#planetary #dev-diary wow this was a fun week. We got to hit several of my pet peeve issues with Planetary including:

• adding a toast message on the Home Feed to let users know that Planetary has downloaded new posts.
• allowing users to paste in feed IDs of users outside their network, and follow them.
• rewriting a lot of the language on our onboarding screens to better explain what makes Planetary/SSB so great.
• allowing users to skip setting a name in our onboarding flow. Pseudonymity is a feature, not a bug!
• showing vote messages from all clients, not just Planetary (this was a bug, not a design decision).

Part of our summer strategy is to move fast and make small iterative improvements. This includes releasing a new build of the app to production every week. We really want to improve the new user experience and this seems like a good way to get finer grained data on whether that's working. So a build with all these features was submitted to Apple today and hopefully will be released to everyone on Monday.

If you are a TestFlight beta tester and you see any issues please shoot us a message through TestFlight (take a screenshot) or Github, especially if it's something that might be a blocker. The time between putting the app on TestFlight and releasing it will be shorter than usual for the next couple months.

Pictured: screenshots of the first two screens a new user sees after downloading Planetary.

noice

Whoohoo, what's the first major pet peeve?

For me it's when the app locks up or goes slowly.

yup

the click targets for links seem too hard to click on my iphone