# Midjourney Ships Sweeping UX Fixes and Feature Restorations to Alpha Web Platform

_Tool · published 2026-08-21_

Two weeks after launching a major overhaul of its alpha web platform, Midjourney has shipped a substantial changelog addressing hundreds of bug reports and UX complaints from early testers. Key restorations include Upscale, Zoom, and Vary functions — which had gone missing for some users — along with settings persistence fixes that stopped values like Relax mode from silently reverting to Fast.

Other improvements span folder organization with a collapsible sidebar tree, prompt bar reliability (fixing paste corruption, double submits, and pill parsing), gallery and lightbox refinements, and performance fixes for input lag and gallery scrolling. The company says it will continue updating the changelog as the alpha evolves, treating early-access testing as an ongoing feedback loop with its community.

## Sources
- [Midjourney Status & Updates](https://updates.midjourney.com/changelog-8-20-26/)
- [Midjourney Status & Updates](https://updates.midjourney.com/web-updates-5/)
- [Midjourney Status & Updates](https://updates.midjourney.com/v8-1-alpha/)
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