Announcing the official community here: !beyond@lemm.ee and also announcing the first open testing for the alpha version is available for Android here: https://lemm.ee/post/688038

Just another quick update, I got the domain beyond.onl and I’m planning to run a small Lemmy instance there. I probably won’t be allowing account creations but I will be creating some official communities for Beyond announcements there.

The idea is to have a community where you can follow for new post updates about Beyond and comment, suggest features and improvements etc.

I will probably host it somewhere like Azure, I am not sure, as I have no idea of the costs associated with it, so I will be taking it very slowly and see how that will turn out. Maybe at some point I will open it up for new users too, let’s see :)

Another update, with basic post and comments view ready, we should be soon approaching an alpha release date so you all can have a look by yourselves :)

Me too I think at least I am commenting more often.

That’s the whole problem with any social app right. Would be so happy to ditch Whatsapp for better alternatives but what’s the point if no one I know is there.

Glad you guys are here though :p

Quick update today I worked on the sidebar, I’ve hidden the items buttons that still don’t do anything, added some icons, created a nice card for the logged in account. The only thing I am still not happy with is the contrast of the account name vs the background image, so I will look into something to fix that soon.

I am still not sure where to post this those kind of updates, maybe a community is not such a bad idea but I cannot create communities on beehaw, maybe I will create one on another instance and mod it from this account. In any case, I will post that info here too.

It’s probably gonna be Beyond :)

That’s honestly a good point but:

• Infinity is written in Java code specifically targeted to Android only, I am targeting both iOS and Android with the same code using React Native (maybe even web in the future but it’s a little more complicated due to CORS);
• I have worked with React for at least the past 4 years, so using React Native now for me feels like almost no learning curve at all, while if I’d be given a Java-based Android codebase now, I’d probably need to spend the first week figuring out the basics :)

Honestly I loved the card view because of the gallery, put focus on the post image.

Having that said, card won’t be the only layout available but it is the first I am working on.

I see no reason why not

honestly as of now I see no reason why not open sourcing it, I still didn’t upload the code anywhere yet but probably will chose gitlab

thank you :)

Thank you all for all your comments and suggestions. I’ll go through them and try to answer as much as I can, I am generally quite busy on Tuesdays so I’ll probably be able to do it later at night today. In any case I am happy with the amount of support!

Feel free to suggest names here :)

Oh the music alone is worth it :) I sometimes find myself listening to it at work, and if you leave the suggestions on after it’s done what follows is also incredible, found a lot of cool indie games based on that, GRIS is a good example.

Celeste can be quite casual and also challenging at the same time.

You can die as many times and the game doesn’t punish you, you can save at any point and come back exactly where you lef off later.

I’ve personally been using AlternativeTo for many years to find alternative software, especially when I first began using Linux.

I used to use Ubuntu mono but now I use Jetbrains Mono but damn that comic sans looks better than I’d expect I might even give it a try!

Cities Skylines 2 is already available??

Oh boy i haven’t even played tears of the kingdom yet, 2023 is a great year for gaming!

Edit: just notice that’s the pre order