Vector v0.2.1
The new era of communication begins.
New:
- 💬 Group Chats: chat with up to ~100 people at once, with OpenMLS-powered encryption.
- 🐱 Emoji Redesign: a beautiful Emoji Panel redesign, with enhanced search.
- 📝 New Markdown Engine: bringing the best modern markdown features to Vector via our new, expressive markdown engine.
- 🔎 Image Magnifier: you can now tap on images to fullscreen them, with Zooming & Panning.
- 🛡️ New Privacy Features: URL-tracker stripping, Web Preview toggling, and Typing Indicator toggling.
- ☁️ Blossom-based Media Storage: Vector now uses the decentralised Blossom Protocol for File Storage.
✈️ Send Button: a new mobile-friendly Send Button that replaces the Microphone button when text is written.- 🟢 Notification Dot: an in-app notification dot now displays when you have unread messages in other chats.
- 🤖 Bot Indicators: Vector now displays a small branded '🤖' bot icon next to Vector Bots, for easy identification.
- 🐦 X Previews: posts on X are new previewed in the chat.
Improved:
- 🎆 Optimised Image Uploads: images now upload significantly faster, thanks to a 29,800x speed improvement in Vector's Blurhashing algorithm.
- 🎇 More Image Previews: preview support was added for both TIFF and ICO image files.
- 🖼️ Image Type Display: image previews now display a small File Extension indicator at the bottom-right of each image.
- 🛜 Intelligent Profile Sync: Vector now has a bandwidth-optimised, high performance Profile Sync system to keep your contact list up-to-date without wasting bandwidth on Billy, who last DM'd you "hi" 8 months ago.
- 👤 New Placeholder Avatars: a simplified, brand-tuned display for Avatar-less chats.
- 📜 Infinite Scroll: you can now infinitely scroll your chat history.
- ❇️ New Syncing Design: a sleek, slim 'syncing bar' displays and pulses while Vector is syncing, disappearing when done.
- 💚 UI Polish: an uncountably large amount of small UI adjustments to improve UX, consistency
& stability.
Fixed:
- 🫡 Too many bugs to count.