📱✨ New Cordn update: pinned chats, smoother chat, and loads of tiny improvements ✨📱
Cordn 0.5.1 is out! A tidy-things-up release: keep your favorite chats within reach, notifications that respect your attention, photos you can actually zoom, and a long list of paper cuts finally healed.
📌 Pin what matters: press and hold a chat on your phone (or open its "⋮" menu) to pin it to the top of your list. Pinned chats stay above everything else — your pins are yours alone, kept on your device.
🖱 Drop it like you mean it: on the web, drag files straight onto the chat window and they wait in the message box for review — send when you're ready.
🔔 Notifications that behave: a burst of messages in a busy group is now one notification — the newest with a "+N more" hint — instead of a flood. Reading a group clears its notification on the spot, leftovers from chats you've already read no longer linger, and your own messages (yes, the check marks) no longer badge their group as unread.
🖼 Photos at your fingertips: pinch to zoom, drag to pan, double-tap to jump between 1× and zoomed — the lightbox finally feels like one. On Android, downloads save through the proper system save dialog instead of popping a share sheet.
💬 Previews that say what arrived: group cards and notifications now show "📷 Photo", "📎 file.pdf", "🎤 Voice message" or who just joined — with real profile names — instead of falling back to "Group chat".
📖 Land where you left off: opening a chat drops you right at the first unread message, clearly marked — even in histories thousands of messages long.
⚡ Steadier when the world isn't: one unreachable server can no longer slow down your other chats or delay your sends. Renames and invites made right as a connection dropped now reach your linked devices on their own. Groups on self-hosted coordinators connect directly and immediately instead of falling back to the public defaults. And under the hood it's smoother: avatars no longer flash or re-fade when you open a group or a message arrives, replies survive photo captions, and a rare crash on some group info pages now heals itself.
Already available in Zapstore and obtainium.
🎁 The free @cordn.net names are still going out. Want one? Ask in the comments and we'll point it at your pubkey.
The full release notes live at https://cordn.net/chat/news
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Private group messaging you can own. Open-source Cordn client with MLS end-to-end encryption and Nostr-based identity.
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Release v0.5.1 · Cordn-msg/cordn-web
0.5.1 — 2026-09-29
Features
chat: drag and drop files into the chat composer
chat: pin groups to the top of the list
coordinators: persist resol...