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Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

If you are part of our TestFlight Beta, we pushed update 1.8.1 which features completely revamped polls and a few other things. Give it a shot and let us know your thoughts!

No new TestFlight openings, but we are working hard to get this release finished and out to everyone!

*Note about TestFlight Subs: TestFlight doesn't read your app store sub and so you must subscribe in TestFlight if it asks. No real money is transferred as it's just a test environment.

Photo of an iPhone running Ivory and showing some of the latest Poll designs.
55 comments
Alwyn Soh :sgflag:

@ivory great! I’m on it!

Are there plans to “sync” mentions and notifications? Like when reading a mentioned notification, the mentioned tab will get “read”?

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@alwynispat No we plan to revamp the notifications tab so that the mentions tab can be removed completely. 🙃 It's a known problem that will be fixed.

Bill Taroli :neurodiversity:

@ivory Now I feel better about only using the notifications tab. Hehe

David Culley

@ivory Will that new notifications tab sync between iOS and macOS? After I read new mentions on iOS, they are still unread on macOS. I therefore currently have to read every mention twice.

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@davidculley it’s a bug we have to fix. They should be syncing between each other.

David Culley

@ivory Thanks for the reply. I totally understand if there still are bugs here or there, seeing how shitty you were sadly treated by Twitter and how abruptly you had to build this app from the ground up under immense stress. Thanks for all you do for us users of your app, I’m paying gladly for your very good app :)

Klumpmeister

@ivory peeking at new color accents. 👀

Caf ☕

@ivory Btw, on the current version, I have weird bugs like text copying on itself when selected with tags... can’t alway reproduce it... :(

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@Cafeine definitely need to see a screenshot or video to understand. Where is this happening? Compose? iOS or Mac?

Caf ☕

@ivory On macOS only when writing. I tried to film it (with cleanshot) but the thing is, it was doing it EVERY TIME, then I fire cleanshot, select the window to record, and... fixed, no bug... I'll try again next reboot... Soooo weird. 🤯

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@Cafeine Sounds good. And if it happens again, try to remember the exact steps you took for it to happen. That way even if we can't see what happened, we can try to replicate the scenario on our end and see if it does it for us.

Caf ☕

@ivory I’ll do that yep, I was busy with work when I noticed it some weeks ago but it's bug hunt time :P

Caf ☕

@ivory OK, SOOOO, GOT IT ON VIDEO. :P 🎥

1. Compose a message with #tags on macOS.
2. Select the message.
3. profi... nope, watch the message getting scrambled.
4. maybe you need another # IN the post, didn’t try without. Maybe it's not random at all but triggered by the other #.
5. Select the text without the #, no prob.
6. Select the text WITH the #, prob fixed after doing 5.

Happy hunting :P

@ivory OK, SOOOO, GOT IT ON VIDEO. :P 🎥

1. Compose a message with #tags on macOS.
2. Select the message.
3. profi... nope, watch the message getting scrambled.
4. maybe you need another # IN the post, didn’t try without. Maybe it's not random at all but triggered by the other #.
5. Select the text without the #, no prob.
6. Select the text WITH the #, prob fixed after doing 5.

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@Cafeine Was able to replicate it here. Thanks. Might be hard to track down though. 😅

Caf ☕

@ivory yep, seems like a "fun one" 🫂 It's not a big one once you know it can happen. But WHY it's even doing that, woah, gooood luck (tried in other clients / editor, only happens in Ivory).

Brad R

@ivory I was removed as a tester at some point, is there something I did wrong?

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@bradr3d nope. We had to change lists awhile back because of various TestFlight limitations. At one point we had 2 lists.

Brad R

@ivory ah. Will there ever be an opportunity to get back on the TestFlight?

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@bradr3d possibly if we don’t get enough feedback. We’ve actually been pretty bad about pushing betas to TestFlight so a lot of users just installed the App Store version again. That was the reason for the post earlier. But if there aren’t a lot of TestFlight users, we will potentially open it up some more.

Paul Stockton

@ivory @bradr3d would also love to be back active on TestFlight please when possible

tbodt

@ivory my testflight says "build removed", am i on the wrong testflight or something?

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@tbodt no idea. We haven’t touched the TestFlight lists in a very long time.

Peter Lewis

@ivory @tbodt Looking at the icon in your screenshot it appears you were subscribed to the pre-release TF. Once the app saw release, I believe there was a new TestFlight link. Sorry if the above causes any consternation.

Sean

@ivory the poll improvements are very nice. It would be neat if you could filter the timeline to show only polls (like you can already for media/links/boosts).

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@SeanMooney you can! Just create a custom timeline filter (in the filter icon on the far left of the icons you mentioned). Add a rule to “show polls”.

Sean

@ivory awesome tip, just created a polls only filter. Thanks! Very nice improvements, I like how there’s a see results button now.

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@SeanMooney if you want to test out polls a bit easier, you can go to the explore page and do a search for polls and go to the #poll hashtag list (or tap my hashtag link 🙃).

zmknox

@ivory the text in the new poll UI feels a bit small compared to the body text here (on 120% Dynamic Type), and the word "votes" seems to sometimes want to be cut off

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@zmk text sizes have always been the same. It’s part of our system to make embedded text slightly smaller in those rectangles. The truncated text is a bug that we fixed, just not in the public build yet. 🙂

Dimitry

@ivory Really love the Mono Theme for better Contrast in this latest beta.

Chris Wagner

@ivory better support for options with really long text?

Jonathan Willing

@ivory Solid improvement over the previous iteration! Unfortunately it does not seem to be exposed to accessibility services; is that expected?

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@willing would need you to be more specific. Not sure what part of the app you are referring to exactly.

oelna

@ivory I read about the change to image attachments in regard to captions → alt text and they seem like a good change, but I immediately thought of *many* captions I have on my pictures that would leak private info to the web! Just using the caption text without a confirmation step seems potentially … dangerous? 🤔 How about prompt like "would you like to use caption text 'x' as alt text?" Yes/No

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@oelna valid point. We can think about it. But our thought was, if the caption is private, most likely the image would be too and the user probably would post that in the first place?

hhf

@ivory could we please get the feature that the app will not scroll to the top of the timeline when it updates / polls new posts?

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@hhf ivory doesn’t scroll to the top automatically. What device are you using?

hhf

@ivory so sorry! Ivory works fine, I was complaining about the wrong client on the wrong social network to the wrong people!

Completely unrelated: please consider doing a client for BlueSky. I am not sure if it is going to be a good social network, but it definitely needs a better iOS client. :- )

Robin 🪐

Hi @ivory how can I be invited to TestFlight?

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@iamrbn we aren’t adding any new TestFlight users at this time. We usually post about it with a link when we need more users.

kaiserkiwi :kiwibird:

@ivory Polls really bothered me with Ivory. Especially because multi-answer polls just weren't supported.

I really like the new way this is handled. Looks clean and works good so far. Thank you for the effort!

Also big thumbs up for the reading of the image description for alt text!

⟦ˈmartiːn ˈʃtaɪ̯n⟧ :tblogo:

@ivory The multiple choice polls are working quite nice. 😊
For the mono theme I first thought: Cool, I like the Threads theme. But within Ivory it doesn't really work nice for me. Maybe because of the optical expectations. But I feel like I can't distinguish between links/hashtags and normal text.

Oh and I still miss those beautiful digital icons that were available only in one 1.8 beta. 😁

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@schalksernst yes it can be harder to decipher links visually, but not much we can do about that. It’s been fine in practice though because a seasoned user will know what is a link when reading it. It’s just another choice for those who want something different. 🙂

Jason Stoff

@ivory I've noticed a UI issue on iPad Mini (iOS 17.3b2) using the latest Ivory 1.8.1 build — the "Search" field on the Explore tab has a weird color treatment in both light and dark modes.

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@jstoff known bug we will fix soon. 🙂 has something to do with text sizing.

Sean C.

@ivory loving the new polls format -- A LOT!

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