Reputation ratings allow you to build up credibility for your account on Gliph. You can use them to help you make a decision as to whether you trust someone before completing a transaction with them.

You must complete a transaction using a listing in Gliph Marketplace to be able to assign reputation.

This means if a Bitcoin payment is involved, you must have a Coinbase or Blockchain.info wallet attached and use Deal Flow to make the payment.

If you already completed a transaction in Gliph Marketplace, you should already have received  an email allowing you to rate the other person or people you’ve interacted with. Transactions completed outside Gliph Marketplace will not offer a chance to set Reputation.

Gliph Profiles continue to become more useful, showing off information about another user’s Marketplace listings, Groups and Channels in common, whether they have a Bitcoin Wallet attached and now the reputation. This information is in addition to the personal data they’ve chosen to share publicly or privately with you.

This is a screen capture of the current live view of Cory’s Gliph Profile.

We’re excited to see Gliph identity coming into its own with so much useful information!

We’ll be monitoring Gliph reputation to prevent abuse and we plan to increase the depth of information available over time. If you haven’t, get a move on with listing something for sale in Gliph Marketplace to begin establishing your reputation today!

What Existing Channels are Available?
You can view and join channels currently available by logging in to the Desktop Web, mobile web or Android applications and tapping View Channels. A complete list of channels available at the time of this writing are at the bottom of this blog entry!

Special Features of Channels
We’ve already begun adding features unique to channels on Gliph:

• Channels allow the creator or ‘admin’ to choose and promote moderators who can delete messages by any other member of the channel and if necessary kick out a misbehaving member.
• Channels have a special wizard that allows you to quickly setup and add friends. This wizard also lets you import a list of email contacts to your channel with a single copy-paste.
• Channels may be joined during signup by new users on Gliph and can be cross-promoted using “related-channels.” Gain new members over time. Admins choose when a channel gets listed in Gliph’s Channel Directory.
• Channels may show a related listing from Gliph Marketplace. This allows admins and moderators to promote particular items they’re selling to all members of the channel.

All of these features are available today in Gliph for Desktop web and will be making their way to the mobile apps.

Use the Create Channel Wizard
Channels are especially fun with a mix of people you know and those you don’t. Here’s how to get a channel started:

1. Log into the Gliph Desktop Web App
2. Click the Create Channel option in the Menu
3. Set a Photo,  Banner and short description for your Channel and click Next. Levi made a handy photoshop template to help you get your banner size right.
4. Add existing people you know on Gliph.

Fill Out Your Channel With Related Marketplace Listing and Channels
You can make it easier for other channel members to find a listing you want to promote in Gliph Marketplace adding Related Channels and Listings. Here’s how:

1. Log into the Gliph Desktop Web App
2. Enter your channel and click on the Set Related Listings or Set Related Channels button.
3. Paste up to three URLs of related channels or listings in the order you want them to appear. for Channels, use the invite link. For listings, use the listing URL.
4. You can Edit these at any time with the Edit link.

We hope you dig these updates and look forward to seeing you in-channel. :)

Featured Channels

• Bitcoiners
  
• Rick and Morty Fans
• New Gliph Users
• Cat Appreciation

Crypto and Tech

• Bitcoin Trading
• Bitcoin Gaming
• Dogecoin
• European Bitcoin Users
• Apple Watch

Gaming

• Hotline Miami
• Classic Gaming
• World of Warcraft
• League of Legends
• DOTA 2

Entertainment

• Comics
• Game of Thrones
• Walking Dead

General Interest

• Fitness and Nutrition
• Life Hack Tips
• Burning Man
• History, Power and Currency
• Sports Talk

Music

• Electronic Dance Music
• Hip-Hop

International

• Japanese Gliph Users
• Russian Gliph Users
• Russian Bitcoiners
• NEM по-русски

Gliph Marketplace
For the first time, you can now create, browse and purchase items from Gliph Marketplace from the Gliph iPhone app.

• Join the Open Gliph Marketplace Chat Group
• View Animated Gif of iPhone App and Gliph Marketplace

Using cash or Bitcoin to complete a P2P transaction has never been easier! You can chat directly with a buyer or seller, make an offer or leave a deal with ease. Push notifications keep you informed of deal progress.

If you want to pay or be paid in Bitcoin for a listing, just connect your Coinbase or Blockchain.info wallet to your Gliph Account. (Use Bitcoin in the menu)

Updated Activity View
Gliph for iOS 2.0 includes an updated color set and improves the usability of the app. By default, the app is brighter to look at, and +People button has been added to clarify how to add friends or create Groups.

The updated Activity view makes it easy to see items you’re buying or selling in Gliph Marketplace. Listings you’re actively working with are shown right above your conversations. Once you’ve completed or left a deal, these are moved back out of the activity view.

Dark Color Mode
In Settings you can now enable a “Dark Mode” which turns the title bar black across the entire app.

This subtle change to the look of the app may be attractive if you want to keep a low profile and aren’t big on the new brighter default look of Gliph.

Note, you will need to restart the app after changing this setting for it to take effect.

More to Come

This is Gliph’s 40th release for iOS, on a steady three year run of development for the Gliph iPhone application. While the app has evolved quite a bit, this particular release marks a big step forward for the app!

This is the first version of our iOS app with Gliph Marketplace. We have a variety of improvements planned that fill out this important new part of Gliph. As always, we appreciate your support and feedback. Please send a message to Support with comments!

And if you missed it, today we released Gliph Marketplace for Desktop Web.

Since some of the most positive aspects of decentralization are obvious to Bitcoin users, we wanted to address why Gliph Marketplace, though Bitcoin-enabled, is not decentralized:

1. We believe Gliph Marketplace is needed now. In the United States, peer-to-peer transactions are dominated by a single organization. Building something that can transcend the current paradigm means first focusing on the user experience, not on the challenging technical underpinnings of a well-performing decentralized system.
2. We believe there is already a good effort to build a decentralized marketplace at Open Bazaar. A community already exists to support the Open Bazaar project, and we believe there are good reasons for it to exist.
3. We believe Gliph Marketplace serves a missed community of people who are looking for a well-lit marketplace that seamlessly integrates Bitcoin for payments. This community has just as much potential to grow as Dark Markets have shown for illegal items.

How and When will Decentralization Come to Gliph?
In the expanse of time, we believe many services will benefit from being decentralized. One particular area we’re keeping an eye on is the concept of decentralized identity.

Decentralized identity would mean that information about the users in a system would no longer be stored at Gliph exclusively, but rather an open environment that any company or service can use. One Name is an example of an early effort to build out a decentralized identity service.

In the future, we may look to allow our users to migrate their identities and accumulated reputation to a decentralized identity service.

Open Dialog
We intend to keep an open dialog with Gliph’s users and the greater cryptocurrency community about the evolution of the Gliph Platform and opportunities for decentralization. You can send us your thoughts and comments to support at gli.ph.

Profile Pages make it easier to communicate and transact on Gliph using simple Send Message and Send Bitcoin buttons.

Gliph’s recently unveiled Desktop Web version makes Profile Pages accessible on the web.

For example, if you chose Tony for your Gliph Username, your profile page may then be found at https://gli.ph/tony.

Privacy Considerations
Existing Gliph users will need to opt-in to turn on their Profile Page. To opt-in with an existing Gliph account follow the steps in the Gliph’s New Usernames blog entry. These steps are:

1. Sign in to Gliph on the web or open the app on your smartphone.
2. Visit either the Profile or Edit Profile page and click or tap Set Gliph Username

If you’re new to Gliph, you will be required to choose a new Gliph Username during sign-up which automatically creates your Profile Page. However, you may still choose to keep all their personal Facet information private.

The Anatomy of a Gliph Profile Page
Profile Pages can be shaped to reflect your unique identity. Currently, you can display your Gliph Profile Photo facet, along with any of your other Facets you want to make Public.

When someone you’re connected to visits your Profile Page, they will see a combination of the private information you previously shared along with any information you’ve set to public. They will also be able to see a list of any Gliph Group Messaging groups you are both in together.

When someone you are not connected to views your Profile Page they will only be able to see information you’ve set to public. The same is true with someone you are connected to on Gliph, unless you specifically chose to share personal information with that connection.

First Steps
We believe Profile Pages make Gliph a more useful and practical service for communicating and transacting with Gliph users. We look forward to your feedback on this initial version and continuing to improve it as the Gliph platform continues to advance.

As always, you can give feedback to the Support Gliph, which you may now access in the app or by visiting its Public Page at https://gli.ph/support and clicking “Send Message.” :D

This new username may be set by signing in and editing your account profile on the Gliph iPhone, Android and web applications.

You can use your new Gliph username to be found on Gliph via username search or by accessing a Profile Page webpage. Gliph Profile Pages are a new feature on Gliph and covered in this blog entry.

Privacy
Gliph is committed to providing a private communication experience. If you already have a Gliph account and a Gliph Legacy username, you may continue to use Gliph without choosing a new Gliph username.

If you do not pick a Gliph username, you will not be found using the username search function and you will not have a Profile Page webpage.

If you do pick a Gliph username, your public Facet information will be available on your Profile Page.

To ensure you’re sharing what you want, we recommend you review your Profile and privacy settings on your personal information before setting your username. 

Username Selection Details
If you’re thinking about what your new Gliph username will be, here are some details to keep in mind:

• Gliph usernames may be anywhere between 3 and 16 characters long.
• They may contain letters, numbers and the underscore character.
• Usernames are first-come, first serve and are may only be used once.
• Once selected, you can not change your username.
• Your new Gliph username will automatically set your your Profile Page URL to https://gli.ph/[username].

And some additional tips for success:

• Gliph usernames are not case-sensitive at entry, but they will display the CaSe Style YoU choose.
• Shorter usernames will be easier to remember and share with friends or associates.
• Gliph is a burgeoning community that relies on trust. Please do not choose usernames intended to deceive, intimidate or threaten other people.

Why the Change?
As regular users of Gliph ourselves, we have found the Gliph Legacy usernames have not become easier to use over time. Though stylistically unique, Gliph Legacy usernames got in the way of the experience in a few ways.

First, people from the Gliph community told us they like the service but find it too hard to connect with other people. A basic function is being able to look up another person in the system and the symbols added friction to that process.

Sometimes when the symbol-usernames were shown in a public group conversation, it was challenging to track who was who. An emerging problem with Gliph Legacy usernames is that they don’t store well in password management tools like 1Password.

The symbol-based usernames were a daring and interesting way to stand out for a company championing privacy and security before people were paying attention to these things.

Privacy and security are still top priorities with us, but Gliph is bigger than those two things. Gliph now helps people connect and transact with each other using Bitcoin. We want the focus here, not on a novel username system.

Moving to alphanumeric usernames simplifies the Gliph platform without sacrificing pseudonymity. You don’t have to remember the symbols that your friend chose or find them on our symbol keyboard. You just need to know their unique written username and type it in.

Supporting Legacy Gliph Usernames
All existing Legacy Gliph usernames will still be supported. You will still be able to search for them and create a 1-on-1 connection or to add them to Group. However, the default search will be to the new alphanumeric Gliph username system.

Fond Farewell
We want to thank everyone who customized their Gliph Legacy username and those who took the time to explain the system to other people.

When we shared this change with friends and family in the Gliph community, there was a combined expression of sadness and also relief. Many of Gliph’s biggest fans memorized and cherished their Legacy username. Some of Gliph’s initial backers took particular interest in the uniqueness of our Legacy username system.

Sadness quickly became nostalgic, though, as folks acknowledged a simpler username system would be to the benefit of all Gliph users in time.  What we lose from leaving behind Gliph Legacy usernames, our team will work to add practical, useful and fun features to take their place.

If you receive unwanted contact on Gliph, this new option allows you to remove your connection with them and prevent a new connection from being created.

This means your existing conversation with the opposing user will be permanently deleted and you will no longer receive notification of direct messages from them. You also will not be able to send direct messages to them.

How to Block and Unblock People on Gliph
Blocking someone is pretty easy, and can be done using Gliph’s web application. Start by logging in to the Gliph mobile or desktop app. Then visit the profile page of the person you want to block.

You can access someone’s profile page by clicking or tapping on their Profile Photo in any conversation.

Blocking Users and Group Conversations
Blocking another Gliph user will not silence them if you are both in the same Group conversation. If someone is giving you grief in a group conversation, we recommend the group admin set the group to Closed and kick the user from the group. This will prevent them from re-joining.

Gliph’s Terms of Service already do not allow harassment of other users. However, we realize people may want immediate and direct resolution to unwanted communication. This new feature is our first step toward providing this.

This full-screen experience gives you access to Gliph’s existing features, such as permanent message deletion, Bitcoin payments, and our award-winning privacy point tools. The Desktop Web App also includes support for new bells and whistles including Secure Group Messaging, Profile Photos, Retina Display support, and Chrome Desktop Notifications.

This guide walks through how to use the Desktop Web App.

• The Desktop Web Home View
• Adding New Connections
• Working with Connection Settings and Shared Facets
• Creating and Administering a Secure Group Conversation
  • Setting your Group Photo
  • Managing your Group
• Using Bitcoin on Gliph’s Desktop Web App
  • Attaching your Bitcoin Wallet to Gliph
  • Attach a Coinbase Bitcoin Wallet
  • Attach a Blockchain.info Wallet
  • Viewing your Bitcoin Balance and Transaction History
  • Sending Bitcoin to Another Gliph User
  • Detaching your Bitcoin Wallet

Sign-up and Set Initial Facets
If you’re signing up for Gliph for the first time, you’ll see you can now set a Profile Photo. This is a new Facet type and may be set to globally public or private. (If private, you may still choose to share it with specific contacts or groups you belong to.)

The Desktop Web Home View
Once you’re signed in, the first view you’ll see is the one below. We call this the Home View. On the left side in dark grey is the Left Sidebar. This can be opened and closed using the Gliph Diamond Button in the top left.

The Home View is the default view when signing into Gliph for the Desktop Web

In this example, you can see the first conversations in the Left Sidebar are the official Support and Product Updates gliphs. The Left Sidebar lists conversations in the order of last message received. This is the same order as the Activity View on Gliph’s mobile apps.

In the Home View, the most recent conversation is automatically loaded into the center of the view as a Conversation Pane. More on that in a bit.

Adding New Connections

Connecting with a new person or someone you care about has always been one of the best parts about Gliph.

The Desktop Web app lets you do this using a new Add Connection or Group [+] Button that appears at the top right of the Left Sidebar.

You’ll be presented with a dialog box that lets you choose to either Create a Group or Add a Connection.

Add a Connection or Create a Group with this dialog. You can also copy-paste an invitation URL to connect with someone who is not on Gliph yet.

When you choose Add a Connection, you’ll be presented the option to find an existing Gliph user (using Gliph’s symbol-based username system) or invite someone from Facebook, Google+, or traditional vectors.

When you send your first message, it establishes the connection. Check out Conversation Pane below where Tony has added his pal Rob as a connection.

The Conversation Pane shows your 1-on-1 or group conversation. The Right Sidebar lets you set privacy permissions and notification settings for the connection or group.

The camera icon shows you can attach an image to any message you send here. You can also drag-and-drop an image into this area to attach it to your pending message automatically. If you and your connection have Bitcoin wallets attached, you’ll also see a Bitcoin icon. More on that in “Using Bitcoin on Gliph’s Desktop Web App.”

Working with Connection Settings and Shared Facets
Each Conversation Pane has a Right Sidebar that may be hidden using the Chevron Button. The Right Sidebar shows who is in the conversation, lets you edit the Connection Settings, and specify what personal information (Facets) you want to share.

The Connection Settings Dialog is found in the Right Sidebar of any Conversation Pane.

Click or tap Settings to see a dialog containing the same Connection Settings you get in Gliph’s mobile applications: The Label setting is an important feature if the person you’re connected to has their First Name and Pseudonym set to Private and has not shared either piece of information with you.

When this happens, you see their Gliph instead of their name. Gliph’s can be hard to identify quickly, so a Label is a useful alternative to seeing someone’s Gliph.

Other options in this view include choosing whether to get Push Notifications from a particular person and how much information should be shown in Push Notifications that appear on your mobile device.

You can permanently delete all messages on both sides of the conversation using the Clear Chat History option or delete the connection and all messages completely under Operations. For more information on how Gliph handles message deletion, please see this blog post.

The Facets Settings Dialog is also found in the Right Sidebar of any Conversation Pane.  It sets what you’re sharing with the person or group in the Conversation Pane.

Facet Settings contains all of the personal information you’re sharing with this particular connection or group of people. In the above example, Tony has his Profile Photo, First Name, and Last Name set to public at a global level. Tony’s Phone Number and Email address are globally Private, and he has not chosen to share them with this connection.

If someone says they can’t see your name, double check the Facet Settings for your connection with them to make sure you either have a First Name or Pseudonym set to globally public or shared with that person.

Creating and Administering a Secure Group Conversation
The process for creating a secure Group Conversation on Gliph starts the same way as you would add a new Connection. Click the + button then choose Create a Group.

You’ll be presented a dialog box that allows you to choose among some common group types or specify your own custom group name.

Gliph supplies some default group types you might want to create, but you name your group anything you like.

The next step is to add members to your group. If you already have connections on Gliph, they’ll be shown and you can simply click each one to add them.

Once you’ve added some Group members, you’ll see in the chat area who has been added. Also, each person you add will get a notification that they have been added to the group so they can join the conversation right away.

Setting Your Group Photo
Everything is more fun with pictures, so you may want to set a photo for your Group. You can add this in the Group Settings dialog which can be accessed using the Right Sidebar of the group conversation pane.

Click Edit Photo and choose a .png or .jpg image of at least 360 x 360 pixels, and then crop it to an attractive shape.

While we’re here, let’s check out some Group Settings.

Managing Your Group
Gliph currently allows one group administrator, which is the person who creates the group. As group admin, you have some handy options to keep your group just how you like it. You can:

• Change the Group Photo – Shown above
• Set Group to Open or Closed – An open group has an invitation link that all members can share to add people who are not on Gliph to the group. In a closed group, only the admin may invite new members.
• Manage Membership – You can remove or “kick out” specific members from of the group.
• Clear Chat History or End the Group – As an admin, you can permanently delete the conversation history on all sides of the conversation. (Read more about data impermanence on Gliph)

There are also some Notification Options in the Group Settings that affect privacy and are available to all group members:

• Get Notifications – Choose whether to get notifications from this group.
• Show Group Name in Push – If turned off, your mobile notifications will not include the name of the group.
• Show Message Content in Push – If turned off, your mobile notifications will not include any part of the messages sent from other group members.

Using Bitcoin on Gliph’s Desktop Web App

The Gliph Desktop Web App lets you attach a Bitcoin wallet from an account you already have created on either Coinbase or Blockchain.info. Once you’ve attached a wallet, you can send Bitcoin to any other Gliph user who also has Bitcoin wallet attached to their Gliph account.

You can also attach a Bitcoin wallet using the Gliph iPhone and Android apps; however, you might feel more comfortable doing it on the Desktop Web.

Once you’ve attached your Bitcoin wallet using the Desktop Web app, the wallet will also be set up in the mobile app for iPhone or Android (though, you may need to restart the mobile app to see the wallet was attached properly).

Attaching Your Bitcoin Wallet to Gliph
Start by choosing the Bitcoin option from the Dropdown Menu in the top-right of the Desktop Web App. If you do not have a Bitcoin wallet attached, you will see an option to Create a New Wallet or Sign-In to an existing wallet.

But, I don’t have a Bitcoin Wallet!
If you have never created a Bitcoin wallet before, you need to do so before you can attach it to Gliph. Gliph can attach a wallet from either of the two most popular web-based wallets on the Internet: Coinbase or Blockchain.info.

The Desktop Web App will help direct you to these services; however, after you have created a Wallet, you will need to come back to Gliph and go through the Wallet Sign-In process on your own.

Attach a Coinbase Bitcoin Wallet
In the Bitcoin view, choose Sign-In to Coinbase. You will be presented with the following dialog box, which lets you know that you must be redirected to Coinbase’s site. Click the Let’s Go button to continue.

The Coinbase website will prompt you for your Coinbase login information. Note, if you have two-factor authentication on, the website will also ask for that information:

When you have finished this step, you will be asked to Authorize the Gliph App to have access to your Account in the following dialog box:

Note the access grants Gliph the ability to debit Bitcoin from your wallet. As a result, you should be sure to choose a unique passphrase (aka password) for your Gliph account and take care not to misplace it.

Attach a Blockchain.info Wallet

In the Bitcoin view, choose Sign-In to Blockchain. You will be presented with the following dialog box, which lets you immediately attach your Blockchain wallet.

Note, while you may enter your Alias in the first box, Blockchain will still force you to retrieve your GUID from an email they send you. (A GUID, aka “wallet identifier,” looks something like: b868xx32-0272-as8e-e169-6cdwa3f3e24)

Once this form is filled out correctly, and you’ve completed the necessary authorizations Blockchain requires, your wallet will be attached to your Gliph account.

Viewing Your Bitcoin Balance and Transaction History
Once your wallet is attached, you can view your past list of transactions processed using Gliph by visiting the Bitcoin Start option from the Dropdown Menu in the top-right of the Desktop Web App.

The list of transactions reflects all transactions processed using Gliph since the wallet was first attached. For some of your transactions, you will see someone’s gliph or symbol-based username instead of their actual name. You must ask them to share a First Name publicly or with you to see them here.

All Bitcoin transactions processed using Gliph’s mobile apps will be shown in this view. If you use the QR code scanner on either the Gliph iPhone or Android app to pay someone, the recipient will be shown as “Unknown.”

Sending Bitcoin to another Gliph User
Sending Bitcoin to another Gliph user is easy to do, so long as both of you have Bitcoin wallets attached to your account. First choose a conversation from the Left Sidebar, look for the Bitcoin logo in the message entry area to indicate you both have wallets attached properly.

When both you and the other Gliph user have wallets attached, you’ll both see a Bitcoin icon indicating you can send Bitcoin as an attachment to a message.

Click the Bitcoin icon and enter the amount of Bitcoin or USD that you would like to send.The USD to Bitcoin conversion rate is approximate and is currently sourced from Blockchain.info’s price ticker.

Click the Attach button, type a message and hit enter to send the message with the Bitcoin attached. You’ll see the Bitcoin sent in your conversation.

You can now return to the Bitcoin view and see your transaction listed. Note that the status is pending until Gliph has verified the Bitcoin blockchain has fully confirmed the transaction. It typically takes about one hour for a Bitcoin transaction to reach confirmed status.

Detaching your Bitcoin Wallet
If you would like to remove your Bitcoin wallet from Gliph, you can use the Detach wallet option. You’ll need to access Settings in the Dropdown Menu on the top right of the Desktop Web Application.

Conclusion
The Gliph Desktop Web Application is an entirely new way to experience using Gliph. If you use a computer during the day, it gives you new freedom to keep your conversations going without having to peck them into your smartphone.

If you need help or see a way this guide could be improved, please send a message to the Support Gliph.

Introduction
GliphMe lets you create a web link that anyone can use to start chatting with you on your iPhone or Android. When someone clicks one of your links and sends you a message, you will be notified by the Gliph app. You can reply immediately wherever you are from your mobile device. Gliphme is useful in a variety of cases online, and you can learn more at GliphMe’s explanation page.

How GliphMe Works with Screenshots
Here’s how it works: You start by creating a new GliphMe link using the menu in the Gliph iPhone, Android or web app. GliphMe appears just below the Bitcoin option.

The first time you enter the GliphMe Management view, you will see you already have one link created automatically. This link is used for invitations you send from Gliph in the recently revised Connections View. You will also see that you have the option, Create new GliphMe link.

When you tap that, you’re able to choose a public label for the link. This label will be shown to anyone who clicks on the link you’re creating. You should choose something relatively short that describes what the GliphMe conversation is about.

Some examples include:

• “Trek 4600 Mountain Bike For Sale”
• “Discussion on implications of the Snowden revelations”
• “Feedback on ‘Jazz Hands,’ the song I posted on SoundCloud”

Any links you create are listed in the GliphMe management view. You can tap on the information icon to view the GliphMe Link Details view. This view lets you revise the title and also gives you the ability to disable a given link.

Sharing Your GliphMe Link
On iOS, tapping a row from the GliphMe Management view automatically copies it to your clipboard. You can paste this link just about anywhere you want to offer a new channel of realtime communication with you. Here are just a few examples where it might make sense to share a GliphMe link:

• As part of a tweet. (Include the hashtag #gliphme, if you like)
• In your LinkedIn profile
• Over another different messaging app, such as Facebook messenger
• In an online advertisement
• In the signature line of your emails on Gmail.

The possibilities are nearly endless for where these links can be used, and we’re interested to hear back from you on what you find most useful. Please message the Support Gliph with your feedback.

What Happens When Someone Clicks a Link
When someone clicks a GliphMe contact link they are presented a chat box that lets them communicate with the link creator. First, Gliph prompts them to enter their name or nickname and asks them to optionally enter an email address as well.

If the respondent chooses to enter their email address, Gliph will send them a link they can click to resume the conversation even if they close the browser tab or window. It will also notify them 24 hours before the conversation is immediately deleted.

After they click or tap Start Chat, Gliph presents them with the following chat box:

When they type their first message in and send it, you, the creator, will get a push notification on your smartphone.

If you open the push notification, you’ll be taken to a typical Gliph Messaging Conversation view.  You’ll won’t be able to send photos to them, delay messages or attach Bitcoin until they sign up and solidify the Connection with you.

Respondents Coming from the Mobile Web
This tutorial showed screenshots of what it looks like when the respondent is coming in from the desktop web. GliphMe also works if someone taps a link on their smartphone. They are presented with a chat box in their mobile browser and can sign up and claim the conversation just the same as desktop users.

How Privacy and Connections are Handled in GliphMe
There are two sides to GliphMe links. The creator of the link, (who is a Gliph user already), and the respondent, who is probably not yet a Gliph user.

As a creator, when you get a message from a respondent, you are not connected at first. Even though you are chatting, Gliph does not display your gliph to the other user. None of your facets, (public or private), are shown in the GliphMe chat window the respondent sees.

The GliphMe chat webpage provides a sign up form that allows the respondent to continue a conversation with the link creator. If they sign up, Gliph automatically turns the conversation into a full Gliph Connection. This conversation will be the first they see in the Activity view when they first sign into the app.  At that time they will be able to see your Gliph and any public-facing facets.

Gliph automatically deletes conversations where the respondent does continue it by creating an account within 48 hours after they sent their first message to the creator. GliphMe conversation deletion follows the same rules as normal Gliph Messaging: the conversation is permanently removed from Gliph’s servers and not recoverable.

The reasoning for this auto-deletion is two-fold: one it reduces clutter in your activity view of conversations with people you don’t continue to stay in contact with and two it encourages new people to sign up for Gliph. (We believe the Gliph platform will be more useful with more people on it, so it is natural for the team to want to encourage new people to sign up.)

You can still delete a connection that is created when a respondent to one of your GliphMe links signs up and claims the conversation. Same rules apply to “normally” created connections, all previous messages between you and the respondent are deleted.

Caveats and Additional Information

GliphMe has some limitations. If the respondent to one of your GliphMe links is already a Gliph user, we can’t automatically convert that into a conversation between you two. What we recommend at this point, is that you ask that person what their Gliph is, and use the normal new connection capability in the Gliph Connect View.  (The little + button in the title bar of the Activity view)

You can delete a GliphMe link on iOS by swiping the link to the left and then tapping the Delete button. You can disable a GliphMe link without deleting it, by tapping the “i” and then flipping the Active toggle.

Conclusion
We’re excited about how the GliphMe link can be used to improve private and secure communications across the internet. We hope you’ll share some of your feedback on the new feature by sending us a message using the Support Gliph.

Bitcoin Updates

• We were asked by Apple to remove the ability to send Bitcoin from the iOS app. We fought to keep it in but it was not possible. You can read more about what happened in a special blog entry we wrote about mobile apps in the App Store and Google Play.You can still create wallets, view balances and receive Bitcoin in the Gliph app for iOS send Bitcoin using Gliph on iPhone, using the same interface as before. Just visit https://gli.ph/m when you need to send Bitcoin, and continue using the app for normal push notifications and messaging.
• We removed the option to create or attach a wallet from european wallet provider BIPS, which has decided to shutter its consumer-facing Bitcoin wallet service in the wake of a security breach.
• Usually, there is cool news about Bitcoin and Gliph but not in this release. Hang with us, we are in it to win it with Bitcoin. This is just the pre-season. Gliph’s implementation of Bitcoin will come back harder, faster and stronger no matter the platform.

Miscellaneous Updates

We’ve made a raft of improvements across the Gliph iOS app:

• You can now log into Gliph for iOS using your email address on your account. (Previously you were required to log in using your Gliph username)

• You can now delete all messages in a conversation from the activity view. That’s right, just swipe a conversation to the right and choose Delete Messages. Learn more about permanent message deletion on Gliph.

• You now tap the information button in the title bar to view connection settings and choose a tag for a connection.

Design Updates for iOS 7

Apple made bold choices with design themes in iOS 7. In the new Gliph app for iOS, we’ve sought to embrace them. Design geeks read on!

“Deference” means to use interface that is simple and does not compete with the content for your attention. For Gliph, that meant a bunch of visual changes and a few user interface updates.

The first thing you’ll notice is the title menu coloring now extends through the status bar of the phone. The buttons have lost their glossy look, becoming simpler renderings of their function. Navigation buttons have been standardized to iOS 7’s chevron and descriptive text pairing.

We’ve removed the old “Recent Activity” table header from the Activity View, and flattened the bezel around the tag filter bar at the top of the view. Our sense is that these changes to the Activity view make your conversations stand out much better. With less UI adornment competing for your attention your brain can relax and focus on the tasks at hand: communication and transactions.

The Conversation View has a variety of visual tweaks. First and foremost, we added a new Information Button to the title bar that takes you to the Gliph View. The Gliph View is where you edit the Tag of the person you’re writing with, change what you’re sharing with them and make other changes related to that particular conversation partner. Previously, you tapped on the center of the Conversation View title bar to get to Gliph View. We think this change makes this important screen much more discoverable and gets rid of the old bubbly look.

While we’ve made strides toward “flat” UI, we have kept some aspects of the texture found in previous versions of Gliph. We wanted to do a design that riffed on Apple’s suggested themes but preserved Gliph’s identity. We will continue to tweak it, but hope you like the new look and feel of Gliph!

We love feedback!

Much of our refinement of Gliph over time has come through feedback from our users. Some of the updates from today are in direct response to requests from people like you. Please feel free to offer new feedback to the Support Gliph.