You will like what's cooking for this year ;) Will most likely organize some game nights for the community.
We're on the lookout for stable Blossom servers that allow for Encrypted Blobs and any Mime Types to upgrade performance and stability for 2026. Feel free to connect us with anyone who may know. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing this with us nostr:nprofile1qqsth7fr42fyvpjl3rzqclvm7cwves8l8l8lqedgevhlfnamvgyg78sdv7ysa Our team will look more into what you have shared to dive deeper into the protocols' pros and cons.
Decentralized Quake III?
Where nostalgia meets privacy tech.
https://video.nostr.build/076fdc7ce1ad825824969d7f3ac0d37cc914d077b4afcdbcf906c285d1724f36.mp4
Decentralized gaming now being tested on Vector. No blockchain, no servers, no bullshit.... well lag, that's still bullshit. Local/Regional gameplay is perfect. Playing halfway around the world is not optimal, but still playable. Ping obviously offers massive advantages in fast-paced FPS games.
If anyone is interested in testing the limits with us, download the Pre-Release (v0.3.0):
🟢 [ V E C T O R ] Open Beta v0.2.3
Behold, the latest release of Vector Beta in 2025! Additional overhaul of UX improvements, added features, and the first iteration of Vector Web Profiles that function like contact cards via the web.
🧵Updates Below
New:
- 🪪 Vector Web Profiles: you can now share your profile "Contact Card" over the web, with one‑click adding, try this! https://vectorapp.io/profile/npub1gwfpm6l8fhn6rs83j8rjjnjgkdqv89chd2fdhy6zc2uvpuwf39vsfuxxee 
- 🎤 Overhauled Voice Messaging: a completely new Voice Messaging experience, with intuitive gestures & sleek UI.
- 📁 Upload Previews: files are now previewed prior to uploading, giving you a chance to review and confirm.
- 🗂️ Image Compression: images are now intelligently compressed before uploading; full‑quality is just a switch!
- 🖼️ Window Persistence: Vector now remembers how you size and position your app.
Improved:
- 🖌️ UI Revamp: a glassy, animated header, redesigned popups, mini‑avatars, group creator UI, and more.
- 💬 Expanding Chatbox: the real OG of this update; your chatbox finally expands to the size of your yap.
- ⚡️ On‑Demand Decryption: Vector no longer decrypts fully at boot, but on‑demand, vastly reducing RAM & CPU use.
Fixed:
- ⚡️ Flashbang: Vector had a brief "white flash" at startup, nicknamed “the flashbang”, this has been resolved.
- 🪵 Fixed Logouts: on some systems, particularly Windows, logouts were failing; this is now fixed.
- 📨 Several Unread‑System Bugs: more reliable read markers and better cross‑device compatibility.
- 📥 Improved Download Stability: attachment downloads are more stable and less resource‑wasteful.
- ⌨️ Removed Search OS Autocorrect: the Emoji Search was often interrupted by OS autocorrect, now disabled.
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Welcome aboard, friend. 🫡💚
Sending safe wishes your way, friend.
(Late appreciation for your mention of Vector in Nostr Recap, too! 🙏💚)
Vector Privacy is now on GitBook!
The past couple of weeks, we have been working to populate the GitBook documentation where everyone can learn more about Vector, from novices to experts. GitBook is designed for your average person to be able to read and understand, along with more specific documentation for developers.
We have begun to outline the entire Vector Privacy ecosystem, as well as breaking down specifics about Vector Messenger. Visit either link below and you can go from top to bottom with the pagination feature or you can click on specific pages that interest you.
If privacy interests you, be sure to visit the Privacy page.
Visit the GitBook:
🟢 [ V E C T O R ] Open Beta v0.2.2
>>> https://vectorapp.io <<<
We are happy to share with you all the latest release—weeks worth of polish, updates, and improvements. From a complete database rewrite, to new features, bug fixes, and a smoother user experience. It will be a significant and noticeable change, especially for Group Chats and visiting the Settings tab.
💡 Feature Spotlight: Android Support
We have now released the public Android APK that has been officially published on GitHub. There is also mobile support via the website (listed above), where you’ll find a download button for your Android device.
Development Updates:
New:
📲 Android APK: the first public Android APK is now available for Vector!
📦 Storage Manager: a Settings section that gives a glance-able breakdown of Vector's storage usage.
👥 Primary Device Setting: a new setting that allows you to set a device to receive future Group Invites.
💽 New Database: Vector now uses SQLite (w/ encryption layer) for ultra-fast, reliable, compact persistence.
Improved:
🛜 Faster Synchronization: parallel processing enables Vector's syncing to be noticeably faster.
📂 New File Attachment Design: a significant design overhaul when transferring non-media files.
👤 Profile Shortcuts: in the Group Overview, you can now click on anyone to visit their profile.
📨 Profile Message Shortcut: you can now hit "Message" on anyone's profile to jump straight in their DMs.
⚙️ Settings Dangerzone Redesign: a beautiful Settings polish, along with a redesign of The Dangerzone.
💌 New Invite Design: incoming invitations look significantly nicer. (and the 'Notif Dot' displays on Pending Invites!).
🖼️ Improved Popup UI Design: a well-needed polish to an old UI flow.
📝 Improved Selection Highlights: a Vector-esque Gray is now used for the Selection Highlight colour.
Fixed:
📨 Fixed 'slow/stuck' Group Chat messages: a race condition, plus many inefficiencies, were resolved in Group Chat messaging, making it feel significantly smoother and snappier.
📪 Fixed automatic 'Mark as Read': on Windows particularly, 'auto-Mark-as-Read' now works consistently.
🐧 Fixed potential Linux Media crashes: on Linux, playable media is now displayed as regular File Attachments, preventing a crash when Videos or Audio cannot be loaded.
🐱 Fixed 'jitter' on first Emoji Panel open: the Emoji Panel rendering has been optimised, removing 'jitter' when first opened.
📺 Fixed intense "UI Flickering" in the Chatlist during sync: no more login seizures.
👍 Fixed Reactions in Group Chats: for spamming 🍆 on every post until you're inevitably banned.
👥 Fixed newly-joined Group Chat bugs: they no longer drop to the bottom of your chatlist on join, and the "Header" is now clickable even if no messages were sent in the group yet.
🎆 Fixed 'PNG-Pill' on tiny images: Emoji-sized images now hide the File Extension Tag, a.k.a, the "PNG Pill".
🟢 Removed 'Status Dot' from Group Chats: this is meant for people, not rooms.
🖥️ Fixed excessive Group Chat re-renders: shaves some CPU usage from Group Chat UI.
🖥️ Fixed excessive Typing Indicator events: shaves some CPU usage from Typing Indicators.
🖥️ Fixed excessive Chat Timestamp re-renders: shaves some CPU usage from 'last message' timestamp updates.
🖱️ Fixed "Double Scrollbar" at startup: rarely, a "double" scrollbar displayed while Vector was booting.
Learn More:
nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwpexjmtpdshxuet59uqzqawhxlp5wfr3q2wyfpmtxvxj9ppg3fp80x6erghdfk4pcmq8a7hhwp9puf v.0.2.1 (special sunday edition) is released on Github, nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejz7qpq0r8xl2njyepcw2zwv3a6dyufj4e4ajx86hz6v4ehu4gnpupxxp7s85uvay and Apple's TestFlight.
This one focused almost entirely on performance improvements and bug fixes. If you have more than a few chats in your chat list you'll definitely notice the huge difference in loading speed!
https://github.com/parres-hq/whitenoise_flutter/releases/tag/v0.2.1%2B14
Congratulations on the latest release! 🥳 Thanks for fighting for the right to free speech and privacy. FOSS is the way. 💪
Another good day to choose private, encrypted messaging.
✅ Nostr accounts are supported
"My North Star on the topic remains that all humans flourish under the protection of privacy; it creates a space for reflection and action which invariably leads to stronger personal conviction and the development of true identity. That's what guides us, internally and alongside others, not the piece of plastic a government tosses at us."
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Always a good day to revisit A Cypherpunk's Manifesto
https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html
"Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.
If two parties have some sort of dealings, then each has a memory of their interaction. Each party can speak about their own memory of this; how could anyone prevent it? One could pass laws against it, but the freedom of speech, even more than privacy, is fundamental to an open society; we seek not to restrict any speech at all. If many parties speak together in the same forum, each can speak to all the others and aggregate together knowledge about individuals and other parties. The power of electronic communications has enabled such group speech, and it will not go away merely because we might want it to.
Since we desire privacy, we must ensure that each party to a transaction have knowledge only of that which is directly necessary for that transaction. Since any information can be spoken of, we must ensure that we reveal as little as possible. In most cases personal identity is not salient. When I purchase a magazine at a store and hand cash to the clerk, there is no need to know who I am. When I ask my electronic mail provider to send and receive messages, my provider need not know to whom I am speaking or what I am saying or what others are saying to me; my provider only need know how to get the message there and how much I owe them in fees. When my identity is revealed by the underlying mechanism of the transaction, I have no privacy. I cannot here selectively reveal myself; I must always reveal myself.
Therefore, privacy in an open society requires anonymous transaction systems. Until now, cash has been the primary such system. An anonymous transaction system is not a secret transaction system. An anonymous system empowers individuals to reveal their identity when desired and only when desired; this is the essence of privacy.
Privacy in an open society also requires cryptography. If I say something, I want it heard only by those for whom I intend it. If the content of my speech is available to the world, I have no privacy. To encrypt is to indicate the desire for privacy, and to encrypt with weak cryptography is to indicate not too much desire for privacy. Furthermore, to reveal one's identity with assurance when the default is anonymity requires the cryptographic signature.
We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their beneficence. It is to their advantage to speak of us, and we should expect that they will speak. To try to prevent their speech is to fight against the realities of information. Information does not just want to be free, it longs to be free. Information expands to fill the available storage space. Information is Rumor's younger, stronger cousin; Information is fleeter of foot, has more eyes, knows more, and understands less than Rumor.
We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place. People have been defending their own privacy for centuries with whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret handshakes, and couriers. The technologies of the past did not allow for strong privacy, but electronic technologies do.
We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money.
Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it. We publish our code so that our fellow Cypherpunks may practice and play with it. Our code is free for all to use, worldwide. We don't much care if you don't approve of the software we write. We know that software can't be destroyed and that a widely dispersed system can't be shut down.
Cypherpunks deplore regulations on cryptography, for encryption is fundamentally a private act. The act of encryption, in fact, removes information from the public realm. Even laws against cryptography reach only so far as a nation's border and the arm of its violence. Cryptography will ineluctably spread over the whole globe, and with it the anonymous transactions systems that it makes possible.
For privacy to be widespread it must be part of a social contract. People must come and together deploy these systems for the common good. Privacy only extends so far as the cooperation of one's fellows in society. We the Cypherpunks seek your questions and your concerns and hope we may engage you so that we do not deceive ourselves. We will not, however, be moved out of our course because some may disagree with our goals.
The Cypherpunks are actively engaged in making the networks safer for privacy. Let us proceed together apace.
Onward."
Eric Hughes
March 9, 1993
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Remember, remember the 5th of November...
Vector Open Beta (v0.2.1) Release
>> 1 Click Login with Nostr
We are happy to announce our official release of Vector Open Beta that now supports fully end-to-end encrypted Group Chats. Nostr users can login with their `nsec` keys, as Vector is built on the decentralized relay network known as Nostr. Thanks to Nostr protocol and community for making this technology possible and publicly available. Vector is happy to share that it ascribes to the same open-source philosophy and aligning with like-minded people and communities.
- Free, Open-Source
- No KYC (No Email, Phone, oAuth, etc.)
- No Data Collection
- No Ads/Spam
- Local Device Data Storage (P2P)
- Decentralized Relay Network (Nostr)
Official Website:
Official GitHub:
https://github.com/VectorPrivacy/Vector
Remember, remember...
👁🗨Privacy Messengers
⚠️Not all "Privacy" apps were created equally
There are degrees of privacy, as there are degrees of decentralization. Let's explore what exactly privacy is when it comes to messenger apps. Vector is honored to be building on the Nostr protocol and along with the Nostr community. Check out our research below and comparison of different privacy messenger apps.
Special thanks to nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7enfd36x2u3wdehhxarj9emkjmn9qyw8wumn8ghj76twv3jhsetj9e3k7unpvdkx2tnnda3kjctvqqspwwwexlwgcrrnwz4zwkze8rq3ncjug8mvgsd96dxx6wzs8ccndmcqdslk3 with nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwpexjmtpdshxuet59uqzqawhxlp5wfr3q2wyfpmtxvxj9ppg3fp80x6erghdfk4pcmq8a7hhwp9puf for their development of Marmot protocol, which we have recently integrated as our Group Chat protocol for sleek, highly-secure, scalable groups and communities.
If you want to show some love for Nostr-based apps, give us a share!
⚠️KYC = Know You're Compromised
Privacy for Protection.
>>> Download Vector Beta <<<
"Just feels like freedom" - nostr:npub1uvxhy0nvcfg9xvh8stpr25du3u5ads5fl5ujljzmvlp6sn4j8epspgttjz 
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We'd love to hear the community's feedback so far on #VectorBeta and what all you all like, don't like, what you'd like to see improved, new features (non-stop development), and more.
Comment below and let us know!
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