This week was mostly about asking: asking your people for a recommendation, asking someone to reply, and offering a better answer when you have one. Here is what changed.
Recommendations
Need a dentist, a coach or a therapist? On Recommendations you can ask your people who they would send you to. Only you read the answers, and a few days later we ask whether you went with anyone. It replaces the old Asks page, which now lands here. How it works.
Bridges
- Ask someone to reply. From the menu on a post or comment, ask one or more people to write a reply. You have ten seconds to undo it. Their answer shows up as a reply in the thread, and you get a note when it lands. More on asking.
- Bridges are marked for you. When people you trust and people you usually don't both uptrust a post or reply, it carries a bridge mark and a line saying so. Every bridge has its own page, a topic's Bridges tab lists that topic's bridges, and a dot on Bridges tells you when a new one turns up.
- The Bridges page has four tabs: For you, Open asks, Best of and Yours. Best of reads like a front page of the best answers, ordered by who you trust.
- Better an answer. If an ask already has an answer and you can do better, write yours. Readers see the leading version with the earlier ones folded under it, and the earlier writer keeps part of the credit.
- An ask sent to one person now says plainly that it is public.
Posts and replies
- Voice notes. Record a voice note on a post, a comment or a group channel message. Listeners can play it at 1x, 1.5x or 2x, or open the transcript and read it instead.
- Attach a file to any post. A PDF or a text file used to need a group. Now any post can carry one.
- Any emoji, anywhere. Posts and comments have the same quick reactions as channels and messages, with a + for any emoji.
- Score details never name voters. Tap a score and you see totals, such as how many people you trust uptrusted it, and never who. What the numbers mean.
- Going Back from a post returns you to where you were in the feed, with everything you had loaded still there.
Groups and events
- In a group's channel list you can star or mute a channel, see where you were mentioned, and mark everything read. Opening a channel clears its @ badge.
- Join requests reach you by email. If you run a group, a request to join used to sit in your inbox until you looked. Now you also get an email, and a text if you turned texts on.
- An empty Events page shows the last few public events and who went, with a button to host one.
Finding your way around
- Topic pages show the topic's picture as a cover and load faster. Topics that existed under two names were folded into one.
- The Everywhere menu opens with a search box and three groups, People, Places and Your trust, instead of a long list.
- Connected accounts is now a list, with a page for each account showing who trusts you there. Disconnect asks first.
- Switching to a lens on the home feed gives it its own voice, with a note on each post saying how that lens ranks it differently.
AI assistants
Gemini can now connect to UpTrust. It was refused before. The help page has steps for Gemini and Grok, and a section for developers.
The app
- Versions 1.1.12 and 1.1.13 are in the stores. They bring Recommendations, asking someone to reply, connected accounts and the new reactions to your phone. Unsent drafts are kept for group posts, bridges and edits, and the vote buttons match the website.
- Notifications keep arriving after a phone login gets old, and a phone login now lasts a year.
- Coming in the next app update: voice notes, a Mark as read button on notifications, and the new Bridges, Questions and Topics pages. Get the app.
Smaller things
- New members land straight on the feed, with setup steps as cards between posts instead of a wall in front of it.
- Messages, the inbox and People show the shape of the page while loading instead of a blank screen.
- Comments on an event's wall stay inside the event.
- A message no longer says it can't be read on this device after you read it somewhere else first.
- Question pages work on older iPhones.