Live sessions (top5.global/g): a streamer puts a topic to a vote and the audience votes live, place by place, from their phones, with an overlay for OBS.
Kick chat sessions: the chat votes just by naming options, and the ranking reorders live. A topic shows when it's live in a chat.
Sessions keep only the totals when they end, and don't count toward the topic's ranking.
Privacy policy 1.3: what we keep when you vote in a session or write in a Kick chat that uses one.
v0.15.0
Before creating a topic you see the ones with a similar name, so the same subject doesn't end up split in two.
Better suggestions of similar topics: no more unrelated matches from a single letter or a shared beginning.
When the same topic was created twice, the two can now be merged: votes add up and the old link leads to the one that stays.
v0.14.0
A new look: a deeper turquoise, and the header in that color.
A lighter language selector in the header.
Cleaner topic titles: "World Top 5" with "live" next to it, and no extra line about whose names you see.
v0.13.0
Delete your account from your profile, right away: your Top 5s stop counting and rankings are recalculated.
A simpler sign-in page: Google, Bluesky and email as three buttons that look alike.
On an option's page, each topic shows only the countries where it makes the Top 5.
A one-line footer, and account pages back in a narrower column.
Privacy policy 1.2 and terms of use 1.1: what changed is listed at the end of each page.
v0.12.0
Follow members: "+ Follow" on their profile and on their Top 5. Who you follow is private: only you can see it.
A new "Following" page in your account menu, with everyone you follow and how many people follow you.
Member numbers next to each name: Top5's first member is #0001.
Privacy policy 1.1: what changed is listed at the end of the page, section by section.
v0.11.0
Privacy policy and terms of use, in plain words, each with its own history of what changed.
Sign in with Bluesky: we only read your handle and your confirmed email, and we don't keep access to your account.
A clearer sign-in page: each way to sign in on top, and the code by email below.
Data that's no longer needed is deleted on its own: old sign-in codes, expired sessions and unused invitations.
v0.10.2
Taking part starts with an empty Top 5: the community's picks are on the right, ready to choose.
While you build your Top 5, each place looks like the ranking, with its description, and only the one you tap turns into a text field.
The options on the right show a short list with "see more", a color key on top, and the community's Top 5 in turquoise.
English is now the fallback for everything: if a name or a description isn't available in your language, you see it in English.
v0.10.1
The language menu in the header shows each language with its flag.
Trending shows what's alive this week: comments count too, and new topics show up sooner, marked "New".
Options are matched more carefully: what people wrote stays as written unless it's clearly the same thing ("Marroc" is no longer Morocco), and nicknames point to the right club.
v0.10.0
Creating a topic is much better: up to 50 well-known options are proposed for you, each one linked to its Wikipedia article, with a progress bar while they're found.
The proposed options fit the topic: in "TV series", Okupas is the series, not the movement.
While you type an option, the topic's own options come first, instantly.
Each Top 5 says whose it is: worldwide or a country's.
Comments on every ranking (worldwide, each country and each person's Top 5) and on every option.
A new home page with a bigger logo, trending topics and new kinds of cards.
Your Top 5 shows the names as you wrote them, and nicknames suggest the right option ("la academia" → Racing Club).
If you already took part, "Go to my Top 5" takes you there to edit it.
Some members can now create topics, and your account circle has its own color.
v0.9.3
Sign in with a code sent to your email: no password, no Google account needed.
The code screen shows how long the code is still valid.
A bigger, centered search box at the top of the home page.
Admin tools moved out of the public site, for more security.
v0.9.2
Visitors without an account see their own country first, even without a CDN in front of Top5.
Next to each option's percentage, how many people chose it.
Search topics, options and people from the home page.
Private votes: your Top 5 in a topic counts in the ranking but doesn't show on your profile.
A new logo in the header.
IP geolocation by DB-IP (db-ip.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0.
v0.9.1
New options are matched with Wikidata much faster: about a second each, instead of seven.
Matching keeps working when Wikidata is busy, instead of stopping.
Football club topics now recognize clubs as such.
v0.9.0
Top5 is back, rebuilt from scratch.
Every topic has a Top 5 for each country and one for the whole world, updated live as people vote.
Topic names in each country's language, and the interface in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.
Rankings year by year.
Options linked to Wikidata, with a short description of each one.
Sign in with Google. New members join by invitation or from the waitlist.
A home page with featured topics, grouped by category.
See who voted on a topic and every option that was voted.
