Concord v2 Migration... Successful ✅
Vector v0.4.1 is now on Concord v2!
(Compliments to the Chef,
@JSKitty)
The new group chat encryption protocol integrated since v0.4.0 has gone through some significant improvements and changes thanks to some great minds and contributions from around the world.
Concord is an open-source protocol designed to make encrypted and private messages scalable, reliable, and consistent. Often with additional security measures for privacy-sake, it can rapidly add friction to the end user experience, making it slow and painful.
Concord Fixes That.
Concord Protocol has rapidly been gaining both attention and adoption in the Nostr ecosystem. Since its first release, there are more than 6 other clients that have integrated it (that we are aware of). Two notable clients are Armada by Soapbox Team and Amethyst.
This means there can now be interoperability across different chat/messenger platforms and apps.
⚠️For all Community Owners/Creators in Vector, you will need to resubmit your Public Community to Vector Hub so that it can update with the latest Concord v2.
1. Create a New Invite Link
2. Resubmit on
http://VectorApp.io/Hub
3. Reupload Community Avatar (Temporary)
4. Submit
🔰Join the Official Vector Community (chat.vectorapp.io)
Last but not least, we wanted to give a special thanks to all of you who have been testing out Concord since the beginning and been helping to share feedback both to Vector and
@Team Soapbox. We couldn't be more grateful, this is exactly how open-source protocols thrive.
Always give credit to where it is due and first on that list is
@Alex Gleason as well as
@Derek Ross and the
@Team Soapbox team for seeing the same challenges we faced in Vector with large group chats and communities, but also the potential that Concord possessed. Thanks to your time, efforts, and contributions Concord is evolving into something we all have needed... especially for a reliable, encrypted group chat standard here on Nostr. There is nothing better than running your own clients (settings, preferences, etc.), but communicating daily through the same protocol. Interoperability at its finest...
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🌱Please be sure to update Vector to the latest version (v0.4.1). Available on GitHub, VectorApp.io,
@Zapstore.
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Finally, we will be organizing an official blog article to go into a deeper dive with Concord Protocol with the intent to help the world understand it better. The plan is to have 2 modes, one for the layman and one for developers. Toggle on for your preference, but for those who want to read and learn you can do so and for those who want to get their hands-on experience, skip the tutorial and start playing with it... we have your best interests in mind. 😇
🟩 Feature Highlight: Multi-Account
Profile > Dropdown > Switch or Add Account
This one of the most requested features for the last release and we are happy to finally be able to deliver. Switching between accounts made easy since the release of v0.4.0 with a few clicks.
We're not sure how many users (on average) use multiple accounts, but we do want to accommodate purely from a privacy standpoint as well as for high-level customization. Many people use different aliases or pseudonyms, but still would like to have a personal account for close friends and family or one just for work/business as well.
Use Vector to best fit your needs and customize how you want.
Learn More:
Recently brought to our attention, a lot people are concerned about testing out newer apps in the "Age of AI" and rightfully concerned about vibe-coded apps... their true levels of privacy, security, and reliability.
With that said, we took time to add to our GitBook docs a page on AI Usage & Transparency that covers how we address AI and its relevance in Vector's development.
⚠️ Zero Blind Commits Policy
Every single pull request and commit on GitHub is manually reviewed by the founder and senior developer. Not a single commit or contribution, regardless of whether AI was involved in writing it, has ever been pushed without review by the senior developer and other team members. AI is not perfect, and neither are human developers, but peer review is a crucial part of quality control and the foundational reason why open-source technology is often more trustworthy and resilient in practice.
We also go deeper into our workflow, where and how AI is utilized with full transparency into our development process.
To read the full AI & Transparency Policy, visit here:
GitBook serves as our real introduction to Vector for newcomers, whether for your average person or developers, though it probably doesn't need to be said, but devs can always go straight to GitHub.
🟢 V E C T O R - M E S S E N G E R
Learn more about Vector Messenger, how the app works, as well as all of the features explained:
Last but not least, the new Vector SDK (vector-core) has been updated and docs have been expanded upon: