Changelog

This release adds media and file sharing capabilites to thread replies. It also addresses a few issues with background sync and makes some cosmetic fixes.

This release adds media and file sharing capabilites to thread replies. It also makes some cosmetic fixes.

Fixes an issue where accessing the web client in insecure plain-HTTP contexts (e.g. over a local network) would cause the "Starting up..." spinner to hang forever.

This release adds media and file sharing capabilities to messages — including video, voice messages with transcriptions, and arbitrary file uploads (PDF, ZIP, TXT, and others) — along with a storage capacity indicator during uploads. Admins now have new tools for managing groups and channels, including the ability to revoke unclaimed invites, pin messages to channel headers, and access a new Channel Info screen for notifications and settings.

This release adds media and file sharing to messages, including video attachments, voice message playback with transcriptions, and arbitrary file uploads, along with a storage capacity indicator during uploads. Admins get new controls for revoking unclaimed invites, pinning messages to channel headers, and managing settings through a new Channel Info screen.

This release adds a Bot badge for automated posts, improves sidebar and channel headers with connection and sync states, and fixes issues with scrolling, permissions, channel preview, and data refresh.

This release introduces a "Meet your Tlonbot" onboarding section and resolves performance issues with background sync and push notifications, fixes notebook post scrolling, and restores the missing Members role in channel permissions.

This release improves header displays with connection and sync status indicators and addresses critical issues with syncing. These issues include missing channel previews, slow sync after backgrounding, stale channel data, and navigation problems with notification deep-linking. We've also resoled an issue where users would remain logged in after their ship was breached in Hosting.

This release adds "Bot" badges to identify automated posts and introduces Tlonbot assistant configuration options in settings for early access program members.

This release adds connection status indicators for group and channel hosts, "Bot" badges for automated posts, and empty state illustrations throughout the app, while improving visual consistency with redesigned headers and buttons. We've fixed critical issues including duplicate group entries for hosts, image upload failures, and numerous problems with message sending, emoji reactions, and theme compatibility.

This release improves visual consistency across the app with redesigned headers featuring user avatar "face piles," updated buttons, and the ability to set default avatar colors. We've also fixed numerous issues including problems with editing Gallery replies, retrying messages with image attachments, scroll position preservation, theme compatibility, and onboarding accessibility with larger text sizes.

Usability improvements to inviting others during onboarding.

This release improves DM invite link generation speed, adds contact book integration during onboarding for easier invitations, and introduces a connectivity indicator to show when other users are online. We've also fixed issues with link attachments and now display external links for embedded media.

This release fixes several UI issues including empty message previews during app updates, an inoperable "Customize" button after certain navigation sequences, and a layout problem when editing gallery links.

Role management now lets you add members during creation or editing, and blocking is more effective—blocked users' messages no longer affect unread counts, send notifications, or show up in message previews. We've also fixed numerous issues including slow thread images, overlapping text labels, scrolling problems, typing after mentions, notification bugs, and missing admin alerts for group admission requests.

You can now add members directly when creating or editing roles, and blocking users works more thoroughly—blocked messages won't increase unread counts, trigger notifications, or appear in previews. This release also fixes issues with slow image sending in threads, overlapping labels, and several UI problems.

Fixes a critical issue when launching the app from a backgrounded state.

Improves crash detection and logging.

Adds crash detection and logging.

New users can now customize notification settings during signup, and we've improved the look of the one-time password screen. This release also fixes several crashes and sync issues, including problems with downloading screenshots, deleted messages in threads, and message reference editing.

Fixes and improvements for the new user signup flow.

This hotfix makes several stability fixes for Android.

This release introduces new group management features including join request notifications, group templates, and improved drag-and-drop channel organization. We've added confirmation dialogs for critical actions like kicking users or leaving groups, improved the group preview interface, and now hide messages from blocked users. Additionally, we've fixed numerous issues including notification settings resetting unexpectedly, problems with pop-over interfaces and sign-in, and various bugs affecting channel navigation and user permissions.

This release introduces new group management features including join request notifications, group templates, and improved drag-and-drop channel organization. We've added confirmation dialogs for critical actions like kicking users or leaving groups, improved the group preview interface, and now hide messages from blocked users. Additionally, we've fixed several important issues including notification settings resetting unexpectedly, problems with leaving channels or DMs, and various permission-related bugs.

This release adds support for badging the Tlon app icon with the unread count of push notifications. Push notifications will also now clear as you tap them or read messages inside the app. This version also fixes a critical issue where launching the app would sometimes hang at the splash screen. We've also added the ability to define permissions while creating a channel and automatically revoke outstanding invitations when a group is deleted.

This release adds support for clearing all notifications via a "…" menu on the Activity screen. It also contains some internal optimization for more precise push notification delivery.

This release adds support for entering a "shortcode" when signing up for a new account and reformats the creating channel flow.

This update adds automatic support for revoking outstanding group invitations when a group is deleted. It also adds the ability to set channel permissions during creation, restores image support in Notebook posts, improves Activity tab performance, and improves notification preference descriptions. We also fixed multiple UI issues.

This release improves message syncing with push notifications and speeds up sign-up, while adding a new "Invite" button and restoring the "Copy group ID" option in group settings. It also adds clearer descriptions to notification preferences and fixes a bug where left channels would incorrectly remain visible.

Hotfix release which resolves Chat scroller scroll-to-bottom issues.

This release introduces better message scrolling behavior, resolves problems with group notifications and thread displays, and fixes image uploads and YouTube embeds. We've also addressed various cosmetic and performance issues.

This release adds image pasting from clipboard, member search by nickname and @p, Gallery item editing, and improved push notification labels. We've introduced a reminder to enable push notifications and fixed issues with image downloads, pending post visibility, Gallery photo spacing, keyboard overlap, unwanted group list reordering, and YouTube embed display.

This release adds live-updating of group metadata to Lure links such that the landing pages for invites will always display the latest group image and title. Personal Lure links also live-update with nickname and avatar changes. Also includes several UX fixes and enables the Web-native Chat scroller by default.

Makes several performance improvements related to background syncing and list rendering and fixes an issue where new joiners to groups would erroneously see that they have no access to any channels.

This release improves messaging performance and reliability by adding efficient message synchronization, fixing threading issues, resolving image upload problems, and addressing various UI bugs related to roles and gallery previews.

This hotfix release addresses an issue with message forwarding in channels.

This release improves message syncing in the app while running and while the app is backgrounded.

This release makes several large changes to message ordering and sequencing and adds endpoints for more efficient and timely syncing with mobile clients. This release makes a breaking protocol change to several %groups agents, so you may be out of sync with channel hosts for a short amount of time.

Hotfix release which fixes two critical issues affecting app launch.

This update introduces improved group moderation tools including a fix for role and permission assignment, ban/unban functionality, and better offline support for message editing. Performance improvements include faster SQLite operations and more responsive mention features across Chat channels, DMs, and comments. The release also resolves multiple critical bugs affecting navigation, image viewing, contact editing, and group invitations.

This release introduces a theme-appropriate splash screen on app launch, ban/unban controls for public groups, and offline queuing for message edits. We've boosted SQLite database speed and made @ and ~ mentions more responsive. This version also addresses several bugs including navigation loops, emoji reaction display issues, image viewer problems, contact editing glitches, invitation failures, login hangs, and notification crashes.

This release upgrades the %groups agent for more reliable delivery and redemption of group invitations. This release contains a protocol change, which may cause temporary breakages with group preview data and existing invitations. Read the “Breaking Changes” section for more details.

This release improves messaging reliability with offline message queuing, adds support for remote file links, and affords for easier sharing of group references. The update also fixes numerous bugs related to posting, permissions, and UI responsiveness that were affecting user experience.

This release improves messaging reliability with offline message queuing, adds support for remote file links, and affords for easier sharing of group references. The update also fixes numerous bugs related to posting, permissions, and UI responsiveness that were affecting user experience.

This release fixes an issue with disappearing profile pictures and user names.

This release introduces a new experimental web-based Chat scroller available through feature flags and addresses a critical performance issue in Chrome. Also includes fixes for message editing, link attachments, and reaction displays, along with improvements to the Gallery, Notebooks, and notification systems. Additionally restores the "Invited" section in group member lists, increases the maximum unread counter limit, and resolves various UX issues.

This release includes fixes for scrolling behavior, emoji display, notification settings, and message sending workflows, along with improvements to the Gallery and Notebooks channels. Additionally, the release restores the "Invited" section in group member lists, increases the maximum unread counter limit, and implements various user experience improvements for in group creation and message actions.

This release fixes an issue with indents in codeblocks within messages and improves the invite-based onboarding flow for the desktop web.

The latest release renames message actions for clarity while fixing various rendering, selection, and crash issues related to text formatting, binary file links, and group highlighting.

Enables support for the new message/post type introduced in %groups v7.0.0 and fixes several issues.

We're releasing an OTA tomorrow (~2025.06.04) that updates our messaging/chat protocol, introducing some frequently requested features. Specifically, we're enhancing the ability to edit metadata for posts, which will be most visible in Gallery and Chat channels.