What's new
Everything we changed on Undercard lately, newest first, in plain words.
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Alerts in your Discord DMs
- Link your Discord, then turn on Discord messages in Settings, Notifications. Pick which alerts go there: Live, Games, Social or Updates.
- It stays off unless you turn it on, and it never sends more than 6 an hour or 20 a day.
Stream Scout is now Undercard
- A new logo too: the small card stepping in front of the big one. Small streamers get the spotlight.
- New name, same site. The undercard is the matches before the main event, where future headliners get their start. That is who this is for.
- Nothing changes for your account, squads, posts or settings. Old links keep working.
An Undercard panel for Twitch (coming soon)
- A panel you can add under your stream on Twitch, once Twitch finishes reviewing it. Vibe check: viewers who hang out a while pick one good word for your stream. When three agree, it shows, and it helps people find you here.
- Say hi: quiet viewers can say hi without typing in chat. You only see how many, never who.
- Launchpad: which row of your category you sit in right now and how many more viewers would move you up. You can switch it off, and Calm mode hides the numbers.
- GIFs in posts and AI helpers are switched on. AI is still off until you turn it on in Settings.
Watch more at once, minus the party
- Watch more at once now opens a side by side view and goes straight to picking streams. No watch party unless you want one: tap Watch with friends for that.
- Rows of tabs on a phone turn into one button that opens a list of pages, so nothing hides off the edge of the screen.
- Squad and neighborhood pages on a phone open on the feed. Squad buttons, your stream buddy and members live under About, and raids stay on the computer.
- Home on a phone opens with your neighborhood at the top.
- The Prices page shows games first. Filters fold behind one button, and Price watch only shows once you watch a game.
- On a stream page the streamer's title and info fold behind More, chat is taller, and the menu's search finds streamers, friends and games.
- The Position Tracker on a phone leads with the score circle and two quick tiles instead of a wall of text.
- On a phone you post with the round pencil button in the lower right, and the page picker sticks to the top as you scroll.
- Posts can have a background color (for short ones), emoji and a GIF. Look for Add to your post under the box.
- Galleries on a phone look like Instagram: three square pictures a row. A tucked away chat is a tidy bar across the bottom, and picking a page from the top bar no longer jumps you to the top.
- Smaller phones and bigger text sizes fit now: game card buttons, the Position Tracker tiles, calendars, shared posts and the Watch tabs no longer get cut off, and the strip above the orange bar is gone.
- Blog posts have pictures, Follow buttons look like every other button, and the page picker turns orange when it sticks to the top.
- Typing in the post box on a phone is fast again, and the squad search stays above the keyboard.
- Every post has its own page now, like Twitter: tap a post or its reply bubble to see the post, a reply box and every reply. That goes for profile posts and devlogs too.
- No more blank pages: if the site is restarting when you load or click, you see a small Reconnecting note and the page fills in by itself a moment later.
- Game buttons got a cleaner look: one orange main button, then Category, Times, Tags and Track as a tidy row of icons.
- Little pop-up messages move up out of the way of the Friends box and your chat windows. Pricing in the menu is now Go Pro.
- The orange bar at the top of a page now sticks and turns orange everywhere on a phone, opening the menu partway down a page no longer knocks the header loose, and the Following page shows one bar instead of two stacked up.
- Replies are posts now, everywhere: on profile posts, squad posts and devlogs. Like, repost, bookmark, share or reply to any reply, and tap one to open its own page with the post it answered right above it.
- Profile feeds on phones use the whole width, there are no reply boxes squeezed under every post, and Delete or Report live behind the three dots.
- Your profile can look different on your phone. Tap Customize page on your phone for a simple list: drag the dots to move things, X to remove, and add widgets back. Your computer layout stays the same.
- The chat next to Live for you is much taller, so hype trains and gift banners leave room for the chat.
Better on your phone
- Buttons are bigger and easier to tap on a phone, and tapping a text box no longer makes your iPhone zoom in.
- On a stream page the streamer and the Follow button now sit right under the player, with chat after.
- Pop-up windows on a phone keep their Save button in view and have a proper close button.
- Phones no longer offer to launch games or OBS (they can't anyway). Set category still works from your phone.
- Long explanations fold to two lines on a phone. Tap More to read the rest.
- The menu on a phone now fills the screen. Tap the X where the menu button was, or swipe it to the left, to close it.
- How it works, Our promise and Pricing say the same things in about half the words.
- The Watch page on a phone now shows streams right away. Filters fold behind one Filters button that shows how many you have on.
- Rows of tabs that scroll sideways now fade at the edge, so you can tell there is more to swipe.
- The post box on Home fits in one tidy row, squad names are readable on their banner, and the Tabletop tools are easy to read in the light look.
A brighter front page
- The front page has a new background video, a little more color, and a Light / Dark switch in the top corner.
Search and chat in Live for you
- The live stream on your Home page now has a search box. Start typing a streamer or a game and pick from the suggestions, with pictures. A streamer plays right there; a game plays whoever is live in it, smallest channels first.
- The streamer's chat now sits under the player while it plays. Hide chat if you just want the stream.
More AI helpers (still off unless you want them)
- If you turned AI helpers on, you now get them in more places: bio ideas and Twitch panel text on your Streamer Card, chat rules written from the etiquette you picked, a polish button for your sponsor pitch, squad and event write ups, watch party names, devlogs from quick notes, Tabletop GM ideas, more talk prompts, and an "Explain it simply" box on the Position Tracker.
- Same rules as before: off by default, labeled, nothing posted for you, and nothing kept.
AI helpers, only if you want them
- AI is off by default, and we'll never shove it down your throat. Every tool still works the same way without it.
- If you want a hand with writing, turn on AI helpers in Settings, Account. You get title ideas in your Go live plan, plus video title ideas, a description draft and a first 30 seconds plan in Creator tools.
- It only sees the words you type into it, it never posts anything for you, and its text is always labeled. It's a separate add on, never part of Pro, and free to try during the beta.
Game finder shows your games with pictures
- In Creator tools for YouTube, Game finder now shows your games as cards with their cover picture and this week's YouTube numbers: how many new videos, how many Shorts, and the most viewed one.
- The Game finder tab is now YouTube only. Twitch numbers live on the Twitch side of the site.
Launch can open OBS too
- New in Settings, Streaming: "When I launch a game". Pick OBS Studio (the Steam version) and every Launch button opens OBS first, then your game a moment later.
- Use OBS from obsproject.com, Streamlabs or something else? Add it to Steam as a non Steam game, copy its desktop shortcut link and paste it in. The setting is saved on that computer only.
Console pages that make sense
- Old console pages only list games people actually play on that console. A game that was on PC at the same time (Stardew Valley, Terraria, The Walking Dead) no longer shows up under the PS Vita just because a port exists.
- Online games whose console servers closed, like Final Fantasy XI on PS2, are now counted as PC games.
- When a remake shares a Twitch category with the original (Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 4, Silent Hill 2), old console pages only show streams that say they are playing the original.
- Streams on PC private servers and multiplayer mods (like MTA for GTA San Andreas) stay off old console pages too.
Path to Affiliate uses Twitch's new rules
- Twitch changed what it takes to become an Affiliate: 25 followers, 4 hours streamed, 4 different days, and an average of 3 or more viewers on 4 different days, all in the last 30 days. Path to Affiliate now counts it that way.
- Each day is judged on its own now, so a quiet day no longer drags down a good one. Pro shows the days that almost counted and when each one leaves the 30 day window.
- The buttons under each game (Category, Times, Tags, Track) are separate buttons again instead of one joined bar.
A lighter look
- Undercard now starts in a light theme: white panels, dark text and the same orange.
- Prefer the dark look? Click your avatar and pick Dark, or go to Settings, Account, Appearance. Your browser remembers it.
No more social links in posts, and nicer confirm windows
- Links to Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, Discord and other social sites can no longer be posted in posts, replies, chats or messages. Mention the person's @name or share their Undercard page instead.
- Every "Are you sure?" question on the site now opens in our own window that matches the rest of the site, instead of the plain browser popup.
- The "..." menu on posts no longer gets cut off, so Pin to top of feed is easy to click again.
- The picked hashtag on the Trending tab is readable again.
Clearer privacy page and terms
- The privacy page has a list of what is on it at the top, and a new "How long we keep things" section that says how long each kind of data stays, from 24 hours for other channels' Twitch data to "until you delete it" for your own posts.
- A new "How to take your access back" section with direct links to your Twitch connections and Google permissions pages. If you disconnect us on Twitch, we find out right away and drop your permissions.
- The terms have new sections on fair use of the site (no bots, scrapers or account selling) and on our creator tools for YouTube.
- Both pages now show a version number and the exact date they changed. They are still drafts while our lawyer reviews them.
A sponsorship rate calculator
- New free tool: the sponsorship rate calculator at /tools/sponsor-rates. Type in your average viewers, how long you stream and what the brand gets, and it gives you a low, fair and stretch number for the deal.
- All the math is written out right under it, with your own numbers in it, so you can see exactly where every dollar comes from and change the rate if you know better.
- Under 20 average viewers? It says so honestly: brands usually pay in products, game keys or a small flat fee at that size, and it suggests a fair flat ask and how to pitch it.
- There is a plain pitch you can copy, a list of things to ask for besides money, and a reminder to always turn on Twitch's branded content label and say out loud that the stream is sponsored.
- It works without logging in. If you are logged in it starts from your own average viewers and stream length, and you can save your rate card for next time. Only you ever see it. Find it in the menu under Account.
How Undercard works, and how often we're right
- New page: How it works (link at the bottom of every page). Where our numbers come from, how we turn them into your row, what we keep and for how long, and what we never do.
- We now check ourselves. When a member goes live, we write down the row we predicted and then look where they really landed a few minutes in. The page and the Position Tracker show how often we got it right, give or take one row, once enough streams were checked.
- Your own checks show up in Growth and goals. Nobody else sees them.
- Every place with live Twitch numbers now says how old they are, like "Updated 4 min ago". If a scan is late it says "Waiting for fresh numbers" instead of pretending.
- Test us: the page picks a game right now and tells you where you'd land, with a button to open that game on Twitch and count for yourself.
See how you look in the row
- Every game page has a new "How you look in the row" preview. It draws the streams live in that game right now and puts you right where you would land, at the size people see them.
- Try your own picture and title in it. The picture comes from your computer and never leaves it, we never upload it.
- Turn on the Squint test to blur everything a little and see which thumbnails still pop.
- New in your Streamer Card and Settings: "Your stream layout" (camera, where it sits, cam frame, lighting, chat, overlay and your streaming software). It is optional and only feeds anonymous counts on game pages, like "6 members here use a small corner cam". We show nothing until at least 3 members of a game answered, and never names.
- The Go live plan has a "See how you look in the row" button for the game you picked.
- Make my plan turns all of that into up to five steps for that game, biggest difference first: cam size and lighting, busy little details, colors that pop against the dark page, a cam frame, then your title, avatar and tags. Steps say where to click in OBS, Streamlabs or Twitch Studio. We only look at your own picture, title and avatar, never anyone else's, and no AI writes the steps. Tick them off as you go and find your plans again in Growth and goals.
- Tell us when you changed your look and the plan shows your own streams in that game from before and after. Until you have a few streams on each side it just says it is too early to tell.
Get started now asks first
- Get started opens a few quick questions before you sign up: what brings you here, then a couple of questions about how you stream, what you like to watch or where your game is at. One question per screen, skip anything you like.
- At the end you see what we'll set up for you in plain words, then you sign up with Twitch. Your Command Center, the Watch page and the developer portal start the way you asked.
- Viewers can skip sign up and just browse, with what they picked already applied.
- The logo on the start page no longer gets cut off at the edge.
A calmer look and a new start page
- New colors: orange for the things you can click, quiet greys for everything else. Purple only shows up next to Twitch itself.
- No more emojis sprinkled on buttons and headings, lighter text, tighter corners and fewer exclamation marks.
- A new start page with one Get started button. After you sign up we ask what brings you here (you stream or make videos, you watch, you make games, or a mix) and only show the steps for what you picked.
- Game developers can now sign up the same way as everyone else and land in the developer portal at the end.
- No top menu bar anymore. If you are not logged in, the menu on the left has Watch, Indie games, Blog, Pricing and Log in.
- We cleaned up old wording too: no streak counts, nothing about raid trains or hangouts, and squad live alerts now open the stream here instead of sending you to Twitch.
Partner badge, What's new and squads that start with people
- Put your Undercard link in your Twitch bio and hit Verify to get the Partner badge on your profile, hover card and posts. It's just a badge to say thanks: it never moves you up anywhere. There's a panel image and text you can copy for your Twitch panels too.
- Making a squad now unlocks after a little activity: a few likes from other people on your posts, or a few posts and replies. Joining squads is open to everyone, like always.
- This page now shows the ideas from Feedback & help that we're working on, with their votes. A small dot in the menu tells you when there's something new here.
- Invite friends is easier to find: both of you get 30 days of Pro once your friend starts using Undercard.
- On your phone you can add Undercard to your home screen, so it opens like an app.
Tabletop: villages, monsters and real character sheets
- Props for your maps: houses, a tavern, towers, castle walls, tents, a well, bridges, trees, rocks, chests, barrels, furniture, campfires and more. Lay roads, paths, rivers and fences by clicking along the map. Move, turn and resize them; GMs can hide a prop from players. All drawn by us, free for everyone.
- With Pro, a building can block line of sight, so the party can't see through the walls of the tavern.
- Token pictures: orcs, goblins, dragons, wolves, skeletons, a slime and lots more, plus class looks for player characters (wizard, ranger, paladin, gunslinger, chef...). The token's color tints the picture.
- Character sheets now have tabs: Character, Stats, Equipment, Backpack, Abilities, Journal and Bonds. Weapons have Roll attack and Roll damage buttons, rolled on our server like every other roll.
- Works for any game: GMs make their own template with stats that are numbers, modifiers or die sizes (a d8 stat rolls a d8), any resources they like, and rolls that add stats by name. Two dice that match say Doubles.
Tabletop, part two
- The Tabletop page got a proper welcome: a little board, the dice, and your tables as cards with a map preview, who plays, the next session and a "your turn" tag.
- Ping a spot so everyone (and your stream) sees where you mean. GMs can show their ruler to the whole table.
- Draw on the map: pen, lines, boxes, circles and labels. GMs get a secret layer only GMs ever see, and decide if players can draw too.
- Walls, doors and line of sight: players only see what their own characters can see, and the server never even sends them the rest. Pro.
- Players now see the walls and doors right around their characters (never the rest of the map) and can open a door their token stands next to. GMs can lock a door or turn this off per scene.
- Conditions on tokens (Prone, Poisoned, Blessed and friends, or your own short label) show on the board and in turn order. Tokens can have an aura ring too.
- Hex grids, pointy or flat (Pro). Snapping, the ruler and the fog brush all count in hexes.
- Sheet templates written in our own words: Classic d20 style, 2d6 style, Percentile style, Dice pool style or Blank. Pro GMs can save their own for the table.
- Schedule sessions: they land on everyone's calendar with a reminder and a "starting now".
- The stream overlay dice now tumble and land on the real server result, and you pick where they show up.
Tabletop: run your RPG right here
- A new Tabletop in the menu. Make a table, invite players with a link (or add friends), and play on a grid map with tokens, fog of war, a ruler and as many scenes as you need.
- Dice are rolled on our server, so nobody can fake a roll. Advantage, disadvantage, drop the lowest and rolls only the GM sees all work.
- Turn order, table chat and simple character sheets that fit any game system.
- Made for streaming: add the stream view to OBS and your viewers see the board exactly as your players do, with dice results and turn order popping in.
- GMs looking for players can list their table under Find a table.
Your profile, your way
- Profiles are made of widgets now. Hit Customize page on your own profile to add, remove and reorder them, and move them between the main and side column.
- Not a streamer? Viewers and artists get a page without stream stats, and anyone can remove everything about streaming in one click.
- A Gallery widget for your profile (sample images for now, your own images later).
Galleries on squads and neighborhoods
- Every squad and every neighborhood now has a Gallery tab right after the Feed, with a search box. Tap a picture to open its post.
- Image posts are coming soon. Until then the galleries show sample pictures so you can see what they will look like.
- When images arrive: up to 4 per post, each with an optional description, and we remove hidden data like your location from every picture before anyone sees it.
Polish from your feedback
- Multistreams: name them, make them public or private, and keep adding streams as you browse games and consoles. Changed your mind? Cancel takes back what you just added.
- Squad pages open on the feed. Live now, Calendar and Watch parties have their own tabs.
- Neighborhoods got a side column like squads, and Live now can show who is open to raids, ending soon or open to drop ins.
- Your Clip Vault is now a tab in the Command Center, and your best move is the first thing you see there.
- Download your own clips straight from your Clip Vault (turn it on once, it uses Twitch's own download).
- Squad captains, squad mods and neighborhood stewards can pin up to 3 posts to the top of their feed.
- A Trending tab on Home: tap a hashtag to see every post with it.
- Home has a Live for you box: a muted stream picked from who you follow and smaller channels, plus more picks under it.
- The Command Center opens with Plan your next stream, and Pro can search their own games in the Go live plan.
- Cleaner header icons, tidier checkboxes everywhere, and Following sits right next to Streamers on the Watch page.
Following page, raid tools and Path to Affiliate
- A Following page: who you follow that is live now, live streams in games you follow, and My week with everyone's schedule. Alerts can now filter by game, wait out quiet hours, and ping for a whole squad.
- Stream etiquette badges: streamers say how they like their stream (backseating, spoilers, lurkers welcome and more), and the Watch page can filter by it. Surprise me is still truly random.
- A Series tab on the Watch page that groups live games by series, quieter entries first.
- Raid tools: tell people if a raid is welcome right now, say you are open to drop ins today, join the opt in pool for random small raids, see chat mode badges before you raid, and keep a raid ledger in Growth and goals.
- Path to Affiliate in the Command Center: your progress, a plan, what is dragging your average, viewer retention, a report after each stream, follower change, follow anniversaries and a channel checkup.
- Clip Vault: your clips by month on your card, plus On this day. Streamerversary packs to celebrate your stream birthday.
- VOD views over time, channel point stats, talk prompts for quiet moments, and VOD spot checks in your neighborhood's Get feedback.
- Calm mode, founding members and the Our promise page from the beta are all in this update too.
Public beta
- Every plan is free while we are in beta. Pro features say "free during beta" so nobody thinks they paid for something.
- Founding members: everyone who joins during the beta keeps Pro at a founding price for life once paid plans start.
- Calm mode in Settings: hide your own viewer counts while you are live, or always.
- A gentle pace check in Growth and goals when you have streamed almost every day and numbers stayed flat. Rest is fine.
- Kinder check in messages when you have been away. No guilt, ever.
- The Watch page remembers how you like to sort, and explains how Best match works.
- New pages: Our promise and this changelog.
Creator tools for YouTube, search and multistream
- Creator tools for YouTube: link your channel, show up live on the Watch page, game finder, title and thumbnail feedback from your neighborhood.
- Site search with a "looking for" picker, suggestions while you type, and an advanced search. Hashtags in posts are clickable.
- Watch more at once: start a multistream from any stream page, pick from a grid of who is live.
- Twitch style dropdowns on the Watch page for streamer vibes and category tags.
- Live means live: a channel only shows as live from fresh checks.
- We now keep raw Twitch data about channels that are not members for 24 hours at most.
Friends, messages and watch parties
- Friend requests that people accept or decline first.
- Private messages between friends, in little chat windows at the bottom right. Block and report built in.
- Notification tabs (All, Live, Games, Social, Updates) and game alerts only for games you track.
- Watch parties: up to 4 streams at once, a party chat column, and an End watch party button.
- Fewer sidebar sections.
Neighborhoods and the Command Center
- Size bands and neighborhoods: rooms of streamers your size, with a feed, calendar, watch parties and a feedback forum.
- Command Center with tabs: Overview, Position Tracker, My games, Growth and goals.
- One game mode for people who mostly stream one game: your live rank, best times and tags in one place.
- Console games: add the games you have streamed, or paste a whole list at once.
- A waiting list with invite links, so the site grows at a pace we can look after.
- Prices and deals got their own page, kept apart from anything that shows Twitch data.
Watch page, stream data and community
- The Watch page lists everyone live, with small channels getting a head start in Best match.
- Watch parties and following streamers you like.
- My stream data (opt in): chatters, followers, regulars and what works. Lurkers are only ever counts, and chat is never stored.
- Clip Angel: clips your community makes of each other, loved by the streamer.
- Posts work the same everywhere: reply, repost, like, bookmark, share.
- Draft Terms, Copyright and a full privacy page, plus Download my data in Settings.
Ideas we're working on
Ideas people sent us in Feedback & help that we picked up. More votes move an idea up.
Nothing on the list yet. Your idea could be the first.
What's next
- Image posts: Images in posts, later, once the safety checks and moderation tools are ready.
- Game Club: Free game giveaways from indie developers. Free to enter, a random draw, never tied to points or raids.
- More from your feedback: The next things we build come from what you tell us in Feedback & help.
Plans can change. If something here matters to you, say so in Feedback & help.
See also: Our promise · Pricing · Privacy