Release
1.2: rooms, voice notes, and a battery win
Neighbourhood rooms, short voice notes over the mesh, and idle battery use down by a third.
1.2 is the release where Nobars stops being only about the people you already know. Rooms are conversations tied to a place rather than a contact list: the campsite, the carriage, the block. Walk into range and the room is there. Walk out and it stays behind.
Rooms
A room is public to whoever is near enough to hear it, and nothing in a room is end-to-end encrypted, because there is no fixed set of recipients to encrypt to. We say that in the room itself, every time you open a new one, in plain words. Private messages remain private messages.
Voice notes
Up to fifteen seconds, compressed hard, sent in pieces so a note can cross several hops and reassemble at the other end. They are the first thing we have shipped that is genuinely slow over a long mesh path, and they are worth it. A voice at a festival carries information a text never will, starting with whether the person is fine.
- 34%
- Less idle battery use
- 15s
- Maximum voice note
- 2.1s
- Median room join time
- Nearby now shows relative distance bands rather than a precise position.
- Blocking is per-device and survives a name change.
- Delivery receipts stop pending messages from being re-relayed forever.
- Fixed: a rare crash when Bluetooth was toggled mid-send.
