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v6.6.6 Safer sessions, contact forms and background maintenance

Improves contact validation, keeps pages responsive during conversion, and refreshes cached content in the background while preserving the familiar site layout.

Contact and accessibility

  • Messages over 500 characters now show a validation error instead of being shortened. Contact fields have labels, a layout suited to phones, and accessible sending feedback.
  • The contact form confirms submission for delivery. Homepage category links use clearer names, and the original compact sharing controls have larger touch targets.

Downloads and privacy

  • Session cookies use stricter security settings. Other pages in the same browser can respond while the server prepares media.
  • Repeated download metadata requests reuse recent results and pause retries after provider failures. YouTube sign-in restrictions still apply; downloads continue to use the server connection directly.

Background refresh

  • Scheduled refresh serves usable cached content while updates run in the background. Existing page refresh resumes if the scheduled worker becomes unavailable.
  • Scheduled cleanup removes abandoned generated files and bounds eligible caches while preserving active conversions and downloads.
Link to v6.6.6

v6.6.5 Restore original homepage sharing controls

Restores the original compact sharing links and corrects the release history for the reverted redesign.

Interface

  • The homepage uses the original black X, blue Facebook and green WhatsApp sharing links again. Leftover replacement markup and its added styling are removed.

Release history

  • The v6.6.0 redesign entry is removed because that version was reverted and was not deployed.
Link to v6.6.5

v6.6.4 Homepage share button styling

Restores the missing styling for the homepage social sharing controls.

Interface

  • X, Facebook and WhatsApp sharing links now have separate padded buttons, visible spacing and keyboard focus indicators.
  • The sharing row wraps on small screens and uses matching light and dark theme styling.
Link to v6.6.4

v6.6.3 Download links appear after preparation

The video download page prepares MP4 and MP3 files before offering a download link.

YouTube downloads

  • Prepare MP4 or MP3 on the video download page. A download link is shown only after the server creates a non-empty file; failed preparation shows a message instead.
  • Prepared links belong to the visitor session and last up to 15 minutes. Existing generation limits and automatic cleanup remain; repeated preparation can reuse a ready file.
  • Preparation works without JavaScript too. YouTube restrictions and temporary failures still apply; unavailable files are not advertised as ready.
Link to v6.6.3

v6.6.2 Reader, download and maintenance reliability

Fixes confirmed problems with offline reading progress, chapter lookup recovery, download cleanup and provider retries while retaining the current site layout.

Manga

  • Reading pages that have already loaded now saves progress and chapter completion even after the connection drops. Hidden tabs still do not advance reading progress.
  • Chapter lookup distinguishes temporary provider failures from missing chapters, uses the existing recovery flow and validates chapter numbers before requesting them.

Downloads and services

  • Generated-file cleanup waits until conversion slots are idle. An MP4 download keeps its slot through file delivery so another request cannot clean up an active download.
  • Video pages set error status codes before rendering, avoiding headers-already-sent warnings when a video ID is invalid or conversion is unavailable.
  • Shared service caches respect longer provider Retry-After delays and retain eligible cached results while waiting.

Maintenance

  • Apache access rules cover PHP backup suffixes and editor backup files. Nginx deployments require the equivalent server rule supplied with this update.
  • The cleanup upload checks now match the current supplied source, including removal of four unused interface-file requirements. Existing obsolete-file safeguards and historical release entries are retained.
Link to v6.6.2