Roadmap

Horizon 1 (approx. next month)

• (Features) Implement gatherings similar to Patchwork
• (Features) Patchwork Parity
• (Sustainability) Delete an entire feed once you block it

Horizon 2 (approx. next 3 months)

• New design for (mobile) bottom tabs
• (Sustainability) Metafeeds, partial replication, sliced replication #745
• (Sustainability) People screen lists users sorted by storage used
• (Sustainability) Profile screen shows how much storage this profile occupies
• (Onboarding) Better room membership invites, firewall exceptions, tokenized aliases #1594
• (Onboarding) People screen and invite creation
• (Onboarding) Incentivize "new people" introduction as part of onboarding #1552
• (Onboarding) QR-code to initiate Wi-Fi (hotspot and) replication automatically #1591
• (Sustainability) Normal follows versus strong follows #1438

Horizon 3 (approx. next 6 months)

• Customize the public feed #800
• (Safety) Upgrade private chats to use ssb-tribes #1621
• With the SSB community: non-destructive message editing
• (Safety) Delete posts locally, propagate delete-request message to peer
• (Safety) Blocks screen (explains public vs secret blocks, shows lists, etc)
• (Sustainability) Blob management: browse, delete, select many, share
• (Safety) With the SSB community: block blobs
• (Safety) "Groups" with private threads (ssb-tribes)
• Categories and tagging content
• (Safety) A way to report an account's bad behavior to your friends with evidence
• (Safety) Flagging a message #748
• With the SSB community: sameAs (multi-device)
• Interop with other SSB Android apps #747
• Message: show what is the reply msg above it
• Filter content by language
• Automatic blocking with Trustnet
• (Safety) Show friend who introduced this FoaF into my device alongside FoaF's name
• Licensing of user content

Horizon 4 (approx. next 12 months)

• Help screen textually describing all the features
• Sneakernet replication (export log to file / import updates from file)
• Profile screen: edit bio in full screen with markdown support
• (Safety) Block lists (%sZvGoduwNbMjm97Bl8L5smEZcgGDrcHD/3MMP7hYdAE=.sha256)
• YouTube links open up menu to choose proxies
• Embed videos and other web content
• "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