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This feature shipped on May 8, 2026

Overview

Card mode is an alternative display mode for the dashboard danmaku panel. Unlike the traditional danmaku stream scrolling from top to bottom, card mode lays danmaku out on a grid and automatically merges duplicate or similar ones

If your live room is constantly buried under copypasta and spam danmaku, this mode is worth a try

How It Works

The core design goal of card mode is that cards never move. When you scan the panel, you can finish reading a message where it sits, without worrying that a flood of spam will push it to the bottom, or that the other cards will slide left once an old one is cleared

To make that work, card mode is built on "fixed grid slots" instead of a dynamic list:

• Duplicate messages land in the slot whose text matches, updating the count and last-seen time in place; the slot itself never changes position
• Brand-new messages take the first empty slot (the lowest-numbered position)
• When the grid is full, a new message overwrites the "quietest" slot in place — the oldest card — and the grid still does not shift

Beyond that:

• Cards do not expire over time. A quiet stretch keeps the last snapshot of the conversation instead of clearing it, which is what gives card mode the feel of a stable bulletin board
• A card about to be overwritten fades out, so while scanning the panel you can see in advance where the next change will appear
• Hovering over a card "protects" that slot, so new danmaku will not overwrite the card you are reading

Usage

Once you are in the dashboard:

• Switch to card mode from the toolbar at the top of the danmaku panel, or toggle it with Alt + C
• Card mode only shows recent danmaku events; other secondary events (stream start, stream end, mutes, and so on) are not displayed

Auto-Hide Spam Danmaku

An optional addition to card mode: once a danmaku's repeat count reaches the threshold, its card is hidden and silenced for a while to free the slot for other danmaku, and it is released automatically when the hide duration ends

Configure it in the card mode settings dropdown:

Viewing Repeat Senders

Click the "repeat count" badge on a card to see the list of users who sent that danmaku, including each user's send count and last send time. This feature shipped on May 16, 2026

Manual Hiding

Every card has an eye-shaped hide button in its upper-right corner. Clicking it adds that danmaku to a runtime blocklist (cleared on refresh) and silences it in the "Hot Danmaku" overlay on the right

Notes for Developers

Card mode targets the dashboard only, not OBS stream output, so style authors are advised not to define extra styles for card items. For light customization of card mode, override through the .panel-list--card hook class