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@swaffX swaffX released this 11 Jul 15:23
v1.6.0
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Discord-Netflix 1.6.0 — Watch Together grows up: room chat, live reactions, and end-to-end encryption.

Watch Together

  • Room chat — talk to everyone in the room without leaving Netflix. The chat is a slide-in drawer that stays hidden by default and never pops over the video, so it won't disturb anyone watching. A closed chat only shows a small unread count on the Watch Together button — no interruptions.
  • Live reactions — send a quick reaction that floats up the edge of the screen for everyone. Muteable in one click if you'd rather keep it calm.
  • End-to-end encryption — every room message is now sealed with a key derived from the room code. The broker (and anyone sniffing it) only sees opaque blobs, and nobody can inject fake play/pause or messages without the code. The room code is the only shared secret.
  • Sync-health indicator — each member now shows their live sync latency, so you can see at a glance how tightly everyone is aligned.
  • Smoother seeking — scrubbing no longer floods the room with intermediate positions; only your final resting point is shared.

Sync reliability (fixes)

  • Pause & seek now propagate reliably. A guest's own pause/seek could previously be swallowed for up to a second right after the host's drift-correction — the echo guard is now per-action, so your pause always goes through.
  • No more mid-watch "playback error" from over-syncing. The app was force-seeking the player every couple of seconds over tiny sub-second drift, which stuttered the picture and could trip Netflix's own error. Now only a real gap is corrected; small drift is left alone.
  • Seeks land on the right frame even with network latency, and a brief buffering hiccup on one side no longer yanks the whole room in and out of playback.

App

  • Keyboard shortcuts — press Alt + / for the shortcut list. Alt + W toggles Watch Together, Alt + C opens room chat.
  • The "Start together (3·2·1)" button was removed from the Watch Together panel.

Everything from 1.5.x carries forward. Auto-update installs this over your current version.

Note: the new encryption means a 1.6.0 room and an older-version room can't talk to each other — everyone in a room should be on 1.6.0. Auto-update takes care of that.

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