In February 2017 Natter relaunched with a redesigned chat style app including direct messaging between users.
Potential buyers of the software had approached Neil Stanley, the owner of Natter at the time, but ultimately backed out after too large a demand.
Since its relaunch, the Natter user base grew rapidly after receiving significant aid from posts made on other social media sites, such as Tumblr and Twitter.
The community often put on role-playing events dubbed "god wars", in which users change their icons and adopt characterized personas.
Once Natter had been shut down, with none willing to purchase it, a Mastodon instance of the same name was created, prompting a significant portion of the community to migrate to it.