This is one of the meta posts about this very blog. If that’s not interesting to you, skip to the next one!

Here are some improvements I’ve made to Unsung in recent months. Always curious of your feedback or pointers to places that do these things better!

Weekly emails. I made it so clicking on every (non-YouTube) video or image takes you to the equivalent of the weekly email you’re looking at, but on the web, where you can watch the videos in their natural habitat. It’s scrolled to the right position, so you can just continue reading there.

I’m sorry, I know it isn’t great to shove people outside of their mailbox, but I don’t think there is any way for videos to work well inside emails, and a lot of Unsung is about precise videos. (The only thing allowed is GIFs, and they are really not up to the task.)

Video playback. On that note, I improved the handling and controls of video playback. On mobile, you can tap to play/​pause and swipe left and right to move. On desktop, you can drag the handle, or also swipe left/​right. You can also use ← → keys to advance frame by frame.

My goals are to have video controls that are both minimalistic (for example, never covering the contents) and precise, to match how videos are used here. (But if you tab to the video, it still shows “classic” controls for accessibility.)

Blink comparators. You might have noticed that I added some blink comparators in a few posts where they seemed to be useful (one, two, three, four). Is that fun? Does it work for you? Because I have more ideas for light interactivity on Unsung.

Technical details. Some people asked technical details about specific things on this blog, so I added a technical details page with answers.

Dashboard. If you are interested in that kind of stuff, I added some more charts and stats to Unsung’s internal dashboard (and deprecated sentiment, which wasn’t really working).