Changelog

Wallpaper is a section of its own now — a studio in the navigation, next to Gallery.

• A live hero. The preview at the top of the page is not a mockup — it is the real display, windowed, running on the same live feeds as the full-screen mode. What you see is exactly what launches.
• Browse properly. All seven themes as full-width cards, each painting a working miniature of itself; colourways for the selected theme underneath, remembered per theme.
• Every control with room to breathe — ticker, timeframe, zoom, dot shape, glow, density and the overlay switches, which each theme now names for what they actually govern in it — instead of a 320-pixel popover doing all of it. The popover survives inside the wallpaper for quick changes; both edit the same settings.
• W still launches the full-screen display from anywhere.

The Astro section — moon, planets and space weather, each tested against BTC — has been retired to keep the Hub focused on the market itself. The work is archived, not lost; old links land on the dashboard.

Wallpaper mode had one look. It now has seven genuinely different ones — each drawing the market a different way, not just in different colours — and a design panel to drive them from.

• Seven themes. Retro Cassette is the original dot-matrix display. Vintage Terminal is a green-screen: real text, a block-character chart, a readable order-book ladder and a running time & sales log. Minimal Neon sets one enormous number and one glowing hairline on an editorial grid. Oscilloscope is pure screen — a beam with an afterglow, a graticule, and the light falling off toward the corners of the glass. Broadcast is a financial news channel: the chart runs full-bleed like the picture, the price is a lower-third chyron, the biggest movers hold a board and the tape crawls along the bottom. Instrument is a gauge cluster — printed scale numerals, needles that swing and settle, an odometer window for the price. Dither is built around the Tripwire dither kit: ordered-dither fills under the chart, dotted-versus-hatched volume bars, and sparkles that wink on real fills.
• Each theme wears its own typeface now, chosen for what the theme claims to be: the Terminal types in VT323 (a digitisation of the actual DEC terminal face), the Oscilloscope reads out in Share Tech Mono, Minimal Neon sets its number in a true hairline Archivo, Broadcast speaks Barlow Condensed the way a channel package does, the Instrument engraves its bezels in Michroma with Jura readouts, and Dither uses Geist — the Hub's own face. Fonts only download when a theme asks for them.
• The Terminal gained a Tape colourway — neutral text with green buys and red sells, the way colour trading terminals actually ran — and in it the chart's columns colour themselves by direction.
• A typographic pass over all of it. One shear angle for every slanted bar, one baseline per band, lamps and dividers centred on the measured height of the letters beside them, a fixed-cell clock that cannot wobble as the minutes change, and a four-step spacing scale in place of ad-hoc gaps.
• Palettes sit inside themes now. Each theme has its own colourways — seven for Retro Cassette, four or five for the rest — and every picker card paints a live miniature of the real thing, so you can see what you are choosing.
• Settings follow the theme: dot shape and glow only appear for the display that has dots, and text size only for the one made of text.

• Retro Cassette's seven colourways — Kenwood (the original multicolour VFD), Ember (amber monochrome), Miami (the house colours), Phosphor (a green aperture-grille tube), Nixie (a neon indicator tube), Solari (a split-flap departure board) and Bright, a daylight e-ink look for a room with the curtains open. Each sets the ground, the unlit grid, the shape of a single dot, how hard it glows, and whether the tube carries scanlines and falls off at the corners.
• Dot shape and glow are yours to override — square, round or slit; off through high — on top of whatever the theme intends, and the panel tells you what each theme would have chosen.
• The colours are measured, not eyeballed. Every shade is derived and then checked: that labels stay legible at the strength they are actually drawn, that the order-book bars never dip in the middle, and that rising and falling stay distinguishable for colour-blind viewers. Three faults that had shipped this way turned up in the checking — including one in the original Kenwood palette.
• A status line under the price: funding, the countdown to when it settles, the spread, and which way the book leans. Things the display was not telling you anywhere else.
• The landscape has a scale — the high and low of the plotted window, on their own axis, so the shape has a magnitude from across the room.
• Unusually large fills announce themselves on the status line. The threshold reads the market's own recent trade sizes, so it means the same thing on BTC as on a small book.
• Wallpaper moved to the top bar, next to Focus, and works from every section — it was only ever on the Chart desk because that is where it was built, and it carries its own ticker and timeframe anyway. Press W from anywhere.
• Each of those three can be switched off. Fixed: at the coarsest and finest dot densities the header ran through the clock, and the chart was being squeezed by its own labels.

A full outside audit of the site, and the fixes that came out of it.

• Vice Hub moved to /hub/app, and /hub became a page that actually explains what the Hub is. Existing deep links redirect themselves.
• Privacy and terms pages, written per tool — including the parts that are less tidy than the marketing line.
• Why Vice Tickers asks for Manage Roles is now explained on its own page, with what the bot can and cannot reach.
• Vice Scanner explains how its board is built — the source, the cohort rule, the filters, and what the ranking is not.
• Fixed: the US 10-year yield rendered as an error in the Macro ticker tape.
• Fixed: searching the screener for ETH returned USDT first.
• Fixed: the track star on the Scanner was invisible until you hovered a row.
• Fixed: a failed command on the chart demo left the previous chart looking current.
• Larger type across the Scanner's labels, headers and navigation; proper dialog semantics and focus handling on the command palette.
• Real preview images when a link is shared, instead of a 180-pixel icon.

A display mode for the Hub built for a monitor you are not actively driving, plus a pass over the Chart desk.

• Vice Scanner shipped — a server-side leaderboard proxy made it possible to read Hyperliquid's full public board without sending 33 MB to your browser.
• The Hub gained its Dashboard / Chart / Scanner / Gallery navigation, and Focus mode gained scoping.
• The Element Gallery gained live previews, so you can see a block running before you add it.
• CME gap tracking added to the futures elements.

vicesuite.com went live with the ticker bots, Vice Charts, and the first version of Vice Hub.

Where to hear about changes

Anything that changes what a bot does in your server, or what is stored, is announced in the Discord and lands here. The privacy page carries its own last-updated date for the same reason.