Hisa

What’s New in Hisa

🛍️ Marketplace

• Stall owners can now update their stalls and products without breaking their existing listings.
• Product and stall information stays consistent when updates are made.
• Improved marketplace navigation, product cards, details, and editing experience.
• Better handling of product images and media across the marketplace.

Supporters & Mission Badges

• Added a new Supporters & Patrons section highlighting people who support Hisa through zaps.
• Supporter totals are now calculated from verified Lightning payments.
• Added Mission Badges to recognize contributors and supporters.
• Supporter and badge information loads faster and remains visible while refreshing.
• Improved handling of supporter profiles and donation information, even when relays are temporarily unavailable.

Login & Startup

• Improved startup and login reliability.
• Added a recovery screen when startup takes longer than expected.
• External signer authentication now transitions more smoothly.
• Hisa now handles relay settings more safely without unexpectedly changing your connection setup.

More Reliable Nostr Connections

• Hisa can now recover more gracefully when relays disconnect or close connections.
• Important subscriptions automatically reconnect when needed.
• Relay reconnections are more reliable and continue beyond temporary connection failures.
• Metadata and other information is now handled more consistently when multiple relays respond.

Performance & Caching

• Feeds, stalls, services, and marketplace content remain visible while refreshing.
• Improved caching means previously loaded content is less likely to disappear during temporary relay issues.
• Faster feed and marketplace interactions with less unnecessary processing.
• Scrolling is smoother, with fewer unnecessary updates happening in the background.

Direct Messages

• Messages remain available while Hisa connects and loads new data.
• Improved message caching makes conversations faster to restore.
• Reduced unnecessary background processing when sending or receiving multiple messages.

Navigation & Identity

• The navigation drawer now links directly to the Hisa developer profile and project repository.
• Added the current Hisa app version to the drawer.
• Updated project and support information for easier access.

Behind the Scenes

This release also includes a broad round of reliability, performance, caching, and data-handling improvements across Hisa.

Thanks to everyone testing, zapping, reporting issues, contributing code, and helping us build. ⚡

Hisa: building a more open marketplace on Nostr.