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2026 August#

Lots more UI polish!
Further reduced data usage, esp. on mobiles

2026 July#

Can now see previously blocked users in your options screen
Can now join/login via your Google or Discord account
Way better landing page! ⭐️
Better community stats page 📊
Reduced noisy auto alerts from Wusoup guy 🙊
Can now send invites again
Can now quote reply specific messages in chats
Can now mute individual users
Modernized email style
Lots more UI polish
Brought back the reputation bar
Full-sized photo view
New chat privacy controls
New profile prompts to help write a great profile
Streamlined community browsing
Can now specify what languages you're comfy chatting in
Can now search full chat history, no limits
Way more automod improvements
Now highlight related tags
Now suggest tags when editing your profile

2026 June#

At least 1.5 donuts (🍩½) worth of updates, lots of long-time prep finally paying off:

HUGE visual overhaul - tons of big and small tweaks 💅
Dark mode and themes 🕺 (heard some folks were waiting for this??) 🦇
Real device-level notifications (even when Wusoup is closed) 📳
New split profile/chat view (experimental!)
Now keep way more messages for each chat
Chats are now kept in sync better
Can now send audio messages 🔈
Can now mute audio notifications 🔇
Can now add image captions in chats
Can now drag photos into chats
Can now drag to reorder photos on profile
Now show last message snippets on dashboard
Now enforce unique usernames ❄️
Can now remove users from your chats list via their profile
New random avatars for users without any pics
Way smarter automod (faster flagging of dodgy accounts, fewer false positives)
Smarter fake email detection
Better dev workflow to help me build faster!
New/unread separator to show where new/unread messages start in chats (welcome to the world of tomorrow! 🕺🤖)
Increased max photo upload size
Added uploaded image confirmation (stop mis-sends) 😅
Warn when sending generic messages (fewer junk messages) ⛔️
Now sync dismissed message alerts across tabs/devices 🗑️
Hover over flags to see country name (mouse only) 🏴‍☠️
Ping users to get regular feedback on Wusoup ⭐️
Can now click on your kudos to see who awarded it and when
Can now load more chats in the chats list
Can now search in the chats list
Can now clean up stale chats from the chats list
Much better onboarding experience
Simplified Community Rules
More to come (month is still going, and I'm still approximately alive...)

2026 May#

Finally back to work!
Better funnel analytics (prep for future promotion work)
Groundwork for future stuff

2025 November - 2026 April#

Unfortunately needed to pause development for some unexpected Life stuff 🙏

2025 October#

Topic Tango now available (more topics coming later)!
Explain why unavailable users might not be available
First groundwork for future dark mode, etc.
Reduced data usage
Now hide leaderboard positions until users have exchanges some words
Can now see your own "more about you" text in empty chats

2025 September#

Chats list
- Don't auto remove unavailable chats (less confusing if users remove these manually)
- Increase max number of chats
- Warn about hidden chats when you have more than the max number
User browser
- Be smarter about when/not to show the same users again when browsing
Other stuff
- Several automod improvements

2025 August#

Use less data, better performance especially on mobiles
Chats
- Can now send images in chats 🐙 (need >= "good" community rating)
- Chat input now floats when you scroll down 👻
- Smoother UI (less janky on ~~old~~ tired devices)
- Never hide button to send message
User browser
- Added next user animation 🍿
- Fixed missing online now dot
Profiles
- Fixed issue with text being incorrectly lowercased 🫣
- Can now upload more image types (anything your browser can convert to a JPEG)

2025 July#

User browser
- Prioritise online users
- Faster loading of next user
- Add online indicator for upcoming users
- Can now reset skipped users
Chats
- Now auto save draft messages
- Smarter chats list: better at choosing who to show
- Can now filter and sort chats list
- Support chat ("Wusoup guy") now behaves like other chats in your chats list
- You can now pin up to 50 users (up from 20). If you try to pin more, it'll auto unpin the user least recently active.
Algorithm
- Smarter matching: better prioritize users based on shared interests
- Smarter message alerts: don't alert about low-quality messages
- Smarter automod: catch more sketchy behaviour, faster
Misc
- Use less data on mobiles
- Regularly re-verify email addresses to help cull dead/unresponsive accounts

2025 June#

User browser: separate "rated users" and "quarantine zone" areas
User browser: show thumbnails for upcoming users
"New" and "online" user counts now way more accurate
Big improvements to the algorithm that chooses which users to show when browsing, and in what order
Dropped "serendipity mode" live chat feature, plan to replace it with something much cooler in an upcoming release
Profiles clearly indicate whose turn it is to message ("your turn to reply", etc)
Lots of minor bug fixes and backend improvements
Lots of groundwork for future stuff

2025 May#

Removed progress bars for community reputation (these were maybe placing too much emphasis on ratings, and making downvotes look overly severe)
Fixed issue preventing users from viewing the profile of someone that blocked them
Removed default headline and "about me" text from profiles
Users without at least a username and headline set will now be hidden by default
More background improvements

2025 April#

Profiles now show country flags
Profiles now show when users joined Wusoup
Displayed community reputation is now approximate (e.g. ">80% positive")
Significant improvements to automod speed and accuracy
More background improvements

2025 March#

Major background improvements to support upcoming stuff

2025 February#

Community ratings have been rebalanced, some users may now have a higher rating for the same votes
Karma levels have been rebalanced. Most users will now have a higher level though leaderboard positions should be unchanged
Kudo rewards are now earned predictably, every 5 karma levels
Karma details screen reworked, simplified
Karma details screen now says when the next rewards are due
Kudos screen now says how many words are needed when you need to "chat more"
Increased max number of profile images from 8 to 12
Bill Murray and Jennifer Lawrence are finally gone 🤫
Help system's burger menu button is now more obvious on small mobiles
Various UI improvements, esp. for mobiles
Landing page and onboarding tweaks
Fixed a couple bugs with image popups
Personal dropdown menu on Chats screen now more obvious
Misc help portal improvements

2025 January#

The first batch of user-facing v3 improvements is now available for use by everyone:

New reputation system (ability to upvote, downvote users)
New kudos system (award public compliments to awesome users)
New help portal (clarified mission, Community Rules, and much more!)
Improved karma systems (clearer formula, updated in realtime, progress bar)
Improved user reporting (get updated on review, earn karma)

See the short video below for more info, and please let me know what you think! 🙏

▶ First new features go live

2024 December#

The first batch of v3 improvements is now available for testing by Wusoup's Advisory Team:

New reputation system (ability to upvote, downvote users)
Improved karma systems (clearer formula, updated in realtime, progress bar)
Improved user reporting (get updated on review, earn karma)
Migrated to an entirely new chat backend for better performance (to support more users), and to support a number of upcoming features

▶ First new features go live

2024 September#

Officially announced that I've started work on Wusoup version 3! 🎉

▶ Wusoup v3 announcement