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Hey 👋 I've been working on a new Lemmy client called Bean for the last few weeks and I've put out an early beta.
It's missing some features at the moment but I'm working to get it feature complete by early next week and would appreciate some feedback as I develop!
You can find out more over at !bean@lemmy.world but here are a few screenshots.
Let me know what you think if you do check it out.
My god that icon is beautiful haha
Thanks so much! There's a few variants in the settings 😄
Nice dab at the official app!
This looks great, so polished already!
There's one thing missing that I've noticed a lot of Lemmy clients are missing that I used extensively in reddit clients, and that's the button to skip to the next level comment. It makes long comment threads much nicer to read. Any chance we could get that added?
A couple of people have mentioned this today so I’ve added it to my list 😊
Nice, time to flick the bean.
I tried it. The interface is fast and clean and looks like native iOS app.
I just can’t seem to upvote or downvote comments.
However despite that, your app is one to watch out for. Congrats and keep up the good work!
I'll give it a good flick.
Damn I'm late for my own joke
So I’m basically running all the current iOS apps and up until now Memmy has been the smoothest, until I tried Bean, I don’t know what you’ve done but there is absolutely zero scroll lag, which is the most important part of any app for me, looks great too
Looks incredible! I'm on Android but just wanted to say how nice your app looks. Great work (and amazing app name, hahah)
ok no one cancel me but i think i like it better than memmy, and ive been stuck on memmy for weeks now
it reminds me of alien blue from years ago!! i'm really excited to dig in and start using it!!
edit: i did have to change the icon bc as a woman, a pink bean looks like a vaguely sexual app lol so i picked tutti frutti
I’m definitely not going to cancel you 😇
Memmy is amazing, but the latest update was a step back with respect to bugs so I switched to Mlem for the last few days. The Memmy developers were releasing updates once a day though so that couldn’t sustain forever. I’m sure the app will bounce back.
That being said, the little bit of time I have used bean it’s been very impressive, I already seeing this be my go to Lemmy app. The app is polished and has a lot of features so far! Great work!
I agree. I’m still on Memmy for now, but with a few more features Bean could take the lead for me. It just seems very clean.
Extremely well done! Can’t wait to see where this goes. Downloaded and will keep up with the progress.
One feature I’ve been dreadfully missing from Reddit apps is the “jump to next popular reply” button in a thread (if that’s the correct way to describe that)
Wow I’m in, it’s really slick
Thank you! 😄
Lookin' like a baked bean...
A BAKED... A BAKED BEAN‽
Another one! (DJ Khaled’s voice) Looking really nice! Beans, hehe. I get that reference. Looking forward to seeing it grow!
This is shaping up to be one of the top apps, looks and feels like native iOS! there's a few things I noted are missing and haven't been reported yet so here's a list before I forget. Hopefully some can make it into a future release:
So far, it’s pretty awesome! Love the Beans icon I can use haha. Good job!
When I saw the most upvoted post, how could I not 😂
Hi, thanks for posting (and with the Self Promo tag!). I've added your app to the pinned post.
Just a quick reminder with the new rule clarification around self promo, this is the only post allowed for this app. Future posts should be in your own community. Speaking of, it looks like your post's community link has an additional !bean at the beginning (!bean[!bean@lemmy.world](/c/bean@lemmy.world)). The web UI is currently linking fine and ignoring the first part, but it might be broken with different parsers.
Thanks for the heads up, I’ll get that fixed! 😊
And I really appreciate the rule on self promo, thank you so much for allowing it ❤️
I’ve signed up. Tested it really quick - and it looks great.
Can’t get search to work - no input? And I sure would love filtering/sorting options for top posts within x-hours like on wefwef 👍
Edit: I also can’t see my comments.
Downloaded and like every app I go looking for the option to increase the font size. Sadly like most Lemmy apps this seems to not be high on the list for early releases . Can’t test it if I can barley see the text in the post and comments without squinting.
Hopefully it is high on the list of things to add. Until them it is still Memmy for me.
Memmy. Memmy is basically what I feel the most put together 3rd party app out there. It’s what I use and it’s on the App Store.
Heads up, a build with the font size slider is rolling out to TestFlight now!
If you didn't know, you can actually increase font size for any iPhone app individually. If you go to Settings > Control Centre and add Text Size, you can change it per app.
This is looking VERY promising!!!! Really digging it so far.
This has to be my favourite lemmy app at the moment. Incredible work! Feels very native to ios. Extremely polished for something that’s still in testflight.
Will most certainly be buying this app when it comes out.
Swiping media away is hit or miss right now but I’m sure things will improve in due time.
Impressive stuff man!
I just downloaded it and used it for a bit, and I’m really impressed. It is going to be fantastic once the rest of the basic features are added. I currently can’t upvote comments in Bean (is it just me??), so I probably won’t be using it much yet, but I can already tell it will be my preferred Lemmy client.
Not just you! This is coming in the next couple of days.
This is beautiful, really amazing work. Shows a good number of articles on the screen at once (even on a 13 mini)! Clean, simple, great options. Everything I want in an app.
Also, thank you so much for the Pride app icon options. It’s a little thing, but it assures me that the developer is thoughtful and open-minded. 💖
Wow, this looks beautiful! Love the selection of icons, too. It already feels great and I can tell this is gonna be stellar. Just being able to pin communities is something I really missed from Apollo/reddit so it's rad that you've already got it in there! 🙌
Edit: Any chance we can get rotation when viewing images so we can view them in landscape? As an older lady my close vision is going and I often need to go landscape to see/read things better. :)
Writing this from Bean, and from my short time with it I do like it. Bright future ahead for all the fediverse and Lemmy apps!
Thank you! I too am writing this from Bean ❤️
Holy shit dude, I was not expecting to be blown away by your super smooth app! This will give Memmy a run for its money..
I have a few remarks, tapping on the "comments" section in my profile does not render them properly!
The themes and app icons are awesome!
While I can use the stock CC slider for font size, it would be nice to have in Bean settings, especially since fonts are in one of the logos inside settings 😄
Just DL the TestFlight. Gorgeous app, feels very slick and native feeling. Will continue to test and give feedback as it matures.
holy shit this app has potential! Will keep an eye on it