René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Add opt-in plaintext DB: default it for mobile","articleBody":"Some users are not a fan of the pin system (despite sadly misunderstanding that; without it, their messages and account data is completely readable by their phone and anyone who has access to it), despite this, it would indeed improve UX a lot by removing this step, particularly on mobile where users want instant access to their chats without waiting.\n\nThis setting will be available on all OS'es, and encryption-by-default will remain true on Desktop OS'es, but mobile will be moved to instead rely on the system's built-in authentication and encryption (Mobile passcodes, patterns, biometrics, etc), while this reduces Vector's local security, it harms nothing network-side, the user will simply be trusting their device and OS to be encrypting Vector's DB on their behalf.\n\n\u003cimg width=\"748\" height=\"260\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b43fbf6d-a68a-424d-bd90-653cb1a9eced\" /\u003e","author":{"url":"https://github.com/JSKitty","@type":"Person","name":"JSKitty"},"datePublished":"2025-07-21T12:45:43.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/6/Vector/issues/6"}