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White Noise v0.2.1 is out!

Notifications behave better, images are smoother, and the app gets out of your way a bit more.

SO. What’s new?

✨New Features

Notifications & navigation

- Deep linking for notifications: tapping a notification now takes you directly to the correct chat or invite screen

- Automatic notification clearing: notifications for messages and invites disappear when you open the related chat

- Unread counts: added unread message counts for both DMs and groups.

- Notification translations: added proper localization support in notifications.

🖼 Images & Media

- Automatic image downloads: images in messages now download automatically.

- Image zoom: added zoom functionality for images in messages.

- Media icons in previews: message previews in the chat list now show a media icon when images are present.

👣 User Experience

- Identicons: replaced single-letter avatars with unique identicons for better visual identification.

- Unsaved changes dialog: added protection against accidental back navigation on the edit profile screen.

🐛 Bug Fixes

Chat Experience

- Scroll behavior improvements: chat now jumps instantly to the bottom when opened, does not auto-scroll for incoming messages, and only scrolls when you send a message.

- Fixed disappearing messages: messages no longer temporarily disappear after being sent

- Better hit-box: the chat bubble hit-box now spans the entire width for easier interaction

- Scrollable group details: chat details during the creation flow are now properly scrollable

🔔 Notifications

- Missing notifications fix: fixed an issue where multiple messages arriving in the same polling window could miss notifications.

- Inactive account navigation: fixed notification navigation for inactive accounts.

💅 UI Polish

- Developer settings: fixed content going under the three-button bottom navigation on GrapheneOS and some Android devices.

- Keypackage buttons: fixed the loading state displaying incorrectly on keypackage operation buttons.

- Chat screen padding: reduced unnecessary bottom padding in the chat screen.

- Avatar colors: refactored avatar color handling for consistency.

💪 Performance Improvements

- Optimized group metadata: improved group metadata loading and caching.

Non-blocking user fetch: switched several areas to use non-blocking user fetch for better responsiveness.

- Smarter data loading: added digests and improvements to avoid reloading everything on every update.

- Notification efficiency: avoided fetching all groups unnecessarily for notification details.

- Background sync optimization: increased the foreground task repeat interval from 1 second to 60 seconds for better battery life.

🛠 Technical Improvements

- Better error messages: improved error messaging throughout the app.

- Updated Rust crate: updated the underlying Rust crate with various improvements.

- Added get_group method : new bridge method for better group data access.

This release sharpens notifications, makes images easier to work with, and cleans up a bunch of UI/UX issues reported by the community. The performance work under the hood should make White Noise feel smoother and more responsive in everyday use.

Thank you for the support 🖤

⚡️🎞️ PICTURE OF THE SAY - 6000 Years of World History in 1 Picture

The solution to the knots debate (or whatever it's called) is that the both sides must realize that every Bitcoin transaction is spam.

The left gives themselves new political powers which then get used by the right when they’re in power. The right give themselves new political powers which then get used by the left. It spirals toward more centralized government over time.

Keeping government limited is like constantly passing the marshmellow test, delaying immediate gratification for longer-run benefit.