{"id":136927,"date":"2026-08-11T15:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/?page_id=136927"},"modified":"2026-08-11T15:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:53:12","slug":"whats-new","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/whats-new\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fn-page\"><div class=\"fn-page-head\"><span class=\"fn-page-title\"><span class=\"fn-page-bullet\">&#9658;<\/span> What&#039;s New?<\/span><\/div><div class=\"fn-page-tag\">Everything FlameNet has gained lately, grouped by the part of the site it changed.<\/div><div class=\"fn-page-body\"><div class=\"fnwn-group\"><div class=\"fnwn-group-head\">Forums<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-intro\">Your posts now say something about who you are.<\/p><ul class=\"fnwn-items\"><li class=\"fnwn-item\"><div class=\"fnwn-title\">Ranks and stars<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-text\">Every post shows your rank and post count. It starts at your very first post, so you are not staring at a ladder whose first rung is fifty posts away.<\/p><p class=\"fnwn-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/forum\/\">Open the forums &raquo;<\/a><\/p><\/li><li class=\"fnwn-item\"><div class=\"fnwn-title\">Pick your own title<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-text\">Prefer something other than the rank you earned? Set a custom title and that shows instead. Leave it empty to go back to your rank.<\/p><p class=\"fnwn-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/my-flamenet\/\">Set your title &raquo;<\/a><\/p><\/li><li class=\"fnwn-item\"><div class=\"fnwn-title\">Signatures<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-text\">A few lines under everything you post. Set it once in My FlameNet, clear the box and save to remove it.<\/p><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"fnwn-group\"><div class=\"fnwn-group-head\">Webrings<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-intro\">A ring is meant to send people round the circle. Now it can.<\/p><ul class=\"fnwn-items\"><li class=\"fnwn-item\"><div class=\"fnwn-title\">Put the ring nav on your own site<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-text\">Open your ring and copy the snippet. It is plain HTML with no script and no stylesheet, so it works on any site, however it was built. Visitors who use it travel to the next site in the ring.<\/p><p class=\"fnwn-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/webrings\/\">Browse the rings &raquo;<\/a><\/p><\/li><li class=\"fnwn-item\"><div class=\"fnwn-title\">Prev, Random, Next and List<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-text\">All four work from any member site, and the ring wraps around \u2014 going back from the first site takes you to the last.<\/p><\/li><li class=\"fnwn-item\"><div class=\"fnwn-title\">Ring owners can see the traffic<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-text\">Every hop through the ring is counted, so an owner can tell whether their ring is actually carrying anyone. Crawlers are excluded.<\/p><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"fnwn-group\"><div class=\"fnwn-group-head\">Directory<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-intro\">Four thousand hand-sorted links, and two new ways into them.<\/p><ul class=\"fnwn-items\"><li class=\"fnwn-item\"><div class=\"fnwn-title\">Random Site<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-text\">One click drops you somewhere in the directory you would never have gone looking for. The old web had this everywhere and it was the best thing about it.<\/p><p class=\"fnwn-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/?fnld_random=1\">Take me somewhere &raquo;<\/a><\/p><\/li><li class=\"fnwn-item\"><div class=\"fnwn-title\">Bookmark a site<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-text\">Star any listing to keep it. Your bookmarks sit with your watched threads and saved stations rather than in a separate list.<\/p><p class=\"fnwn-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/directory\/\">Browse the directory &raquo;<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"fnwn-group\"><div class=\"fnwn-group-head\">My FlameNet<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-intro\">Your home page is now yours to arrange.<\/p><ul class=\"fnwn-items\"><li class=\"fnwn-item\"><div class=\"fnwn-title\">Choose your boxes<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-text\">Weather, top stories, discussions, activity, karma, the poll, who is online \u2014 keep the ones you want and switch off the rest.<\/p><p class=\"fnwn-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/my-flamenet\/\">Set up my home page &raquo;<\/a><\/p><\/li><li class=\"fnwn-item\"><div class=\"fnwn-title\">Put them in your own order<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-text\">Give each box a position and it moves. The ones you care about can sit at the top.<\/p><\/li><li class=\"fnwn-item\"><div class=\"fnwn-title\">Pick a colour<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-text\">FlameNet normally takes its colour from whichever section you are in. Choose one of the seven and it stays the same everywhere instead.<\/p><\/li><li class=\"fnwn-item\"><div class=\"fnwn-title\">Save your ZIP code<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-text\">The weather box stops asking every single visit.<\/p><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"fnwn-group\"><div class=\"fnwn-group-head\">Radio<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-intro\">A new section, and the first one built to be left running in the background.<\/p><ul class=\"fnwn-items\"><li class=\"fnwn-item\"><div class=\"fnwn-title\">Four hundred and twenty stations<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-text\">Seventeen genres, from ambient and chiptune to jazz, metal and public radio. Search by station name or browse a genre.<\/p><p class=\"fnwn-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/radio\/\">Open Radio &raquo;<\/a><\/p><\/li><li class=\"fnwn-item\"><div class=\"fnwn-title\">It plays while you browse<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-text\">Picking a station does not reload the page, so the music keeps going while you read the forums or check your mail.<\/p><\/li><li class=\"fnwn-item\"><div class=\"fnwn-title\">Save the ones you like<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-text\">Star any station and it lands in My Stations. The chart of what everyone is tuned into builds itself from real listening.<\/p><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"fnwn-group\"><div class=\"fnwn-group-head\">Audio<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-intro\">Members can now put their own music on FlameNet.<\/p><ul class=\"fnwn-items\"><li class=\"fnwn-item\"><div class=\"fnwn-title\">Upload and share MP3s<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-text\">Add a title, artist and description, then share a track with a single link. WAV, OGG, FLAC, M4A and AAC work too.<\/p><p class=\"fnwn-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/audio\/\">Open Audio &raquo;<\/a><\/p><\/li><li class=\"fnwn-item\"><div class=\"fnwn-title\">Rate and comment<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-text\">Every track has a comment thread and a thumbs up or down.<\/p><\/li><li class=\"fnwn-item\"><div class=\"fnwn-title\">Your uploads are searchable<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-text\">Tracks now turn up in MP3 \/ Audio Search alongside the rest of the library, with the most-played listed on top.<\/p><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"fnwn-group\"><div class=\"fnwn-group-head\">Video<\/div><ul class=\"fnwn-items\"><li class=\"fnwn-item\"><div class=\"fnwn-title\">Uploading works again<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-text\">Video uploads had been failing quietly for some time. They work now.<\/p><p class=\"fnwn-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/videos\/\">Open Videos &raquo;<\/a><\/p><\/li><li class=\"fnwn-item\"><div class=\"fnwn-title\">Views are counted<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-text\">View counts had been sitting at zero regardless of how often something was watched. The most-watched videos now appear on the Video Search page.<\/p><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"fnwn-group\"><div class=\"fnwn-group-head\">Mail<\/div><ul class=\"fnwn-items\"><li class=\"fnwn-item\"><div class=\"fnwn-title\">Delete any message<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-text\">Previously you could only remove messages you had sent yourself. Now you can clear anything out of your own mailbox, whether you sent it or received it.<\/p><p class=\"fnwn-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/mail\/\">Open Mail &raquo;<\/a><\/p><\/li><li class=\"fnwn-item\"><div class=\"fnwn-title\">The Compose button is legible<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-text\">It had been turning an unreadable purple against its own background once you had used it.<\/p><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"fnwn-group\"><div class=\"fnwn-group-head\">Across the site<\/div><ul class=\"fnwn-items\"><li class=\"fnwn-item\"><div class=\"fnwn-title\">Every section shares one layout<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-text\">Each part of FlameNet used to draw its own page header, and several drew none at all. They now share a single header, coloured to match the section you are in.<\/p><\/li><li class=\"fnwn-item\"><div class=\"fnwn-title\">Buttons you could not read<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-text\">All Sections in News Search and Create a Room in Chat had the same fault as Compose. A sweep found and fixed the rest before anyone else ran into them.<\/p><\/li><li class=\"fnwn-item\"><div class=\"fnwn-title\">Videos, Audio and Radio in the menu<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-text\">All three now appear in Explore, so they are reachable without knowing the address.<\/p><\/li><li class=\"fnwn-item\"><div class=\"fnwn-title\">Saved things live in one place<\/div><p class=\"fnwn-text\">Watched forum topics, saved radio stations and finance watchlists were each kept separately. They now share one home \u2014 which is what will let us tell you when something you follow gets a reply.<\/p><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-136927","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}