Changelog

Clicking an asset no longer takes you to a new page. Plus a simpler search, a button to find similar assets, tags, and a way to report things.

• +Added: Click an asset and it opens on top of the page. Close it and you're right back where you were. If you share the link or refresh, you still get the full page like before
• +Added: Search is one box now. Start typing a game, a category or a tag and it'll suggest it, click the suggestion to add it. Type anything else and press enter to search. Results don't change until you press enter, so the page stops jumping around while you type
• +Added: Find similar assets. Open an asset, press the button underneath it, and you get assets that look like it. No uploading anything
• +Added: Every asset shows its tags now. Click one to find more like it
• +Added: Every asset says what you're allowed to do with it. That comes from the publisher's own rules, with a link to them where they have one
• +Added: You can report an asset. Click the three dots next to Save, pick a reason, add a note if you want. It comes straight to me
• +Added: Shorter links. Every asset link is now skowt.cc/a/ and nine characters. Old links still work
• ~Changed: The home page lost the big block at the top. The game covers stay, and the assets start right under them. Game pages are tidier too, one line with the name and the download button
• ~Changed: Pages load looking right from the start. No more flash of the logged-out site, nothing shuffling around after it loads, and your profile picture is just there instead of showing your initials for a moment
• ~Changed: The side menu is shorter. Send feedback sits next to FAQ, and Uploaders moved to the bottom of the page
• ~Changed: Asset cards don't zoom in when you hover or click any more
• ~Changed: Contributors are called Uploaders now. The old page still gets you there
• ~Changed: Menus match the rest of the site, and anything that deletes something is red
• -Fixed: The site was down for about 25 minutes on September 6th after an update. Two steps that should have happened automatically didn't. They do now
• -Fixed: On phones the search box fits the screen, tapping a suggestion actually works, and assets you open aren't cut off any more
• -Fixed: Clicking a tag on an asset now shows that tag in the search box, and tapping somewhere else doesn't lose your search
• -Fixed: Menus were see-through for a bit. They're solid again
• -Fixed: The arrows on the game row only show when you move your mouse over it and don't cover the last game any more

Search knows what's in the images now, so you can find things by describing them, or by pasting a picture.

• +Added: You can search with a picture. Drop or paste one into search and you get assets that look like it
• +Added: Searching with words looks at what's in the images, not just filenames. So 'blue hair' or 'white gloves' actually finds things, even when the file is called UI_AvatarIcon_Side_Ambor. About half the catalog has filenames like that
• +Added: Upload something and it gets tagged for you. The tags turn up on the upload page a few seconds after the image does
• +Added: A feedback button in the sidebar. It comes straight to me, and you can attach your account if you want a reply
• +Added: A content removal link in the sidebar, if you own something on here and want it taken down
• +Added: Texture and material files are hidden by default, so searching 'red gun' gets you guns instead of random red textures. Settings has a toggle if you want them back
• ~Changed: Search results keep loading as you scroll instead of stopping at a couple of dozen. 'blue hair' will walk you through hundreds of matches now
• ~Changed: Search is much faster. Searching with a picture could take 20 seconds at its worst, it's well under a second now
• -Fixed: Images and thumbnails were broken on Firefox for a stretch. My fault, I changed how images get served. Sorted
• -Fixed: Deleting your account in settings wipes everything straight away now, and the terms and privacy links are where you'd expect them

Download a whole game in one go, find games faster, and pick your own colours.

• +Added: You can download every asset from a game as one zip. One click on the game's page and it starts, with a progress bar that actually moves. The zip gets built while it downloads, so it's never out of date
• +Added: Category pages have the same button, just for that category
• +Added: Every game is in the row at the top of the homepage now, newest uploads first, so any game is one click away. The +new badge shows how many just landed
• +Added: Pick your accent colour in settings. Nine of them, and the whole site changes to match
• +Added: New AMOLED theme: proper black, for OLED screens. Works with every accent
• +Added: Your settings save to your account. Sign in on another device and it's all already set up
• +Added: You can't upload the same file twice anymore. If it's already on the site you get told which asset it is, with a link. The Discord bot tells you too
• +Added: Deleted assets stick around for 30 days now, so deleting one by mistake isn't permanent
• ~Changed: Contributors get proper pages in the sidebar now: your assets, your upload history, and whatever else your role gives you
• ~Changed: Asset cards are just the artwork now. The name sits on the asset's own page instead
• ~Changed: The Vote page is called Requests everywhere now, and the submit form got tidied up to match the rest of the site
• -Fixed: The game row on the homepage scrolls with a mouse now, and has arrows. It only worked on trackpads and phones before
• -Fixed: The game and category under an asset's name look like links now. They always were links

Cleaner look, much faster search and browsing, and a load of fixes you asked for.

• +Added: The homepage shows the totals up top: assets, games, downloads and views
• +Added: Game icons show up in the filter dropdowns and on your active filters
• +Added: Your search and filters go in the address bar now, so you can bookmark or share them, and the back button puts you back where you were
• +Added: Empty pages show artwork instead of a blank space
• ~Changed: Search is fast now. It used to read through all 39,000+ asset names on every keystroke. Results come in as you type and the grid doesn't blank out
• ~Changed: Similar assets used to stop at 8. More load as you scroll now, closest matches first
• ~Changed: I brought back the old wanderer.moe style and focused on whimsy instead
• ~Changed: On desktop, Games, Categories and Tags are searchable dropdowns instead of a wall of pills, and your active filters show as chips you can click off
• ~Changed: Your role shows on your username now, with its colour and icon, instead of a badge next to it
• -Fixed: Sorting by most downloaded or most viewed no longer reads the whole catalog every time, so most pages load faster
• -Fixed: The grid doesn't jump around anymore. Images hold their space before they load, and new ones stack underneath instead of shifting what you're looking at. The next batch loads before you hit the bottom
• -Fixed: Medium-sized screens aren't cramped anymore. The filters and grid fit the space next to the sidebar instead of the whole window
• -Fixed: On closed requests you can still see if you upvoted. Your vote keeps its colour, just faded
• -Fixed: I removed duplicate assets that snuck into the catalog over the years (and one that was somehow an empty file)
• -Fixed: Plus the small stuff: filter menus aren't see-through over the grid, the scroll-to-top button stays clear of the mobile nav, the request status label doesn't show its icon twice, tidied the logo, fixed the loading placeholder on asset pages, matched the filter chip colours, cleaner sidebar highlighting, and spacing fixes all over

New look, plus some things cooking in the background.

• +Added: A few new features are switched off while I test them. They'll show up once I'm happy with them
• ~Changed: Full UI redesign, with a new dark theme across the nav, cards and buttons
• ~Changed: /votes is now /requests (old links will redirect)

New UI and a lot of mobile fixes.

• +Added: You can install skowt to your home screen from Settings
• +Added: Search and filter on /votes
• +Added: Haptic feedback on mobile
• ~Changed: UI overhaul
• ~Changed: Better filter bar layout and spacing
• -Fixed: Downloading single assets on iOS works properly now

Fixing login issues and making mobile less annoying.

• +Added: You can see your download history on mobile now
• ~Changed: Grouped the navigation items in the user menu
• -Fixed: /downloads and /saved were failing to load

I'm so locked in rn I don't even know what to write here.

• +Added: A data export page, so you can see exactly what data skowt has on you
• +Added: An 'I don't have Discord' button on the login screen, with an explanation of why Discord is (currently) needed
• +Added: /contributors is back
• ~Changed: Removed /about, /faq covers it
• -Fixed: Inputs no longer zoom the page on mobile
• -Fixed: The header vanished when you scrolled down a bit and tried to click your profile picture on bigger screens

A few more things on top of v4.0.1.

• +Added: You can upvote comments on /vote (thanks to markus for the suggestion)
• ~Changed: /downloads now keeps both batch downloads and single asset downloads
• -Fixed: Pages could scroll sideways on mobile
• -Fixed: Upvoting was broken and the state was wrong (ty trek for reporting)
• -Fixed: The download UI for single assets on mobile

Fixing things from the v4 release. Mostly bugs and small quality of life stuff.

• +Added: The go to top button is back
• +Added: You can see which assets you've selected when multi-selecting
• +Added: Game icons next to game names when filtering are back
• ~Changed: The sidebar on bigger screens sticks and follows you while you scroll
• ~Changed: More tests behind the scenes, so releases break less
• -Fixed: Tagging wasn't returning everything
• -Fixed: A handful of edge cases
• -Fixed: Broken state in a few places
• -Fixed: Some slow database queries
• -Fixed: Missing metadata
• -Fixed: Cleaned up the earlier hotfix code

skowt's biggest update so far. The tech debt on the frontend was so bad it needed a full rewrite. This is mostly quality of life, and making sure skowt.cc sticks around.

• +Added: New settings page
• +Added: Mobile navigation bar
• +Added: A votes page, to decide what I do next
• ~Changed: Frontend moved from NextJS + Redux (slow) to Tanstack Router + Zustand (banger stack icl)
• ~Changed: Backend moved to Elysia + Bun
• ~Changed: Moved off Cloudflare Workers onto Railway
• ~Changed: You now have to be in the Discord to download assets (the abuse got bad, and skowt is free to use)
• ~Changed: Better multi-select
• ~Changed: Download limits are back for stability (350 at once)
• ~Changed: An actually useful info page
• ~Changed: Better filter panel, with cleaner game and category grouping

Frontend's fucked and full of tech debt. Most of my time is on Originoid so skowt's getting smaller fixes for a while.

• ~Changed: Tidied up the frontend code
• -Fixed: Assorted bugs and stability fixes

You can search properly, see similar assets, and the site remembers where you were.

• +Added: Character sheets and splash art for Honkai: Nexus Anima
• +Added: Search for games, categories and tags
• +Added: Similar assets on asset pages
• +Added: Your filters and scroll position stick around
• ~Changed: New assets show up faster
• ~Changed: Better tagging
• ~Changed: Layout tweaks
• -Fixed: Link previews

wanderer.moe is now skowt.cc. Added accounts, more asset types, and a way for contributors to upload.

• +Added: User accounts
• +Added: More asset types
• +Added: Live uploads
• +Added: Contributor uploads
• ~Changed: Better search

Save assets, keep track of your downloads, see what's fanmade.

• +Added: Fanmade labels
• +Added: Save to favourites
• +Added: Download history

Downloading one by one is tedious. Proper multi-select so you can grab everything at once.

• +Added: View and select mode
• +Added: Multi-select for batch downloads
• ~Changed: 'Better' selection UI

Downloads were broken, especially on iOS. This had been going on for about 2 years for some people. It was cors (it's always cors). Fixed, and the download limits are gone.

• ~Changed: No more download limits
• -Fixed: Batch downloads
• -Fixed: iOS Chrome

The biggest single upload the site has had.

• +Added: 16,339 Strinova assets, 8GB of them, textures included and nothing compressed
• ~Changed: Moved where the site keeps all its assets, with no downtime

Small pass. Most of my time is on Originoid right now, so skowt is on essential updates for a while.

• ~Changed: Removed the annoying Google AdSense popup
• -Fixed: Selected assets not syncing properly between tabs
• -Fixed: The page freezing when you had too many assets selected
• -Fixed: Patched some security holes

Small quality of life addition.

• +Added: Select and deselect every asset in a game category at once

Grabbing a pile of assets at once is back, and properly this time.

• +Added: Pick assets from different categories and different games, then download the lot in one go
• +Added: Your selection follows you between tabs in the same browser, on any device
• +Added: Your selection survives closing the site, so you can come back to it later
• +Added: No limit on how many you can select, though the site might struggle if you go wild
• +Added: A search box in the navigation bar
• ~Changed: Your selection and the download button live behind the download icon in the nav bar
• -Fixed: Mass downloads where some assets failed to fetch and you got an empty zip

Individuals with nothing better to do decided to DDoS the site. Rebuilt from SvelteKit to NextJS in a couple of hours, since I don't write Svelte anymore.

• +Added: DDoS protection
• ~Changed: The OC generators are gone from here. They're moving to the OC and art platform instead
• -Fixed: The site was down for about 2 hours. The attack buried the API, which made the telemetry server start rejecting everything, so the site sat waiting on answers that never came

Reworked how assets look and behave, phones first.

• ~Changed: New asset layout
• ~Changed: One tap on an asset to preview and download it, which works far better on a phone
• ~Changed: Download all and selected are gone for now while the new layout settles. They're coming back

The site stops loading full-size images just to show you a grid.

• +Added: Assets uploaded from now on aren't compressed, so they keep their original quality
• ~Changed: Asset pages load a 256x256 preview instead of the full-size file. Grids were downloading every image at full resolution just to show thumbnails, which was where nearly all the load time went
• ~Changed: Because of that, saving an image by right clicking or holding gets you the low quality preview. Use the Download button for the real file

Small changes to the current site while the new one gets built.

• +Added: A note on category pages when assets are missing
• ~Changed: Game pages sort categories by recently updated, and show the date underneath
• ~Changed: Better sidebar and footer

Downloading more than one asset at a time, working across every browser I could test.

• -Fixed: Downloading multiple or all images no longer errors, and no more 0KB files. Tested on PC with any browser, iOS with Safari, and Android with the browser that came with your phone

A pile of small things that add up.

• +Added: Image resolution and file size when you tap to view something
• +Added: CTRL + K opens the search bar
• +Added: A scroll to top button
• +Added: A navigation bar that stays visible while you scroll
• +Added: Terms of service and a privacy policy
• ~Changed: Smoother animations across the site
• ~Changed: Better download indicators when you're downloading several files
• ~Changed: Redesigned the footer. It links to contributors and keeps itself up to date from Discord roles
• ~Changed: The OC generators moved into the sidebar
• ~Changed: Better caching, so pages you've already been to load faster the next time
• -Fixed: Search was broken with more than one word

Ads gone, tracking gone, source code public.

• ~Changed: Ads are gone. They made enough to cover hosting for now, and every penny the site ever made went straight back into it
• ~Changed: Took out the tracking, both Google AdSense and Sentry. What you do here is anonymous
• ~Changed: The source code is public. No more hiding unreleased versions behind a private group

Reprogrammed the entire site, front to back.

• +Added: Dislyte, Wuthering Waves, Cookie Run, Zenless Zone Zero, Goddess of Victory: Nikke, and a lot more Honkai: Star Rail
• +Added: A Honkai: Star Rail OC generator, plus copy to clipboard, lock all and unlock all
• +Added: File size next to every download button
• +Added: Translations, thanks to everyone who volunteered
• ~Changed: Every page and component rewritten, and every asset moved behind a CDN so it is served from somewhere near you instead of a single origin. Images load and download noticeably faster
• ~Changed: Redesigned most of the pages. Nothing drastic, but you'll notice
• ~Changed: Adding assets used to take me 5 to 15 minutes each. It's under 30 seconds now, so updates come more often
• -Fixed: Over 100 bugs

A proper search bar, and clearer feedback when a download won't work.

• +Added: A new navigation bar and search bar, so you can jump straight to a game or category
• +Added: The FAQ is back, at the bottom of asset pages
• +Added: Real image placeholders while things load, so you don't briefly see the wrong picture
• +Added: Double tap or click an image to enlarge it
• +Added: 3.6 datamined assets: namecards, character sheets, artifacts and character icons
• ~Changed: On mobile you get told when you're in an in-app browser like TikTok, because downloads don't work in those
• ~Changed: Groundwork for other languages. If you're fluent in one and want to help, DM me

wanderer.moe isn't just Genshin anymore.

• +Added: Honkai Impact 3rd, Honkai: Star Rail, Tower of Fantasy, Sino Alice, Project Sekai and My Singing Monsters
• ~Changed: Assets live at /game/category now, so Genshin splash art is at /genshin-impact/splash-art. Old links redirect
• ~Changed: The OC generator moved to /oc-generator/genshin-impact
• -Fixed: Downloading all or selected images on mobile. Tap an image to select it, and it shows you the progress

The OC generator, plus a batch of new assets.

• +Added: An OC generator. It rolls rarity, region, weapon type, element, role, ascension substats, gender, pronouns, height, age, hair and eye colour, affiliation, hair type and style, and personality. Lock the parts you like and re-roll the rest
• +Added: 3.5 preview page assets (Mika and Dehya)
• +Added: The other missing assets: artifacts, characters, splash art and fanmade parts, thanks to all the contributors

wtf.dromzeh.dev is now wanderer.moe. Same Genshin assets, proper domain.

• ~Changed: Moved from wtf.dromzeh.dev to wanderer.moe