VibePal changelog

Added a prominent first-person introduction to every published pal profile, with a tailored introduction for Amara and profile-aware defaults across the directory.

Connected each introduction to chat and first-call context so the pal members meet in a hangout matches the personality presented on the profile.

Added introduction editing to the pal admin workflow while preserving administrator-written text through later seed updates.

Added a visible pal-fit comparison with best-for goals, strengths, specialties, teaching approach, an example hangout, and the members who benefit most.

Added editable example conversations that demonstrate each pal's correction style, explanation depth, and member participation before a hangout begins.

Added transparent pal quality signals for member satisfaction, completed hangouts, conversations, average session length, and privacy-safe common learning goals.

Strengthened pal profile calls to action with free text-hangout prompts, real five-minute call presets, and a clear next-step panel after the detailed profile.

Added a personalized first-hangout preview to every pal profile, with interest-aware phases, preparation guidance, and a flexible hangout expectation.

Added transparent Week 1, Week 2, and Week 4 pal progress roadmaps with interest-aware targets, outcome disclaimers, and an action to adapt the roadmap in chat.

Added compact pal comparisons that place the current profile beside relevant published alternatives using real specialties, teaching focus, and direct profile links.

Strengthened pal personality with a memorable, editable signature learning experience on every profile and carried it into text-chat and live-call behavior.

Added pal-aware profile FAQs covering beginner fit, grammar correction, hangout memory, speaking exercises, and writing practice, with matching visible FAQ structured data.

Added a rich, pal-specific character persona to every profile, carried it into text and live hangouts, and made the complete behavior prompt editable in admin without overwriting custom versions.

Added profile-specific guide pages built from each pal's interests, member level, personality, specialties, hangout rhythm, custom tools, and responsible-use boundary.

Added tailored workflows for text chat, voice calls, Whiteboard, Practice, Notebook, Document, adaptive Interest, Pronunciation, or Code Lab, Review Cards, Transcript, and SVG Studio where relevant.

Added a paginated pal-guide directory, direct guide actions on pal profiles, breadcrumbs, Article and LearningResource data, pal portraits, and complete sitemap coverage.

Kept the existing guide to choosing an online AI friend as the general comparison resource and linked it alongside the new pal-by-pal playbooks.

Expanded the catalog to 260 topics across 26 balanced categories spanning education, work, business, technology, health, finance, practical life, media, entertainment, games, sports, travel, hobbies, sustainability, and community.

Each topic page now brings together learning outcomes, pal prompts, matched AI friends, related activity decks, assessments, reflection-card resources, and nearby topics.

Related pals now appear directly after each topic overview, with topic-aware chat and voice hangout actions.

Topics are available from the footer and site search, with breadcrumbs, structured data, and complete sitemap coverage.

The main directory now uses linked category tiles with visible topic counts, responsive layouts, search filters, and 24-topic pagination.

Added indexable category landing pages, self-canonical pagination, richer topic breadcrumbs and learning-resource metadata, plus clearer paths from organic topic visits into free pal chats and member profiles.

Reorganized help around pal discovery, text and voice hangout modes, scheduling, friendship journeys, collaborative shared rooms, progress, account data, plans, and troubleshooting.

Added current guidance for calendar rescheduling, standalone hangouts, shared room sharing, rich documents, code and SVG tools, vibe quizzes, certificates, messages, themes, and plan changes.

Expanded visible FAQs and matching structured data for hosted AI access, sign-in requirements, live-call errors, shared room sharing, paid friendship journeys, and scheduled downgrades.

Expanded the guide with practical criteria for interest fit, member level, language, pal personality, hangout format, tools, and responsible AI use.

Added current interface screenshots for pal discovery, full pal profiles, and live hangout options.

Added an on-page contents menu, comparison tables, a first-task framework, continuity guidance, a decision checklist, and direct next steps.

Added a Certificates earned section with activity deck completions and the latest saved result from each interest vibe quiz.

Each learning record includes its earned date, result, issuer, stable reference, and a link back to the source activity deck or assessment.

Kept certificate status derived from saved activity deck progress and test attempts so member records remain consistent with their source data.

Added a call-duration selector to direct pal calls, with No limit as the default and choices from 15 minutes through 3 hours.

Scheduled hangouts and learning-path sessions continue to use their saved duration without asking the member to choose it again.

Clarified that an open-ended hangout timer does not bypass the voice minutes available on the member account.

Added a Calendar tab to Hangouts with local-time day and week views, pal portraits, hangout types, and direct hangout editing.

Members can drag hangouts to a new time, resize them to change duration, or use the exact date, time, and duration editor.

Linked signed-in dashboard and profile shortcuts directly to the Hangouts calendar view.

Added profile-specific personality traits and shared room-presence descriptions to pal pages and AI hangout context.

First live sessions now include a formal personal introduction and call-mode guidance, while returning sessions resume with a shorter welcome.

Classroom tool activity now appears in chat history while tutors inspect or update whiteboards, documents, practice, code, and other lesson areas.

Added a dedicated minimize control that collapses chat to its pal title bar and restores it without losing the conversation.

Minimized live calls retain the hangout timer, mute and end controls, connection indicator, and animated voice activity.

Shared room whiteboards and other workspaces now reclaim the chat column while the pal window is minimized.

Added persistent hangout scheduling with local date, time, and timezone support from both the Hangouts page and full learning-path session details.

Pal profiles now include Schedule hangout beside Chat and Call, with an open-hangout picker when a pal has multiple available sessions.

Scheduled hangouts can be rescheduled or returned to an unscheduled state without changing their learning-path content.

The weekly planner now creates timed appointments from a preferred start time while preserving dates and times the member scheduled manually.

Added a rich text Document tab with headings, fonts, text sizing, emphasis, colors, alignment, lists, links, indentation, undo and redo, clear formatting, copy, HTML download, local autosave, and pal collaboration tools.

Document selections now remain visible and recoverable while using toolbar controls, dropdowns, color pickers, and inline link or table panels.

Expanded document tools with superscript, subscript, text case, line spacing, checklists, structured tables, date insertion, unlink, and select all.

Merged the Code Lab editor and syntax preview into one scroll-synchronized, highlighted editor and anchored the More workspace menu directly below its button.

Added responsive line numbers that remain aligned with the highlighted source while editing and scrolling.

Moved member details, pal context notes, and theme selection to a dedicated authenticated Settings page linked from the account menu.

Added a compact Settings shortcut beside the header account control, with a full-width labeled version in mobile navigation.

Added responsive tables, headings, lists, task lists, blockquotes, links, dividers, strikethrough, and sanitized rich formatting to pal chat while retaining syntax-highlighted code blocks.

Added automatic GoAway handling and session resumption so the browser refreshes the Live connection before its roughly 10-minute connection limit instead of ending the hangout with a policy error.

Turned the compact header account control into an accessible dropdown for Profile, Settings, Messages, Hangouts, Favorites, plan management, Admin access when available, and Sign out.

Replaced the multi-panel member workspace with a clearer Hangouts page for upcoming sessions, recent past hangouts, voice allowance, and saved friendship journeys.

Weekly schedules now keep machine-readable hangout dates, ignore expired schedule entries, and fall back to the next unfinished session in each active path.

Renamed member navigation and account shortcuts from Workspace to Hangouts while preserving old workspace links through a compatibility redirect.

Shared room pals can now inspect an on-demand rendered whiteboard view alongside structured notes and diagram geometry instead of relying on text-note metadata alone.

Improved shared room drawing with smoother pen strokes, true erasing, member arrow and rectangle tools, and explicit local-save and pal-sync states.

Added a searchable shared room library with premade shapes, interest icons, emoji, and reusable SVG teaching diagrams for flow charts, graphs, cycles, timelines, biology, and more.

Whiteboard visuals can now be selected, moved, resized, rotated, duplicated, recolored, deleted, and restored through operation-aware undo and redo; tutors can insert and identify the same semantic assets.

Expanded the classroom insert library with additional teaching shapes, subject icons, feedback emoji, charts, comparison tools, science visuals, and planning diagrams; inserted visuals now support direct corner-drag resizing.

Leaving a shared room now uses a focused confirmation step that safely stops any live call, records used time, and saves the whiteboard before navigation.

Added a responsive class recap with live hangout duration, planned-time progress, board activity, pal-sync state, completion time, and useful next actions.

Expanded collaborative shared rooms with persistent Rich Notes, a shared highlighted Code Lab, and a safe SVG Studio; live pals can read, open, add, and revise these hangout surfaces through dedicated tools.

Reorganized shared room navigation around Plan, Whiteboard, Practice, Notebook, and an adaptive interest lab, with Resources, Review Cards, Transcript, Code Lab, and SVG Studio grouped under More; recap now appears near the planned hangout end.

Shared rooms now open directly on the whiteboard while a concise AI hangout plan is generated automatically from the pal, hangout request, duration, and linked learning-path session.

Live call failures now show a safe diagnostic reference, elapsed time, connection phase, close code and meaning, service state, recovery advice, and the exact point at which the call stopped.

Added local date-and-time labels with seconds to pal chat messages, with the full timezone-aware timestamp available on hover.

Moved Gemini 3.1 Live calls to the current v1beta ephemeral-token endpoint and added strict JSON-safe validation for shared room function results before they are returned to the pal.

Prevented shared room voice calls from failing when microphone input overlaps a pal whiteboard or workspace action; cancelled tool calls are now handled safely and typed input waits briefly for the action to finish.

Replaced the overly aggressive Live context-compression limit with Gemini 3.1 adaptive compression, aligned ephemeral-token provisioning with v1beta, and added safe microphone, token-usage, and session-state diagnostics.

Added full-screen pal shared rooms with a shared whiteboard, member drawing and text tools, local autosave, image export, and AI friend diagram controls.

Added a Windows-style True dark theme with near-black pages, charcoal surfaces, gray borders, and a restrained blue accent.

Applied every saved appearance theme to the React admin console, including tables, reports, charts, forms, dialogs, and status messages.

Introduced this public changelog so members can review meaningful product improvements over time.

Added a compact hangout-history shortcut to the signed-in header and aligned hangout-record wording across member pages.

Added a protected admin application map with live runtime facts, architecture diagrams, dataflow documentation, schema inventory, and a complete feature catalog.

Simplified pricing around pal access, hosted voice minutes, friendship journeys, and monthly or discounted yearly billing.

Made pal cards more compact and consistent, with aligned actions, image-overlay bookmarks, pagination, filtering, and sorting.

Added pal hangout pricing to profile summaries and call actions so members can see the hangout context before starting.

Moved Gemini access behind the VibePal server so members no longer need to provide a personal API key.

Grouped pal-specific text and voice settings, with clearer controls for pace, correction style, reply depth, hangout mode, and voice.

Voice calls now stop immediately after a connection error, record the problem in chat, and stop consuming minutes at the failure point.

Added a dedicated message center that keeps each signed-in member’s pal conversation history together.

Expanded vibe quizzes across the interests covered by the site and made saved results available as relevant pal context.

Pals now greet members by name and can use saved member notes and recent conversation context for more continuous hangouts.

Added a React admin system for users, pals, reviews, calls, friendship journeys, contacts, audit history, and system readiness.

Introduced compact traffic, usage, engagement, and system reports with realtime visitor activity and bot separation.

Improved country reporting with CDN flags, country-only resolution, short retention, and privacy-conscious visitor identifiers.

Added richer activity decks with interactive examples, SVG diagrams, mathematical notation, flow charts, and highlighted code where appropriate.

Introduced public reflection-card pages, flashcards, quizzes, and interest-matched pal recommendations.

Strengthened public-page breadcrumbs, image metadata, sitemap dates, activity deck disclosures, and search-friendly page structure.