Talk Fuse

Talk Fuse has had a fresh coat of paint. Everything works as it did, it just looks calmer and gives you a bit more room. Stories as cards. Each story sits on its own rounded card with space around it, and the vote, thumbnail and story keep the order you know. Themes in one place. Pick Light, Dark or System, or one of Midnight, Ember, Paper and High contrast, from the palette button at the top of the right-hand panel. Tidier sidebars. New outline icons, the right-hand panel in the same dark as the navigation, and sections that show a drag handle when you hover them. Mood faces. The mood slid…

Light mode has had a proper going-over, and a few things around the feed have moved to where they belong. Light mode, done properly A new light palette: white cards on a soft grey canvas, lighter sidebars, and proper contrast everywhere. The story summaries and TL;DR bullets that were washed out are readable again. TalkFuse now follows your phone or computer's light/dark setting until you press the sun/moon toggle yourself. Once you choose, it stays chosen on that device. Orange buttons keep their orange; orange text is a touch deeper so it stays legible on white. Tidier rails Sorting (New,…

Two new ways to make your profile yours, and a fix for anyone using their own domain. New features Featured Pin up to twelve of your own photos, posts and articles above your activity. Choose a mosaic, a strip or cards, give the shelf a heading, and arrange it however you like. It picks up your accent colour and name font. Add things from the picker on your profile, or with the star on any photo in your gallery. Tag people in photos Open a photo and choose Tag people, then click a face. You can tag yourself in any photo you can see. When you tag a friend, they get a notification and decide …

It has been a busy month behind the scenes, so here is the lot in one go. The site got picky about quality. Stories now only publish once they have a proper, validated summary, thin stuff gets culled rather than left to rot, and anything significant without a good write-up gets a research pass before it goes anywhere. The Answers section now grows itself too: evergreen Q&A pages built from well-sourced stories, each one cited. Search-wise we are properly wired into Search Console, sitemaps are clean and submitted, we ping Bing and friends the moment anything publishes or changes, and Talk F…

A big evening of new ways into the news. The Daily Fuse is a new Tabloid entry under Main feed: today's most talked-about stories laid out like a proper front page, wearing each community's colours. Reels is now called Videos, and the clip on your screen plays itself as you browse - scroll on and it stops. Three stories into the main feed you'll find a new Videos shelf to flick through (hide it any time, just like Blindspot). Music got some love too: the Radio section opens with a Fresh Music shelf of the newest releases from the Music community, playable as a queue with one tap, and music …

There is a new Tabloid entry in the left navigation, just under Main feed. It lays out todays most talked-about stories as a proper newspaper front page: a splash story, a skybox of teasers, a three-column spread and an In Brief round-up, all on a newsprint sheet. Tap any headline to jump straight into the story. The page rebuilds itself from the live feed every visit, so the front page you get is always this minutes.

Big one today — TalkFuse just got a second currency and its first live chat. 🎉 💎 Gems. Alongside your reputation (⚡ XP — which now never goes down), you earn gems: rarer, spendable, and yours to use. Every achievement you unlock pays a gem, duel wins pay one each, and the weekly league podium pays 3/2/1. Everyone starts with 3 to play with. Asking TalkFuse a question now costs 1 gem instead of eating your reputation. 💬 Community live chat. Communities that earn 2,000 points unlock their own live chat — a room that sits right beside the feed. This community (Updates) has it switched on from …

🎮 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 pla…

🎮 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 …

A big update just landed, and this one gives TalkFuse a voice. Here is what is new. 🎧 Listen to the news The Briefing - a short audio news bulletin, put together every few hours from the top stories and read aloud in a natural voice. Words light up as they are spoken, and it sits docked along the bottom of your feed so it keeps playing while you browse. Every briefing is also posted as its own item you can open, share and discuss. Radio - browse and search thousands of live stations, with the big British ones featured up front: BBC Radio 1, 2, 4 and 6 Music, Kerrang, Capital, Classic FM, ta…

A big batch of improvements just landed. Here is what is new: Stories Two-paragraph summaries and a TL;DR on stories, so you can get the gist at a glance. Developing stories now show a live timeline of how coverage grew, and settle into one tidy summary once the news goes quiet. The big, important ones get pinned to the News Map. Richer context where it fits: film trailers, live sport fixtures and results, game cards, outlet reliability cards, an "on this day" pick and trending velocity. Getting involved Reactions now earn you points, and you will see them pop up as you go. Share to a frien…

One of the most powerful things about a TalkFuse community is that it can fill itself with the news it cares about - automatically. Here's how it works and what's new. Give a community its own sources If you run a community, you can now give it its own news sources: a search term, a website, or an RSS feed. TalkFuse checks them regularly and pulls in matching stories, so a community about - say - Sheffield fills up with Sheffield news without anyone posting a thing. Open your community's settings and choose 📡 Sources to add one. Three kinds of source Search term - follow a subject, place or…

Sharing on TalkFuse just got quicker and richer. Here's what's new when you post. One composer for everything Writing a status, sharing a link and creating a poll all live in the same composer now. Hit 🔗 Share a link or 📊 Poll, choose where it goes - your profile or one of your communities - and post. No separate boxes, no hunting for the right button. Summaries, written by you or by us When you share a link you can write your own summary in your own words. Leave it blank and we'll generate a clear two-paragraph summary for you automatically, so your share always has context. Video that pla…

Your community doesn't have to stay on TalkFuse. You can now put a live TalkFuse feed on any website - and share links that look great everywhere. A live feed widget for any site Every community and member profile can be embedded as a tidy, self-contained feed widget. Look for the Embed button on a community or profile, copy the snippet, and paste it into your own site - the feed stays live and updates itself. It's cached for speed and carries a subtle "Powered by TalkFuse" link back to the source. oEmbed built in TalkFuse is a full oEmbed provider, so on sites that support it you can simpl…

Communities on TalkFuse compete on a leaderboard - and we've just made that competition fair. Points earned where they're earned The "Top communities" board used to add up members' overall points, which meant one busy member could lift every community they'd ever joined. Now it counts only the points actually earned inside each community. Every vote, comment and share lifts the community it happened in - and nothing else. Why it matters It means communities genuinely compete on how active they are, not on who happens to have joined them. A small, lively community can now out-rank a large, q…

TalkFuse is more fun when there's something to play for. Two ways to compete have arrived: Leagues and Duels. Climb the weekly Leagues Every week you're placed in a League with around thirty other members at your level. Earn points by taking part - voting, commenting, sharing - and climb the rankings. Finish near the top and you're promoted; drift to the bottom and you're relegated. Rise through the tiers from Bronze to Silver, Gold, Sapphire, Ruby, Emerald and finally Diamond. Keep your streak alive Earn at least one point a day to keep a daily streak going. Streaks are a simple nudge to k…

Welcome to TalkFuse - a community news network where real stories meet real conversation. Whether you're here to follow the news, dig into a subject you love, or just find your people, this guide walks you through everything TalkFuse can do. News with the full picture Your feed brings together news from trusted sources and shows you coverage from across the spectrum, so you can see how a story is being reported by the left, the centre and the right - not just one side of it. Every story links back to its original source, and you can vote stories up or down to help surface what matters. Comm…