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Latest Talk app update for iOS

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RebeccaMumsnet · 10/10/2016 09:20

Morning all,

Early this morning we released an update for our iOS Talk app and thought we'd give you a heads-up about it.

There is now a search function so you can now search every thread on Mumsnet Talk from within the app.

This update also includes bug fixes for a number of issues that were reported by you - thanks for your feedback.

Let us know what you think and thanks for all of you feedback so far.

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TimMumsnet · 10/10/2016 13:54

Bitoutofpractise - if you check the App Store now, it should be available as an update. It won't happen automatically unless you've got your phone plugged in (I believe).

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TimMumsnet · 11/10/2016 12:53

Watched threads
Hey guys, thanks for raising the issue with watched threads - I had to re-write quite a messy bit of code that was causing a crash in the app, and it appears I missed out some key functionality.

We have a fix coming shortly that should clear this up.
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Crashing*
The vast majority of crashing-bugs left in the app are caused by a bug in the adverts. Google (who write the code behind this bug) have released a fix recently that I'm going to implement and release as soon as possible.

Again, because it's not been possible to reproduce this bug, it's more difficult to 100% guarantee, so we really appreciate your patience!

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TimMumsnet · 11/10/2016 17:03

Yeah, even from google, code with bugs is quite normal! It's only unusual in that it crashes so often.

We've had around 300 since launching the app yesterday, so it's understandably irritating...

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TimMumsnet · 12/10/2016 07:47

Cozietosie yes that's true, but they also have a massive number of products! This is one small part of a lot of code they've written. So it's probably only a handful of developers working on it.

Also, it's rather hard to simulate what it's like for thousands of users use your code...

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TimMumsnet · 12/10/2016 07:48

Whatsupp ah yes, that's been raised already, I'm working on a fix for that. My bad! The previous way it worked was causing a crash, so it needed re-writing.

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TimMumsnet · 12/10/2016 07:50

New release
I've just released a new build on the App Store, including some fixes from
google. I'm hoping this solves a whole load of our our crashes...

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TimMumsnet · 12/10/2016 11:20

Strange, for some reason the App Store isn't showing the update yet. Sometimes there's a bit of a delay in release...

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TimMumsnet · 12/10/2016 16:47

Hey guys, thanks for downloading the update - I'm just waiting for new crash reports be collected (takes around 12 hours), then I can figure out what else is breaking.

Every time the app crashes, the app sends me a report to help with fixing the issue. Although sometimes it's not exactly helpful...

So for now we don't need to worry about asking for device etc cozie

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TimMumsnet · 12/10/2016 16:49

FleshEmoji

Glad you like it! Sometimes we're able to add small fixes with other releases, that was one of them. Let me know if you see anything funky when rotating to the new orientation.

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TimMumsnet · 12/10/2016 16:52

cozietosie regarding the search filtering - that's something we've intentionally left out for now. We need to have some data on usage before we can consider adding other features - so it's still a bit crude, but will improve.

At some stage soon, we're going to try improve the default order, so that more recent results are prioritised - currently the results are prioritised mostly by popularity (even if they're a decade old)

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TimMumsnet · 12/10/2016 17:39

Oh also cozietoesie - I've just fixed the issue where threads weren't being set as unread when new posts were added. Sorry about that!

The fix will be released probably within a week, with some other fixes.

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TimMumsnet · 13/10/2016 14:27

Battery draining
We've just made a change to the way the adverts work, meaning the app should stop draining the phone battery excessively.

We'll keep monitoring the situation, but let us know how it performs.

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TimMumsnet · 01/11/2016 11:25

Hey guys, just checking in to see if any of these issues are reoccurring?

We've got an upcoming build with energy efficiency improvements and some other fixes that should help.

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TimMumsnet · 04/11/2016 10:41

Thanks cozie - for anyone else who is testing the beta v3.5, have you noticed an improvement in battery life?

Our tests show much better performance, but I wanted to check with you lot, since you all seem to spend enough hours on here to tell Wink

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FlissMumsnet · 05/11/2016 18:59

Sounds like we've still got work to do! Blush

Battery draining seems to be a problem for a few people along with the watched threads so we'll ask Tech to take another look.

Thanks for letting us know the problems you're having

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TimMumsnet · 07/11/2016 17:14

Thingvellir thanks for your feedback! This is exactly why we make beta-releases...

Battery
That's really odd, we'll continue to test these results. If you have the chance, could you screenshot your energy usage of Mumsnet, with the 'time on screen' showing? Would really help.

Watched Threads
We looked into your account and figured out it was because of the number of watched threads you have. We've just released a fix that means it should now work, let us know if there's still issues!

Highlighting
This should highlight when there are new messages - I'll take another look at some stage.

Duplicate Posts
I'm almost done on a fix for this, which should be released within a week or so.

Thanks for your patience!

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