Releases: ssbc/patchbay
v7.14.0
Patchbay 7.14.0
It's been a while, and there's been a fair bit of tinkering and polishing. Patchwork or Ticktack are still the best way to get stood up on scuttlebutt, but there are a bunch of interesting features you won't find in either of these platforms here.
Here's a sample of some of the new and existing features you might enjoy.
Other features not shown below include : visual accessibility features, custom styling settings, strip meta-data from image attachments, a new private message composer, new higher contrast design, a dev tool for learning ssb-query ..... and more
Posts
Like the "rollup" feed you find in Patchwork, but with a couple of differences :
- you can sort the threads by "most recently updated" or "when thread was first posted"
- you can filter by any combination of :
- threads you started
- threads you've participated in
- threads you've not been in yet
Calendar
An alternative view of Gatherings that have happened / are going to happen
Dark Crystal (beta)
If you have passwords or crypto wallet seeds you need to keep backups of, this is a new tool which lets you shard your secret and get friends to hold those shards for you. If you ever need to recover the secret you can request the parts back and perform a ritual to recombine them.
Build trust by trusting your friends!
Chess
Play chess with friends, or observe other peoples games. The chat on the side of your game is private to you and that person - it's a really different conversational space (if you want), I highly recommend it for getting to know someone better.
Image search
Search all images used in your neighbourhood. Dive into them to see who's used them and in what contexts.
Also, &-mention any image to drop it into a thread (yay visual communication + content addressed images!)
Blogs
See an overview + read all blogs that have been published from Ticktack
Polls
You can now runs polls - the first type is "choose-one", but you can expect to see doodle, multi-choice and weighted-choice in later releases!
Patchbay 7.13.1
| . | . |
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| Linux |  Download Installer |
| Apple |  Download Installer |
| Windows |  Download Installer |
warning: - Close Patchwork beofre you open Patchbay - you won't do any harm, it just won't work
What's this app? / Welcome to the commons
Scuttlebutt is a digital commons - unlike services run by companies where the database is closed and sold for profit, the public content here is open data. This small difference means developers can make apps where your identity, friends, and messages are the same, but the interface can look totally different.
We deliberatly build different apps because we believe the most resilient and prosperous system is an ecosystem with diversity. It's also a really exciting space to design in - you don't have to make one style that kind of works for everyone, you can make different styles which work excellently for different use cases ... AND they can all play together!
But this isn't just about css and page layout. Different apps can reveal different parts of this rich commons.
Things Patchbay gives you access to which Patchwork doesn't (yet) :
- chess (you can't see it but there is a park where friends are hanging out playing chess right now)
- book reviews
- git (code management) ... I think this is currently broken
Patchbay is highly experimental
If you'd like to have a go building something and including it in a client, this is a great place to try it out. This app embraces new ideas, and some of the best ones propogate to other apps (this is true in both directions).
Patchbay has (vimmy) keyboard shortcuts ... I'll write them up sometime!
Contributors
Patchbay was originally built by @dominic. I took over maintenance, and refactored it to use patchcore (which was made mainly by @matt and @mikey). It's since had a lot of awesome plugins and contributions from @happy0 @piet @arj @cel and @dangerousbeans (and likely others !)