Whenplane News

I will occasionally post news and updates here related to Whenplane here.

Big Search Improvement!

October 3, 2025

Hey everyone. First news post in a while. I've been busy with other stuff in my life, but have still done stuff with Whenplane here and there. But, this new search feature pushed me to make a news post.

Hybrid Search

The WAN Show Search now has a hybrid search feature, which is enabled by default but can be disabled if you want.
Hybrid search combines the classic keyword search with vector embeddings, which allows you to search for (rough) meaning of a…

Websockets & similar products

February 14, 2025

Hey y'all, happy friday!

This week, I finally finished a feature that I have been trying to get working for almost a year:

Websockets

Whenplane now uses a websocket for quicker updates to the main page, instead of polling (re-loading all data) every 5 seconds.
This uses less data (since the page's data is only re-fetched when something changes), and can also lead to faster updates.

There might be some issues with it though, because I haven't thoroughly tested it ye…

Date Filtering and more

January 17, 2025

Hello. I hope you had a good week.
Here are some of the changes I've made this week. As always, please let me know if you have any suggestions, issues, or any other feedback.

Date Filtering in Search

You can now filter search results by date. You can set a before and/or after date to only show results from shows within the range you specify.

This is helpful if you know a general time range when something was said but can…

Better search results, LTTStore Watcher Improvements

January 3, 2025

Hey y'all, hope your 2025 is going well so far. Here is some stuff I worked on this past week.

Search: Transcripts are now chunked

The index for transcripts on The WAN Show Search is now chunked. This means that if there are multiple results for a search within a show, it will show one for each result instead of only including one result per show. This makes it easier to find things in transcripts, as the snippet might not have displayed the part you were …

Minor fixes, performance improvements

December 27, 2024

Hello, I didn't do much this past week due to holidays and family meetings and such. Here is what I did do though:

Fixed quick product search opening when it shouldn't

There was an issue where the quick product search would open whenever you typed a P into the search. This was most annoying on mobile if you had auto-capitalization on.
This is now fixed, so the quick search shortcut will not work if you are typing something.

LTTStore watcher perform…

New extension features and more

December 20, 2024

Hello! I hope you had a great week!
Here are some new things I've added in the past week.

New Extension Features

I've released a few major features for the extension this week.
I hope you find them useful!

Floatplane Live Status (and live counter)

Since Whenplane already tracks when LTT is streaming on Floatplane, including when they start and stop, it is possible for me to add a feature that Floatplan…

Extension update, format customization

December 13, 2024

Hello!

This week was my finals week, meaning I'll start working on some bigger features that I didn't want to commit time to before my break. Here is what I got done this week.

Extension overhaul

The Whenplane Extension has gotten an internal overhaul, which should make it easier to add more features in the future.

Along with this overhaul, it has a new feature that allows you to use The WAN Show Search from the o…

Search results are going places!

December 6, 2024

Hello again. I've been kinda busy with preparing for finals coming up, but I still did some stuff this week

Search results now go where they should

I have fixed Search result links so that they will go to where they should.

Transcripts

Transcript search results will now go to the new transcripts page and will jump to the part that was shown in the result snippet. Each word on the transcrip…

WAN Show Search is even better!

November 22, 2024

Hello! I am very excited to announce that WAN Show search is now even better than it was before.
I want The WAN Show Search to be the go-to option for finding anything that happened on the WAN show, and to do that well, I need your feedback. If you have any issues, suggestions, or other feedback, please let me know!

New: WAN Show Search!

November 15, 2024

Hello!

I have finally finished a new Whenplane feature that I am calling The WAN Show Search.

Currently, you can only search through NoKiTimestamps/topics with it, but in the future, I hope to add more things you can search for, such as captions. I also might have search results there, including merch messages. When I add these more searchables, you will be able to toggle what you are searching (so you would be able to only search for t…

Small changes this week

November 9, 2024

Hello again. I had a much bigger feature I was planning to release this week, but some complications came up so it probably won't be released until next week.

However, here are some smaller changes I made this week:

Thumbnail and message counts for shows

on the merch messages page. Before, it would only show the title, but now it additionally shows the thumbnail and the number of messages that Whenplane found for that show.
I think thi…

Faster pages, thumbnail update time, and more!

November 1, 2024

Hello! Here are a few things I've changed/added this week, and a bonus rant at the end!

Improved caching (faster page loading!)

I have improved the service worker's local caching so that it doesn't remove everything whenever I push any change to the website. Now, it should better preserve files that have not changed, leading to fewer network requests and faster page loading.

Some completely static pages (such as the about, extension, and support pages) are now …

Hi. Also new features

October 25, 2024

Hello! It's been a while since I made a news post. Probably because I don't really like writing things like these.
Here's some features that I've added in the past few months:

Links to different pages on the main page

To make it easier for people to find some of the cool tools I've made on this site, I added a "more" button to the home page. None of the stuff there is new, but I wanted to make it easier to get to.

Merch Messages Index

Apparently I never ma…

Experimental WebSockets

May 24, 2024

Hey y'all.

I've been slowly working on WebSocket support for Whenplane, which will allow updates to show on the page faster.

I have an early version of it available here, and I would appreciate any feedback on any issues you notice.

FP Beta Update, Discord Reminder

April 19, 2024

I just wanted to make a quick news post to say that if you use the Floatplane Beta site, they pushed a change today that broke the extension.

I've already pushed an update to fix it, but you will probably have to manually check for updates.

If you do not use the beta site, it should continue to work as normal.

Discord Reminder

I also wanted to remind you that Whenplane has a Discord server no…

Discord, New FP Fetcher, Elijah notifications

April 12, 2024

Whenplane now has a discord!

Whenplane now has a discord server. Theres not much there, but feel free to join it to ask questions or whatever. Or just tell me you like the site or something.

There is also a channel there that a message is sent whenever a livestream change is detected on Floatplane, which leads perfectly into the...