Roadmap

Last updated on 2022-01-14

This page shows our updated plan for future features for the Manyverse project. This file comes from our Wiki page on GitLab.

Horizon 1 (approx. next month)

(Features) Skip-to-bottom / skip-to-top button in very long scrolling screens #1505
(Onboarding) Incentivize "new people" introduction as part of onboarding #1552
(Features) Patchwork Parity
(Onboarding) People screen and invite creation (tokenized room aliases)
(Onboarding) QR-code to initiate Wi-Fi (hotspot and) replication automatically #1591
(Safety) Show friend who introduced this FoaF into my device alongside FoaF's name
(Sustainability) Normal follows versus strong follows #1438
(Sustainability & Safety) Metafeeds, partial replication, sliced replication #745
(Safety) Delete an entire feed once you block it

(Safety) Upgrade private chats to use ssb-tribes #1621
(Safety) Blocks screen (explains public vs secret blocks, shows lists, etc)
(Safety) Blob management: browse, delete, select many, share
(Safety) With the SSB community: block blobs
(Safety) Block lists (%sZvGoduwNbMjm97Bl8L5smEZcgGDrcHD/3MMP7hYdAE=.sha256)
(Safety) A way to report an account's bad behavior to your friends with evidence
Embed videos and other web content
(Safety) "Groups" with private threads (ssb-tribes)
(Safety) Flagging a message #748
(Safety) Delete posts locally, propagate delete-request message to peer
With the SSB community: non-destructive message editing
(Sustainability) People screen lists users sorted by storage used
(Sustainability) Profile screen shows how much storage this profile occupies
With the SSB community: sameAs (multi-device)
Interop with other SSB Android apps #747
Message: show what is the reply msg above it
Customize the public feed #800
Sneakernet replication (export log to file / import updates from file)
Profile screen: edit bio in full screen with markdown support
YouTube links open up menu to choose proxies
Help screen textually describing all the features

"Share on Manyverse" from any other app, mobile OS integration #1060
1 second startup time, or "RPC test drive"
Autosplit long posts
Support multiple accounts/identities per device
Settings for bandwidth limiting
Cypherlinks without any title should fetch a title from the post itself, be descriptive
"View source" for remote peers
Chat off-log with peers currently connected to
Seeing content only from people on a certain list
Social backup of SSB identity
Settings are shared as SSB messages, easily adoptable too
Out-of-order (ooo) message retrieval
Compose: some basic WYSIWYG features (like in Medium)
Ability to automatically scrub metadata from your posts (e.g. EXIF data in photos)
Setting for opt-in blob download, as an SSB message
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
Themes, shareable as SSB messages
Settings: hop config, circular or square avatars
Show peer connection metadata (health, sync progress, raw data)
Improved performance with Rust and Neon #1105
With the SSB community: support development of sbot in C or Rust with mobile support