Changelog

V2 is officially here. The entire site was rebuilt visually — more game-ish, big but smooth, liquid glass pushed everywhere: HUD-framed cards, shimmering titles, FL-style grids, page transitions and micro-animations on every screen.

Cosmetics went big: name colors, avatar rings, animated name effects and profile banners — earn them by inviting friends (1 / 3 / 5 milestones), buy them one-by-one, or unlock everything with VIP.

🏆 1K Club: the first 1,000 members own the exclusive 1K Gold color and Founders Wave banner forever. After member #1,000 it is gone for good — it can never be bought.

Notification center: the bell keeps a history of everything — match results, votes, friend requests, announcements — with per-type popup preferences in Settings.

Blitz mode (5-min cooks, 15-min votes), live presence with Online/Away/DND, friends with rich presence, a real shop, sounds everywhere and a faster, self-healing core.

This is just the start of V2 — Producer Roulette and seasonal drops are cooking. 🔫

🏆 1K Club — a thank-you to our first 1,000 producers: the exclusive 1K Gold name color and Founders Wave banner are yours forever. They can never be bought — not even with VIP. Thank you for building this with us. 💜

💳 The Cosmetic Shop went live for real — every VIP-tier cosmetic can now be purchased individually ($1.99–$2.99, yours forever), or grab VIP to unlock everything at once.

✨ The V2 look is here — smooth page transitions on every navigation, shimmering titles, game-styled HUD framing, FL-style grid backdrops and micro-animations across every screen.

Live Discord widget on the landing page — see who is online in the community before you even sign up.

The notification bell panel now opens properly above the navbar.

🔔 Notification bell in the navbar — a full history panel of your last 50 notifications with an unread badge. Even notifications muted by Do Not Disturb land here.

Per-type notification preferences in Settings — choose which popups appear (results, match alerts, votes, friends, announcements).

New cosmetic type: Profile banners! Gradient header strips on your profile card — earn two by inviting friends, four more with VIP.

Richer referral rewards — milestones at 1, 3 and 5 invites, each unlocking new cosmetics. Track them on the dashboard invite card.

Discord community card on the dashboard with a live online count.

Blitz matches now use a snappy 15-minute voting window (solo keeps 1 hour).

Your name color & effects now show inside matches too (vote cards + beat showcase).

New subtle sounds on cosmetic equip and queue join, and the presence dot pops when your status changes.

Share your invite link straight to X, WhatsApp, or your phone's share sheet from the dashboard.

A subtle chime now plays when a notification arrives — and it respects your mute toggle and Do Not Disturb.

A brand-new game mode is in the works 👀 — keep an eye on the play page.

Two new cosmetic types! Avatar rings (a glowing ring around your avatar) and animated name effects — Glow, Neon, and Rainbow.

The Shop now has three cosmetic categories (name colors, avatar rings, name effects), each with a live preview of how it looks on you.

Free cosmetics are kept exclusive (one each) — the rest are earned by referrals or unlocked with VIP.

New sound toggle in Settings — mute every game and notification sound with one switch.

VIP now unlocks every Cosmetic Shop color instantly — added to the VIP perks.

Blitz matches are now labeled correctly (not 'Solo') in Discord logs.

The play page is roomier now — the three mode cards no longer feel cramped.

Blitz now shows a live 'in game' count like the other modes.

Updated the line under the mode cards so it fits every mode (Blitz cooks in 5 min, not 20).

New Cosmetic Shop (in the navbar) — browse every accent color with a live preview of how your name looks in each. Six free colors for everyone, a Recruiter color earned by referring friends, and premium colors for VIP.

Clean split: unlock colors in the Shop, equip them in Settings. VIP colors are managed from the VIP page.

Your accent color now also shows on the beat showcase during voting.

New game mode: Blitz! A fast, casual 1v1 with just 5 minutes to cook (instead of 20). No ELO on the line — pure speed. Find it on the play page.

Blitz reuses the full match flow with a per-mode cook timer, so the reveal and countdowns stay perfectly in sync for the shorter format.

Your friend list now shows live status — Online, Away, or Do Not Disturb — not just online/offline, and updates in real time.

Your equipped accent color now shows your name in your friends' lists, on the dashboard, and on vote cards — not just your profile and the leaderboard.

You can now see who is actually in the match room in real time — a green dot on each player lights up when they have the page open, and the lobby shows 'Waiting for players… (N/M here)'.

Groundwork for the fully-synced match experience: everyone sees the same live presence, so you know your opponent has loaded before things kick off.

New cosmetics! Pick a profile accent color in Settings that colors your name on your profile and the leaderboard.

Free colors for everyone, a special Recruiter Pink unlocked by referring 3 friends, and premium colors for VIP. Referring friends now gives you a cosmetic you can actually equip — not just a badge.

The referral reward is now visible: a Recruiter badge on your profile and a gift icon on the leaderboard once you refer 3 friends.

Your Away / Do Not Disturb status now shows to others on the leaderboard presence dot, alongside in-game and in-queue indicators.

Set your status from the navbar: Online, Away, or Do Not Disturb. A colored dot on your avatar shows it at a glance.

Do Not Disturb mutes all notification toasts — quiet when you want to focus, without missing anything you can still see in-game.

Invite friends! Every player now has a personal invite link on their dashboard. Share it, and when 3 people sign up through it you unlock a cosmetic badge.

Signing up through an invite link credits your friend automatically, and new sign-ups see a friendly 'you were invited' welcome.

Leaderboard, dashboard, profile and settings now share the V2 look — gradient titles and glowing icon tiles. Every core surface of the app now speaks the same visual language.

The landing page joined the V2 visual language: game-styled call-to-action buttons with a rotating accent ring and liquid sheen, and How-it-works cards that light up on hover.

The vote pages got the V2 treatment: gradient titles, a game-styled vote button with rotating accent ring and liquid sheen, and matching end-of-match Play Again buttons.

Notifications no longer bombard you on load — opening the app (or a new device) used to pop every recent match result at once. Now only matches finished in the last 15 minutes notify you.

The V2 look spread to the queue lobby and match room: glowing mode icon, gradient titles, and game-styled buttons with a rotating accent ring and liquid sheen.

The play page got the first taste of the V2 look: liquid-glass mode cards with a rotating accent ring on hover, a beat-themed equalizer motif, a slow liquid sheen, and a bolder gradient title.

New reusable visual building blocks (liquid sheen, accent ring, card float) that the rest of the app will adopt next.

Beat and melody audio URLs are now reused instead of re-signed on every request, so the storage CDN caches each file once and serves all listeners from cache — a major bandwidth reduction, especially on busy vote pages.

Shared melody pool now served from CDN cache across every match's cook phase instead of re-fetched each time.

Beat waveforms are now computed once at upload and stored — they render instantly on the vote page and look identical for every viewer, with zero audio download just to draw them.

Another big egress cut: between lazy-load and stored peaks, the vote page no longer downloads beats to display waveforms at all.

Shared waveform engine (lib/waveform.ts) used by both the uploader and the player — one source of truth, graceful fallback for older submissions.

Status page no longer shows a wall of grey 'No data' bars — days with no recorded incident now correctly read as operational, so a healthy 100%-uptime service looks healthy.

Security & stability improvements behind the scenes to keep your account and data safe.

Big egress cut: beat waveforms now load lazily — audio is only downloaded when a beat is actually played, not eagerly for every card on the vote page.

Self-healing matches: abandoned games (both players closed their tabs) now recover within ~1 minute while anyone is online — no longer stuck until the daily cron. The heartbeat runs a throttled, idempotent sweep that advances lobby/cooking/uploading/voting states.

All time-based match transitions unified into one source of truth (lib/sweep-matches.ts), shared by the cron and the live heartbeat sweep — no more duplicated logic.

Verification email was sent twice on signup — the overlay auto-resent on mount right after registration already sent one. Now exactly one email goes out.

Verification email redesigned to be minimal: just the code and how long until it expires. Removed the welcome copy, CTA button, and how-it-works strip.

V1 foundation locked: full build passes with zero type errors, every core gameplay/auth/matchmaking path audited and verified live.

V1 is done. Solo ranked, FFA multi-player, cinematic beat showcase, full Realtime live updates — everything is in and stable.

SyncDots — universal sync indicator now appears across every waiting state: queue join, ready-up, reveal grace period, beat upload (93–100%), vote cast, and preview sync

FFA mode fully live: 4–8 players, participants vote for each other, no ELO, beat showcase before voting, auto-finalize when all votes are in

Cinematic melody reveal: synchronized 5s grace period → 3-2-1 countdown → cards pop one by one — both players see the exact same moment

Cook timer shows exactly 20:00 after the reveal finishes — server pads cooking_ends_at by reveal duration so the clock is always accurate

Upload retry bug fixed — upsert: true prevents 'file already exists' errors on second attempt

All match events — ready-up, uploads, votes, status transitions — fire through Supabase Realtime to every connected client instantly, no polling gaps

Melody reveal is now fully synchronized — both players see the same 3-2-1 countdown at the exact same moment, derived from the server timestamp

5-second loading grace period added before the countdown starts, giving both players time to load the match page before the show begins

Cook timer now shows exactly 20:00 after the reveal finishes instead of 19:47 — cooking_ends_at is padded by reveal duration server-side

Pre-reveal shows a syncing animation (3 pulsing dots + 'Syncing with opponent…') during the grace period before the 3-2-1 drops

Full live update audit across all match, queue, and voting routes — every state change propagates via Supabase Realtime to all connected clients instantly

Cinematic beat showcase: equalizer bars, big producer name, pulsing countdown, dramatic enter/exit animations

Beat preview transitions between producers with a full motion wipe and ambient glow background

Countdown turns red and pulses when under 10 seconds — urgency you can feel

Melody reveal: 3-2-1 countdown before melodies appear, each card flashes purple on reveal

Vote flash: VoteCard glows purple every time a new vote lands in real-time

FFA voting now appears correctly — match no longer ends immediately, voting phase opens for all 8 participants

Opponent ready-up now reflects live in the lobby — no more stale state after page load

Opponent beat submission is visible in real-time during cooking and upload phases

Community Vote page: beats no longer appear twice (duplicate audio players removed)

Given melodies now shown on the vote page above the player cards

FFA manual replay no longer hijacks the live showcase audio (two separate hooks)

Beat upload retry now works — storage upsert prevents file-exists errors on second attempt

Hi-hat slot can no longer be silently dropped due to snare overlap in the drum pack builder

FFA participants are auto-redirected to the vote page when voting opens

All match phases are now fully live — ready state, uploads, votes, match status all push via Realtime

Backend finalization parallelized — ELO writes for both players now run concurrently

Heartbeat interval reduced from 30s to 60s — half the DB write pressure with no UX impact

FFA voting room shows given melodies strip and per-player vote bars with live updates

New /status page — discordstatus.com-style with 90-day uptime bars for all 6 services (Database, Storage, Realtime, Matchmaking, Discord Bot, Cron Jobs)

Admin Status tab — live service table with mini uptime bars, latency, auto-refresh every 60s

VIP queue priority — VIP players skip ELO range restrictions and get matched instantly with any waiting opponent

VIP lobby UI — gold glow, Crown icon, and dedicated search text shown in queue lobby for VIP users

/docs page expanded — added Privacy Policy and Cookies sections covering data storage, GDPR rights, and what we do/don't collect

Admin Docs manager — full CRUD for docs sections (add, edit, delete, reorder, toggle visibility) without touching code

Landing page refreshed — new headline, correct game mechanic description (4 melody files + your own drum kit), WHY section with 4 feature cards, live stats strip showing total producers, online count, and matches played

Floating disclaimer button replaces footer — small glass ? button bottom-left, hover shows disclaimer tooltip with link to /docs

Broadcast push notification — username search instead of pasting a raw UUID when targeting a specific user

Discord role sync rewritten — 2-tier system now matches persistent bot exactly (tier role + sub-rank role + Connected role + VIP role applied instantly on /verify)

Duplicate Discord slash commands removed — old global commands (verify, leaderboard, stats, status) deleted; persistent Railway bot handles all commands now

createBotSoloMatch was never defined — bots would crash trying to create solo matches; function now implemented correctly

Game mechanic text corrected everywhere — old references to '3 melodies + 5 drum samples provided' replaced with correct '4 melody files, bring your own drums'

Fixed a critical bug where players were redirected to /play mid-voting — the stuck-match watchdog was incorrectly treating voting matches as stuck and kicking users after 30 minutes.

Fixed upload-to-voting transition getting stuck when both players submit early during the cook phase — a new watchdog fires the advance call the moment the upload window expires.

Admins can now force-end any active match from the admin panel — picks a random winner, calculates ELO, and cleans up the queue instantly.

Live Votes page (/votes) now displays FFA matches correctly — previously all 8 players were crammed into a broken 2-player VS layout.

Friend Chat — private DMs between friends directly inside the chat widget (Friends tab)

Live online count on the landing page — see how many players are active right now

Changelog/patch notes page (you are reading it!)

Admin push notifications now reliably deliver to all users and specific targets

Friend request, accept, and decline notifications now fire instantly via Supabase Realtime broadcast

Stuck queue safety net — auto-redirects to /play after 30 minutes if a match cannot be found

Stuck match safety net — auto-redirects to /play after 30 minutes if a match gets into a broken state

FFA (Free For All) mode — 8-player battle, participants vote, no ELO

Shared finalize-match library — one source of truth, parallel ELO writes

Cron tick fires every 5 minutes (was daily) — stuck matches recover in under 5 min

5 partial DB indexes on hot match/queue columns — faster matchmaking and tick

Heartbeat interval halved (30s to 60s) — 50% fewer last_seen DB writes

Beat upload retry no longer fails with file exists on second attempt

Hi-hat slot can no longer be silently dropped from drum packs

Friend system — send, accept, and decline friend requests

Real-time notification cards — match results, votes, friend events, rank-ups

VIP badges, cards, and sparkle effects for supporters

Admin broadcast panel — push notifications to all users or specific targets

Discord welcome notification with invite URL config

Bot player system — automated players fill empty queues

Global & match chat with real-time typing indicators

Chat moderation: profanity filter, link block, spam limiter, report system

Optimistic message sends — messages appear instantly

Animated sample reveal when cook starts — 4 melodies unveiled one by one

In-match sample player — re-listen to melodies during cook

Vote page: waveform previews, live vote tally, auto-finalize on all voted

ELO range expands automatically the longer you wait in queue

Solo ranked 1v1 mode with ELO system (12 ranks from Unranked to Diamond)

20-min cook timer, 2-min upload window, 1-hour community voting

ZIP file delivery: 3 melodies, 5 drum samples, README

Leaderboard, profiles, match history

Admin panel: users, matches, reports, asset uploads