SERAFIM: social network

What's new in Serafim 1.2.0

Major updates

Echos
Up for a chat? Send a short message that reaches up to 30 people who share your interests: friends, new people, or both. They get a notification, and one tap starts the chat. Echos last 30 minutes, and you can turn them off in Settings.

Draw Together, with real tools.
Redo, auto smooth to steady your lines, pinch to zoom and move around, four brushes (pen, marker, highlighter and brush pen), and Doodle Gang stickers you can place, resize and turn. The sheet is bigger too, and a tap now makes a dot.

Edit a copy of a drawing.
Open a drawing someone sent you and tap the pencil to change it and send back your own copy. The original stays as it was. Scribble has all the new drawing tools as well.

Reactions and nicknames
Press and hold a message to react with a thumbs up, a laugh, a celebration, anger, wow or cooked. Give friends nicknames, and see what they call you.

Scheduled messages.
Write a message and choose when it arrives. It goes out even if your phone is off. Find them under the paperclip, where you can change or remove them until then.

A new attachment menu.
The paperclip now opens one menu with your recent photos and videos, plus Gallery, Camera, Audio, Scribble, Draw Together and Scheduled. Gallery, Audio and Camera now open right inside Serafim, so low-memory phones no longer lose what you picked.

In-app sounds.
Calm sounds for messages received and sent, typing and notifications. Change them, set the volume, or add your own (Settings → Notifications → Sounds).

Reply from notifications.
Answer a message without opening the app, and new messages from someone no longer replace the earlier ones in the notification.

-Videos and audio files in chats
Send them in chats and groups, and keep your favourite stickers, GIFs and clips in your own collections.

More new things
- Chat features: settings for one chat, shared with everyone in it. The first lets you hide "This message was deleted". In a group, only admins can change them.
- A smarter feed, with "For you" and "Latest" tabs.
- Edit your posts after posting, and give them a title.
- Circles have settings, editable descriptions and invitations, and you can add friends directly.
- Report posts and messages. Press and hold a message to report it.
- Crop your profile picture when you add it.
- Search inside a chat, and find a chat's media and links in one place.
- Delete your account from your privacy settings.
- Announcements can now include a video.
- A new jellyfish in the Doodle Gang.
- Meet our new loading mascot. It bounces, spins and pulls faces while things load.

Improvements
- Serafim opens more smoothly.
- Videos in chats stay on the server for 3 days, so download them before then. If one has gone, you can ask the sender to send it again with one tap.
- Back up and update in one tap. If an update won't install, you can retry without downloading it again.
- Read receipts are easier to see.
- A new About section in Settings, with the terms and privacy policy.

Fixes
- Forwarding voice notes works properly.
- Tapping a username on a post opens that person's profile.
- Sending an Echo with no message now tells you what's missing.
- Leaving a chat with an unsent message no longer causes an error.