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Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

Okay lets try this one more time. We are limiting the list to 2500 spots for tonight just to make sure things are working okay. If there are no major TestFlight issues, we will open up the rest of the spots tomorrow morning, Texas time.

Important: If you are already in the current Mac TestFlight, you'll have to join this one again, unfortunately. The one you already joined won't get updates and will stop working after some time. Sorry for the annoyance!

tapbots.com/ivory/mac/

543 comments
Kris Venden

@ivory Yes!!! I’m in this time! Woohoo! Thank you!!!

Benjamin Herrin

@_Davidsmith if you didn't get in on the @ivory for Mac beta here I'm going to have a good chuckle.

Steve Bellovin

@ivory I'm glad I didn't decide to do the 13.2.1 update just now, since waiting let me grab a slot! But—is there any way to copy the app to my other Macs? On iOS Testflight, that just worked; on the Mac, it's asking me for a code to redeem. (Also: I don't see how to add a second Mastodon account, but I assume that you know that.)

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@SteveBellovin Testflight should read across multiple macs if you are signed into the same account.

There's an add account button in the accounts section of the settings.

Steve Bellovin

@ivory Something odd went on on both of those questions. I now have Ivory on my main and backup laptops, though possibly by consuming two test slots; I'll see what happens tomorrow on my desktop.

Thanks.

Douglas Ferguson

@ivory is this only for Mac? I have the app for iPhone.

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@dfergusonjr41 yes this is for Mac. The iOS app is already on the App Store.

Carmel

@ivory Thank you. You are making this new world even more enjoyable.

Noah Mittman :oh_no_bubble:

@ivory proving the value of turning on Ivory user notifications! how very meta

Nate Hudson ☯️

@ivory and yes, this is posting from the Ivory Client on my mac, yessssss!

Chris Lagasse

@ivory few quick bugs:

1. 'settings' seems inaccessible at times and I can't find rhyme or reason (yet) as to why.
2. similarly, if I 'close' the window, I can never recover it without quitting the app and re-opening it.
3. 'Contact Us' on the support section of Settings somehow opened Brave (my default browser is Arc), and hey.com (I... used that once, 2 years ago, no idea why it preferred that mail provider)

I'll send these 'officially' as they re-occur too. So far: WOO! Excited!!

@ivory few quick bugs:

1. 'settings' seems inaccessible at times and I can't find rhyme or reason (yet) as to why.
2. similarly, if I 'close' the window, I can never recover it without quitting the app and re-opening it.
3. 'Contact Us' on the support section of Settings somehow opened Brave (my default browser is Arc), and hey.com (I... used that once, 2 years ago, no idea why it preferred that mail provider)

James Cash

@ivory ah man, I guess I’m upgrading to Venture for you 😬🫡

Ryan Poirier

@ivory holly skittles I got in a TestFlight.

I’m not even on my desktop right now which is even more wild.

Michael Quinn

@ivory Thanks. Look nice. Good work so far. Much love.

Aaron

@ivory Oh damn! I thought, there's no way I am getting in 30 minutes after this was announced, especially after my experience with getting in on the iOS app, but here we are! First toot sent using Ivory for MacOS!

aglimme

@ivory I'm in, soooooo happy! I’ve really been missing reading on my laptop, so happy!

manolo

@ivory oh shit i’m 40min late and it worked? yay hahahahha

Nob NUKUI

@ivory @mark Thank you for Mac version.
I'm very happy because I'm in front of my Mac all day.

Nob NUKUI

@ivory Thank you.
I have an idea.
I think the icon Ivory of the Mac version is nice when the nose pops out of the icon silhouette a little.
CC @mark

heavyboots

@ivory Oh thank god, I’m in!

\(^O^)/

Petr Řezníček :apple_inc:

@ivory Jo! Povedlo se. Neskutečná radost! Yes! I joined this time! Pure happiness 😄

Merlin Mann

@ivory My gosh thank you I love him so much.

Mike Byrne

@ivory Oh, I got in this time. Cool!

I have to say, having used TweetBot since the beginning, Ivory feels kind of like coming home…

Sean G

@ivory Cool, I got in! Thank you!

Authenticating was some trouble. I tried with Chrome a couple times and it kept failing. I switched to Safari and that failed once and worked the second time.

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@bragi May or may not have just been because of mastodon.social. But we will keep an eye on that and test some other browsers just in case. Thanks.

Sean G

@ivory Oh if there are problems with mastodon.social, that could definitely be related.

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@bragi Mastodon.social has the most problems because the server gets busy and tasks get queued up pretty often. That means a lot of actions temporarily fail.

Chase :ani_clubtwit:

@ivory Are you kidding me? My notification didn’t come up and I totally missed it again. Any chance in adding more tonight?

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@chase We will open a bunch more tomorrow morning our time. Should take a lot longer to fill.

Chase :ani_clubtwit:

@ivory Ugh. Okay. I was literally sitting here on my phone and didn’t receive any notifications from Ivory for iOS about the posts. Super frustrated.

Chase :ani_clubtwit:

@ivory Well, now I’m getting this? Not sure why it’s not working?

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@chase It's just full now. But it will open up again tomorrow.

FuzzFace ☢️ :clippy:

@ivory I’m willing to continue the TestFlight and will jump in when I can. Wanted to say that your product is great and I just dropped some real money on a sub.

Carole

@ivory Missed out again. But due to the quality of your work, I’m happy to wait. Best luck on launching.

Peat Bog

@ivory
Crap you got to be fast to get a spot.

mogita

@ivory Hi, are you considering adding compatibility with MacOS 12?

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@mogita Unfortunately, that is not possible. We started there, but there's just too many issues with Catalyst.

mogita

@ivory That's sad news. Why dropped the Tweetbot desktop code base, can you share a bit? Just curious.

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@mogita Ivory for Mac is completely new code. Nothing from Tweetbot for Mac. We were actually building a brand new Tweetbot for Mac based on this until Elon shut us down. 😢

mogita

@ivory I see. The story is complete then. Can’t believe I’m eventually going to upgrade to macOS 13 for this app (in a positive way :D) Tweetbot apps were my daily routine, from bed to work to bed again. The best thing is you guys are still here.

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Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@twoheart Because they are just images and not real emoji. We have to write code for them to work and then do a lot of testing to fix issues they cause. It will get done, but it's not something quick and easy. 🙂

FrankIinaire

heck yeah i got int. Cant wait to give this a spin and see if it boosts my use of this site over the Elmo Machine @ivory

Joe Pasqua

@ivory I'm very much looking forward to the Mac version. I am never quick enough for beta versions, so I'll be holding out for the release version when it hits the App Store.

Uwe Schwarz ッ�

@ivory 3 o’clock local time, no way to get that. And it’s full now :(. Maybe next time or I need to wait for the store release again.

Craig Box

@ivory Can you tell Ivory for iOS users how they can get a "drop everything" push notification for next time this happens? 🤔

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@craigbox Just have to have “User Post Notifications" on in our notification settings and enable user notifications for @ivory from the gear menu in our profile.

Simon Sjödin

@ivory darn it. Missed it again. It sucks living in an other time zone apparently. :-)

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@simons We intentionally wanted to catch those in the Pacific with the last one. Europe is up when it's morning for us so we will open the rest of the spots then.

Simon Sjödin

@ivory sounds great! Tha app looks fantastic (and the iOS app is great). We’ll se if I’m fast enough when you open up for Europe :-)

Jamie Jenkins :verified_root:

@ivory Missed it again. I shall be furiously refreshing in the morning. 🤞🏻

Schneppi

@ivory i‘m in the wrong timezone i guess 😔

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@schneppsa No we intentionally wanted to give those in the Pacific a chance. Our morning release will give everyone else a chance.

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@ivory Argh! Wrong time zone. Best luck next time.

jcmraats

@ivory This beta is full full full full full. I’m becoming crazy….

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Fabrice Neuman

@ivory Hi, thanks for this… although it was still a little too early in the day for Europe. Maybe next time? Please? 😉

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@fabriceneuman That was for those in the Pacific. Will do another one in a bit.

NerdRelaxo

@ivory Too late again. The curse of living in another timezone. -.-

fatlazycat

@ivory 😕 asleep for that and on a transatlantic flight tomorrow morning.

Filip Radelic

@ivory guessing that doesn't include the group of old testers that were automatically added to the new app?

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@fichek Everyone needs to get on the new one for Mac if they want to continue testing. The older mac testflight users won't get updates anymore.

Rob

@ivory Unfortunately we were sleeping here in Europe when you posted this (and the 2500 spots got filled up), so I hope to have a chance at the remaining (7500?) slots.

Which timezone is used in your part of Texas? (CST or MST?)

At what time does your morning start? (6:00?)

AFC Paul :verified:

@ivory missed@this as bedtime in the uk. Oh well just have to wait. Thanks for the hard work.

Hans

@ivory again too late 🤷🏼‍♂️ Question : is the Mac version also Mac Intel ?

Manuel Wenger :verified:

@ivory Nooo, I got in for the first round, but I was asleep for this one (3 AM here). Let's hope I manage when the next batch gets opened up.

nkwdrulez

@ivory Oh, really only MacOS 13 Ventura? 😭😱 Surely I‘m not the only one stuck on Monterey…

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@nkwdrulez Unfortunately, Monterey had too many catalyst issues for us. We tried to start with Monterey.

Tom Athos

@ivory not again... I was sleeping at 3 am... Oh well, let's wait again.

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@nosgoroth Yes intentional. Not everyone lives in the EU. This was for those in the Pacific. 🙂

Nosgoroth

@ivory No need to be passive aggressive about it...

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@nosgoroth We aren't passive aggressive here. Just making a joke.

GK

@ivory Fuck this shit, I am now officially requesting this shit on BrokenStones

Spellman

@ivory do you think you will ever make an android version of ivory? All the android clients are kinda meh but I love using ivory on my ipad.

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@spellman No, none of us have android devices and no experience making apps for that platform.

Spellman

@ivory well that's disappointing to hear that you are ruling it out completely.

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@spellman We are just 3 people making apps for the platform we enjoy and use personally. Not a big company or anything. 🙂

Spellman

@ivory no I understand that I used tweetbot for years before I moved to android last year but I'm just always frustrated that many of the best apps forever remain iOS only its not your fault but I always find it disappointing that is always the case.

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@Malik Sure. This was for those in the Pacific. People live in other parts of the world too. 🙃

malik

@ivory Of course. That’s why I was asking.

Indigo

@ivory Hope I can catch the next batch. These were at 2 am over here. Your Texan morning ones should be at a better time.

pearfalse

@ivory Is supporting lower MacOS versions anywhere on the roadmap? My daily driver MBP is an 11,5 that can’t run anything newer than Monterey.

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@pearfalse We tried to make it work for Monterey, but there were just too many issues with catalyst.

Brad Dielman

@ivory will Ivory support older MacOS versions when it’s out of beta?

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@bdielman Unfortunately not. There were too many issues in Monterey. Ivory uses catalyst which is relatively new stuff and there are huge improvements with each OS release.

Brad Dielman

@ivory That's fair. Looking to upgrade my MBP this year anyway so I'll just have to be patient.

Chris Ferrell

@ivory looking forward to hopefully getting in on the Mac beta today. Would be great to have synced between Mac and iPad again like I had with Tweetbot!

Jose Rodrigo

@ivory Just click the link directly from website, and now am in!!!

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

This is the last chance to get into the Mac alpha (limited to around 10k spots by TestFlight). If it's full, you'll just have to wait for the App Store release which shouldn't be too long anyways. Thanks everyone!

tapbots.com/ivory/mac/

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