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
I’m happy you put the FaceID lock in but immensely disappointed in the fact you put everything (literally everything) behind A Paywall.
I understand that €2/month isn’t much, however - the fact that every small thing goes into an paywall, doesn’t show me personally any good.
Last time, I saw the Lifetime option was €30-35 (can’t see prices in TestFlight version anymore) while the app is great but not yet bug-free.
It makes me worry that there will be “another tier” later on which costs more to get the newer features and so on.
My opinion (for what’s worth it): Your app is great and at the moment the best out there but due to paywall on literally every feature. Less good.
I sympathize on the “at the moment” because Memmy is back on track with development and so is Voyager which are currently free with different features but possible getting similar features later on while maintaining being free.
Good luck though!
What do you mean when you say that literally everything is behind a paywall? The core features are accessible for free.
What percentage of your revenue are you contributing back to Lemmy in general and the instance that hosts your community?
