I still use Bean as it works for my uses. But, disappointed there wasn’t more transparency and communication. Also, disappointed it wasn’t made Open Source so someone could’ve picked it up. It feels like multiple levels of “screw you” to users

So is Bean completely dead? I noticed it’s not even in the App Store anymore. Still have the last version on my iPhone. Should I delete it?

Now that http://wearecocoon.co.uk/ is officially out of business (subpages are still working) did anybody try to get a refund in the App Store?

Edit

I just opened a fraud case with Apple support: http://reportaproblem.apple.com/

Would like to know more about what’s going on with the development of this app? Any plans? How are things going? What sort of things will be the primary focus in the near future?

Or am I missing something?

Hey Steve,

its been a while since your last occurrence, when you and your buddy re-assured your commitment and explained some time of absence: fine with the most of us. But since then: silence.

Some of your early customers already moved on and wrote off their invest.

Could you please step the game up a little and start managing your community and maybe our expectations? For example you could share a rough roadmap, just so we know, that you are still on it and your community issues were heard? Or take half an hour once a week, biweekly or monthly to communicate your progress and what you are up to?

Best wishes a early stage customer that already resorts to other clients

How do I hide the voting buttons in the feed view? They take away a lot of screen space and I am not voting on anything I have not yet read. I didn’t find this in the settings. Thanks.

What happened to the ai summarizing?

1.1 has seen no progress. 1.0 hasn’t been updated in about a month.

Now Lemmy 0.19 has been released it would be great to see the new "Scaled" sort option in Bean. Hopefully its a simple request.

The scaled option is basically a tweak to Hot, which gives equal weightings to small communities too.

Seems to fix the image upload issue.

Thanks Steve and team! Hoping for an update that includes widgets soon 😏🫡❤️

BTW I get a json error about unexpected token < when trying to upload image

Just wanted to see how the app dev is tracking along? Can we expect an update before the holidays start? Cheers

https://lemmy.zip/post/5678250

For whatever reason, Bean shows no content. Other clients show a link or embedded video file.

Hey Everyone,

First of all, I owe you an apology for the lack of updates and communication from me. I totally understand the frustration from everyone and the feeling that the rug’s been pulled out from under you.

I’m not going to many any excuses, I can only express my apologies and plans to rectify this moving forward.

Next week, I will be working to fix some of the issues highlighted in this community: chiefly the inbox issues and switching to using the Authorization header now that Lemmy has made the change.

After that, I want to work with you all again as I did during the beta testing phase to figure out what priorities should be.

I of course, don’t expect anyone to take my word any face value but I hope that actions speak louder than words and that you’ll bear with me while I pick development back up on Bean.

It’s pretty late here in the UK but I didn’t want to head to sleep while everyone was expressing their concerns.

• Steve

Bought lifetime, no updates since then. Last activity from Steve’s account (the developer) on Lemmy was over 3 months ago.

A month ago his colleague had an update. Nothing since then.

Did I just throw away my money on this app? Or do you guys think development will start up again?

Also, what do you guys think is the best alternative to Bean with a similar UI?