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What's New
The latest features, improvements, and updates to ThumbScore.
March 31, 2026
Site-Wide Polish & People Rankings
- New Organized footer with categorized sections (Discover, Genres, Streaming, Lists & Guides, Collections)
- New "Highest Rated Actors & Directors" data article — ranked by average ThumbScore
- New "Lowest Rated Actors & Directors" data article with respectful disclaimer
- New Regional streaming auto-detection from browser timezone
- Improved Renamed "Blog" to "Lists & Guides" across entire site
- Improved Schema.org structured data added to 149 pages (78 blog + 71 landing)
- Improved 238 missing URLs added to sitemap
- Improved Fixed robots.txt sitemap URL
- Fixed 18 broken movie links across 8 pages (Star Wars, Mission Impossible, etc.)
- Fixed Missing meta descriptions and OG tags on 11 pages
- Fixed Google Analytics added to 6 pages that were missing it
March 23, 2026
Massive Content Expansion
- New 30+ curated movie lists (Date Night, Mind-Bending, Revenge, Heist, and more)
- New 10 ThumbScore Explains educational articles
- New 20 controversial movie deep-dive analyses
- New FAQ page with 30+ questions and Schema.org structured data
- New Blog index page with 57+ articles organized by category
- New Contact page with Formspree form
- New Changelog page (you're reading it!)
- Improved SEO meta tags optimized across all landing pages
- Improved Consistent site-wide navigation with FAQ link
- Improved Standardized footers across all pages
March 22, 2026
Free Movies & YouTube Integration
- New YouTube free movies page with embedded playback
- New Free movies platform guide (Tubi, Roku, Peacock, YouTube, Archive.org)
- New Email signup component on key pages
- Improved YouTube play button overlays on movie cards
- Improved Safari compatibility notes for YouTube embeds
March 21, 2026
Launch Features
- New 11,353 movie pages with SEO-optimized titles
- New Cast data on all movie pages (8 actors with characters)
- New Trailer buttons on 11,353 movie pages
- New 9,636 JustWatch deep links for streaming
- New Actor search, Watchlist (localStorage), Infinite scroll
- New Keyboard shortcuts (/ to search, ? for help)
- New Similar movies algorithm (6 per page)
- New Amazon Associates affiliate links on Prime Video
- New Smart 404 page with autocomplete search and Poppy mascot
- Improved 59% faster page loads (lite JSON: 5.7MB vs 13.7MB)
- Fixed Share button raw JS leak (innerHTML to textContent)
- Fixed Safari YouTube embed (removed autoplay)
- Fixed 103 broken links across 7 blog articles
- Infra VPS daily backups (3am cron, 7-day retention)
- Infra YouTube free movie scraper (2am daily cron)