What's New on Realms.tv

This is a big update. We’re rolling out a lot of new features across the platform: from new ways to watch to rebuilt manager tools. Check out more info on all of them below.

🎞️ Flicks: short-form video

Vertical video, built for mobile, made for the feed. Swipe up to keep watching. Free or paywalled.

Touch-drag scroll with peek on mobile
Full-screen immersive player
Desktop chat canvas alongside the video
Shareable URLs with timestamps
Paywall gate for locked Flicks

🎙️ Stages: live audio rooms

Drop into live conversations as they happen.

Real-time audio via LiveKit
Nearby-live bar surfaces ongoing Stages
Tiled hosts and speakers, chat alongside
Reactions while you listen

🌗 Light mode + visual polish

Flip the toggle in your user menu — light mode is now a real theme, not just a quick re-tint. Most surfaces got refined contrast and updated tokens.

Hero CTAs, mod surfaces, and panel chrome refined
Polls: auto-contrast bars, clearer winner highlight
Better hover tints, no more muddied light-mode backgrounds

🔐 Two-factor authentication

Protect your account with a second factor. Set a password first, then enable 2FA from your account settings.

Authenticator app support
Managed alongside your account password
Optional, but recommended for any account you use to manage content

🔍 Smarter search & browsing

Nav search now understands what you mean. Try a query like cooking shows about pasta.

Semantic search across content, channels, events, and users
Grid / list view toggle on browse pages
Mobile search trigger on every browse page
Search results restored for events and channels

🏟️ Clubs, reimagined

A real home for groups: schedules, members, presence.

Schedule tab with day / week / month / upcoming views
Members sidebar with online status and inline invite
Realm badges next to online members
Privacy badges and cleaner empty-state fallback

🎬 Faster video creation

A real create flow, drafts, and scheduled publishing.

Create-video wizard with inline validation
DraftBar: see and resume your in-progress videos
ScheduleSheet: set a future publish date/time
Draft videos linked from the manager

🎯 Start goals from your Create menu

Less hunting around to launch a fundraiser or milestone.

“Start a goal” entry point in the Create menu
Inline form, no full-page jump

💬 Purchasable DM messages

Sell unlock-able content one message at a time.

Locked DM fibers with a per-message unlock price
Balance-aware unlock flow — buyer sees what they need
Locked-fiber detection in the existing chat UI

⭐ Reviews on your channel

Members can recommend (or not) what you publish.

Recommended / not-recommended verdict per review
Review surface integrated into channel pages

🧭 Users & Groups, rebuilt

The biggest manager-panel change this cycle.

Categories promoted to primary nav; sub-groups become table filters
Custom segments — one card per segment, click-drag, inline rules editor
Promote-to-staff, remove, add-to-segment, ban-user dialogs all inline
Kind-aware members DataTable with last active / last login columns
Inline group switcher; channel scope strips channel-name prefix

📊 Reports, rebuilt

Faster moderation, fewer clicks.

DataTable standardization across the reports surface
Filters, read state, and inline moderation actions
Author filter with Fabric user ID resolution

📣 Mass DM campaigns

Send to a cohort, schedule it, watch what lands.

Campaign builder with audience selectors (group filtering + sorting + badges)
Scheduled / cancelled message states and a cancel endpoint
Read receipts, per-message stats, exclusions
Manager panel engagement section with per-message failure analytics

📅 Events and recurrence

Run a series properly — and give event landings a real header.

Inline weekly day-of-week toggles in the recurrence picker
Cancel / restore / override a single occurrence without touching the series
RSVPs and attendees scoped per occurrence
Events CMS block: hub + “when” date filters

🏷️ Hubs branding + onboarding v2

Configure your community surface and your new-manager flow.

New per-hub branding fields
“Get started” onboarding — survey + conditional checklist + nav widget
Notices manager rebuilt on the modern DataTable pattern
“Rebuild top contributors” action in realm settings

🛒 POS, subscription tooling, 2FA admin

Commerce groundwork and account-security controls.

POS system: stores manager, store form with server-side channel picker
Stores multi-select on ticket definitions
Subscription extension handling
Manage other users’ 2FA methods from the manager panel

Let’s wrap it up

This release focused on new ways to watch, better tools for creators, and a faster, cleaner platform throughout. A lot of it came from user feedback, and we’re excited to keep building. If you have questions, or you’d like to use Realms.tv for your own community, reach out.