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2 source posts analyzed· 2026-07-23T20:27:17+00:00Decred's block reward just decreased by 1%. Every 21 days. Like clockwork. Deflationary by design. #DCR
· 2026-07-23T12:25:46+00:00Turned Bison Relay Into a Modern Social App [Spoken audio]: As I continue my journey of experimenting and building a theming system for Bison Relay, one thing has become clear. Choosing Flutter for the UI was a stroke of genius. Exposing settings is limitless, with the potential to create almost any type of interface. In this example, we'll look at redesigning the chat and feed pages. The design we'll end up with was initially built by Exodus. I've merged his build and exposed the settings to make it customizable. Since the initial build, the palette system has been expanded to include a wider range of the interface, and the palette presets look more professional. The theme area is where each section can be themed. This minimizes the number of options seen at any one point. So let's start with chat. This is where the transformation feels the most dramatic. Pinning messages to the top is such a small addition, but it adds to the use experience. Pair that with showing the last message and timestamp, and Bison Relay instantly starts to feel familiar to other chat apps. From there, it's really about how the chat list itself looks and feels. Rounding the corners and highlighting the active chat gives it a much softer, more considered appearance. The chat glow is also a nice touch, which gives the impression a light has switched on in the lower corner of the page. Small detail, but it adds to the personality. Add in-chat search at the top of the list, and finding a conversation doesn't feel like a chore. The Composer area got just as much attention. Between the Formatting toolbar and the Composer polish, you've now got the ability to format your text properly or fire off a tip in seconds. Functionality that used to be buried is now right there when you need it. And when it comes to actually laying out the conversation, you've got choices that mirror what people have come to expect, a narrower, overlapping style, or full width for consistency across devices. Then there's image display. I like my images as large as possible, so having full and half sizes as options make a real difference. Now, let's shift over to the feed because this is where things get interesting from an entirely different angle, turning Bison Relay into something that genuinely feels like a fully-fledged social platform. The feed card design borrows that familiar, bordered, highlighted look you'd recognize from Twitter, and post actions bring tipping and replying out into the open instead of hiding them away, which changes the whole social dynamic of a post. Bookmarks and hidden posts. Round things out nicely, exactly what you'd expect from a modern social app. The sidebar is worth a mention too. It's a small design choice, but it does a lot of work, especially with the collapsing behavior on smaller devices, and hiding it entirely while reading longer content clears away the clutter when you actually want to focus. The inline composer makes posting quick and painless. Then there's the image handling left or right aligned columns, full size with crop controls, or a random mix of left, right, and full width for variety. Text ordering lets you decide whether the words come before or after the image. Links can be tucked away when there's already an image present, and you can cap how much text shows per post. Strip the markdown on top of that, and the whole feed reads far more cleanly and consistently. As you can see, the potential in a theming system is huge, and it lets users build an app experience that actually feels comfortable, familiar, and their own.
