Announcing the official community here: !beyond@lemm.ee and also announcing the first open testing for the alpha version is available for Android here: https://lemm.ee/post/688038

I realized I haven’t post anything new in a couple of days, so here’s another quick update, made tons of improvements already and have also identified a few points for future improvements that I will be addressing soon.

All posts and comments action buttons work now, so you can upvote, downvote, save, share, etc, all the basic things you’d expect are there.

Today I also started working on the commenting feature, so you can reply directly to a post or a comment in a post. This isn’t ready yet but there’s a bunch of progress. As soon as this feature specifically is ready, I believe I am ready to announce an alpha version. Keep in mind this is very much barebones, with the minimal functionality to keep it usable and fun. There aren’t any customizations or settings yet, but slowly we will be getting there. I will also be happy to collect some of your feedback.

Here’s a new screenshot :)

Just another quick update, I got the domain beyond.onl and I’m planning to run a small Lemmy instance there. I probably won’t be allowing account creations but I will be creating some official communities for Beyond announcements there.

The idea is to have a community where you can follow for new post updates about Beyond and comment, suggest features and improvements etc.

I will probably host it somewhere like Azure, I am not sure, as I have no idea of the costs associated with it, so I will be taking it very slowly and see how that will turn out. Maybe at some point I will open it up for new users too, let’s see :)

Another update, with basic post and comments view ready, we should be soon approaching an alpha release date so you all can have a look by yourselves :)

Me too I use Rider and I really like how they put the emphasis on the “integrated” part of “IDE”.

Having that said, Fleet looks pretty good and I’m excitedly waiting for it a stable release.

Me too I think at least I am commenting more often.

That’s the whole problem with any social app right. Would be so happy to ditch Whatsapp for better alternatives but what’s the point if no one I know is there.

Glad you guys are here though :p

Quick update today I worked on the sidebar, I’ve hidden the items buttons that still don’t do anything, added some icons, created a nice card for the logged in account. The only thing I am still not happy with is the contrast of the account name vs the background image, so I will look into something to fix that soon.

I am still not sure where to post this those kind of updates, maybe a community is not such a bad idea but I cannot create communities on beehaw, maybe I will create one on another instance and mod it from this account. In any case, I will post that info here too.

Jetbrains Fleet is about to roll out their own AI assistant and it looks very promising.

Amarok 1.4. Loved that thing. Everything that came afterwards in both terms of version and other similar apps even the mainstream ones do not get close to how good Amarok used to be.

correct the screenshots are from the Android app. I am using React Native to target both platforms with the same code, and for UI lib React Native Paper, which is a Material Design implementation. I am yet to see how it looks like on iOS but I like the idea of the app following the UI patters of the platforms it is running on.

lol

I am saving this post for later :)

Definitely sounds like a good way to go, I believe I will allow to add multiple anonymous accounts where users can enter only a instance name and no username/password.

It’s probably gonna be Beyond :)

That’s honestly a good point but:

• Infinity is written in Java code specifically targeted to Android only, I am targeting both iOS and Android with the same code using React Native (maybe even web in the future but it’s a little more complicated due to CORS);
• I have worked with React for at least the past 4 years, so using React Native now for me feels like almost no learning curve at all, while if I’d be given a Java-based Android codebase now, I’d probably need to spend the first week figuring out the basics :)

Thanks!

Thank you but not just yet :)

React Native. The screenshot you see is from it running on WSA from Windows 11, it feels much better than the emulator from the Android SDK.

noted!