What's New

Backstage posts, profile updates, stories and what people are up to now live in one place: your Home tab. Following shows people you follow. Everyone shows the whole community.

You can like, reply to, and share posts. Sharing puts it in front of your followers, with a comment if you want one. Stories can be shared too.

When you post, pick where it goes: your profile, Backstage, or both.

Nocturne Radio is still on Home. Tap the bar to tuck it away, and it keeps playing while you scroll.

Shows people are going to, records added to Vinyl Shelves, new members, new listings and Signal Boosts show up between posts. If you'd rather keep your activity to yourself, turn off Show my activity in feeds in your profile. Anything you post still shows.

Your background image now covers your whole profile. Pick how it fills the page: Fill, Wallpaper, or Tile.

Updates on your profile can be liked and replied to.

Share cards work in the Android app now.

Turning off Recently played now actually hides it, and your Spotify listening follows your privacy settings everywhere. The Back button in the app closes whatever's open instead of kicking you to Home.

Remember coming home from school, logging onto AIM, and seeing who was online? I missed that. So I built it: a buddy list, instant messages, and chat rooms, with the same login you already have. The first time you sign in, pick a screen name. Use your real name or a nickname. That's what buddies see.

Only your buddies can message you. No cold DMs from strangers, ever. Want to lurk? Go Invisible and you look offline to everyone. The rooms are sorted by scene: The Pit, Goth & Darkwave, Metal, Punk, Hardcore, and Shows & Meetups for finding a gig buddy. You can also start your own for your city, your band, whatever.

Met someone here you actually like? A match, a show friend, someone to split a ride with? Add each other on the Messenger instead of handing out your number or your Instagram. Keep it as close or as casual as you want, and remove or block anytime. A lot of us are done with Facebook for this stuff. This is the alternative.

Get it on Android from the Messenger page, or just open messenger.nocturne-eternal.com on your computer.

The apps can ping you for new messages, buddy requests, matches, and @mentions. The lock screen only ever says who it's from, never what they said. Your phone, your business.

Nocturne itself is an Android app now. Grab it from nocturne-eternal.com/app (Google Play is coming too). It has a proper bottom tab bar, so it feels like an app and not a website squeezed onto your phone.

One thing you'll notice: you can't pay for anything inside the app. That's on purpose. Google takes a cut of anything sold inside an app, and I'd rather keep $6.98 a year exactly $6.98 than raise it to cover their fee. Memberships live on the website, and the app just lets you in.

There's a real Privacy page now that says in plain English what I collect and who can see it. And you can delete your account yourself, anytime, from your Account page. It's instant, it takes everything with it, and it cancels your membership. No emailing me and waiting. No guilt trip.

Every new account still gets 30 days of everything, and the first 100 of you are still free forever. After a trial ends, matching, messages, and Backstage pause until you join. Everything else stays open, and your profile doesn't go anywhere.

You'll get an email a few days before your trial ends, and one when it does. No surprise charges, ever.