📱✨ New Cordn update: GIFs in the chat, big histories that stay smooth, and notifications that land on the news ✨📱 Cordn 0.5.5 is out! A release of expression and quiet speed: say it with a GIF, type and scroll without a stutter even in chats that go back forever, and a notification tap that puts you right where the new messages begin. 😂 Say it with a GIF: press the + next to the message box, choose GIF, and search the gallery — words in any language, or just an emoji like 😂. Tap one and it drops into your message, ready to send alone or with a caption, and plays right in the chat. They follow your media auto-load setting, so GIFs stay behind the "Load media" tap if you prefer it that way. (GIFs come from nostr.build — thank you for the free search API 💜) 🧈 Big chats, zero stutter: typing and scrolling stay smooth no matter how far back a chat goes — the more history behind it, the more you'll feel this one. Opening a long conversation is quicker too, with the app handling its message history far more efficiently behind the scenes. Same messages, same unread counts, just lighter. 🔔 Notifications land on the news: on Android, tapping a notification used to drop you at the very bottom and quietly mark everything read on the way. Now it opens the chat at the first unread message — exactly like opening it from the list. @️⃣ Mentions that count everywhere: mentioning someone in the caption of a photo, video, or voice note finally works like a mention anywhere else — a proper @name chip that actually pings the person, instead of silently arriving as plain text. The reply and edit previews show @name too, not raw codes. 🎬 Calmer videos: tapping play or pause no longer pops the keyboard over the video, and scrubbing or long-pressing one no longer drags the message around or opens its menu by accident. 🪟 And a handshake: cordn.net group and profile links can now open in Staircase, the independent Android client for Cordn — if you have both installed, Android asks which one to use. Already available in Zapstore and obtainium.

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🎁 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 Aren't you using Cordn yet? Just start chatting at https://cordn.net/ If you like the project and want to see it grow, please consider contributing in any way you can. Every bit counts, report a bug, contribute with your expertise. We are building this together in the open 💛 Full changelog:

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Release v0.5.5 · Cordn-msg/cordn-web

0.5.5 — 2026-10-07 Features chat: add GIF picker via gifs.nostr.build news: announce mention-caption and video-playback fixes news: announce the...