YuurinBee

Closest we've ever been to getting

where we want it.

Didn't even have too much time to share this breakthrough

release (ps: new update out -> v0.5.1) here on Nostr, but after almost 2 years of development,

and I have finally gotten this closer to where we wanted... so that we can also fully pivot from Discord/Telegram by the end of this year.

Starting to realize Vector is much more than just a simple privacy messenger. Our goal was not to create the most private messenger in the world, something you would expect governments and militaries to use, but rather open-sourcing and making basic (and advanced) privacy + encryption available to your average person... and most importantly, in a way that doesn't feel like it's creating too much friction and a massive headache for people. Your average person will never learn how badly their privacy has been compromised since day 1, but they know without question that imposing facial ID and biometric logins for basic apps they use day-to-day is an invasion of their privacy and a royal pain in the ass. Privacy needs to be made simple.

Too much of my experience here has been witnessing devs and schizos arguing over which protocol and app is superior blah blah blah. Stfu and build. Lock in. We need options for people. Quit the bickering back and forth and send it. None of us know the future, what will be the next "Facebook" or "WhatsApp" or "Telegram" or "Discord" or whatever. To me, it is one giant social experiment, but people should have access to really basic fundamentals of the human condition protected through privacy and security. Let's work together to standardize and normalize that. Seeing how tiny of a bubble even Nostr is here, we haven't even scratched the surface of the outside world.

Anyways, we hope to change that. Privacy made simple, but also fun. Everyone is different: some prefer light mode, some prefer dark mode, some prefer highest level privacy, some just need the baseline, some prefer emojis packs and custom themes, some prefer terminal-like interface. That's why it's important to build, put it out there, and see what sticks... and fight how hard you can stay on the path without falling victim to scope creep trying to please everyone :kek:.

Anyways, if you haven't tested the latest Vector, be sure to do so on

, GitHub, or vectorapp.io. Send me a DM and tell me what you think. We still have a good amount of polish to do on the UX/UI, but it feels great to finally get 3 months of hard work, complete frontend rewrites, and closing the distance on mainstream app functionality finally pushed out to the public for the first initial testing.

Lastly, just wanted to thank everyone here who has supported us in one way or another. It's not expected, certainly not taken for granted, and I realize more than most and for most (lol) that people don't really care about things unless it directly impacts their lives (often financial). So, for you sticking around and supporting FOSS means the world. There is no token or ticker here for your bags to pump and shill, no airdrop to users, to future promise of a return of monetary value. If you're here it's because you want to be and you believe in it. For that, we thank you...

Last chance before v0.5.0 ships to share any feedback, feature requests, or issues you are having on

. We are <2 days out before the first public release of v0.5.0!

Devs are locked in and sitting side-by-side for our yearly meetup for the most efficient workflow and output.

Now is the time, ladies and gentlemen.

Otherwise, stay tuned in for the best release yet.

GM to those who GM

Houston, we have lift off! 🚀

Congrats to the first public community on

(outside of Vector Official) to reach 100 members! A great group, by the way. FOSS Apps, created by

. Highly recommended for fellow FOSS lovers and tech enthusiasts.

Recommend everyone to join that is on Vector and/or Concord: https://vectorapp.io/invite/naddr1qqqqygq6s5n5w8hvu4nncyly8jus4cv2rjd9c8mjcjxjcp3dh0zptjtcz5psgqqqsg2s6jmpkn#BAADAQIAGG5vc3RyLmNvbXB1dGluZ2NhY2hlLmNvbTaSCPrS_jGZlZozTNd5iIM

GM, Nostriches.

Looking for some design feedback on something.

If you're interested, send me a DM 💚

If you want to use AI to help flesh out ideas, please actually flesh them out before thending eet. Don't just 1 line prompt send to production, take time to map out your idea. Iterate, improve, iterate, repeat. I can't believe how low the bar is for development now (ironically as AI increasingly gets more powerful and intelligent).

Please quit sending me "Discord & Telegram Clones". By all means explore development, experiment, and make your own clients... especially messengers, but fuck man pump the brakes (no, rip the e-brake) on trying to pawn these off as "clones".

After almost a decade of use on these apps, as much as I really don't want to admit, they have truly pioneered a lot of online/digital modern communications. Though the people and companies behind them are everything what is wrong with world, the actual UX has had so much thought and AB testing, as well as live production testing for years... many mistakes made and lessons learned. Actually doing deeper research you can see how much thought was put into meticulous details, though definitely not perfect from my own personal bias as well as different schools of thought for design logic, but then again... what app is perfect? especially a messenger?

Now, everyone is just wanting to put the most minimal effort into their "creations" and if you have the audience or the reputation, people will just come on board. Nothing new under the sun. Brings me back to the McDonalds Kiosk AI meme... yeah I made that order.

Disillusioned, truly.

GM, dystopia.

Happy Saturday, frens.

Nostr on the top of Stasher.News today!

Featuring

, Armada by

, and Concord Protocol. Still not sure who posted this, but thank you for doing great work.

Just added my first listing on XMRBazaar!

• UX/UI Analysis & Feedback
• 0.2 XMR/hour
• Only available on XMRBazaar

Supporting the Circular Economy 🧡

https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/EEhL

GM, friends. Been quiet here lately, what's everyone up to?

Beautiful to wake up and see the Monero community growing on

. We have now updated the metadata previews for Vector Communities so when you share they will display their Community Avatar + Description in the metadata.

GM Monero Community ☕

Come join the Monero Community over on

if you're already on Nostr! One-Click Signup (No KYC) or login with your Nostr account through Amber or a Remote Signer. Tag me when you're in!

(ps: custom MoneroChan wallpaper waiting for you)

Find Monero Community & Click Join:

https://vectorapp.io/hub

Any designer/artist even dev friends use a macropad or stream deck for programmable hotkeys?

On the contrary, using the private and encrypted "Notes to Self" feature on

to share files and images to yourself in order to work on a suite of different apps across the Nostr ecosystem on multiple devices for testing... feelsgoodman.

(Ephemeral/Self-Destructing Messages if needed)

GM to the anon and doxxed.

As the old saying goes, drain the watertable, drain the bitcorns.

How it feels when I bring up Monero.

God forbid a man just wants some financial privacy. (it goes both ways, I don't need or want to know yours)

How are we testing these Monero "zaps"?

Spirits are high in camp

as we just got word that we have been selected by

for BDF Round 2 2026! Vector Privacy was selected along with 15 other projects and 3 of which are Nostr-based. Shoutout to the Nostr homies: 0xChat, Flotilla Chat, and OpenAlert.

Love to see the adoption and growth of Freedom Tech around the world and appreciate the individuals and organizations who really help keep food on the table for open-source devs. God bless you all.

PS: Find me a Nostr Social Client where these article thumbnails come out pristine and mathematically precise please, a lot of work goes into perfecting the display. 😢

There is no one-size-fits-all.

Builders gonna build and they should build together. Learn, share, help each other improve. Nope it's not fluff, it's the core foundation of open-source tech and protocols to which I do my best to live daily, though I'm not a full stack developer.

Love to see

succeed with

and provide some of the highest level security for MLS encrypted group chats.

Love to see Concord Protocol succeed with

and Soapbox team.

I don't know enough about Cordn through a lack of experience and knowledge to comment deeper, but wish their team the best of success as well.

Love to see DEN Chat by

and

succeed.

We all win, Nostr wins. Then we win again. Call it compound winning.

Okay, that's it.

indirectly pushed me to add more Monero + MoneroChan emojis to the pack. These are not my creations, but shared on the MoneroChan Archive for everyone to enjoy... and now on Nostr.

I think one of my new favorites is the Monero Boating Accident Warning Sign.

Add Monero(XMR) Emoji Pack on Ditto (or supp clients):

https://ditto.pub/naddr1qvzqqqr4fcpzq5aazk9sqszx5rsftnlgd5764nhncmtsfnn6gfxyqqs5njjysgh6qqxx5mmdx3y5ukp3wfuyj4cjdxjxm

Add Monero(XMR) Emoji Pack on Vector:

https://vectorapp.io/emojis/pack/naddr1qqxx5mmdx3y5ukp3wfuyj4czypfm69vtqpqydg8qjh87smfa4t8083khqn885sjvgqppf89yfq305qcyqqq82nspr4mhxue69uhkzumfvyh8vetrw3hhyctswqhxjme0dehhxarjqythwumn8ghj76nndd5hgare9e3kzap0dehhxarjqyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskueq5upfcm

Come to

, we haz MoneroChan 🤩

Look ma, interoperability on Nostr! 🥳

Orphan Brandmark HXN (Looking for a home)

• Fully Customizable -- Many Variations to Choose
• Optimized Vector (SVG) -- Minimal Anchor Points & Clean Lines
• Offer only available on Nostr

If you're interested, comment or send me a message. Versatile and can be modified to fit your scope and project needs. I will help you fit it with your current model or what you have in mind, within reason.

Price: 1 XMR

Designed at Formless Labs.

📢 Designers & Design Lovers

I've just created a new design community on

, intended for designers and design advocates to share their work for critique, feedback, and look for potential clients, collaborations, and more.

"You name it, we've done it. (probably the wrong way)"

Join Here:

https://vectorapp.io/invite/naddr1qqqqyg8qmmyqt3s3gnxl585xzu3vuyq2drx60wy5nrtqc8arx8djm9jftupsgqqqsg2sedyyjj#BAADAQIAGG5vc3RyLmNvbXB1dGluZ2NhY2hlLmNvbcyfwmTYHiQcFNJJp_utfyc

💫 The Mo You Know

The anti-surveillance design style for

is inspired by real life experiences. Often taking elements of the real, physical world of day-to-day life and carrying the same messaging through a digital medium. It is not always supposed to be identical, but more so focused on the symbolism, visual communication, and underlying themes.

The act of wanting privacy and freedom alone seem to be an act of rebellion these days, when truthfully they should be the default. Naive to assume it seems as reality hardly matches expectations, but in a surveillance state, just wanting your personal information to be shared with the direct people you want to share with seems to be asking too much, there are some that feel entitled to that information (insanity, I know).

Privacy in 2026 God forbid a man just wants to enjoy his own freedom without negatively imposing on his fellow man.

Tsk, tsk... the audacity!

let's start some new character development 🤔

When new members join

and leave comments like this...

you know how to make a designer happy 😇

Always a moment to be grateful for those who appreciate the details.

🤝

How'd you spend your Friday night?

Enjoying it with a friend, then coming back home around midnight to make espresso and crank out a 2 hour UX session on

v0.5.0 with

Can't express how excited I am for what is to coming in the next couple of months here for us, Vector users, and everyone. 20 months into development and I can begin to see more clearly what it looks like to rely on this infrastructure for a majority of social interactions online. For many months, I've had more activity in my Vector client than I have in Discord, but that's also because after this last bear I think people who had been around forever in crypto even left (Discord + Telegram). :kek:

Since 2017, this is the first big pivot in tech for me that had nothing to do directly with blockchain and crypto. Yes, there are underlying themes and commonalities, but also a standalone focus on privacy and freedom tech. Feels good to have made the leap into a new territory, but also not entirely new (Privacy, FOSS).

Anyways, I just like documenting steps along the way for anyone that is interested. There are a lot of people on the outside who just see apps, websites, and projects and just think they are lucky and successful and you don't really get to see a lot behind the scenes, the late hours, the struggles, the problems, the challenges, the day-to-day, and people often only highlight their small and large victories. Today, it's just an update, but if you are building something my only advice to you is learn to enjoy the process. The farmer doesn't plant seeds and expect to bear fruit the next morning. 🙌

Add me on Vector:

https://vectorapp.io/profile/npub12w73tzcqgpr2pcy4el5x60d2emeud4cyeeayynzqqg2fefzgytaqm4ktz3

So, uh... how do we feel about decentralized Half Life on

? 😼

Shoutout to

for porting this over to Vector and making it playable within app! This is going to open up a lot of doors and a lot of good times. Finally time we see how many players we can get playing at once...

What say you Nostr? Game Night, finally?

GM Nostriches!

We've been steady improving the overall

experience, especially on mobile, and working hard to get it towards more of a universal standard that you and the world are already familiar with. Yes, there is still a long ways to go, but we are enjoying the journey and certainly enjoying it with all of you like-minded privacy and freedom tech lovers. You guys have made this experience for

and myself much more rewarding.

For about the past 18+ months, we have been using Vector daily for communications and though it is not ideal just yet for the full Vector workflow, the next big step will accommodate that need and also open up many doors with v0.5.0 (desktop widescreen). In my perspective, this will become the means in which I connect to a good portion of the web for my personal online experience. Once it is ready, it will be a universal nexus for everything social: private comms for DMs, private group chats, public and private communities, bots, plugins/add-ons, games, and much more. No, this isn't just saying that, we already have functional, early iterations that have been working for months towards a year at this point. If you've been around, you know precisely what I'm talking about. I highly look forward to this chapter of Vector, where people can truly customize their own experiences, exactly how they want.

For anyone who hasn't downloaded the latest nostr:npub1hrujuc08r4zcdtn0u6ts7u7apldcjqgftz0z7stmaaz9hwaf9jxs66f3yh v0.4.3, please do so. You can also download it on

. The main release was v0.4.2, but we discovered a Tor connectivity issue right after the release and patched it shortly after with v0.4.3. So, make sure you download the latest and don't worry Vector will also notify you in app (no, it doesn't force update and never will, just a friendly reminder).

If you want to learn more or send it to your AI to consolidate, check it out here:

https://vectorapp.io/blog/v0.4.2/

Best site to view Nostr Relay data, stats, etc.?

Liquid Layers 💦

Design Concept for Today

Seems feedback was most well received on this design with some of the line breaks, where it makes the middle layer appear to be floating between. Added some colors, many great gradients to choose from, but I wanted it to retain the resemblance of a water drop, which is why I played with blue tones. Still experimenting with the typography styles.

Look ma! No more community nukes! 🌱

Join Vector Community: http://chat.vectorapp.io

Exciting day for Vector, certainly not a flex, but a moment to be grateful for where we are and how far we have come since development about 18 months ago... no real clear direction, but a solid purpose.

Couldn't be happier to be working aside a gigabrain and gigaheart,

. What a blessing to wake up everyday and get to work on what you want, what drives you and what motivates you. This whole project started because of the deprecation of privacy among really ALL mainstream messengers and enshittification as a whole.

It feels like things are finally starting to take form.

Appreciate you all, the hardcore supporters, the friends who only tested a broken app in development because I asked, the privacy advocates, the Freedom Tech lovers, the Nostr community, big and small, thank you all. 🤍

I was watching random Cyberpunk-inspired design videos yesterday and came across a video of them using the first font I ever made in 2023 and published free and open-source called SAIBA-45.

(their image and font modification)

It's a nice feeling, but every time you look over your past work (in most cases) you always see ways of how you would improve it and optimize it, but for many projects if you don't iterate and publish, they stay in the graveyard forever. That was the thought process behind that v1, just get it out and optimize/modify later.

Here is a preview of some supported characters:

If anyone wants to check out the font, you can view it on my GitHub or Behance for Formless Labs. Links below.

GitHub:

https://github.com/YuurinBee/SAIBA-45

Behance:

https://www.behance.net/gallery/247954695/SAIBA-45-Typeface

KSSHH... "Leave the damn code encryption up to the AI and the whole world'll hear us"