HiveTalk

Hivetalk Mantra: Code Quality Comes First Thanks to awesome new #AI based tools we were able to rapidly accelerate our build cycles, experiment more and turn around our code releases faster, while building the project in our free time. A little over a year ago, churning out 100,000+ lines of code at this speed would have been unthinkable! We put a lot of work in grinding out the new version, making a lot of revisions and trial and error along the way. While velocity matters, shipping responsibly matters more. We invested heavily in DDoS relay hardening, and enforcing NIP-42 authentication on our relay, two critical infrastructure layers that matter but don’t show up as user facing visible work. We also tackled tech debt cleanup—the unsexy but essential work that prevents yesterday’s shortcuts from becoming tomorrow’s bottlenecks. Check out our progress in this beautiful Hivetalk Honey Build animation.

Key Observations from 2025: #Privacy First, Feedback Welcome Running a Nostr-native tool taught us volumes about what users crave: Nostr-Friendly, Not Exclusive: Join without a login? Check. It’s accessible to all, but supercharged for Nostr folks. Privacy is Paramount: Users demanded it, and we delivered. Private meetups outpaced public hangouts 10-to-1, fostering intimate, secure spaces. We don’t sell or track data—ever. Feedback’s Tricky: Direct input is gold but hard to mine. If you’ve got thoughts on HiveTalk, hit us up! We’d love more public, open community events to spark that dialogue. These insights shaped our roadmap, reminding us that in #Nostr, sovereignty starts with user trust.

Community Buzz: Small Businesses and Very Busy Bees If there’s one word for our user base this past 2025, it’s *vibrant*. We’ve watched small businesses and solopreneurs turn HiveTalk into their secret weapon for zap-powered transactions and global reach. Take @npub1m7h20lqwnjd8snaf8alefep6xfkdeanlv74ce4my5p4drjed5l2qsq0yf8 , the English teacher zapping his way through lessons for Russian students—frictionless peer to peer lightning payments, no banks involved. Or @npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 , who hosted weekly “Shakespeare-vibe” coding sessions to demystify #AI tools for the community. These aren’t outliers; they’re the norm in our hive. Check out this talk from Nostr Valley about Nostr for Content Creators and see how Hivetalk plays a role!

Did you know? #asknostr Now when you create a permanent room on Honey Hivetalk, you can attach a calendar event (Kind 30313) to your room, and it will pop up seamlessly as an event scheduled on honey.hivetalk.org. But, there’s more - since #nostr is decentralized, these calendar events will show up across the ecosystem on other nostr clients, bridging the gap. This is much more than just “sharing a link on another website” - the cryptographically signed and verified event data is also replicated - who created it, when it was created, the event details, location, time and relays where the data is published. Here are two clients that replicate Honey calendar event data: plektos.app and nostrcal.com

A big win in 2025 was getting the #Nostr protocol specification extended to handle interactive media rooms. @npub18pudjhdhhp2v8gxnkttt00um729nv93tuepjda2jrwn3eua5tf5s80a699 wrote the extension to NIP-53 for true interoperability. Originally designed for one-to-many live streams (think Kind 30311 on Zap.Stream ), we pushed it further with Kind 30312 for interactive audio/video rooms. Both Hivetalk Honey and Vanilla support Kind 30312, as well as NostrNests.com, an audio space hangout. This integration isn’t just technical—it’s philosophical. HiveTalk slots right into Nostr’s decentralized fabric, enhancing without overshadowing. As we wrapped up 2025, seeing our events ripple through other clients felt like the ultimate validation.

The differences between Vanilla and Honey in a nutshell.

@Dave Nicholls what are your preferred Vanilla features that you would like to see on Honey? 🐝💜

Hivetalk users, we need your opinion / feedback. Do you prefer using Vanilla even though it's only the videoconferencing, it can't scale and has worse fidelity? Or do you prefer the posibility of scale that Honey offers and all the #nostr tools that are enabled? #asknostr