It's been a while since the last update. We went heads-down and shipped a ton, so this one's a catch-up on everything since May 6. We've also shipped a ton of backend stuff that we're excited to share later...
Major
Group Channels. Every group now has Slack/discord-style channels, with threads, reactions, link previews, and search. Helps organize your group's conversations, instead of spread across DMs, group chats, infinite scroll, and email.
Group Decisions. Raise a proposal and let the group decide it, by advice process, a direct vote, or a trust-weighted vote, then post as the group. A gardening club can settle what to plant this season, or a co-op can adopt a policy, and commit to it. Or as @brian joked, you can have centralized decentralized autonomous organization hahaha
Group Money. Groups get a shared treasury: contributions, proposed spending, endowments, and equal split. Every payout has to clear the group's own decision process first, so a neighborhood group can pool money for a block party, or friends can split a beach house, without one person holding the wallet.
Events Upgrades. Events now run recurring and online, with rich descriptions and images, cover photos on invite emails, text and multimedia invites, guest +1s including how many kids (Jordan is a parent throwing parties, we built this for him). A run club's weekly meetup or a neighborhood potluck can go out as a proper invite, no separate tool needed.
- One click convert an event into a group. This is something workshop leaders always want: easy group connection after an event.
Polls. Polls now support several voting modes, including ranked-choice, plus transparent group polls. Your movie club can pick next month's film and see where the group stands.
- Poll-to-event-pipeline Mints the event from the winning slot
Connect your reviews and accounts. Link GitHub, or import your Google reviews as a Places trust signal. ORCID and X coming soon. A developer, a researcher, or a local host can bring the reputation they've already earned, so trust here starts from real signal.
Minor
Drafts everywhere: save them, resume from your profile menu, and a guard so you don't lose what you typed.
Bridges (content that connects opposing views) now surface and get a boost in the feed, with bounties for multiple submissions.
- Subscribe to any user and get notified when they post, or mute notifications on a single post
Ease of use: Image uploads on comments and in the editor, user-generated tags with trust-weighted ranking, #tag and @profile typeahead, and redesigned link previews. Sign in with Apple and Google on the web. One tap, no new password.
Public, logged-out pages: group, topic, and tag views, topic landing pages, a help wiki, a science hub, and a trust-sorted public roadmap and feedback board.
Weekly digest upgrades: streaks, earned badges, and a nudge about drafts you left behind.
DM image attachments, a downvouch action, and the DM trust threshold lowered to 0.70 (with a per-user toggle to update it).
A Connected Agents settings page to see and revoke any AI agent you've given access to your trust graph.
- Daily Alchemy prompts got more reliable and now run on Claude Sonnet.
Under the hood
Chat encryption got hardened after a pen test. We added per-user and per-IP rate limits on sensitive actions, an admin audit log, and bot-signup attack mitigation, and we stripped PII out of logs and analytics. The scoring engine now scales for production, and deploys are zero-downtime. We also caught a bulk-delete bug that had wiped a batch of comments and fully restored them, so nothing was lost. Plus fixes to 404 pages, push notifications, and a signup edge case.
On Deck (coming soon)
- Connect UpTrust to your favorite AI with our MCP.
AI Perspective Voters. About 12 labeled AI archetypes (progressive, conservative, rationalist, Ubuntu, e/acc, and more) that re-rank any feed through a chosen worldview. You can read a heated city-council thread the way someone unlike you would, and see the strongest version of the other side.
Slack Importer. Bring an existing Slack community over, including channels, messages, files, and reactions, with members claiming their own accounts. An org or a DAO can move to UpTrust without leaving its history behind.
Mobile apps. Native iOS and Android, with feed, inbox, profile, push, and deep links. Landing soon.
A wager and staking economy using trust, allowing mutli-replies without spam-city.
Easier collection sharing, with public links so you can share a Collection with anyone.
These updates, automated, so there's a lot less lag between shipping something and you hearing about it.
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