Videochat Extension
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🎉 Release v3.4.0 (2025-02-05)
🕑 Added 2025-02-08 15:50:01 +0000 UTCHey everyone,
We are not very excited to post a changelog for the very boring v3.4.0, which includes significant internal changes that are mostly invisible to users. It was published a few days ago, so this changelog is quite late. However, we feel it’s important to show the work done, even if it’s hard to notice.
Most of the work in the past few weeks was behind the scenes. We figured out our strategy and alternative plans, helped users with their issues, identified 30+ omegle-like sites where this extension is useful, and made some server changes, including finding and fixing a serious bug that allowed some users to register manually, bypassing Patreon authentication.
Anyway, this post is about v3.4.0, so let’s stick to the point!
What's new?
This version focused on improving the behind-the-scenes code, polishing everything except the core product, which received only one fix: Browser Mode now supports subdomains.
The start interface, post-install & post-uninstall pages, legacy reminders, and background mechanisms that power everything have all been improved/rewritten. Dozens of both common and rare bugs were identified and fixed.
With critical components like onboarding and the start UI finally in a GOOD state, we can move on to doing fun things like rapidly prototyping new features. Expect something exciting next week!
The summary of changes:
Browser Mode now supports subdomains.
You can now use Browser Mode on URLs like subdomain.domain.com.
The entire script for the 'start' interface has been rewritten.
Our start interface was acceptable for early alpha, but it was a mess behind the scenes. While it worked fine, it was slow and it was difficult to fix issues. The initial goal was to tweak only one simple thing but when it proved challenging, we decided to rework it completely.
We took one large, rapidly developed script and split it into well-thought, maintainable, dedicated services responsible for handling the UI, Patreon functionality, triggering modes with specific settings, and so on.
While rewriting it, we were somewhat inspired by crowbars in Half-Life. Now, if you press something that launches a background process, there will be a clear indication that something is happening, so you won't feel ignored by the world.
Implemented a status caching mechanism.
In conclusion, everything about the 'start' interface is now very fast, stable and easy to maintain, which is good.
The post-install page has been improved.
Added play-on-hover videos that explain to users how to activate the extension using the icon and context menu.
Added a big well-thought "What changed in 2025?" modal that explains to users what happened to the original extension and how to use the new one. It includes a few tricks, such as forcing users to see three steps to activate the new extension if they try to ignore them.
'Skull' popup.
Text and localizations have been updated.
Implemented a status caching mechanism.
Some internal systems have been rewritten.
The component responsible for opening popups was unreliable, so we made attempts to improve its logic.
The dark theme is now the default, overriding previous user preference for consistency.
Text and localizations have been updated, such as using "member" instead of "patron," among other changes.
Minor changes and improvements.
Conclusion
In conclusion, v3.4.0 may appear minor, but it marks a crucial shift from a rapidly coded prototype to a stable foundation.
With key components now robust and maintainable, we're almost ready to focus on developing completely new features and quality-of-life improvements that should start coming out next week.
Of course, such new things will also be rapidly coded prototypes, but why not?
Thank you for your support!
