'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.',

'New: pick which "active chatter" number you see — our own 10-minute estimate, or Kick\'s own count (Chat → Display).',
'New: force plain black bars around the video instead of Kick\'s blurred background (Player → Playback).',
'New: Auto-fit chat width — automatically resizes Kick\'s chat panel so there\'s no black bar beside (or, in theatre mode, above/below) the video.',
'Audio only now has a "Click to show video" button, just for that stream — your setting stays as you left it.',
'Added Russian translation.',
'Fixed: DVR seeking could stop working entirely (no video, errors) after watching a stream for a while, caused by our own ad-blocker. Also hardened the ad-blocker to never touch a failed request, in case that was contributing to a separate, rarer version of the same symptom.',
'Fixed: several player bugs (Audio only not hiding the video, "When tab is hidden → Pause" doing nothing, Start muted appearing broken) that all traced back to the same mix-up with Kick\'s navbar reward-button animation.',
'Fixed: remembered volume wasn\'t being restored when Start muted and Remember volume were both on.',
'Fixed: the mod-action notice box could get left behind when the chat panel scrolled.',
'Fixed: the "Reveal deleted messages" preview could pop up partly off-screen.',
'Revealed deleted messages now say which moderator took the action, when known.',

'The emote picker now has a "Frequently Used" row for your 7TV/BTTV/FFZ emotes, right inside Kick\'s own emote menu.',
'New: Rich link previews — hover a Kick or Twitch channel/clip link, or a YouTube link, in chat to see a thumbnail and title preview.',
'Fixed: timing out or banning someone from a regular chat page (not the mod dashboard) could crash Kick\'s chat.',
'Fixed: the quick-timeout icon didn\'t work on popout chat.',
'Default timeout duration now has a "Custom…" option for any exact minutes, not just the presets.',
'New: hide the recent-gifter/top-purchase bar above chat (Interface → Declutter).',
'Mod-action notices ("X timed out Y") now stay up 10 seconds instead of 30.',

• Chat → Moderation "Hover & inline actions" settings (chatHidePin,
  chatHideDelete, chatHideModIcons, chatInlineModActions) — Kick now has
  its own native controls for these (visible Pin/Delete buttons, its own
  hide-icons setting), so ours were redundant. Kept Default timeout
  duration, repurposed to override the duration Kick's own native
  quick-timeout icon applies.

• Kick's native quick-timeout icon now goes through a direct API call
  (POST /api/v2/channels/{slug}/bans) instead of typing /timeout into
  chat and letting Kick parse it server-side — measurably faster (~90ms) since
  it skips the compose-and-submit pipeline entirely, and applies the
  configured Default timeout duration instead of Kick's own default.
  Investigated the same treatment for Ban and Delete; both measured
  statistically identical to Kick's native handler (their bottleneck is the
  realtime confirmation round-trip, not request-initiation overhead), so both
  were left on Kick's native path rather than add override complexity for no
  gain.

• Revealing a moderator-deleted message could crash Kick's own chat app
  with a removeChild NotFoundError. The old implementation appended a
  sibling node directly into the message's React-owned, virtualized-list DOM
  subtree; once that row got recycled for a different message, React's own
  reconciliation could collide with our untracked node. Rewritten to never
  mutate that subtree at all — only a single visibility style toggle plus a
  full row clone rendered in a floating overlay entirely outside Kick's DOM
  tree, positioned off the row's own bounding box every frame.
• Deleted-message detection (and the reveal feature) could sit stale for a
  long time — the chat MutationObserver only reacted to brand-new message
  rows being added, never to Kick swapping an existing row's content in
  place (e.g. a deletion), so both only got picked up whenever an unrelated
  reprocess pass happened to run. Now also watches characterData and
  debounce-reprocesses the enclosing row whenever Kick mutates it in place.

• Revealing a moderator-deleted message now shows a click-to-reveal
  <message deleted> placeholder (click again to re-hide) instead of
  auto-revealing the original text, and is rendered from a full clone of the
  real row (badges, username, emotes) with Kick's hover-toolbar buttons
  stripped out, so it looks identical to a normal message instead of a
  bare styled div.
• The "Paused (Alt)" badge moved from centered-top to right-aligned-top
  of the chat panel — it was rendering directly under Kick's own centered
  "View older messages" button.

• Multi-View chat now shows reply context. The hidden popout-relay path
  that gives Multi-View truly-live chat never extracted Kick's "Replying to
  X: ..." quote block, so replies rendered as plain messages — now parsed and
  shown above the reply, emotes included.

• Multi-View chat could silently drop genuinely repeated messages (e.g.
  the same emote sent 3x back to back by one user within the same displayed
  minute) — the relay's de-dupe collided on identical content within Kick's
  minute-granularity timestamp. Switched to per-element change detection
  (does this row's content differ from what we last read off it), which is
  the correct invariant for a virtualized/recycled chat list regardless of
  how Kick's own indexing works.
• Multi-stream Replay could immediately snap back to live instead of
  holding the replayed moment, when the grid had been Sync'd — the
  re-alignment pass that follows a replay read each stream's wall-clock
  before its backward seek had actually settled, computing targets from
  stale near-live data. Now waits for every seek to land first.
• Multi-stream Replay could jump each stream back at a different moment
  instead of together — streams were told to play again as soon as their own
  seek started, and seeks settle at different speeds per stream. They're
  now held paused until every stream's seek has actually landed, then played

• Multi-View POV Sync could leave streams noticeably misaligned. The fine
  alignment phase only ever slowed down streams that ended up ahead of the
  anchor after the initial seek — but that seek routinely overshoots backward
  by a few hundred ms (landing on the nearest keyframe), leaving most streams
  slightly behind instead, which was never corrected. It now nudges both
  directions, with enough time and rate budget to actually finish converging
  instead of cutting off partway.

• Multi-View's redundant per-stream follow-state check (checkFollow/
  getFollowState), which always 401'd against /api/v2/channels/{slug}/me
  and cluttered the console — the follow heart was already kept accurate by
  the channel-info fetch every stream already makes.

• Moderation toolkit — Alt-pause chat, inline Timeout/Ban buttons (with a
  configurable default duration), auto-accept chat rules, hide the Pin/Delete/
  inline mod icons, hide the slow-mode banner, show mod actions to everyone,
  and an AI-removal quick-reply button.
• Playback speed now rides right up to the live edge before dropping back
  to 1×, instead of settling a couple seconds behind.
• Sound booster — a volume-boost button, or drag Kick's own slider past
  100%.
• Quick Messages — save chat templates and send each one (repeatedly)
  with one click from the chat header.
• Quick Clip — a customizable keyboard shortcut that instantly clips the
  last 30 seconds and pops a link.
• Edit Stream Info pencil next to the title, for mods/broadcaster.
• VOD download is now free — pick a start/end and a quality (source to
  lowest) to save as a video file.
• VOD resume marker — remembers where you left off and shows a marker on
  the seek bar, like YouTube.
• Skip the 18+ warning automatically.
• Follow duration in a channel's About section, and reveal a hidden
  viewer count.
• Active chatter count next to the viewer count.
• Allow duplicate chat messages, bypassing Kick's repeat filter.
• Hide individual channel buttons — 11 separate toggles (Unfollow,
  Notifications, Share, Mod Dashboard, Gift Subs, Subscribe, Channel Points,
  Top Up KICKS, Gift Shop, Report, Daily Reward).
• Ad-break blocker for the Slots & Casino category.

• Settings reorganized into clearer categories and subcategories.

• Remember volume — keeps the last volume you set and restores it on the next
  stream, since Kick doesn't reliably persist it (Player → Playback).
• Brightness slider — brighten or dim the player, and each Multi-View stream
  (Player → Controls).
• Alert me when a user chats — get a desktop notification when specific users
  start chatting in a stream (Interface → Notifications).
• See anyone's recent messages — click a name in chat and their recent message
  history (with emotes) appears right inside Kick's own user popup, visible to
  everyone.

• More accurate Multi-View POV sync.
• Links in Multi-View chat are clickable again.
• The settings panel scrolls properly, and Multi-View chat no longer gets stuck
  showing "Chat paused".
• Performance: lighter chat handling and faster emote rendering.
• VOD chat history keeps loading after a recent Kick change.