Mod assist: remembered Allow list, per-channel watchlists and an optional sound
Toolbar popup redesign: scrolling list, check-to-add for Multi-View, smoother avatar rings and the ad-blocker shield
Translations: the analytics page and the remaining English strings
Bug fixes: Moments sampling on long streams, the chat replay timer leak, switching back to English, and "Following for…" placement

New (Pro, for mods): Mod assist — a shield button in the chat header lists messages worth a look: words from your watchlist, someone flooding chat, and the same message sent by many accounts at once. Delete, timeout or ban from the list in one click. Flagged messages get a red edge in chat, and KickLab never acts by itself.'

Fixed: on some live channels (seen in Firefox) Moments could still cover the player\'s controls — it now always sits above them.',
'Changed: the Recommended setup no longer turns on the viewer & chat stats pill next to the viewer count.',
'Fixed: Chat Search, Moments and the download button on past broadcasts (VODs) now follow your language — they were always in English there.',
'Improved: the sleep timer, quick clip, chat replay, fullscreen chat, quick messages and more now follow your language too.',
'Fixed: switching channels quickly could show the previous channel\'s streams calendar or follow date, or load its chat when rewinding.',
'Fixed: starting the free trial from Moments now shows the whole stream right away, instead of the same 15 minutes.',
'Improved: clearer, shorter descriptions for about 80 settings, in every language.',
'Improved: if Kick ever changes things so an ad gets past the ad blocker, KickLab now spots it and stops it within a second — and the toolbar button\'s window shows if any got through.',
'Improved: the clip download button has a cleaner outline icon that matches Kick\'s buttons, and a few KickLab panels (stream stats, streams calendar, resume button, VOD download) now share the same look.',

'Fixed: the ad blocker stops the ads before past broadcasts (VODs) again — Kick changed how it plays them. VOD downloads also never include an ad.',
'Fixed: opening a clip link and then going to a channel no longer leaves KickLab switched off until you reload the page.',
'Fixed: past broadcasts remember where you stopped even when opened from a channel\'s Videos tab, and reopening one offers "Resume from…" on the player.',
'Fixed: your default timeout length works on Kick\'s quick-timeout icon again, and the mod tools card is reachable on smaller screens and updates right away.',
'Improved: sidebar hover previews open faster, show the picture while the video starts, and work on Recommended channels too.',
'Improved: the buttons that appear when you hover a chat message are one toolbar just above the message, so you can still read it.',
'Improved: the toolbar button\'s window opens Multi-View, turns the ad blocker on in one click, and links to Kick when you\'re logged out.',
'Improved: the sidebar, Browse, channel pages, mod tools and the toolbar button\'s window now follow your language.',
'Improved: Moments sits just above the player\'s controls, so you can still seek and pause while it\'s open, and has a new Clips button that shows just what viewers clipped.',
'Improved: Multi-View\'s Sync by sound now works in Firefox too.',

New: Moments on past broadcasts — open the flame in a VOD\'s chat to see its busiest moments and jump to any of them. Free covers the 15 minutes before where you are; Pro the whole VOD.',
'New: Moments shows the clips viewers made, plus raids, gift-sub bombs and big KICKs drops right when they happened.',
'Improved: Moments cards are clearer — flames show how big a moment was, with a real message from chat, a quick preview when you hover, Top and Clips orders, and a button to share a link to the moment.',
'Improved: Moments loads faster, keeps itself up to date on a live stream, shows where you are on a VOD, and starts a few seconds early so you see what chat reacted to.',
'New (Pro): big moment alerts — a desktop alert when a channel you follow suddenly gets far busier in chat than usual.',
'New: Multi-View\'s Sync now fine-tunes by sound, so RP streams of the same scene line up exactly and stay that way (Chrome, Edge and Brave). Sync also no longer reloads every stream.',
'Improved: Multi-View has a start page to pick streams from, channel names on each stream, labelled buttons, and a "Fill the screen" option.',
'Improved: Chat Search — free Live Search works straight away and VOD search now has a free version. Your words are highlighted, results start where you are, and clicking one shows the conversation around it.',
'Improved: if an ad does get through, the stream reloads without it instead of going black. The ad blocker never holds a stream up, and the toolbar shows how many ads it stopped this week.',
'New: settings open on a Home page with the essentials, plus a "Your changes" page, smarter search, and a layout that fits small windows.',
'Improved: settings, Moments, Chat Search and alerts are now fully translated.',
'Improved: go-live alerts no longer repeat after a connection hiccup or a stream restart, come as one alert when several channels go live at once, and have buttons to mute a channel or open it in Multi-View.',

New: Moments — a flame button in chat opens a strip along the bottom of the video with the stream\'s busiest moments as pictures, what chat was saying then, and a click to watch from there. Moments viewers clipped are highlighted, with the clip\'s title and a link to it, and well-titled clips of things chat didn\'t react to get their own card. Works in every browser. Free shows the last 15 minutes; Pro can look back 30 minutes, an hour or the whole stream.',
'New: a new setup guide for new installs — pick Recommended, Viewer, Moderator or Minimal to switch on the features that fit how you use Kick. Open it again any time from Settings → KickLab.',
'New: KickLab may suggest a feature right when it would help, like chat in fullscreen after you leave fullscreen. Each suggestion shows only once, and you can turn them off.',
'New: 7TV emotes the streamer adds, removes or renames mid-stream now update in chat right away — no reload needed.',
'Improved: Quick clip now uses Kick\'s own clipping — choose Instant, Name it, or Kick\'s clip editor (trim and preview).',
'New: a big Download button on clips, right under Follow — saves the clip as an MP4 in original quality, no watermark, no account. Kick\'s own Download is still there too.',
'Improved: Firefox can now download whole VODs — no more 30-minute limit.',
'Removed: the "Catch me up" AI summary. It only worked in Chrome and needed Kick\'s captions — Moments now shows what you missed, in every browser.',
'Improved: Live chat search and Moments now float over chat — Kick\'s pinned message no longer covers them, and they work in fullscreen chat too.',
'Fixed: on Firefox, clip downloads and the Create Clip dialog\'s Download didn\'t work, and saved files could get a random name with no extension.',
'Fixed: Chat replay could flicker between the replay and live chat while you were rewound.',
'Fixed: changing two settings quickly one after the other could undo the first change.',
'Fixed: settings could stop saving once your lists got long (lots of hidden channels, users or keywords) — there\'s now plenty of room, and KickLab tells you if a change ever can\'t be saved.',

'New: 1080p without logging in — set Max quality to 1080p and it just works, no 60-second trial.',
'New: fullscreen chat is now Kick\'s real chat floating over the video — chat, reply and use every KickLab feature in it.',
'New: one "Hide leaderboard" switch, synced with Kick\'s own leaderboard setting and the fullscreen chat\'s quick settings.',
'New: timeout and ban notices show right in chat — hover one to see what the person said last.',
'New: timeouts now show how long, e.g. "(Timed out for 10 minutes)".',
'New: in Live chat search, click a message\'s time to rewind the stream to that moment.',
'New: auto-hide ended polls after a time you choose (Settings → Chat layout).',
'Improved: chat replay rebuilt — chat stays in step when you rewind a live stream.',
'Improved: "View older messages" loads earlier chat straight into Kick\'s chat.',
'Improved: deleted messages show in place — choose whether they\'re shown or click-to-reveal.',
'Improved: hidden users and keywords are kept out of chat completely, with no flashing.',
'Improved: copy buttons show when hovering any message, even logged out. The AI-removal reply for mods lives there too.',
'Improved: a stuck stream now reloads just the player, not the whole page.',
'Improved: playback speed changes show in Kick\'s own player.',
'Improved: VOD downloads — save a whole VOD or part of it as an MP4, much faster on Chrome and Edge.',
'Changed: clip downloads use Kick\'s own Download button when logged in; KickLab steps in when you\'re logged out or Kick\'s fails.',
'Improved: Quick clip uses Kick\'s current clip system.',
'Faster: channel pages load quicker with KickLab.',
'Fixed: several KickLab buttons were missing when using Kick in other languages.',
'Fixed: Multi-View chat stopped updating, and badges were missing in Multi-View and chat search.',
'Fixed: busy chats could skip messages in replay, search, history and alerts.',
'Fixed: resizing the window could make the stream go black.',
'Fixed: leaving theater mode took two clicks with Auto theater on.',
'Fixed: the Channel Profile button didn\'t show when logged out.',
'Fixed: the leaderboard could disappear from chat on its own.',
'Fixed: Kick\'s "Try 1080p" prompt no longer shows when you already have 1080p.',

'New: fullscreen chat is now Kick\'s real chat floating over the video — chat, reply and use every KickLab feature in it.',
'New: one "Hide leaderboard" switch, synced with Kick\'s own leaderboard setting and the fullscreen chat\'s quick settings.',
'New: timeout and ban notices show right in chat — hover one to see what the person said last.',
'New: timeouts now show how long, e.g. "(Timed out for 10 minutes)".',
'New: in Live chat search, click a message\'s time to rewind the stream to that moment.',
'New: auto-hide ended polls after a time you choose (Settings → Chat layout).',
'Improved: chat replay rebuilt — chat stays in step when you rewind a live stream.',
'Improved: "View older messages" loads earlier chat straight into Kick\'s chat.',
'Improved: deleted messages show in place — choose whether they\'re shown or click-to-reveal.',
'Improved: hidden users and keywords are kept out of chat completely, with no flashing.',
'Improved: copy buttons show when hovering any message, even logged out. The AI-removal reply for mods lives there too.',
'Improved: a stuck stream now reloads just the player, not the whole page.',
'Improved: playback speed changes show in Kick\'s own player.',
'Improved: VOD downloads — save a whole VOD or part of it as an MP4, much faster on Chrome and Edge.',
'Changed: clip downloads use Kick\'s own Download button when logged in; KickLab steps in when you\'re logged out or Kick\'s fails.',
'Improved: Quick clip uses Kick\'s current clip system.',
'Faster: channel pages load quicker with KickLab.',
'Fixed: several KickLab buttons were missing when using Kick in other languages.',
'Fixed: Multi-View chat stopped updating, and badges were missing in Multi-View and chat search.',
'Fixed: busy chats could skip messages in replay, search, history and alerts.',
'Fixed: resizing the window could make the stream go black.',
'Fixed: leaving theater mode took two clicks with Auto theater on.',
'Fixed: the Channel Profile button didn\'t show when logged out.',
'Fixed: the leaderboard could disappear from chat on its own.',

'Improved: KickLab is much lighter on Kick\'s pages — far less background work, so chat and the page stay smoother, especially on busy streams.',
'Added: a "Links" filter in Live chat search and VOD chat search — shows every message with a link in it.',
'Improved: messages a moderator deletes stay searchable in Live chat search (marked "deleted"), as long as your tab was open when they were posted.',
'Improved: hovering a timeout or ban notice now shows the person\'s last message even if your chat was scrolled up or the message was removed before it showed. If they hadn\'t said anything since you opened the stream, it now tells you instead of showing nothing.',
'Fixed: usernames in Live chat search and VOD chat search results looked like text boxes.',
'Fixed: with a custom Following sort or pinned channels, live channels jumped up and down a few times while the sidebar loaded. The list now appears once, already in order.',

'Fixed: dragging a stream into Multi-View could stop working until you reloaded the page.',
'Fixed: timeout and ban notices above the chat box were see-through and hard to read.',
'Fixed: the "last live" time in the Following sidebar stopped showing for some channels if you follow a lot of them. Channels with no saved broadcasts now show "–" (hover to see why) instead of nothing.',
'Improved: KickLab uses less memory in every Kick tab — settings and translations now load only when they\'re needed, and Live chat search no longer holds hours of chat it can\'t search.',

In case you missed it: the ad blocker now works on every channel. It blocks the ad breaks in the middle of a stream (the stream just keeps playing) and the ad that plays when a stream ends. It\'s off by default — turn it on in Settings → Ad blocking.',
'Added: Raid blocker (Settings → Channel page). Stops Kick from moving you to another channel when the streamer raids — you get a small notice with a "Go there" button instead. You can list channels you\'re happy to be raided to.',
'Added: pin your favorite channels to the top of the Following sidebar, and sort it by viewers or name. Offline channels now show when they were last live (like "13h"). (Fixed in 2.9.1: pinned channels didn\'t actually move to the top after a recent Kick change.)',
'Added: Volume boost — turn it on in Settings → Video → Player buttons, then use the new button on the player to make quiet streams louder (up to 400%).',
'Added: player shortcuts — ↑ / ↓ change the volume, and , / . step one frame back or forward on a paused VOD.',
'Added: a Channel details card next to the stream schedule — verified and affiliate status, when the channel joined Kick, recent categories, subscriber badges and the channel\'s own emotes.',
'Added: Stream stats — a small viewer-trend badge next to the viewer count. Click it for peak and average viewers and how busy chat is.',
'Added: automatically claim Kick\'s daily reward (Settings → Channel page).',
'Added: hovering a channel in the sidebar now shows how long they\'ve been live.',
'Added: if Kick shows you an ad while the ad blocker is off, KickLab offers to turn it on (at most every few days, and never again once you say so).',
'Changed: Channel details, the "last live" times and the new player shortcuts are on by default.',
'Fixed: several chat features stopped working after a Kick update — the active chatter count (showed 0), message history when you click a user, highlighting mods/VIPs/the streamer, chat messages per minute, Live chat search and Clip moments.',
'Fixed: "Catch me up" could keep switching Kick\'s captions off whenever the streamer went quiet. It now also tells you when a stream has no captions at all.',
'Fixed: on a VOD of a stream that\'s still live, the live viewer count, active chatters and uptime showed up next to the recording.',
'Fixed: Fullscreen chat opened empty — it now shows the last minute of chat and fills from the bottom like Kick\'s own chat.',
'Fixed: VOD chat search closed itself (losing your search) right after you jumped to a message.',
'Fixed: Multi-View\'s "Replay" did nothing if you pressed it soon after opening — it now rewinds as far back as it can.',
'Improved: video previews in the sidebar use far less data (they no longer play in full 1080p).',
'Improved: KickLab looks more consistent everywhere

In case you missed it: the ad blocker now works on every channel. It blocks the ad breaks in the middle of a stream (the stream just keeps playing) and the ad that plays when a stream ends. It\'s off by default — turn it on in Settings → Ad blocking.',
'Added: Raid blocker (Settings → Channel page). Stops Kick from moving you to another channel when the streamer raids — you get a small notice with a "Go there" button instead. You can list channels you\'re happy to be raided to.',
'Added: pin your favorite channels to the top of the Following sidebar, and sort it by viewers or name. Offline channels now show when they were last live (like "13h").',
'Added: Volume boost — turn it on in Settings → Video → Player buttons, then use the new button on the player to make quiet streams louder (up to 400%).',
'Added: player shortcuts — ↑ / ↓ change the volume, and , / . step one frame back or forward on a paused VOD.',
'Added: a Channel details card next to the stream schedule — verified and affiliate status, when the channel joined Kick, recent categories, subscriber badges and the channel\'s own emotes.',
'Added: Stream stats — a small viewer-trend badge next to the viewer count. Click it for peak and average viewers and how busy chat is.',
'Added: automatically claim Kick\'s daily reward (Settings → Channel page).',
'Added: hovering a channel in the sidebar now shows how long they\'ve been live.',
'Added: if Kick shows you an ad while the ad blocker is off, KickLab offers to turn it on (at most every few days, and never again once you say so).',
'Changed: Channel details, the "last live" times and the new player shortcuts are on by default.',
'Fixed: several chat features stopped working after a Kick update — the active chatter count (showed 0), message history when you click a user, highlighting mods/VIPs/the streamer, chat messages per minute, Live chat search and Clip moments.',
'Fixed: "Catch me up" could keep switching Kick\'s captions off whenever the streamer went quiet. It now also tells you when a stream has no captions at all.',
'Fixed: on a VOD of a stream that\'s still live, the live viewer count, active chatters and uptime showed up next to the recording.',
'Fixed: Fullscreen chat opened empty — it now shows the last minute of chat and fills from the bottom like Kick\'s own chat.',
'Fixed: VOD chat search closed itself (losing your search) right after you jumped to a message.',
'Fixed: Multi-View\'s "Replay" did nothing if you pressed it soon after opening — it now rewinds as far back as it can.',
'Improved: video previews in the sidebar use far less data (they no longer play in full 1080p).',
'Improved: KickLab looks more consistent everywhere

'Improved: the ad blocker now works on every channel, not just Slots & Casino. It blocks ad breaks in the middle of a stream (the stream keeps playing instead) and the ad that plays when a stream ends. Turn it on in Settings → Ad blocking.',
'Changed: Settings has been reorganized so things are easier to find. The sidebar is now grouped into Watching, Chat, Kick, and You, with more (and clearer) sections — for example Ad blocking, Chat layout, Catch up, and Notifications each have their own place.',
'Added: searching Settings now shows where each result lives (click it to jump straight there), and finds settings by more everyday words — try "ads", "resolution", or "background".',
'Added: a small dot marks any setting you\'ve changed from its default, and the sidebar shows how many you\'ve changed in each section.',
'Added: every group of settings now has its own "Reset section" button. It never clears lists you\'ve typed in, like highlighted keywords or hidden channels.',
'Added: a "Keep full quality" option for "When tab is hidden" (Settings → Video → Data saver). Kick normally lowers the quality after about a minute in a background tab — this keeps your chosen quality instead. The new "Default" option leaves Kick\'s behavior alone.',
'Fixed: your Max quality setting sometimes didn\'t apply — the stream stayed on Auto when a page first loaded or after switching to another channel.',
'Added: a "Copy debug report" button (Settings → KickLab → Backup & troubleshooting). If something isn\'t working, it copies the details we need so you can paste them into a bug report. Nothing is sent anywhere.',
'Fixed: the Channel profiles entry could show up in Settings in places where it can\'t be used.',

'Fixed: Kick\'s own chat-width resize handle couldn\'t be dragged while "Auto-hide top bar" was on.',
'Fixed: locking a video quality could cause extra stutters and rebuffering that Kick\'s own player doesn\'t have — stalls now recover the same way the stock player does.',

'Fixed: Chat Replay (shows old chat when you scrub back on a live stream) could fail to turn on when you scrubbed, especially right after loading the page.',
'Fixed: Chat Replay could flip back to live chat on its own a few seconds after turning on, or after scrubbing a second time.',
'Fixed: clicking "Go to Live" (Kick\'s own button, or KickLab\'s "Return to live" button) didn\'t always bring chat back to live along with the video.',
'Fixed: chat could stay empty for a bit right after Chat Replay turned on, if that moment in the stream was quiet.',
'Fixed: Chat Replay wouldn\'t turn on at all when scrubbing far back on a very long-running stream (several hours or more).',
'Changed: Chat Replay now turns on noticeably faster after you scrub.',
'Fixed: the KickLab and Multi-View buttons in Kick\'s navbar could disappear entirely depending on your window size.',
'Added: Multi-View\'s Focus mode now offers a side-by-side layout (main stream large on the left, the rest stacked on the right) as an alternative to the classic top-plus-strip arrangement — pick it in Settings → Focus mode → Main position.',
'Added: an "Auto-hide top bar" setting (Settings → Playback) — Kick\'s top navbar tucks itself away for more video space, and reappears when you move your mouse to the top of the page. An extra toggle lets you limit it to just the live stream page (leaving Browse, Following, and VODs alone).',
'Added: a "Middle-click to mute" setting (Settings → Playback) — middle-click the video to toggle mute.',
'Fixed: opening Multi-View could sometimes just refresh whatever tab you were already on instead of actually opening Multi-View.',
'Fixed: "Ease off on a bad connection" could get interrupted by unrelated settings changes elsewhere in the extension, letting quality jump back up mid-recovery and rebuffer again.',
'Added: if the stream gets stuck in a real buffering loop caused by a broken connection (not something quality settings can fix), KickLab will now automatically reload the page once to clear it.',
'Fixed: revealing a hidden viewer count, stream uptime, or active chatter count could fail to show up at all on channels that hide their viewer count — several small issues across the Following sidebar, Browse/Home cards, and the channel page itself.',
'Fixed: a revealed hidden viewer count didn\'t match Kick\'s own look (wrong color on the channel page, missing background on Browse/Home cards).',
'Fixed: resizing the browser window with "Auto-fit chat width" on could cause extra stream buffering during the drag.',
'Fixed: quickly switching away from and back to the tab with the bandwidth-saver "lowest quality while hidden" option on could cause an extra, unnecessary quality change.',
'Fixed: hovering a revealed deleted message to see its full text could sometimes leave that popup stuck on screen after moving your mouse away.',

'Fixed: hovering several channels quickly in the Following sidebar (with video previews on) could make the main stream skip or stall — previews now wait for a brief real hover before loading, and no longer spin up extra background threads for a preview that gets closed again almost immediately.',
'Fixed: a bad-connection stall severe enough to actually pause the player could slip past "Ease off on a bad connection," so it never eased off like it was supposed to.',
'Changed: "Ease off on a bad connection" (Settings → Playback → Quality) is now off by default.',
'Fixed: Kick\'s own channel-info tooltip could show up underneath our Following-sidebar hover preview.',
'Fixed: "Hide promo banners" now also hides the ad banner on category pages, not just the homepage.',
'Fixed: a revealed hidden viewer count (Following sidebar and Browse/Home) would freeze at its first value instead of updating like a normal visible count.',

'Added: an "Automatically hide chat" setting (Settings → Playback) — hides Kick\'s chat panel on the normal player so the video fills the extra width.',
'Added: KickLab now remembers whether your left sidebar was collapsed or expanded across reloads (on by default) — Kick doesn\'t remember this on its own.',
'Added: an "Auto-hide pinned message" setting (Settings → Chat → Display) — automatically dismisses a pinned chat message after a countdown (shown as a shrinking bar) instead of it staying until someone clicks hide.',
'Added: a "Display" dropdown on a channel\'s Videos tab to switch between Kick\'s grid and a compact list view (smaller thumbnail, title, and date in a row) — also available in Settings → Browse/Home.',
'Fixed: "Reveal deleted messages" could occasionally show Kick\'s plain, un-styled deleted notice instead of the actual message when the deleted message contained an emote.',
'Fixed: pinning "Max quality" to something below Auto (e.g. 1080p) could cause real rebuffering on a shaky connection, since the player could no longer drop resolution on its own to compensate. It now temporarily relaxes the quality cap after a real stall, then tries climbing back to your chosen quality once things stabilize — toggle it under Settings → Playback → Quality → "Ease off on a bad connection" (on by default).',
'Fixed: the Following-sidebar hover preview could get stuck open after moving your cursor to a channel that wasn\'t live.',
'Fixed: chat replay could kick in on a plain live join (not just when you actually scrubbed back), caused by a rare bad reading right after joining.',
'Fixed: the audio compressor could stop working for the rest of the session after Kick reconnected the player.',
'Improved: the Sleep Timer and Video Filters popups now close with the Escape key, and a few Settings "Reset section" buttons now confirm with a small message.',

'Added: a "Copy share link" button in Multi-View\'s Groups menu — creates a kicklab.app/mv/... link that opens the exact same set of streams (and layout) for anyone with KickLab, no account or saved group needed.',
'Added: the Following-sidebar hover preview now shows the stream\'s title as a caption, and no longer overlaps with the channel row\'s own tooltip while it\'s open.',
'Added: the Brightness player button is now a full "Video filters" button — brightness, contrast, and saturation sliders in one popup.',
'Added: a Sleep timer player button — pick 15/30/60/120 minutes and playback pauses automatically when it runs out.',
'Added: an Audio compressor player button — evens out loud/quiet moments (yelling vs. quiet talking) so you don\'t have to keep adjusting the volume.',
'Added: a "Keep tab awake" setting to stop your screen/computer from sleeping while a stream is playing.',
'Added: a character counter near the chat box while typing, against Kick\'s 500-character limit.',
'Added: "Clip Moment" alerts — a banner over chat when message activity suddenly spikes, so you know something clip-worthy might be happening.',
'Added: a bell button on each row in your Following sidebar (hover to reveal) to mute or unmute live notifications for just that channel, without unfollowing or hiding it.',
'Added: a "Contact us" link in Settings (and on kicklab.app) for bug reports and feature requests.',
'Added: a one-time "enjoying KickLab?" nudge (after real usage, not right after installing) with a review link and a contact link side by side.',
'Renamed: the "Stream schedule calendar" is now "Previous streams" / "Previous streams calendar," to avoid confusion with Kick\'s own new upcoming-schedule page.',

'Added: Fullscreen Chat now has a quick-settings gear icon (hover over the panel) so you can adjust transparency, blur, text size, minimal mode, and hover border without leaving fullscreen.',
'Added: a dedicated text size setting for Fullscreen Chat.',
'Fixed: on Firefox, turning off "start muted" didn\'t actually unmute the stream when it started.',
'Fixed: dragging a Fullscreen Chat slider too quickly could cause every other setting in the extension to temporarily stop saving.',
'Fixed: the volume slider could show 0% right after a stream started even though the sound was actually on and audible.',
'Fixed: dragging a volume slider in Multi-View\'s mixer could feel stuck or unresponsive.',
'Fixed: the active-chatter count could show a spinner forever instead of a clear "unavailable" state if Kick changed something on their end.',
'Improved: the "Become a Founding Supporter" prompts now also mention the cheaper monthly option.',
'Fixed: in Multi-View, a stream that went offline could sit frozen on its last frame for a few minutes before showing the "Offline" screen — it now shows up within seconds.',

'Fixed: Chat Replay\'s "Return to live" could jump all the way back to the start of the stream instead of live, for some timezones.',
'Fixed: the active-chatter count (Kick source) was showing a much lower number than Kick\'s own panel on busy chats.',
'Fixed: the active-chatter count and Kick clip link previews could briefly show data for the channel you were just watching after switching to a new one.',

'New: each live channel in the toolbar popup now has a Multi-View button — add it and jump straight into Multi-View without opening the channel page first.',
'New: a "Remember quality" setting inside Multi-View (off by default) that keeps your last-picked quality across sessions.',
'New: an "Auto-claim Drops rewards" setting (off by default) that automatically claims every claimable reward on the Drops page.',
'Fixed: in Multi-View, opening one popup menu (quality, mixer, etc.) no longer leaves other ones stuck open at the same time.',
'Fixed: the Multi-View button in the toolbar popup was opening a new duplicate tab every time instead of reusing one already open.',
'Fixed: the toolbar popup no longer scrolls — it grows to fit your live channels instead.',
'Fixed: clicking a "Replying to" quote could open a reply thread with no way to close it — traced to Kick reusing the same internal chat id for both the real chat and the reply popup.',
'Fixed: VOD Chat Heatmap/Search stopped working after a Kick site update changed how it looks up a video\'s info.',

version: '2.6.1',
date: '2026-08-08',
items: [
'Pro pricing cut across the board: Monthly is now $1.99/mo, Annual is a flat $9.99/yr, and the Founding Supporter lifetime deal is $14.99.',
'Fixed: Kick\'s own loading spinner would flash over the player after resizing the window, even though the video never actually stopped.',
'Fixed: a rare case where the video would rebuffer at a lower quality after returning to a long-backgrounded tab.',
],
},
{
version: '2.6.0',
date: '2026-08-02',
items: [
'New: hover a chat message for a copy-text button, right next to Kick\'s own Reply button.',
'New: custom chat commands (like !uptime) — broadcasters can set up trigger words that auto-reply in their own chat.',
'New: the toolbar icon now shows how many followed channels are live, and clicking it opens a quick list of them instead of settings — click a channel to open it, or use the Settings button at the bottom.',
'New: hidden viewer counts are now also revealed in your Following sidebar, not just channel pages and Browse.',
'New: hover a chat message for a button that copies the sender\'s username, next to the copy-text button.',
'New: add a private note to any chatter from Kick\'s own user popup — only you can see it, and it\'s never sent anywhere.',
'New: pick which sound plays for highlighted mentions (with a preview button), instead of just one fixed ping.',
'New: set a default reason to attach to quick timeouts.',
'New: hide a channel from your Following sidebar and Browse page without unfollowing it — hover a channel and click the ×, or manage the list in Settings.',
'New: hide any category from the Explore page the same way (not just gambling categories).',
'New: Settings now reopens to whichever section you were last looking at.',
'Fixed: the "Columns" control on the Browse page was pushing "Sort by" into the middle of the row instead of sitting next to it.',
],

'New: hover a chat message for a copy-text button, right next to Kick\'s own Reply button.',
'New: custom chat commands (like !uptime) — broadcasters can set up trigger words that auto-reply in their own chat.',
'New: the toolbar icon now shows how many followed channels are live, and clicking it opens a quick list of them instead of settings — click a channel to open it, or use the Settings button at the bottom.',
'New: hidden viewer counts are now also revealed in your Following sidebar, not just channel pages and Browse.',
'New: hover a chat message for a button that copies the sender\'s username, next to the copy-text button.',
'New: add a private note to any chatter from Kick\'s own user popup — only you can see it, and it\'s never sent anywhere.',
'New: pick which sound plays for highlighted mentions (with a preview button), instead of just one fixed ping.',
'New: set a default reason to attach to quick timeouts.',
'New: hide a channel from your Following sidebar and Browse page without unfollowing it — hover a channel and click the ×, or manage the list in Settings.',
'New: hide any category from the Explore page the same way (not just gambling categories).',
'New: Settings now reopens to whichever section you were last looking at.',
'Fixed: the "Columns" control on the Browse page was pushing "Sort by" into the middle of the row instead of sitting next to it.',

'Usernames in ban/timeout/unban chat notices are now clickable, opening the same user popup as clicking their name in a regular chat message.',
'Fixed: Fullscreen chat showed an empty panel after a Kick site update — rebuilt how it reads and sends chat so it\'s no longer affected by that kind of change.',

'New: Live Chat Search (Pro) — search the live chat you\'re watching by text, user, mentions, replies, mods, or subs, then jump straight to that moment and back to live.',
'New: "Catch me up" — an experimental, free button (Chrome only for now) that reads Kick\'s closed captions and gives you a quick summary of what you missed.',
'New: a 24-hour free trial now unlocks every Pro feature, not just Multi-View.',
'New: Monthly and Annual subscription options, alongside the existing lifetime Founding Supporter offer.',
'New: Watch time — see how long you\'ve spent watching each channel (Settings → Watch time), tracked privately on your own device. Works in Multi-View too, crediting whichever stream(s) you actually have audio on.',
'Fixed: Chat Replay could fail to turn on at all after rewinding a live stream.',
'Chat Replay\'s description now notes it can lag or skip a few messages during a very busy chat.',