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· ✦ ╰──────────────╯ ✦ ·Three things this release adds, and each one is a way of being reached that stays on your terms.
🔔 The app has a voice now — Quiet Chimes. Four small sounds, one instrument: a tick for a message, a low warm note for someone arriving into a room, a two-note signature when something asks for your attention, and a fuller answer to that signature when somebody called you — a mention, or a reply to your words. The law behind all four: more important is more distinct, never louder. Every tier plays under the same volume ceiling, and ten messages landing beside one mention make one sound — the one that means the mention. The settings rows demo themselves: turn one on and you hear exactly what you just allowed to interrupt your time. Messages default to quiet; you decide what may speak. On Android the system notifications carry the very same rendered voice — one instrument, two mouths. And being called by your own name now counts from the first day: no alias setup needed before a mention can reach you.
🚪 You can knock. Until now there was no way to ask a person for a conversation — only rooms and links. Now the member card of someone you share a private space with offers one quiet verb: write one line, and they see who is asking, which room makes you not-a-stranger, and your sentence — in your words, never the product’s. Three answers: let in · not now · don’t ask again. The third is the load-bearing one: after it, their device answers every later knock from you with the same sentence they wrote once — they are never asked again, and you cannot tell “declined” from “never saw it”, because those are the same fact. Refusing costs nothing, forever, on every one of their devices. A knock travels sealed to the person’s mailbox — the room you share never learns you asked.
🔗 A link becomes a card, and it plays. Paste an address, and your node fetches its preview once, before you send — title, description, a small picture — shown to you first, droppable with one tap. What travels is ordinary sealed content, which means the people who read it fetch nothing: no request ever leaves a reader’s device toward the link’s author, so a link can never become a read receipt or a way to learn who opened a room, and when. YouTube and SoundCloud play right in the conversation — video as a card, sound as a strip — with the third-party player kept one frame away from anything that matters. The first press of play tells you plainly that playing talks to that site, once, and remembers your answer. Old messages are never retroactively fetched: an address from before this release stays an address, though a playable one still earns its play button.
🔋 The room rests when nobody is in it. The idle window stopped costing what it used to: the drifting sky steps instead of glides, the app is told when its window lost your attention and quiets itself, and a delivery-path inefficiency that warmed laptops for no one’s benefit is gone. Measured on the machine that found it, an idle open window now draws a fraction of what 0.1.5 drew. The info panel also turned to glass while it was being measured — the sky runs under it now.
Smaller honesties that rode along:
- A contact made by quick link on one of your devices now reaches your other devices — the laptop learns whom the phone met.
- One impatient double-press of send makes one message, even while a link card is still being fetched.
- What a stranger’s page says about itself is cleaned before it is shown: entity soup and broken markup fragments stay out of your feed.
⬇ Update both sides. A knock is a new kind of envelope: it reaches only devices on 0.1.6, and the answer travels the same road back. Sound needs nobody else to update — your device, your voice.
🐛 Broken, or claiming more than it can prove? → Field notes.