Over the past several months the Gab engineering team has been heavily refocused on something that should have never been neglected in the first place: listening to you. We went back to the community, dug through your feedback, your bug reports, your frustrations, and your feature requests, and we got to work. The result is hundreds of issues resolved, significant performance improvements across the platform, and a stack of new features that make Gab better than it has ever been.
This is not a vanity update or a coat of paint. We rewired things under the hood, we fixed things that were broken for too long, and we shipped things you have been asking for. Let me walk you through what we have been building.
Gab Live is here. We built a native live streaming feature so you can go live to your followers directly from Gab with zero friction. It works out of the browser for quick casual streams, and for those of you with more advanced setups it fully supports OBS and other broadcast software. Plug in your stream key and go. Alex Jones is already multi-streaming live on Gab Live every single day, reaching his audience without gatekeepers, without algorithms throttling his reach, and without some content moderator in a cubicle deciding whether his stream deserves to exist. That is the promise of Gab and we delivered on it.
Country flags are now visible on profiles, showing the country associated with a user’s IP address. When someone from another country is weighing in on your local politics, your local culture, your local matters, you will know. Transparency is a feature, not a bug. This has been one of the most requested features and it is already making a difference in how people engage on the platform.
We entirely rebuilt how reply threads are displayed. The old view was functional but clunky. The new display is a significant improvement in readability, making conversations easier to follow, easier to engage with, and easier on the eyes. Long threads that used to feel like a chore to scroll through now flow naturally. This was a big piece of feedback from the community and we are glad to have it shipped.
Pinned statuses had been a persistent problem for a long time. Posts would get pinned and then become difficult to find, manage, or unpin. We fixed the underlying issues and then went further by building a dedicated management page in settings where you can see and manage all of your pins across every group you are in. No more hunting through individual group pages. Everything is in one place.
Chat and direct messages received a thorough cleanup. We improved the reliability of conversations, cleaned up long-standing bugs in the DM system, and made the overall experience smoother. We also rolled out proper notifications for when you receive a new chat message but are not inside the conversation. A toast notification will appear on screen so you never miss a message, and yes, you might hear a ribbit. We also immediately shipped a setting to turn that ribbit off, found in the gear icon on the chats page, because we know not everyone wants their desk making frog noises during a meeting.
We reduced the number of suggestion-type feed items that were cluttering your timeline. You asked for a cleaner feed experience and we delivered. Less noise, more of what you actually want to see from the people and groups you follow.
On the performance front, we have been working through a significant batch of front-end performance fixes for the social platform. These changes raise our score on code quality indexes in a meaningful way. The site loads faster, renders quicker, and runs more efficiently. This is work that is never truly finished, but this round of optimizations represents a major step forward and it is already deployed.
Post analytics had a big problem that we uncovered and fixed. View tracking was broken in many scenarios. If a post was a repost, views were never accumulated on the actual item. Across most surfaces and situations where we should have been tracking views correctly, we simply were not, meaning the view counts you were seeing were almost always lower than reality. This has been fixed and your analytics should now reflect actual engagement. Many of you noticed that reposted comments showed very few views. That was not a lack of interest, it was a lack of tracking. Not anymore.
We fixed the erroneous “The quoted post is unavailable” error that was showing up when someone reposted a quote post. The content was there the whole time, the system just was not finding it correctly. Along with that we shipped a handful of other smaller fixes that had been nagging at the experience.
Group moderation received several updates. Group moderators can now see all content in their groups. You can no longer block the mods from seeing your posts within a group, which is how it should have always worked. If a group has the setting to show admins enabled, admins and moderators are now listed on the members tab for full transparency. We also made a bunch of the most popular groups that were not featured, featured, and verified several of them. If you have not explored groups lately, now is a great time to do so.
We put some new rate limits in place for non-PRO users. You can create up to twenty top-level statuses per day and up to fifty replies per day. Non-PRO users also cannot switch their profile from public to private. These limits reset at midnight Eastern time. We believe these are extremely fair and reasonable, and they encourage users who are getting value from the platform to upgrade to Gab PRO to support the infrastructure and remove all limits.
The default missing avatar image is gone. Instead of that generic placeholder, we now automatically generate a unique combination of colors, shapes, and the first letter of your username. Every account now has a distinct visual identity from the moment it is created.
We also streamlined the onboarding process for new users. It is now condensed into three clear steps: find groups that interest you, update your profile, and post an introduction. Getting started on Gab is faster and more intuitive than ever.
All of this was driven by your feedback. Every fix, every feature, every performance improvement came from the community telling us what mattered and our team committing to delivering on it. We are not done. We will never be done. We will always work hard for you.
Thanks for your support this month. We hope to see you next month.
Andrew Torba
CEO, Gab AI Inc
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