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Alex Burdiyan, Eric Vicenti, Julio, Gabo Beaumont & horacio

21 September 2026, 10:01

Alex Burdiyan & 4 others

21 September 2026, 10:01

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Contact Management

You can now manage contacts in your Seed app to see who people trust and recommend in the system. For each of your public contacts you can assign a name, to improve the labeling of people in your network.

Contacts + Another Week of Small Tasks

This week I meant to focus on researching and shaping up a project for Contacts and finishing some of the small tasks I still had in Linear. In addition some more tasks popped up during the week. Similar to the last week, the tasks during this week had very trivial fixes which I've spent up to a day to figure out 🤦‍♂️. Deleting documents Collaborators not being able to move or delete documents Arbitrary signatures API Network protocols switching issue Contacts Project

Contacts v0

Problem Glossary Solution

Web Site Importing

We have built a new web site importing experience that will download a whole website and publish it as a directory in your Seed Hypermedia site. Currently this is oriented towards Wordpress websites, but we can add support for other sites as needed. So please reach out on Discord if you need help importing your site. To get started click the "Import.." button in the document options dropdown, and select "Import Web Site" Then input a URL and wait for the web download (scraping) to complete. The last step allows you to confirm which account will be committing the information. Finally your site will be imported. The importer currently supports:

Web Commenting Redirect + Resource IDs

This week I've done a few additional experiments trying to use the Channel Messaging API with the idea of getting rid of the redirect flow when commenting on the web. In the end it didn't work. Apparently Safari is only able to give access to cross-origin cookies, but not other state like IndexedDB. I then started hashing out ideas on how to implement cross-origin signing of comments by using key delegations. The main concern I have is that I don't want the additional keys start sprawling around with full power over the account, like the agent keys we currently use for hyper.media. I want session keys to be scoped for a particular target. I haven't finished cross-origin signing, because brought up the fact that addressing comments is a pressing concern right now, which I agree with. Exposing comment URLs is surprisingly tricky, because we need to change the format of a comment blob a little bit, to include additional information.

Universal Addressability + Updated Contacts

This week Eric brought up a few problems with the Contacts project that I wrote last week. Mainly it's about addressability of them. It also surfaced a few problems with mutability of Comments, which we still don't support, just like we don't support linking Comments. Both Contacts and Comments seem to be similar in terms of how they behave, namely they are state-based objects, unlike operation-based Documents. So we'd better have a generalized way of addressing and mutating those kinds of objects. I wrote a few more documents in Linear — unfortunately they are not publicly available yet. I guess we will publish them as Seed documents as soon as they are more settled.

Unify Accessory panel tabs

This week I worked on making sure users can access to the accessory panels both on web and desktop the same way. The look and feel its not 100% teh same but is very close. This will be improved over time for sure! (Photo by vackground.com on Unsplash)

Contacts v0 and Authenticated Data Structures

This week I spent a lot of time researching the various authenticated indexing data structures (Prolly Trees, Merkle Search Trees, HAMTs, etc.) that I wanted to use for implementing Contacts, because I also wanted to use them to solve other issues like deleting and moderating comments and so on. I've implemented a bunch of those data structures, made a lot of experiments, read a lot, but in the end abandoned the idea of doing it as the main approach for handling data — too many small but important tradeoffs to settle, and it's a bit disruptive for our current architecture. They still can be very helpful for designing overlay indexes on top of the blob data, that could be shared between peers in a verifiable ways (we've talked about that before), but for now it's not worth spending time on that. So, I finished writing up the Contacts project, using an approach that is closer to what we are currently doing, without introducing many major disruptions. There're still open questions there, so we should discuss them in Linear. Linear Project: https://linear.app/seedhypermedia/project/contacts-v0-6fb28d8b822b/overview.

Cross-Origin Web Commenting

We are now using a redirect approach to comment on the web from any hypermedia site

Custom Navigation

We have been building a custom navigation UI so you can modify the nav bar of your site! Still working on some minor fixes, but this should be ready for the next release.

Design Updates: Activity Panel, Contacts

Activity Panel Contacts

Designs | Emails and Contacts

Email Designs can be found on Linear or Figma. We should also have a meeting about Email Design specifically since this project has been open for almost 3 weeks and each week a new type of email is added. This will continue to happen in the future and it shouldn't be a reason to stop the project from even starting. Contacts Design can be found on Figma. We should have a meeting to discuss this first design and see if it needs any improvement.

Seed Website

Demo Brief

Desktop Email Notifications

Introducing email notifications for your desktop accounts!

Desktop-Web Key Linking

Coming soon, you will be able to sign in to the web using your identity from the Seed desktop app!

Responsive Site Header Menu

This was something I wanted to implement for a long time. I believe this is a better UX than the previews content scroll we had before. What do you think? If you have any feedback please comment on this document! (cover image made by Hadi Yazdi Aznaveh on Unsplash)

Document change email notifications

Demo

Document mention email notifications

Demo Brief

Entity Highlight on Hover is Back!

I'm very excited about this feature! It's been a long time since we removed this feature from Mintter for data-model updates. Now that everything is more stable we can bring it back and is even better! (cover image made by Kevin Laminto on Unsplash)

Identity Switcher

We now have a switcher in the corner of the application that allows you to select which identity you are acting as.

Instagram post embeds, query block and link toolbar fixes

Demo Brief

Linking UI revamp

I don't have a reliable way to record my screen with my voice so I will explain most of my work in text Small demo What I have added May 6th update

Full Text Search V4-Final

Updated Status of the Project to be found below: V4. Frontend Work OLD-V3. History search OLD- V2 Windcard search The following features are still missing: PS: The code is in the feat/full-text-search branch. Since It has a db migration I did not push to main until the frontend reviews it and let me know if the api fields are sufficient or not.

Hypermedia Commenting

Collaboration is one of our code principles in Seed Hypermedia. One way we are enabling collaboration on our system is with Commenting. Here's a quick video on How commenting works both on the desktop app and on web: Feel free to comment on this video with any feedback or suggestion (or bug)!

Improve resize performance on Web

Here's the video of how many elements were updating when the panels resize: and here is the performance metric of the same interaction before and now this is the state after the optimization: the main issue was that we were calculating the panel width on every resize and setting the value to a state. this was causing almost all the components to re-render. now we are not setting the value to a state bot to a ref, and only re-rendering when needed. This was a small change, hard to find but with a huge improvement!

Introducing Hypermedia Explorer

Demo Purpose Inspirations I am super excited to see how people use this. Please send your feedback and ideas on how it can be improved!

Profiles, Contacts and Detached Blocks

Profiles Contacts Detached Blocks

New Accessory panel design

We updated the Right panel Accessory design. The extra buttons on the right disappear and we also now persist the width of the right panel!

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