Last Notes
Whoever it was that SUPERCHARGED our #ZapGoal to reach this month’s goal THANK YOU! 💜✨
😂 there they go counting the ded people again
.....and its gone! thanks you❤
1 Pig and 4 Dogs in a Maze... who finds the treats first? 😂
https://youtube.com/shorts/sj2YvllMf9E?si=nBaEbj4zgu_bHfZ1
Summer '26 Stage 2 release notes
Audience Mode, Reactions & Expandable Menu
🎭 Audience Mode + Raise Hand
Per-room audience mode toggle. Audience members get canPublish=false, canPublishData=true (they can chat/react but not broadcast audio/video). Stage members (owner/mod/promoted speakers) keep full publish grants. Promote/demote uses LiveKit UpdateParticipant for live grant changes with no reconnect, AND persists stage membership to DB so grants survive reconnect/refresh/token regen. Toggling audience mode mid-room iterates current participants and updates their grants live, with a broadcast data message for immediate UI sync.
✋ Raise Hand
lk.raisehand topic carries { event, participant_identity, pubkey?, display_name? } — LiveKit identity is used for tile mapping and promote actions, pubkey only for profile display. ✋ indicator on tiles + a moderator queue list in RoomControls with "Bring to stage" action. Twitter-Spaces-style layout: stage tiles in grid, audience as a compact avatar strip; verified on small mobile screens.
🎉 Emoji Reactions on Tiles
lk.reactions topic { emoji, participant_identity } renders a floating emoji overlay on the sender's tile that fades over ~4s. Client-side rate-limited. Reuses the EmojiPickerPopover from Stage 1 with a limited reaction set.
⌃ Expandable "^" Vertical Menu
New ExpandableMenu replaces the leave slot in the custom control bar. A chevron "^" expands upward into a vertical list: Raise Hand, Reactions (mini emoji popup), and Leave (red, destructive style). Sits above the video layer and transparent chat layer with top z-index; works within the existing mobile floating pill bar CSS.
special thanks to @buttercup @yeghro Sooly, Tomekk , Reed, Tigs and AJ for helping out with testing
#updates
what's the open markets group?
it feels like what many people are already doing with their own slack or discord😂 just with nostr slapped in😂
are you actively using it?
Are you seeing the epic feature we’re bringing to Hivetalk?
Help us keep this FREE by helping is reach our July #ZapGoal at https://honey.hivetalk.org/dashboard
(Can’t zap? Repost to help us reach more people as we #grownostr 💜⚡️)
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Damus Relay now removed from list of Hivetalk relays for profile searches.
If there is a WOT relay or similar relay for profile lookups you would prefer, please feel free to let us know what you'd like to have.
#updates
Damus Relay now removed from most of my clients.
Highly recommend using wss://relay.nostr.net if you'd like an alternative
podcastin' podcastin' on mah mind 😆
is it even worth my time to look at this? 😂
Summer '26 Stage 1 Release
Highlights for the current release! Out today!
⚡ Zap Notifications in Chat
When a participant zaps another participant, a structured ⚡ system entry appears in chat: "⚡ sender zapped recipient, N sats ⚡". Uses a dedicated lk.zap data topic with a typed payload — not parsed from chat text, so it can't be spoofed. Sender and recipient display names are plumbed from the participant tile through to the payment modal.
🔒 Lock/Unlock Disconnect & Toast Visibility
Reproduced and fixed the lock/unlock disconnect behavior live (two-browser test). Restyled the disconnect/reconnecting toast to amber/orange so transient connection states are clearly visible against the video layer.
😀 Emoji Picker in Chat
A small curated emoji popover in the chat input — inserts at cursor, no new dependency. Componentized as EmojiPickerPopover for reuse by Stage 2 reactions.
💾 Download Chat Transcript
Download icon in the chat header serializes the current chat to [HH:MM] Name: message lines and downloads as a .txt file. Room name is sanitized for the filename; falls back to hivetalk-chat-{date}.txt when no room name is available.
🔇 Mute Screenshare Audio (Per-Viewer)
Speaker toggle on the screenshare tile mutes ONLY the ScreenShareAudio publication for the local viewer — does not affect video, the mic track, or other participants. Mute state is tracked per participant + publication SID so it survives track re-publishes.
🛡️ Moderators Approve Lobby Joiners
Fixed the broken moderator lobby-approval flow. Root cause traced through the promote path — live LiveKit participant attributes now correctly reflect moderator="true", and mods can approve/deny lobby requests end-to-end. Regression test added.
special thanks to @buttercup and @yeghro
#updates
Hot fix for zaps not working from July 2
Special thanks to Jordi for finding this one!
Hot fix deployed for the 4 hour room bug.
Previously all rooms were closing at 1 hour.
Now permanent rooms are back to 4 hrs
#updates
Hivetalk is now back up! Carry on :)
Since its almost Defcon/BlackHat season,
I'd like to kindly remind you that software is both an offensive and defensive sport.
Don't assume you can just vibe code and toss it out there; tomorrow the bots will break it if you're not keeping up with the bot-joneses 😁
Gonna push new release today, tomorrow and likely next week.
Clocked in about 40 hrs of dev last week.
lets see how far she can fly.
We have 5 new releases in the works.
Every week there will be new hivetalk release,
new features, new updates, bug fixes, hot fix pushes.
keep your eyes peeled 👀, this is going to be the most aggressive push out for Q3 2026!
#updates
is it like murphy's law when ever I'm trying to fix something on hive there's always a crowd hanging out? 😂
Anyway, trying to release the latest, whenever every leaves I will reboot and push the latest
Tasks once requiring a dedicated startup can now be managed by simple automated systems, such as a Markdown file running on a cron job
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUnRQ9vLXxo
GM, future forward thinkers!
You asked for it, we delivered - Amber sign in !
If you're an Amber user and are up for some testing, please hit reply to this note and we'll set you up.
🤯 Controlling PC with your mind.
https://blossom.primal.net/8d9422959830610d4e0ebccf99fc36f3a2879a440db98137a335e034c9819a88.mp4
Congrats Spain!
https://x.com/FOXSports/status/2078962359440462086/video/1
Incredible overtime on World cup final!
World cup Finals on @npub1z0l…8ldk !!
https://npub18pudjhdhhp2v8gxnkttt00um729nv93tuepjda2jrwn3eua5tf5s80a699.blossom.band/9e9457a7a2dfb30d45a05c453f8e2bcd2ddf189387194b3d9e8b85a47680a1cb.png
@npub1q7w…m2vr Streaming World cup on hivetalk now :D
https://honey.hivetalk.org/meet/TheWorldCup
This whole thing is sounding like a complete scam.
GM, is this you or your bot? 😆
in truth, computing has removed a lot of inefficient people and their jobs like trading desks with 500 people were reduced to 3 engineers . this is just the next phase.
most people are super inefficient.
its amplifier for high agency get shit done folks.
if its iOS mic i've heard some issues but we haven't been able to reproduce it.
it might depend on your iOS settings.
cc: @npub172y…g6ef might be have some insight.
i doubt its a relay issue, unrelated
exactly. i'm not gonna share my black book 😆
its gonna be a hard hard transition for most people who aren't high agency
most of society hasn't yet woken up to the 1000x reduction in cost and speed yet, is my guess. if it doesn't scare you just a little bit, I dunno what does.
A product manager, design and engineer is now all expected to be one person, not 3. Yay i was only ahead of the curve by only ~10 yrs :p
heard on a podcast peter mccormack spent $8000 in 6 weeks using claude code to cover 3 yrs of work. As a nontechnical user that's not too bad, I presume he was spending orders of magnitude more hiring people to do what he now does on his own. Plus consider the $8000 as "tuition"
For a technical person that is super savvy and knows how to grind the budget down to nothing; I'd bet it'd be do-able in $80 or less in less than half the time, huge leverage
We'll continue with our weekly testing sessions next week.
Keep your eyes peeled as we start to push new releases every week. 🔥
#updates
If one is moving 12x faster with one set of agents
and then adds 100 autonomous agents....
that's..........tic tac speed
3 mos of work in 5 days translates to
12 mos of work in 20 days (or ~ 1 mo)
that's 12x faster than the avg speed.
its getting a little insane in here.....
Physical assets are going to be key for sovereign wealth in this decade
We just closed, but the link is available if you wanna test out the new features at https://stagetwo.hivetalk.org/dashboard
Will try to hop in if i see a room open :)
Thanks to everyone who joined!
You can keep testing our new features at the link below, and if you like what we’re doing, don’t forget to help us reach our July #ZapGoal :)
Your #zaps keep this product free with new features being introduced to perfect it continuously.
Cheers! ⚡️💜⚡️
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