Navigator and forwarding

The left column is not a list we sorted for you, but the way you laid out your places.

Sections

People is not a contact list. There is no registry of people in quite.space: a line appears there when you share a space with exactly one person. If they bring someone in, the line honestly becomes a group.

Whatever is pinned or sorted into groups also stays in the general list: nothing “moves” anywhere; a group is a label, not a folder.

All of this is local to the device: group names, ordering and bookmarks travel to no one.

Search

One field at the top; it filters instantly over what is already loaded.

It searches: names of people and spaces, your local names, group names, the beginning of an identifier.

It does not search message content, and says so right in the empty result: “Navigator searches names, not what was said inside”. That is a different feature with different privacy properties, and mixing it in silently would be dishonest.

Catalogs

Everything about catalogs, Discover and how places get found is in its own document: catalogs. Here, only one consequence for this column: the Directories section assembles itself from what spaces have declared about themselves — nothing needs to be tagged.

Forwarding

forward on a message or on a post. The same navigator opens, but in selection mode: you can tick several places at once and add a comment.

What travels and what does not

Forwarding is a quote, not a transfer of the signature. The source space’s keys go nowhere, which means the author’s signature cannot be verified in the new place. The recipient is told exactly that:

alice says this came from bob. Their signature did not travel — this is alice’s word for it.

What does not travel with the copy: the identifier of the source space, its participant list, its relay address, who else received the same copy, and any key to the original. Each recipient gets an independent copy, encrypted with the key of their space.

The comment is sent as a separate message ahead of the copy — that way it can be edited, quoted and replied to, while the copy itself stays identical for everyone.

A post from a public space

A post is forwarded as a card: source, title, excerpt, author, date. The card requests nothing over the network until it is opened — otherwise the relay would learn which public place you just got interested in.

The card may carry a Read post button. It opens a temporary view: the post is read in full, pictures and sound included, while

• you join nothing,
• nothing is saved to your disk,
• after closing and restarting, the space is nowhere to be found.

From there, two separate explicit steps exist: Follow (keep it and read on) and, for communities, Join and participate (get the right to write). Reading never does either by itself.

If the author attached no link back, the card remains a readable snapshot without a door — rather than with a “broken” button.

Where forwarding is not allowed

• Out of a space with the “the past stays with those who lived it” policy — forbidden entirely.
• To places where you cannot write — said right in the picker, not as a refusal after sending.
• Into the source space itself.

The result — per recipient

After sending — one line per recipient. Never a single collective “sent”: partial success here is a normal case, not an error. The wording is the same as in the feed — talk.