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
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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
build 2023.07.26.00.32
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
A couple more fixes are incoming:
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.
Build 2023.08.02.01.29
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.
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!
Build 2023.08.06.22.41
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Push notifications are now also functioning as expected. Please test and let me know if you encounter issues.
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.
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
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 😄
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.
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.
Testing the image feature with beans.
Build 2023.08.01.01.14
Name suggestion i'd say bean-pod or community-pod lol.
Another vote for Beanpods!
build 2023.07.27.16.16
Any feedback on the post composer is welcomed