This weekend we will be making upgrades to the storage system of Homebase (alpha version work). During the upgrade Homebase will be unavailable and we expect it to take a few hours. We apologize for any inconveniences.

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This weekend we will be making upgrades to the storage system of Homebase (alpha version work). During the upgrade Homebase will be unavailable and we expect it to take a few hours. We apologize for any inconveniences. (05/02/2025 18:02:38)
Alright, Homebase homies! We’ve got some sweet updates for you! Link previews are live — share your identity URL in chats or social, and watch custom previews pop up, tailored to your post or identity. See the screenshot or try it out! Plus, these changes boost your SEO: better visibility and higher rankings, so more folks can find you online. Details if you're curious: We’re using og:type = "profile" on key pages to tell search engines this is you, not just some random site — think sharper relevance for your name in searches. We’ve also added JSON-LD, a structured data magic trick that helps Google understand your identity and content connections, pushing your rankings up. Bonus: the sameAs tag links your profiles across the web (Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.), tying it all together for a stronger online footprint. More on this in the deep dive! Breakdown: Main Post: Keeps it breezy and benefit-focused—previews are cool, SEO gets you seen, no tech overload. Details Section: og:type = "profile": Flags your pages as a person’s, boosting relevance for personal searches. JSON-LD: Structured data that clarifies who you are and what’s yours; which assists crawlability, rankings, and discoverability. sameAs: Connects your social profiles, reinforcing authority and consistency across the web. (03/03/2025 22:37:38)
And we're happy to announce more progress and updates from your friendly neighbor Homebase team! In our community app - Added Threads & Activity pages to help you keep on top of it A very useful feature called Message collaboration. You can mark a message collaborative to allow the whole community to edit and collaborate on it. We use this internally for managing our roadmap and public posts... Including this message ;) You can add a status to your name and others will see what you're up to with a bit of text and an emoji (because what's life if it's not filled with emoji's?) In Chat - Audio messages now have timestamp before playing You can add more members in a group chat More dedicated file previews for documents, apks, pdfs, code etc RichText preview support in Chat For other apps - performance enhancements and bug fixes as always And on the super important yet invisible back-end Enhanced caching system to support scaling, featuring two levels: local cache and distributed cache. New batch update API for files, enabling the addition, modification, or removal of metadata and payloads in a single request. Improvements to internal storage and transfer history tracking. In addition to file transfer history, a summary is now maintained. Introduced support for local metadata (JSON and tags) that remains private and is not transmitted during file transfers, allowing users to retain sender-specific information. Resolved a bug in the data upgrade process. Onward and upwards! Feel free to comment and let us know how you're enjoying Homebase! (02/13/2025 19:56:34)
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)