Hey 👋 I’ve been working on a new Lemmy client called Bean for the last few weeks and I’ve put out an early beta.
It’s missing some features at the moment but I’m working to get it feature complete by early next week and would appreciate some feedback as I develop!
You can find out more over at [email protected] but here are a few screenshots.
Let me know what you think if you do check it out.
This looks great, so polished already!
There’s one thing missing that I’ve noticed a lot of Lemmy clients are missing that I used extensively in reddit clients, and that’s the button to skip to the next level comment. It makes long comment threads much nicer to read. Any chance we could get that added?
A couple of people have mentioned this today so I’ve added it to my list 😊
Please add one more vote from me for this feature. I miss how it was implemented in Apollo.
FYI, your willingness to add it to your list has me signed up for TestFlight now. I look forward to seeing updates on this, thus far, excellent work.
My god that icon is beautiful haha
Thanks so much! There’s a few variants in the settings 😄
Nice dab at the official app!
What did you use to make the icon?
It might seem old school, but it was made in Photoshop
Hey Steve. I’ve got a question. If I click on those screenshots the comment gets collapsed instead the screenshot going full screen. Are you aware of it and are you planing to implement full screen pictures in comments in the future?
This should be fixed in the next build. It was a regression bug due to the implementation of the collapsible comments.
You‘re faster then light buddy. Thanks a lot. I really love your app. As soon as everything is working properly I can uninstall every other Lemmy app.
Oh nice. I always make very 2D icons in Figma, but for macOS I try and make them more 3D. Not found an amazing way to do that. Is the bean shape a bunch of layer effects over a shape, or are you using an image from elsewhere and using blend modes?
It’s a flat shape with a gradient, then I went over it with the brush to add highlights and shadows with a mix of blend modes like overlay and hard mix
So I’m basically running all the current iOS apps and up until now Memmy has been the smoothest, until I tried Bean, I don’t know what you’ve done but there is absolutely zero scroll lag, which is the most important part of any app for me, looks great too
I’ll give it a good flick.
Nice, time to flick the bean.
This has to be my favourite lemmy app at the moment. Incredible work! Feels very native to ios. Extremely polished for something that’s still in testflight.
Will most certainly be buying this app when it comes out.
Swiping media away is hit or miss right now but I’m sure things will improve in due time.
Impressive stuff man!
Extremely well done! Can’t wait to see where this goes. Downloaded and will keep up with the progress.
One feature I’ve been dreadfully missing from Reddit apps is the “jump to next popular reply” button in a thread (if that’s the correct way to describe that)
I tried it. The interface is fast and clean and looks like native iOS app.
I just can’t seem to upvote or downvote comments.
However despite that, your app is one to watch out for. Congrats and keep up the good work!
ok no one cancel me but i think i like it better than memmy, and ive been stuck on memmy for weeks now
it reminds me of alien blue from years ago!! i’m really excited to dig in and start using it!!
edit: i did have to change the icon bc as a woman, a pink bean looks like a vaguely sexual app lol so i picked tutti frutti
Wow I’m in, it’s really slick
Already my Nr1 Client fir browsing Lemmy!
This app really looks nice! Any ideas on bringing Bean to android?
Yep! It’s built in React Native so once the iOS version is feature complete, I plan to move onto Android.
hey this is really nice!!
