Hey Everyone,

First of all, I owe you an apology for the lack of updates and communication from me. I totally understand the frustration from everyone and the feeling that the rug’s been pulled out from under you.

I’m not going to many any excuses, I can only express my apologies and plans to rectify this moving forward.

Next week, I will be working to fix some of the issues highlighted in this community: chiefly the inbox issues and switching to using the Authorization header now that Lemmy has made the change.

After that, I want to work with you all again as I did during the beta testing phase to figure out what priorities should be.

I of course, don’t expect anyone to take my word any face value but I hope that actions speak louder than words and that you’ll bear with me while I pick development back up on Bean.

It’s pretty late here in the UK but I didn’t want to head to sleep while everyone was expressing their concerns.

• Steve

Hey Everyone!

I’m submitting a small update (1.0.7) to the App Store today that changes the following:

• Added new theme: Sky
• Added an option to hide or show usernames on the feed.
• Bookmarks no longer hide read posts.
• Fixed format bar on comments covering text.

Apologies for the delay on getting an update out to you all, hopefully I’m fully recovered from being sick and ready to get some more stuff out to you all soon.

I’m still working on messaging which will hopefully be in 1.1 soon. After that, priority will be iPad with smaller patches for bug fixes in between.

Thank you so much for the support and welfare checks while I was gone. I really appreciate you all ❤️

Hey everyone!

Just a heads up that the sale on Bean Pro Lifetime will be ending tomorrow, 31st August 2023. The price will be rising to $49.99 so if you were thinking of picking it up at the 40% discount, now is your last chance (for a while)!

I also want to take this opportunity to say a massive thank you to everyone that has supported me in the last couple of weeks. It’s been a extremely overwhelming to see people subscribing to Bean Pro, leaving reviews, or spreading the word about the app.

I made Bean for me and it’s so cool to see other people using it too!

Messaging should be coming next week, but I’ll be taking some time this weekend to knock off some of the smaller issues like automatic theme switching and layout issues in the composer on some devices.

— Steve ❤️

Submitted to App Review…

• Added Translation menu items for posts and comments.
• Fixed the Blur Images setting not saving correctly.
• Fixed “Browser” option not working on post context menu.
• Fixed issue with html entities in push notifications.
• More efficiently calculate drop shadows.

I've not been able to replicate any kind of memory leak or crashing on my side but I did notice the way I was handling shadows may have caused issues. I'm hoping that the changes I've made today will improve performance.

I've also started work on messaging and that will be coming in the next couple of days as well as some refinement on the inbox and push notifications (it's glitchy and annoying me at the moment).

Made this one for my mum’s birthday. Lemon sponge cake with lemon frosting and topped with fresh raspberries and lemon zest.

Just submitted to App Review and set to automatically release. Hopefully won't be too long!

• Fixed missing icons on older versions of iOS.
• Fixed long press for account picker not working when tab labels were turned off.
• Reverted automatic link detection for the time being due to some issues with the regex.

Rolling out to the App Store now

• Fixed html entities not decoded on link previews.
• Added options to show avatar and community icons on posts.
• Fixed issue with spacing on the inbox.
• Improved markdown parsing to add links to users and communities.

Hi All,

I'm looking for testers for the iPad version of Bean as currently it's a bit of a mess…

I've started work on switching over to things like split views there but there's a lot of work to be done and I want the app to be a first class citizen on the platform.

This means supporting things like keyboard short cuts, Split View, multi-window, and more.

If you're interested in testing please leave a comment with the following information:

• iPad Model
• iOS Version
• Whether you use a keyboard

I'll DM you a link to the limited TestFlight once it's been approved by Apple for testing.

Of course, if anyone has suggestions for what else could be improved on iPad, I'm all ears. I don't own one so I only know so much!

Releasing on the App Store now:

• New theme: Dracula
• New icons: Lime and Wild Berry
• Fixed issue with audio playback being paused when Bean was backgrounded.
• Fixed issue that caused an empty response to be returned when read posts was activated.
• Fixed an issue that could cause a crash when hide read posts on scroll was activated.

v1.0.2 rolling out to the App Store now.

• Added a setting to mark posts as read when scrolling past them.
• Read posts are now only hidden on refresh to stop the screen jumping.
• Truncated the text in link preview cards to 200 characters.
• Fixed multiple spoiler tags collapsing into a single tag.
• Fixed marking posts as read when viewing an image.
• Fixed image gallery not always appearing on post view.
• Fixed positioning of community selector and + button on the composer on some devices.
• Fixed pull to refresh indicator missing after first use.
• Renamed Harry icon to Xander.

Hi All, I’ll be resetting the TestFlight list tomorrow and will be putting a link out for a smaller test group moving forward soon.

If you’re still using the TestFlight version of Bean, please switch to the App Store version to continue using it.