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Talk Fuse · 2 months ago

🎮 Patch Notes: "Play the News"

The biggest drop yet. New ways to earn, call the shots, and find your way around, plus a top-to-bottom mobile glow-up. Here is the changelog.

✨ New features

🎁 Daily Reward Chest

Open a chest once a day for a variable points drop. The longer your streak, the bigger the haul, with the odd jackpot. Some chests hand you a Streak Freeze: miss a day and it saves your run automatically.

🔮 Predictions ("Calls")

Vote on a match or prediction poll and you have made a Call. Get it right and you earn points, and the more you nail in a row, the more each correct call pays out. A new Calls panel in your progress hub tracks your accuracy and your streak.

👋 First-run Onboarding

New members now get a proper welcome: pick your interests, join a few communities, and drop straight into a feed tuned to you.

✨ Ask TalkFuse

An AI news companion that answers your questions from TalkFuse's own coverage, complete with sources and a left / centre / right spread. Ask by voice, and have it read the answer back. Rolling out to the top ranks and staff first.

🎚️ Mood is now a slider

Set the tone of your news with a proper notched slider: drag from Upbeat, through Balanced, to Heavy.

📻 Briefings got a face

Every audio briefing now gets its own waveform cover art, and the mini-player shows a live waveform while it plays. It also stopped talking about itself, so it is pure news now, no roundups of roundups.

📊 Publishers on the spectrum

The Publishers directory is now a Left / Centre / Right board, ranked by the points each outlet's stories have earned rather than sheer volume. Real publications only, no more YouTube channels or search feeds sneaking in.

📱 Mobile glow-up

  • A proper top header: menu on the left, logo dead centre, you on the right.
  • Filters now drop down as a clean, labelled list instead of a cramped strip of icons.
  • Messenger fits the screen, the send button works, presence is live, and it clears the iOS home bar.
  • Swipeable profile tabs and a tidier progress screen.
  • The whole app now respects the notch and the home bar.

🐛 Fixes

  • Friend requests can now actually be accepted (whoops).
  • Notifications open in a tidy pop-over instead of shoving the sidebar around.
  • Joining a community no longer pings everyone that you "posted in it".
  • Photos you post keep the right way up, and public photo posts can now show on the news map.
  • Sticky, frosted sidebar headers, cleaner collapse controls, and a pile of smaller polish across the board.

More soon. Tell us what you want next. 💬