're working on more ways to earn skips inside the app — think contest prizes, streak rewards, occasional "we did a thing" admin grants. Possibly a ⚡ Mystery Skip Lootbox loot crate gacha mechanic where you spin a wheel and win between 1 and 1 skips.

(That last one is a joke.) (Mostly.)

What's not on the menu: buying skips with money. Skips aren't pay-to-win and they're not going to be. Boosting the Discord gets you 2 because you're already supporting the community, not as a backdoor purchase. Everything else will be earned through participation.

What hosts get

Two new controls when a queue has stuff in it:

Hosts (and admins) can also cancel a viewer's skip mid-queue. Cancelled-within-the-same-month booster skips get refunded.

  • — sibling button to Next Random, plays the oldest skip.

  • on any pool row — bumps a track without anyone spending a skip. Host's choice.

Opting out

A host who'd rather run pure-random can untick ⚡ Enable Skips when creating a stream. Existing streams default to on.

You started a stream, you've got an audience, your buddy shows up and wants to take over. Until now your options were "keep clicking Next Random" or "end the stream and have them start a fresh one." Neither is great.

There's a Hand off button now. Click it on any stream you're hosting, search for the streamer you want to give it to, confirm. They become the host. You become a viewer. The queue, playlist, history, all settings carry over — the audience doesn't notice unless they look at the host name.

Who can do this

The target needs the streamer role (or be an admin). Contest streams are fair game too — common case the organiser isn't a streamer themselves and delegates the live show to a friend with the role.

  • — handing off their own stream.

  • — handing off any stream. Same button shows up for them even when they're not hosting.

Where to find it

In the host controls row on the stream page, between Notify Listeners and End Stream. The little Hand off button — easy to miss because it's deliberately understated. Behind it is a typeahead picker that lists every eligible streamer with avatar and handle.

Handoffs are immediate (no invite/accept dance) and reversible — the new host can hand it back. Be intentional about who you hand to.

There used to be no way to tell you what changed around here. You'd come back, things would be slightly different, you'd squint, you'd move on.

Not anymore. Updates is now live. You're reading an update. About updates. On the updates page.

The first thing we shipped with this feature is the ability to tell you we shipped this feature. Future updates will probably be about things that aren't updates — new buttons, fixed bugs, the occasional opinion. But for today, this is it.

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