8 November 2026LondonRelease notes, No. 3Modfare 0.8
High water.
The tide all the way in: a home to start from, everything you follow in one place, and three takes on anything you ask for.
High water is the moment the sea is as full as it gets, and everything that floats is lifted. This issue is the same: a lot came in at once, and all of it is about lifting what you already use rather than replacing it.
Modfare now opens on a home of its own, with your day, your notes and your apps. Your feed gathers the sites you follow into one calm list you can also watch full screen. And when you ask for a change, you get three to try on the page before you keep one.
From the Modfare team, in London.
A home to start from.
The time large over your space's photo, your apps in a glass dock, and the day in quiet cards: your calendar from its private link, notes that save as you type, a to-do list, and what's playing. Prefer to go straight back where you were? Settings has that too.
Everything you follow, in one place.
Your feed reads the pages you're already signed in to and the feeds you add, on your computer, with no accounts to connect. Follow anyone from one box: a YouTube channel, a Bluesky profile, a Substack, a podcast. Switch between Everything, Socials, News, Videos and Podcasts, or watch it all full screen as Reels or Big Picture.
Three takes on anything you ask for.
Ask to change a whole page and three versions come back. Rest on one and the page shows it; move off and it goes back; keep the one you like. The ones you didn't keep wait under Earlier ideas.
See it before you choose it.
Most people don't know what they'd change until they see it. Mods now opens with ideas for the site you're on, each showing a real before and after; rest on one and the page changes behind the menu.
One list of what you'd rather not see.
The words and topics you'd rather not see now stay out of everything: every page, your feed, Reels, the feeds you add and the store. Choose to take them out, or cover them so you can choose to look. Your words are never shown back to you unless you ask.
And the smaller things.
- Now playing. Music or a podcast playing in any app shows in the bar, with play, pause and skip, wherever you are.
- Who's waiting. Unread messages from your apps, on Home, quiet, grouped by person, a tap away from replying.
- Ink. Choose a theme and it blooms from where you clicked, like ink in water.
- Window buttons in your colours. Minimise, maximise and close are Modfare's own now, on every computer.
- Real pictures, never grey. Every app has a sharp picture of its page, kept between visits, or its own icon on a bold colour.
- Capture a page's layout. For pages behind a sign-in: their shape without anything they say, for you to read and send if you like.
- Phones and tablets. Mods now find the pages sites serve phones and tablets too, checked on real pages for each device.
- Nothing looks removed. When a mod hides something, the space closes up, and a page loaded in the background is never folded away.
And a good deal more. Every change is on GitHub.
Past issues
Release notes, No. 2 · 8 November 2026Spring tideModfare 0.4: whole pages, reshaped.Release notes, No. 1 · 8 November 2026Slack waterModfare 0.3: the quiet between tides.Research notes, No. 1 · 7 November 2026Notes from the workshopAn OS inside your OS.High water is out now.
Modfare 0.8 for Mac and Windows, in early preview.