What's new

What changed in each version of the app, in plain words.

Home

A new Home tab. The app now opens on Home: a dashboard answering what needs you, what is new around you, and what you could do next. The Market is now its own tab, and the Pulse is a card on Home. You can customize which cards appear and their order with Edit home.

Privacy by default

These changes live on your community's server. You get them when your community's server is updated. The Poll choice needs an up-to-date app.

Your balance and trades are yours. Nobody else in your community can read your balance or your history. A trade shows only its two people, on the community activity too. A vote on removing a member shows that member's balance to the people who can vote in it, and nowhere else.
Listings are for members. Someone who has not joined can't see your community's listings or their photos. They are shown the way to the global community instead, where anyone can look around.
Anonymous polls. Polls show only the totals, unless the person who starts one makes it an Open vote.
Enterprises' books. Everyone still sees an enterprise's amounts. Who paid it, and the note, only its keepers and that member see.

Daily limits

These live on your community's server. You get them when your community's server is updated.

Nobody can flood a community. One account can make up to 5,000 changes a day: posts, messages, edits and the like. Within that, up to 100 new posts, 5 new groups, 3 new enterprises, 20 invites and 50 links on the Pulse a day. Nobody using BeanPool normally comes near these. If you do reach one, the app says which, and when you can carry on.
Messages. Up to 30 a minute in any chat, direct messages too. A very long message is refused: send it in parts. Photos don't count.
New people. You can start conversations with 20 people from outside your community a day. Messaging members, and replying, is not limited.
Invites. You can have 50 that nobody has used yet. One nobody uses is deleted after its 30 days.
Payments. Up to 100 payments a day, and up to 30 people you have never paid before. Up to 100 deals asked for, accepted or approved, and 20 pledges made or changed. Receiving is never limited.
Enterprises and projects have their own limits, ten times a member's. What a keeper does for one counts against it, not against the keeper's own, except running it: keepers, pausing, winding up, and completing or turning down its deals. Once an enterprise has used up a limit for the day, what a keeper does of that for it counts against the keeper's own, so no keeper can use up its day and stop the others. A keeper can do one enterprise's worth a day for all the enterprises they keep together.

Version 1.2.38

Some of these changes live on your community's server. You get them when your community's server is updated.

New

This BeanPool sheet. Guides to how BeanPool works, the rules, common questions and what's new. They work without a connection. Open it from Settings → BeanPool.
Light or dark. The app starts light. To make it dark, or to have it follow your phone, go to Settings → Appearance: Same as phone, Light or Dark.
Badges. Every screen now uses the same trust levels as your community's server: Resident from 200 trust, Steward from 600, Elder from 1,400. Some screens used to show the wrong badge. The Newcomer badge is easier to read.

Voting

Secret ballots. The app no longer shows anyone how you voted on a Decision, admins included. You can see your own vote.
Who may vote. Only members who joined before a Decision opened can vote on it.
Turnout. Turnout now counts members who did something in the app in the last 30 days.
Emergency suspension. When an admin suspends someone, a 7-day vote opens at once: "Keep this suspension?". If it does not pass, the suspension lifts by itself.
Voice credits. The voice credits shown for votes on Commons beans are the ones that count. You get them in full on every such vote.
Fewer kinds of Decision. Decisions can no longer change trust badges. The old "voting rounds" are gone.

Enterprises

When the lead keeper adds or removes a keeper, the other keepers have 3 days to object.
A keeper can step down, unless they are the only keeper.
Choosing a new lead now has a 14-day limit, and keepers can vote No.
If the lead leaves, the longest-serving keeper takes over at once.

Groups

Every group has a chat. Talk now has three buttons: Messages, Groups and People. Groups lists your groups, the enterprises you keep and the events you are going to, each with its latest message and unread count.
One way to start a group. New group in Talk and + in Commons open the same form, with Social Circle chosen for you. After you create it you land in its chat, which asks who you want to invite.
Invitations. Convenors can invite people from the chat's menu. An invitation shows who sent it, and Join the group takes you straight into the chat.
Mute a chat for 8 hours, a week or for good. @mentions still get through.
One header for every chat: the group's, enterprise's or event's name at the top. Tap it to see the group, enterprise or event.
The old group chats in Chats have been removed, with their messages.
Every group now has a lead convenor — whoever created it, to begin with. Any convenor still looks after members and posts, but only the lead can remove or demote a convenor, and nobody can remove the lead. The lead can hand the lead on to someone else. If the lead goes quiet for 30 days, the group's other convenors — or its members, if the lead is its only convenor — will be able to choose a new one. The screens for that vote come in a later update.
Choosing a new lead for a quiet group. Only people who were in the group before its lead went quiet can vote. People who joined, or were made convenors, after that have no say, so new accounts can't take over a group whose lead has gone quiet.

Safety

Only an owner can give back or take away an owner's or admin's role.
An admin cannot settle a stuck trade they are part of.
Group and event chats limit how fast one person can post.
Chats between two people are always locked. The app used to send a message without the lock if it could not find the other person's key. Now it does not send it: your words stay in the message box, and you can send again in a moment. Your community's server refuses a message between two people that is not locked.

Fixes

The map has one locate button again.
The Market feed is easier to read in dark mode.

The same guide is in the BeanPool app, and works there without a connection: open Settings, then "Help & how it works" under BeanPool. Every other rule, guide and manual is in the Help Centre. Guide version 112.