# SpinTheList Changelog

What changed and when. Newest release first.

## v1.11.1 (2026-09-30): Discord bot anywhere

**Improved**

- Cleaner wheel cards on the homepage, without the decorative emoji
- New illustrated icons for each bracket topic, each wheel category and the Browse menu
- A gold trophy when your bracket crowns a champion, plus friendlier pictures on empty brackets, empty searches and the page not found screen
- Discord, Twitch, OBS and Instagram icons on the giveaway links in the footer
- The Browse menu now closes when you click anywhere else on the page
- Comparison pages now list the Discord giveaway bot and PDF export as available, plus Twitch giveaways, present mode, group stage brackets, March Madness and printable blank brackets
- The homepage now covers the mystery wheel, results history, undo, recent lists, giveaway tools and the ready-made bracket topics
- The live wheel on the fairness page now shows in full instead of cut in half when the page first opens
- Switching from the Wheel tab back to Bracket no longer shows the floating matchup bar over a bracket that is already on screen
- Names on the left side of the wheel no longer read upside down, and long names on wheels with only a few slices wrap onto two lines instead of shrinking
- MLB and WNBA playoff brackets now start with this year's real playoff teams, and Ranked matchups follow the real bracket
- NFL, NBA and NHL playoff brackets and the World Cup bracket now start with their most recent real playoff fields, and Ranked replays the real draw
- Updated team lists: all 32 teams on the NFL teams bracket, the 2026 F1 grid, this season's Premier League clubs, and current College Football Playoff contenders
- The random sport wheel now has 30 sports, including soccer, basketball, and baseball
- More tips on the language wheel for classrooms and adding your own languages
- Add the Discord bot to your own account and use /spin in any server or DM, even where the bot isn't installed
- Giveaway winner and /spin messages now have an Add to your server button

## v1.11.0 (2026-09-23): Discord giveaway bot

**Added**

- A free Discord bot: add it with one click, then run giveaways with /giveaway, quick wheel spins with /spin, and redraws with /reroll

## v1.10.2 (2026-09-22): Twitch and Kick chat join the wheel

**Added**

- Twitch and Kick chat entries in the OBS widget: add your channel and viewers join the wheel by typing !enter in chat, with mods able to type !spin or !clear
- Step by step setup guide on the Twitch giveaway page: type your channel to get a ready to paste OBS link, a live preview, and instructions for OBS, chat commands, and giveaway rules

**Fixed**

- Embedded wheels now load when pasted into other websites

## v1.10.1 (2026-09-02): Sign in, short links, live counters

**Added**

- Sign in with Google (optional) and an account page for your links
- Short share links for wheels and brackets, no sign in needed: anonymous links last 30 days, signed in links stay, with private links and custom addresses for accounts
- Live counters: spins, brackets built and champions crowned, on the homepage and in the footer
- Group stage plus knockout format, World Cup style
- Bracket topic hubs: Sports, Movies and TV, Music, Food and Drink, Games, Anime, Pop Culture, Seasonal
- 13 new brackets, including FIFA Club World Cup, FA Cup, NBA Finals, Stanley Cup and Eurovision
- Random wheel colours: pick Random for a fresh palette every time
- Privacy and Terms of Service pages
- March Madness: Final Four pairing choice, sample field, seed prefix paste, phone region view
- Bracket zoom with Ctrl + scroll, pinch, and the + - 0 keys
- Undo a whole Chalk or Random fill in one press

**Improved**

- New homepage and bracket page layout: features, use cases, privacy and fairness up front, long lists collapsed
- Navigation footer and a grouped Browse menu with a Brackets link in the header
- One Share button in the wheel sidebar with the short link and its QR code
- Group stage setup with # Group headers and a Draw groups for me button
- Softer card outlines in light mode

**Fixed**

- Share links with emoji or accented names
- 64 team brackets fit the screen at Fit zoom
- Present mode toolbars no longer overlap the tables
- Esc closes only the open panel, not Present mode
- Keyboard shortcuts pause while a panel is open
- Round robin undo, ties and auto run edge cases
- Long names truncate with an ellipsis in the tree and in exports
- Duplicate region names no longer break saved March Madness brackets

## v1.10.0 (2026-08-31): Brackets rebuilt

**Added**

- Brackets are now compact and fit on one screen, with both sides of the draw meeting at a final in the middle
- Click any name in the bracket to advance it, or spin a real two slice wheel to decide the matchup
- Undo the last result, zoom the bracket, and drag to pan large brackets
- A round by round view on phones with a full bracket sheet one tap away
- Keyboard shortcuts for picking, spinning and undoing
- Double elimination brackets with a losers bracket, grand final and optional bracket reset
- Round robin tournaments with fixtures by round, live standings, optional draws and CSV export
- Choose the format on any bracket page: single elimination, double elimination or round robin
- A real March Madness style bracket: four named regions, 16 seeds each, Final Four pairings, chalk and random fill
- Download any bracket as a PNG or SVG image, or print it as a clean one page PDF
- Printable blank brackets for 4 to 64 teams and March Madness, with optional team names you can type before printing
- Brackets save automatically on your device, with a My brackets drawer to resume, duplicate or export them
- A champion celebration screen when the bracket is decided
- Generating a bracket now opens it in Present mode, a clean full screen view built for playing; press Esc to return to the page
- Bracket controls stay in reach while you scroll, and the whole bracket grows on wide monitors
- Soft click feedback when you advance a name, honoring your sound settings

**Improved**

- Byes now always go to the top seeds so two byes never meet in round one
- The bracket setup screen now draws your bracket live beside the list as you type, with the format and matchup options gathered into one compact panel so everything fits on the first screen

## v1.9.6 (2026-08-30): New giveaway and picker wheels

**Added**

- Giveaway winner pickers for Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Twitch, and Twitter/X: paste your commenters and spin to pick a winner live
- Random actor picker wheel for movie night games, charades, and trivia
- Random US city picker wheel for road trips, geography quizzes, and classroom games
- Save a winner or a full Spin All ranking as a shareable image, ready to post to social media
- Mute button in the top bar that silences every wheel sound in one tap
- Subtle click feedback when you change color themes and adjust options, with its own on/off switch in the Customize tab

**Improved**

- The winner sound now stops as soon as you close the winner popup

## v1.9.5 (2026-08-26): Faster page loads

**Improved**

- Every page loads noticeably faster, with the biggest gain on the wheel pages
- The homepage wheel browser opens and searches quicker
- Sharper logo that loads in a fraction of the size
- Pages now start drawing sooner, with no wait on a separate stylesheet
- Repeat visits reuse the logo and tick sounds from cache instead of refetching them

## v1.9.4 (2026-08-26): Merged duplicate pages

**Improved**

- Merged duplicate wheel pages so each topic now has one page with a bigger list of options

## v1.9.3 (2026-08-26): Bigger pools on the generator pages

**Improved**

- Random animal and random country pages now draw a fresh set from a much bigger pool, with a Reshuffle button
- Homepage now available in Spanish and Portuguese
- Spanish and Portuguese pages now translate the whole wheel, not only the page text
- Bigger pools on the Pokémon, color, movie, username, topic, question, song, state, city, job and word generators

## v1.9.2 (2026-08-26): Weighted wheel, bigger brackets, clearer picker names

**Improved**

- New weighted wheel: give any entry more chances with Name:3
- 32 team, 64 team and March Madness bracket pages
- Clearer names on picker pages

## v1.9.1 (2026-08-26): Bracket maker up front, easier to read lists

**Improved**

- Bracket maker page rebuilt: the builder is now first, with size guides and answers below it.
- Clearer, easier to read cards and lists across the site.

## v1.9.0 (2026-08-26): Fairness audit, streamer mode, and list tools

**Added**

- Fairness page with a live randomness audit: watch up to a million spins run through the exact wheel selection code, with a chi-square verdict
- Public changelog page
- OBS and streamer mode for the embed widget: green screen or transparent background with the panel hidden
- Dedupe, Trim and Equalize buttons for cleaning up a list in one click
- Hidden entries: start a line with # to keep it in the list but off the wheel
- Export and import a whole wheel, including settings, as a JSON backup
- Mystery wheel option that hides labels until the wheel stops
- Embed builder redesign: quick-start lists, theme swatches, size presets, a true-to-size live preview, and ready-made HTML, responsive, WordPress, React, and URL snippets

**Improved**

- Weighted entries now accept spreadsheet style formats such as 3, Pizza or Pizza, 3
- Shuffle, bracket seeding and auto-decided matchups now use the same cryptographic random source as the wheel
- Jump links at the top of every guide section

## v1.8.0 (2026-08-24): Bracket tools and tidier picker pages

**Added**

- Bracket builder tools for common tournament sizes and formats
- Entity brackets for popular franchises, teams, and characters

**Improved**

- Overlapping picker pages merged so each topic has one clear page; old links redirect automatically
- Clearer page titles and descriptions across the site

## v1.7.0 (2026-08-14): Search bar and new picker pages

**Added**

- Search bar on category index pages to filter hundreds of wheels instantly
- Collapsible descriptions on wheel pages so the spinner stays above the fold
- New picker and template pages

## v1.6.0 (2026-08-02): Present mode and bigger brackets

**Added**

- Present mode for brackets: full-screen view for projectors and streams
- Bye notices so odd-sized brackets clearly show who advances automatically
- Scale-to-fit so large brackets fit the screen without scrolling
- GTA and Ballon d'Or brackets
- 32-film MCU bracket plus 7 more franchise brackets

**Improved**

- Wider bracket layout on large screens
- Extra spacing in the first round for readability
- Expanded FAQs on every bracket page

## v1.5.0 (2026-07-19): Bracket polish and test coverage

**Improved**

- Bracket landing page and builder layout
- Spin All rankings modal
- Navbar spacing

**Fixed**

- Bracket page edge cases with uneven entry counts

## v1.4.0 (2026-06-13): Blog, FAQs, and 35 new pages

**Added**

- 10 blog guides with cross-links to matching wheels
- 20 bracket and 15 template pages
- FAQ sections on every page

**Fixed**

- Wheel placeholder zoom flash during load
- QR code popover is now larger and easier to scan

## v1.3.0 (2026-05-20): New tools and wider pages

**Added**

- 7 new picker tools

**Improved**

- Wider layout on single wheel pages
- Results and Entries tabs reordered for faster access

## v1.2.0 (2026-05-16): Spin All, embed, and QR codes

**Added**

- Spin All mode: spin through the whole list and get a full ranking
- Confetti on every winner
- Embed landing page with a live iframe snippet builder
- QR code for any shared wheel link
- Weighted spin with an opt-in toggle and weight preview bars
- 51 new pre-built wheel pages

## v1.1.0 (2026-05-15): Sounds, brackets, and comparisons

**Added**

- Sound system with 12 tick sounds and 24 fanfares, each with its own volume
- Bracket mode for head-to-head eliminations
- Winner modal with confetti
- Comparison pages against other wheel tools
- Social preview images for every page

**Fixed**

- Layout shift on first load

## v1.0.0 (2026-05-14): First release

**Added**

- Canvas spin wheel with custom easing and cryptographically secure picks
- Shareable URLs that encode the full list
- 8 color themes, undo and redo, CSV upload, keyboard shortcuts
- 128 pre-built wheel pages

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