Artpic - Art social network 12+

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.