Hi everyone,
First of all, thanks so much for everyone using Avelon and everyone who’ve decided to support the development by upgrading, it really means a lot! All the feedback in the post following the release of pro was definitely insightful. If you’re unaware, I recommend reading the post as well as my reply here.
I’ve decided to push towards a 1.0.7 release a bit earlier than planned to address everyone’s feedback. My goal with these changes is to provide a wider range of features in a more basic free variant, whilst offering more extensive customization options and an even better experience as an optional upgrade. This way everyone gets to try out more stuff for free, and if you want the full capabilities you can feel confident that the features work as you’d expect. This setup is more in line with other apps as well as the feedback from all of you.
In addition to tweaks to the free tier, the update contains a new text selection tool, a new dark theme, the ability to lock the app with FaceID, more filtering options + lots of QOL improvements and bug fixes.
Full Changelog
Adjustments to the free/pro tiers
- Added a basic jump button to the free version
- The smart jump button with extra settings and customisation remains pro
- Everyone now has access to a limited number of custom filters for free
- The pro version includes unlimited filters and new filtering options
- The maximum number of profiles in the free tier is now three (guest + 2 custom accounts)
- This change does not affect any accounts you’ve already added
- The pro version has unlimited accounts
- Added a free 7 day trial option to enable everyone test out the pro features
- Added various descriptions to pro settings to more clearly explain what they do
- Replaced the groups “pro” tag in subscriptions with a link to a more details about the feature
New pro features
- Added ability to lock the app with FaceID
- Added new dark theme ‘Hacker man’
- Added option to place the smart jump button anywhere, not just around the edges
- Added ability to filter independently on either the post title or post body
New features, QOL improvements and bug fixes
- Added tool to select text from comments & posts
- Added ability to delete your own posts
- Added share option to links and comments
- Improved prioritizations for swipe gestures
- This should prevent accidental downvotes when you’re trying to swipe back!
- Fixed issue where editing markdown links would sometimes show weird characters and symbols
- Limited the maximum number of smart link previews in posts
- This should keep “link aggregation” posts from being unnecessarily long
- Fixed issue where adding accounts would sometimes fail
- Fixed issue where swipe-to-go-forward could sometimes break after tapping the navbar to go back
- Removed option to report/block yourself
- Lots of minor bug fixes and improvements
Fucking entitled people here…
The non pro version works great and has plenty of features, I haven’t gone to pro cuz it’s not fully there yet for what I’m looking for, once it does I’ll buy it.
No one here goes to their jobs and works for free so why should the dev? He made something that works for free, you want something specific that’s not free then pay for it for fucksakes…. If you don’t want to do that then make your own app
Exactly. I’m sure this has taken a ton of time. Lots is offered for free. There are many alternatives if you want to go elsewhere.
Realistically, there aren’t a ton of people here using the app that would pay right now. Hence, the price is a little higher.
If someone wants to volunteer tons of hours to make an app for free that’s fine, but that’s their choice. Nothing wrong with asking for a bit of compensation for something that is not trivial to make at all.
This is the sort of aggressive, sweary, condescending post that makes any discussion impossible.
I’d hope that Avelon fans could have a civilised talk about the way forward. But apparently not.
Oh no “sweary” please anything but that… most people here are adults that can deal with some uncouthness and some condescension, I’m condescending when I see people act like entitled asses
Telling someone how to make something for free for you and to your liking is civilized though?
No, everyone wants Avelon to succeed. There’s a genuine concern (based on what happened to other apps) that if the business model is wrong then it won’t.
We could do this without being condescending or making daft comments about entitlement.
But if that is the sort of community that people want then so be it.
Still no update for the messed up GUI for iOS replies and posts? 💁🏼♂️
I posted a reply to your post about that, its a bug with an accessibility setting in iOS. Forgot to include the fix in 1.0.7, but you can resolve it for now by disabling “Button Shapes” in the iOS accessibility settings.
I would gladly play if it wasn’t so expensive. $30 for an app is wild. Thats more expensive than affinity design and procreate. Apps used by professionals to make money
Honestly, it’s pretty fair. I appreciate that you listened to the criticisms of the community and reworked it.
Although I’ll probably not buy it due to the price, I think the paid features are reasonable and most importantly, the essential features are all available for free.
Thanks for listening, and most of all, thanks for Avelon!
Great update! I’m really liking the new theme “hacker man”!