Welcome to this week’s Online+ Bulletin, where we track new features, performance updates, and standout moments from the decentralized world of Online+, brought to you by ION’s Product Lead, Yuliia.
🌐 Gambaran keseluruhan
Today marks the Online+ Bulletin’s first anniversary — and the past week felt like a fitting way to close a year of keeping you updated, with three significant things moving forward at once, all of them mattering.
The latest Tokenized Communities build was shared with beta testers, with feedback confirming that the core mechanics are working as intended. The remaining work is refinement ahead of launch, with adjustments to token migration to pool and price mechanics rather than any fundamental changes. Separately, PUMPit, the new Chrome extension bringing Online+’s social and trading features directly into X, entered closed beta, with early tester feedback positive. ION also went live on BNB Smart Chain, marking the beginning of a new phase for the broader ecosystem.
On the features and fixes front, updates landed across Feed, Wallet, Chat, Token Page, Explore Tokens, Profile, Auth, and Security. Key additions include external app sharing to Online+, in-app notifications from followed users, and token-enabled comments, alongside a broad set of stability and UX fixes across modules.
The week ahead keeps the focus on all three tracks: validating and tightening Tokenized Communities ahead of launch, processing PUMPit beta feedback, and supporting the ION BSC listing. A new app release is also due, bringing fixes across Chat, Feed, Profile, and Wallet.
Now in our 53rd edition, the product is live, the ecosystem is growing, and the pace hasn’t let up. This week’s Extra, Extra looks back at the year in numbers — 1,693 improvements across 52 weeks — and goes behind the scenes with Yuliia in a special, triple ‘Extra’ section.
🛠️ Kemas Kini Utama
Here’s what we’ve been working on this week to keep Online+ smooth, stable, and evolving with fresh features, optimizations, and under-the-hood improvements.
Kemas Kini Ciri:
- Auth → Improved account restore flow so users create a new backup after restoration.
- Token page → Enabled full-view display of creator avatars on the creator token page.
- Feed → Added ability to share content to Online+ from external apps (e.g., X).
- Feed → Enabled sharing images to Online+ directly from external apps.
- Feed → Added NSFW filter for articles.
- Feed → Introduced in-app notifications from followed users whose notifications you subscribe to.
- Feed → Enabled tokens for comments.
Pembetulan Pepijat:
- Wallet → Fixed position not updating after fully selling a token.
- Wallet → Corrected list of available coins when selecting ICE BSC in swap.
- Wallet → Long token names now truncate correctly in transaction details.
- Wallet → Corrected swap Buy field showing zero balance despite available coins.
- Wallet → Fixed inability to swap two coins within the same network (ARB → ETH).
- Wallet → Addressed search not clearing properly in the swap coin selection modal.
- Wallet → Previously hidden TC tokens can now be found easily in Manage Coins.
- Wallet → Resolved keyboard not closing on certain iOS devices.
- Chat → Corrected story reaction display so replies appear properly in chat.
- Chat → Aligned “Edited” label correctly in messages.
- Chat → Corrected push notification text for story reactions.
- Token Page → Reduced excessive spacing on content token pages with carousels.
- Token Page → Adjusted bookmark modal size.
- Token Page → Fixed sorting issues after pull-to-refresh.
- Explore Tokens → Restored verified badges in token lists.
- Explore Tokens → Corrected search failing after consecutive queries.
- Feed → Restored proper display of stories when scrolling.
- Feed → Disabled video sound when accessing Token Page from videos launched as tokens.
- Feed → Video filter now excludes TC tokens as intended.
- Feed → Corrected dialog behavior when editing articles.
- Feed → Eliminated double audio when opening videos in full view.
- Feed → Adjusted NSFW filter inconsistencies between testnet and mainnet.
- Feed → Fixed issue preventing creator tokens from being shared to stories.
- Feed → Corrected profile picture mismatch in token launch push notifications.
- Feed → Fixed duplicated TC push notifications.
- Feed → Restored ability to close bookmark modal with many folders.
- Feed → Deleted posts no longer appear after feed refresh.
- Profile → Resolved performance issue when opening token pages with GIF posts.
- Profile → Updated cashtag styling in bios to match mentions for TC tokens.
- Profile → Restored ability to bookmark your own posts.
- Security → Corrected checkbox state when multiple backup options are enabled.
💬 Yuliia's Take
Maybe it was all the hard work coming to fruition, or maybe the planets also aligned for the Bulletin’s birthday — but last week was PHENOMENAL. Everything just came together.
We shared a new Tokenized Communities build with our beta testers, and the feedback told us what we needed to hear: the core is working, and working well. What’s left is adjustments — real, but not fundamental ones. After months of building something this complex, that distinction matters a lot.
We also opened the closed beta for PUMPit, our new Chrome extension that brings Online+’s social and trading features directly into X. Early feedback from testers has been positive — and seeing people get it straight away made that very clear.
Then ION went live on BNB Smart Chain and started trading on PancakeSwap, which was a huge moment that’s hard to fully absorb when you’re heads down on fixes and test builds. But it changed the scale we’re operating at, and we’ll feel the full weight of that over the coming weeks.
For now, the focus is the same across Tokenized Communities, PUMPit, and ION on BSC: stabilize, validate, tighten. Three big things running at once, and the job is to make sure none of them have loose ends when it counts.
Good, busy days ahead.
PS: To help us out on the BSC front, give the 🚀 and 🔥 buttons in the right panel here a click — ours is the background work, but it’s your input that propels ION and Online+.
🎂 Extra, Extra — One Year, 1,693 Reasons to Keep Going
Fifty-two bulletins. 461 new features. 1,232 bugs fixed. 1,693 improvements in total — roughly 33 every single week, for an entire year without a single Monday off.
Behind those numbers is a story about what it actually takes to build a social media platform from scratch — through a beta, a public launch, an ecosystem migration, and into the most ambitious feature the product has ever seen. Here’s how the year breaks down:
Feed led the way by a distance, accounting for nearly 39% of all work — over 660 improvements across features and fixes. For a social media app, the feed is the product, and the numbers reflect that.
Wallet and Chat were essentially tied for second, at around 310 improvements each. That balance is intentional: Online+ was never just a social platform or just a financial tool — it’s both, and the work of the past year treated them that way.
Bug fixes outpaced new features roughly 3:1 — and that’s the hallmark of a team that listens. Every one of those 1,232 fixes is a direct response to the community: a piece of real-world feedback heard, acted on, and shipped. That’s not maintenance, that’s a product being shaped by the people it’s built for.
And the infrastructure tells its own story: in the General category, features outpaced fixes more than 3:1 — the inverse of almost everything else. While the community was stress-testing what was visible, the team was quietly building the foundations that make everything else possible.
And through all of it, the bulletin showed up every Monday. Partnership announcements in the early beta weeks. Launch week. Post-launch milestones. Community calls to action. The numbers tell one side of the story. The other is behind the scenes, in our special, anniversary Extra, Extra, Extra section below.
🔮 Minggu Hadapan
The focus this week is firmly on Tokenized Communities and PUMPit.
For Tokenized Communities, the priority is the migration to pool and price adjustments for tokens — the final mechanics that need to be solid before launch. For PUMPit, the team will be working through the feedback coming in from closed beta testers, translating early reactions into concrete improvements while the feature is still in its most malleable stage.
In parallel, work around the ION BSC listing continues. With ION now live, we’re working to ensure everything around it is stable, well-supported, and ready for the activity that comes with it.
A new app version is also on its way this week, bringing a fresh round of fixes across Chat, Feed, Profile, and Wallet — the kind of steady, across-the-board refinement that keeps the everyday experience sharp while the bigger features move towards launch.
🎤 Extra, Extra, Extra — One Year in Four Questions to Yuliia
The bulletin has always been Yuliia’s — her voice, her take, her weekly account of what it takes to build Online+. The Extra section is a little different: it’s where the broader team zooms out to share what’s happening beyond the dev work. This week, we pointed that lens inward — and put four questions to Yuliia directly. Here’s what she had to say:
1,693 improvements over a year. Which single one are you most proud of, and why?
The ICE (BSC) to ION (BSC) swap. Not just because of what it was, but because of what went into it.
We had a hard deadline and very little time. Both app stores needed to approve the update, on schedule, while the team was working nights and weekends to get it done. It was a lot.
But what I remember most are the people, not the pressure. Developers and QA are completely exhausted, running on empty, and still joking around. Still smiling. That energy is hard to explain if you haven’t experienced it, but in a startup it’s everything. It pushed me to give more too, because how could you not?
We launched on time. Within hours, thousands of people were swapping their ICE BSC. Watching that happen in real time, after everything it took to get there, that’s the moment I keep coming back to. I’m so deeply proud of us.
PPS, on that note: Please give the ION coin on BSC some love here — we put our souls into getting it live.
What’s a number that doesn’t appear in the spreadsheet — something that tells the real story of this year?
Off the top of my head, given that we’ve lived and breathed this product for the past year, there’s a number well into the hundreds for the nights and weekends the team has put in. Not occasionally. Consistently, across the whole year, and across the whole team. That’s not a complaint — it’s just what building something like this actually looks like from the inside.
Another number I think about: the hats worn. Anywhere from three to 10, depending on the week. As a product lead on a new product, you’re doing several jobs simultaneously. The same is true for our developers and QAs. In a small team with big ambitions and a community expecting results, you don’t wait for someone to hand you a solution. You find it, you push for it, and you own it, even when it sits outside your job description.
What we have now — the product, the stability, the momentum — is the result of that. Not just time logged, but real personal investment from people who genuinely cared about getting it right. And that’s in every one of those 1,693 improvements.
A year ago, what did you think Year 1 would look like? How wrong were you?
Honestly? We thought we’d be faster.
But predicting a year in Web3 is hard. Teams invest enormous time and resources, and in the end, whether it all means anything depends entirely on whether real users want what you’ve built. Add to that the ambition that comes with the territory — Web3 products push into new technology, new models, new everything — and you’re always operating with more unknowns than you’d like.
Online+ turned out to be more complex than even we’d anticipated, and a few times along the way we were convinced the launch was just around the corner. It wasn’t. Every time we had a choice between shipping something raw or getting it right, we chose to get it right — and that takes time. I know that tested the patience of our community, and it was painful to watch the FUD at times, but I’m so grateful they stayed with us.
That decision paid off. We launched without major issues — which, for a small team building something this ambitious, is not a given. The first month after launch wasn’t chaos and firefighting. It was analysis: we could look at real behaviour in the wild, understand how people were actually using the product, and plan our next moves clearly. That kind of stability at launch is something I’m really proud of.
It took longer than we said it would. But we did it right, and I know our community ultimately appreciates this.
What do you want Year 2 to be defined by?
Weirdly, edge case bugs — the kind that only surface when millions of people are using a product across every device, every network, every corner of the world. That’s the problem I want us to have, because it would mean Online+ is truly in everyone’s pocket.
And beyond the scale, I want Year 2 to be the year monetization becomes entirely natural. When a creator can build their audience, own their community, and earn from what they put into it — through Tokenized Communities, through the full monetization suite we’ve been building towards — that’s when users and creators start genuinely owning and benefiting from their digital presence and output. That’s what this was always about.
When that’s the norm, we won’t need the “decentralized” qualifier anymore. It’ll just be what social looks like.
So, Year 2 has started. Let’s go 💪
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