Stream Chat Overlay

StreamChat Overlay v1.1.0

Highlights

• Tauri v2 desktop app
• TikTok and YouTube live chat overlays
• Transparent OBS-ready overlay window
• Improved stability and reconnect handling
• Desktop shortcut controls and smoother setup flow

Added

• TikTok live chat, gifts, follows, likes, join events, viewer count updates
• YouTube live chat and Super Chat support
• Local backend for robust overlay hosting

Improved

• Better OBS/browser source experience
• More stable app startup and app runtime
• Cleaner overlay behavior and interaction controls

Fixed

• Reconnect reliability improvements
• Packaging/runtime stability fixes
• Overlay lock state handling

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Release v1.0.3 - UI Polish & Emote Support

🚀 Key Features & Improvements

• Animated SVG Loading Spinner: Replaced the static text loading indicator on the Connect to Live button with a smooth SVG spinner and subtle connecting pulse effect.
• Inline Emote Support: Added support for parsing and rendering custom live chat emotes directly in chat messages.
• Platform Switch Controls: Improved input alignment and automatically disabled platform radio buttons during active connection attempts to prevent inconsistent state transitions.
• Audio Playback Safety: Guarded gift sound notifications to ensure audio only plays when the overlay chat feed is actively visible.
• Simplified Hotkeys: Streamlined application hotkeys to Ctrl+Alt+L (Lock/Unlock) and Ctrl+Alt+I (Toggle Interaction Mode).

🐛 Bug Fixes & Refactoring

• Cleaned up build artifacts (dist-ts, release) and verified bundling via npm run build:ts.
• Smoother transition states for lock and interaction modes in the Electron tray menu.

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🚀 v1.0.2 - Backend Migration & Stability Fixes

This release brings a major architectural overhaul to the backend server, significantly improving performance, maintainability, and resolving critical connection issues.

🏗️ Major Architectural Changes

• Migrated Backend from Python to TypeScript/Node.js: Completely rewrote the Flask-based Python backend (server.py) into a native Node.js application (server.ts) using Express and Socket.io.
• Native Integration: By moving to a Node.js backend, the Electron app now runs natively without relying on a separate Python executable (server.exe). This drastically reduces the application's footprint and simplifies the build process.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• YouTube Chat Crash Fixed: Fixed a critical bug where connecting to YouTube Live would crash the application with a Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'map') error. Implemented a persistent local patch to the youtube-chat dependency to handle edge-case payloads (like missing runs arrays in system messages and memberships) correctly.

🛠️ Under the Hood

• Replaced the python-based web server with express and socket.io.
• Integrated tiktok-live-connector and youtube-chat natively in TypeScript.
• Added a new build:ts step to the build pipeline to compile TypeScript code into dist-ts/ before packaging with electron-builder.
• Automated dependency patching using patch-package on post-install.
• Removed deprecated Python scripts and legacy files (test_tt.py, server.exe, etc.).

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Changelog

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[d770c3b] — 2026-08-29

🔧 Fixed

• CSS cross-browser compatibility — Added standard background-clip: text property alongside -webkit-background-clip: text on .brand-title gradient text, ensuring Firefox and other non-WebKit browsers render it correctly.

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[2e89853] — 2026-08-29

📝 Documentation

• Updated README — Refreshed project documentation to reflect the latest state of the app.

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[9a7ab4c] — 2026-08-29

✨ Features

• YouTube support — Added YouTube as a supported platform for live chat overlay, expanding beyond the previously supported platforms.

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[9f52daa] — 2026-08-29

✨ Features

• User configuration setup screen — Implemented a dedicated setup/configuration screen with modern styling and input logic, allowing users to configure the overlay settings before use.

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[e00d286] — 2026-08-26

✨ Features

• Single-instance locking — Prevents multiple instances of the app from running simultaneously.
• Persistent window bounds — Window size and position are now saved and restored across sessions.
• Centralized CPU affinity management — Improved CPU affinity handling for both the server and renderer processes for better performance and resource control.

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Tiktok Chat Overlay

v1.1.0 Changelog

Added

• Standalone Windows desktop app — TiktokChat now runs as a floating, always-on-top overlay window via Electron, instead of requiring a browser tab
• Bundled Python backend (server.exe) via PyInstaller — no Python installation or dependencies required on the machine running the app
• Right-click context menu on the overlay with Refresh and Toggle DevTools options
• Follow events now get their own icon and render properly in the main chat feed alongside chat and gift messages (previously could be silently overwritten by join events)
• Like and join event columns now fade independently after a few seconds of inactivity, instead of both fading together
• Error-only debug logging for the desktop app, writing to %APPDATA%\tiktokchat\debug.log when something goes wrong (backend crash, missing files, etc.)

Changed

• Removed the join counter from the top stats bar (join events still show individually in the join feed)
• Desktop backend now runs with a hidden console window instead of a visible terminal
• Trimmed desktop app size by dropping unused language locales

Fixed

• Backend now shuts down cleanly on app close (previously a dead code path meant the TikTok connection was never gracefully stopped)
• Fixed a crash on startup in the packaged desktop build caused by a Werkzeug/Flask-SocketIO production-mode safety check
• Fixed the packaged desktop app failing to find its own template/static files

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