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, our team focused on rolling out new features across Chat, Feed, and Profile, while tackling a range of bugs to streamline performance. Chat now supports quoted replies and includes limits for text, voice, and video uploads, plus an enhanced gallery experience when using the camera button. Over on the Feed, you’ll find media editing and video-pausing capabilities, alongside newly introduced limits for post length and media uploads. We also gave the Profile module a fresh, more intuitive design to make navigation smoother.
On the bug-fix front, we addressed issues with duplicated images, missing thumbnails, and hashtag detection, ensuring a more stable and user-friendly experience. We’ve also resolved a few lingering hiccups related to system bar behavior, video playback, and self-follow errors in Profile. With these improvements in place, Online+ continues to move closer to a polished, stable release — and we’re excited to keep the momentum going.
🛠️ 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:
- Chat → Implemented the option to reply to messages as quotes, enabling users to answer specific messages.
- Chat → Added a limit for text and voice messages.
- Chat → Added a maximum duration for uploaded videos.
- Chat → Pressing on the camera button now opens a gallery with all media files, rather than just the camera gallery.
- Feed → Implemented a limit for media within a single post.
- Feed → Implemented characters limit for the posts and replies.
- Feed → Added the possibility to edit media within posts.
- Feed → Added the ability to pause videos.
- Profile → Redesigned the page for a more intuitive feel.
Bug Fixes:
- Chat → Resolved an issue that caused text/emoji messages to resend automatically despite showing a failed icon.
- Chat → Enabled navigation from a conversation to the user’s profile.
- Chat → Fixed the empty media gallery display.
- Chat → Corrected duplication of the category menu in the feed after visiting chats.
- Chat → Resolved occasional duplication of sent images.
- Chat → Archived messages now correctly appear after pulling down to refresh.
- Chat → Restored the camera feature for taking photos.
- Chat → Fixed an empty thumbnail issue when sending multiple videos.
- Chat → Aligned the message component text to match design specs.
- Chat → Increased the limit for sending multiple images in a single message.
- Chat → Ensured unique file names upon saving.
- Chat → Fixed a bug that caused all saved files to appear as *.bin.
- Feed → Refined hashtag detection to apply only to the intended word.
- Feed → Disabled hashtag-to-search tapping while writing a post or reply.
- Feed → Fixed an issue causing the article creation screen to scroll to the bottom unexpectedly.
- Feed → Multiple media postings now retain the original selection order.
- Feed → Replies no longer disappear after scrolling.
- Feed → Prevented long nicknames from breaking the layout on reposts.
- Feed → The system bar no longer turns black after viewing media.
- Feed → Eliminated redundant video reloading when switching to fullscreen.
- Feed → Banuba editor no longer opens twice when adding a camera photo to Stories.
- Feed → The reply/description field remains visible when switching to emojis.
- Feed → Stopped background playback of a video once it’s opened in fullscreen.
- Feed → Fixed sound synchronization issues causing a video to play twice in fullscreen.
- Feed → Once unmuted, video audio now stays enabled.
- Feed → Added camera focus for clearer captures.
- Profile → Fixed the self-follow error for test users who had already followed themselves in the past.
- Login → Launching the app no longer mutes the user’s headphones.
💬 Yuliia’s Take
This past week, the momentum has really picked up as we near the finish line. We’ve managed to clear out the backlog across all modules and have started working on the final-phase features we’ve been saving. It’s been exciting to watch so many of our core functionalities running smoothly, and to see fewer bugs reported by our beta testers.
Now, it’s all about wrapping up those last features and stabilizing the application. The team’s energy is high, and there’s a real buzz on our Slack channel as we push forward. Online+ is becoming really polished, streamlined, and a joy to use — we’re almost there!
📢 Extra, Extra, Read All About It!
Another week, another bucketload of partnership announcements!
We’re thrilled to welcome the latest newcomers to Online+ and the Ice Open Network ecosystem:
- VESTN will introduce tokenized real-world assets and fractional ownership to Online+, enabling a broader audience to access high-value investments. Leveraging the ION Framework, VESTN will build a community-driven dApp that fosters investor engagement and democratizes entry to traditionally exclusive asset classes.
- Unizen will deliver cross-chain DeFi aggregation, deep liquidity, and AI-optimized trading to Online+. By building a community-focused trading and analytics dApp on the ION Framework, Unizen will give traders seamless, gasless swaps and real-time routing insights, all within a decentralized social environment.
We’ve been on a roll these past few weeks, and this week will be no different, so keep your firmly on our socials for the latest news.
🔮 The Week Ahead
This week, we’ll be wrapping up a few final core features for the Wallet, including a Send/Receive flow that integrates user Chat notifications. We’re also making some major updates to transaction history and expect to have it fully functional in our test environment.
On the social side, we plan to introduce the ability to edit articles, implement a language-switch feature, and finalize Chat search. It’s shaping up to be another busy, exciting week as we push these key improvements forward!
We’re off to a great start — it’s looking like 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!