Beta Development Log

The latest Windows beta keeps Velora history polling alive when message authors have display names that are not valid channel slugs.

• Fixed optional Velora profile-badge enrichment so invalid author display names cannot interrupt channel polling.
• Kept strict validation for the actual Velora channel input while treating profile badge lookup as non-fatal.
• Published a new self-contained Windows x64 executable for beta version 0.1.12.
• Verified the build with the emote regression suite; the protected beta download remains available through the 0.1.12 manifest.

The current beta improves the native chat flow, restores message metadata, and adds platform emote handling and regression coverage.

• Reworked Avalonia chat messages into a compact, naturally wrapping flow so platform icons, badges, usernames, channel labels, text, links, and emotes remain together without unnecessary empty rows or gaps.
• Restored metadata bindings for usernames, platform indicators, subscriber, moderator, VIP, and other chat badges.
• Preserved repeated and adjacent emotes in their original message order, including mixed text/emote messages and media-only messages.
• Normalized Twitch IRC ACTION messages and improved positional media matching so emote tokens are consumed without duplicate literal text.
• Added Kick emote parsing for [emote:<id>:<name>] markers, including adjacent, repeated, mixed, and malformed-marker handling.
• Added layout and regression coverage for plain text, long announcements, narrow compact windows, repeated emotes, mixed content, Unicode text, metadata/badge bindings, and Kick emotes.
• Verified the beta with a release build and the emote/layout suite under a virtual display. The actual Kick Bwop asset decoded at 70x70 and adjacent emotes rendered successfully.
• Published the Windows x64 self-contained single-file beta executable for version 0.1.11.

The next restricted beta build updates the desktop identity and adds clearer NeonLogin account controls.

• Replaced the header placeholder mark with the Neon Multi Chat artwork used by the beta branding.
• Added a Sign out button at the top of the Account section.
• Signing out disconnects active beta chat connectors, clears the in-memory NeonLogin session, and removes the locally persisted session file.
• Published the Windows x64 self-contained beta executable and advanced the beta update manifest to version 0.1.10.

The Avalonia beta is being kept password-protected while the native client is hardened before public beta access.

• Stable Neon MultiStream remains the public download path while the Avalonia build is tested privately.
• The beta now has its own preview image, release channel metadata, update path, and development log.
• The existing download protection remains in place; beta access will be announced separately when it opens.

Built the shared Avalonia desktop foundation for a dense, readable multistream chat workspace.

• Added the Neon Avalonia shell, combined chat workspace, platform indicators, connection notices, and clear-chat action.
• Added a resizable Platforms sidebar with a remembered expanded width and preserved collapse/expand behavior.
• Added account, NeonLogin, update, beta-version, and update-state presentation without changing the existing commands.
• Added newest-message auto-follow that yields when the user intentionally scrolls through chat.

Connected the Avalonia client to the existing NeonLogin and connector service boundary.

• Integrated Twitch, YouTube Live, Kick, and Velora connection states through the existing services.
• Preserved read-only chat when Twitch write permission is unavailable and added a reconnect path for missing chat scope.
• Added user-card groundwork for available platform profile, role, follow, and subscription information.
• Kept raw connector diagnostics available for debugging while presenting human-readable notices to users.

Ported the production behavior needed for platform-specific identity and message content.

• Twitch badge artwork resolves from the platform badge set and version metadata with cached image loading.
• Velora badge data and its production asset path are being exercised through the shared message boundary; Velora badge coverage remains under private testing.
• Velora’s eligible subscription and entitled badges support the production-style rotating badge presentation.
• Native Twitch, Velora, 7TV, BetterTTV, and FrankerFaceZ emote assets can flow through the shared inline message renderer.
• Static and animated emotes, mixed text and emotes, GIF/media content, and clickable links are rendered as structured content instead of leaked markup.
• OBS overlay content uses the same structured text/media segments rather than displaying serialized HTML or image tags.

Added the native overlay direction needed for OBS/browser-source use while keeping the main chat renderer separate.

• Added a local overlay server and browser-source endpoint for overlay rendering and live updates.
• Kept overlay messages structured so plain text, links, emotes, animated media, badges, and platform metadata remain available to the renderer.
• Preserved the Neon overlay presentation direction while the movable, transparent overlay controls continue through private beta development.