What’s new in klieg

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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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