quite.spacetransmission log
what changed, and why.
release notes and field notes. every entry names what still isn't true.
- 1.0.17 — a transfer in flight keeps the node awakeThe holder of a photo no longer sleeps between rounds: an answer that left for a relay keeps its heartbeat at ten seconds while the picture is crossing. And in private spaces media answers get a reply box of their own, so a photo in flight no longer blocks the next message.
- 1.0.16 — a photo is answered onceThe holder of a picture answered every copy of every ask with a full eight-megabyte answer into a mailbox with a quota. Now it keeps a book: a chunk put into a mailbox is not put there again for three minutes, and each asking device gets its own copy.
- 1.0.15 — what a relay took shows as takenThe dot was lying by omission: a copy sent on a guess earned no receipt while the peer was reading it from that very relay. Now a relay that accepted the bytes is shown as having accepted them — and a restart no longer forgets.
- 1.0.14 — the word leaves at onceSending no longer waits for reading: the sender has its own lane, a failed cycle retries in fifteen seconds, a dead socket costs four seconds instead of ten, and the desktop being read on a second monitor counts as attention.
- 1.0.13 — the picture is the controlLoading media is one tap on the thing itself: a small glowing ring turns while the relay is asked, fills as the bytes land, gone when they are here. A tap is kept as a wish, and a late answer is still an answer.
- 1.0.12 — "I moved", and a guess that finds youTwo small things about the first message after something changed: a device that changes relays tells every peer at once, and a recipient nobody holds a route for is offered the message at every official relay. Neither is a lookup; there is none, on purpose.
- 1.0.11 — the doorbell is real, and the log rides onceTwo evenings of measuring instead of guessing: every ping now expects a pong or the park is declared dead, a mailbox is offered only what it does not hold — 48 MB a minute became 1.7 — and relay operators got a public status page.
- Quite — one monthIn a month it grew a shared map, a walkie-talkie, sensors, music projects with versions and comments. Even its own typeface. But let us rather tell you what you can do with all of it.
- 1.0.10 — Quiet Signal, a voice of its ownThe app has its own typeface: a wide, square-shouldered monoline grotesque with Latin and Cyrillic, drawn as skeletons and grown into two weights by the build. Corrected by the owner's eye twice in one night. Source in the repository, under the SIL Open Font License.
- 1.0.9 — bytes on their way, said soA broken-image glyph, a black box with a dead play button — while the bytes were honestly on their way through the relay the whole time. Nothing said so. Now a quiet note stands where the picture will be: fetching from relay…, with the chunk count once a round has answered.
- 1.0.8 — the sky opens on its ownA sky nobody opened was a sky nobody saw. The still-and-silent rule was written when the floor under the scenes was new — the floor is not new any more, and it is what makes an unasked picture safe. Sound still asks; the feed is unchanged.
- 1.0.7 — four skiesNebula, aurora, caustics, silk — every new atmosphere is a fragment shader: a tiny program with no memory, no network and no eyes. The only thing it can do is be bright, and brightness is exactly what the floor already governs. The picture may degrade; the meaning may not.
- 1.0.6 — solid ground under every messageA small release, the same day as 1.0.5, for one thing the owner's eye caught on the first screen: dark-theme bubbles were grey glass — the sky showed through them. Solid and dark now; a message sits on its own ground.
- 1.0.5 — a place where it is clear what is happening and what you can doAn outside review said it in one sentence: the interface explained internal mechanics where it need not, and failed to explain consequences where it must. Three newcomer scenarios, three waves closed against them — inviting by intent, navigation by meaning, a shell that says less and says it plainly.
- 1.0.4 — where the seconds go"Delivery feels slow" is now a number with a place: every own message carries a timeline the node measures itself — minted, relay-accepted, first signed-for. And three seconds handed back: the parked listener sleeps on the socket, pushes go to every relay at once, the screen looks when you just sent.
- 1.0.3 — the starfield is back, and so are SettingsA fix release, the day after 1.0.2, for what the first phone taught us within an hour: Settings would not open, and creating a space stumbled on its last step. No data was touched — and the build now refuses the whole class of mistake.
- 1.0.2 — a familiar door, and a sky behind itThe first release in the 1.0 line without a suffix. The room list reads like an inbox — layout borrowed from the messengers, their smuggled promises refused. And a sky: a shared drawing that is a message, where every stroke is a signed event and the colour is the person.
- 1.0.1-rc.1 — the board found the door by itselfA sensor on a shelf, a laptop in another room, no cable between them: the Wi-Fi courier carries readings over the local network, USB becomes the rescue road, and the app learns to live with a physical instrument — plug in with one click, see what arrived, end a ghost.
- 1.0.0-beta.2 — where you actually wentField Sessions: start a sweep, pocket the phone, and the route records with the screen off — inside an explicitly started, visibly active, bounded session. A gap is a sample, not a silence; the completion fact crosses LoRa first, the track follows on broadband.
- 1.0.0-beta.1 — the formats hold still nowEverything this build writes, every later 1.x will open — ninety signed schemas, the envelope, the disk layout, the backup, the wire, the radio profile. And a space became somewhere work can live: objects with history, versioned works, a field with honest positions.
- 0.1.7 — instruments join the room, and send becomes a factA space can hold more than people: sensors join with their own keys, and a virtual greenhouse ships with every node. An ESP32 can be one — developer preview. And send is a fact, not a promise: words do not vanish.
- 0.1.6 — a voice, a knock, and links that playQuiet Chimes — more important is more distinct, never louder. A knock asks a person for a conversation on your terms and theirs. A pasted link becomes a card that plays, and readers fetch nothing.
- 0.1.5 — one identity, many devices — and media that arrivesJoin a space on your phone — it appears on your sleeping laptop. Photos ride ahead with the message, big videos stream, and media speaks a visual language of release and arrival: movement means something is happening, stillness means it landed.
- 0.1.4 — the door opened; the floor gave wayOne fix, and it is the only reason this release exists: 0.1.3 crashed on Android after every correctly typed code. Update over it, type your code, and you are in — nothing on your phone is lost.
- 0.1.3 — four digits, and the key writes itselfA first run is a name and four digits — the passphrase is drawn for you, never shown, never typed. On the phone, your face can open it. Reactions are one gesture everywhere, and a phone paired on 0.1.2 can finally see everybody.
- 0.1.2 — one person, several devicesYour phone and your computer can now be the same you. Pair with a sixty-second code, compare six digits, revoke a lost device — and every device carries a certificate the network enforces.
- 0.1.1 — the composer learns to hold a paragraphFive fixes, all found by using it: visible replies, menus above the feed, markdown in chat, a multi-line composer, paste-a-screenshot.