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
With production release nearly in sight, the team pushed through another intense week of final fixes, interface polish, and background upgrades, all designed to make sure Online+ runs smoothly across every device, region, and relay.
Most of the attention last week went to the Feed — the heart of the experience — where users land, engage, and return daily. We’ve been fine-tuning how posts render, how videos behave, and how notifications are triggered and resolved. This is where Online+ shines, and we’re making sure every edge is smooth and responsive.
Meanwhile, a major infrastructure upgrade is now ready for testing. It’s been bundled into the latest internal build and will be shared with beta testers this week. Within days, we’ll open up the full production infrastructure and app to our partners and creators, giving them official early access to set up their profiles, upload content, and get ready to go live. It’s the first time Online+ will be available to anyone outside the team and our beta testers, and that’s major step toward launch.
The finish line is within arm’s reach now, and we’re making every last step over the next few days count.
🛠️ 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:
- Wallet → Added “Receive NFT” UI for accounts that already hold NFTs (previously only shown on empty accounts).
- Wallet → Pinned the search field when scrolling through the coin list in “Manage Coins.”
- Wallet → Implemented rounding for coin values across the interface.
- Chat → Added setting to control who can send you messages.
- Chat → Your own shared Stories now remain visible even after 24 hours.
- Chat → Enabled push notifications for IONPay messages.
- Feed → Implemented automatic fallback to a different relay if the selected one experiences network issues.
- Feed → Improved hitbox accessibility across tappable elements.
- Feed → Limited max story recording duration to 60 seconds.
- Feed → Prevented stuck loading indicators from persisting on error.
- Feed → Fixed background request behavior on Feed screen to prevent battery drain when the screen is off.
- Profile → Updated the UI for IONPay push notifications in settings.
- General → Added fallback logic for push notifications when the app is in the foreground.
- General → Added a compression tag to push notifications.
- General → Reworked media cache handling to reduce storage usage.
Bug Fixes:
- Wallet → Fixed bottom sheet transitions when creating a new address.
- Wallet → Resolved infinite loading issue when requesting a payment via Chat.
- Wallet → Ensured sent NFTs are removed from the list without requiring manual refresh.
- Wallet → Unified naming for Wrapped TON and Toncoin across coin and ‘manage coin’ views.
- Chat → Fixed missing USD amount display in payment messages.
- Chat → Resolved visual wobble in IONPay “Choose network” modal.
- Chat → Ensured media uploads correctly on first attempt.
- Chat → Fixed missing delivery of payment messages.
- Chat → Enabled original message preview when editing messages.
- Chat → Resolved E2E decoding errors.
- Chat → Fixed issue where reply action triggered keyboard dismissal instead.
- Feed → Removed unnecessary padding from post carousels, and adjusted padding before media in posts.
- Feed → Corrected font colors in the repost modal.
- Feed → Updated copy on “not found” pages.
- Feed → Capitalized subcategory labels in video sections.
- Feed → Fixed formatting issues in articles on Android.
- Feed → Enabled the creation of posts and articles with WebP media.
- Feed → Restored video control functionality in articles for both editors and viewers.
- Feed → Fixed an issue causing notifications for other users’ content to be displayed only after app relaunch.
- Feed → Restored video functionality on staging environment.
- Feed → Removed unwanted margins from feed sliders.
- Feed → Fixed aspect ratio issues in recorded stories.
- Feed → Ensured longer stories load properly.
- Feed → Capped the number of likes a user can add.
- Feed → Enabled proper playback on Story preview screen.
- Feed → Fixed issue with 3-dot menu in fullscreen trending videos.
- Feed → Resolved double autoplay of videos.
- Feed → Improved accuracy of people’s search results.
- Feed → Fixed misidentified text displaying as clickable URL.
- Feed → Removed redundant bookmarks option from the ‘share’ menu.
- Feed → Corrected visual display of shared posts in stories.
- Profile → Restored functionality of deep links to user profiles.
💬 Yuliia’s Take
This past week was all about making sure the pieces not only fit, but function perfectly together. We introduced a major infrastructure upgrade behind the scenes, and that meant a full round of regression testing across the app, making sure the full system still works exactly as it should.
Right now, most of our attention is on polishing the Feed, which is the heart of the app. It’s where people land, explore, post, and connect, so it should feel like the smoothest, most welcoming online space, somewhere you want to spend time. This means that the minutest details — down to every pixel, swipe, and refresh — matter.
The effort has been intense, but it’s exactly the kind of focused sprint that gets us across the finish line. We’re locking it all in now, and that finish line gets closer by the day.
📢 Extra, Extra, Read All About It!
As we prep for launch, we want to make sure that you’re just as ready as we are. Now’s the time to get familiar with Online+!
- Each Friday, the Online+ Unpacked series covers the app’s key features and differentiators. Last week, we explored how identity, ownership, and action all flow through your on-chain profile. Up next, we’ll dive into how the Online+ feed works, and why it’s designed for your interests, not engagement farming.
- Our friends at BSCN are helping more people get to know Online+. Their latest article breaks down what sets the platform apart, from on-chain profiles and encrypted chat to real token rewards and the ION Framework powering it all. It’s a great intro for anyone curious about what we’re building. Check out their deep-dive!
We’re building an infrastructure that’s as feature-packed as it is mission-led, and Online+ is its flagship. Get to know it before it goes live, and get ready to build the New Internet!
🔮 The Week Ahead
This week, we remain laser-focused on regression testing and bug fixing across the final builds to ensure that everything from login flows to story playback holds up under real-world conditions. With the new infrastructure upgrade now in place, we’ll also begin distributing this version to our beta testers to collect final feedback before launch.
Given all our efforts, we expect to roll out early access to the Online+ public version to our creators and partners by the end of the week, so that they can begin preparing their profiles and content. Then comes the final step: onboarding everyone who joined the early access waitlist.
We’re almost there now — this week, every detail is being polished, and every flow is being locked in before Online+ goes live for our partners, creators, and early birds. The finish line is right in front of us, and we’re sprinting.
Got feedback or ideas for Online+ features? Keep them coming and help us build the social media platform of the New Internet!