Updates

The newcomer’s guide is open: the eras’ maps, pages for 52 games with their music, and the whole story of Sonic on a walk with Omochao. The board games have a new one, Chaos Code.

New

• Guide. The explorer’s study: the eras’ maps lie on the desk, and the Classic and Modern ones are open. A map shows the games by release or by story, the main path and the side trails; a star marks a community pick, and the heroes’ medals light up their games. Under the map, Earlier and Later buttons lead to the next eras.
• Guide. Pages for 52 games: the cover, the trailer, the facts and where the game stands on the newcomer’s route. Their long texts are in Russian for now.
• Guide. Games with pages of their own: the page looks like the game. Sonic the Hedgehog has Green Hill footage behind it, where an item tells about itself on hover, the game’s fonts and the SEGA intro. Sonic Adventure 2 has KOTORIYRISUET’s intro and animatic, a Heroes / Dark side switch with its own colours, characters and songs, and a full-screen mode. The other games get theirs one by one.
• Guide. A music player on each game page: the record slides out of its sleeve and spins, the equalizer moves to the song itself, and the track list is a Sound Test. Scroll away, and the video moves to a corner.
• Guide. On the road with Omochao: the whole story of Sonic in seven chapters of games, cartoons, films, comics and heroes, with a Chaos Emerald at the end of each. In Russian for now.
• Guide. Omochao gives tips in the corner of the screen. «Spotted a mistake?» at the end of each part of a game page opens the bug form with that part and the selected text already in it.
• Board games. Chaos Code, like Codenames: Sonic Team against the Eggman Empire. The captain gives a one-word signal and the team hunts for its Chaos Emeralds, each from their own phone or all from one. Themed decks, a turn timer and buffs if you want them; Metal Sonic waits under one card. In Russian for now.
• Whole site. On a first visit, Omochao offers to introduce you to Sonic and leads you to the guide.
• Whole site. The search in the header finds both channels and games.
• Whole site. After an update, a «The site has updated» card appears in the bottom-left corner with slides on what is new, and a video for a big release. A closed card stays closed until the next update; a first visit does not show it.

Improvements

• Home. The first screen’s buttons carry their sections’ icons, which come alive on hover. The ways into the sections are four wide strips with windows: the directory’s faces in a honeycomb with the ranking’s leader in the middle, a fan of board game cards, the guide’s study and the latest news post.
• Board games. The rules are rewritten on one plan: the idea, the board, a turn, winning and what is not allowed. Buffs are off by default: the host switches on the ones they want in the lobby.

A new home page and a menu by section: the site is now more than a directory of creators.

New

• Home. The home page is a window onto the whole site. The first screen has Sonic on his ring, «Настольные игры» (Board games) and «Guide» buttons, and two videos the team picks by hand: Drop of the week and Drop of the month. Below are the doors to each section, who’s live, fresh videos, trending, the community top, Word Speedrun and the three latest posts from our Telegram channel.
• Whole site. A «Guide» item in the menu. The newcomer’s guide itself is still in the works, and its page says so.
• Board games. Word Speedrun in English. On the English site the whole game is in English: the room, the lobby, the settings, How to play, the buffs and the results; the Spanish site sees English. Its own deck of 1,320 English cards sits beside the Russian one, which is unchanged. The room settings have Word language: RU / EN, set by default to the site language of whoever opened the room; each player sees the game in their own site’s language. The game catalog is in English too, while the rules of the games still in development are in Russian for now.
• Whole site. The menu and the footer call the section Board games instead of «Настольные игры».

Improvements

• Whole site. The menu goes by section: Home, Community, «Настольные игры», Guide, News. The directory, the report, the tier list, the ranking and «Suggest» live in the Community group: it opens in place in the wide menu and as a list beside the narrow one. On a phone, the bottom bar has the same five items, and Community opens a sheet.
• Directory. The directory has its own page now, sonic-index.com/index, with the prospects, milestones, tag shelves and «I’m feeling lucky». The search in the top bar takes you there. The tier list, ranking, report and «Suggest» keep their addresses.
• Whole site. The footer groups the sections the same way as the menu.
• Home. Drop of the week and Drop of the month are bigger and stand out more: a plate with a coloured dot above each video, a gold frame for the week and a blue one for the month, and a glint on hover. The first screen’s title sits higher. On a phone the videos go one under the other, full width.
• Home. The button at the bottom of the first screen is back: it scrolls down to the sections. It is not shown on phones.
• Whole site. Smooth motion in one style. Page titles rise from under an edge, as in the guide. Blocks and list rows rise into place as you scroll to them. Menus, sheets and windows open and close smoothly, and a page fades in when you move between sections. With animations turned off in the system, everything appears at once.
• Home. Each section door has its own colour: Community gold, «Настольные игры» red, Guide blue, News green. Instead of an arrow there is a button: «Open the directory», «Play», «Take a look», «Read the news». The whole card is clickable.
• Home. The Word Speedrun invite shows the game’s cover with the ring timer.
• Directory. The page opens with a big title over the outlined word INDEX, as in the other sections.

Release v3.000: board games arrive on the site, starting with «Спидран слов» (Word Speedrun). This entry also collects everything that changed since October 2.

New

• Board games. A «Настольные игры» (Board games) section in the menu: Sonic-themed party games for a group. Everyone plays from their own phone or computer with a room code, no account needed, or on one phone passed around. The section is in Russian only for now.
• Board games. «Спидран слов» is a team word-explaining game, like Alias. A turn lasts while the golden ring timer burns: a guessed word adds a ring to the team's total, a skip takes one away. Over a thousand cards in seven themes and three difficulty levels: characters, zones, games, items, lore, fandom memes and Sonic creators from the directory.
• Board games. 13 buffs and debuffs on the cards. Super Ring, Spring, Chaos Control, Invincibility, Emerald, Shield, Laser, Checkpoint and the «?» Monitor help; Eggman's Bomb, Underwater, Lost Rings and Confusion get in the way. Settings cover turn length, goal, themes, difficulty, an easy mode with no penalty for skips, and the share of buffed cards from 0 to 100%.
• Board games. Any player can correct the turn's result, and the explainer confirms it. The room host can pause the game. Words don't repeat in a room until the deck runs out.
• Board games. Signed-in players can suggest a new word for the cards or dispute a word's level; moderators decide. The section's other 11 games are marked «В разработке» (in development), and their rules can already be read.
• Home. Sonic on a golden ring with the top 30 channels in orbit, Prospects with each channel's most popular video, Trending, recent videos in a grid, Leaders of the month (the top 3 for each figure in the report) and channel milestones.
• Report. The report is split into tabs: Summary with a podium, Growth, Videos with the video of the month, Streams and Team. Shares show as a list or a pie.
• Ranking. A NEW badge on channels added in the past week.

Improvements

• Site-wide. The left menu shows icons with labels, with Report second.
• Site-wide. Errors appear in the visitor's language. The «Found a bug?» button is also in the footer of the ranking and the tier list.
• Site-wide. In a tab opened before a site update, the language button reloads the page in the chosen language instead of doing nothing.
• Directory. All languages are shown by default. Filters stick to the header and open as a sheet on phones.
• Channel page. Effects redone for ten sets: Uncle Knuckles, Solareyn Eylinor, Fine, Сцелетон, какой-то лис, InFlateShow, Dumply, Микотыч, SinisterTH and Sumochkin.
• Channel page. Growth shows every channel figure in tabs.

Security

• Site-wide. Next.js updated to 16.3.8, closing a critical vulnerability.

Fixes

• Site-wide. A broken YouTube avatar is replaced with the channel's initials.

Beta v2.100 brings together the changes from September 27 to 30.

New

• Site-wide. Your Google account picture shows in the top bar instead of your initials, and next to signed community tier lists. If the picture doesn’t load, the initials stay.
• Site-wide. A “Rules and privacy” page in three languages, linked in the footer: the site’s rules, what it keeps about an account and how to delete one.
• Directory. A Newcomer mark for channels that are just finding their feet; moderators set it. Newcomers are hidden by default in the directory, the tier list, fresh videos and “I’m feeling lucky”, and the Newcomers switch in the filters or the “Newcomers hidden: N. Show them” line under the list brings them back; they never appear in “Similar channels” or in the fresh videos on the home page.
• Directory. A Developer tag next to Game dev, in the filters, suggestions and edits.
• Channel page. A link to a channel gets its own 1200×630 preview image: the avatar in a ring of the channel’s color, the name, @handle, language, subscribers, videos, place in the directory and up to three tags. Before, the preview was the avatar, and Discord stretched it. Telegram shows no preview: it can’t reach the site’s server.
• Channel page. Personal effect sets for InFlateShow, shadowposers, Lizardzy, Сцелетон, Зона Веселья с Саней and Sumochkin production; Dima Cool’s background is a full-page picture instead of dripping paint. Sumochkin production’s “Stream mode” chip turns the page into his stream, with a facecam, donations and a chat of real messages.
• Tier list. A tier list you sent shows up on your other devices once you sign in, tier names included. The site never replaces an unsent arrangement by itself: the “Load the sent one” button does that, after a confirmation.
• Account. Sign in with Google: a “Continue with Google” button on the account page, with no password or confirmation email.

Improvements

• Site-wide. The left menu on a computer: ☰ sits in the top bar next to the logo, and every icon has a label under it. On screens 1280 px and wider the open menu pushes the page aside and stays open across pages and visits; on narrower screens it opens over the page with a shade behind it.
• Site-wide. Switching sections, the new page fades in. With “reduce motion” on, it just appears.
• Site-wide. Each section has its own address: /tierlist, /ranking, /news and /suggest. A section can be opened in a new tab, the browser’s Back button returns to the previous section, and old /?view=… links lead to the new addresses.
• Site-wide. Pages arrive in the visitor’s language right away: the one they picked before, otherwise the browser’s language if the site speaks it, otherwise English. Before, a page first opened in English.
• Site-wide. The English and Spanish texts are rewritten: the English as casual American English, the Spanish as neutral Spanish that leans Latin American.
• Site-wide. Each page’s styles weigh 27 KB instead of 71 KB compressed: card effects load only on the page of a channel that wears them. The home page’s scripts weigh 169 KB instead of 226 KB: sections and languages load when they’re opened.
• Site-wide. The site’s link preview image weighs 200 KB instead of 1.7 MB. Browsers keep the site’s images and videos for a day.
• Site-wide. On a computer, the left menu is a drawer: a menu button in place of the SI mark opens it over the page, with the section names. Esc, a click outside or picking a section closes it.
• Site-wide. The light theme is hidden: there’s no switch in the top bar, and everyone sees the dark theme, including visitors who picked light before.
• Site-wide. While the site is updating, pages no longer answer with a 502 error: a request waits up to 30 seconds while the site restarts.
• Site-wide. Tabs, the language menu and search results work with the arrow keys. The tier list tells screen readers when a card is moved with the arrows and keeps focus on the card.
• Home. On phones, the Sonic video weighs 2 MB instead of 3.5 MB. The pulsing “Live” dots no longer weigh on the page.
• Home. On a slow device, Sonic stops after a 4-second check and turns only under your finger; the device is remembered for a day. On an emulated slow phone, the home page runs at 60 frames per second instead of 17.
• Home. “Full ranking” is a full-width row under the community favorites. The tag shelves (Reviews, Comedy, Let’s Plays) are gone.
• Directory. Exe channels are hidden by default, including for visitors who saved their filters before; the filters can show them.
• Directory. The language filter takes several languages. Unless a single language is picked, the directory and the tier list’s channels start with creators in the site’s language; the ranking and fresh videos keep their order.
• Directory. Search and filters no longer slow down typing: the list catches up as you type.
• Directory. The mark for someone great at their craft who just started making videos is called Prospect instead of Newcomer, and it still hides nothing.
• Channel page. “Similar channels” come from the same language only: channels with all of the creator’s tags first, and if there are fewer than six, channels sharing some tags fill in. Channels sharing no tags don’t appear, so a creator with rare tags can get a shorter row.
• Channel page. A link with an old @handle leads to the channel’s current address: the site keeps the handles a channel has changed. It doesn’t know handles changed before this release.
• Channel page. “Popular videos” are the three most viewed of all the channel’s videos: the site counts them itself instead of taking YouTube’s search results. Channels with more than 2,500 videos still use search.
• Tier list. The board scrolls with the page by default; the Board switch pins it. The selected card’s menu links to the channel page.
• Moderation. “Update from YouTube” works no sooner than 10 minutes after an automatic update.
• Account. Passwords can be 6 characters instead of 10.

Security

• Site-wide. Browsers open the site over HTTPS only (HSTS for a year), and a script on a page runs only if it carries that page’s one-time key (CSP with a nonce). Requests that change data from other sites’ pages are refused.
• Ranking. A vote from an account younger than three days is saved but joins the community ranking three days after sign-up; the tier list gives the date when it’s sent. A vote and its visibility can be changed up to 30 times in 10 minutes.
• Suggest a channel. One person’s suggestions and edits are handled one at a time: simultaneous requests can’t get around the limit or the duplicate check.
• Moderation. A moderator can accept only the lines the edit’s author suggested.
• Account. Sign-in attempts are also limited per email, wherever they come from: up to 30 an hour. Password reset emails: up to three an hour per address.
• Account. Signing up with an email that already has an account gets the same answer as a new one: the form doesn’t reveal whether an email is registered.
• Account. Password reset links can’t be forged, and changing your password signs you out on other devices.

Fixes

• Site-wide. The top bar and the phone’s bottom menu are nearly solid: page text no longer shows through under the buttons, including in Telegram’s built-in browser, which didn’t apply the blur.
• Site-wide. The outline word behind a section title fades out toward the left and is hidden on screens narrower than 1240 px, so it no longer runs under the title.
• Site-wide. “Live” catches a YouTube stream that started earlier than announced or was scheduled days ahead: a scheduled stream is checked every 20 minutes, and on every check in its last two hours. If YouTube or Twitch doesn’t answer, the last answer holds for 20 minutes at most, so a finished stream doesn’t stay live.
• Site-wide. A short burst of requests to YouTube no longer stops statistics updates until the next day: the site pauses for two minutes.
• Site-wide. When the server is unreachable, forms show an error and the page doesn’t break.
• Site-wide. Search engines no longer treat the site’s pages as copies of the home page: each page names its own address.
• Site-wide. The footer says «шметалл» with two l’s in Russian and “bumblemetall” in English and Spanish.
• Home. The hero stops at 980 px: on a tall screen, the title and the buttons no longer drift apart.
• Directory. The Shorts mark shows a vertical video icon instead of the ▯ character, which looked like a symbol the phone couldn’t draw.
• Ranking. The ranking counts every vote: before, counting would have stopped at 1,000 tier lists.

Improvements

• Channel page. A channel's page now lives at its YouTube @handle, for example sonic-index.com/creator/@dima_cool. Old links such as /creator/ru-27-… lead to the new address. A channel without an @handle keeps its id address. If a channel changes its @handle, its page moves to the new address within 12 hours, and links with the old handle stop working.

New

• Tier list. Cards can be reordered within a tier: drag a card between its neighbours and a line in the tier's colour shows where it will land. The ← and → keys move a selected card.
• Channel page. Card effects: a background, an animation over the card, and styling for the avatar and the name. Effects are granted by the site owner; the first four are Rings, Sparkles, Aura and Gold. With the system's reduced motion setting, effects stay still.

Improvements

• Site-wide. Each platform's official logo now appears next to its name: YouTube, TikTok, Telegram, Discord, Twitch, X, Instagram, VK and Boosty — on a channel's link buttons, in the footer and in the forms.
• Site-wide. A 192×192 site icon for search engines. It appears in search results once the site is crawled again.
• Site-wide. The stylesheet is 5.5 KB smaller, and 5.3 MB of unused hero frames have been removed from the build. Nothing looks different.

New

• Channel page. Discord in a channel's links — an invite to its server as a discord.gg/… link.
• Channel page. In "Suggest an edit", a second YouTube channel can be suggested, replaced or removed. Its name and statistics come from YouTube when a moderator accepts the edit.

Improvements

• Home. Tag shelves change on every visit: the first three channels have 50 thousand subscribers or more, the next three between 1,500 and 50 thousand, and the rest follow in random order. The shelf used to show the 14 largest channels.
• Home. "I'm feeling lucky" in Video mode stops on the author's avatar; the video itself opens in the card beside it.
• Home. On phones, Sonic stands in the centre of the hero, and the "Press the sphere" hint sits centred under the sphere.

Fixes

• Channel page. Channel banners display again. When YouTube does not serve a banner, the strip takes the channel's colour.
• Home. A double tap on Sonic on a phone no longer opens the browser's video player.

Sonic Index 2.0 — the whole site redesigned. From this version on, the site is in beta.

New

• Site-wide. A new design: a dark theme by default, a gold accent, and the Unbounded, Onest and JetBrains Mono typefaces. The light theme is one button away in the top bar; the "same as the system" option is gone.
• Site-wide. Channel search in the top bar on every page: up to six matches at once, Enter searches the directory, and "/" puts the cursor in the field. On a computer, the sections sit in an icon column on the left.
• Site-wide. A dedicated "Not found" page for unknown addresses and for channels that are not in the directory.
• Home. A 3D Sonic in the hero: it turns by itself, and you can spin it with the mouse or a finger. The video loads only while the hero is on screen. With reduced motion, a still image is shown.
• Home. Tag shelves: the three most common tags, up to 14 channels each; "All" opens the directory filtered by that tag.
• Home. "I'm feeling lucky" is a glass orb: channel avatars spin like a reel and stop on the pick. Channel and Video modes; it picks only from the channels the directory filters show.
• Directory. Two views: shelves, where each channel shows its three latest videos, and a table that sorts by any column. The choice is remembered.
• Channel page. The channel's YouTube banner across the top; channels without one get a gradient in their colour. Statistics as a scoreboard: subscribers, views, videos, channel age and place in the directory; both indexes appear as rings next to the name.
• Tier list. A new board and a "driver select" channel pool: square portraits, and the spot where a card will land lights up in the tier's colour.
• Ranking. A podium of three for the chosen index, with a directory-style table below.

Improvements

• Site-wide. The "beta" badge in the top bar leads to the changelog.
• Site-wide. Sign-in and sign-up in all three languages, error messages included.
• Site-wide. Text contrast of at least 4.5:1 in both themes (WCAG AA) and a visible focus outline for keyboard users.
• Site-wide. The "SI" icon in the browser tab.
• Home. The community top is a podium of three plus places 4 to 8.
• Directory. Filters open below the search bar; active ones appear as chips with a remove button.
• Channel page. "Similar channels": 12 instead of 6.
• Tier list. A new share image, and community tier lists as preview cards in two columns.
• Ranking. The explanation of how the ranking is calculated moved behind a link.

Fixes

• Tier list. With the board pinned, the "Not watched" shelf at the end of the page no longer hides under the board.
• Site-wide. In browsers that block site data, the tier list, filters, language and theme can be changed again. The choice lasts while the page is open.

New

• Tier list. Community tier lists — a second tab on the tier list page: the lists of people who have voted, newest first, with their own tier names. A list is published without a name by default; it can be shown with a nickname or hidden, and the vote counts in the ranking either way. Email addresses are never shown.
• Tier list. PNG export: your own list from the board's panel, anyone else's from its card. On phones, the share menu opens.
• News. The "Гикающий соникотубинг" tab brings the project's Telegram channel onto the site: text, photos, videos, link previews and view counts. New posts appear within two minutes, and "Show more" loads older ones. The "Предложка" button sends news to the channel through its bot.
• Site-wide. "Live now": directory channels streaming on Twitch or YouTube — a strip with previews on the home page, a "Live" label in the directory and a link to the stream on the channel page.
• Channel page. "Suggest an edit": a channel's language, marks, tags and links can be corrected right on its page, and moderators receive only the changes. Requires an account; at most ten edits an hour.

Improvements

• Directory. The subscriber filter takes a range: two handles on one scale and two input fields. The right end of the scale has no limit.
• Site-wide. "Live now" covers every channel with YouTube, not only those that had streamed before.
• Home. New videos reach "Fresh videos" within minutes instead of twelve hours.
• Suggest a channel. A channel link is accepted in any form: with a tab (/@handle/videos), with a Cyrillic handle, in the old /c/ and /user/ formats, as a stream link or as a bare @handle.
• Site-wide. Texts proofread in all three languages; the names of marks and sections are consistent across the site.

Fixes

• Tier list. The heading no longer runs off the screen on phones.
• News. The feed opens at once and loads reliably: the site keeps a fresh copy of the posts and updates it on its own.
• Home. The statistics badges show their text again in the light theme.

New

• Directory. The Newcomer mark, for channels that have just started, and the Exe mark, for channels about Sonic.exe and similar horror. Each has its own badge and an All / Hide / Only filter; all four marks sit in one row of the filters.
• Suggest a channel. The author's social links right in the form: TikTok, Telegram, Twitch, X, Instagram, VK and Boosty. Paste a handle or a link, and the field shows the address it will become on the channel page. Only the real domains of these sites are accepted; a link pasted into the wrong field is recognised and pointed out.
• Channel page. TikTok among a channel's links, right after YouTube.
• Moderation. Suggestions as cards with the channel's YouTube details: avatar, name, handle, subscribers, video count and description. The suggestion's language, marks, tags and links can be corrected before approval, and the card says when the channel is already in the directory, hidden ones included.

Improvements

• Home. "No streams" and "No Shorts" toggles in "Fresh videos": a hidden video is replaced with the next fresh video from the same channel.
• Directory. "I'm feeling lucky" shows what it picks from: the active filters and the number of channels. A random video can skip streams and Shorts; the setting is remembered.
• Tier list. All tags fit on one line, and the "Not watched" shelf explains that it is part of the vote too.
• Home. The top five and "Fresh videos" share one grid.

Fixes

• Ranking. On phones, the table no longer runs wider than the screen: the channel name shortens, and the index and average rating always show in full.
• Ranking. The "Voice of the community" caption no longer sits under the heading.
• Site-wide. On narrow screens the top bar fits on one line; on the smallest ones only the site icon remains.

New

• Ranking. Two indexes from 0 to 100 instead of the average rating. Overall measures how well known and how well rated a channel is among everyone who voted: a channel that half of the voters did not place cannot rise above 50. Viewers' measures the rating among those who watched it. The average rating and the number of votes appear under the index.
• Ranking. Search by name, @handle or channel id, and sorting by votes or index; a second click reverses the order. Each channel shows the share of voters who have watched it.
• Tier list. The "Not watched" shelf is saved with the vote. It does not affect the rating or the order: it marks the absence of a rating, not a low one.
• Site-wide. A dark theme: a system / light / dark switch next to the language picker. The theme applies before the page is drawn, with no white flash on load.
• Directory. Tags instead of a single topic — twelve of them: news, lore, reviews, let's plays, speedruns, humour, artist, animator, voice actor, musician, streamer and game dev. A channel can have several. The filter accepts several tags at once and works in the tier list too; "Similar channels" are matched by shared tags.
• Directory. The Kids mark for channels made for young viewers, and a "Kids content" filter: All, Hide, Kids only.
• Directory. "I'm feeling lucky": a random channel or a random video from the channels the filters show. The same pick never comes up twice in a row.
• Channel page. Links to Telegram, Twitch, X, Instagram, VK and Boosty; the "About" description from YouTube; the channel's three latest and three most popular videos. Popular videos refresh every two weeks, so some channels get them later.
• Channel page. Both indexes as rings next to the name, with the number of votes and the average rating.
• Home. "Community pulse": the top five of the overall ranking and five fresh videos from the directory — at most one per channel, separately for EN, RU and ES.

Improvements

• Ranking. The order separates channels with close ratings more precisely, while single votes still cannot lift a channel. The top places may have swapped.
• Ranking. The ranking loads faster: results are cached for a minute, and your own vote shows as soon as it is saved.
• Tier list. If the arrangement changes after voting, a warning under the panel says the vote has not been sent.
• Directory. The directory's sorting and filters, and the ranking's tab and sorting, persist across page reloads. Search text does not.
• Suggest a channel. Optional tags instead of a topic, Shorts creator and Kids marks, and a rebuilt form.
• Site-wide. Consistent animation timing; the system's reduced motion setting turns animations off on the site.
• Site-wide. Placeholders stand in while data loads: the ranking no longer reshuffles in front of you, the directory no longer says "no votes" for channels that have them, and the top bar no longer shifts.

Fixes

• Ranking. A channel's place no longer changes with sorting or search, and the top-three highlight goes only to the actual leaders.
• Directory. The rating column shows the same index the ranking is sorted by.
• Site-wide. In the dark theme, text on bright badges and selected toggle buttons is visible again.
• Site-wide. Vote counts use the correct Russian plural forms.

New

• Tier list. Large cards with an avatar and a caption; the size toggle is on the panel above the tiers. Tiers can be renamed — click a tier's letter.
• Tier list. The arrangement is saved in the browser and survives a page reload. On every load it is checked against the directory: removed channels drop out and new ones join the pool.
• Tier list. Finger dragging on phones: tap a card to select it, then drag. The tier the channel will land in is highlighted.
• Tier list. Keyboard control: select a channel and press S, A, B, C or D to send it to that tier; Backspace moves it to "Not watched", Escape clears the selection. Works with any keyboard layout.
• Directory. A "Community rating" column and sorting by it.
• Site-wide. An "alpha" badge with the version number next to the logo; clicking it opens the changelog. The footer lists the project's authors, the site version and the contact address info@sonic-index.com.

Improvements

• Ranking. The order takes the number of votes into account: a channel with one high rating no longer outranks a channel many people voted for. The rating itself is shown unchanged.
• Ranking. Channel names link to their pages; the table header sits over its columns; phones show the number of votes; the top three are marked.
• Tier list. The board is more compact and fits on screen; on a computer it stays pinned while the list scrolls, and the row height is adjustable. The tier picker appears next to the selected card and holds only buttons.
• Tier list. The mouse wheel works while dragging, and near the screen edge the page or the pinned board scrolls by itself.
• Site-wide. Avatars load at the size they are shown and only as you scroll — about twenty times less image data.
• Site-wide. Interface elements are labelled for screen readers.
• Site-wide. English is the site's primary language for search engines; the Russian phrase in the description stays for the Russian-speaking audience.
• Directory. Channel @handles are fetched from YouTube during data updates.
• Moderation. The result of an action appears at the top of the screen.

Security

• Account. Changing the password requires the current one. The exception is the link from a "Forgot password" email: it works once, for 15 minutes.
• Account. Sign-in attempts are limited: eight wrong passwords for one address or forty attempts from one device within 15 minutes. A successful sign-in resets the count.
• Account. At most five sign-up and password reset emails an hour from one device.
• Site-wide. Internal database errors are no longer shown to visitors — only a clear message; the details go to the server log.

Fixes

• Site-wide. Page addresses in search engine markup and links in emails point to sonic-index.com rather than the developer's computer.
• Tier list. Spaces can be typed in tier names; a card can be picked up by its avatar; no blank cards on phones; the height handle and a second finger no longer upset the board.
• Directory. The list no longer empties on a blank server response; approving a previously hidden channel brings it back; the channel "неофарш" has been restored.
• Account. Signing out fully reloads the page, leaving nothing from the previous user.
• Suggest a channel. A channel removed from the directory can be suggested again.
• Moderation. Changing a user's role no longer fails.

New

• Site-wide. An "Updates" page — the site's changelog in three languages, linked from the footer.
• Channel page. Every creator has a page: subscribers, views, video count, channel age, place in the directory, and links to YouTube and to a second channel. "Similar channels" of the same language and topic follow at the bottom.
• Channel page. The site header and the language switch; the chosen language applies to the whole site.

Improvements

• Site-wide. Google and Yandex index the live directory, and every creator page is in the sitemap — a channel can be found by the creator's name.
• Site-wide. Pages open without delay while statistics update: the update runs in the background.