- FixedA room no longer loses its owner: the extension could previously drop the creator out of their own room a couple of seconds after they made it
- FixedOpening a room from your profile no longer starts the player on our site instead of the video service — the extension is now detected the first time
- FixedA brief connection hiccup on the other person's side no longer looks like they left the room — episode switches and small dropouts no longer show anyone «leaving» and «joining» again
- ImprovedA single lost packet no longer drops the connection on a weak network, and after a real disconnect it comes back in seconds rather than minutes
- FixedThe «someone is buffering» notice no longer stays on screen if their connection drops at that moment
- FixedIn rooms where everyone can control playback, an episode switch by any member is now saved — people who join later land on the right video
Changelog
Release history and extension updates
- NewWhen creating a room you can let everyone control it — any participant can pause and rewind, not just you
- ImprovedThe extension widgets are bigger — chat, the participants list and the remote are comfortable to read now
- NewAlt+C opens the chat in the extension — no more hunting for the button in the middle of a film
- ImprovedThe room tutorial now fits in two columns and covers the phone remote and the Alt+C shortcut
- NewPremium paints the extension widgets in your profile colour
- ImprovedReactions now float up above the button and dissolve instead of stacking as cards
- ImprovedThe participants list opens on hover like the other widgets and no longer stays open on its own
- NewWhen someone's video is buffering, everyone else sees it and knows what the wait is for
- ImprovedThe player on the site now shows who paused, started or seeked the video
- ImprovedRemoved playback speed matching — the video no longer speeds up or slows down to keep you in sync
- FixedVideo on the site no longer stutters after a pause or a jump — the player stopped rewinding a second time to catch up with everyone: YouTube, VK Video, and Rutube
- ImprovedThe Start button on a platform page now opens the step-by-step guide right there instead of quietly sending you off to the extension store. On a phone it shows how to create a room through the bot
- FixedThe site no longer throws you back to the sign-in page in the middle of a session — your sign-in renews on its own
- FixedYou can create rooms and open invites right after choosing a nickname — until now that quietly failed for a while
- FixedA participant can no longer disconnect the others from a room
- FixedFixed a false "Room is full" — it was shown to people who were already in the room and reopened the invite page
- FixedIf the host leaves the room, your pause no longer undoes itself a couple of seconds later
- FixedA widget dragged to the right edge no longer slides off screen in a narrow window
- NewWhen someone can't get in because the room is full, its creator sees it right in the chat and can expand the room with one button
- ImprovedThe room-is-full screen is clearer now: you can see how many seats are taken, and there are two ways out — wait for the creator to expand the room, or come in with Premium
- ImprovedThe room entry screens are more compact, and a long room name no longer stretches them across half the screen
- FixedPlatform pages and the changelog no longer drift sideways on a phone
- FixedThe cookie notice no longer covers buttons in open dialogs
- ImprovedAds have appeared on the site — they help keep TandemParty free. There are none in the extension, and on the site they never cover the video
- NewPremium turns off ads across the whole site
- NewYou can now watch together right on the site, without the extension — just open the invite link. Works on phones too: YouTube, VK Video, and Rutube
- NewCreate a room straight from an app: tap “Share” on a video and send the link to our Telegram bot — it sends back a ready invite for your friends
- NewPersonal account: avatar, nickname, subscription dates, your own rooms and the ones you joined. Premium users restyle their profile with a live preview
- NewConnect Telegram to your account and get 3 days of Premium for subscribing to the channel
- NewSign-in codes arrive on Telegram when it's connected. If they don't, we fall back to email as before
- ImprovedThe header now has sign-in and a profile menu: account, support and sign-out in one place
- ImprovedRooms recover on their own after a dropped connection and hand playback over correctly when you open them on another device
- ImprovedConnecting to a room became steadier
- ImprovedThe guide to creating a room on a computer is now a three-step walkthrough with a short video for each step
- ImprovedThe Telegram bot replies to any message and tells you what to do next, and its answers are now illustrated
- ImprovedUpdated the cookie notice and the privacy policy
- FixedFixed being signed out while watching: the site and the extension now keep independent sessions, and several open tabs no longer log you out
- FixedAn invitation now warns straight away if the platform needs the extension — before, you only found out after signing up
- FixedOn Kinopoisk a room is created only when the video itself is open — the film page with its trailer no longer counts as watching
- FixedThe extension replies in the language chosen in your browser instead of always Russian
- FixedA room is named after the film you are watching, not after the catalogue page
- NewPremium users can now join full rooms
- NewAbility to change avatar, username and chat colors
- NewPremium room participant limit expanded to 15
- ImprovedBackend fully rewritten in Rust — lower latency, higher stability
- ImprovedCustom load balancer selects the server with the lowest ping
- FixedFixed episode switching on Kinopoisk and other platforms starting from season 2
- ImprovedVK Video, RuTube and YouTube no longer require creating a new room for each video — just navigate to the next one
- NewChat history is now shown in the extension interface
- NewNew animated sticker packs for chat
- ImprovedQR remote can now switch episodes in TV series
- ImprovedUpdated design for the website and extension
- NewAdded multilingual support to the website and extension
- NewComplete list of supported platforms: Kinopoisk, Ivi, YouTube, VK Video, Rutube, Okko, Wink, Premier, KION, Start, Amediateka, Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max, and Crunchyroll
- FixedFixed message order in chat
- NewAdded platform support: Rutube, VK Video, and YouTube
- NewFirst release — platform support: Ivi and Kinopoisk