Built in the open
GigXchange Release Notes
What we've shipped, and what's next.
Every feature, fix and known issue across the app and the website, newest first.
Updated 15 October 2026 Jump to01 — The app
Mainstage, shipped in the open
Version 0.3.8In development
v0.3.8 is in development. Notes land here as features ship.
This chapter gave artists a stage they can publish: tour dates, setlists, EPKs, flyers and stage plots all became live pages, handed over from one Your Links hub, and on a phone each of them now reads as an editorial page of its own. Finding people was rebuilt around looking rather than listing, with a moving wall of members on Find Artists and Find Venues, and talking to them got sturdier, with one thread per person that carries every booking and any file you send. And the way in became part of the show: sign-in opens on a contact sheet of real members on film, and setting up builds a backstage pass with your own member number.
In development • more notes land here as features ship| 01 | A message you send is never lostYour message appears in the thread the instant you hit send, shows Sending, then settles to Sent. If it fails it stays put as Not sent with your exact words kept, and one tap retries it. |
| 02 | One conversation per personMessages now keeps a single thread with each person you talk to. Any duplicate threads were merged with every message kept, so your history with someone lives in one place. |
| 03 | Several bookings, one chatA conversation can carry as many bookings as you like. Each booking shows its latest offer card, older cards for that booking read Superseded, and every card reflects the booking’s current status even after you switch apps and come back. |
| 04 | Send more than a photo in chatYou can now attach images, video, audio and documents to a message, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and plain text files, up to 25 MB each. Handy when someone asks for your press kit or a stage plan mid conversation. |
| 05 | Your setlist becomes an eveningArtists can now publish an interactive setlist on their profile: the whole night laid out from first song to encore, with each set, the interval and the encore on one timeline, plus what the room needs to provide. Bookers can read it before they make an offer, and you can embed it on your own website. |
| 06 | Bring your own EPKAlready have an EPK as a PDF? Upload it in the EPK builder and it becomes your public EPK page, shown one page at a time with Open and Download buttons. Switch back to the built-in EPK whenever you like; nothing is lost. |
| 07 | Events know their venueWhen you create or edit an event you can now pick the venue from the directory instead of typing its name. The public event page then links to the venue, shows its street address and pins it on a map. Not listed? Type the name as before. |
| 08 | Help is now a guided tourHelp has been rebuilt as an eight-chapter guide with a screenshot of every core feature, search across every answer, and a chapter picker that travels with you on a phone. |
| 09 | A dashboard that shows you aroundYour dashboard now opens with a rotating banner walking through Artists, Venues, Availability, Spotlight and Help, the same for every role, with a toolkit banner for the tools your role can use. Press Pause if you would rather it sat still. |
| 10 | The Noticeboard is a conversationThe dashboard Noticeboard has been rebuilt as a discussion board. Ask a question, share an experience or start a discussion; replies open in place, and the Needs a reply and Yours filters show what is waiting on you. The feedback board in Settings shares the same look. |
Version 0.3.74 September 2026
13 headline features · 112 more improvements
Version 0.3.627 July 2026
15 headline features · 36 more improvements
Version 0.3.54 July 2026
19 headline features · 53 more improvements
Version 0.3.419 June 2026
15 headline features · 29 more improvements
Version 0.3.310 June 2026
10 headline features · 45 more improvements
Version 0.3.26 June 2026
12 headline features · 14 more improvements
Version 0.3.130 May 2026
10 headline features · 26 more improvements
Version 0.3.0 — Production26 May 2026
6 headline features
02 — The website
The website, page by page
Version 0.3.8In development
Website v0.3.8 is in development. Notes land here as features ship.
This chapter the site learned to read well on a phone: the homepage, every venue and open mic page, and the directories that find them became editorial pages made for one hand, with a menu that knows which part of the page you are on. Alongside that, browsing members got quicker and better looking, the free tool pages now preview the real thing, and there is more worth reading, from a monthly report on what UK gigs actually pay to a close read of Scotland’s new music strategy.
In development • more notes land here as features ship| 01 | A better way to browse membersThe member directory now leads with photos and video, keeps a shortlist of up to four members pinned as you browse, and opens a rich preview of anyone you pick without taking you off the page. |
| 02 | Newly joined members take the stageThe members who joined most recently now fan out across a moving stage on the homepage, so you can see who has arrived at a glance and open any of them straight from there. |
| 03 | The site moves quickerPages start drawing sooner, the moving parts settle down the moment they scroll out of view, and stepping from one page to the next feels close to instant. |
| 04 | The free tools preview the real thingThe tour page, setlist and EPK tool pages now open the live pages in their previews rather than a picture of them: scroll them, on a phone too, and see all seven tour designs as they really render. |
| 05 | A homepage built for your phoneOn a phone the homepage is now a design of its own rather than a squeezed-down desktop page: a moving wall of members you can swipe through, live counts of who is on GigXchange, a 3D phone showing the app, and answers that slide open further down. Tablets get the same design, scaled up to fit. |
| 06 | Venue pages that answer the first questionsOn a phone, every venue page now reads as one editorial page. It opens on the room’s own photographs, says whether it is open right now with a live countdown to opening or closing, lists the kit it has (and tells you to contact the venue when that is not listed, rather than guessing), and keeps what’s on, the map and members’ votes a scroll away. |
| 07 | Open mic nights at a glanceOpen mic pages lead with how long until the night kicks off, then lay out its running order half hour by half hour, filling in as the evening goes. On a phone the whole page reads as one editorial page, and anyone can say whether the night is still running with a single tap. |
| 08 | Find a venue or an open mic with your thumbOn a phone, the venue directory and the open mic finder are rebuilt for one hand: search at the top, a map of the country city by city, a Refine panel that reads back what you have picked, and every city in an A to Z index. The open mic finder puts tonight first, and going Back from a listing brings your filters back with you. |
Version 0.3.74 September 2026
15 headline features · 82 more improvements
Version 0.3.627 July 2026
13 headline features · 24 more improvements
Version 0.3.54 July 2026
9 headline features · 18 more improvements
Version 0.3.419 June 2026
5 headline features · 21 more improvements
Version 0.3.310 June 2026
15 headline features · 19 more improvements
Version 0.3.26 June 2026
10 headline features · 8 more improvements
Version 0.3.130 May 2026
6 headline features · 16 more improvements
Version 0.3.018 May 2026
6 headline features · 17 more improvements
03 — The record
Live countShipped, counted
features
improvements
| Current release | v0.3.7 |
| Releases | 8 |
| Avg days between | 14 |
04 — Keep reading
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Release Notes
What we've shipped, what's changed, and what's coming next. Updated with every release.
Last updated: 15 October 2026
Release Notes
What's changed, what's new, and what's next.
GigXchange is the UK's peer-to-peer live music booking platform connecting artists, venues, agents, and promoters. This page documents every product update shipped across two products: GX Mainstage, the SvelteKit-powered app where members manage bookings, messages, events, and payments, and the GigXchange website, the SvelteKit public site with profiles, the Gig Directory, Open Mic Finder, GX Index rate benchmarks, and 86+ blog posts covering the UK live music industry. Each release includes what changed, why, and what's next.
GIGXCHANGE Mainstage (v0.3.8) In development
v0.3.8 is in development. Notes land here as features ship.
Shipped so far
This chapter gave artists a stage they can publish: tour dates, setlists, EPKs, flyers and stage plots all became live pages, handed over from one Your Links hub, and on a phone each of them now reads as an editorial page of its own. Finding people was rebuilt around looking rather than listing, with a moving wall of members on Find Artists and Find Venues, and talking to them got sturdier, with one thread per person that carries every booking and any file you send. And the way in became part of the show: sign-in opens on a contact sheet of real members on film, and setting up builds a backstage pass with your own member number.
In development • more notes land here as features ship
A message you send is never lost
Your message appears in the thread the instant you hit send, shows Sending, then settles to Sent. If it fails it stays put as Not sent with your exact words kept, and one tap retries it.
One conversation per person
Messages now keeps a single thread with each person you talk to. Any duplicate threads were merged with every message kept, so your history with someone lives in one place.
Several bookings, one chat
A conversation can carry as many bookings as you like. Each booking shows its latest offer card, older cards for that booking read Superseded, and every card reflects the booking’s current status even after you switch apps and come back.
Send more than a photo in chat
You can now attach images, video, audio and documents to a message, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and plain text files, up to 25 MB each. Handy when someone asks for your press kit or a stage plan mid conversation.
Your setlist becomes an evening
Artists can now publish an interactive setlist on their profile: the whole night laid out from first song to encore, with each set, the interval and the encore on one timeline, plus what the room needs to provide. Bookers can read it before they make an offer, and you can embed it on your own website.
Bring your own EPK
Already have an EPK as a PDF? Upload it in the EPK builder and it becomes your public EPK page, shown one page at a time with Open and Download buttons. Switch back to the built-in EPK whenever you like; nothing is lost.
Events know their venue
When you create or edit an event you can now pick the venue from the directory instead of typing its name. The public event page then links to the venue, shows its street address and pins it on a map. Not listed? Type the name as before.
Help is now a guided tour
Help has been rebuilt as an eight-chapter guide with a screenshot of every core feature, search across every answer, and a chapter picker that travels with you on a phone.
A dashboard that shows you around
Your dashboard now opens with a rotating banner walking through Artists, Venues, Availability, Spotlight and Help, the same for every role, with a toolkit banner for the tools your role can use. Press Pause if you would rather it sat still.
The Noticeboard is a conversation
The dashboard Noticeboard has been rebuilt as a discussion board. Ask a question, share an experience or start a discussion; replies open in place, and the Needs a reply and Yours filters show what is waiting on you. The feedback board in Settings shares the same look.
Your tour dates become a live page
Turn your gig list into a public tour page in one of seven designs: Cinematic, Signal, Marquee, Nightline, Edition, Monolith and Contact sheet. Every date carries a ticket link and a status badge, a QR code takes the tour away on a fan’s phone, and Add to calendar downloads the shows. It reads your dates rather than remembering them, so a sold-out show is right everywhere the moment you change it. An embed code in the builder puts the same live page on your own website.
Pick a look for your setlist
Your published setlist now comes in four designs: Marquee, Nightline, Edition and Signal. You build it in the design you chose, with each song’s details editing in place, so what you see while you work is what your audience gets.
Your EPK reads like a press sheet
The EPK is now one editorial sheet rather than a stack of cards: your bio opens with a standfirst, tracks play from a gallery of sleeves, videos and reviews sit on a stage with an index, and your strongest figures lead the credentials card. Your live tour page sits inside it, and a new embed code puts the whole sheet on your own website.
Your stage plot, in 3D
Build your stage in three dimensions: add your band, the instruments each of them plays and the gear around them, then turn the stage to any angle to check it reads. Publish it and the plot gets its own public page, an embed for your own website, and a printable sheet for the venue.
A guide for every part of the app
Thirty step-by-step guides, each written by walking the page it describes and illustrated with real screenshots. The shelf on your toolkit page shows the set for your role, and ‘All user guides’ opens the whole library so you can search it.
The app reads like a magazine
Pages now open the way a magazine does: a cover photograph, a contents run of what is inside, and chapters you read straight down. Your profile, dashboard, bookings, events, Explore, settings and every builder share it, so once you know one page you know them all.
What’s New, inside the app
A What’s New page of your own: the latest story up front, the full archive behind it, and a Being Discussed strip where you can react to what we have shipped and tell us what you make of it.
Explore, rebuilt around who you are looking for
Artists, venues, agents, promoters, open gigs, your favourites and the classifieds board each get their own hub, showing only the filters that make sense there. Browse now leads with photographs, and the platform’s live counts sit in the heading.
Ten new flyer designs
Flyers now come as an editorial collection - Edition, Afterimage, Typeset, Contact Sheet, Amplifier, Broadside, Backline, Underpass, Frequency and Cover Story - each in poster, story and feed sizes. Fill in the night, add your photos and logo, choose a theme, and download it. Press Publish and the flyer gets its own page on your profile, an embed code for your website and an optional QR code beside the ticket link. Unpublish takes it down. Everything you made before is under Classic in My Flyers, unchanged.
Availability that repeats on your cycle
Set the days you are free and the hours you work, then have that pattern repeat every one, two, three or four weeks. Each week in the cycle can carry its own hours, so a rota that alternates reads correctly, and your profile calendar and availability strip follow it without you setting foot in there again.
Start your stage plot from a line-up
The gear shelf now opens on ten ready-made line-ups, from solo acoustic to a full function band. One tap lays the stage out for you, and every instrument arrives knowing how many channels it asks the engineer for, which you can change. The stage key counts your items, channels and monitor mixes at a glance.
See what you have earned
A new Insights page on your dashboard shows your real earnings from bookings made on GigXchange. If a figure can’t be loaded, it says so rather than showing £0.
Payments and invoices, redesigned
The Payments and Invoices pages have a new look, and the figures on them are clearer and more reliable.
Build a flyer from scratch
A Custom flyer builder joins the collection: start from a layout, then choose the type, colours, finish and size yourself. Custom flyers publish to your profile and embed on your own site like every other design.
Flyers that fit your words and look printed
Every flyer design now fits your text however long it runs: names, venues and line-ups resize so nothing is cut off. The designs gain real print finishes, paper textures and shadows, and a new Nation festival-bill design brings the collection to eleven.
Find exactly who you are looking for
Explore search can now filter artists, venues, agents and promoters by star rating and by whether they have photos or videos, and search by postcode. Find Gigs adds an Equipment Provided filter, and venue search takes a date you need them free.
Your stage plot, seen from above
Every stage plot now has a plan view: the same stage drawn from overhead at true scale, in the lit look or as a blueprint. Switch between the 3D stage and the plan on the public page, in the embed and in the builder, and lay your gear out in whichever one you prefer. Pictures, the printed sheet and the plot’s cover thumbnails all draw the new plan.
A rider you can hand to the venue
The stage plot’s printable rider has been rebuilt as an A4 landscape sheet: your stage as the cover, the blueprint plan, the channel patch, your notes, and a code the engineer can scan for the live plot. It builds in a second or two, a long key or patch carries onto its own page, and printing gives you clean ink on white.
The gear on the stage is the real thing
Everything you drop on the 3D stage is now modelled on the kit it stands for: guitar and bass rigs, a full drum kit on its riser, stage keys, a DJ booth, wedges and a PA on poles, the sound desk, flight cases, a lighting truss with moving heads, a lighting tree, drapes, and an LED wall behind the band. Each piece carries its own card on the gear shelf, so you can see what you are adding before you add it.
Find Artists is a wall that moves
Finding an artist now opens a full-width wall of members that keeps turning, with one of them featured large: their bio, their photographs, the nights they are free, their fee and set length, and a map of how far they will travel. Click or tap any card to bring that member forward. Beside the wall, a spotlight turns through whoever has been active most recently.
Every place you browse reads the same way
Find Venues, Find Agents, Find Promoters, Find Gigs, Classifieds, Events and Bookings now share one shape: a search rail that tells you in a line what you are about to see, one card featured at the top of the results, full rows of everything else, and a pager that brings you back to where you were.
Featured is one story at a time
Explore’s Featured page now runs as a few full-width sections rather than a grid: a standout member with their photographs and Profile, Message and Book to hand, a row of faces to pick someone else from, a channel showing the newest members to join, and what is on this weekend.
Your Links shows everything you have made
Your Links is now a share hub: your profile, What’s On, your EPK, your tour or events poster, your stage plots and your flyers, each as a picture tile. Pick one and it previews live, exactly as someone else would see it, with Copy, View, QR code and Share on the same screen. Anything you have not published yet offers to take you to its builder.
The stage plot goes full screen
On a computer the stage plot builder and its public page both fill the screen, and the stage gets the room around it: a brick back wall, a scuffed deck, risers and steps dressed like the stage, and a view from the crowd or the balcony on either side. On a phone you can now move an item by picking it up and nudging it, instead of dragging.
Signing in reads as one short journey
Getting in and getting started have been rebuilt as one flow. Google, Microsoft and Apple sit side by side as equal choices, anything you arrived with (a venue invite, a referral code, the kind of account you picked) is remembered through sign-in rather than lost on the way, and a brand-new account is asked once who it is and nothing more. If your connection wobbles halfway through, it picks itself up quietly; if it really cannot, it says plainly what to try next. Sign-in and setup also read properly to a screen reader now, with real headings, labelled fields and spoken confirmation when something changes.
A long session feels like a fresh one
The app now lets go of what it is no longer showing, so an hour of moving between pages feels the same as the moment you opened it. The iPhone app no longer reloads itself on Find Artists and Find Venues, the moving parts stop while they are off screen so your battery lasts, and the dashboard and the 3D stage hand back what they were holding when you leave them.
Signing in shows you the scene
On a computer, sign-in now opens on a contact sheet of real members on 35 mm film, rolling past beside the form: every face on it plays, books or runs live music, and a code in the corner takes your phone straight to the app. On a phone the same film runs along the top and foot of every sign-in screen, and setting up your profile wears the same look from the first screen to the last.
Your backstage pass
Setting up your profile on a computer now builds your backstage pass as you go: a 3D pass on a lanyard, made from your profile, that turns over at the end to show your own permanent member number. Every member keeps theirs in Settings, where you can drag it round and tap to flip it.
Your public pages, made for phones
On a phone, your public profile and the pages it opens (tour page, setlist, stage plot, flyer and What’s On) now read as editorial pages: full-width sections under the same masthead, clean dividers, and each section settling into place as you scroll. They carry the website’s new Where to next? menu too, so a visitor can jump to any part of the page or on to the rest of GigXchange.
Also shipped so far in v0.3.8
- Scrolling up to load older messages keeps your place instead of jumping.
- Opening a contact you had deleted from Messages brings the conversation straight back.
- Searching inside a chat highlights the matching words again, in brand colours.
- Links shared in chat that carry more than one setting after the question mark now open in full.
- Chat on a phone: scrolling past a message no longer opens its press-and-hold menu, an open menu closes when you tap another message, and editing a message keeps the page steady when the keyboard appears.
- Deleting a pinned message unpins it as well, so the pinned strip never shows something that is gone.
- A reply to a message older than what is loaded shows an Earlier message note you can scroll up to, rather than nothing.
- Keyboards that compose characters (Japanese, Chinese and some Android keyboards): Enter now confirms the word instead of sending the message.
- Leighton Buzzard is in the city picker, by member request.
- Explore no longer lists your own profile among the results, and more agents and promoters appear on their rails because the experience and commission filters no longer hide profiles that have not filled those in.
- Favourites drop profiles that are no longer active, and the gig city filter goes by where the gig is.
- Explore always lands on the newest filter you picked, and if a page of results fails to load, the page you were on stays put and says so.
- Find Gigs no longer says there are no open mics while the list is still loading.
- Tapping Follow or Favourite twice in quick succession counts once, so a fast double tap cannot quietly undo what you just saved.
- Favourites reserves the right amount of room while it loads, so the grid no longer jumps as the cards arrive.
- Every dropdown can be driven from the keyboard: arrows move the highlight, Enter picks, Escape closes, and the ones with a search box behave the same way.
- Reduce Motion now also settles the gentle glow on open menus and page controls.
- Jumping to a pinned message works even while chat search is open.
- Editing a classified ad that has run out puts it back on the board for a fresh 60 days, the same way a date-passed ad already did.
- Classified ads carry their own map point, so an ad shows up where it actually is.
- Searching venues by capacity counts standing and seated room together, so a room that only publishes a seated figure is no longer missed.
- Selling tickets elsewhere? Add up to four ticket links to an event and they show on its public page.
- Your profile photo turns a full 360 degrees when you hover it, or once as it scrolls into view on a phone, on profiles and EPKs alike.
- Drag the availability strip on a profile to move between weeks.
- Everyone who manages a band or venue account now gets its message alerts and push notifications.
- A team invite that has since been withdrawn or has lapsed says so before you sign up, and you can switch account from the invite page.
- Gigs that are selling tickets say so in What’s On.
- Saving your profile links now confirms it.
- The dashboard availability calendar keeps its size when you switch chapters, and the grid stays inside its card on narrow screens.
- Opening the Noticeboard from the dashboard starts at its top.
- The Read tag on the Spotlight carousel is tappable.
- On very wide screens the app centres its content between the menu and the side rail instead of hugging the left.
- Cards and secondary buttons share one frosted look across the app.
- A venue page never shows the same photo twice.
- Your public profile’s Schedule tab shows your tour page in the design you chose.
- An empty setlist or tour page opens on a worked example, so you can see the finished thing before you add your first song or show.
- A tour page and a setlist each keep their own photo and avatar; your profile photo is only the starting point, and you can change the avatar in place on the designs that show it.
- Songs in a setlist can be dragged into order on a phone.
- A song’s length can be cleared, the Song Bank’s edit window saves the key you typed, and importing a file into a setlist keeps the key and notes it found.
- Your first edits to a new setlist create one setlist, not one per change.
- Print works from inside the phone app too and produces a proper gig sheet; installed apps pick this up with their next store update.
- Emailing a setlist, sending feedback and Copy Link only confirm when it really went through, and say so when it did not.
- Refreshing a tour page from your bookings keeps the status and ticket link you set on each date, and past dates no longer offer tickets.
- Editing the same tour page in two browser tabs at once no longer loses changes.
- The EPK Builder’s side rail shows your EPK at a glance: status, publish date, views and how complete it is.
- Favourites shows the five newest members to join, and Bookings > Gigs shows the latest gigs posted, in the side rail.
- Every events page carries a short How events work guide, and it says out loud that gigs booked outside GigXchange belong in your events too.
- Pick the look for your tour page, setlist or stage plot from a row of cover thumbnails you can drag through, each one showing the real design.
- Your genres sit in the order you put them in: drag to reorder, and keep up to ten.
- A booking’s detail page now carries a map of where the gig is.
- Running a band or venue account: your dashboard, links, follows, reviews and feed all act as the profile you are running, not your personal one.
- Setlists, tour pages, EPKs, stage plots and your upcoming bookings all share one ‘Embed on your website’ panel, in the same place on every builder.
- My flyers has a type filter and a sort, and the delete bin always sits in the banner.
- A venue reads ‘events poster’ wherever an artist reads ‘tour poster’, across the builder and every cover.
- Open mic cards in the Find Gigs carousel open the listing they point to.
- Notifications keep the feed and your preferences on one page, and older ones page in steadily.
- Song Bank reads as one line per song on a phone, headers and all, and the list count sits inside the search box.
- Your events calendar and your availability calendar now share one layout, one month toggle and one key.
- Your reviews page puts the one you are reading full width, larger, with the rest waiting either side.
- Photos you drag to frame a cover behave the same everywhere, and a page never shows you the same venue photo twice.
- Dropdowns with nothing in them no longer open, and a long display name wraps on a phone instead of running off the screen.
- Create Booking, Post a Gig and Create Event are now the same form, so whichever you start with reads the same way.
- Post a Gig picks genres from a word cloud rather than a long list.
- The 3D stage now reads as a real room: a scuffed plywood deck, box trusses hung overhead with par cans, a soft shadow under every piece of gear, and a GigXchange curtain while it loads.
- The stage plot embed shows the same 3D stage as its public page, and you can ask it for a lit or a blueprint look.
- An amp counts as the cab its instrument is miked through, and a keyboard as a single line, so the channel count matches what an engineer would actually patch.
- Blocking or freeing a night is applied in one go, so your availability is never briefly wrong while it saves.
- The availability strip on a profile always shows that member’s weeks, never the last member you looked at.
- Your dashboard opens with a Tools launcher for your role, as photo cards, and a network row where your own face leads Following, Followers and Profile Views.
- The Noticeboard and Feedback are now dashboard pages of their own, and Favourites opens as a lead story with a gallery behind it.
- Explore’s sub-navigation sits in a fixed order, and each hub carries a line telling you what you will find there.
- The five Explore hubs only offer Clear Filters when something is actually filtered, and the filter rows answer at every screen width.
- Find Gigs moves its budget in steps of fifty, like every other Explore hub.
- Filtering events down to nothing now says so, rather than reading as though there are no events at all.
- If a page fails to load you are told, instead of being shown an empty page that looks like the real answer.
- Deleting a photo asks first and says it is permanent, and leaving an editor asks before it discards anything you have not saved.
- Replacing a photo updates it everywhere it appears, page cover photographs included.
- Cover photographs open at the framing you set, instead of settling into it a moment after the page loads.
- The flyer editor has a preview that floats alongside you as you scroll, photos laid out as a numbered contact sheet, and chapters that fold down to their headings on a phone.
- Sharing or publishing a tour page no longer means opening settings first, and Add to calendar only offers dates it can export.
- Gig Rescue, the Licence Checker and the Compliance Checklist now read as editorial pages: one question at a time, a running order you can follow, and numbered tasks with a progress meter for each section.
- The EPK gallery opens with one photo and then a 2x2 on a phone, and its bottom-right corner collages the rest when there are more than it can show.
- Rock ‘n’ Roll and Rockabilly are in the genre list, by member request.
- Getting help with a ticket order works from the phone app, and it carries your order number with it.
- Your Calendar now lives under Events only, so there is one place to look for it.
- Back from a What’s New or Creator Tools list returns you to the cards you came from.
- ‘See example’ on the tools pages opens the real live page in a lightbox, not a picture of it.
- Tab rows fill the width on a phone, a long profile address shortens rather than running off the page, and carousels scroll smoothly on iPhone.
- Profiles carry Reviews and Availability tabs, and switching tabs fades smoothly instead of jumping.
- The Following, Followers, Profile views and Recently Active numbers on your dashboard keep themselves up to date, and their lists open quickly however long they are.
- Photos in a lightbox fade from one to the next, and tapping a profile picture opens it full size.
- On a computer, the flyer builder opens a Desktop Editor with your flyer and its settings side by side.
- Each text box on a flyer shows a counter as you near its limit, so a long line-up is never cut off without warning.
- Open mic listings name the advertised host, and performer types read as people: musicians, poets, comedians.
- Every flyer saves itself as you work, so leaving the page never costs you what you typed.
- Sharing a flyer hands over the version you published, so later edits never change what someone already has.
- Sharing a flyer tells you who it reached, and who already had it.
- A flyer picture you save comes out the same in every browser: the same size, the same glows and the same soft shadows.
- My flyers can be narrowed to Classic or editorial flyers and to a single design, and the filter row folds away on a phone.
- Back in the flyer builder reopens the flyer you were working on, and a saved draft opens where you left it.
- Undo in the flyer editor only offers back photos you still have.
- Saved flyer cards can be driven from the keyboard and read properly to a screen reader.
- On a phone, the tour and setlist cards inside an EPK keep to themselves: tap once to scroll inside one, touch outside it to carry on down the page.
- The Wire on your dashboard shows who each notification came from, with their picture where we have one, and what kind of notification it is.
- Smaller flyer touches: the Tickets link on an embedded flyer stays readable on a light page, and a design only offers the photo slots it actually prints.
- Stage plots open quicker and run lighter: a plot downloads only the gear standing on it, a stage you are only looking at sits still rather than redrawing, and the first press on it no longer pauses.
- On the 3D stage a tap picks an item and only that item moves, zooming pulls you towards whatever you picked, and the page scrolls straight past the stage until you tap it.
- Every item on a stage plot can carry a note for the engineer, listed on the public page, the embed, the picture and the rider, and the notes you write keep your line breaks everywhere they appear.
- Running a band account opens and edits that band’s stage plots.
- Undo in the stage plot steps back through your channel and monitor edits one at a time, instead of clearing them.
- The ready-made line-ups lay out on one grid, so nothing lands inside the back wall or on top of a wedge.
- On a tour page the date field types its own slashes and saves the moment you leave it, and switching poster keeps the date you had selected.
- Tour page edits are no longer lost: a title typed while the page is refreshing is written once it finishes, a picture that would not save stays owed rather than quietly vanishing, and leaving the page saves whatever is outstanding.
- A finished tour reads as finished: nothing says tonight, every stop is marked played, and today follows the UK day wherever you happen to be.
- Publish on a tour page stays greyed out until you have added a show of your own, and importing your dates shows you a preview before anything is written.
- The share box on a tour page only mentions tickets when a show is actually selling, and deleting a poster now tells you it happened.
- Your EPK links out to your live tour page.
- Your logo on a flyer can be moved and resized, and it sits above the photograph. On Nation and Frequency it stays put when a full flyer runs out of room, and a three-name line-up is evenly spaced.
- The flyer editor saves when you switch away from the app, asks before you close a tab with typing still unsaved, retries a save that did not land, and names each line of the flyer properly for screen readers.
- Saving a flyer or a poster from the Android app opens your phone’s share sheet, so you can keep it or send it straight on.
- A Classic flyer keeps its photograph when you download it on an iPhone, every download confirms that it saved, and the access line fits the same way in the editor as it does in the file you get.
- My flyers opens quicker on a long list, and each saved card draws your flyer’s current design rather than an older picture of it.
- The last step of sign-up, where your profile is saved, now completes first time.
- The Wire on your dashboard counts profile views and track listens under Yours, and its badge counts only what you have not read.
- The tools banner on your dashboard turns its own pages, with a pause button if you would rather it sat still.
- Every card you embed on your own website now wears the same frame: the live page inside it, a GigXchange bar across the top, and links that open outside the frame.
- A band member on a stage plot can carry a note for the engineer beside their name, listed alongside the gear’s own notes.
- The stage plot’s printable rider now reads as a tour book: a cover shot from the pit, the stage as the desk sees it, both sides and the view from above, then the crew’s working pages.
- Stage plots switch between the ready-made line-ups almost instantly, and opening the stage over and over no longer makes the page heavier.
- Profile pictures and venue photographs load faster across the app, at the size your screen actually needs.
- On a computer the flyer editor goes true full screen, with a bigger flyer and its settings beside it.
- A venue nobody has claimed yet carries a ballot on Find Venues: Want, or Not for me, with the count filling as members vote.
- A member’s travel radius is drawn on the map as rings out to fifty miles, and their card says how far they will travel.
- Signing out in one browser tab no longer throws you off a public page in another.
- Changed your mind about closing your account? Signing back in cancels it and tells you so.
- A profile seen inside an embedded preview no longer counts as a profile view.
- Deleting a date from a tour page deletes the booking it created, and a second show on the same night asks first.
- Buttons in a pop-up share the row equally, everywhere in the app.
- Your photo ribbon fits one row of six on a phone, and the sixth says how many more there are.
- At phone widths the grids on Explore, Bookings, Gigs and Events sit on the page’s own margin, and nothing clips sideways on an iPhone.
- Frosted panels blur properly in Chrome and on Android, and the bars on a playing track move on an iPhone.
- The Member Spotlight on your dashboard opens on the real story rather than flashing a holding card first.
- Warnings read violet and starred items read ice, so nothing in the app sits outside its own colours.
- Quick filters narrow the moving wall on Find Artists and Find Venues: pick a sound or a city and the wall keeps turning with only those members on it, and Clear puts everyone back.
- On a phone you can drag the wall along with your finger. A flat swipe moves the wall, a steeper one scrolls the page as normal.
- Find Agents and Find Promoters now carry the same featured member wall as Find Artists and Find Venues.
- A dropped connection no longer freezes the app or signs you out. It waits, then carries on where you were.
- Photographs you send in chat appear in the thread straight away and arrive lighter, with a soft blur in place until the full picture lands.
- Opening a sign-up or invite link while you are already signed in takes you home rather than to a form you cannot use, and a password reset link always opens the reset.
- Every message on the way in now says the same thing in the same words, and the sign-up name box reads ‘Display name’ with an example for your kind of account.
- Finish setup and your profile opens straight away instead of resting on the logo, and a finished member who lands back on setup goes straight home.
- On laptop-sized screens the first-run tour card and the dashboard’s ‘Your next move’ panel sit where they belong.
- The Classifieds strip on your dashboard stays visible with an ad blocker switched on.
- Turning the notifications switch off and back on keeps the per-category choices you had set.
- The Recommended row on your dashboard no longer waits on its loading pattern for ever: if it cannot load, it tells you.
- Every one of the thirty user guides now has its own cover photograph, framed by hand.
- The 3D stage comes back by itself if your phone hands back its graphics, and leaving the builder lets go of the stage.
- The featured member on the wall moves on every couple of seconds again, and holds while you are still reading its card.
- Belt cards no longer offer Preview, Message and Book on hover. Open the member and those sit on their card, where they work.
- Explore says so when a filter leaves nothing on the wall, and keeps its Clear within reach.
- Card pictures across the app arrive softly: a blurred hint of each photo shows straight away and the sharp picture fades in over it.
- Choosing a profile photo now lets you frame its tall member card too, and Find Artists, Find Venues and the Spotlight show the card the way you framed it.
- On a phone, Find Artists and Find Venues open as a carousel of members you can swipe through, with the quick filters in its frame and Recently Active back underneath. Landscape phones and tablets get the same view.
- In a phone browser the app fits the visible screen, so the page no longer slides about and takes the bottom tab bar with it.
- Moving between the app and the website, or signing out, fades through black rather than flashing a bare page.
- Your profile has one box for the name members see, whatever your role, instead of separate stage, venue, agency and company name fields.
- Previews of your own pages in Your Links sit flush in their frame with no scrollbar: drag them, or use the mouse wheel, to scroll, and they always show in the dark theme.
- Date pickers, dropdowns and the taller pop-ups line up with their fields on laptop-sized screens, and the booking offer and amend booking windows scroll to fit a smaller screen with their buttons always in view.
- Switching to light mode now opens a short note saying it is still being finished.
- The Noticeboard keeps its heading, tabs and sort controls together in one band, the same way Feedback does.
- A team invite link that has been cut short says the invitation is not valid, rather than telling you to check your connection.
- Signing out finishes even when the connection drops part-way, rather than saying it could not sign you out.
- The gig-pay survey looks like the rest of GigXchange and reads properly on a phone, with its figures in a single row and the gig types laid out as an even grid.
- Smaller touches: a password manager filling in a form no longer tints its boxes, gradient buttons lose a stray line down their right edge, a long bio during setup scrolls inside its own box, and Advanced search sits its boxes at one height.
- On your events calendar, Needs your action is a card of its own: it counts every night waiting on you, pages through them five at a time, and spots double bookings across everything coming up rather than only the month on screen. The page no longer jumps as it loads.
- On a phone, the Payments, Invoices, Transactions and Payouts pages show their figures without buttons crowding underneath, and Analytics no longer jumps about as it loads.
- Scrolling on a computer is smoother: pages, and the gear shelf in the stage plot builder, no longer catch for a moment mid-scroll.
- Profile pictures beside comments appear straight away, instead of an initials box showing first.
Known issues
- Jumping to a search result inside a chat does nothing while a filter is switched on; clear the filter first.
- The installed phone app still shows one offer card per conversation until its next store update; the web app shows every booking’s card.
- The installed phone app keeps the older, narrower list of chat attachment types until its next store update; the web app accepts the full range now.
- Adding a venue that is not in the directory yet, from the event form, is open to venue accounts for now; everyone else can type the name as before.
- An imported EPK may not display inline on some iPhones; Open and Download still work.
- A member who has not set any availability rules shows as fully available on their own calendar, but does not yet appear in availability-filtered searches until they set one.
- Light mode is paused while we finish it, so the app stays in its dark theme for now. The switch is still there and explains itself.
- On a booking’s detail page the Quick Info panel can show the other side’s home town rather than where the gig is; the map above it is right.
- On a narrow phone the 3D stage can leave a dropped item just off the front edge of the stage floor. Turn the stage or drag the item back a touch and it settles.
- The Explore Artists and Promoters pages can shift slightly in the first second as the cover photograph settles into place.
- A computer or phone with no graphics hardware, or a browser with graphics acceleration switched off, shows a stage plot as the plan only. The 3D button is still there, marked as not available on that device.
- Very occasionally a flyer downloaded on an iPhone comes out wrong, with the photograph over the headline. Downloading it again, or on a computer, gives you the proper picture.
- The wall on Find Artists and Find Venues keeps turning while you read it. Resting the pointer on the featured card holds it still, and on a phone it waits while your finger is down.
- The stage plot’s sharpest version of the stage only loads in full screen on a computer with a mouse. Phones and tablets keep the lighter one, which looks the same but a little softer up close.
- Signing in with Apple works in the iPhone app. On the web it is marked ‘Soon’ while we finish it, so use Google, Microsoft or your email and password there for now.
What’s next
GIGXCHANGE Website (v0.3.8) In development
Website v0.3.8 is in development. Notes land here as features ship.
Shipped so far
This chapter the site learned to read well on a phone: the homepage, every venue and open mic page, and the directories that find them became editorial pages made for one hand, with a menu that knows which part of the page you are on. Alongside that, browsing members got quicker and better looking, the free tool pages now preview the real thing, and there is more worth reading, from a monthly report on what UK gigs actually pay to a close read of Scotland’s new music strategy.
In development • more notes land here as features ship
A better way to browse members
The member directory now leads with photos and video, keeps a shortlist of up to four members pinned as you browse, and opens a rich preview of anyone you pick without taking you off the page.
Newly joined members take the stage
The members who joined most recently now fan out across a moving stage on the homepage, so you can see who has arrived at a glance and open any of them straight from there.
The site moves quicker
Pages start drawing sooner, the moving parts settle down the moment they scroll out of view, and stepping from one page to the next feels close to instant.
A homepage built for your phone
On a phone the homepage is now a design of its own rather than a squeezed-down desktop page: a moving wall of members you can swipe through, live counts of who is on GigXchange, a 3D phone showing the app, and answers that slide open further down. Tablets get the same design, scaled up to fit.
Venue pages that answer the first questions
On a phone, every venue page now reads as one editorial page. It opens on the room’s own photographs, says whether it is open right now with a live countdown to opening or closing, lists the kit it has (and tells you to contact the venue when that is not listed, rather than guessing), and keeps what’s on, the map and members’ votes a scroll away.
Open mic nights at a glance
Open mic pages lead with how long until the night kicks off, then lay out its running order half hour by half hour, filling in as the evening goes. On a phone the whole page reads as one editorial page, and anyone can say whether the night is still running with a single tap.
Find a venue or an open mic with your thumb
On a phone, the venue directory and the open mic finder are rebuilt for one hand: search at the top, a map of the country city by city, a Refine panel that reads back what you have picked, and every city in an A to Z index. The open mic finder puts tonight first, and going Back from a listing brings your filters back with you.
Also shipped so far in Website v0.3.8
- Every issue of the GX Index now carries its own citable DOI, and the cite box and methodology page point at the latest issue’s record.
- Blog tables with four columns or fewer fit a phone screen without sideways scrolling.
- Gig directory listings sit under the town the gig is actually in.
- Pages now reveal themselves as you scroll instead of arriving all at once, blog listings included.
- On the member map, a tap on a member opens their preview straight away.
- The member preview reads as a proper full-screen card on a phone: full-width cover picture, no sideways drift as you scroll, and one tap to open it.
- Profile pictures in the compare table are no longer clipped, and the remove buttons on your shortlist line up properly on a phone.
- The see-it-in-action deck on the homepage follows your thumb as you swipe, and the first screen is ready the moment you get there.
- The homepage carries a strip of reading from the grassroots circuit alongside the member stage.
- Event cards in the member directory line up with the profile cards, with the date top-left.
- The member map is lighter on phones.
- Votes on blog posts and open mics now count every time.
- The tour page tool’s gallery loads quicker.
- A new help answer explains the difference between a gig, a booking and an event, and which one you want.
- The stage plot tool page now shows two real plots in 3D, with a lit and a blueprint look to switch between, and the embeddable widget as a host would see it.
- The setlist tool page carries two live setlists you can scroll, so you can compare the interactive and classic looks before you build one.
- A help link can now carry your question into the contact form, so you do not retype what we already know.
- The see-it-in-action deck on the homepage shows the app exactly as it looks today.
- The flyer maker page shows the editorial designs side by side, with a tile for every design.
- Open mic pages name the advertised host and list performer types as people: musicians, poets, comedians.
- The glossary defines each industry term in its own right, with a link across to the GigXchange tool it relates to.
- Tiles on the flyer maker page open the real published flyer rather than a picture of it, and moving between the live examples on a tool page fades from one to the next.
- The September platform update is up on the blog: everything that landed across the app and the site last month, in one read.
- The help answer on stage plots follows the new plan view: how to switch between the 3D stage and the plan, lit or blueprint, and what the note for the engineer is for.
- Venue and member photographs across the site load faster, at the size your screen actually needs.
- The live examples on the free tool pages page through on a phone from one bar at the bottom: back, which example you are on, and next.
- The help answer on stage plots now covers working full screen on a computer, and the three ways to take your plot away: a picture, the rider you hand the venue, or a print-friendly sheet.
- The September GX Index is out: what UK gigs actually paid last month, by city, gig type and act size, with a plain-English write-up of what moved on the blog.
- Two new pieces on the blog: October’s Hardest Working Rooms, the grassroots stages putting on the most nights; and what Manchester’s £15m culture fund actually reached at street level.
- Open mic pages show their photographs in the same gallery as venue pages: one big picture, the rest beneath it, and a pager at the foot on a phone.
- Card pictures across the site arrive softly: a blurred hint of each photo shows at once, the sharp picture fades in over it, and pictures further down the page load as you reach them.
- The homepage’s opening picture fills the window at every desktop size, from a laptop to an ultrawide screen, and the cards over it shrink together rather than squashing.
- Menus in the top bar open directly under their heading at every screen size, including after you resize the window.
- Moving between the website and the app fades through black, the same way in both directions.
- New on the blog: what Scotland’s first national music strategy says about pay, grassroots rooms and open mics, set against our own Scottish data.
- The menu on a phone is now a contents page: Where to next? lists the sections of the page you are on, lights up the one you are reading and glides you there with a tap, then sets out the rest of the site in numbered lists with live counts.
- Gig pages, the contact page and these release notes read as editorial pages on a phone too, and each one opens noticeably faster.
- FAQ answers slide open and closed instead of snapping.
- In the open mic finder, Tonight leaves out nights that run on a different week of the month, Poetry also finds spoken-word nights, nights open to any performer show under every type, and irregular nights read Varies. The featured night moves on to its next date once tonight’s has finished.
- The live music map keeps its place from the first moment, so it no longer pushes the page down as it finishes loading.
- Pop-ups across the site announce themselves to screen readers by name, with a labelled Close button.
- On the narrowest phones the top bar shrinks in proportion, so the logo never runs into Get Started or Sign In.
- Smaller touches: a page you refresh fades in from black instead of flashing; smooth scrolls finish where they were heading; the jump buttons at the top of a page reach their section on a phone; and the page behind an open menu stays still on a computer too.
Known issues
- On a phone, a few rows in longer lists (the city indexes in the venue directory and open mic finder, and these release notes) can fade in a moment before the rows above them.
- On a phone, going Back from the contact page to the homepage occasionally returns you to the top rather than to where you were.
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How GigXchange releases work — update cadence, what ships on the website vs the app, and how to request a feature or report a bug.
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