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
This week’s updates bring targeted improvements across the board: smoother video Stories, new UI polish, and more efficient data handling under the hood. We also fixed a cascade of edge-case bugs, from disappearing tokens and flickering image loads to Feed glitches and wallet issues. The goal this past week? Making the experience more seamless, stable, and fast.
A summed up by Yuliia: we’re not chasing new features anymore, we’re reinforcing the foundation. And the team’s in the zone — clear-eyed, locked in, and energized by what’s coming.
Looking ahead, the focus shifts to early registration, final Feed optimizations, and the last bits of roadmap shaping. With the app now stable, it’s all about preparing for the energy creators and communities will bring on Day One.
Launch is close. The momentum is tangibly real now.
🛠️ 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:
- Feed → Story videos are now capped at 60 seconds to keep them snappy and engaging.
- Feed → Improved opacity and media clipping for a smoother visual experience.
- Chat → User delegation and profile badges are now synced to the local profile database.
- General → Added a recursive fetcher to ensure no events go missing from the relay.
- General → Improved locking logic in the config repository for greater app stability.
- General → Updated paste permissions for content across the app.
- General → Translations for push notifications have been refined.
- General → Flutter code generation performance has been optimized.
- General → Upgraded the entire app to the latest version of Flutter.
Bug Fixes:
- Auth → Fixed login errors caused by a null check operator and exceptions during registration.
- Wallet → The search bar in the coin list is now responsive.
- Wallet → Field order in the Send Coins flow has been updated for better UX.
- Wallet → Imported tokens no longer disappear from the coin list.
- Wallet → Receive flow now defaults to the selected network instead of prompting unnecessarily.
- Chat → Fixed disappearing conversations and error screens.
- Chat → Request Funds flow is now fully functional.
- Chat → Chats now load reliably, even for large message histories.
- Chat → Reacting to stories and sharing posts in Chat is now significantly faster.
- Chat → Replies to voice messages work properly again.
- Chat →.Blurry images, search flickering, and article preview issues have been resolved.
- Chat → Archiving chats now works as expected.
- Feed → Autoscroll during post writing has now been fixed.
- Feed → Stories no longer turn black or disappear after multiple views.
- Feed → Opening a story now loads the correct content — no more redirects to your own.
- Feed → Visual feedback for image stories has been aligned with video story styling.
- Feed → The Feed screen’s search bar, filters, and notification buttons are now fully clickable.
- Feed → Swipe-to-exit for trending videos is now responsive.
- Feed → Like counts on replies are now stable and accurate.
- Feed → Video mismatches have been resolved.
- Feed → Media in stories is no longer cropped awkwardly at the edges.
- Profile → Deleting a post no longer triggers it to appear in stories.
- Profile → Posting and deleting no longer breaks avatar rendering.
- Profile → Post delete button is now responsive.
- Profile → Collection scrolling and navigation has been fixed.
- General → Separators across the app now match Feed dimensions — smaller and cleaner.
💬 Yuliia’s Take
At the moment we are more focused on tech updates and optimizations rather than features – this is a good sign the launch is just around the corner.
We’ve entered a new phase of development — one that’s less about launching new features and more about refining what we’ve built. And that shift is a great sign: it means launch is close.
This week, we’ve focused on smoothing out edge cases, stabilizing the infrastructure, and boosting performance across the board. The team’s energy has shifted — no more chasing features, we’re locking in the product and making it feel fast, intuitive, and unbreakable.
There’s also a psychological factor kicking in — that sharpened focus you get just before the finish line, when everything starts to click. The team is in sync, momentum is high, and every fix and tweak gets us one step closer to opening the gates. We’re not just excited — we’re ready. Online+ is coming. .
📢 Extra, Extra, Read All About It!
A new infrastructure innovator is joining Online+, and we’re opening the doors for creators and communities to build alongside them.
- SFT Protocol is pioneering the next generation of Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN) — uniting compute, storage, and content delivery into one powerful, AI-ready layer for Web3. With integrations across Solana, BSC, and Filecoin, SFT is already a top IPFS ecosystem builder — and now brings its Chain of Chains to the ION Framework and Online+.
- And they’re not alone.
- Over 1,000 creators and 100+ projects have already joined the waitlist to launch their own dApps and social hubs on Online+. Whether you’re running a DAO, a meme community, or a global Web3 startup — now’s the time to build where it matters.
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🔮 The Week Ahead
With launch right around the corner, this week is all about precision. We’re locking in tech optimizations, cleaning up bugs, and putting extra care into how everything flows, especially inside the Feed, as the beating heart of the app.
We’re also enabling early registrations — a key step in preparing for the influx of new users — and shaping the final stretch of the roadmap.
It’s an exciting phase: high energy, high focus, and totally geared toward go-time.
Got feedback or ideas for Online+ features? Keep them coming and help us build the social media platform of the New Internet!