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:
- ▶ Play Next Skip — sibling button to Next Random, plays the oldest skip.
- ★ Queue next on any pool row — bumps a track without anyone spending a skip. Host's choice.
Hosts (and admins) can also cancel a viewer's skip mid-queue. Cancelled-within-the-same-month booster skips get refunded.
Opting out
A host who'd rather run pure-random can untick ⚡ Enable Skips when creating a stream. Existing streams default to on.