Artpic - Art social network

September 17, 2024

A new big design feature in this update - transparent status and navigation bars! - New big user interface feature: transparent top and bottom bars. - Now, the top bars (where the menu titles are) and the bottom navigation carousel menu bar will slowly fade as you scroll down in feeds. When you scroll back up, they gradually become opaque again. - This also applies to the system's status bar (where the clock, battery, and notifications are) and navigation bar (where the home button area is). - This way, you will have more space to see posts and other content! - The bars don't become fully transparent, just semi-transparent (it would have been confusing otherwise). - This feature is implemented in almost all feeds (if there is enough content), except for chats and comments. - If you want the bars to become fully opaque again, just scroll up. - The transparency adjusts based on the visibility of the top bar. If it is fully visible, the bars stay opaque. If it is fully hidden, the bars turn semi-transparent. - This feature was also added to the profile feeds, even though there are no hideable top bars. - When you reach the end of a feed, the system's navigation bar, along with the navigation carousel menu, will return to full opacity. Important fixes and improvements: - Added a confirmation popup when clicking on links to prevent accidental navigation to external websites. - Fixed an issue where user UIs (user UI is the panel where a user's name, username, icon, etc... is in one place) wouldn't load after returning from some other tab (E.g., if you open the "User exploration" tab, then go to some different tab and return back, the user UIs wouldn't load. This was now fixed.). - Fixed an issue where clicking the "Go to challenges" button in your profile menu didn't update the bottom navigation carousel menu to the correct position for the challenges tab. Small fixes and improvements (you can skip reading this if you don't want to): - Corrected text to display "1 hour ago" (instead of "1 hours ago") and "1 day ago" (instead of "1 days ago") in the user UIs and also in user profile menu online status (you can access it by opening the profile options popup and clicking the 3 dots in the top right corner of each user profile menu). Also made the user profile menu online status text green if it is "Online now". - Resolved an issue where the bottom navigation carousel menu continued scrolling inertially for some time, even after reaching the last navigation panel on the right. - Redesigned the search button in the World Feed (where the latest posts from all users are displayed) to make it more prominent and easier to notice. - In the "User exploration" tab, when switching between different feed types or pressing the "Switch order" button, the scroller containing the "Switch order" button and info text now automatically scrolls to the beginning (so that a user can read the feed type description from the beginning immediately without the need to scroll to the beginning when the scroller is not in the beginning). - Adjusted the transparency of the post feed column back button (a button that appears in the 1-column view mode and takes you back to 2 or 3 columns) so it now matches the appearance of the status bar and top bar when they are semi-transparent. - When switching between 1, 2, or 3-column views in post feeds, the feed will now automatically scroll to the top (this is applied to all feeds except profile feeds, which is either your profile or other users' profiles). - When scrolling down, the top bars now hide at a slightly slower speed for a more natural transition. - When opening the "Settings" menu, the "Start tab" will now appear centered. - A couple of other minor improvements.

August 28, 2024

A new update has arrived after a long time, and it brings some big features and many improvements! Big new features: - Carousel bottom navigation: changed the bottom navigation menu from being a static bar to a dynamic carousel menu. Now, you can scroll through the bottom navigation menu! This new carousel menu includes nice animations and added vibrations for enhanced user experience. - A new tab: User exploration. This update brings a new tab called "User exploration", which lets you explore all Artpic users in a convenient and easy way! It allows you to sort all users based on one of these nine sorting criteria: 1. posts count 2. pins count 3. challenge posts count 4. followers count 5. following count 6. last time online 7. name 8. username 9. account registration date You can choose either ascending or descending order of users for each one of these. A description text explains each chosen combination of sorting criteria and order. - A completely new, much more informative user UI! The new "User exploration" tab prompted us to rework the user UI (user lists contain user UIs). Up until now, the user UI only contained the icon, name, posts count, followers count, and follow button. We thought it would be better to display as much information about each user as possible in a small space without opening the user's profile. That's why we completely reworked the user UI from the ground up. So now, it also contains the username, challenge posts count, pins count, following count, last time online, account registration date, and chat button (only if you follow the user; if you don't follow, the follow button is shown, though it is much smaller than before). Although the new user UI is larger than before (so fewer of them fit on the screen), you can see much more information now. Important fixes and improvements: - Fixed links in post comments and chats not being clickable. - Made "@" a valid URL part, so now the character "@" doesn't break URLs. - Fixed many special characters not showing in the name in profile menus. - Added last online status to each user's profile menu. You can access it by opening the profile options popup and clicking the 3 dots in the top right corner of each user profile menu. - Now, when using the scroll-up button (available in post feeds and user lists), content doesn't reload unnecessarily during fast, automatic scrolling up as it used to, resulting in better app performance when using this scroll-up button. - The online indicator is now green if the user has been online within the last 5 minutes (was just 1 minute before). Small, insignificant fixes and improvements (you can skip reading this if you don't want to): - In group chats, when the chat title in the top bar is clicked, the group chat members list is shown (nothing happened before when clicked). - Changed the functionality of the "no internet" popup that appears when internet connection problems are detected. Now, the popup can be closed, so users are not prevented from using the app, even though they may have internet connection issues. - Slightly improved the share text when sharing a post. - Changed the color of the date text in messages (the text that tells when the message was written) in dark mode from blue to black to make it more readable. - After uploading a challenge post, the success popup now mandatorily shows for 6 seconds instead of 8 seconds as before. Also added an explosion effect to the particle effect animation, which shows when this success popup opens. - Removed the option to "Add new members" to group chats (it didn't work previously). - Fixed the horizontal line at the bottom of each dropdown menu being visible in the system's status bar when scrolled enough up. This happened in the medium/topic dropdown menus in the image post upload menu. - Fixed the wrong color of a line in the user profiles in light mode. - Various other minor improvements.

March 7, 2024

A small update with some improvements and fixes: - Added support for Arabic and Bengali scripts in the user-generated texts. Now, you can write comments, messages, post texts, and any other texts in Arabic and Bengali. The Arabic script is not working in left-to-right mode yet. - Fixed a rare bug where you could send a notification to yourself if you like/comment your post. - Fixed the "+" character not being recognised as a valid URL part. Now, URLs with the "+" will appear and work properly. - Fixed a bug when comment creation time is not shown (only the date was shown without time) after clicking on a comment. Now, both the comment's creation date and the comment's creation time will be shown. - Comment creation date and time will be shown by default on each comment instead of being hidden by default. Now, if you click on a comment, the comment creation date and time text will hide (and appear again if you click on it again). - Fixed a bug where the last few challenges were not showing up in the challenge list. - Added animation to the feed chooser bar when switching between the newest/most liked/most pinned/most commented feeds. - Some other small improvements.

February 12, 2024

A dark mode was added! And also some other important fixes. - A new color theme was added: dark mode. If you switch to dark mode, many things in the app will appear darker. You can switch to dark mode (and back to light mode) manually in the settings (we will add an option to automatically turn dark mode on/off based on your system's settings in the future). - Potentially fixed a critical crash happening when creating a new account. - Fixed a bug where the wrong feed is shown if very quickly switching between the newest/most liked/most pinned/most commented feeds. - Made the background of the post likes/post pins/post comments/post details menus more translucent so that you can see the post behind the menu when it is opened. - Added button color dim tint effect (when clicked) to some buttons that didn't have this effect before. - Fixed a bug where the splash panel is not shown when the app is launched, and you have a menu other than the main feed as your first tab. - A lot of very minor design improvements. - Some other small improvements.

February 1, 2024

A small update containing a couple of fixes. - Fixed a bug where content is shown behind the status bar when scrolling the post likes or post pins list (this bug was introduced in the last update). - Fixed not being able to change a profile picture. - Fixed wrong scroll bar position in challenge feeds.

January 22, 2024

A large update with some big features and tons of minor fixes and improvements! - A new big feature: added 3 new feeds of most liked, most pinned and most commented posts! You will find these new feeds in the same tab as the main feed, where the latest posts are shown. - New big user interface feature: hideable top bars. Now, the top bars (where the menu titles are) will slowly hide when you scroll down in the feed and show again when you scroll up. This way, you will have more screen space to see posts. If you want the top bar to appear again, just scroll up - it will appear again quickly. - Challenge posts will now show up in the main feed. So if you create a challenge post, it will show up in the main feed as well. - On the posts where the number of followers of the post author is shown, the number of posts will also be shown. Also added the number of posts to each user in the user lists. - On the posts where the date of the post is shown, the day of the week will also be shown. - Added a warning popup when a user tries to post non-artistic content. - Redesigned the challenge feed top bar (made the title larger, changed the buttons' backgrounds). - Added the visual confetti effect when you click on your profile streak status after you complete a challenge in any given week. - Fixed post details menu not loading properly after going back to it from an other tab. - Tons of other new features, improvements and fixes.

January 8, 2024

Some small features were added in this update. - Added an ability to change profile name. You can change your profile name in the settings. - Added image safety check to comments, chats and profile pictures. Now, inappropriate images will be blocked from being uploaded everywhere. - Added a button to the chat to open a profile of the user you are chatting with. The same functionality was also added to the group chats, when showing members using using "Show members", you can then click on a member to open the profile. - Each comment now has the ability to open the user's profile. You can click on the user's profile picture or name in the comment, and it will open the user's profile. - Added a button to delete all AI-generated hashtags to the upload image post menu. - Upload image post menu was slightly redesigned. - Fixed "More" button not being clickable on some posts. - Some other minor improvements.

December 26, 2023

New big feature - post sharing! - Added a new ability to share posts. Now, you can share each post anywhere you want. You can share your posts or posts made by other users. - Added an option to reorder bottom navigation bar buttons. You can find this new option in the settings. - Warning about using generative AI tools in challenges was removed. Now, you can freely use generative AI when completing challenges. In fact, we will add an image-generation tool to Artpic soon! - Added a new personalized popup with a visual confetti effect after completing a challenge. Each time you complete a challenge, you will randomly get one of 3 possible confetti effects. - Fixed links not being clickable in text posts. - Fixed links not showing properly when having more than 1 same URL in a text. - A bunch of other minor improvements and fixes.

November 17, 2023

Added challenge streaks! And a bunch of small improvements. - Added streak information to each profile. Increase your streak by completing weekly challenges. - Click on the streak in your profile to show information about the status of your streak. - Added challenge posts tab to each profile. All your challenge posts will be in this new section. - Redesigned profile section. Other changes and improvements: - Allowed more aspect ratios of images. From now on, you can post wider and taller images than ever before. - Switched positions of "Challenges" and "Posts by users you follow" menus so that the challenges menu is second now (to emphasize its importance). - Removed warning popup when creating a post with no custom hashtags. Many people don't want to use custom hashtags, so showing a warning popup only distracts new users from posting their first post. - Fixed upload image post menu showing behind status and navigation bar. - Many other small changes and improvements.

October 21, 2023

A big content update! - Challenges were added! Every week, a new challenge starts. Complete a challenge each week and become a better artist over time. - A dedicated menu for challenges was added. You can access it by tapping a star button in the bottom panel. - You have one week to complete a challenge. After that, you will no longer be able to complete it. Be sure to complete challenges because we will add a streak indicator in a future update. - Every challenge has a different topic, so rest assured they will be exciting. Other improvements: - Added a new medium option: "AI Art". If the art you upload on Artpic is generated using artificial intelligence, use an "AI Art" topic when creating a post. - Added support for URLs in bios. You can put your website address in your bio, and every user will be able to click on it. - Fixed posts not loading in the "Posts by users you follow" feed. - Fixed not being able to scroll posts when opening some users' profiles. - Added a closing animation when closing some menus. - Added a new animation when opening the app. - Some other small changes and improvements.