roadmap

Where the network is, and where it’s heading.

An honest, date-free view of Onyx. Here now is only what already runs on the live network — you can open it this minute. On the way is work we’re genuinely building, with no promised dates and nothing dressed up as done before it is.

01

Here now

Shipped and running on the live network. No waitlist, no beta gate.

  • Shipped

    Join from any client

    Bring a thirty-year-old IRC client over TLS, or just open Onyx in a browser tab — same network, same channels, no download and no plugin.

  • Shipped

    Encrypted direct messages

    Direct messages are end-to-end encrypted, with the keys derived and sealed on your device — nobody in the middle can read them, us included.

  • Shipped

    Passkey sign-in

    Sign in with a passkey — your device, your fingerprint or face, and no password to phish, leak, or reuse.

  • Shipped

    Voice & video rooms

    Drop into a voice or video room of up to 64 seats — with spatial audio in the browser, so voices land where people sit.

  • Shipped

    Cloaked hosts

    Your network address is cloaked the moment you connect, so who you are here is never your IP address.

  • Shipped

    Post-quantum mesh

    Our servers link over a hybrid post-quantum key exchange, so a conversation captured today can’t be unlocked by tomorrow’s quantum computers.

  • Shipped

    History & search

    Your history lives in a local-first vault on your own device — search it, and scroll back through time to any moment you missed.

  • Shipped

    Catch-up on Home

    Come back to a calm digest of what happened while you were away — read what matters first, not a wall of scrollback.

  • Shipped

    Run your own node

    One static binary, a reproducible and signed release, and a copy-paste quickstart — the very same daemon we run, open under the AGPL. Own the whole stack.

Open Onyx Self-host guide
02

On the way

Planned and in progress. Listed without dates on purpose — it ships when it’s right.

  • Planned

    Bring your community over

    A planned importer to carry an existing community — its rooms and its history — in from elsewhere, so moving in never means starting from an empty room.

  • Planned

    A formal accessibility audit

    We’re taking the site and Onyx through a full WCAG 2.2 AA review, in the open — the public conformance ledger tracks what’s done and what’s still open.

This list stays deliberately short and honest. If it isn’t here, we’re not promising it yet.