What's new on Quad
Every update, newest first. You are on v2.14.2.
Buzz links open Buzz signed in, without asking
Opening Buzz signs you in there quietly when Quad already has you
Signed in on one, signed in on both
If you are signed in on Buzz, opening Quad signs you in as the same account, and the other way round. You might see a quick blink while it checks. Log out on purpose and it stays logged out.
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Quad and Buzz, closer together
Signed in, Open Buzz takes you straight in as you, no second log-in. Today’s Buzz poll is on the home page, so you can vote without leaving, and people who post on Buzz now carry a little Buzz tag by their name.
Big screens get the whole screen
A calmer top bar, and the Clout gem at its proper size
Clout is on Quad
The purple gem in the top bar is your Clout, the same wallet as on Buzz. Earn 20 a day just for visiting and 5 for every game you play for the first time, then spend it on a new look for Quad. Clout can never be bought with money.
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A tidier games page: Jump back in, Saved and Play with a friend are buttons now
Every update in one place: tap the version number in the top bar
The board is now Buzz
The board has closed. Buzz, the student feed, does what it did and more, and your Quad account works there. The newest posts from Buzz now show on the home page, and Buzz has its own button in the top bar.
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A new look, and dark mode follows your computer
Quad is lighter and cleaner: white cards, new type, a red Hide button you cannot miss. It now matches your computer’s light or dark setting, and the moon button in the top bar switches it. Settings has a third choice, Device, to go back to following the computer.
Three new games, and Papa’s works at school
Rolly Vortex, Burnout Drift Hunter and Mini Zombie Shooters replace three games school filters kept blocking. The four Papa’s games, Armed Forces.io and Poop Clicker now load from copies school filters usually let through.
WorldGuessr is off the Play with a friend row, because its school copy is blocked
Play with a friend
A new row on the games page: Smash Karts gives you a room code to share, so a friend can join from their own Chromebook. Seventeen more are two players on one keyboard.
Ask answers again
Five new games in place of blocked ones
Clicker Heroes, Backrooms 3D, CraftMine, Dreadhead Parkour and Death Run 3D replace five games school filters kept blocking. Every game on Quad now has a copy that loads at school.
51 blocked games work at school again
Most of the games tagged May be blocked now load from a copy school filters let through, and the tag is gone from their tiles. Papa's games, Baldi's Basics, Drift King and Tetris are among them.
33 games stop loading their blocked copy when a working one exists
See which games are blocked before you click
Games that school filters usually block now say May be blocked on their tile, so you can skip them. If you hit one that is blocked, press Blocked? on the game page and it gets a Reported blocked tag for everybody else.
Moving between the spaces is quicker
20 more games, and logging in is no longer a trap
Two hundred games now — tank battles, tower defence, Super Smash Flash 2, and a globe-guessing one. The account page also opens on Log in instead of Make an account, so getting back in is not a puzzle any more, and typing a name that already exists puts you on the log-in form instead of an error. Moving between the four spaces fades now, too, instead of flashing white.
YouTube keeps playing when you switch tabs
Music no longer stops dead the moment you look at another tab — the next video starts on its own, like it should have all along. What plays next is what actually goes with the video now, not the next search result, so a song is not followed by the same song by somebody else. There is an Up next list down the side you can see and pick from, and the usual keys work: space to pause, J and L to skip, F for fullscreen.
The page stops bouncing at the top and the bottom
YouTube opens on something to watch
The video page used to be a search box on an empty screen. It now opens on rows of videos by subject, and the subjects change with the day. Ask has its chats down the left as well, so a conversation from last week is one click away instead of behind a button.
The v2.0.0 news card stops talking down the site
Ten more games
Five Nights at Freddy’s, Kingdom Rush Frontiers, Doom 2D, Gold Miner, Cactus McCoy, Swords and Souls, Learn to Fly, Interactive Buddy, Head Basketball, Madalin Stunt Cars Pro and the Watermelon Game. That is 180 in total.
A QA pass before going live. The first two were serious
Quad opens on a proper home page now
Instead of dropping you straight into the games, there are four big buttons — Games, YouTube, Ask and the board. Whatever you played last sits right under them, so getting back into a game is still one tap.
Messages are gone. Quad is four things now.
Chat, friends and streaks have been removed. Quad is four things now: games, YouTube, Ask and the board — and the board is where people talk. One page everybody shares, with a Report and a Hide on every post. Every game also has a Copy link, so you can send one straight to somebody.
Hide properly hides now
Hide used to only cover the screen — the page was still underneath, and one press of Tab pulled it back into view. Everything behind the cover is switched off now, so there is nothing to tab back into. The games page also opens about twice as fast.
Fixes and small changes
Picking a video plays that video. The queue is run by the page now, not by YouTube
Videos keep going
Pick something off the search results and the rest of them play after it, one straight into the next, instead of stopping dead on YouTube’s wall of suggestions. The line under the player tells you what is coming.
The daily AI budget follows where the usage actually went
Ask picks for you now
Removed the model switcher on Ask. Every question goes to the quick model first, on its own, which stretches everybody’s shared daily AI further. It still steps up to the smarter model automatically on the rare day the quick one runs dry.
Humanize, a second tab on Ask
Tap a name to open a profile, and the popout points at something real
The board reads for everyone, and friend requests actually reach the other person
The board
A fifth space, next to Ask in the bar at the top. One page the whole site shares: post something with your name on it, react to what is up, and reply underneath. It is the first thing on Quad that strangers can read, so there is a Report on every post and every reply.
The board
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The top ten was empty for a reason, and it was my fault
The top ten is on the front page
The top ten is ranked on games now, not streaks
A public top ten
The 24 drawn shapes are gone
26 photographs to pick from, and you choose the square
The flame is an actual flame
The questions-left number was counting up
The Enter key works
Quad stopped spending its whole day's storage budget on nothing
Nothing on the site is written with a long dash any more
It says AI on it
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This is the same build as Beta 2.32.1, renumbered
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Signed in on one, signed in on both
If you are signed in on Buzz, opening Quad signs you in as the same account, and the other way round. You might see a quick blink while it checks. Log out on purpose and it stays logged out.
Quad and Buzz, closer together
Signed in, Open Buzz takes you straight in as you, no second log-in. Today’s Buzz poll is on the home page, so you can vote without leaving, and people who post on Buzz now carry a little Buzz tag by their name.
Clout is on Quad
The purple gem in the top bar is your Clout, the same wallet as on Buzz. Earn 20 a day just for visiting and 5 for every game you play for the first time, then spend it on a new look for Quad. Clout can never be bought with money.
The board is now Buzz
The board has closed. Buzz, the student feed, does what it did and more, and your Quad account works there. The newest posts from Buzz now show on the home page, and Buzz has its own button in the top bar.
Changed
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A new look, and dark mode follows your computer
Quad is lighter and cleaner: white cards, new type, a red Hide button you cannot miss. It now matches your computer’s light or dark setting, and the moon button in the top bar switches it. Settings has a third choice, Device, to go back to following the computer.
Three new games, and Papa’s works at school
Rolly Vortex, Burnout Drift Hunter and Mini Zombie Shooters replace three games school filters kept blocking. The four Papa’s games, Armed Forces.io and Poop Clicker now load from copies school filters usually let through.
Play with a friend
A new row on the games page: Smash Karts gives you a room code to share, so a friend can join from their own Chromebook. Seventeen more are two players on one keyboard.
Five new games in place of blocked ones
Clicker Heroes, Backrooms 3D, CraftMine, Dreadhead Parkour and Death Run 3D replace five games school filters kept blocking. Every game on Quad now has a copy that loads at school.
Fixed
See which games are blocked before you click
Games that school filters usually block now say May be blocked on their tile, so you can skip them. If you hit one that is blocked, press Blocked? on the game page and it gets a Reported blocked tag for everybody else.
20 more games, and logging in is no longer a trap
Two hundred games now — tank battles, tower defence, Super Smash Flash 2, and a globe-guessing one. The account page also opens on Log in instead of Make an account, so getting back in is not a puzzle any more, and typing a name that already exists puts you on the log-in form instead of an error. Moving between the four spaces fades now, too, instead of flashing white.
Fixed
YouTube keeps playing when you switch tabs
Music no longer stops dead the moment you look at another tab — the next video starts on its own, like it should have all along. What plays next is what actually goes with the video now, not the next search result, so a song is not followed by the same song by somebody else. There is an Up next list down the side you can see and pick from, and the usual keys work: space to pause, J and L to skip, F for fullscreen.
YouTube opens on something to watch
The video page used to be a search box on an empty screen. It now opens on rows of videos by subject, and the subjects change with the day. Ask has its chats down the left as well, so a conversation from last week is one click away instead of behind a button.
Ten more games
Five Nights at Freddy’s, Kingdom Rush Frontiers, Doom 2D, Gold Miner, Cactus McCoy, Swords and Souls, Learn to Fly, Interactive Buddy, Head Basketball, Madalin Stunt Cars Pro and the Watermelon Game. That is 180 in total.
Quad opens on a proper home page now
Instead of dropping you straight into the games, there are four big buttons — Games, YouTube, Ask and the board. Whatever you played last sits right under them, so getting back into a game is still one tap.
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Fixes and small changes
Messages are gone. Quad is four things now.
Chat, friends and streaks have been removed. Quad is four things now: games, YouTube, Ask and the board — and the board is where people talk. One page everybody shares, with a Report and a Hide on every post. Every game also has a Copy link, so you can send one straight to somebody.
Fixes and small changes