Changelog

A select log of customer-facing updates, improvements, and fixes shipped to Speakrphone.

July 2026

Following

Weekly digest email — a Monday roundup of new talks from the speakers you follow, with a link to each talk. Manage it from your notification settings.
Follower lists now show "Follow back" on speakers who already follow you, so it's one tap to follow them back.

Search & import

Talks imported from YouTube now carry the full video description instead of a shortened snippet.
YouTube search results now prioritize your language.
Search results now show each episode's duration.
Pasting a link when adding a talk now shows the address with a loading indicator while its preview loads, so it never looks like nothing happened.
The Search & Publish link on Add a Talk now carries a search icon.
Podcast episode search finds more shows and episodes, and search shows a clear message when nothing matches.
Importing several episodes at once is more dependable: progress stays visible the whole way through, and episodes with unusual audio links no longer fail to import.
Loading more search results no longer repeats or skips items, and result cards respond correctly to keyboard navigation.

Media kit

Copy a direct link to any bio section of your media kit — handy for pointing an event organizer at exactly the bio length they need.

Profiles

A friendlier welcome for brand-new speakers: an empty profile now guides you to add your first talk.
The Featured badge now appears only when viewing a speaker's profile, keeping shared feeds uncluttered.
Speaker hover cards now show the speaker's actual talk count.

Talks

Talks named entirely in non-Latin scripts (Japanese, Chinese, emoji) now get a working web address.
Long descriptions truncate cleanly, without a brief flash while the page loads.

Homepage

New FAQ entry explaining how talk analytics work.

Behind the scenes

Faster loading for talk pages and talk copying.

June 2026

Sign in

Sign in with a passkey — use Face ID, Touch ID, or a security key instead of a one-time email code. Add and manage passkeys in your account settings, and get an email confirmation whenever a passkey is added or removed.
Sign-up now includes bot protection, with a clearer error for unsupported email addresses.

Co-presenters

Credit co-presenters on your talks: tag speakers already on Speakrphone to link their profiles, or invite someone by email and they'll claim the credit when they join. Co-presenters appear on the talk page with a hover preview.

Profiles

On your own profile, click your talks count to open a private views leaderboard — your talks ranked by views, with time-range filters (all time, last 30 or 90 days, 6 months, or last year). Only you can see it.
Profile pages now load talks instantly instead of showing a loading spinner first.
Custom profile links now trim extra spaces automatically instead of rejecting the link.

Talk details

Spotify, Anchor, and SoundCloud episodes now play right on the talk page with working players, including regional Spotify links.
Smarter "already on your profile" detection when adding or searching for talks — Speakrphone now recognizes the same talk across different links and platforms.
Description and caption boxes now grow as you type, with a handle to resize them.

Search

The Search & Publish header stays in view while you scroll results on desktop.

Settings

New Help section in Settings with quick ways to reach us and learn the product.

Mobile

Add and edit your talks on mobile.
Find and add your talks with Search & Publish on mobile.
Talk videos now keep their 16:9 shape on phones and tablets instead of looking squished.
On small tablets, the navbar search collapses to a search icon so it no longer overlaps the menu buttons.
Your profile photo and the edit button now open your profile info directly.
Notifications no longer overlap the bottom tab bar.
Fixed the footer logo not appearing on mobile, and the navbar now shows the full logo at every screen size.
Followers, Following, and Discover now open as full-screen lists on mobile that fit the screen correctly — no cut-off edges, blank strips, or disappearing navigation.
Your selected talks no longer hide behind the results list when adding talks on mobile.
Polished the mobile navigation bars — tighter top and bottom bars, consistent tab icons, no clipped labels, and larger, easier-to-tap back buttons.
Your name now appears when sharing on mobile.
Smoother sign-up and profile-setup steps on mobile.
Fixed stray gaps at the top and bottom of the app on mobile Safari, and bottom-bar spacing issues on phones.

Fixes

Imported talk titles now show special characters correctly — "Don't" and "R&D" instead of raw character codes.
Hover previews now appear next to the name you're hovering instead of in the corner of the screen.
Fixed the Publish button on the edit form occasionally being unclickable because a dismissed notification stayed in the way.
Upcoming-talk email notifications now correctly show the event name and location.
The "Show more" toggle on talk descriptions now looks like a link.
Copy bio buttons in your media kit now reliably copy to your clipboard with a confirmation.
Dismissing a notification by tapping no longer activates whatever was behind it.
Fixed the homepage header overlapping the top of the page on first load.
Links in talk descriptions no longer break at sentence punctuation.
Profile talk lists now keep loading more talks after you return from a talk, and the load-more spinner is centered in grid view.

May 2026

Verification

Verify your identity by connecting your LinkedIn account. Verified speakers become eligible for discovery surfaces like the homepage carousel and search.

Profiles

Hover a speaker's name or avatar — on talk cards, talk pages, and follower lists — for a quick preview with their photo, bio, location, and talk count.
Follower and following lists no longer show a Follow button on your own row.

Search

Search & Publish now suggests example queries built from your name to help you find your talks faster, in a streamlined layout that keeps the search box and actions in view while you browse results.

Talk details

An "already linked to a talk on your profile" indicator now appears when adding a link via manual upload or bulk import, linking straight to the matching talk.
Talk thumbnails and previews now use a consistent 16:9 frame, so podcast cover art and other images no longer get over-cropped.

Mobile

Redesigned mobile Settings as a full-page list instead of a side drawer.
Search now opens as a dedicated full-page view on mobile.

Fixes

Newly published or edited talks now appear in the home feed right away, and talk lists page through reliably without skipping or repeating items.
The loading indicator when deleting your account now dismisses correctly.

April 2026

Search

Full-text search across speakers and talks with instant autocomplete
Search results page with pagination
Mobile search support
Smarter autocomplete: speaker bios shown in results, matching terms bolded, and an "already linked to a talk on your profile" label on results that match an existing attachment
Show a clear error when a publish attempt fails instead of silently reporting "0 talks published"
Search edge cases: hide the search bar on sign-in/sign-up/onboarding pages, redirect /search to the homepage when there's no query, and fix browser back navigation both from an autocomplete suggestion and from the search page itself (which used to lose its query state)

Talk details

Add to Profile: add a talk you don't own to your own profile as a copy, with a link back to the original
More sources now play inline on talk pages — videos, audio, slides, and documents from around 19 platforms embed directly
View count visible to talk owners — only you see it, and your own visits don't count
Increase talk description limit from 2,000 to 5,000 characters
Sticky navbar while scrolling on talk details page
Four new default talk thumbnails to choose from
Better display of links in talk descriptions
Cap of 8 attachments per talk (existing talks above the cap can still be edited but cannot grow)
Larger image upload size limits (avatars and headshots up to 8MB), with clearer error messages on validation failures
Smarter duplicate detection across talks: treat www and non-www as the same attachment URL, drop duplicates when the same URL is deleted and re-added before publish, error when adding a duplicate link, and dedupe visually identical thumbnails in the thumbnail picker
Default the talk list to list view (grid still available as a toggle)
Talk form polish: hide character counters until you near the field limit, larger subtitle on the Add a new talk page, and tighter spacing between the title, description, event tags, and between embeds and their captions
Thumbnail picker fixes: stays stable when you drag attachments, cropping now matches the displayed image, and a default thumbnail can be selected when an attachment is present
Talk classification and order: today's talks no longer misclassify as Upcoming (now anchored to your local timezone), and sort order is stable for talks that share the same event date
Description form fixes: the clamp now uses all allotted lines, and the character counter updates immediately after a paste is truncated
Cancel on edit no longer briefly spins the Save/Publish button
Trim whitespace from attachment URLs so embeds render correctly
Fix empty state alignment in grid view
Fix talk drafts leaking across accounts on shared browsers

Homepage

Faster homepage load with improved above-the-fold image loading
Smooth slide animation when paging through the user carousel
New FAQ entry explaining LinkedIn verification
Click anywhere on a FAQ card to expand or collapse it
Homepage layout polish: removed hover zoom and shift effects on sections, matched the Call to Action subtitle size with other sections, aligned the footer width with the rest of the homepage, and restored the alternating section layout

Profiles

View any speaker's followers and following in a modal right from their profile, with a Discover tab to find more speakers
Click an avatar on a public profile to view a full-size preview
New talks scroll into view on your profile after publishing
Show the speaker's name in the empty-talks state when a visitor views a profile with no talks (e.g. "Jane hasn't added any talks yet")
Require profile description for speakers in the homepage carousel
Faster profile page load and smoother tab switching, with no more avatar flicker between tabs
Profile polish: removed the floating animation from the hero speaker image, polished UI styling for inputs and badges, and aligned "handle is available" text with the error message icon

Settings

New Notifications settings page with a "New followers" email toggle (coming soon)
Reword the unsaved-changes dialog to "Save in progress" since settings already autosave

Sharing

Use a link icon on desktop (copies the link) and a share arrow on mobile (opens the native share sheet) on talks, profiles, and media kit downloads

Brand assets

Right-click the logo on the navbar, footer, or 404 page to download or copy the Speakrphone logo and icon

Navigation and auth

Redirect logged-in users away from auth and onboarding pages
Show "Talk not found" copy on missing talk pages instead of the generic "Page not found"
Reset scroll position when navigating forward to a new page (going back still preserves your prior scroll position)
Point cookie banner privacy link to the privacy policy page
Fix verification code input: pasted text beyond 6 characters, non-numeric paste, and the "NaN" display after backspace
Fix flicker and flash during navigation: CTA buttons during route changes, and the cookie banner on page refresh
Fix 404 behavior: deeply nested invalid URLs no longer reload in a loop, and the navbar stays visible above 404 content

Mobile

Simplified mobile top navbar to logo-only (hamburger menu removed; primary navigation lives in the bottom tab bar)
Mobile landing page: polished copy and styling, and hide the search box

Accessibility

Add accessible labels to icon-only links for screen reader support

Polish

Slower default tooltip delay so they don't appear instantly on hover, and more consistent centering for page-level loading spinners

Behind the scenes

Published the /changelog page, with a Changelog link added to the homepage footer
Richer information for search engines and AI tools on homepage, profiles, and talk pages
Background processing for talk updates
Faster page loads across the app

March 2026

Featured talks

Pin a featured talk to the top of your profile, with a featured badge for visual emphasis

February 2026

Improvements

Improved link preview fetching when adding attachments
Fix OTP paste handling on Firefox and Safari, and content width and size consistency across all screens

January 2026

Talk management

Grid and list view toggle for your talk list
Auto-populate talk form fields from attachment data, and auto-select the thumbnail when adding the first attachment
Return to previous page after publishing or cancelling an edit
Truncate long talk descriptions with "show more" on the details page
Search and publish: preserve selected items across multiple searches, and filter out duplicate items
Fix talk count not updating after deleting a talk

Profile and sharing

Native share sheet on mobile for sharing links, and "Share" replaces "Copy Link" across the app for consistency
Clickable photos and names in the landing page carousel
Profile polish: tooltips on social media icons (with protocol prefixes removed) and hover state for clickable avatars throughout the app
Require a profile photo and at least one talk to be featured on the homepage

404 and navigation

Custom 404 page with Speakrphone branding, plus context-aware not-found pages for profiles and talks
Navigation polish: clicking the logo on the homepage scrolls to top, and the back button navigates to profile when there's no browser history

Performance

Faster page loads with optimized animations and image loading
Scroll position retained when navigating back from talk detail

Mobile and responsive

Display toasts at bottom center on mobile, and increase dots menu icon size for easier tap targets
Fix small-screen layout issues across profile, landing, and homepage panels, plus user details alignment and overall mobile scaling

Media and uploads

New image editor, with better validation and error messages for image uploads
Preserve formatting in podcast episode descriptions during import
Fix unsupported video formats still rendering in the player, and YouTube titles displaying incorrectly

Bug fixes

Fix UI quirks across the app: related talks flashing on the details page, tags layout shift on talk details, horizontal card layout alignment, thumbnail display in responsive mode, copy link icon cut off on profile, and ToS and Privacy links on the signup screen not being clickable

Other

Accessibility improvements: form labels, landmarks, and link text
Improved podcast search results