Bean @lemmy.world steve228uk @lemmy.world 1y ago

Dev Update

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

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Glad to hear from you. Hoping to see you stick to your word. I love the UI of Bean, but hoping to see it continue to deliver on features such as iPad layout support improvements to the grouped community feature.
Lets keep it short and relatable: welcome back.
I don't actually use Bean, as I'm on android, but I have remained subbed to the community out of interest. I don't think you need to apologise, everyone has a real life that takes priority, so I'm sure everyone will just be happy to hear that you're back, & will be pushing on with the development of your popular app. Good luck 👍🏼
- What you probably don't know is that they sold lifetime subs to Bean, hyped on a multireddit-like functionality that was rather broken, and then pretty much bailed.
  
  I haven't used Bean after they closed test flight. When I saw pricing for the app I stayed subscribed to this community due to morbid curiosity because even then it looked very sus (app kept falling behind competition while being more expensive).
  
  I wonder why anyone is using it when some other clients are free and miles ahead, some of which are similar in design. Buyer's remorse probably.
  
  I use it because the UI is cleaner, IMO. There’s a polish to the UI that other apps just don’t seem to get close to (how many use back buttons on the top left instead of a hamburger menu?)
  
  I wasn't actually aware that this was a paid app, but isn't that something of an iOS thing....there always seems to be more paid apps on there, as opposed to android...🤷🏻‍♂️
Welcome back Steve! I still use bean daily so exciting to hopefully see some development again :)
Looking forward to seeing more updates!
Welcome back!
Thanks mate! Please add widget support and I'll resubscribe to premium version. Cheers

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