What’s new in klieg

1. 21 October 2026

   • Browse and Discover are one page. Browse opens to rows of things for you — close to your taste on your services, what just arrived there, neighbours of what you rated highly, rows for the genres you rate highest, each service's popular list. Search or pick a filter and it becomes the full results grid. The map and Top rated sit at the foot.
   • Rows that scroll. Every row of titles in klieg — home, Browse, what's new, a title's similar films, list shelves — is now one sideways-scrolling row of 24 to 36, with arrows on a computer and a swipe on a phone. On a wide screen they run to the edge of the window.
   • Where it streams, on every poster. Each card shows the services it is on where you live, yours first.
   • Rows ranked by you, not by the crowd. "Popular on Netflix" lists the service's popular titles closest to your taste first, and only appears when something in it is as close as your own favourites; those titles say so. "Because you rated" no longer picks three films that are all the same kind of thing.
   • Fixes: the Taste page and Year in review charts draw again (every bar was showing at its minimum), settings fit on a phone, a diary rating no longer sits on top of the title, and "Just released" leads with what is new on your services rather than whatever is popular somewhere else in the world.

2. 14 October 2026

   • klieg knows what streams where you live. Every title's services are checked in your country, nightly, and the title page shows them.
   • "On Netflix", "something I can watch tonight". Ask for it in plain words, or set Recommend and Browse to your services once and they stay that way.
   • New on your services, for you. When something arrives on a service you have and it is as close to your taste as your favourites, you get a note — three a day at most — and the weekly email lists the week's arrivals.

3. 3 October 2026

   • The weekly email starts with your week — what you watched and how you rated it — before anything it suggests.
   • Calibration counts. The fifteen "which would you rather watch?" pairs now shape your recommendations, as promised; before, they did not reach them.

4. 29 September 2026

   • Find a film by any of its names — its original title, its UK title, its working title.
   • One-off screenings, apart. Festival showings, restorations and single bookings get their own row in What's new, and re-releases back in cinemas no longer go missing.

5. 25 September 2026

   • My Library. Your diary and everything you have logged or saved, in one place with one filter bar and any sort you like — and any filter can be kept as a list that stays up to date.
   • Bring your whole Letterboxd account, not just the ratings: your watchlist, lists, likes and reviews (kept private unless you choose otherwise).

6. 22 September 2026

   • Paid plans open in the UK and the US first. klieg is free everywhere; paying for Critic, Pro or Founding Lifetime starts in the two countries we're tax-registered for. Anywhere else, the availability page explains why and takes an email for the one "it's open" message. Every request moves that country up the list.
   • "On the way, for you" finally leads with what you love. The weekly email and the home row ranked sequels by release date, so a December sequel to two films you gave five stars lost to anything out this week. They now rank by how much you loved the original. Look-alike titles that only shared a first word are gone, shows already listed under "Back this week" are not repeated, and taste-similar picks are back after going missing in late August.
   • Signals speaks film. A film's page now says when it opens in UK cinemas (the UK date, not the earliest worldwide one) and that streaming comes later, instead of "no air date yet". A status that flickers on our data source is no longer announced as news: it has to hold until a later check. A stage confirmed by the press or Wikipedia no longer slips back to "between seasons" just because one night's lookup came back empty.
   • Google sign-in now says klieg, with our logo, instead of a long technical address.

7. 17 September 2026

   • Signals stop guessing. A trailer is only news for something that hasn't come out yet (an unreleased film, a series with a season on the way) and only when the video itself is new, so an old show gaining a trailer link no longer says "trailer's out". Streaming changes are held until a later check confirms them: a service that vanishes for a day and comes back is no longer reported as leaving and then arriving.
   • Sign in with Google. Members can sign in with their Google account from the sign-in page; new accounts still wait for the doors to open.

8. 11 September 2026

   • Coming soon, for you. The weekly email and the home "Coming soon" row now include the next chapter of things you rated — a sequel, a new series in a world you love — with the title it comes from. Dune fans see Dune: Part Three; Avatar fans see Avatar: Seven Havens.
   • Browse changes every day. The feed draws a fresh set from your taste neighbourhood each day and gives new releases and newly added titles a nudge, instead of showing the same sixty every visit.
   • Fewer false "leaving" alerts in Signals. A streaming service that vanishes from a title's data for a day is no longer reported as a departure: the old list is kept until the gap has lasted a week, and nothing is reported as leaving in the first three weeks after release.
   • Title pages link to Signals, and people and director pages can be sorted (best known, newest, oldest, highest rated, trending) and filtered by film/TV, genre and decade.
   • No more broken headshots. A missing or failed photo shows a klieg placeholder instead of the browser's broken-image icon; the same for posters.

9. 8 September 2026

   • [Founding Lifetime](/founding) has its own page with live seats left and the close date. Source codes only tell us where you came from; everyone pays the same.
   • [Try it](/try) now makes a shareable card of your seeds and top picks, previews the card when you share the link, and has Halloween and family-night modes.
   • [Press](/press) and comparison pages (Letterboxd, Trakt, Simkl, ChatGPT).
   • Waitlist emails ask first. A consent box on the form, a one-click unsubscribe in every email, and a welcome note that asks what you used before.
   • One quick question after sign-up: how did you hear about klieg? One tap, optional.

10. 6 September 2026

    • Every home row is back. The 2 September trim to five rows read as things going missing, so the full page is the default again; a row still only appears when it has something for you.
    • Friend activity looks back a year, so a quiet friend group still shows its latest.

11. 5 September 2026

    • Searching a title finds the title. "Dune" gives you the Dune films, not a studio's back catalogue; the same fix applies to focus, heat, alien, gravity and most one-word titles. Search is also far faster — a name index that had never matched the query is rebuilt.
    • Upcoming titles up to eighteen months out. The catalogue now carries the anticipated releases (Dune: Part Three, Avengers: Doomsday, Spider-Man: Brand New Day) and Browse shows them with "Coming December 2026" next to their franchise.
    • The nightly refresh keeps every upcoming title's dates current instead of stopping at 500 a night.

12. 2 September 2026

    • Picks now appear as they're written. Recommendations stream in one card at a time instead of arriving all at once — the first is usually on screen within a few seconds.
    • Try it without an account. /try: name three things you love, add a mood, and get ten reasoned picks with where they're streaming in the UK. Sign up to keep them as your first session.
    • Share your taste. Your taste portrait and year-in-review are now shareable image cards, with the native share sheet on phones.
    • A calmer home. /home is down to the rows that actually have something for you today — a row only shows when it has content. (Reversed on 6 September: every row is back.)
    • Founding membership reshaped. 100 seats, Critic for life; Pro at the Critic price for founders.
    • Group recommend on the free tier. Planning a night with friends no longer needs a paid plan.
    • Free-tier metering is per session, not per follow-up question — refining a set of picks doesn't cost you a slot.
    • Account deletion asks for your password and removes your Stripe customer record along with everything else.
    • Bigger imports. Watch-history imports are chunked and resumable, so a decade of Letterboxd no longer times out.
    • Security hardening. Rate limits on every auth and search route, tighter database permissions, and least-privilege CI tokens.

13. 1 September 2026

    • Episode reviews. Review individual episodes of a series — public, votable, or private — with spoiler shielding that knows how far you've watched.
    • Watchlist knows when you've watched. Films drop off automatically after you log them (with a keep override); series you've started are grouped separately.
    • Editing a watch returns you where you were, rather than to the diary.

14. 31 August 2026

    • Recommendations rebuilt on a new retrieval foundation. Every title re-described and re-embedded on Voyage 4; nightly enrichment keeps new releases current. Results are noticeably closer to what you asked for.
    • Always ten picks. "Like X" queries are anchored on that title, and a set never comes back short.

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