october 9, 2026

1. new

   Stories (beta)

   • Stories are in beta: they’re new, so tell us in the Discord if anything acts up.
   • Post a story from the top of your feed: a photo, a few words on a colour, or a video with Premium. It disappears after a day.
   • Stories from people you follow sit in a ring at the top of the feed. New ones glow; tap to watch, tap the sides to skip, hold to pause.
   • Send an emoji back to someone’s story, and see who watched yours (and what they sent).
   • Make a story friends only, so just the people you follow back can see it.
   • Dress your story up: write on it, add momo and emoji stickers, and put a song on it (search any song; it plays while people watch). Drag things around, pinch to resize and turn, drop on the bin to remove.
2. new

   Say hi to momo

   • yen.bio has a mascot: momo, a little sticker creature with sakura-petal ears. Tap them for a hop.
   • momo sits on the name box on the home page and reacts while you pick a name: hearts when it’s free, a sad face when it’s taken.
   • Empty feeds, empty chats and quiet notifications now have momo keeping you company, and momo is the new tab icon.
   • The chat stickers are now momo: waving hi, laughing, in love, sleepy, mad and more, some with a word on them. Stickers you already sent still show.
3. better

   A more polished feed

   • Posts read better: bigger, airier text, actions spread evenly across the post, and photos in softer frames with a little depth.
   • Replies under a post now hang from a thread line, people to follow get proper profile cards, and trending tags are a ranked list (on phones too, right in the feed).
   • Quoted posts show who wrote them, with their picture.
4. better

   A roomier feed on phones

   • On phones the feed now runs edge to edge, search tucks into a button next to the title, and sorting sits with the trending tags, so posts start right at the top.
5. better

   Cleaner chats

   • The chat list is tidier: the time and a pink unread count sit on the right, group pictures are rounded squares, and unread chats stand out.
   • Messages are slimmer: the time tucks into the corner of the bubble, and bubbles have a little tail.
   • On your phone, chats are their own screen like a messaging app: no extra top bar (the menu is in the chats header), compact notes, and search behind a button.
6. better

   A cozier front page

   • The yen.bio front page got cozy: warm lamp light, drifting specks and twinkling fairy lights, plus the feed, chats, group chats and the new app on real-looking iPhones. The record on the desk plays a new song: headache by jaydes.
7. better

   A livelier feed

   • Liking, reposting and saving a post now bursts a little ring of sparks around the button.
   • Poll results sweep in, chosen tags pop, avatars tilt hello, people to follow lift as you hover, and photos lean in a little.
8. fixed

   Smooth live preview with cursor effects

   • Moving your mouse over the editor’s live preview no longer lags when your page has a cursor effect or an animated background.
9. better

   A fresh look for the shop and market

   • The dashboard’s shop and market now match the rest of the dashboard: sticker-style cards and icons, clear status tags on your purchases and sales, $ price boxes, and layouts that fit properly on phones.
10. new

    Icon-only crests

    • Group owners can now make a crest that’s just an icon, no tag: tick “just the icon” in the group’s settings and pick an icon (or use the group picture).
11. fixed

    Post button on phones

    • The feed’s post button no longer slides off the edge on phones. Who can reply is now a small chip that shows its setting when there’s room.
12. better

    The app wears yen.bio’s colours

    • The yen.bio app now runs right up under your phone’s status bar in its own deep plum colour instead of plain black, and on Android the bar follows your dashboard theme.
13. better

    Notifications show the message

    • Message notifications on your phone and computer now show what was actually said (or that it’s a photo, voice message or sticker), not just “sent you a message”.
14. better

    The app feels like an app

    • In the yen.bio app on your phone, screens now slide in as you move around (and back the other way when you go back), and buttons give a little press when you tap them.
    • Pull down at the top of a page to refresh, and the menu slides in and can be swiped away.
    • Someone’s page, a post or a missing page now has a back button in the app, so you’re never stuck.
15. fixed

    No more “waiting for someone to unlock it”

    • Chats that said they were waiting for someone to unlock them for you now open by themselves within a few seconds, without anyone else needing to be online.
16. new

    Forward messages

    • Send any message on to up to 5 other chats: hover it and pick ⋯ → forward, or hold it on your phone.
    • Photos and voice messages come along too, and forwarded messages get a small “forwarded” label.
17. better

    Chats fit your phone

    • On phones, Messages now fills the whole screen edge to edge, and the message box always sits at the bottom, right above the keyboard when it’s open.
    • More room for chat names in the header, and your keyboard’s return key now says Send.
18. fixed

    Tiny text in the iPhone app

    • If yen.bio looks tiny on your iPhone, it now tells you why and how to fix it: Safari’s page zoom turned down for the site (aA menu), or desktop websites switched on.
19. better

    Chat reports get a proper look

    • When you report a message, the team can now open that chat to see what was actually said, including photos and voice messages, instead of relying only on what the report included.
    • Only owners and developers can do this, only from a report, and every time it happens it is recorded.
20. better

    Always the newest yen.bio

    • The app (and any yen.bio tab you leave open) now picks up updates by itself: it refreshes quietly while you’re away or as you come back, never while you’re typing.
21. better

    No more chat passphrases

    • Your chats now unlock by themselves on every phone and computer you sign in on. No passphrase to choose, type or forget.
    • Already had a passphrase? You never need it again, even if you forgot it. On a new device your chats get a fresh key, and older messages come back as the people in each chat open Messages.
    • How this changes privacy: messages are still stored encrypted, but yen.bio now keeps a copy of your chat key so it can unlock chats for you. That means chats are no longer end-to-end encrypted, and yen.bio could read them if it needed to.
    • Link previews are back in all chats.
22. new

    An opening animation for the app

    • Opening yen.bio from your home screen now plays a little blooming-flower intro before your dashboard.
23. better

    A better yen.bio app

    • Install yen.bio as an app from the account menu: one tap on Android, Chrome and Edge, and simple steps on iPhone.
    • The app icon shows how many unread messages and notifications you have, and long-pressing it jumps straight to messages, the feed, notifications or the editor.
    • Sharper icons that fit your phone's icon shape, a proper notification icon on Android, a friendly screen when you're offline, and faster opening.
24. fixed

    iPhone layout fix, snappier chat list

    • iPhones always get the phone layout now, including with "Request Desktop Website" on.
    • Your chat list updates the moment a message arrives instead of reloading, and chats load lighter.
25. fixed

    @mentions with bio effects

    • @mentions in your bio are links with any Bio effect on (the help center said otherwise, and is now up to date). In the editor, a mention you type turns into a link in the preview right away.
26. new

    Notifications outside yen.bio

    • Turn on notifications outside the site from the Notifications page: messages, likes, replies, follows and mentions arrive even when yen.bio is closed. Each phone or computer has its own switch, and you choose which kinds you get.
    • On iPhone and iPad, add yen.bio to your Home Screen first (Share → Add to Home Screen); that’s how iOS allows web notifications. On Brave, turn on “Use Google services for push messaging”.
    • Message notifications now also show when yen.bio is open behind another window, not only in a hidden tab.
27. fixed

    Phones always get the phone layout

    • yen.bio no longer switches to the desktop layout on a phone, even in “Request Desktop Website” mode or inside apps that shrink pages. In desktop mode you’ll also see a note on how to turn it off, since everything looks small there.
28. newpreview

    Sort your For you page

    In preview: the feed is only open to certain accounts right now. Opening to everyone soon!

    • Choose how For you is ordered: Best (the usual mix), Latest, Top today or Top this week. It remembers your choice.
29. better

    Crests got a glow-up

    • Crests take on the color of their icon, with a soft glow and a shine that sweeps over them when you hover. Post actions on the feed are tidier too: reactions sit right in the row with reply, repost and like.
30. better

    Notes, but better

    • Pick how long a note stays up (1 hour, 6 hours, 24 hours or 3 days), and who sees it: everyone you chat with, or friends only.
    • Notes you haven’t opened have a colored ring. See who has opened yours, and quickly add a feeling emoji.
    • React to someone’s note with one tap (❤️ 😂 🔥 😭 👀 🫶), or reply. Hide a person’s notes any time, and bring them back from the editor.
    • A little equalizer shows when a note’s song is playing, and bubbles float.