Talk Fuse on Talk Fuse

🎮 Patch Notes: "Sound & Vision"

Hot on the heels of the last drop: the AI news companion finds its voice, the radio becomes a jukebox, and the whole app learns to show you around. Here is the changelog.

✨ New features

🎓 Guided tours

Every section now gives you a quick spotlight tour the first time you open it, with everything but the highlighted bit blurred out. Skip any time, and replay the whole tutorial from the bottom of the right sidebar whenever you like.

🎵 Radio becomes a jukebox

One search box now finds live stations AND artists together. Pick an artist and their songs open as a playlist: start from any track, skip forwards and back, and pop the queue open right in the sidebar player, where the music keeps playing while you browse. Trending artists are one tap away, and the latest music news sits at the bottom of the page.

🗣️ Ask TalkFuse speaks

Ask a question and the answer is now read aloud in a proper newsreader voice, with the words lighting up as they are spoken, read-along style. While it thinks, you can watch it working through each article with a progress bar and a tick. Popular questions appear as one-tap chips, repeated questions answer instantly, and a close-enough match reuses an existing answer rather than making you wait. The sources open right inside the app.

🧭 A smarter sidebar

The navigation now shows what is new since you last looked: fresh stories on Home, new pins on the News Map, unseen left/right blindspots on Blindspot, and a live counter on Livestreams. Discover has moved up into the main navigation too.

📰 Briefings got headlines

Audio briefings now carry a proper front-page headline and a one-line summary instead of a timestamp, so you can tell at a glance what is in them.

📄 The paperwork

Terms, Privacy and Cookie pages now open inside the app, linked from the right sidebar. Landing on /radio drops you straight into the radio too.

🎨 Polish

• The logo is now the clean TalkFuse mark, adapting to light and dark mode.
• The filter sidebar hugs its edges: search and For You / Friends run full width, the mood slider is tighter with solid notch dots, and Ask sits flush beneath the search.
• The right sidebar pins just the buttons bar; everything else scrolls, with the profile details tucked behind a toggle.
• The sidebar music player and weather now sit directly on the panel, edge to edge.

🐛 Fixes

• Posting no longer white-screens the app when the editor opens (a WordPress 7.0 clash, now squashed).
• The daily chest went missing behind a collapsed panel: it is back, always visible, and yours may well be waiting.
• Guests keep their chosen sidebar layout between visits.
• Reputation-locked features now tell you exactly how many points away you are.

More soon. Tell us what you want next. 💬