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| title: "better ux, improvements for youtube, twitter, tiktok, instagram, and more!" | |
| date: "May 5, 2024" | |
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| file: "meowthbusinessman.webp" | |
| alt: "photo of a businessman holding hands together (merkel-raute pose) with meowth plush head." | |
| long time no see! well, actually, you've been using the latest version for some time now. we've moved to a rolling release scheme, allowing for speedy update rollouts :) | |
| since 7.11, there has been a ton of changes. here are the most notable of them: | |
| - youtube downloads are now faster and more reliable than ever. | |
| - all posts from twitter are now downloadable, including sensitive ones. | |
| - you now can download tiktok videos in 1080p h265! just enable h265 support in settings > video. | |
| - added support for sharing links directly to the cobalt web app on android. | |
| - added 240p and 144p quality options to the quality picker in settings (for some reason, many of you wanted this). | |
| - pasting a link with additional text around it will now work; cobalt will extract the link for you (works only via the paste button). | |
| - added anonymous traffic analytics by plausible. we're using a selfhosted instance and don't collect any identifiable information about you. you can learn more in about > privacy policy. you can also opt out of anonymous analytics in settings > other. | |
| service support improvements: | |
| - implemented internal streams functionality, allowing for more fine-grained file streaming and therefore proper youtube support. | |
| - added fallback to m4a if opus isn't available for youtube. | |
| - added a total of 7 ways to get instagram post info, including mobile api, embed, and graphql api. absolute torture. | |
| - added support for reddit user posts. | |
| - updated the way tiktok downloads are handled for better reliability and 1080p support. | |
| - added tiktok author's username to filename. | |
| - added support for rutube shorts and yappy videos. | |
| - added support for m.soundcloud.com links. | |
| - added support for new post and reel links from instagram. | |
| - added support for photo twitter links, only used for gifs. | |
| - added support for m.bilibili.com links. | |
| - added support for new type of vimeo links. | |
| - added support for ddinstagram.com links. | |
| - updated youtube codec info in settings to display the fact that av1 is a better choice now. | |
| - updated best audio picking for tiktok and soundcloud. | |
| - changed the youtube client to web, since android client no longer works. | |
| - removed the vimeo download type switcher, as it should've always been automatic instead. | |
| - removed an ability to enable the tiktok watermark, as it no longer includes the author's username. | |
| ui & ux improvements: | |
| - youtube audio dub switcher is now a toggle with a much easier to understand description. | |
| - meowbalt now sticks out on the left side of download popup on desktop. | |
| - updated "made with love" text to include the research & dev team behind cobalt, imput. | |
| - fixed grammar of russian localization. | |
| - rounded corners are now correctly rendered across all browsers. | |
| - various minor improvements, including smaller button padding. | |
| - removed the notification (red dot) functionality as the most recent changelog is already always on screen. | |
| - removed settings migration from the old domain. | |
| other changes: | |
| - various docs updates in github repo, making sure they're functional across branches and forks. | |
| - major codebase cleanup. | |
| thank you for using cobalt, and thank you for being one of our 900k friends! i hope you like this update as much as we liked making it. | |
| we're committed to keeping cobalt the best way to save what you love without ads or invasion of your privacy. there's a ton of cool stuff to come soon; stay tuned and have an amazing rest of your day <3 | |
| if you want to help our goal of a better internet for everyone, just share cobalt with a friend! | |
| (original photo of a man in a suit by benzoix on freepik) |