## Fixes
- Slow paste in prompt box: `execCommand("insertText")` is quadratic per
line in Chromium - now inserts the clipboard as a single text node
(linear)
- Model selector submenu not scrolling in focus mode: the modal's scroll
lock swallows wheel/touch on body-portaled panels - flyout now stops
propagation (same pattern as mention dropdown)
- Cap the always-expanded deck panel at container width so cards wrap
into rows; scroll past 3 rows instead of squeezing the editor
- Drop shrink-0 on the expanded deck root (min-w-0 max-w-full) so it
shrinks inside the webapp's flex-row wrapper
- Collapsed fan badge shows total ref count instead of +hidden
MentionTextarea's root wrapper lacked min-h-0, so as a flex child of the
fullscreen modal's bounded column it kept full content height and got
clipped by overflow-hidden instead of letting the editor scroll.
Removes Font Awesome entirely
### Changes
- All ~1,000 icon call sites now import Lucide components directly from
`lucide-react` (`<PlayIcon className="..." />`); no FA packages, tokens,
or `fa*` identifiers remain anywhere.
- New `@storyteller/icons` lib holds the pieces Lucide doesn't ship:
`DynamicIcon` for runtime-chosen icons (`icon={loading ?
LoaderCircleIcon : SaveIcon}`), 11 brand logos (Discord, TikTok, ...) as
inlined CC BY 4.0 paths, and HD/SD quality badges drawn in Lucide's
stroke style.
- Global `.lucide { display: inline-block; width/height: 1.2em }` rule
in each app stylesheet: keeps icons font-relative like FA (1.2em
compensates Lucide's 24px-viewBox/20px-grid padding) and undoes Tailwind
preflight's `svg { display: block }`. Explicit `w-*`/`size-*` utilities
still win.
- FA-only props migrated: `spin` → `animate-spin`, FA size strings → em
values.
- Dropped `@fortawesome/*` + `@awesome.me` kit deps, both `.npmrc`
files, and
the FA rule in `shared-vite-config.ts` (now externalizes
`lucide-react`).
- Select multiple items in the library and add tags to all of them at
once
- Tag suggestions pop up as you type, based on your existing tags
- Fixed the selection bar looking squished (buttons no longer wrap onto
two lines)
- Video generation now defaults to Seedance 2.5 (was 2.0)
- Omni Reference is the default video input mode for everyone
- Model pickers on the create pages now group models by family
(Seedance, Veo, Kling, etc.) with a flyout submenu per family, so the
list is no longer one long scroll
- The flyout opens on hover or click, and automatically scrolls the
currently selected model into view
- New setting in **Settings → General** ("Group models by family") to
switch back to the classic flat list. Grouped is the default and works
in both the webapp and the desktop app
- Model rows now use full-color brand icons, while the picker button
keeps its existing look
- Video models show capability tags: **Audio Support**, **Start/End**,
and **Reference**
- Short model lists (under 8 models) stay flat, and mobile keeps the
existing bottom-sheet list
- Fix: videos in the media viewer can now go fullscreen (the expand
button was disabled)
- Characters modal: new eye button on character cards to view the image
full size
- Mention chip menu: tapping the avatar thumbnail also opens the
full-size view
- Card buttons (view/edit/delete) are always visible on touch devices
instead of hover-only
- Mobile: Characters open in a bottom drawer with a 2-column grid,
matching the other settings drawers
- All mobile drawers now have a close (X) button
- All mobile drawers can be pulled down to dismiss - the sheet follows
your thumb and closes from where you let go
- Mobile: mention autocomplete list can now be scrolled - dragging no
longer selects an item, only a tap does
- Fixed taps on autocomplete items sometimes not registering on
Android/iOS
- Deleting the space after a mention now reopens the autocomplete next
to the mention instead of at the top of the screen
- Clicking a mention chip while its menu is open now closes the menu
instead of closing and reopening it (desktop + mobile)
- Added missing display names for Seedance 2.5 Preview and ~25 other
models (Vidu Q3, Veo 3.1 Lite, Seedream 5.0 Pro, new Hunyuan 3D 3.1
variants, Marble 1.x, and more) so the task queue and history show
proper names instead of raw IDs.
- Vidu, Recraft, and SeedEdit models now show their brand icons instead
of the generic one.
## Fixes & improvements
### Model picker
- Removed the "Seedance 2.5 - SOON" placeholder from the video model
picker; it was confusing now that Seedance 2.5 Preview is live.
### "Not all media files could be found" error
- Fixed generations failing when the same media file ended up twice in
one reference list (e.g. added as two references, or the same file
uploaded twice).
- Requests now automatically drop duplicate media references before
sending - applies to image, video, audio, mesh, and splat generation on
both the web app and the desktop app.
### Gallery picker UX
- Media already added to a slot is now greyed out with an "Added" badge
in the library picker, so the same file can't be added twice to the same
field.
- Applies per slot across the create pages (video, image, audio, 3D
object, world) on web and desktop - references, start frame, end frame,
video refs, audio refs, and multi-view slots.
- Reusing the same image across different slots (e.g. start *and* end
frame, or two 3D views) is still allowed.
### What
- Drag files onto the promptbox on the Image, Video, and Audio create
pages to add them as references - same look and behavior as the webapp
- On those pages the promptbox is now the only drop target; dropping
elsewhere does nothing
- Every other page keeps the existing upload-modal behavior
### Notes
- The webapp's drop code doesn't work as-is on desktop - Tauri
intercepts file drags before the page sees them, so desktop needed its
own path
- Both now share one component, so the two apps stay in sync going
forward
- Model limits still apply: each box only accepts the reference types
its model supports, and existing slot/duration caps are unchanged
- **Hand-typed mentions always take the character's exact name** -
typing `@person` for a character named `Person` now converts to
`@Person` as you type, so the tag binds correctly instead of silently
failing at generation time.
- **Prompt input no longer freezes at a character tag** - the caret
could get stuck inside a chip (e.g. after deleting the space behind it),
blocking all typing.
- **Reference add-menu no longer hides behind the sidebar** - it now
renders above everything instead of getting clipped by the promptbox
layers.
- **Character autocomplete is scrollable in focus mode** - the
fullscreen prompt's scroll lock was blocking it; same fix for the chip
menu's Replace list.
- Fix popovers (model selector etc.) closing instantly when the mention
textarea was focused
- Fix mention autocomplete not clickable in prompt focus mode
- Fix chip "Replace" reopening the autocomplete - now confirms
immediately
- Fix autocomplete appearing at top-left of screen when caret is next to
a leading chip
- Don't open the autocomplete when clicking the caret onto an
already-confirmed chip
- **Fixed: picking an audio reference on mobile opened the photo/video
picker.** iPhones don't have an audio library, so the browser fell back
to Photos - the only thing you could "attach as audio" was a video, and
it silently uploaded as an audio ref. Audio pickers now open the Files
app filtered to real audio files (MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC…).
- **Non-audio files are now rejected with a clear error toast** instead
of being silently attached (also covers drag & drop and Android's "any
file" picker).
- **Fixed: limit warnings never appeared in the web app.** Errors like
"Total audio duration cannot exceed 15s" from shared components were
firing into a toast system the web app doesn't render. They're now
routed to the app's own toasts, so length/limit errors actually show up.
- Applies to the create video, create audio, and desktop reference deck
flows
### New stuff
- Character `@mentions` in the video promptbox now show as **chips with
a thumbnail**, so you can see exactly which character is attached to the
prompt
- Clicking a chip opens a menu to **Replace** (pick another character),
**Preview** (view their image), or **Remove** the mention
- Chips behave like a single unit - one backspace deletes the whole
mention, and removing/replacing can be undone with Ctrl+Z
- Copying prompt text still gives clean plain text (`@name ...`), and
pasting it back restores the chips
- When two characters share a name, the one you actually picked is now
the one that gets sent
### Fixes
- Mobile: the `@` autocomplete no longer goes off-screen - it stays
inside the viewport, flips below the caret when needed, and taps select
reliably
- Focus mode: the autocomplete no longer pushes the prompt sideways /
causes overflow
- Enter-to-generate now works while the mention editor is active on the
webapp
- Create flow stored `inference_job_token` as the `character_token`, so
mentioning
a new character sent a bogus token - backend drops it and name-matches
the
raw `@name` against stale characters.
- Don't add pending characters to the mention store; they aren't
generatable yet.
- Keep the pending poll running after the modal closes and sync real
tokens into
the store once the character is active.
- Remove unused `addCharacter` store action.
- Same fix in all three copies: webapp, website, shared `promptbox` lib.
## Changes
**Batch download**
- Add multi-select mode to the create-video results feed (webapp +
desktop) with a "Select" toggle in the topbar, checkboxes on completed
items, and a floating download bar
- Webapp: "Download" bundles selected videos into a single .zip
client-side (new jszip dependency, concurrent fetches, progress and
partial-failure toasts)
- Desktop: "Download" prompts for a folder and saves each selected video
as its own file via native Tauri save, with progress toasts
- Library: add a Download (zip) button to the existing bulk selection
bar
- Shared `ui-generation-list` lib gains a selection store, select
toggle, action bar, and optional selection props on the grid/list views
(existing hosts unaffected)
**Credits refresh on failed generations**
- Webapp: dispatch a credits refresh when the task queue or generation
feed observes a newly failed job (immediately and again after 2.5s so
server-side refunds settle)
- Desktop: also refresh credits when the 5s task poll discovers a
failure that the push event missed, and listen for `credits-change` in
the TopBar
**UI fixes**
- Selection download bar always sits above the promptbox regardless of
its size
- Mobile Generate/History header no longer overlaps the gallery toggles
(flex layout instead of absolute positioning)
- Reference deck top-aligns in the expanded prompt box instead of
centering
- "Play videos with sound" setting now defaults to on
- Drop images, videos, or audio anywhere on the prompt box - files are
sorted into the right reference type based on what the current model
supports
- Drag-over overlay shows which file kinds are accepted; turns red when
the hovered files aren't usable
- Video keyframe mode: dropped images fill the start frame, then the end
frame
- Unsupported kinds, full slots, and non-media files get a clear toast
instead of failing silently
- Reuses the existing `useDeckMedia` upload pipelines, so limits and
error handling match the "+" pickers
Users reported that after using **Recreate**, pressing the generate
arrow did nothing at all (no error, no card, no spinner). Root cause:
several failure paths gave zero feedback, so a rejected request looked
like a dead button or an outage.
### Changes
- **Show real error messages.** The API layer now keeps the server's
error message (e.g. "Image is required") instead of throwing it away, so
users see why a generation was rejected.
- **Toast on every failed submit.** Image and video pages (webapp +
website) now show an error toast when a generation fails to start.
Previously, most failures were recorded invisibly and never shown.
- **Out of credits feedback on the website.** 402 responses now show a
toast (webapp keeps its upgrade modal).
- **Network errors are announced** instead of failing silently.
- **No more silent submit blocks.** Cases that used to quietly ignore
the click now explain themselves:
- Model list still loading
- Model needs a starting image (website; also un-disabled the button so
clicking gives feedback)
- **Recreate model fallback is announced.** If the original generation's
model is no longer available, recreate now tells the user it switched to
the default model instead of silently swapping.
## Summary
Compacts the legacy reference bands above the prompt box (audio ref row,
multi-view/input-mesh row, reference video row) into the reference deck
design already used on the image and video pages. Mobile forms keep
their existing rows.
## Changes
- **Create Audio** - audio tracks are now deck cards (playable tile,
duration badge) with Upload / From library in the deck's "+" menu; band
removed. Mutual-exclusion and "Audio track required" behavior unchanged.
- **Create 3D World** - guide video is now a deck card; store reworked
to the shared `RefVideo[]` shape.
- **Create 3D Object** - Front/Back/Left/Right are always-visible
labeled slot cards next to the image-ref deck (same design as First/Last
frame on video), plus a "Mesh" slot card for mesh-to-mesh models. Upload
logic deduplicated into `mesh-upload.ts`.
- **Webapp PromptBox** - removed the `mediaReferenceRow` band prop; deck
video/audio groups gate on `videoRefsSupported`/`audioRefsSupported` (no
longer video-page-only); new `referenceSlots` prop; `maxImages: 0`
blocks image uploads on pages whose model takes no image refs.
- **Deck lib** - exported `DeckSlotCard`; new `mesh` card kind;
`sortable: false` for fixed slots; non-finite duration caps hide the
seconds limit; collapsed fan width now tracks card count, so a single
ref sits snug against the prompt (multi-ref unchanged).
- Tags now work in the desktop app - no separate build, it all comes
through the shared gallery/lightbox components
- Open any item in the gallery → edit its tags in the details panel
(same chip editor as the webapp, with autocomplete)
- New "Tags" section in the gallery sidebar: your 5 most-used tags + an
"All tags" entry
- Click a tag to see all media with that tag in the normal grid
- "All tags" opens a word cloud (bigger = used more), click a word to
jump in
- Webapp sidebar now also caps at 5 tags with a "See all tags" link
- The tag editor is now one shared component used by both apps instead
of two copies
Redesigns how references are attached in the image and video
promptboxes, on both the desktop app and the webapp (desktop layout -
mobile is unchanged).
### Reference deck
- Replaces the image-toggle icon and the upload bands above the prompt
with a fanned stack of reference cards inside the promptbox, left of the
prompt text
- Hovering the deck expands it to show every attached ref - no
scrolling, it widens toward the end of the promptbox and wraps into more
rows as needed (ready for up to 50 refs for Seedance 2.5)
- Cards support drag-to-reorder (grab/grabbing cursors), hover remove,
name tooltips (Image 1, Video 2, …), upload progress spinners on
individual cards, and click-to-preview fullscreen
- A circular **+** overlaps the deck: hovering shows an add menu grouped
by type (Image / Video / Audio) with compact limits (e.g. `2/9`, `1/3 ·
8/15s`); clicking it opens a file picker that accepts any supported
media and sorts files by type automatically
### Video modes
- Keyframe mode: Start/End frame band replaced with compact "First frame
⇄ Last frame" cards with a swap button
- Reference mode renamed to **Omni reference** and is now the default;
images, videos, and audio all stack into one mixed deck
### Generate button
- Replaced the "Generate" pill with a circular arrow-up button, credit
cost shown beside it
### Under the hood
- New shared deck components live in `@storyteller/ui-promptbox` and are
used by both apps (previously the two promptbox implementations were
fully separate)
- New `GenerateIconButton` in `@storyteller/ui-button`; the old
`GenerateButton` stays for mobile
- Webapp mobile, audio/object/world pages, and the 2D/3D/Edit
promptboxes keep their existing UI
Deletes dormant legacy API surface (zero live callers, verified against
the full backend route table):
- VoiceDesignerApi, VoiceConversionApi, AnalyticsApi
(/v1/analytics/log_session was never registered) - both @storyteller/api
and the Tauri app's ApiManager copies, plus their tests
- PromptsApi/EngineApi: /v1/image_studio/prompt,
/v1/image_studio/session_jobs, /v1/jobs/session/{token} methods (routes
do not exist)
- UserBookmarksApi: broken-path list methods (/list/{user} and
/list/{et}/{etok}; backend shapes are /list/user/{u} and
/list/entity/{et}/{etok}) and the FakeYou-era scoped enums that only
they consumed
- Dashboard UsersApi: RequestPasswordReset/ResetPassword pointing at
removed /v1/request_password_reset + /v1/reset_password (live pages use
PasswordResetApi -> /v1/password_reset/* correctly)
Fixes WeightsApi cover-image path to the registered route:
/v1/weights/weight/{token}/cover_image (both copies).
BFlat