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: https://docs.vectorapp.io

🟢 [ 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: https://github.com/VectorPrivacy/Vector/releases/tag/v0.2.2

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 https://vectorapp.io

"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." —nprofile1qqsv7xnxmvek9q98l86qckdrnal6jmpsj3t2xxnu2038j5lrgcqsm5gu2ge59

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

Thank you for mentioning in your writeup! 🙏 Stay tuned for more updates and be sure to follow & for more in regards to Vector's development