Custom player QOL

Serial January 20, 2026
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Features

More controls for the custom player

The custom player now supports captions - these can be toggled with c and customized with the caption settings dropdown in the player The custom player now supports true fullscreen with f Note: windowed fullscreen's shortcut has been moved to Shift + f (and is still accessible at `) The custom player now supports muting a video with m

Mark visible as read button

Mark all the items seen so far in a view as read by hitting the "Mark visible as read" button at the bottom of the screen, or by pressing e (the existing "mark as read" shortcut) This should make working with noisy feeds much less of a chore than before, and help users who strive to have "inbox zero" achieve that

Basic admin features

For self-hosting users, added a few useful user managment features: Automatically create an admin user when no users exist, and prevent public sign up by default Add the ability to log out, ban, or impersonate a user Add some simple instance stats to see how many people are using your Serial instance

Improvements

Feeds will now pull cover images from the item's OG image if no other image is available Much better database query performance Improved import performance, especially with large lists Add item skeletons while loading data, customized for each view

Other notes

Officially removed the video hold feature, as it was too janky to keep around

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