BlindPost
What's new
- Channels — a new chat type for one-to-many broadcasting. Create a channel, invite subscribers, and publish topic posts that every subscriber receives.
- Topic posts — channel posts are richer than chats. Each topic can include a title, a Markdown body, up to 9 images, a video, a poll, and call-to-action buttons. Button URLs accept any link, including
blindpost://to deep-link straight into the app. - Comments and likes — subscribers can comment on a topic and like both the topic and individual comments. Comment threads run as their own group under the hood, so commenters' posts remain end-to-end encrypted between subscribers.
- Forward channel posts — forward a topic into any private chat or group. It keeps a tag showing the source channel, with one tap to open it — so a good post can travel on its own.
- Sponsor disclosure — when accepting a sponsored post, fill the optional "Sponsor disclosure" field with the sponsor name and link. The post renders a clear "Sponsored by …" banner above the article, separated from the body. Readers see the disclosure immediately instead of having to look for it in the caption.
- Source links — attach up to three source URLs to a topic. They render below the post as tappable chips under a "Source" label that appears in each reader's own language. Useful for crediting where reposted or referenced material came from — for example linking the original article or policy.
- 24-hour recall window on channel posts — channel owners can recall a topic anywhere in the first 24 hours (regular chats keep the 2-minute window). Recalled topics disappear silently from subscribers' feeds — no "X recalled a message" placeholder, the same UX as burn-after-read.
- In-app reporting — long-press a topic or a comment in a channel and tap Report to send a report to BlindPost's moderation team. The flow stays inside the app — nothing routes through your email client.
- Acceptable Use Policy is published at blindpost.app/aup.html and linked from the About page.
- Publish flow gets clearer feedback — the topic compose form dims and rejects edits while an upload is in progress, with a progress bar at the top of the screen so you can tell it's actually moving.
- Preview the video you picked — after attaching a video to a topic, tap the video row to play it in full screen before you publish.
- Burn-after-send text is selectable again — burn-after-read still locks copy and selection, but burn-after-send (the timed mode that's visible until the wall-clock deadline) is back to normal text behaviour.
- Block applies at the server — when you block a 1:1 contact, the server now drops their messages too, not just hides them on your device. Bulk unblock from Account & Security → Blocked clears the server state the same way one-tap unblock has always done.
- Group member long-press — long-press a member's avatar in a group (or right-click on desktop) for a local-only delete this user's messages in this chat. The user's messages disappear from your own view of the chat; other members' devices are untouched. Handy when a chatty contact has flooded a thread and you want to clean up your own timeline.
- Search members by user ID — the member search field now matches the exact user ID, not just the nickname. Useful when you remember the ID but not the display name.
Stability and privacy improvements throughout.