Changelog — Klonkt

All notable changes to Klonkt. Newest at the top.
Versions follow SemVer (1.0.0-beta.N during the beta).

[Unreleased]

Added

• Klonkt is now on the fediverse (ActivityPub). Your site is a real fediverse
  account: people on Mastodon — or another Klonkt — can follow you, and your posts
  reach their feeds. You can follow accounts and read their posts in a News feed,
  get notifications, and like, boost and reply to posts. Incoming activity is
  verified, so fake replies, likes and followers are rejected.
• Anyone can reply, like or boost your posts from the fediverse — visitors interact
  from their own account (they just enter their server); no account on your site needed.
• Circles: follow other Klonkt sites and show each other's public posts in your
  Circle — decentralised, with no central platform.
• Sensitive (NSFW) posts with your own content-warning text: blurred with
  click-to-reveal across the site, and shown as a content warning on the fediverse.
• Block an account or an entire domain you'd rather not hear from.
• Search now also finds tracks (by title, artist and album), playable straight from
  the results with a link to the post they appear in — and post search matches as you type.
• Live theme preview in Admin → site settings: accent, theme and palette update
  instantly, before you save.
• Uploaded images are automatically optimised to WebP for faster pages.
• A roomier mobile writing experience: tap to open a distraction-free fullscreen
  editor, with the formatting toolbar staying in view above the keyboard.
• Long posts collapse in the News feed with a read more toggle, so a long post no
  longer fills the whole screen — tap to expand or collapse it.

Changed

• Palettes revised to 8: the neutral Klonkt (gold accent) is the new default,
  plus seven full-colour themes — Forest, Ocean, Teal, Lilac, Sunset, Candy and Amber.

Removed

• Hub mode — Klonkt is now solo or Circles; you build a collective or label
  through Circles (federated, standalone sites).
• Native comments and Google login — replies, likes and boosts now run entirely
  through the fediverse.
• Local favourites (♥) — replaced by the ⭐ fediverse like.

Fixed

• Hashtags and mentions now work in every language and script (e.g. Japanese, Cyrillic,
  Arabic), both on your site and when federating — not just the Latin alphabet.
• Switching a site to solo (federation off) works again. Turning the fediverse off could
  make the whole site return “page not found” instead of just disabling federation; it now
  cleanly switches federation off while the rest of the site keeps working. (Self-hosters:
  update to pick up the fix.)
• The Fediverse and Notifications items now disappear from the menu when federation is off,
  instead of lingering.
• The mini-player jumps and scrolls to the track that's playing — also from an album or
  playlist — and keeps it highlighted.
• Empty album/playlist covers now fall back to the first track's cover.
• A profile photo that broke in the header after the WebP switch now repairs itself.
• Many mobile post-editor fixes: reliable scrolling, a formatting toolbar that stays
  put, no page jumps when you tap a button, and a Save bar that sits just above the keyboard.

[1.0.0-beta.2] — 2026-06-19

First release where we actively track the version (shown in the footer — click it for
this page).

Added

• Release tracking: the version number in the footer links to this changelog page.
• Eight premium features (Patreon-gated): newsletter/mailing list, download-for-email,
  release scheduling + fan-only previews, EPK/press kit, pro statistics, link-in-bio +
  click stats, embeddable player, and show agenda + notify-me.
• Newsletter signup field in the footer (on/off in Admin → Settings).
• SMTP settings configurable in Admin → Settings (no more config-file edit needed), with
  a test-mail button.

Changed

• Tidier settings forms (stacked labels, full-width inputs).
• EPK/press kit shows the top 10 most-listened tracks.
• Nicer 404 page (mobile-friendly) and clearer login error messages.

Fixed

• The site-wide audio player wasn't loading any tracks.
• Button text became unreadable on hover.
• Date pickers now follow the theme.
• Back/forward navigation no longer shows a doubled header.