📱✨ New Cordn update: reactions that live in the timeline, inline nostr embeds, and steadier linked devices ✨📱
Cordn 0.5.2 is out! A feelings-finally-expressed release: your reactions now have a home in the conversation, links and nostr events open right where you are, photos paste straight into the box, and linked devices that drift apart find their own way back.
❤ Reactions in the timeline: reactions now appear as small marker rows right in the message flow — you'll see who reacted and when, in context. You can remove your own reactions with one tap (and put them back just as easily), your own are visibly marked as yours, and if you find the rows noisy there's a setting to turn them off entirely.
🔗 The web where you're chatting: paste a nostr event link (note, article, profile…) into a chat and it unfolds into a proper card — real author names and avatars, readable text with a "show more" clamp instead of a wall of nothing. Link cards got the full polish pass: clear metadata, working article titles, external viewer buttons, a "⋯" menu — and on phones the layout finally breathes instead of overflowing. Prefer a clean chat? There's now an embeds on/off setting. And external links hand off to the in-app browser instead of kicking you out to the system one.
🖼 Paste, don't attach: on web and Android, just paste a screenshot or photo (Ctrl+V / long-press paste) and it lands in the message box — staged instantly with a visible processing state, ready to send.
📊 Tables that render: markdown pipe tables (GFM style) now render properly in messages — paste a table, get a table.
⚡ Linked devices that heal themselves: if your devices disagree after a bad sync, they now gather fork evidence, compare histories fairly, and converge on the right one — instead of stalling or duplicating. A device that falls behind schedules its own catch-up retries, and a whole class of false "unreachable coordinator" alarms that could hurt your healthy servers is gone.
🩹 And the paper cuts: the jump-to-unread-mention button sits beside the scroll-to-bottom button now, message-run avatars stay anchored to the newest message again, and a stray rendering artifact in message runs no longer shows up as text.
Already available in Zapstore and obtainium.
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The full release notes live at https://cordn.net/chat/news
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Release v0.5.2 · Cordn-msg/cordn-web
0.5.2 — 2026-10-02
Features
chat: open-in-app handoff and an embeds on/off setting
markdown: GFM-style pipe tables in the custom parser
chat: em...