What’s new
Forgotten passwords can be reset: “Forgot password?” on the log-in page emails a link that works on whichever device you open it on, and saving a new password signs out everywhere else. Password is now the default way to log in, with the magic link one tap to the right.
Imported Ethereum artworks now keep their full picture. The importer was taking a marketplace's square preview — a centre crop — instead of the file the artist minted, and forty artworks that came in that way have been re-imported from their originals. Live artworks that are videos arrive muted, with a Sound button beside LIVE when there is sound to hear, and a live artwork pauses when you scroll past it and picks up where it was when you come back.
Live artworks whose host has stopped serving them now show their still instead of an empty frame. HOP checks every live artwork daily and puts the running version back as soon as it works again. Stepping through artworks with the arrow keys no longer shows the previous picture beside the next one's details, and the registry record on an artwork is folded away until you open it.
Wallet imports fill instantly. Every artwork that runs already arrived with a still picture of itself, and the room was throwing it away and showing you an empty frame while an IPFS gateway thought about it — sometimes for ever. The picture is there from the first moment now, and the live version fades in over it when it has loaded.
An import lands on the wall you started it from, rather than on whichever empty wall came first in the room. Starting one from Dropbox or Google Drive inside a room no longer builds a second room beside it. And adding a wall from the bottom of a room takes you up to it.
Imported artworks arrive credited and dated. Neither is written on an Ethereum token — measured on a real wallet, sixteen of a hundred named an artist and one named a year — so HOP reads the mint from the chain and the artist from an index that catalogues artworks rather than tokens. On that wallet: 115 of 126 credited, up from 21, and 124 dated, up from none. Tezos work is credited 301 of 313.
Tezos artworks now arrive with the artist's name and the year, and HOP knows which of them actually run — a generative piece comes in live and loads from the same place objkt serves it, while a still picture is left as a picture instead of being wrapped in a frame. Editing an artwork's title, year or type from the library saves again.
Signup links. An account can now be made for someone whose email address we don't have — a link that carries a plan with it, closes after a set number of uses, and expires on its own.
Wallet imports are fixed in three places: artworks the chain serves in newer image formats now come in instead of being silently skipped, the picker draws small previews again rather than pulling full artworks, and an import started from an empty wall fills that wall instead of making another one beside it. Live artworks load through a gateway browsers can actually open. The dots under a wall are clickable, so a long wall can be crossed in one move.
One field for anything you paste — a marketplace item, an NFT page, a video, an image, or a generative work that runs in the browser. HOP works out which it is. Pasting the same link twice tells you it is already yours, and Escape closes a dialog without leaving the room. The Live mark now sits beside a work's name rather than over it, and means what it says: the piece is drawn from its source each time you look, not from a copy we keep.
Importing from a link now brings in a video as a video, not as a still of one, and keeps a link back to the page it came from — including for work that has never been minted. Very large artworks import instead of failing, and pasting a marketplace link into the live-artwork field adds the artwork rather than framing the marketplace.
A wallet import now lands in the room you started it from, instead of making a new one. Tezos imports keep the running artwork as well as the still, so a generative piece can be watched rather than only looked at, and a wallet you have already signed for is not asked for a signature again.
Studio accounts can run several custom domains at once, each with its own landing words, logo, colour and colophon — so one account can keep two sites that look nothing alike. Visitors to a room you open for questions can now write to you from the room, a wall, or a single artwork; the message arrives with what they were looking at attached, and your address is never shown to them.
A share link can now open a private room for the person you sent it to, and only them. The first person to open it sees the content, and after that the link does not load for anyone else it is forwarded to.
Team accounts. Several people work one library, each with their own seat and role, and an activity log records who changed what.
Solana wallets import alongside Ethereum and Tezos. Each collection becomes a wall, and every artwork keeps a link back to where it lives on chain.
Record a voice note on an artwork and it plays when a visitor reaches it, so you can walk someone through a room in your own voice. Every account also now holds three invitations to give away.
Wallet imports lost their ceiling: the browser drives the job, so a wallet of any size finishes, shows real progress, and can be stopped and resumed.
Every artwork is registered on arrival with an accession number, a fingerprint of its file and the date it entered your collection. Pro accounts get the full ledger, a printable certificate for any piece, and an optional public register.
Arrange mode: a single screen showing every wall in a room at once, where you drag pieces between walls and reorder the walls themselves. Selecting several at a time moves them together.
Paste a link to an artwork — a marketplace page, a token, a metadata file — and it comes in with what it knows about itself. Live-coded and on-chain SVG work is rendered safely and archived as it arrived.
A spreadsheet view of every artwork in a room, with copy-down on any column and CSV in and out. Artwork details now live on the artwork itself, so editing one anywhere updates it everywhere it hangs.
Live-coded artworks hang as pieces, sandboxed and sized to their own proportions. New accounts are offered an import at every empty room and empty wall rather than only at the start.
Ethereum and Tezos wallet import. Each contract becomes a wall, and provenance is stamped on every piece from the chain, the contract and the token.
Import an Apple Photos shared album by pasting its link. Visitor counts, referrers and time spent are now recorded per room, first-party and without a tracker following anyone home.