🌽 Corny Chat is an open source audio space built on Jam that integrates Nostr and Lightning. A publicly running instance of Corny Chat is accessible at https://cornychat.com/. The following enhancements were made during February 2025.

Badges

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🆕 A new badge has been created for users who have 'Heard-the-Horn-in-the-Corn'. This is awarded selectively to users whenever Vic and Dank are in the room and the horn is blown.

Web Application

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🆕 Added Room Indicators for active rooms

indicates if the room is a Nostr live activity

Audience or Stage Only

🆕 Nostr identified users now have warning symbols if using a lightning custodian or nostr address provider that is non-reciprocal, overly large, scammy

🐛 Bugfix to Valentines animations for symbol/text corrections

🆕 Added animations for St Patricks Day

🆕 Admins may now mark rooms as permanent (to filter from deletion)

🆕 Admins may now purge rooms that havent been accessed in 90 days

🌽 Kicked users now see the reason why they were kicked from a room and who kicked them

🆕 Admins may now update the MOTD from the web client

Server Logic

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🐛 Bugfix to resolve a nostr-relaypool error that was taking the server down

🐛 Bugfix to prevent duplicate pubkeys from being saved to ACL based relays

🐛 Bugfix to structure of Message of the Day (motd) record

🆕 Add support for setting MOTD via API

🆕 Backend relay pool per write is now configuable

🆕 support for deleting old rooms not accessed in 90 days

🆕 support for marking rooms as permanent to prevent them from being deleted

Configuration

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🎛️ Redis container is now configured to auto restart on server startup

🎛️ Use of relaypool or new pool per write in backend is configurable

Community

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🆕 Discussions have been enabled on GitHub.

Thank you for using Corny Chat. Please feel free to provide feedback as github issues or the new discussions, in chat, or on nostr

https://github.com/vicariousdrama/cornychat

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