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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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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
progressiveLoadandscaleDownLargeImagesoptions 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.
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
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.
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.
Digging the new icons as well. I’ll check out the artist’s insta!
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 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
Tap to collapse comments is no longer working for me.
D’oh! I undid the fix. Will sort today.
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.
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.
Name suggestion i’d say bean-pod or community-pod lol.
Beanpod is so fun!!
Another vote for Beanpods!
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.
I’m all registered for the notifications. Notify me if you dare!
Ping.
Push notifications not working for me. To note, never could get them working on Memmy app either.
I didn’t get one either. :(
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.
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.
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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 :)
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 😄
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.
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.
