No secret backlog. No "we'll get to it." Here's exactly what we're working on, what's next, and what's on the horizon.
Your community belongs to you — not to a platform that can change the rules, sell your data, or shut you down. Digital sovereignty means you control where your conversations live, who can access them, and what happens to them.
Communities should be supported by their users — not mined by their platforms. Pay for what you need, what's cheap is free. Text chat, custom emoji, themes, and appearance cost us nearly nothing to serve — so they're free, forever. Paid tiers cover the things that actually cost money: higher-quality voice and video, more file storage, and larger upload limits.
Shortwave isn't a pitch deck. These features are working today.
Security hardening, account basics, and the product fundamentals that make people stay past day one. After this phase, we open early access.
Feature parity, security depth, and the tools communities need to govern themselves. After this phase, Shortwave opens to everyone.
The difference between "works" and "works well." Performance, resilience, and quality-of-life for growing communities.
What makes the official Shortwave service worth paying for. These power the Station tier -- managed infrastructure so you don't have to run your own.
Where Shortwave is headed. Not tracked as issues yet -- these are the bets we're making on the future of chat.
Our issue tracker is public. File bugs, request features, or tell us what matters to you.