posted on 4/11/2026 17:37 - this thread is locked.Alpha - Release 04/11/2026.1 - BlueLoon

What’s new on alpha

Thanks to everyone who’s been trying alpha and sending feedback. Here’s what has changed since it first went live.

New

• Photos: add a photo straight from your phone’s camera or gallery (or your computer) with the 📷 button in the editor. Photos are turned the right way up, resized, and have location details removed before they’re posted.

• Videos and social posts: paste a YouTube, Vimeo, X (Twitter), Instagram or TikTok link on a line of its own, and it shows as a player in your post. Nothing loads from those sites until you press play.

• @mentions: type @ and the first letters of someone’s name, in the message or the subject, and pick them from the list. They get an alert, and a notification on their phone if they’ve switched notifications on.

• Quote: press Quote under a post to start a reply with it quoted. Select part of the post first to quote just that bit.

• Drafts: what you type is saved on your device as you go, so a phone call, lost signal or accidental Back won’t lose your post. Come back to the page and it’s still there.

• Dark mode: choose Auto · Light · Dark at the bottom of any page. Auto follows your phone or computer’s setting.

Improved

• Alerts are now one list, newest first, with an icon for each kind: messages, replies, mentions, reactions, watched topics and pinned topics.

• The Messages and Alerts counts in the header now update by themselves, even while you move between pages.

• Conversations open at the newest message, with the reply box ready.

• Topics you’ve already opened show in a different colour in the topic list, as on the classic site.

• Reactions update the counts on the topic lines straight away, without a refresh.

• On phones, the pinned topics and the “hot topic and top rated” panels fold away to a single line each, so the topic list comes first. Tap to open them.

• Polls load much faster, and the post above a poll no longer waits for it.

• Replying: a × in the subject box clears “Re: …” in one tap.

Fixed

• Topics whose poll is still loading now show “Loading the poll…” instead of holding up the whole page.

• Some password reset emails weren’t arriving. We’re also changing how the site sends emails so they reliably reach your inbox.

As always, use Send feedback (bottom of any page, or in your account menu) to tell us what works and what doesn’t.