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 past week, we made significant progress on key features in Online+, including improvements to the Wallet, Feed, and Profile modules.
We introduced new functionalities for the Wallet, such as NFT collection views and the ability to send NFTs, while also enhancing the onboarding process.
The Feed, too, was a major focus, and saw updates like a search tab for hashtags and cashtags, a revamped notifications flow, and a plethora of bug fixes.
In the Profile module, the team refined the design for replies to posts, improving usability. They also focused on performance enhancements and bug fixes across the app, ensuring smoother user interactions.
Overall, our dev team powered throughout the week with continued improvements in stability and feature development.
🛠️ 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 → Implemented an NFT Collection view.
- Wallet → Added the Send NFT functionality.
- Wallet → Added a wallet saving logic during onboarding, ensuring addresses are correctly saved when made public.
- Wallet → Added tooltips for network fees and incoming payments for greater ease of use for crypto newcomers.
- Feed → Implemented a search tab for hashtags (#) and cashtags ($).
- Feed → Updated the notifications flow for ‘likes’ and followers.
- Feed → Enabled ‘open story’ and ‘create story’ functionalities through clicks on the top and bottom of the Stories icon.
- Feed → Added a confirmation dialog box when deleting posts, videos, and articles.
- Feed → Introduced a thumbnail for when videos are not loaded.
- Feed → Enabled Like, Comment, Share, and Bookmark social interactions for Articles.
- Feed → Updated the icons design for Trending Videos to ensure consistency.
- Feed → Added a Trending Videos display in the Videos category.
- Profile → Refined the design for replies to posts, placing them below the original post in the Replies tab under Profile for a more intuitive experience..
- Performance → Added timeout to send/request methods in IonConnectNotifier.
Bug Fixes:
- Wallet → The option to delete newly created wallets has been enabled.
- Chat → Emojis now display fully.
- Chat → Profile icons within conversations are now clickable.
- Chat → The Resend functionality for multiple media files and voice messages has been fixed.
- Chat → The issue causing users to see old conversation dates in a new, empty chat after deleting a conversation has been resolved.
- Chat → The Archive Message button is now fully functional.
- Feed → The display issue causing texts to incorrectly show as a URL in posts when a dot was added has been fixed.
- Feed → The Home button’s ‘back to top’ functionality now works when a ‘create post’ dialog box is opened.
- Feed → The UI alignment for reposted articles has been adjusted, ensuring texts display correctly.
- Feed → Unnecessary padding has been removed from the ‘fast reply’ feature for a cleaner interface.
- Feed → The issue causing the ‘reply’ field to be blocked when users click on a picture while replying to a post has been resolved.
- Feed → The ‘fast reply’ section now automatically opens near the text box, eliminating the need to scroll manually.
- Feed → The deleted replies counter is now updating.
- Feed → The Report and Unfollow buttons in the three-dot option menu on video stories are now clickable.
- Feed → The indicator for a new posted story has been fixed to no longer appear on accounts without stories.
- Feed → The irrelevant animation when swiping down the story has been removed.
- Feed → The issue preventing new stories from being posted after the first one has been resolved.
- Feed → The issue causing the video sound to be muted when marked as ‘enabled’ has been addressed.
- Feed → Pressing the back button now correctly returns users to the last page they visited, instead of exiting the app.
- Feed → The sound functionality for Trending Videos has been restored.
- Feed → The ‘reply to story’ text box no longer gets hidden in the background.
- Feed → Edited images in Stories now correctly reflect style changes when published.
- Feed → The video aspect ratio now has a set limit, preventing layout issues.
- Profile → The follower count is now accurately updated without requiring a re-login.
💬 Yuliia’s Take
This past week has been all about making solid progress on the core functionality of the app. We’ve been focused on addressing some Feed-related issues, and it’s really starting to pay off. A big part of that is thanks to the extra developer support we got from the teams who wrapped up their work on the Register, Login, Security, and Onboarding modules.
With the team now at full capacity, we’re moving quickly on both fixes and new features that will improve the user experience and overall stability of the app. Nothing makes a Product Lead happier than seeing a full house of devs all in sync and pushing forward 😁
Alongside the Feed updates, we’ve also kept up our focus on improving the social and wallet features — those are key for making Online+ work as smoothly as we envision. Excited to keep this momentum going and see where we can get to this week!
📢 Extra, Extra, Read All About It!
We’ve been on a roll on the partnerships front lately. The past week was no different, with the focus firmly on AI-powered blockchain projects.
Please wish a very warm welcome to our latest set of newcomers to Online+ and the Ice Open Network ecosystem:
- NOTAI will bring AI-powered Web3 automation to Online+, integrating tools for token creation, DeFi, and community engagement, while using the ION Framework to develop its own social dApp.
- AIDA, an AI-powered DeFi platform, will enhance Online+ with multi-chain trading tools and AI analytics, and launch a social dApp for its community via the ION Framework.
- StarAI, an AI-driven platform for creators, will expand Online+ with its AI tools and OmniChain Agent Layer, using the ION Framework to create a social dApp for creators to scale their digital presence in Web3.
Plenty more where these came from, so stay tuned for our upcoming announcements.
🔮 The Week Ahead
This week, we’re shifting gears to introduce some exciting new features while continuing to stabilize and improve existing ones. For the Wallet, we’ll be rolling out some new functionalities, focusing on enhancements that will make managing your assets smoother and more intuitive. We’ll also be implementing some key updates to the Chat, and a much-anticipated redesign of the Profile module.
A hint: the Profile module was saved for the final phase of development, so you should be getting excited.
Meanwhile, the rest of the team will be working hard on fixing bugs across both Chat and Feed to ensure that everything is as stable and seamless as possible. As always, our QA team will be busy keeping everything in check, while our devs continue addressing any feedback we’ve received from our beta testers.
Here’s to another successful week ahead!
Got feedback or ideas for Online+ features? Keep them coming and help us build the social media platform of the New Internet!