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Feeds v3: New Features & Stronger Performance

Feeds v3 loads up to 300% faster than v2 and adds For You feeds, Stories, polls, nested comments, and built-in moderation. See what's new.

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10 Most Secure Messaging Apps - The Best Platforms & Solutions

A review of the most secure messaging apps, including Signal, Wire, Threema, Element, and Telegram. Compare encryption, features, and pricing to find the right fit.

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How Stream Built 4K 60FPS Livestreaming

Stream's Livestreaming product now supports 4K at 60fps over WebRTC. We wanted to share some details about the choices that made this possible, from codec selection to VMAF-driven bitrate targets to the adaptive bitrate ladder that keeps it watchable for everyone.

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Announcing Experimental Stream Chat Support for Jaspr

Stream Chat now has experimental UI components for Jaspr, the Dart web framework that Google's own dart.dev and flutter.dev run on. One package gets you the components and the low-level client, under names you already know from the Flutter SDK. It is an experiment, and how far we take it depends on whether you want to build chat on the web in Dart.

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The 7 Best AI Features For Messaging Apps

Apps like Slack and WhatsApp made team chat easy. The right AI features can make it better. Here's how to build them into community, collaboration, and team platforms to increase user satisfaction and speed up task completion.

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The New Security Requirements for Real-Time Video Infrastructure

A camera used to be proof enough that the person on the other end was who they said they were. This year, that assumption ran out. This piece walks through the four security layers a video call actually has, transport encryption, media encryption, account authorization, and human verification, and what closing the last gap looks like in practice.

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12 Dating App APIs to Build With (2026)

Dating apps remain one of the largest consumer software categories by usage. Roughly 360 million people used one in 2025, and the industry generated over $6 billion in revenue that year. Good third-party APIs already exist for image moderation, geolocation, video calling, and messaging - here's how to evaluate them.

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Activity Feed APIs Compared: Fan-Out, Ranking, Scale

Compare four activity feed APIs and two real-time platforms you'd build on. Covers scaling, feed types, limitations, and use cases.

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