Feedback round (calmer, less "template/AI"):
- Dial back animated background motion globally (sway/leaf-drift halved,
fewer falling leaves, gentler godrays/fireflies/light-sweep).
- Fire leaf confetti on click of real controls only (was pointerdown
everywhere, which showered mobile users on every scroll).
- Remove hover lift/scale from non-interactive cards, screenshots and
mascots so they no longer read as clickable.
- Fix mobile nav menu colours in the light theme (was a hard-coded dark
panel with low-contrast links).
- Calm how-it-works steps 1-2 (no button pulse/shine/cursor bob); step 3
keeps its lively sync animation. Remove the now-static "copied" toast
from step 1 since it only made sense mid-animation.
UX audit follow-ups:
- Unify vertical rhythm with one section-padding scale; vertically centre
the hero so space is balanced instead of pooling under the CTAs.
- Split the mixed "Why KoalaSync?" grid into use-case scenarios and a
labelled "Features" subsection, and move the #features nav anchor there.
- Demote the hero GitHub CTA to a quiet text link (Chrome > Firefox >
GitHub hierarchy); scale down oversized section mascots and give them a
shared soft shadow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- thin out bamboo/leaf/firefly decor in tiers (<=1440 / <=1024 / <=768px)
so nothing moves behind the text column and copy stays readable
- center the single-column hero below 1024px (text, koala, CTAs, trust
line) and let the odd CTA button span the full grid row
- remove the periodic wind gusts; keep the constant gentle bamboo sway
- reword the German demo CTA to "Live-Demo ansehen"
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Scrolling down now moves all bamboo layers up-screen with the content
(near fastest, far slowest) instead of pushing them down against it.
Vertical overscan flipped from top (-70%) to bottom (-40%) so the
upward drift never exposes a gap at the viewport bottom.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The drift clamp saturated after ~2600px, so nothing moved on long
pages. The vertical drift now maps scroll progress (0..1 over the full
document) onto the stalks' overscan, so the parallax runs end to end.
Turn the background into a descent through the forest: god-ray light
shafts and the canopy fade out while a dusk tint, thicker mist, the
terracotta horizon glow and the fireflies fade in as you scroll down.
Fireflies additionally wander organically (independent translate
property composing with their scale pulse), and on hover-capable
devices the bamboo layers tilt subtly toward the cursor. All layers
animate transform/opacity only, rAF-throttled, reduced-motion safe.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The stalks used border-radius:50%, which renders a tall ellipse whose
ends taper to points, and unbounded parallax drift pushed them off the
bottom of the viewport on long pages. Rounded caps + 20% overscan +
a viewport-relative drift clamp keep them full-height while scrolling.
Sweep the remaining off-palette colors into the nature palette:
content-script overlays (slate grays), amber warnings/badges/star
accents (now terracotta) in popup, background badge and website
illustrations, and the support-heart red (now --danger).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
v3.0.0 "The Greens Update" palette: forest-green oklch color system
(accent green + terracotta secondary) replaces the indigo/slate scheme
across the landing page and the extension popup/options. The blob
background becomes an animated bamboo forest overlay (parallax stalks,
falling leaves, canopy, ground mist, fireflies, light sweep, grain)
with prefers-reduced-motion support. Layout, structure and copy are
unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Remove the confusing, space-hungry "Episode Lobby" card from the mockup
- Give the decorative demo mockup a contrast-safe palette: accent shown as
text uses a lighter indigo, and buttons with white text on a colour get
darker shades, so every walkthrough state meets WCAG AA
- Drop the scroll-reveal fade from the above-the-fold hero demo; the fade
briefly rendered its text at partial opacity, which axe caught as failing
contrast on ~1 in 3 audits
- Mark the demo as decorative for assistive tech (aria-hidden + removed from
tab order); mouse interaction is unchanged
- Darken the footer support pill so white text meets contrast
Desktop Lighthouse: 100/100/100/100 (stable across runs). Mobile: 100
a11y / best-practices / SEO; performance ~87 (throttled LCP, separate work).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Hero CTAs: the install buttons are compact (just the browser name) so all
three fit one line; JS detects the visitor's browser and expands that one
to the full "Add to X" call to action. Unknown browsers stay compact.
- Hero demo: caption now sits directly under the two windows (absolutely
positioned to the card cascade) instead of far below the tall scene. The
scene keeps a fixed height that already fits the open popup, so the
vertically centered hero never jumps when the popup toggles.
- The background window now also shows a (non-interactive) extension icon,
making it clear both browsers have KoalaSync installed.
- Escape now also closes the demo popup.
- Added a link from the comparison table to the fuller alternatives/guides
hub, localized in all 15 languages.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Outside-click handling was scoped to the demo scene, so clicks elsewhere
on the page left the popup open and it felt unclosable. A document-level
listener now collapses it from anywhere, like a real extension popup,
and the popup header gained an explicit close button next to the version
link (hidden in the static mobile mockup).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- New hero headline "Turn any video into a watch party" with animated
gradient highlight, sharper subtitle and quiet trust line under the CTAs
- Changelog badge redesigned as the koala's speech bubble (version and
release date baked in at build time, no version.json fetch anymore)
- Light/dark theme toggle in the header (dark default, pre-paint via
lang-init, full light theme across sections)
- Use cases and "Why KoalaSync" merged into one section with the three
strongest feature tiles; question-mark koala moved to the FAQ
- FAQ and self-hosting setup collapsed by default via shared
section-collapse component (hash deep links auto-open them)
- Compat/juggler section more compact
- og:image switched to the 1280x640 repository OpenGraph card (landing
and join page), generated during build
- "watch party" keyword added to meta title/description in all 15 locales
- All em-dashes removed from user-facing copy
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Change .hero from align-items:center to flex-start so content starts from top
- Increase padding-top in short-viewport media query (<=920px height) to
clamp(7.5rem, 10vh, 9rem) from clamp(3.75rem, 6vh, 5.5rem) so it always
clears the ~96px nav bar
- Fix pre-existing lint errors: remove unused variables demoFinishedByStory,
firstTake; add website/www to eslint ignores
Remove firstTake && !demoFinishedByStory guard from takeOver handler
so clicks outside the extension mockup always collapse the popup,
regardless of whether the automated walkthrough finished.
- Remove data-reveal from hero h1/subtitle/mascot/cta-group/version-badge
(critical above-fold content must never start hidden)
- Change IntersectionObserver rootMargin -150px to -30px, threshold 0.1 to 0.05
(CTAs at ~530px were past the observer zone on laptops)
- Hero layout: align-items flex-start + padding-top 7.5rem for content at top
- Cards 62cqw to 70cqw, -3% offsets for dramatic overlap cascade
- Film animation: replace stick-figure walker with cinematic night scene
(7 twinkling stars, glowing moon with drift, parallax mountains, firefly)
- Seek now restarts all film child animations via .demo-reset class toggle
(was incorrectly resetting parent only — no visible jump)
- Add .demo-seek-sweep overlay + brightness flash during seek
- Video select: placeholder option ('Choose a video tab...') until story picks
- RATE 8 to 1 for realtime playback
- Version badge moved below download buttons
- All 15 locale files: add DEMO_SELECT_PLACEHOLDER key
The old logic only handled en='version.json' and non-en='../version.json',
which broke on /alternatives/ and /de/alternatives/ pages.
Absolute path works for root, /de/, /alternatives/, /de/alternatives/ etc.
- Add article-style comparison pages for Teleparty and Screen Sharing
- Replace comparison tables with honest prose sections
- Add 15-language hreflang alternates and sitemap entries
- Add English locale fallback for untranslated languages
- Replace placeholder Draft copy with real English and German text
- Remove old Draft locale keys from all 13 non-EN/DE locales
- Rebuild outputs with zero TODO/Draft/noindex issues
Add two new languages (uk, zh / zh_CN) across the extension and website:
register them in SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES, the Chrome _locales map, the website
build/lang-init/app routing, hreflang/og/schema tags and language selectors.
Fix systematic machine-translation word-sense errors in the new zh/uk
locales (e.g. zh "Status"=地位→状态, "Leave Room"=留出空间→离开房间,
"Play"=玩→播放, "Seek"=寻找→跳转, audio Attack/Release/Knee; uk "Play"=Грати
→Відтворити, "Clear"=ЯСНО→Очистити, "Open"=ВІДЧИНЕНО→Відкрити, peers
"Однолітки"→"Учасники"), translate remaining English leftovers (Room ID,
Custom) and normalise terminology. All 15 locales pass test-locales.cjs.
Note: popup.html and website/template.html also carry the language-selector
additions here; their Ko-Fi→Support label text is part of the branding change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Comparison table: stack into per-feature cards on phones (no more horizontal scroll); bring feature descriptions back
- Re-enable mobile hamburger menu (was hidden via display:none !important); keep logo/language/button uncrowded down to ~320px
- Fix hero asymmetry: extension mockup forced the grid column wider than the container; make it width:100%/max-width:320px and use minmax(0,1fr)
- Add IntersectionObserver guards + <noscript> fallback so reveal-animated content never stays hidden
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Replace JS scrollIntoView handler with CSS scroll-behavior:smooth for
native anchor navigation. Fixes #hash-based scroll position surviving
language switches since the hash stays in the URL.
- Auto-update URL hash via IntersectionObserver as user scrolls through
sections, so manual scrolling also sets the anchor for language switch.
- Preserve window.location.hash across all language-switch navigations.
- Fix Chrome double-arrow on language select by limiting appearance:base-select
to ::picker(select) only, keeping the custom SVG chevron.
- Make chevron absolutely positioned over the select with pointer-events:none
so clicks anywhere on the container open the dropdown.
- Remove max-width constraint on language select so longer names fit.
- Add scroll-margin-top to section[id] and header[id] so anchored sections
clear the fixed navbar (100px offset).
- Add header[id] to scroll-margin-top for keyboard skip-link accessibility.
Thanks to Taradal from Reddit
Changed condition from lang === 'de' to lang === 'en' so that all
non-English language subdirectories (fr, es, pt-BR, ru, de) correctly
resolve version.json via ../version.json instead of only German.
Timo