[Megathread] v0.1 Feedback

Build 2023.07.20.22.51 is currently rolling out to TestFlight users.

Changelog

Added font size options to the Display settings.
Added OpenDyslexic as a font choice.
Added a setting to turn off haptic feedback.
Added the ability to upvote and downvote comments.
Added the ability to reply to a comment.
Added the ability to pull to refresh on an individual post.
Added options to show avatar and OP / Admin badges on comments.
Fixed keyboard not showing automatically when adding a new comment.

Also seems like you’ve decided to keep the toolbar displayed at all times. I think I do prefer the toolbar displayed, so thanks for it!

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 and scaleDownLargeImages 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.

Incredible work on the app.

Here are a few things I noticed:

swiping media away is sticky and doesn’t carry momentum.
collapsing comments doesn’t seem to work (apologies if this hasn’t been implemented yet)

Collapsing comments doesn’t seem to be a feature yet. But +1 for it.

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?

The hacker theme looks so amazing. Thank you so much. Let me know if there is a link to donate. Would be more than happy to do so

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 😄

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.

Dunno what magic you’re using but this app feels really good.

Keep up the great work, this is a great start to potentially being the best Lemmy app.

Ahh thank you! That means a lot 😄

Man this app is already well ahead of all of the other Lemmy clients out there, especially witht eh latest update adding all of the imporvements to comments! Keep up the amazing work!

Thank you! 🥰

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.
- 14 Pro Max with iOS 16.6 btw.
- Huh that’s weird. I wonder if that specific image is causing issues? Are you able to try another?

Issues with opening communities within the community tab. No action happens when clicking on a community

I can’t duplicate this one on any of my accounts. Have you tried the old logging out and back in cliche?
- Of course. Work-a-round is using the web browser and then adding and or pinning a community. Once it’s pinned it typically works in Bean.

Literally the only thing keeping me from going with this app instead of Memmy, is being able to sort by top 3, 6 and 12 hours. It’s so smooth.

I'll add that in tomorrow 😊

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.

Tap to collapse comments is no longer working for me.

D’oh! I undid the fix. Will sort today.

One feature I consider necessary: op of a post should have a different color name or a badge next to their name in the comments.

Just came across something new. When swiping a pinned post, the whole card changes color. See image.

Can the app retain the sort and read options per community and the home view?

For an example, my home view would be set to hot and unread but for Bean community, new and all posts is my preference since unread would hide the megatread post.

Also, I don’t think pinned should be removed when filtering unread posts.

Thanks!

This seems like a logical thing. I’ll add it to the list!

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.

In terms of colours, maybe a darker blue akin to iOS’ default would be nice

Coming in a build later today

Hi there! Seems like the app theme doesn’t switch automatically when device theme switches between light/dark mode (when settings for theme is set to device theme).

Thanks for the heads up! I'll add this to the known issues list. For the time being, you'll need to restart the app when the device theme is changed

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.

Yes the keyboard appears now. Thank you :)

Hi, here’s a short feedback:

A more compact view for the timeline: Mlem does it perfectly!
Look and feel has a slight edge over all other apps I am testing - I didn’t I didn’t miss any on iOS!
Disappearing bottom bar is not good, but the idea is nice if instead of disappearing, it would minimize a la Safari address bar.
Jump to alphabet letter in the community list - maybe tapping the letter brings up an alphabet grid?
Icons are golden! Clean and funny.

Good job and bring it on!

Maybe this is a stupid question, but what is a “parse flair”? I can’t quite figure it out from turning the setting on and off.

Not a stupid question! I'll be adding a preview for that soon.
It pulls [these] out of titles. You'll see it on this [Megathread] post.
- Ah, I see it now! Thanks!

I’m on the latest version of iOS 16, using an iPhone 12 Mini. Just a couple things I’ve noticed in the latest build:

I can upvote and downvote comments now, but there is a weird delay. I get the haptic feedback, but the vote does not appear until I start scrolling away.
When clicking on the text of a post in standard view, nothing happens. Might be nice to have that open up the post in the same way as if you clicked the title.
When I upvote/downvote a post with a link, and it makes it as “read.” Something odd happens. All of the preview text for the link disappears.

Those are the only new bugs I’ve noticed so far. Keep up the great work!

Thanks for the feedback! That last issue should now be resolved in the build I've just pushed out.
As for the others, I'm aware of the weird delay — it's currently only re-rendering the list when you scroll. I'm still working on comments so hopefully it won't be much longer until that's resolved.
I'll look to make the text tappable too!
- Thanks! And I just saw the update available on TestFlight. I’ll get to work checking out the new version!
Upvoting and downvoting feedback issues should now be resolved.
- You’re knocking these out fast! Yes, it does seem to be resolved!

steve! loving the app so far man. couple questions -

will you be adding screen swipe to go forward at any point?
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?

Changelog August 3rd

Build 2023.08.03.23.29

Added the ability to edit and delete comments.
Added a new context menu on press and hold of comments.
Added the ability to delete a post. Known issue: it’s not immediately removed from the list and requires a refresh.
Added the ability to edit a post.
Deleted or Removed posts are now filtered from post lists.
Increased maximum font size on the slider to 140% from 120%.
Increased the bottom padding on the comments list on themes with a translucent tab bar.
Tapping a comment in the Inbox will scroll to that thread on the post view.
Tapping a comment in the Inbox will highlight that comment in the post view.
Removed email parsing from Markdown.
Removed the “View Anyway” button on blocked communities as it doesn’t work.
Added Markdown parsing for spoilers.
Added a new button to the Markdown editor for writing spoilers.
Added a new Headline post view.
Added section for account settings in preparation for more there.
Added video support.
Added a welcome screen.

As we rapidly approach a version that I feel is complete enough for a public release, I'll be bumping the version number and posting a roadmap.
- Awesome! It’s definitely feeling feature-rich at this point. You’ve done some great work in a short time. Can’t wait to see the public release!
  Edit: just because I can now, and for testing purposes.

Changes: July 24th

Build: 2023.07.24.23.14

Added the Inbox.
Added posts, communities, users, and URL search.
Added option to hide tab bar titles.
Added an option to hide the inbox notification badge.
Added an option to hide the footer/actions on comments.
Moved bookmarks to the account screen.
Increased the size of the comment indicators.
Refresh the profile screen whenever it’s viewed.
Removed the large header from communities and inbox for consistency.
Fixed missing item separators on the profile view.
Fixed issue where tapping the search tab on the search screen crashed the app.

Note: *The inbox view will be improved tomorrow. It's currently not possible to tap through from there to posts/comments. I'll be fixing this and improving the view with information about what post is being replied to, as well as adding an empty state.

In the meantime, please let me know if you encounter any issues with the Inbox.*

I like the ability to remove the comment actions. But is there a way to show whether I’ve already upvoted/downvoted a comment even without the footer?
- Oh good point. I’ll pull out an indicator somewhere.

Just testing, I was told to mention @steve228uk@lemmy.world

Testing replies from the Inbox

I’ve pushed an update to the way images are rendered tonight which I’m hoping will finally (finally), finally (FINALLY) fix the crashing issues caused by GIFs and animated webp images exhausting memory allocation.

I have noticed that it’s broken the full height images option (sorry about that) so I’ll be patching that back in tomorrow.

In the meantime, I’d you encounter any issues with GIFs, please let me know.

This definitely sped up thumbnails for me (unless it’s a placebo effect).
- It might be placebo but it theoretically should have sped them up so that’s good to hear 😄

Today's Changes — July 22nd

Build 2023.07.22.00.35

Added a new image gallery component for multiple images posted in the body of a post or comment.
Added a new "iOS default" blue option
Added an option to hide the thumbnail on text only posts.
Added a new view menu.
Added an option to hide read posts.
Improved Markdown styles.
Improved performance on comment view.
Fixed issues with Card View.
Changed the threshold for the amount of swiping required to dismiss images.
Fixed links not working in post content
Hid the page control on the image viewer when there’s only one image
Added additional link parsing for communities and usernames.
Fixed an issue where logging into an instance with https:// or http:// would crash the app.
Fixed an issue with link metadata being wiped when refreshing or upvoting.

More improvements to commenting and performance will be coming over the weekend.

Thanks for the update!!
Small visual bug with the latest version: the upvote/downvote/reply buttons of the last comment on a post can get hidden behind the menu bar at the bottom of the screen.
- Going to take another look at this tomorrow 😊
I’ve just pushed an additional update with some comment changes/fixes.

Search is now available in the latest build. Please let me know if you encounter any issues.

Spent a few minutes running some random searches. Seemed to work well on this end!
Doesn’t appear to do anything for me. I’m on lemmy.world - might be an instance issue.
- Can you double check you're on the latest build? It should show a screen like this.

Seems like the line spacing is a bit out of whack, definitely not as condensed as it should be (especially obvious in comments).

Are you able to share some screenshots?
- Sure. I’m not sure if I just dreamed it up or something, but I remember there being less space between lines.

Minor feedback on theme:

Is there a way to use accent of the main color theme to color the upvote and reply swipes

At the moment the upvote/and downvote swipe colours match those on the buttons and does change for some themes. The reply colour does need attention as the bookmark one does use the accent.
I’ll give it some attention when I get 5 minutes or am working on new themes.
- I think swapping the Bookmark and Reply colors around (ie Bookmark uses green, Reply uses accent color) would be a pretty good solution.

I find it a bit jarring that to close the gallery preview I have to swipe down - there’s no option to swipe up. This sort of goes against the UX since I want to continue scrolling down the page after looking at a photo. It always catches me out.

I’ll be improving that soon

In the last update, I’m no longer able to pin/unpin communities. I added a lifetime subscription.

I can confirm this. Pins aren’t working for me either.
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.

Just wanted to say the swipe to vote features and the haptic feedback are perfect! I think you guys have it down better than any other Lemmy app at the moment!

Looking forward to future updates. I could see this one being my main for sure!

Thank you! I’m glad you’re enjoying it 😄

I noticed another visual issue with the latest version. This time with the comments. Seems part of the comment can get cut off. See image.

Overall, I’m loving the app more and more with each update. At this point, I can use it to lurk without any real issues. I only need to switch to post or to comment with a photo. There are a few “wishlist” features that I’d love to see. But you’re moving real fast!

What are your wish list features?
- -The ability to make favorite/pinned communities.
  -The ability to have hidden posts show up when inside a community.
  -Mod tools.
  -The ability to edit/delete posts and comments.
  I think those are the big ones.

Comments now work in the profile! Nice.

If I may make a feature request: I think it would be nice to be able to sort comments inside threads.

Yep, that’s on the list! I’m gonna get the post composer to a state where I’m happy and then go back over the long list of things like that, that I want to improve before v1 hits the store.

Some more feedback:

search for comments would be nice
I think the splash screen should only be a skeleton of the tab bar/nav bar. The icon might not fit the user chosen app icon, also it makes the app feel slower. Apple’s HIG also recommends the skeleton
images in the feed should have the full height (otherwise most memes and posts aren’t readable without a tab and dismiss)

Searching comments is on my list.
I know HIG recommends the skeleton but I’ll have the same issue where that splash might not match theme chosen by the user and that’s even more jarring.
There’s a setting for this under Display > Full Height Images
- Thanks :)

Testing the image feature with beans.

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.

- Another vote for Beanpods!
- Beanpod is so fun!!
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!

Still needs swipe to upvote and reply within posts.

I couldn’t find this mentioned elsewhere, but when I go to view all my comments in the profile page, it comes up blank. Viewing my posts works fine.

More GIF changes

Build 2023.08.07.11.30

Added a badge to the card view to show that an image is a GIF.
GIFs are now played in a WebKit view. The transition when opening is glitchy so will be improved soon but… No crashing! (famous last words?)

Not seeing this one in TestFlight.
- Should be pushed out now.
What about converting the GIFs to APNG or WebP?

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.
- Huh weird! I’ll be pushing another build out soon so hopefully that will fix it.

I’m all registered for the notifications. Notify me if you dare!

Yeah my initial implementation was a hot mess. I’ve re-written my scheduler and worker so it should be more reliable. You’ll need to turn notifications off and back on again to re-register and hopefully that will fix it.
- Done. Fingers crossed.
Ping.
- I didn’t get one either. :(
- Push notifications not working for me. To note, never could get them working on Memmy app either.

this is my favourite Lemmy app so far, it feels great!

if I may add a couple bits of feedback:

would it be possible to select the position of the Skip Thread button? I understand that there can be at least 2 buttons down there, but it would be nice to have the flexibility.
swipe actions in comments are great though I feel they trigger rather easily when scrolling down a thread. not sure if others have mentioned this already but maybe reducing sensitivity so the action is more deliberate could improve the experience?
just noticed while typing this that the composer is having some scrolling issue with longer posts? I can't see past a specific point unless I hid the keyboard.

regardless, fantastic work! will there be a tip jar or some pricing model released soon? I'd love to support the app's development in some way

Not sure if you are receiving the crash reports as I don’t see the usual Apple’s crash prompt but scrolling up and down in this mega thread a few time would crash the app.

Also, scrolling fast would show blank spots as well.

Thanks for the report, I’ve been able to replicate the issue and I’m working on a fix.
- Definitely fixed now. Thank you so much.
I came here to report this exact bug.
- The bug is still present in the new version pushed out.

Since the last update, communities and comments haven’t been loading quite right. Always possible that it’s a .world problem, but I’m using Voyager right now without any apparent issue. I’ll try again in a couple hours and see if there are still issues.

Edit: I take it back. More exploring on Voyager reveals the same problems. Looks like it’s a .world issue.

Best part about the new icon set: it feels like I’m giving a cat a little tiny high five with my thumb every time I open the app.

Hi again, your app is getting better and better on each release, thanks! Today I would like to report:

This username appears weird

It should be like this (screen shotted from Memmy)

I’m here just to say THANKS! Great app. I understand that maybe it has some issues, feels a little buggy, but man. It’s an Alpha!!!

I hope that you can keep the development.

Kudos.

lovley app but the keyboard wont appear when i reply ( iphone 11 ios 17)

Can you try the latest build and let me know if it still persists?

Hi, I found another bug: my replies in comments are not being shown under the right parent.

Here’s how it’s shown on Liftoff (and on the web page):

https://i.ibb.co/TPKZHhJ/IMG-0208.png

And here’s what’s on Bean:

https://i.ibb.co/kBtd3Gx/IMG-0209.png

Thanks again for your app

Thanks for the report. This is a known issue and will likely be fixed tomorrow.

A third option for “view” in the main page would be great. Right now we either have the full view with a larger photo and article preview, or a really condensed one with the thumbnail on the left and a headline.

Not sure what it would look like, but maybe something in between the 2?

Also, a full BLACK/Dark mode would be great. Right now, some of the app still has a grayer UI in some spots.

Wow, looks good!

Wish list:

Swipe right anywhere on the screen to go back. Not just from the left screen border. (This is what made Apollo spectacular)
Change font size: being able to have HUGE fonts would be nice, not just kind of large (as like now, only tiny).
Tap comment to collapse it and all below.

Thank you.

Text size is now available in the latest build!
Swiping anywhere is on my wish list, I just need to figure out how that behaves in tandem with swipe gestures on the individual rows.

Posting comments will be coming in the next build. This comment was posted from Bean 😁

A new build (2023.7.19.22.28) is rolling out to TestFlight now.

Changelog

Posts, Communities, and Users no longer hide the tab bar.
Added the ability to comment on posts. Replying to comments is coming soon.
Fixed post context menu not working.
Fixed toasts appearing in the wrong place on non-translucent themes.
Fixed scrolling to top offsetting incorrectly in non-translucent themes.

How do I up/downvote comments?

This will be coming in a future build. Tomorrow's build will likely feature changes to comments.
- Ok great thanks! On a positive note, it looks bloody lovely. I’m very impressed with the layout and UI. A few suggestions that are on my wish list for any Lemmy app:
  A darkish mode: white text on black can be quite jarring. I’d prefer a white on a dark grey option.
  Swipe gestures: I’d like full page swipe to go back and turn off any comment swiping up/down vote gestures.
  Communities need to be in alphabetical order
  Search button, click on it, it should put the cursor into the search box so I can immediately start typing.
  I’m sure the list of people’s wants/needs will be massive. Great job so far!!

This is really promising! Obviously missing some major features, but damn is it sexy. When we can comment and vote on comments, this might already be good enough to be my main Lemmy browser app. Great start!

Can we get an option to hide read posts?

Yep, I'll add it to the list!
- Thank you for adding this!

Hi again, thanks for your work, the app is getting better on each release. I found something else: the voting bar on the last comment is being hidden by the bottom navigation bar, so I can’t vote or comment on it:

https://share.internxt.com/sh/file/94007dae0256a82ec1b8/c7d03336ba0d24ea05446a719f95b65d9506d350071e5af460ad8f498bd95ac6

Thanks for reporting! I’ll fix this and the issues with dark mode tomorrow 😊
- Fixed, thanks!
Also, for some reason, if I try to scroll to the bottom of this post, the app exits without any error prompts:
https://share.internxt.com/sh/file/2ddc273f1ec7788914d0/9c90f420ad1298e41017b0cb5f31bd3dc4398ac5181bc99a4871874e74f9d31e
- Can you test this one on the build I’ve just pushed? I have worked a lot on the comments to fix a memory leak and the order issue.

Hello. Me again. I’m on the latest build, I believe. A couple more notes and thoughts.

-Love the ability to hide read posts. But is it possible to disable the feature inside communities? In other words, they would be hidden on the main feed, but if you click into a specific community, your read posts would not be hidden.

-Long community names seem to cause a visual issue. See image.

Cheers for the heads up on the community names, I'll fix that one tomorrow!
I'll rework the hiding read posts tomorrow to add that as an additional option.

Bean crashes when viewing images from image galleries.

For example, this post: https://lemmy.world/post/925265

I’ve not been able to replicate this. What device are you using and are you on the latest build?
- iPhone SE 3rd generation. Bean build 2023.7.22.2.35
  Does not crash if I open the first image in the gallery.
  Crashes if I open any of the other images in the gallery.
  Also it does not crash if I open the first image and then swipe through to the other images.

It seems none of the links at Trending Communities are working for me. Do you know if it’s an issue with how they do their links, or something that can be adjusted on Bean?

They come back with “Unmatched Route.”

Thank you, I’ll fix it!

Closing Bean pauses any music that’s playing.

Steps to reproduce:

Play music from the Music app (or any other app)
Upvote a post or comment on Bean
Exit Bean by pressing the home button or the home gesture.

The music that’s playing would now pause.

Thanks for the report, I’ll add it to the list.

Don’t know if I’m being really dumb, but I can’t find any way to post to a community. I can reply to comments, but not actually make a post. Also, the search tab has no search box, but is just an empty page with the word “Search” and no way to actually search for anything.

Read the known issues in the megathread post you are replying to. It is not yet possible to create posts yet. Search is not supported either.

Refreshing too fast and too frequent when filtering the read posts.

The list keeps shifting up and down when scrolling and looking at posts.

I recommend that you filter on user’s manual refresh, not do this automatically.

Since Steve is amazingly adding more features to knock out our requests, I’ll add more requests.

Can we get collapsible threads?

Thanks.

This is on the list! Hoping to get it added tomorrow

When creating a new post, for some reason it says “2m from now”.

And, not to bombard you, but there seems to be an issue with replies showing up. I know there are a few replies to my comment shown in the image, but they’re not appearing in Bean. It seems to be a problem in posts with a lot of comments, at least as far as I can tell.

I can confirm this one. I also can’t see the same pin/unpin comment thread you posted the screenshot of.
Fix incoming!
- Fix works!
This seems to be a .world issue at the moment as I’m having trouble loading them there too 😖

Bean doesn’t seem to recognize the ! links.

See post here: https://lemmy.world/post/2020542

There doesn’t seem to be a way to refresh the profile tab.

If I want to reply to the OP-Post I can’t swipe it but have to press the little speech bubbe/ comment count.
it would be a nice QOL feature to open posts by clicking anywhere instead of the headline only (card layout).
I can’t see my comments in my own profile (maybe .world problem).
I can’t find the button to create a post in a community

If I want to reply to the OP-Post I can’t swipe it but have to press the little speech bubbe/ comment count.
You should be able to press the floating action button in the bottom right to reply to the post.
Comments on profiles is in the known issues list along with new posts.
I’ll look to improve the card layout soon.
- Thank you. Relaunching the app got me the floating buttons. Haven’t seen them before.
I’m on lemm.ee and also can’t see the comments on my profile.
New post creation has not been released yet.

Would it be possible to make the color thread-lines thicker? I can not really make differentiate the different colors as of now!

Bumping these back up to 2pt in today's build

Will you consider building Lemmy search into the app? https://www.search-lemmy.com/ I feel like this could be a really useful tool

This looks like it uses the standard search API but allows you to define an instance you’d like to search. I think I could integrate a similar feature but I’d like to allow folks to explore other instances without having an account there too

I'm having problems with the communities tab in the most recent release. Entries are sometimes getting duplicated or showing out of order, and I'm experiencing stuttering and slow loading. The app is slow to respond if I try to navigate away from the communities tab- sometimes taking several clicks or seconds to respond- while responsiveness in other tabs is normal. The battery usage has also been noticeably higher than before. I'm on an iPhone 11 pro, 16.5.1.

The duplication seemed to continue the longer I stayed in the tab and would cause jumping to other areas without any input on my part.
Duplicate entries are clickable links that lead to the correct communities.
The issue seems worse the more communities I'm subscribed to. I'll attach screenshots from the account with the most subscriptions, but other accounts show only one or two duplicates and my account with the fewest subscriptions didn't have any issues. I unsubscribed from a few on this account and am no longer seeing duplicate entries but am still experiencing the slow loading/high battery usage.
Unrelated but certain subscriptions are missing from the tab, notably !kbinMeta@kbin.social. This community shows up under my communities in other apps I'm testing, but not in Bean; maybe because the display name starts with a / and the other apps are sorting by the actual link?

That’s really weird!! I’ve not experienced this myself. I know it’s a pain but would you mind deleting the app and reinstalling?
- Sure, I tried deleting and reinstalling and was not able to reproduce the duplication issue, though the slow loading/page jumping around/lack of responsiveness is still present.
  Out of curiosity I tried subscribing to a new community and the bug reappeared, though not as bad this time:
  I tried reinstalling again and the bug still persisted. I then unsubscribed from a community bringing my subscription count to 200 and that seems to have resolved the duplicate entries for now.

Blocking communities doesn’t work.

I also wanted to test if I can block users, but no menu shows when I press the three dots in the top right in user profiles (the settings button on my profile works).

Edit: also, there’s a visual glitch when scrolling to the top of a profile: https://streamable.com/j10p8g

Blocking is on the list; just getting some of the bigger features sorted but it'll be there for 1.0. The visual glitch is the translucent bar disappearing. It looks a little weird with no image banner so I might see about changing it so it fades in and out sooner.
- The visual glitch (or at least a similar one) also occurs on my device on profiles with an image banner.

Missing menu option:

If I disable the “Create post” floating button, I can still create a new post from the menu.

If I disable the “Reply” floating button, there is no menu option (or any other way) to reply to a post.

You can reply by clicking the icon on comments icon on that screen but I'll add a mention option 😄
- Ah! I did not expect that icon to work that way, but maybe I’m just dumb.

Bug Report:

I have the theme set to “automatic” but the app doesn’t switch from light mode or to dark mode unless it’s forced closed and re-opened. Most other apps seem to switch as soon as you open them, even if they haven’t been force closed and closed by iOS.

Thank you! This one is on my list but hasn’t been a high priority. I’ll likely get it fixed in 1.0.1

Full height image preview seems to have stopped working in latest build. I’m seeing clipped images even with the option toggled on. Worked fine in previous build. This post is one example:

https://lemmy.world/post/2676679

Running into a bug where images don’t load in the feed (seemingly random) but load fine when post is opened. This is one example of a post that showed a blank image icon until clicked

https://lemmy.ca/post/2617601

I know some instances like .world were having issues with thumbnail generation so this may be related. That being said, today’s build changes the way images are rendered in the background so please let me know if you see this frequently and I’ll investigate more.

There’s some issue with the time on the posts. It doesn’t match up with the time posted when opening the post.

Edit: just noticed as well, on the first pic 2 posts down from the one circled says “10 mins from now”. In the future?

Weird one! I know about the "from now" issue.
As for the other, I'll see what's being returned from the API. I wonder if the listing of posts returns something different to the single post endpoint.

I like it more with each update, but it still crashes on my iPad 7, iOS 16.5.1, after 5-10 min.

Oh, that’s no good! Is it happening when performing a certain action?
- Seems to happen just scrolling the feed. Goes blip & im back to my Home Screen. I like what you’re doing, I’ll keep using it.

The sounds used for up/downvotes aren’t all that pleasant, if I’m being honest. Maybe it’s the volume, maybe it’s something else.

At some point I plan on doing sound packs so people will have options.
- Sounds good, thanks!

Hey Steve. I’m guessing the “Surf” theme is a placeholder? It doesn’t seem to do anything.

Oops! Yeah, that one wasn’t meant to be push out yet 🙈

I’m encountering a really weird problem while testing out the image upload. When I compose my reply, it looks as if everything is fine. However, my comment is repeatedly getting published to the wrong post once it actually goes through. I went ahead and deleted the comments once I noticed but I’m including a screenshot of the post it got published to. It looks like one of @infinite_zero’s test images also ended up on that post?

I thought it might have been a reloading issue after switching accounts (from lemm.ee since the image uploads are restricted to 100kb) so I tried again and made sure to refresh and navigate back to this community/thread before trying to reply. However the reply continued to go to that other post even after doing so. I’ve switched to the web to upload the images and make this comment.

Hopefully that makes sense but let me know if there’s anything I can clarify. I’m really excited about this app so far!

Would you be able to run a few of tests for me?
Post an image without switching accounts.
Switch accounts and then post an image.
Create a new post and see if it’s just comments that are the issue.
Create a comment without an image.
It would be a big help! ❤️
- Okay, I've spammed a ton of beans!
  Top-level reply image
  Top-level reply image after switching
  New image post
  Top-level reply without image, screenshot - weirdly this is the problematic one this time, this comment went to the kbin post again.
  I also replied to this comment from two accounts to see if there's a difference if it's a reply to a comment vs a reply to a post
  Very strange. So I'm not able to reproduce the problem consistently and it's also happening with text comments? I did notice some additional weird behavior:
  After switching accounts and returning to view the thread, all of the replies have disappeared and all of the community content is missing. Pulling down to refresh the content doesn't help but navigating away and back via the community tab several times restores the content.
  After switching accounts and returning to the community, the kbin post shows up in place of the megathread. Clicking through to the post leads here, to this megathread.
- (Image after switching account)
Oh wow, that is really weird. I’d presumed it was the ID of the post somehow ended up the same but that doesn’t seem to be the case. I wonder if because it’s a Kbin post I’d that makes any difference.
Does writing a text comment here cause the same issue or was it just image uploads?
- Oh they might have the same ID on different instances 🤔
  I’ll see if I can replicate the issue. Sounds like you might be right with the multi account being a factor though.

Image uploads are broken: JSON Parse error: Unexpected token: <

Bean: 2023.8.1.1.14 iOS: 16.5.1 (c)

This is usually a server issue. Have you had problems uploading to your instance on the mobile site?
I was able to make an image post, but it definitely wasn’t as smooth as usual. I had to reload the app to see my post.
- Please let me know if this persists. My guess is it’s linked to .world outages.

Changelog: July 31st

Build 2023.07.31.17.18

Fixed a bug that caused the app to crash if metadata could not be fetched.
GIFs are no longer animated in the list view and only within the ImageViewer. This was causing a massive memory issue that crashed not only Bean but also Springboard.
Added a new theme: Twinkle.
Added context menus to posts — press and hold.

I see what you did there with the Twinkle theme. Very nice.
- I’m glad you like it 😄
Hi,
I have been testing bean app from quite some time
I’m also testing few other apps for Lemmy along with bean ( not gonna lie )..
So far bean has been one of the best app for Lemmy in-terms of UI and it’s very snappy..
But my only concern is that in-terms of battery usage i feel it consumes more compared to the other apps I’m testing with the similar usage patterns..
Just bringing it to your notice just in case if you could look into improvising on this..
Thanks and totally appreciate your hard work and time on this.
- Thanks for the heads up. I’ve not done any real profiling on the app yet so I can’t really comment on this at the moment.
  I will be ahead of the 1.0 release on the App Store and hopefully that will reveal any energy usage spikes.
I’m going to be improving this in the coming days as it looks like the conversion from UIImage -> SDAnimatedImage is blocking the UI thread currently.
I’ll push that to a separate queue, show a loading indicator on the ImageViewer and add a badge to show that it’s a GIF.
But… at least I’m not crashing Springboard any more 🙈
Since I didn’t get the previous build via TestFlight, I’ve got a request on one of the changes from that one: Can we get some haptic feedback for the press and hold pop up account changer? For some reason, it feels like it should be there to me.
- Yeah, I’ll look at adding that.

Some links have way too long of a preview. Is there a way to cut it off? This is on the feed.

Yeah I’ve noticed this. I think I’m gonna truncate it to the opengraph standard because some of these sites just seem to completely ignore the spec.
- You’re on top of it! I’m also having trouble picking which theme to stay on. But that’s a problem for me to solve.

Small issue. But I have sound effects turned on in settings. When I upvote something there is an audio tone. However, when I put my phone into silent mode via the switch on the side of the iPhone, I still get an audio tone when I upvote something.

I turned off sound effects for now, but I think the app audio settings should be overridden by the phone settings (silent mode in this instance).

Let me know if you need more info.

Thanks!

Agreed, it should be silent when the phone is silent. This isn’t something that I’d experienced but I’ll see if I can replicate it.
- Appreciate it. If there’s any more info I can provide just let me know.

Suddenly I’m unable to post links. It keeps saying invalid url.

This should now be fixed
It looks like the changes I made for the share extension have broken it in app! Either share from your browser using the extension or I’ll push a fix later today.

Can the card view be the default view when the app first starts? So much of the content is visual and the compact view doesn’t do that any favors. Even in the card view some images are clipped more than I’d like. Tapping each post as you scroll by certainly is taxing.

It should remember your selection, is it not doing that?
- It does! I just meant imo that should be the default and one should have to choose the compact experience.

(Test image)

(Test image after switching)

Hi, so far seems great! I’d like to request some new features, but won’t do that now, so I’ll focus on something I found while scrolling, it flickers sometimes. I’m on iOS, scrolling through beehaw with the default app settings

Also, I welcome any feature requests! It's best to get them in now 😄
- Hi, I’ll give you one then: Auto-hide the top bar and the bottom navigation on scrolling, that will give a more full screen (maybe immersive is the right word) experience while using your app 🙂
Are you able to let me know which device you're using? Are you using the compact or card view for posts? Is it slow rendering of the rows or flickering of thumbnails?
- I forgot to mention I set the full height images config flag, so it wasn’t the default configs as I said yesterday, sorry about that
- Hi, sorry for the late answer. I’m using an iPhone 14 (the regular one), and card views. I’ll test with another instance to check if this also happens there 🙂
- Here’s a video of the issue:
  https://share.internxt.com/sh/file/56fdb5767cc0b63d4f5a/b9afd2ca3047db835fa0e31d7edf8e7450704e89911b302394a045d8ac7e9821
  Edit: I’m using the latest TestFlight version

There's a bug that downvotes/upvotes of my own posts are not displayed correctly, even after force restarting the app/ reloading that post