The short version
- 3Speak 2.0 is live: every page of 3speak.tv has a new design, on desktop and on phones, and the video editor got the same look.
- Home gets a sliding Spotlight with short video previews, plus a side panel with the latest from the community and your groups.
- On phones, the audio player docks above the bottom bar and follows your swipes: left and right to skip 15 seconds, up to open, down to close.
- Your wallet claims rewards in one click and shows a QR code to receive HIVE and HBD.
- The Audio Editor is open to everyone: cut, clean up and level your podcast, make audiograms that go out as Shorts, and record with a teleprompter.
- Invite people and earn: 10% of what the people you invite earn from ads, for their first 3 months, paid on top by 3Speak.
- Playlists can hold whole podcast shows from anywhere, and audio and playlists can be embedded on other websites.
- Under the hood: smoother video playback, no ads paid out to crawlers, more than 5,000 new tests that found and fixed over 100 bugs, and new Snapie content filters.
🌐 3speak.tv website
new-3speak-tv · 18 merged changes, including the 2.0 release (#566)
3Speak 2.0: a new look for every page
Over the years, 3speak.tv grew one feature at a time. New things were built next to old code, each with its own look, and in some places it felt messy: buttons, menus and windows that didn't match from one page to the next.
3Speak 2.0 fixes that. Every screen, menu and window has been redesigned from one design system, so the whole site now has consistent branding and modern, state-of-the-art design: flat cards, the 3Speak red and blue, one set of icons and the same building blocks everywhere.
We know most of us humans don't love change, especially on a site we use every day. But we think this one is super slick and awesome, and we hope that after a few days you will agree.
We rely on your feedback. If anything broke, or something you used every day is now hard to find, tell us in the comments or with the Feedback button on the site, and we will fix it as fast as we can, as always.
- Wider layouts: on a big screen, Home now fits four videos side by side.
- A cleaner top bar: Home, Shorts, Live, Audio and Groups always one click away, a Playlists menu with Watch Later and your history, and a Create button that sorts everything you can make into Video, Audio, Live and Others.
- The same look on every page: watch pages, Shorts, the Audio page, channels, communities, Settings, the uploaders and every popup.
- Faster first load: icons, video players, popups and the emoji picker now load only when they are needed, and the Spotlight starts fetching its videos right away. The icon font alone went from 4.5 MB to 108 KB. On a prod-like build, the home page showed its main content in 1.25 s instead of 2.0 s on desktop, and in 5.2 s instead of 7.1 s on a phone on 4G.
- All 21 languages are translated for every new and reworded text.
On your phone
Every screen of 3Speak 2.0 was designed for phones too, not just squeezed down from the desktop.
- A bottom bar that stays put: it is docked to the bottom edge of the screen and no longer jumps while you scroll, Firefox on Android included. On iPhones, the area of the home indicator is part of the bar.
- A big red + in the middle opens everything you can create: a video, a Short, a story, audio or a playlist.
- Audio has its own tab in the bar now, next to Home and Shorts. Groups moved into the account menu.
- The Spotlight comes first: the featured video fills the top of Home with a big Play button, and Save and Share right next to it.
- The audio player docks right above the bottom bar, so you can keep listening while you browse.
- Swipe the audio player: swipe left or right to jump 15 seconds back or forward, swipe up to open the full player and down to close it. On the open player, a swipe down tucks it away again.
- The queue always shows what is playing. Removing the playing track goes on with the next one, and an empty queue closes the player.
- One video per row, with the title, the creator, the votes and the payout easy to read.
- Popups open from the bottom as sheets, each with a title bar and a close button, so they are easy to reach with your thumb.
- Warm-up accounts see their progress as a ring around their avatar in the bottom bar.
- Channel pages keep Follow, Message, Tip and Share in one row, and on small screens Message shortens to "DM" so everything fits.
Channel pages
Channel pages got a calmer header: the name, a row of stats with the channel's linked profiles, and Follow, Message, Tip, Share and More as clear buttons. The tabs below hold Videos, Shorts, Audio, Playlists, Community, Supporters and Members, with a search for the channel next to them.
A new Home
- A sliding Spotlight: the top of Home moves through all featured videos, one every 7 seconds. On desktop it plays a short, muted preview of each one, and you can turn previews off under Settings, Appearance.
- A side panel next to your feed: new audio, playlists and posts from the community, plus your groups. People still in their warm-up see their goals there.
- "Mark all as seen" on the strip of new videos from people you follow: it comes back only when someone you follow posts again.
- The feed tabs are now Discover, Following, Interests and New, and picking your interests in Settings uses the same picture tiles as the first-visit popup.
First-time visitors are greeted by a new welcome card: five tiles that say what 3Speak is about (a real alternative to corporate social media since 2019, community-owned, creators earn from upvotes and ads, viewers and listeners earn too, and we never sell your data), with a big button to take the tour and one for the FAQ.
Your wallet
The wallet is new too. When rewards are waiting, a banner shows how much, and Claim collects them in one click. Receive shows a QR code for your account, which can ask for an amount in HIVE or HBD and carry a memo. On phones, Scan in the Send window fills in the recipient from their QR code. A card shows your resource credits in plain words ("enough for about 458 posts right now"), and a chart shows what you earned in the last 30 days.
The Audio Editor, for everyone
The Audio Editor is open to every creator, from the Create menu and from every track in the audio upload (Edit audio). It is made for podcasts, music and voice:
- Cut silences finds the pauses and closes the gaps, and levelling brings your episode to podcast loudness.
- Voice and music on their own tracks, fades, noise reduction, a music library and sound effects, for recordings up to 3 hours.
- A template with your intro, outro and music bed, applied by itself to every new recording.
- Chapters that end up in the MP3 and in the episode's description.
- Audiograms: pick a piece of up to 2 minutes and design a vertical video with your cover, title and a moving waveform. Each one goes out as a Short together with your audio, and on the Shorts page it opens the full episode.
The audio upload got better too:
- A teleprompter for recording in the browser, in the upload and in the editor: write your script, and it scrolls at a steady speed or follows your voice.
- Make a transcript writes down what you said (English for now) and puts it under your post text, ready to edit.
- Covers: your playlist's cover is picked for you, and you can design your own cover with text and stickers.
- The post description has the full editor, with emoji, GIFs, images and a preview.
Invite people, earn 10%
Settings has your personal invite link. Invite someone with it, and you get 10% of their ad rewards for their first 3 months, whether they earn as a creator, a viewer or a listener, plus 2% of their ad campaigns if they advertise. 3Speak pays this on top: the people you invite keep everything they earn.
Listening now earns from the same pool as watching, at the same rate. Switch on "Count my listening too" in the same tab. (#546)
Playlists and podcasts
- Whole shows in a playlist: add any podcast from anywhere with the new External shows button, and its new episodes show up by themselves.
- Playlist types: mark a playlist as Video or Audio, and audio playlists as Podcast, Music, Voice notes or Other sounds. Tracks uploaded into a Music or Podcast playlist take that type.
- Embed on your website: every audio, audio playlist and outside podcast has an Embed button. A playlist embed always shows the latest tracks.
- Audio cards show the title of the post instead of the recording's file name.
Small touches
- "Not interested" really works now: videos you mark, and creators you hide with "Don't show this creator", stay out of every feed right away, also when you come back to a page later. (#565)
- Powered by Hive: a link to hive.io in the account menu, on the About page and in the FAQ. (#563)
- Hiding a creator hides everything they post: videos, Shorts, audio, playlists and stories.
- Mark all read really clears everything, stories and podcast episodes included, and is in the bell too.
- Escape closes windows, and the top bar, notifications, comments and the upload picker work with a keyboard and screen readers.
- Scheduled posts can be edited in a popup that matches the uploader.
- Videos that stall on one server now load the next piece from another one within seconds.
- Thumbnails hosted on Ecency load through our own image cache, so they show up for everyone.
- Shorts and story captions no longer repeat the "Watch on 3Speak" footer.
- Remix drafts opened later still post under the original.
- Uploads show a short notice: copyrighted material declines its payout.
- Accounts that can't upload now see why, with a way to reach us.
(#545, #549, #550, #551, #552, #553, #558, #560, #561, #562)
⚡ Feeds and API
3speakchecks · 27 changes
The "checker" is the service behind 3Speak's feeds, ads, tips and the Audio page.
- Tested like never before: the checker went from 17% to 98.5% of its code covered by tests, on a throwaway database that can never touch real data or real money. Writing the tests found 70 bugs, and all of them are fixed, from a request that could crash the service to a few security issues. The video player (99.4%) and the website (1,417 to 4,251 unit tests) got the same treatment. (#120, #121, #123, #124, #125, #126, #127)
- No ads paid out to crawlers: search engines and AI crawlers that render watch pages were "watching" ads, which took money away from creators with real viewers. In two days of logs, 38,578 of 69,652 ad requests came from them, and they are refused now. (#141, #142)
- No ads on content that can't earn: posts that decline their payout, and creators whose rewards are blocked, carry no ads at all. (#143)
- Audio ads, calmer: at most one audio ad every 15 minutes per listener, and video tickers play in audio only when the advertiser chooses it. (#116, #117)
- Referral bonus and listener rewards behind the new Settings tab. (#118, #134)
- A second checker in the US: the site talks to whichever one answers faster for you, and every change now goes to the US one first. (#132, #133)
- Thumbnails for videos that had none: some apps upload without a thumbnail, which left 1,740 videos with the placeholder. They now get a frame from the video. (#136)
- Audio: real post titles instead of file names, podcast hosts listed under Creators on the Podcasts tab, playlist types in feeds and RSS, and outside shows inside playlists. (#128, #130, #131, #141)
- Faster, steadier: a repeated search answers in about 2 ms instead of 2.5 seconds, and podcast crawlers can no longer slow down the whole site by reading every RSS feed at once. (#127, #135)
- Hidden creators and unlisted videos stay out of every feed, the search and its suggestions, and "Mark all as seen" support for the new-videos strip. (#119, #137, #144)
🎚️ Video editor
3speak-editor-suite · 11 changes
- The 3Speak 2.0 look: the audio and Shorts editor now match the new site, with the same colours, icons, buttons and popups, and popups become bottom sheets on phones. (#25)
- Clearer camera errors: the recorders used to say "Camera access denied" for every problem. Now they tell you what is really wrong, like a camera busy in a video call, and offer Try again. (#25)
- The audio mode behind the Audio Editor, with MP3 export, templates, the audiogram studio and the teleprompter in the voice recorder. (#15, #21, #24)
- Flags: press B to drop numbered, coloured markers on the timeline. They move along with your edits. (#18)
- Drafts remember the view: the zoom and the selected clip come back when you open a draft. (#18)
- Taller or shorter tracks: drag the handle under a track's name, and tracks scroll up and down when they don't fit. (#19)
- Ripple closes a gap on the selected clip's track only, so a music bed stays where it is. (#17)
- Shorts editor fixes: picking a sticker no longer crashes the editor, Add Text lands at the playhead, and remixes save drafts again. (#22, #23)
- Every merged change is now tested and deployed by itself. (#16, #20)
▶️ Video player
snapievideoplayer · 9 changes
- No more endless spinners: some new uploads played their first seconds and then hung. The player now picks the fastest server for every piece of a video. In a test run over 8 new videos, 0 of 100 pieces failed, where 19 failed across 3 videos before. (#57, #58, #59)
- A new home for older videos: videos moved to our new archive storage play from there, and fall back to the usual servers if needed. (#63, #64, #66)
- 99.4% of the code covered by tests, which found 9 bugs, all fixed: watch time can't be counted faster than real time, clearer error messages, subtitles that stay with the right video. (#60, #61, #62)
🎧 Audio embed
snapieaudio · 5 changes
- Playlist and podcast embeds: one player with every track, page by page, a volume control and Next and Previous. (#12, #13)
- Audio that wouldn't start (stuck at 0:00 in some browsers) plays again, and a server that fails is swapped for another one. (#14, #15)
- A sponsor spot at the start now plays before any of the track, not a second into it. (#16)
📱 Snapie
snapie-io · 5 releases
- 3Speak audio and playlists in snaps: paste a 3Speak audio or playlist link into a snap or post, and it plays right there. (#359)
- Content filters: a "Hide game results" switch, muting by app or tag, and "Hide posts like this" on any snap. Your filters follow you to every device. (#336)
- Easier to find: a sitemap, real page titles and full posts for search engines, and proper "not found" pages. (#332, #340)
- Chat can be closed on phones, images load again for visitors who were being rate limited, the Wallet tab has a real page, and a "Powered by Hive" link sits in the footer. (#332, #339, #359)
🗄️ Storage
hotnode · 2 changes · trafficdirector · 2 changes
On November 9, new uploads stopped because a storage node was taken out of rotation over a backlog that didn't actually stop it from working. Now the node keeps taking uploads and sends an alert every hour instead, and it pauses on its own only when it is really filling up (80%), resuming at 75%. (hotnode #17, #18, trafficdirector #3, #4)
Questions about 3Speak 2.0, or something that broke or looks off after the update? Tell us in the comments, we read every one and fix things fast.
