--- title: "all network issues have been fixed!" date: "June 27 2023" banner: file: "meowthhammer.webp" alt: "meowth plush holding a hammer in real life" --- hey! there have been some hiccups in cobalt's stability lately, i was going through finals while trying to scale up the infrastructure, and that didn't really work out, lol. BUT i'm happy to announce that i've optimized all nodes! <span class="text-backdrop">there should no longer be any networking issues</span>. enjoy stable experience while i work in background to make cobalt even better :) here's what's new in this update: - better button contrast in both themes. - button highlight in light theme now actually looks like a highlight. - removed ip gate for streamables and updated privacy policy to reflect this change. - streamable links now last for 20 seconds instead of 2 minutes. - cleaned up stream verification algorithm. now the same function doesn't run 4 times in a row. - removed deprecated way of hosting a cobalt instance. thank you for sticking with cobalt, and i hope you have a great day :D banner photo is by [@halftroller](https://twitter.com/halftroller) on twitter, thank you so much!