Roadmap

Horizon 1 (approx. next month)

• Localization [NGI milestone]
• Highlight unread or fresh new messages
• "My community" screen: lists users and last time synced locally [NGI milestone]

Horizon 2 (approx. next 3 months)

• List mentions of you [NGI milestone]
• Smarter collapse threads in main feed
• "View source" for remote peers
• Profile screen: shrinkable header when scrolling
• Profile screen: show follows and followers
• Efficient replication #745 [NGI milestone]
• Search field [NGI milestone]
• Hashtags (click it to take bo search screen)
• Configure the central feed to exclude/include some hashtags

Horizon 3 (approx. next 6 months)

• Customize the public feed algorithm (popular view) [NGI milestone]
• Interop with other SSB Android apps #747
• Profile screen shows how much storage this profile occupies [NGI milestone]
• "My community" lists users sorted by storage used
• Settings for bandwidth limiting
• Delete an entire feed once you block it
• Skip-to-bottom / skip-to-top button in very long scrolling screens
• Delete posts locally, propagate delete-request message to peer
• With the SSB community: block blobs
• Blob management: browse, delete, select many, share
• Show friend who introduced this FoaF into my device instead of the FoaF's name
• Upload and play audio messages [NGI milestone]
• With the SSB community: sameAs (multi-device)
• 1 second startup time, or "RPC test drive"
• Profile screen: edit bio in full screen with markdown support
• DHT-based rooms

Horizon 4 (approx. next 12 months)

• Desktop app (with some code shared from main codebase) [NGI milestone?]
• Block lists (%sZvGoduwNbMjm97Bl8L5smEZcgGDrcHD/3MMP7hYdAE=.sha256)
• Chat off-log with peers currently connected to
• Help screen textually describing all the features
• A way to report an account's bad behavior to your friends with evidence
• Flagging a message #748
• Seeing content only from people on a certain list
• With the SSB community: non-destructive message editing
• Embed videos and other web content
• Social backup of SSB identity
• Settings are shared as SSB messages, easily adoptable too
• Out-of-order (ooo) message retrieval
• Generate QR code (DHT) invite and display it in the app
• With the SSB community: flumelog deletion ("zero over") of a blocked account
• Granular follow settings (hop=2 for a specific friend, etc)
• Implement gatherings (events)
• Compose: some basic WYSIWYG features (like in Medium)
• Ability to automatically scrub metadata from your posts (e.g. EXIF data in photos)
• Incentivize "new people" introduction as part of onboarding
• Setting for opt-in blob download, as an SSB message
• Support multiple accounts/identities per device
• Render 'not found' messages sensibly
• A way to route Scuttlebutt through Tor in the client's UI
• A way to configure a proxy for (outgoing) internet traffic
• Setting for configuring news feed algorithm, as an SSB message
• A way to prevent your posts being indexed by malicious crawlers
• Connectivity mode: Wi-Fi Direct and/or Wi-Fi P2P
• With the SSB community: auditable user invites
• Initial loading indicator shows multi-stage textual status
• Autosplit long posts
• Themes, shareable as SSB messages
• Settings: hop config, circular or square avatars
• Message: show what is the reply msg above it
• Show peer connection metadata (health, sync progress, raw data)
• Support in-app SSB links (accounts, messages, blobs, hashtags)
• With the SSB community: support development of sbot in C or Rust with mobile support