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Sting Chat Open-Source Upgrades Are Live

BY: @peak.open | CREATED: March 5, 2026, 4:17 a.m. | VOTES: 614 | PAYOUT: $9.48 | [ VOTE ]

Sting Chat has gone through a major upgrade cycle, and these improvements are now live and have been implemented on PeakD.

[IMAGE: https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/peak.open/23xVPjuhTpyjgJ52WHLZVPXKP2t4zzw7GvmkkeX3J5q59JeBkBaThtW6ewQnL3nUPeutG.png]

This post is from @peak.open because Sting is an open-source Peak Open Project. PeakD.com is one implementation, but our bigger goal is for more Hive communities and Hive-powered projects to adopt and extend Sting Chat.

We released the new chat version at https://chat-v2.peakd.com/

However for most of you Peakd.com users just click on the icton in the middle the one between the ai icon and the bell
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And peakd was the first project to integrate it. Hopefully others will follow.

Why Sting exists

Many Hive users are still on Discord, and that is understandable. Discord is familiar, fast, and deeply adopted.

Sting is not trying to deny that reality. It solves a different, Hive-native need:

What just improved (now live on PeakD)

Feature walkthrough

1) Notifications and interaction visibility

This upgrade makes notification surfaces much easier to use in real life: clearer unread cues, better mention visibility, and faster scanning of what actually needs your attention.

2) Encrypted chats and key-based identity trust

Sting uses Hive user keys for encryption/decryption in direct messages, group chats, and designated encrypted community channels.

3) Decryption modes (important UX note)

Decryption mode determines how aggressively Sting decrypts encrypted content in the background.

The best experience is with Hive Keychain (desktop extension or Keychain mobile):

Important: you can still use non-encrypted community chat even if you do not use Keychain or another encryption workflows.

4) Communities and discoverability

Community selection and management got clearer with better sorting/filtering and better context for navigation.

Test out the System (3 minutes)

  1. Open Sting from PeakD
  2. Check notifications/mentions
  3. Test a DM with encryption
  4. Explore community filtering/sorting
  5. In Keychain, decide whether you want manual approvals or auto-accept for encryption signatures
  6. Pick Slow or Fast decryption mode based on your preference

Open invitation to Hive projects

If you build in the Hive ecosystem, we’d love to see more implementations and experiments with Sting Chat.

WHY STING CHAT?

The long-term value is not just another chat interface. It is a decentralized, open communication layer the Hive ecosystem can control, improve, and adapt together. We understand that many in this community have been drawn to Discord... however we believe strongly that a Decentralized and Encrypted chat serves a role in Hive.

If you’re interested in implementing or contributing to the project, reach out to @peak.open.
If you have specific requests reach out to @jarvie as he is now the primary maintainer of the project and will be doing another round of upgrades.

TAGS: [ #hive ] [ #chat ] [ #sting ] [ #peakd ] [ #projects ]

Replies

@russia-btc | March 5, 2026, 4:26 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

I can’t use it because in the web version the page doesn’t translate into the language I need. As a result, anyone who doesn’t know English won’t be able to use it properly. Why isn’t it translating? And is it possible to fix this?

@jarvie | March 5, 2026, 11:38 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

I will look into this and try to fix it. Can you explain to me how you translate? The more information I have, the easier it will be for me to try to fix.

@russia-btc | March 5, 2026, 12:13 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

Hello! I simply right-click in Google Chrome and choose Translate. But the message panel doesn’t respond at all, so I can’t understand what people are writing.

On Ecency the chats translate easily, but on PeakD they don’t. 🙏

@valued-customer | March 5, 2026, 8:46 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

I have sometimes resorted to copying text and pasting it into an online translation service, such as Yandex provides. This may not be useful to you, but in the hope it might I thought to mention it. For instance, here is a translation provided of this English language text into Russian provided by Yandex.

Иногда я прибегаю к копированию текста и вставляю его в сервис онлайн-перевода, который предоставляет Яндекс. Возможно, это вам не пригодится, но в надежде, что это поможет, я решил упомянуть об этом. Например, вот перевод этого англоязычного текста на русский, предоставленный Яндексом.

@hivebuzz | March 5, 2026, 7:11 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

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@fjworld | March 5, 2026, 1:13 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

When I click the Sting icon I got the following.

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Mostly read and black page and unable to see content.

I am interested in exploring this chat option some more for The PEPT Game community as oppose to discord but I didn't get very far. I did use it when it first came out and I would like to try again.

Any idea why I am not able to see the page properly.

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@valued-customer | March 5, 2026, 8:49 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

When I click on the Sting icon, I also see that red block. However, when I click on the red block, the content and Sting chat is revealed.

@fjworld | March 5, 2026, 10:36 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

Aha! Chalk that up to a seniors moment for me. !LOLZ

@jarvie | March 6, 2026, 10:43 a.m. | Votes: 4 | [ VOTE ]

let me know if there is anything else you maybe are having issues with.

@fjworld | March 6, 2026, 12:36 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Will do, Thanks

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@sm-silva | March 5, 2026, 2:48 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

For some reason, Sting Chat is using api.hive.blog, and it's offline, so it's not possible to access it.

@jarvie | March 6, 2026, 10:45 a.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

is it still not possible for you? I'll have to go look into it.

@sm-silva | March 6, 2026, 2:18 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

It's working now.

@steevc | March 5, 2026, 3:43 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

It's looking much better now. I would prefer to use it rather than Discord, but many do not realise it's there. I have used the Ecency chat too, but I assume that is separate.

@valued-customer | March 5, 2026, 8:57 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

I have reposted peak.open's OP here to let my followers know it has been updated. We can help to spread the word.

@jarvie | March 6, 2026, 10:42 a.m. | Votes: 3 | [ VOTE ]

years and years of using discord it's probably A habit that most people probably won't be changing anytime soon. and also having voice meetings on discord makes it appealing.

BUT... if we get a few more chatting on a hive native solution would be great. Let me know if there are things i can do to make it more appealing

@valued-customer | March 5, 2026, 8:41 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

I'm happy to see that Sting is continuing to be developed. I'll have to try it out presently.

I would like to again request posting of files stored on our devices, such as pics, video clips, pdf's, and etc. I was happily surprised to learn Peakd enables me to post embedded video from sources other than Youtube, but unhappy to discover that doing so made posts invisible to Hive.blog users. That caused some confusion when folks using Hive.blog could see only the headline of my posts and none of the content. I am aware that Peakd cannot fix Hive.blog, but Sting can control the visibility of content because it is unitary.

Thanks!

@jarvie | March 6, 2026, 10:44 a.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

which video services is hive.blog not showing these days. I'm not sure who we can even ask to get those available on hive.blog

@valued-customer | March 8, 2026, 8:30 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

The only service I have attempted to post - with negative consequences - was Odysee. I spoke to Blocktrades about it. He said he merged a fix for it. When I tested that fix it didn't work, and when I contacted Blocktrades again he did not answer. This was months ago, maybe as early as last spring. I suppose these interactions are in my comments and replies, and can be ferreted out to determine the actual dates of these interactions.

Thanks for your interest. It is something I deal with by only posting links to video on Odysee, but I did post Odysee video one time since then and remarked in the title of the post that the post would appear blank to Hive.blog users, and the post should be viewed with Peakd to avoid the confusion that causes. That was more recent, less than six months ago, IIRC.

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