Hi supporters :3!
Now that the development of BARQ! is ramping up in speed again, more and more cool updates will be shipped to all of the users. Because you all provide amazing support and make this all possible, you get early access to most of the cool features. We've improved how this process works and this post will give some explanation!
We will ...
2025-05-24 11:25:08 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone :3!
As you might have seen we've been officially registered as a non-profit organization a while ago. This does mean that we have to move over lots of things from the old organization account to the new organization account.
This means you might get emails that you've been kicked off TestFlight or other resources. But don't worry! We will invite you back once the new te...
2025-05-24 10:33:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone! We’ve set up a new telegram chat and channel where supporters can discuss the new early access builds, features and improvements; directly with the developers!
Let’s see if it works out :3
2024-12-21 11:01:32 +0000 UTC View PostHi supporters :3!
Now that the development of BARQ! is ramping up in speed again, more and more cool updates will be shipped to all of the users. Because you all provide amazing support and make this all possible, you get early access to most of the cool features. We've improved how this process works and this post will give some explanation!
We will ...
2024-10-11 09:18:38 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! As you've probably seen already: BARQ 2.0 just released! After almost a year of development we can finally say goodbye to the old app and welcome our brand new and much improved version of BARQ.
Now that we've reached this milestone we can now finally focus on adding new and exciting features to BARQ again! This is a process we want to do together with all of you, our supp...
2024-09-03 14:47:25 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Since BARQ launched many of you joined our journey and became a supporter. This made it possible to keep BARQ running and get us where we are today. Thank you all so much for your support <3
Last year was a bit of a boring year in terms of new app features because we had to focus on getting a lot of things straight. Now, with BARQ 2.0 launching soon, we wi...
2024-08-11 20:32:14 +0000 UTC View PostHi all! Very soon the old app will get an 2.0 update: BARQ Next. The Next app will then be removed from the stores and the new code, design and everything will continue its life as BARQ 2.0 in the regular App Store and Play Store.
This does mean that there is a new early access testing link available for both Android and iOS.
Android
Early Access:
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While we're working on making BARQ! Next even better with new features, we partnered with https://x.com/TriangleManor to bring you barq's first EVER merch drop: "TTYL" featuring art by the amazing htt...
2024-06-21 18:33:52 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! Thank you all so much for all the support you've been given to BARQ. Thanks to your support and feedback we can finally present the brand new version of BARQ to the world.
Early Access
BARQ Next was a supporter exclusive for almost a year now. Now that the app will be available for the rest of the users...
2024-06-03 20:40:22 +0000 UTC View PostWe are nearing the public release. This build adds more bug fixes and small improvements in the UI and UX. Next build will focus on improving the onboarding and add some finishing touches to components, but we should be nearly there.
Please test everything you can and don't hesitate to report any bugs / glitches or bad UI/UX you can find (Discord early-access is the preferred place to rep...
2024-05-27 19:45:40 +0000 UTC View Post
2023 is almost over and we're looking forward to a beautiful 2024. But before we go there I want to take this moment to thank you for all the support. Thanks to you the BARQ servers could keep running <3
I cannot express how much it means to me that so many of you are dedicating time and money to help us create BARQ for the entire fandom. This year I've been very busy working on BARQ N...
2023-12-28 15:29:49 +0000 UTC View PostApparently the Discord integration was broken so invites were not sent out properly. It should now be fixed! If you run into any problems please reply on this post or send me a DM :3
2023-09-04 14:41:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all! Since the introduction of the AD mode it has caused quite some confusion about what "AD" or "After Dark" means. Do you think the name is OK or do you like other alternatives more?
2023-08-31 20:29:37 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a while since I've uploaded these. I forgot to do one, and then two, and then the backlog became so big I sort of just stopped D: BUT! We are back :3
We have been super busy improving our architecture to have better performance for a lower price. BARQ did grow a lot since october last year, yet the costs are about the same (and even a bit lower on AWS). So overall I think we did...
2023-08-15 09:35:36 +0000 UTC View Post
We are super happy with all of you supporting us, and we'd like to interact more between the team and the supporters. We've created this small questionnaire to check how you're all feeling about BARQ right now. Please tell us what you think we do good / can improve :3
BARQ has been out for a year now 🎉 What do you think of the app 📱, and what features would you like to see added / improved? Help shape BARQ's future by filling out this (short, promise!) survey :3
2023-06-21 19:11:41 +0000 UTC View Post
A new build of BARQ! Next is out for our supporters right now 🏃♀️
Build 29 includes Experiments, Likes & Mutuals overview, LastFM integration and more! ✨
"Experiments" is a new feature where we will frequently test new features or changes out 🧪. You can find these in Settings and you can enable or disable experiments whenever you want! 👀
Be sure to check ...
2023-06-03 10:07:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hej! 👋
Want to test out our new and improved BARQ! app? You can do so by clicking on one of the links below!
Joining on Android
Click the following link to join: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/app.barq.nextgen
Important: Your email address has to be...
2023-05-24 12:27:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi! 👋 Over the past few months we’ve been working on a brand new version of BARQ! We are happy to announce the new app will soon be available for our Supporters to test out! 🥳 More information about the new BARQ App on our blogpost 👉 https://blog.barq.app/a-brand-new-barq
2023-05-19 15:48:09 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Most of you have requested their supporter banners in the app, but many of you still haven't redeemed your early access perk. We do have a lot of fun new features planned, so make sure you grab your early access :3
To get access to early access builds I will need your Apple App Store and/or Google Play Store email address. If you DM that to me via Patreon, I can add you t...
Constantly forgot to create this report but here it is! All of our capacity was taken over by the influx of spammers, so we did not have a lot of time for performance optimisations this month. Zendesk surprised us by charging us for the maximum amount of seats even though they were empty, currently talking with them about it...
On the plus size: data transfer costs are going down and spee...
2022-11-18 10:10:25 +0000 UTC View Post
We expected AWS to be around 600 this month, and it happened! We are looking into ways to scale down our very expensive database instance. Rekognition is also one of the major costs, we want to tone that down a bit. We have also onboarded many new team members for the development team, so those costs are up a bit too.
Next report I do expect the costs to be higher since we september rampe...
2022-09-25 13:03:29 +0000 UTC View Post
We finally killed DigitalOcean and are now fully hosted on AWS. Bunny.net is doing its work and the data transfer costs are sinking too. ECS has moved over to SPOT instances, saving ~60% :3 August is expected to have the AWS costs around ~600$ so we're getting there!
Thanks to all of you for making barq possible ❤️
2022-08-08 21:40:46 +0000 UTC View Post
I started doing this on Discord, but from now on I will also make a monthly post on Patreon to tell all of you where the pledges are going. We are currently doing many improvements to the caching of the application. I think the database and data transfer costs will be cut in half by the end of july.
2022-07-22 15:16:58 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! Thank you all so much for supporting the development of barq! I am very thankful for your support since it really helps us creating something cool :3
Last weeks were very busy for me since I started on a new job, had my summer holidays and other major life events. Now that everything has settled it will be full steam ahead again for barq :)
From now on we plan on doi...
2022-06-03 07:34:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all! Now that barq has been released on the App and Play store we have space available again for the TestFlight testing (iOS beta builds). If you have iOS and wish to join the Early Access please click the attached link :)!
2022-04-07 16:20:25 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! I've created two links you can use to join the early access on iOS and Android. The e-mails did not always arrive/work and this should work better :3
Please click the desired link below to join :3!
https://testflight.apple.com/join/aYhNJJAT
2022-03-03 16:58:33 +0000 UTC
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Over 140 of you are supporting me in developing barq, thank you all so much. It really allows to move barq forward :) Without all of you it wouldn't have been possible to get to where we are now.
I am working on the next update to improve the barq app and platform. The early access will be available once the first stable changes of this update are implemented. If you have any ideas or oth...
2022-02-18 10:36:32 +0000 UTC View PostHi patrons! Thank you all so much for joining. It really helps a lot since we can now upgrade our servers accordingly to the new influx of users! ❤️
I am working on making sure all of you get your perks ASAP. To help me with this please provide the following in a Patreon DM:
What to provide: