Announcing the Homebase Community App

01/18/2025 06:47:40

We’re excited to share that Homebase.id now has a community app! Think of it as an alternative to tools like Slack or Teams, but fully secure, decentralized, and open source—aligned with everything Homebase.id stands for.

To create a new community, head over to your dashboard and press the Community button to get started.

As always, feedback and contributions are welcome.

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Announcing the Homebase Community App (01/18/2025 06:47:40)
We've released a new major feature: Introductions. 🤝 What are Introductions? Introductions let you connect two or more of your contacts, facilitating seamless communication. When you create a new chat group, introductions occur automatically among the participants. How do Introductions work? When you're introduced to someone, they can send you chat messages by default. You can then choose to upgrade an introduced contact to a confirmed contact, add them to your circles, or follow them. Customizing Introductions If the default settings don't suit your preferences, you can adjust how introductions are handled in your settings. Getting Started To use this feature, ensure your identity is upgraded. Simply log in to your owner console to complete the upgrade. Experience a more connected and personalized communication with Homebase's new Introductions feature. (11/03/2024 10:21:48)
We've updated our free and open-source LICENSE agreement on GitHub to a pure AGPL3 agreement. See here for more information https://github.com/homebase-id (10/17/2024 09:24:15)
The Homebase.id source code has been made public and you can find it on Git here https://github.com/homebase-id This is a soft launch of the source and not a big splash announcement / launch of Homebase. That'll come later. (10/01/2024 17:05:34)
We're rolling out our new logo and you've probably already noticed it appearing on your phone. The logo has many interpretations at once. It forms the letter H for Homebase. It also forms the letter H and i for Homebase.id. Additionally, it's a home, with a rather large chimney perhaps, and the sun rising behind it. This signifies the idea that Homebase is your safe and secure home online. Finally, it's also an individual person (the sun becomes the head). This represents the idea of the sovereign individual that we've designed Homebase for. We hope you like it. ☀️ 🏠 The Homebase Team (09/19/2024 06:38:12)
We’re excited to announce a new update to Homebase.id! We've made using emojis in the Homebase.id chat app faster and easier! 🎉 However, as part of this upgrade, any old reactions were removed, so you can start adding new ones now. 💬 Curious for more technical details ⚙️: 🚀 Dedicated Reaction API: A specialized API to efficiently manage emoji reactions across the platform, focusing on chat messages... for now 📊 Enhanced Data Management: Emoji reactions are now stored in a dedicated database table, making them easily queryable. ⚡ Optimized Performance: A reaction preview is stored with each file, eliminating extra requests to fetch reactions, ensuring faster load times. These updates make emoji reactions faster, more reliable, and enhance your overall experience on Homebase.id. (08/23/2024 12:09:43)
Great news! We have some new updates ready for your Homebase Enjoyment. 🚀 New outbox engine with boosted performance. Anything going from your identity to another goes through the outbox which means better manageable data/content delivery, noisy neighbor management, resiliency 🚀 Link previews in Chat and Feed. When you paste a link, we now get the Open Graph (OG) data, if available, to show a preview of the page in your feed, chat, and other apps. Of course, in the Homebase way - this query to the OG data is done via your identity server which keeps your client safe. 🚀 Speaking of Chat, the performance has been boosted granting faster message downloads and notifications. 🎗️Reminder! You can get the social feed and chat apps here 🍏 iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/homebase-secure-feed/id6468971238 🤖 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=id.homebase.feed (07/25/2024 16:13:08)
Heads up! Our hosting provider is performing updates to the Homebase storage system. The work is planned July 3rd between 6am - 1pm UTC. The total downtime is expected to be just a few minutes. (06/27/2024 17:33:34)
🚀 Exciting News! Our native app is here! 🚀 📱 Native Experience: Enjoy a smoother, more intuitive experience with our native app for both iOS and Android platforms. Browse your 🔖 feed and 💬 chat anywhere 🍏 iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/homebase-secure-feed/id6468971238 🤖 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=id.homebase.feed (04/17/2024 14:05:08)
Alrighty - another release is here and ready for your enjoyment. Some key changes - You can now insert images on article posts again - When creating new public channels, other users would have the correct access to the underlying drives - We added more rigor when sending data between identities to account for transient network issues (03/02/2024 17:10:32)