Legacy Changelog

Below are the release notes for F-Chat Rising, Frolic’s predecessor. Frolic continues to support many of these features, but these releases may become outdated over time. See Frolic’s current changelog for recent release notes. These release notes have been preserved for posterity.

1.27.1 & 1.27.2 & 1.27.3

Build fixes

1.27.0

‘Non-binary’ kink is now respected in gender matching (credit: @FatCatClient)
OpenMoji is now treated as a fallback font (credit: @FatCatClient)
Added two UI themes: ‘Dracula’, and ‘Dark Dimmed’ (credit: @FatCatClient)
Each character can now set its own UI theme (credit: @Nensec)
Bugfix: Characters with ‘None’ gender are no longer considered a mismatch against other genders
Fixed Redgifs previews (again)

1.26.2

Fixed a few cases where high-quality portraits were not displayed

1.26.1

Added high-quality portrait guide
Added high-quality portrait check to Profile Helper
Added option for disabling high-quality portraits
Added cleaner [quote][/quote] style for profiles
Fixed Redgifs previews (again)

1.26.0

High-quality portraits
- Override the default 100x100px portrait with a high-resolution image
- Add the following anywhere in your character’s profile to enable high-quality portrait:
  - [url=https://some.domain.ext/path/to/image.png]Rising Portrait[/url]
  - Replace https://some.domain.ext/path/to/image.png with the URL to your portrait.
  - The URL must point directly to an image resource, such as PNG, GIF, or JPG (think of it as <img src="YOUR URL" />).
  - You will need to refresh the character profile in F-Chat Rising to see the new portrait.
- Yes, animations are supported! (GIF, APNG, AVIF, WebP)
- The image must be hosted on one of the following services:
  - f-list.net (profile image URLs and inline image URLs are supported)
  - e621.net
  - imgur.com
  - freeimage.host and its short-url iili.io
  - redgifs.com
- High-quality portraits are only visible to other F-Chat Rising users; users on other clients will see your regular portrait.
- If your image is not a square, you’re gonna have a bad time.
Fixed “select/unselect all” behavior in Post Ads (credit: @FatCatClient)
Extended emoji support (credit: @FatCatClient)

1.25.1

Shift-clicking in eicon selector adds the icon without closing the selector
Minor updates to browser switching

1.25.0

Added option for switching browsers (credit: @greyhoof)
Fixed broken adblocker
Fixed incorrect BBCode rendering of [collapse=[hr]test[hr]] (credit: @Abeehiltz)
Fixed TikTok previews
Switched node-sass to sass for ARM64 compatibility (credit: @WhiteHusky)

1.24.2

Hotfix to address connectivity issues

1.24.1

Hotfix to address issue with multiple tabs

1.24.0

Channel owners can now add [ads: 30min] in the channel description to limit how often Rising auto-posts ads on the channel
Neko/mimi species are now considered human, not anthro
Added ARM64 builds for Linux and Windows
Fixed a bug that prevented the client from occasionally recognizing gender preferences
Fixed more random freezes
Abandoned Keytar in favor of Electron safeStorage – you will need to re-enter your password
New URL: https://hearmeneigh.github.io/fchat-rising/

1.23.5

Fixed random freezes caused by profile cache

1.23.4

Hotfix to address slowdown issues
Fixed Profile Helper failing to detect stock kinks grouped inside custom kinks

1.23.3

Hotfix to fix color picker not disappearing

1.23.2

Hotfix to fix eicon search hanging the client

1.23.1

Added favorites to eicon picker
Improved eicon picker

1.23.0

Improved text editor
- eicon picker (courtesy of @Xariah Dailstone)
- color picker
Added privacy statement

1.22.0

Added quick profile view on the right side panel
Better YouTube previews (credit: @twilight-sparkle-irl)
Better Twitter previews (credit: @twilight-sparkle-irl)
Security updates to NPM dependencies
Fixed issue that prevented yarn.lock from being deleted
Join channel / open conversation UI glow now stops after ~25 seconds

1.21.2

Fixed image previews for imgur.io, gifdeliverynetwork.com, and rule34.us
Fixed dependencies
Profile analyser now warns about a missing portrait image
Added option for mini portraits in chat messages
Added convenience buttons to joining a channel and creating a private chat

1.21.1

Fixed a bug that skipped resolving profiles from channel ads
Non-binary genders are now considered mismatches against straight, gay, and bi orientations
- To override this, you can add kinks such as ‘transgenders’ to your favorite kinks
Smart Filter automatically marks matches as red if ‘penalize matches’ is selected

1.21.0

Added clearer broadcast messages
Removed extra arrow from gallery view (credit: @FatCatClient)
Added profile analyser to help improve profile matching
Dictionary lookup view now has a ‘open in browser’ button
Character memos are now displayed more prominently
Fixed redgifs.com V3 image previews
Fixed rule34video.com image previews
‘Select all channels’ for Post Ads

1.20.0

Kink scoring is skipped if characters have only a few shared kinks
Kink scoring gives more weight to ‘favorite’ and ‘no’ categories
Fixed auto-responder not responding to previously unknown characters
Fixed re-order tabs
Added Ad Editor:
- Central ad editor for all ads
- Button near ‘Console’ in the Sidebar
Added Post Ads:
- Select ads based on your mood, preference, etc.
- Launch ads on multiple channels
- Button near ‘Console’ in the Sidebar

1.19.3

Added option to have character portrait displayed next to text input
Fixed asexual orientation ID
Replaced the action star icon to differentiate with the mod badges

1.19.2

Fixed a bug that could lead to ad-flooding if the client experiences frequent connection drops

1.19.1

Performance improvement for players who connect multiple characters at the same time
Limit max height of the status message banner on character profile

1.19.0

Fixed formatting for body type comparison
Fixed auto-responder failing to send a message in certain cases
Fixed profile kink highlights so that ‘receiving’ and ‘giving’ types of the same kink are handled correctly
Added character status text to character profile
Added ‘Recon’ tab to character profile
Added a button for sorting channel member list by name (default), status, gender

1.18.1

Minor smart filtering fixes

1.18.0

Upgraded to Electron 17
Fixed MacOS M1 incompatibilities
Improved age detection
Taur and feral body types are now matched against kink preferences
Filtered messages are now accessible in the conversation history
Rejection messages are now also sent to filtered characters whose profiles have not been scored at the time they message you
Slightly relaxed filter scoring
Character preview now shows last messages from conversation history

1.17.1

Fixes to smart filters

1.17.0

Added a way to hide/filter out characters, messages, and ads (Settings > Smart Filters)
Added MacOS M1 build

1.16.2

Fixed broken auto-ads

1.16.1

Fixed ad fields becoming uneditable after an ad is removed
Fixed ads attempting to send after leaving a channel
Linux users now get automatic updates
Added configuration option to opt out from Windows high-contrast setting (Menu > F-Chat > Rising > Disable high-contrast mode)

1.16.0

Upgraded to Electron 14.x
Minor security updates
Added body type search (credit: @ButterCheezii)
Link previews can now be pinned with a trackpad by clicking while pressing alt/option key (credit: @ButterCheezii)
Fixed character preview lag (credit: @ButterCheezii)

1.15.1

Fixed missing ad buttons

1.15.0

Upgraded to Electron 13.x
Fixed cache bugs that slowed down the client

1.14.1

Security updates
Fixed Redgifs (again)

1.14.0

Fixed Redgifs previews
Fixed zoom in/out/reset (Ctrl +/-/0)
Fixed tiger sharks being labeled as felines
Fixed bug that prevented posting normal channel messages when auto-posting is active
Fixed bug that removed links when chat messages were copied to clipboard

1.13.0

Position is now part of the profile match score

1.12.0

Post length preference is now part of the profile match score
Improved kink match scoring
Middle click a link to pin or unpin preview

1.11.0

Kinks are now part of the profile match score
Merged with the latest official F-Chat codebase
Fixed broken [collapse] when wrapped in [heading]

1.10.1

Improved performance on highly advertised channels like LFRP
Fixed Rule34.xxx previews

1.10.0

Moved database queries to a web worker to gain more responsive UI
Fixed Gelbooru, Gfycat, Hentai-Foundry, Instagram, Twitter, and Vimeo previews
Fixed green names not showing up when ‘show friends/bookmarks in a different colour’ is selected
Sped up Imgur previews
Minor UI design adjustments for usernames with badges

1.9.0

Right click any word and select ‘Look up…’ to see its dictionary definition
Skip button for auto-post ads
Image tab on the character profile view now loads up faster
Search results view is now more responsive while scoring profiles
Fixed ‘unicorn match’ badge color

1.8.0

Added colorblind mode (settings -> rising -> colorblind mode)

1.7.0

Option for serving ads in random order
Fixed Twitter previews crashing the app

1.6.0

Show number of unread notes and messages in the bottom right corner
Fixed max ad length for automated ads
Fixed ‘unsure’ sexual orientation to display correctly in character preview

1.5.0

Use Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+Shift+Tab, Ctrl+PgDown, and Ctrl+PgUp to switch between character tabs
Better search rankings
Really good matches get a ‘unicorn’ tag
Relaxed matching rules for switches so that they match better against ‘usually dominant’ and ‘usually submissive’ profiles
Fixed IMGBB, Shadbase previews

1.4.1

Fixed some image previews showing up black

1.4.0

More configurable settings for F-Chat Rising
Hover mouse over a character name to see a character preview

1.3.0

Improved species search and matching
Toggle ads button shows up in channels list if you have set up ads for the channel
Ad editor is now a BBCode editor
Improved Tumblr previews
Twitter previews have been disabled for now (they crash the client)
Right-click character menu now displays match results
Fixed issues with image preview ad blocker

1.2.0

Hide/show current character profile with Ctrl+P or Command+P
Navigate back and forward in character profile view history

1.1.0

Upgraded to Electron 10.x
Upgraded to Keytar 6.x – you will need to re-enter your password
Added Furaffinity image previews (non-adult only)
Added support for species-fluid characters
Fixed logging out and then logging in with a new character breaking character comparison
Fixed friends list not updating character status

1.0.2

Fixed a caching issue that caused cache misses on character page metadata
Fixed rate limit issues that sometimes disconnected characters when multiple characters were connected
Fixed a bug in age matching
URL preview fixes for Redgifs, Gelbooru, Tumblr, and Gifmixxx
All dependencies are now up to date
F-Chat Rising now flushes character profiles out of its cache after 30 days
Age difference for ‘older’ and ‘younger’ character kinks is now 8 years

1.0.1

Enabled auto-updates for Windows; MacOS and Linux not supported, sorry!
Reviewed security with:
- Electron Security
- Doyensec Electron Security Checklist
- Doyensec Electronegativity
- Quasar Electron Security Concerns
- Reasonably Secure Electron
- SNYK.io vulnerability scan

1.0.0

Channel Conversations
- Highlight ads from characters most interesting to you
- Hide clearly unmatched ads
Ad Auto-Posting
- Manage channel ad settings via “Tab Settings”
- Automatically re-post ads every 11-18 minutes (randomized) for up to 180 minutes
- Rotate multiple ads on a single channel by entering multiple ads in “Ad Settings”
Ad Ratings
- LFP ads are automatically rated (great/good/maybe/no) and matched against your profile
Private Conversations
- View a characters’ recent ads
Link Previews
- Hover cursor over any [url] to see a preview of it
- Middle click any [url] to turn the preview into a sticky / interactive mode
- Link preview has an ad-blocker to minimize page load times and protect against unfriendly scripts
Profile
- Kinks are auto-compared when viewing character profile
- Custom kink explanations can be expanded inline
- Custom kinks are highlighted
- Gender, anthro/human preference, age, sexual preference, and sub/dom preference are highlighted if compatible or incompatible
- Guestbook, friend, and group counts are visible on tab titles
- Character images are expanded inline
- Cleaner presentation for the side bar details (age, etc.), sorted in most relevant order
- Less informative side bar details (views, contact) are separated and shown in a less prominent way
- Cleaner guestbook view
- Profiles, images, guestbook posts, and groups are cached for faster view
- Character view tabs (overview, images, etc.) stick to the top
Character Search
- Search results are sorted based on match scores
- Display match score in search results
- Current search filters are listed in the search dialog
- Search filters can be reset
- Search results can be filtered by species
- Last 15 searches are stored and can be accessed from the ‘Character search’ dialog
Character Status Message
- Last 10 status messages are stored and can be accessed from the ‘Set status’ dialog
General
- Character profiles, guestbooks, friend lists, and image lists are cached for faster access
- Conversation dialog can be opened by typing in a character name
- Message search matches character names
- PM list shows characters’ online status as a colored icon
Technical Details for Nerds
- Upgraded to Electron 9.x
- Replaced node-spellchecker with the built-in spellchecker that ships with Electron 8+
- Multi-language support for spell checking (Windows only – language is autodetected on MacOS)

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