📬 One week later: notifications, player upgrades, and streamer tools

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

For everyone

Notifications got a full rebuild. 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.
Follow the streamers you love. 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.
The player grew up. 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.
Browse every curated playlist. 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.
Links unfurl properly now. 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.
The site is faster. 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

Withdraw a submission. Change your mind before a curator rules? Pull a pending track back from your inbox and resubmit later.
Know the moment a decision lands. Curator calls ping you right away, and My submissions is now its own view so you can see everything in flight.
See the vibe before you submit. 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

Reference tracks. Pin a few example tracks to a playlist so submitters can hear the vibe you want, on or off the platform.
Genre tags on playlists, shown to submitters and powering smarter reject suggestions.
Block a submitter 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

Auto pre-stream alerts, for every streamer. 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.
Editable streams. A proper Edit flow lets you change a stream's cover art, title, location, and limits. Schedule stays locked once you're live.
Stream cover art, on the stream page, live cards, and past rows. Recurring series share one cover across every occurrence.
Block a submitter from all of your streams, separate from curator blocks.

For contest organisers

Track Swap responses lock at the deadline. 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.
Contest streams are fully editable 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.

For everyone

Notifications got a full rebuild. 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.

Follow the streamers you love. 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.

The player grew up. 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.

Browse every curated playlist. 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.

Links unfurl properly now. 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.

The site is faster. 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

Withdraw a submission. Change your mind before a curator rules? Pull a pending track back from your inbox and resubmit later.

Know the moment a decision lands. Curator calls ping you right away, and My submissions is now its own view so you can see everything in flight.

See the vibe before you submit. 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

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

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

Block a submitter 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

Auto pre-stream alerts, for every streamer. 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.

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

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

Block a submitter from all of your streams, separate from curator blocks.

For contest organisers

Track Swap responses lock at the deadline. 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.

Contest streams are fully editable 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.