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The Messenger has been upgraded with seven new features that bring it from "basic chat" to a proper real-time communication tool. Here is everything that changed.

March started with recovery. Brett had already typed an “epic rant” about everything that was wrong with the messenger page before VS Code crashed, so the rebuilt session had to reverse-engineer that frustration into a real task list. That energy shaped the arc: this was less about shiny new messaging features and more about removing every little behavior that made the page feel unreliable or annoying in day-to-day use.

Late October through early November 2025 was the most technically intense period of the RABS admin build so far. The forum and messenger systems were fixed and rebuilt. The email system suffered a TLS connection crisis that affected every account. A progressive database migration from the legacy DB1 to the new DB2 began, introducing a dual-pool architecture and gradually migrating routes from the old database to the new one. And a comprehensive Comms platform — SMS, voice, video, and a full address book — was built in a single session.