Welcome to this week’s Online+ Beta Bulletin — your go-to source for the latest feature updates, bug fixes, and behind-the-scenes tweaks to ION’s flagship social media dApp, brought to you by ION’s Product Lead, Yuliia.
As we edge closer to launching Online+, your feedback is helping us shape the platform in real time — so keep it coming! Here’s a quick rundown of what we tackled last week and what’s next on our radar.
🌐 Overview
The Online+ team hit a major stride last week: we closed a record-breaking 71 tasks — pushing past our usual pace of 50 — as we head into the final stage before launch. With all core features merged, the focus has shifted fully to regression testing, performance tuning, and making sure everything works seamlessly across devices and accounts.
On the ground, that’s meant polishing UI details, squashing edge-case bugs, and tightening integrations between modules and the production infrastructure. It’s been a demanding sprint, but one that’s brought months of work into sharp, production-ready shape.
This week, the team is all in on stability: running intensive regression cycles, locking in bug fixes, and applying the final touches to ensure a smooth, resilient launch.
🛠️ Key Updates
Here are some of the main tasks we worked on over the past week as we continue to fine-tune Online+ ahead of its public release.
Feature Updates:
- Auth → Added auto-follow for referrals — when a user signs up with a referral, they now automatically follow the referrer.
- Wallet → Introduced visual indicators for new transactions.
- Wallet → Added verified badges in the Friends section with easy redirects to profiles.
- Chat → Made the media menu smoother to open.
- Chat → Added system GIF support for Android users.
- Feed → Updated the backend logic for topics to improve relevance and performance.
- Profile → Ran performance and memory consumption analysis to optimize load times and stability.
Bug Fixes:
- Auth → Fixed SendEventException during registration.
- Wallet → Fixed sent Cardano transactions stuck in “In progress” status after completion.
- Wallet → Resolved 0.00 amounts shown for balance, sent, and received fields for SEI.
- Wallet → Fixed slow UI loading in transaction details page.
- Wallet → Improved the list scrolling performance for NFTs, and fixed slowdown affecting the entire app after closing the list.
- Wallet → Fixed receive and sent transactions stuck in “Pending” status until app force-close.
- Chat → Fixed IONPay payment message disappearing after canceling a payment request.
- Chat → Enabled adding reactions by tapping existing ones (previously blocked for mutual reactions).
- Chat → Fixed background issues when sharing messages with multiple users.
- Chat → Reduced time taken to share messages with multiple users.
- Chat → Improved performance when removing media from chats.
- Chat → Fixed small container appearing when canceling video messages.
- Chat → Resolved overflow issue in messages with multiple lines.
- Chat → Fixed UI glitch with shared posts containing mentions.
- Chat → Fixed media deletion not working in fullscreen view.
- Chat → Fixed flickering after media or reply actions in busy conversations.
- Feed → Made Online+ app deeplinks clickable.
- Feed → Removed topic category counts in posts.
- Feed → Centered loader position for stories.
- Feed → Fixed video gradients.
- Feed → Corrected icon and number alignment in posts.
- Feed → Prevented unnecessary photo library access requests when viewing stories.
- Feed → Adjusted line spacing in posts.
- Feed → Fixed incorrect paddings in profile posts.
- Feed → Aligned side and bottom paddings for video mute and duration indicators.
- Feed → Fixed issue allowing multiple selections of the same user.
- Feed → Fixed notifications not linking to relevant posted content.
- Feed → Stopped audio from video stories continuing after switching stories.
- Profile → Fixed background refresh in privacy settings.
- Profile → Prevented emojis from being added to website URLs.
- Profile → Fixed empty screen when opening “Following” and “Followers” lists.
- Profile → Fixed issue preventing name edits.
- Profile → Stopped profile video playback when opening settings.
- Profile → Resolved issue of previous video sound continuing alongside new playback.
- Profile → Fixed “User relays not found” error and profile loading issues; also fixed follow attempt errors.
- General → Fixed push notifications leading to incorrect content.
- General → Fixed push notifications not arriving when the app was running in the background or the phone was locked.
💬 Yuliia’s Take
We’re deep in the final stretch now — focused on wrapping regression testing, tuning performance, and making sure the app runs smoothly across all kinds of devices and accounts.
Last week was a big one for the team: 71 tasks closed, a record for us (we usually hit around 50). I honestly thought we couldn’t push the pace any further — but here we are, sprinting through the final tasks and pulling everything into place.
It’s incredible to see months of work coming together into something that’s finally production-ready. Launch has never been this close, and we can’t wait to share it with you.
📢 Extra, Extra, Read All About It!
The doors are wide open — and early movers are already lining up.
- Signed up for early access to Online+ yet? This is your moment — don’t wait until it’s too late! Apply here.
- We’ve also got another edition of Online+ Unpacked coming for you this Friday — focused on how your profile is effectively your wallet. Missed the last article? Catch up here.
The momentum is real, and the launch isn’t just another date on the calendar — it’s the start of something game-changing for how we connect, create, and own online. Stay close.
🔮 The Week Ahead
This week, we’re running full regression checks to make sure the app is stable across all environments. Alongside that, we’ll be tackling bug fixes and adding the final touches across modules — making sure everything runs smoothly and plays nicely with the production infrastructure.
Got feedback or ideas for Online+ features? Keep them coming and help us build the social media platform of the New Internet!