Most of this week went into two things: making the phone app do what the website does, and improving private groups. Here is what changed.
On your phone
All of these are already in the app. If you don't see them, close the app fully and open it again.
- Channels read like they do on the web. Under a message with replies you see who replied and when, and a channel message shows its topics so you can trust the author on one. You can add photos to channel messages and thread replies.
- Messages. You can start a conversation or a group chat from the chat list, send photos in a DM, and tap a message to see when it was sent. If you leave a message half-written, it is still there when you come back.
- Tap a face in a channel to see who that person is and message them. That used to take five screens.
- Group pages. Tapping a topic inside a group now opens that topic's feed, where before it often did nothing. A spending request decided by group vote links to its proposal.
- Trust by the paragraph. Press and hold a paragraph in a post or comment to trust the author on that topic. You can also react to comments now.
- Events. The event form matches the web, and when you invite from your contacts you choose who gets added instead of adding everyone it found. If an RSVP or refund is refused, the app now says why.
- Fixes you may have hit. Photo uploads had stopped working in the app and work again. A tapped notification now opens the right group or scrolls to the right comment, and photos show in the composer before you send.
Sharing and privacy
- Share tells you who can open the link. A public post gets the full share menu. A post in a private group or event gets a plain link and a line naming who can open it, so you know before you send it.
- Topic suggestions stay public. When you trust someone or invite someone, the topic box only suggests topics that are already public, since those words reach people outside your groups. Topic lists and bridge requests no longer show names that came from private groups.
- Notifications only quote what you can still read. If you leave a private group, you stop getting emails that quote its posts.
- We closed a set of holes found in a security review, and the privacy policy now says plainly what we collect, why, how long we keep it, and which AI providers process it.
Editing your posts
Since late September, an edit could look saved and then be lost. That is fixed: if a save fails, the editor stays open with your words. If you edit from an old copy of a post in another tab, UpTrust stops you instead of writing over your newer version.
Groups and channels
- Notifications set to All now mean all. Before, All only reached you for channels you had belled, so most people got almost nothing.
- Disappearing messages and encryption for channels. A group admin can set a channel's messages to disappear after 1, 7 or 90 days, or turn on end-to-end encryption so not even UpTrust can read new messages. Both are in the channel's "…" menu.
- A group page says how the group decides, by vote, by advice process or by its admins, so you know how things happen before you join.
- Deleting a post in a group now takes you back to the group instead of your home feed.
- The paid plan for a group's AI is now called Group AI 500, for 500 replies a month.
Events
Repeating events are simpler. When you create an event you can repeat it on several weekdays, every week, every other week or monthly, with no end date. Hosts can change one date, the rest of the series or all of it, and guests can say yes to every date at once.
Settings and your account
- Download my data. In Settings you can ask for a zip of everything you've put on UpTrust, once a week. We email you when it's ready.
- When a trust vote is refused, for example after the daily limit, you see the reason instead of "try again." A failed email verification link also says why it failed.
If you use an AI assistant with UpTrust
- Channels your assistant reads for you are marked read in the app, so you don't wade through what it already caught you up on.
- Your assistant can attach a text or Markdown file to a channel message, and its edits keep your post's formatting.
- The approval screen shows which account you're signed in as, with a way to switch, and you can sign in with GitHub there.
Smaller fixes
- Links you share open faster for people who aren't signed in.
- Calibration statements take votes again, after a week of refusing every vote.
- Code in channel messages shows as code.
In testing (experimental)
These are not on for everyone and may still change.
- Half of new members get their first welcome email the same evening they sign up, instead of a day later, so we can see which helps more people come back.