Changelog

As mentioned on the credits page, this whole thing is open source, so feel free to check out the repo on GitHub.

But here’s some highlights of when things happened.

March 9, 2026 — Rename “waiting for more” status to “waiting”: the status label now dynamically reads “Waiting for more” or “Waiting for debut” depending on whether you’ve watched any episodes of that show
March 9, 2026 — Add snooze for show notifications: when a “[Show] is back!” or “[Show] is here!” notification appears, you can now snooze it for 1 week or 1 month. Snoozing dismisses the notification, moves the show back to “waiting for more”, and suppresses re-notification until the snooze period ends. Snoozed shows display “snoozed Xd 💤” on their show page
March 7, 2026 — Add PWA support: Seasoning can now be installed as an app on your phone or desktop. On Android/Chrome and desktop browsers, an “Install app” button will appear in the nav when your browser is ready. On iOS Safari, use Share → Add to Home Screen
March 6, 2026 — Distinguish debuting shows from returning shows: when a show you’ve never watched has its first episodes become available, you’ll now see a “[Show Name] is here!” notification instead of “[Show Name] is back!”
March 3, 2026 — Stats filter is now part of the URL path: links like /maxjacobson/stats/2026?filter=reviewed-in are now /maxjacobson/stats/reviewed-in/2026 (and likewise /aired-in/2026)
January 31, 2026 — Show episode badges on your profile page: when viewing your own profile, you’ll now see the red available episodes badge on your currently watching shows, matching the badges shown on the main shows list
January 31, 2026 — Improve new content detection: shows marked as “waiting for more” will now transition to “next up” when new episodes are added to any non-skipped season, not just when entirely new seasons are released. This catches bonus episodes, specials, or newly-added content in older seasons
January 19, 2026 — Add activity feed to shows page: see recent season reviews from people you follow in a sidebar widget. Shows the last 30 days of activity (up to 15 reviews) with season posters, author handles, and time stamps. Click posters to read full reviews, or handles/show titles to navigate. On mobile the feed appears above your shows list, on desktop it’s a left sidebar
December 24, 2025 — Add optional password authentication: users can now sign in with a password in addition to magic links. Passwords are completely optional and can be set during signup or added later in settings. Both authentication methods work simultaneously, providing flexibility while maintaining the passwordless option
November 19, 2025 — Fix new season detection to respect your time zone: previously, checking for unwatched seasons used the server’s time zone to determine if episodes had aired, which could incorrectly show episodes as available before they’ve actually aired in your location
November 16, 2025 — Reserve vertical space for flash messages to prevent content shifting when navigating between pages with and without flash messages
November 9, 2025 — Add ability to skip seasons: mark individual seasons as skipped to exclude them from progress calculations and available episodes badges. Perfect for jumping into a show at a specific season (like watching only the latest season of Dancing with the Stars). Skipped seasons hide their progress bars and disable episode checkboxes. Skipped seasons won’t trigger “next up” notifications or status changes when new episodes are released
November 8, 2025 — Redesigned seasons list on show page: replaced table layout with a responsive grid showing season posters with available episodes badges. Click any poster to view that season’s details
November 8, 2025 — Available episodes badge: Red notification badges now appear on show cards showing how many unwatched episodes are available to watch. Badges overhang the poster in the top-right corner like iOS app notifications. Shows “…” if 10+ episodes are available, and hover tooltips display the full count
November 7, 2025 — Improved search experience: search now prioritizes results from your library first, and only hits the TMDB API if you need additional results. When your library has matching shows, you’ll see a “Include results from TMDB” link at the bottom to expand the search
November 3, 2025 — Improve new season checker to notify you when shows you’ve added (but haven’t watched) finally have aired episodes
October 31, 2025 — Episode checkbox now keeps you on the episode page instead of redirecting to the season page
October 19, 2025 — Season review textareas now auto-expand to fit content as you type, matching the behavior of note-to-self textareas
October 9, 2025 — Display season reviews in card format on season pages showing author username, star rating, and date instead of just date links
October 6, 2025 — Add in-app notifications for returning shows: when the daily checker detects new seasons for shows you’re waiting for or have finished, you’ll see dismissible “[Show Name] is back!” banners on every page
September 28, 2025 — Add collapsible note-to-self sections with clickable caret arrows for easier reading
September 28, 2025 — Add Cmd+Enter (Mac) and Ctrl+Enter (Windows/Linux) keyboard shortcuts to submit forms when focused on textareas
September 11, 2025 — Improve profile page design with horizontal navigation menu for reviews/stats links, friendlier join date formatting, and currently watching show count display
September 6, 2025 — Add season progress bars to individual season pages showing percentage of episodes watched in that season
September 6, 2025 — Add toggle to stats pages allowing users to view seasons reviewed during a year vs seasons that originally aired during a year, providing richer insights into viewing habits
August 24, 2025 — Can mark episodes as seen from the episode show page
August 24, 2025 — Add personal stats pages showing year-by-year review statistics with top 25 favorite seasons. Available at /your-handle/stats with year navigation.
August 17, 2025 — Auto-link links in markdown text fields
August 16, 2025 — Show “added by X people” counts on search page for shows that have already been imported
August 16, 2025 — Apply consistent card-based design to shows index page
July 14, 2025 — Add watch progress bars showing percentage of episodes watched for each show on both the shows index and individual show pages
July 12, 2025 — Unified search and import experience: Search now queries TMDB directly and shows importable shows alongside imported ones, eliminating the separate import page
July 9, 2025 — Show lock emoji on private reviews with tooltip explaining visibility
July 9, 2025 — Add ability to edit season reviews (body, rating, visibility)
July 8, 2025 — Improve design of reviews page to make it easier to scan (remove redundant author names, add visual separation, show dates, better layout)
July 8, 2025 — Fix pagination on shows page so “Next” button only appears when there are actually more pages
July 8, 2025 — Add pagination to your list of reviews
April 13, 2025 — Admins can click “refresh now” button shows page
April 13, 2025 — Remove ability to mark an entire season as seen from the seasons list on the show page
April 13, 2025 — Remove “mutual followers” option from review visibility (it never worked) (sorry)
February 27, 2025 — Allow searching by note to self, not just title
February 27, 2025 — Show 30 shows/reviews per page instead of 10
February 23, 2025 — Humans can unfollow each other
February 17, 2025 — Start the process of removing React from the frontend
July 30, 2023 — On show page, you can hover on the checkbox to see how many episodes have been watched for each season
June 29, 2023 — Update data refresh so that shows which are ongoing will refresh daily, and shows that are complete will refresh every 1-2 weeks, ish
June 25, 2023 — Blockquotes in rendered markdown are now styled as blockquotes, with a left border
June 25, 2023 — Some more spacing between paragraphs in rendered markdown
May 22, 2023 — Basic pagination on the “Your shows” page to only show 10 shows at a time
May 22, 2023 — Humans can now remove a show from their “Your shows” list entirely. Seasoning will forget your “note to self” and the assigned status. It will still remember which episodes you’ve checked off that you’ve seen, and your season reviews.
April 17, 2023 — Humans can optionally set a limit on how many shows they are currently watching
March 31, 2023 — Show “last refreshed at” show data on season page and episode page
February 23, 2023 — Automatically toggle shows from “waiting for more” to “next up” only when there is a new episode available to watch, not just when the season is announced.
February 23, 2023 — Add some animation to the global loading ribbon
February 23, 2023 — Show future episode air dates in a fainter gray text color in episodes list on season page
February 21, 2023 — Fix bug where episode air dates could be off by a day
February 19, 2023 — Display when show data was last refreshed from TMDB
February 15, 2023 — Ignore “The” and “A” at start of titles when sorting shows
February 11, 2023 — Display show first aired year on search page
February 11, 2023 — Add more info links to TMDB
February 11, 2023 — Some restyling with Tailwind
January 13, 2023 — Display episode air date on episode page and season page
January 13, 2023 — Made background refreshing of episodes more resilient, so if one show cannot refresh it doesn’t prevent other shows from refreshing
January 13, 2023 — Set up bugsnag for exception tracking for backend ruby errors
January 7, 2023 — Change the default setting for new people who sign up so that their currently viewing shows will be publicly viewable.
January 7, 2023 — New page for individual episodes
January 7, 2023 — People can mark individual episodes as seen
January 7, 2023 — start recording episode details in database
December 24, 2022 — add following and followers page to profiles
December 24, 2022 — add simple admin page with some basic stats
December 24, 2022 — add changelog page and roadmap page
December 24, 2022 — limit the reviews page to your own reviews, and reviews from people you follow
December 24, 2022 — limit an individual’s reviews page to 10 recent reviews
December 24, 2022 — limit the reviews page to 10 recent reviews
December 24, 2022 — limit the reviews page to authenticated guests
December 19, 2022 — Order shows on homepage by title and status, not just status
June 18, 2022 — Magic links are now more flexibile, and will work even if you type your email with mixed case or trailing spaces
June 18, 2022 — People can delete their reviews
June 18, 2022 — When filtering homepage, save the filters in the URL so they can be sticky
June 18, 2022 — Show the note to self on the homepage
May 22, 2022 — Make it possible to import two shows with the same name, for remakes etc
April 4, 2022 — Improve experience when importing shows
November 5, 2021 — Improve show import flow by doing a search and letting you pick the one you actually definitely want
October 24, 2021 — Add new “next up” show status, and automatically move shows into that status when a new season is available
October 10, 2021 — Redesign to stop using Shopify’s Polaris design system but, rather, just use a really small handful of lines of CSS
May 1, 2021 — Display season-specific posters
April 26, 2021 — People can set their default review visibility for new reviews
April 25, 2021 — People can tick off which seasons of shows that they’ve seen from the show page
April 25, 2021 — Link to profile page from review page
April 11, 2021 — first review is posted
April 11, 2021 — Show global feed of reviews on reviews page
April 10, 2021 — People can write reviews of seasons of shows, with star ratings, text, and visibility
April 10, 2021 — People can follow each other
April 10, 2021 — People can choose whether or not to show their currently watching shows on their profile page
April 10, 2021 — People can filter the homepage by show status
April 5, 2021 — People can tick off which seasons of shows that they’ve seen
April 4, 2021 — People can indicate the status of their relationship to a show (currently watching, waiting for more, etc)
April 4, 2021 — Display show posters
March 28, 2021 — Added a navbar
March 27, 2021 — Switch from Wikipedia to TMDB as the source of data
March 21, 2021 — People can search for shows
March 14, 2021 — People can add “note to self” about a show
March 13, 2021 — People can add shows they’re interested in
March 9, 2021 — Development starts

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