The Photo Feed

The feed is where you see photos shared by you and the people you’re connected to.

Instant loading

BrightBlur uses server-side rendering to lay out your feed instantly. You’ll see the grid, timestamps, and pixelated placeholders before any decryption starts — so the page feels fast even on slow connections. Captions are themselves end-to-end encrypted, so they appear a moment later, once your browser has the content key to decrypt them.

Face compositing

As you scroll, BrightBlur automatically:

1. Identifies which face slices you have permission to decrypt.
2. Fetches the encrypted slices and the required keys.
3. Decrypts them in your browser.
4. Composites the clear faces over the pixelated regions in the base image.

This happens in real time, entirely on your device. The server never sees the unblurred result.

Detail view

Tap any photo to see it full-screen. From the detail view, you can:

• View the caption and date.
• See which faces you have access to (and which are still pixelated).
• Add comments.
• Request access to a pixelated face.
• Open the overflow menu (the ⋯ button) to download the decrypted photo or report it.

Photo cache

Photos you’ve already viewed are cached locally, so they load instantly on repeat visits without re-downloading or re-decrypting. The cache is cleared when you log out.