Changelog

A handful of the generated tags were coming back as low ranking on vidIQ, so they're no longer generated. They all shared the same shape, the format word wedged between the artist and the title, so you'd get something like "drake lyrics god's plan". Dropping them also frees up part of the 500 character budget for tags that actually rank.

What's changed

• The lyrics format no longer generates {artist} lyrics {title} or lyrics {firstFeature} {title}.
• Letra and testo had the same shape in both directions, so {artist} letra {title}, {title} letra {artist} and letra {title} {artist} are gone, along with the three testo equivalents.
• Bass boosted drops {title} bass boosted {artist}, and nightcore/sped up drops {title} sped up {artist}.
• Slowed & reverb, phonk and none are untouched. They already kept the format word at the end.
• Shorter tags like lyrics {title} and testo {artist} stay, since those still rank fine.
• The tag templates listed in the documentation have been updated to match.

The context tags feature, the one you get by adding \context to the artist field, now runs on Google's Gemini instead of Groq. Nothing changes in how you use it, it's the same flag and the same handful of tags about why a song is going around on TikTok or Reels. The model behind it is just a newer one, so the tags it comes back with should be a little sharper.

What's changed

• Context tags are generated by Gemini 3.6 Flash instead of Llama 3.3 70B on Groq.
• The \context flag on the site, and the context option in the Discord bot and the API, work exactly as before.
• If Gemini is unreachable or rate limited, the request still goes through and you just get your tags without the context ones, same as it did with Groq.
• Running your own copy of the site now needs a GEMINI_API_KEY in place of GROQ_API_KEY.

Six new genres have been added: alternative, emo, rock, EDM, trap and electronic. Picking one adds a few genre tags to the generated set, the same way the existing genres do.

What's new

• Alternative, emo, rock, EDM, trap and electronic are now options in the genre dropdown.
• The API accepts them too, via the genre parameter.
• They're listed on the genre page and in the documentation.

The accent color across the site is now green (#30D158) instead of blue, so all my services share the same theme color. A few small things got fixed along the way.

What's changed

• Links, badges, callouts and other accents are now green instead of blue.
• The documentation page uses it too, in the "On this page" highlight, the API Reference badge and the heading anchors.
• Sharing the site on Discord, Twitter/X or elsewhere now produces a slightly nicer card, with proper image alt text and corrected Twitter tags.

Fixes

• The toggles were nearly invisible in dark mode and had a gray knob when switched on. They now have a visible track and a white knob in both themes.
• The FAQ answers were a size bigger than the rest of the site's text, they now match the site's default text size.
• Removed the two demo videos from the documentation page.

The site finally has dark mode. It follows your system theme by default, and if you'd rather pick one yourself there's a sun/moon button in the nav. Whatever you choose is saved in your browser, so it sticks around next time you visit.

What's new

• Dark mode on every page, from the generator to the documentation and everything in between.
• A theme toggle in the nav. Nothing fancy, it just flips the theme and remembers your choice.
• Toasts, popups, dropdowns and inputs switch along with the rest of the site.

Improvements

• The drop shadow under the nav when you scroll was basically invisible in dark mode, so it now gets a stronger shadow and a thin border there.
• Cleaned up a bunch of text colors that were slightly off from each other, so everything reads the same in both themes.

The site now has a changelog. It's nothing major, just a place where short notes get posted whenever something is added, changed or fixed, so if you're ever curious about what's been going on with the site you can have a quick look here instead of digging through commits on GitHub.

What's new

• A changelog page where all updates are posted.
• Each post is its own markdown file in the changelogs/ folder of the repo.
• A CHANGELOG.md in the root of the repo with a summary of everything.