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Changelog August 2nd
Build 2023.08.02.01.29
- Added Toebean icon pack designed by my friend Noah (Instagram)
- Improved GIF -> JPEG representation rendering to only do it on animated GIFs.
- Fixed cut off text on Markdown lists.
- Fixed bookmarking.
- Added a loading indicator when navigating to a federated community.
- A toast is now show if a community cannot be loaded.
- Added a basic empty state to the inbox.
- Added the ability to block or unblock a community.
- Added a notice when a community is blocked and the ability to view it anyway.
- The image viewer can now be dismissed by swiping up.
- Added loading indicators for images.
- Fixed post title not showing on comments in the user profile.
Hi Steve,
A small [ BUG ] i want to bring to your notice, I’m still not able to see my bookmarks after reinstalling the app and I’m on the latest build,.
Otherwise the the app feels very snappy and polished already.
And I love the new set of icons too.
Thanks and appreciate your time and hard work on this.
Thank you! Out of interest, do you have Hide Read Posts on?
It’s OFF by default.
Yeah I know, I just haven’t been able to replicate it on my side and that’s the only thing I could think that might cause it.
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Changes: July 25th
build 2023.07.26.00.32
- Added the ability to create a post from community screens. This will be improved in upcoming builds with the ability to upload images and also select which community you wish to post to. Please test it in the meantime though.
- Switched to using the large title style for the nav bar and added an option to the Display settings toggle it off.
- Pulled out comments on user profiles.
- Added an option for Full Screen Swipe to Go Back to Actions settings.
- Added options to the Actions settings to hide floating action buttons.
- Added an option for the comment line width.
- Added an option to the Filtering settings to unbar NSFW images. For science.
- Fixed the incorrect background colour on the Search screen.
- Fixed some visual issues with the image gallery.
- Fixed visual issue with long community names.
- Fixed issue where sometimes the large title would not collapse correctly.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the wrong account to load on the Account tab.
- Fixed an issue that caused the count and vote not to show correctly on the single post view.
- Fixed an issue that allowed you to tap through to your own profile from your profile screen.
A couple more fixes are incoming:
- The weird layout issue caused when tapping a username in the comments.
- GIFs will no longer be automatically rendered as animated images anywhere in the app, except when opening the image viewer.
I want to give a bit more context about 2.
GIFs (and animated WebP images) have been the most common cause of crashes and UI freezes in Bean. The last couple of days have been particularly bad as this image of the Lemmy version of r/place has been shared.
This image is 12.4MB, animates for over 2 minutes, and (most importantly) is almost 3,000 frames. I can’t even tell you exactly how many frames as both Preview and Photoshop froze on my Mac when trying to open the image.
The reason the number of frames is important, because a GIF is just a container for multiple images. Each frame is an individual image that needs to be decoded and rendered on the screen, and it turns out when there are a lot of them at 1000 x 1000px it is impossible to decode performantly.
Bean uses SDWebImage to download, cache, and render images behind the scenes. It’s a fantastic library that is the de facto standard when working with remote images on iOS or macOS. Even with the
progressiveLoad
andscaleDownLargeImages
options enabled, SDWebImage just cannot render certain images without iOS sounding the alarm and firing an OOM exception — especially when that image is 12.4MB and 3,000 frames.At the moment, Bean will crash if you attempt to open this image. I have even tried working around this and rendering it in a web view, or using another library — FLAnimatedImage. Neither of these solutions worked and believe me, I’m not happy about that (seriously, I really hate GIFs now).
In the coming days, I’ll be pushing another update that will check for the size of the image before deciding whether to animate it or not. When not animated, SDWebImage only decodes the first frame of a GIF which is no issue at all.
I know this isn’t brilliant, as in the ideal world every image would be viewable within Bean, but it’s the best solution I can think of to avoid a single image crashing the app.
Changelog August 6th
Build 2023.08.06.22.41
- Added the ability to sort comments.
- Added a default comment sort to the Filtering settings.
- New theme: Midnight
- New theme: Forest
- New theme: Hacker
- New font: Futura
- New font: Menlo
- Fixed correct font styles not loading in the markdown editor.
- Fixed http:// and https:// links automatically being detected.
- Updated dependencies including SDWebImage. Should solve some crashing images with WebP and SVG parsing.
- Stopped reloading Inbox on focus as it seemed to be causing some glitches. Will reassess later.
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Push notifications are now also functioning as expected. Please test and let me know if you encounter issues.
New themes, fonts, and comment sorting options added to Bean today 🥰
Great update! And I have a new favorite theme. I’ll probably be rocking Midnight for a little awhile.
That’s what I’m rocking too! Heavily inspired by the old Twitter theme that I will dearly miss 😭
I was going to say, it definitely reminds me of old school Twitter!
Same! I love midnight
Hi again, your app is getting better and better on each release, thanks! Today I would like to report:
spoiler
It seems spoilers doesn’t work on Bean yet
Changes: July 23rd
Build 2023.07.23.01.28
- Added comment themes.
- Added the ability to collapse comment threads.
- Added swipe actions for comments.
- Added a new button to skip to the next to-level thread.
- Fixed some minor UI issues on the comments screen.
It looks like I also accidentally pushed the post composer I’ve been working on live. Oops!
Enjoy some WIP 😅
Loving the new update! It’s really coming together!
Thank you! Hopefully it won’t be long until the app is feature complete enough to go on the store 😄
Tap to collapse comments is no longer working for me.
D’oh! I undid the fix. Will sort today.
Today’s big change (aside from earlier’s network rewrite) is image uploads and a redesigned post composer.
It’s going to be hitting TestFlight in a few minutes so please let me know what you think when you’ve had a chance to try it 😄
Tried testing the new image uploader with a cat photo on this reply. It says “uploading images” but nothing uploads.
Huh that’s weird. I wonder if that specific image is causing issues? Are you able to try another?
It worked from my lemmy.world account. Lemm.ee must not support images.
I should put a check in for that then. Cheers for the heads up!
The error it gives me when I use the mobile site is that my images are too large. I’m betting that it’s either a generic error because they don’t actually support images, or they have the limit set so low that it’s effectively disabled.
Maybe the best thing is to pass on any error messages the server gives the user trying to upload?
In the last update, I’m no longer able to pin/unpin communities. I added a lifetime subscription.
Thank you, will have a look!
I should add, I can pin the communities if I go into them and use the “…” menu. But the slide to pin on the Communities screen isn’t working.
Thank you! Fix is coming in the next build along with a few other minor issues I noticed.
I can confirm this. Pins aren’t working for me either.
I can confirm this. Pins aren’t working for me either.
Changes July 27th
build 2023.07.27.16.16
- Added the ability to select a community from the post composer.
- Added a FAB to the home screen to create a post.
- Added the ability to mark a post as NSFW.
- Added loading indicator when creating a post or comment.
- Improved the quality of images uploaded. May need to reassess if servers deem them too large.
- Wrapped the Markdown accessories in a scrollview for smaller devices and future buttons.
- Shrunk the link preview if there’s no image found.
- Removed the preview from the comment composer (it may come back, I’m still deciding if I like it or not).
- Turned the fullscreen swipe off by default. I don’t like that it was changing the iOS animations due to the pan gesture handler, but the option still remains.
Any feedback on the post composer is welcomed
For the community selector, would it be possible to have it list your subscribed communities so you don’t have to search for them? Searching for communities using certain keywords yields a huge list of results that makes it slow to find the ones I subscribe to.
Yep, I’ll pull them out in the next build.
I’ve just pushed a build that will hopefully stop any slow down or crashes when scrolling. It still needs some optimisation but please let me know if you encounter any issues.
I love the toebean icons in this new build. You have one for each of my cats! So far so good with the scrolling too.
I need to see photos of the cats!
Also, please check out my very talented friend, Noah’s Instagram who I commissioned to design that set.
Digging the new icons as well. I’ll check out the artist’s insta!
Ask and ye shall receive!
One more because the orange cat doesn’t look very orange in the first…
Aw, very cute!! They like grown up versions of my parents’ cats Harry and Daisy😄
Thanks. They are barely grown up. Xander (orange) is 1 and Xedo (tuxedo) is 1.5.
Changelog: August 1st
Build 2023.08.01.01.14
- Added the ability to create “groups” on the Communities tab. This is a WIP and you cannot delete or edit yet. I’m also open to a better name for this feature!
- Pushed the creation of SDAnimatedImage to a background thread to alleviate some of the UI blocking that was causing animations to stutter. I’m still not 100% happy with this and will be revisiting in the future.
Here’s an example of the Groups feature.
Love the groups! Definitely helps when there are a bunch of similar communities and you want to browse all at once. One thing I noticed is they don’t seem to follow the correct “sort”. But I know you said it is WIP!
Yeah, at the moment they’re ordered by order you add the communities.
Name suggestion i’d say bean-pod or community-pod lol.
Beanpod is so fun!!
Another vote for Beanpods!
The overlay is a bit confusing at the bottom of a thread and it’s hard to reach the upvote on the left. [edit] bean is still my go to Lemmy client btw. Can’t wait for the upcoming releases. You’re a blast, Steve. Thanks a lot.
Thank you, I’m glad you’re enjoying Bean! It looks like this is a positioning but in themes with translucent tab and nav bars. I’ll look to fix it tomorrow but in the meantime if you use the Dusk theme it should solve it.
Changelog: July 30th
Build 2023.07.30.22.45
Smaller update than anticipated this weekend because it was pride 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ and I was out celebrating with friends ❤️
This one is mainly bug fixes but there is a big change to how I’m handling multiple accounts. States are now persisted when accounts are changed. This means if you have a certain post open, switch accounts to browse on another instance, and then switch back — it will still be right where you left it.
- Added state persistence between account switches.
- Added press and hold on the account tab to open the account switcher.
- Removed background on the card and post footer.
- Removed background from featured posts on the single post view.
- Featured post backgrounds are now based on the accent colour.
- Made the entire card view tappable, not just the title.
- Tidied up the card and single post views.
- Fixed issues with bookmarking.
- Fixed issues with sharing links.
- Fixed issues with overlapping content in the post composer.
- Changed search on the communities selector in the composer.
- Fixed a visual glitch between the composer and community selector.
- Keyboard can now be dismissed in the composer community selection screen.
- Fixed an issue with scroll to top offsets.
- Added a link to posts on the Inbox and profile comments views. Still a WIP.
- Content of comments is now hidden if removed by a moderator or deleted by author.
- Added a link to the community on the Inbox and user profile comments.
- Markdown editor is now reset when creating a post or comment.
Pretty big update for a “small” update! Hope you had a good celebration!
Thank you! Yeah it was really great to spend time with some of my favourite people 😄
Has the update not hit TestFlight yet for anyone else? Not sure it’s taken this long for me before.
I’m also not seeing this update on testflight, should I reinstall it?
Huh weird! I’ll be pushing another build out soon so hopefully that will fix it.
New build showed up for me.
Nice 😄 it must have got stuck somehow
steve! loving the app so far man. couple questions -
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will you be adding screen swipe to go forward at any point?
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i’m having the same bug that another user mentioned where my saved/bookmarked posts aren’t showing up; it sounds like you aren’t able to reproduce this at this time but just wanted to give a heads up!
thanks again and looking forward to watching this all continue to grow!
I’d love to support swipe to go forward! It’s not massively high on the priority list at the moment though.
tested this out a bit more, i saved a new post inside of bean and this post did in fact show up in bookmarks. it looks like any previously saved posts are what’s not showing up. i believe the post i saved before was via memmy. going to test it out by saving a post on lemmy on desktop tomorrow and see if the same result happens!
edit: tested out by saving a new post on memmy and checking bean; that post is showing up on bean in bookmarks. weird quirk but i think the solution might just be for users to re-save previously bookmarked content if it’s not populating in bean
Huh, that’s so weird. They should be coming out from the API. Are they showing on the website okay?
i may have figured it out; the post in question that i’m not seeing in bean is this one - https://lemmy.world/post/401441
(i tried unsaving/saving from desktop as well as inside bean and am getting the same result)
the community this post is from is https://lemmy.world/c/kbinMeta@kbin.social - i wonder if that may have something to do with it? i also tried saving a different post from this community and was also unable to see it on bean
interested to hear your thoughts!
Ah it’s Kbin! It’s possible there’s an issue with the interop between Lemmy and Kbin via ActivityPub. I’ll see if there’s an outstanding issue for this on the Lemmy GitHub tomorrow.
awesome, sounds good man!
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