Everything Skalara does

Direct messages and group chats, with the things you actually reach for every day rather than a list assembled to look long.

Group chats work the same way as a one-to-one conversation: add people, name the group, and everything else behaves identically. When someone joins or leaves, the message that records it keeps the names as they were, so the history still makes sense a year later.

Messages from people you have not spoken to before arrive under Message Requests rather than in your inbox, and you can turn off messages from non-friends entirely. Replying accepts the conversation; ignoring it costs you nothing.

One-to-one calls with video and screen sharing, carried directly between the two browsers wherever the network allows it.

• Voice, video, or both — turn the camera on and off mid-call without dropping anything.
• Share your screen, a window or a tab, and switch back to camera in a frame rather than a round trip.
• Mute is instant. Turning the camera off actually releases the device, so the light goes out.
• The person calling starts negotiating while your phone is still ringing, which is most of the difference between a call that connects immediately and one that starts with "hello? hello?".

Calls are one-to-one today. Group calls need a media server rather than a browser holding one connection per person, which stops working at about four people on a phone — so it is a separate piece of infrastructure and a separate piece of work.

Servers with channels, the shape you already know — and every part of a message that works in a private conversation works in a channel, because it is the same code underneath rather than a second copy of it.

Voice channels are the one part not finished. They need a media server for the same reason group calls do, so both are waiting on the same piece of infrastructure.

• Add people by username. Nobody is found by their phone number, and nobody can be found by guessing an account number.
• See who is online, idle, in do-not-disturb, or offline — and go invisible, which reports you to everyone else as offline.
• Block someone and the friendship ends in the same moment, so a block is never half-applied.
• A username that does not exist and one belonging to someone who blocked you give the identical answer, so neither can be told apart by trying.

• A display name, an avatar, a banner, a short bio and pronouns — all optional, all yours to change.
• Profile colours you choose, applied wherever your card appears.
• Developer mode, which reveals your account number for anyone who wants it. It is off by default because almost nobody needs it.
• Appearance settings and language, remembered across devices because they live on the server rather than only in one browser.

Not an English app with the words swapped. The whole interface reads right to left, and the details that usually get missed are the ones that make it feel translated rather than built.

• Dates in the Jalali calendar, with Persian numerals — in the conversation list, on messages, and on every timestamp.
• Numbers formatted for the reader, so a count in a sentence is not English digits in a Persian line.
• The Persian typeface is served from Skalara itself. A font from an unreachable host does not fail loudly, it silently falls back to a face that draws ی and ک in their Arabic forms.
• Latin text inside Persian — a username, a phone number, a link — is isolated so the surrounding text cannot reorder it. Without that, @poruiya renders as poruiya@.

You can report a message, and a moderator sees it in a queue with the message attached. The report keeps its own encrypted copy of what was said, because the author can delete the original — and a report that emptied itself would make deleting the message the way to escape it.

When a moderator removes content, the attached files are destroyed with it. Keeping them as evidence was tempting and wrong: the reason anyone reaches for that button is content that should not be hosted, and a "deleted" message whose files are still in storage has been hidden rather than dealt with.

Listed here rather than left out, so you know what is coming and know it is not here.