Glass - Photography Community Hack 3.4.1 + Redeem Codes

Did you think, “Well, I love this app and the team, but I don’t want a yellow badge everywhere so I’m not upgrading to Patron just yet.”? Well have we got the release for you. Glass, now with 33% less badge.

And other minor improvements to a few little things here and there. Some knick knacks and such have been shuffled around. If a bug is squashed in a codebase and we don’t tell you about it, did it really happen?

Say hello to Patron! Our Patron membership is for folks who want to provide more support to Glass, share the community, and get early access to new features! Oh, and a cute yellow badge. And exclusive icons. (Shoutout to our metal heads.)

With your Patron membership, you get three yearly memberships for free to give to friends and family. With Early Access, you’ll be first to test and help shape new features like our new AI-powered search! As we continue to develop Glass, we’ll keep releasing little new Patron perks.

Well, this is awkward. We didn’t change anything that you’ll see. We did some organizational stuff. Some design stuff. Some vibe stuff. A lot of stuff. But that stuff is foundational, you know? Do we think release notes have a word count? Like, do we have to say a certain amount of stuff for it to matter? Do they matter at all?

Does anything matter? Who can say! Enjoy your invisible bug fixes!

Less crashing! That's what's new in this version. If you like crashing do. not. update. You will be disappointed. Though even if you do update, we bet there is still something for you in the app if you look hard enough.

# 3.3.5 Release Notes

There’s going to come a time where we’ll release an update with a quick little “Bug fixes.” as the release notes. Someone will be on vacation or not enough notice or there’s a showstopper of a bug that we gotta fix or we’ll click the wrong button and whoops there it goes. Some day, we won’t take the time to describe the bug as an odd sign in bug that was only occurring if you had a Glass account, deleted it, and signed up for a new one. Not because we don’t want to, just what it will be. Things happen, like bugs and release notes getting missed.

But today is not that day.

Well, the bug really did happen and we’re fixing it. But these are the release notes! And now you’re reading them on release, and the bug is no more.

Alternate App Icons! Home screens are sacred. You’ve got a color scheme or a special grouping or, you know, whatever. You’ve got a thing. You don’t have to explain yourself with what colors you want. That’s you. That’s a you thing. This update is an us thing, making that you thing easier.

We’re gonna use the Pride icon ourselves. Shoutout to the person who left us a 1-star review calling us too woke. Guess they read our Code of Conduct and realized it wasn’t a space for them? Anyway. Happy Pride next month and, don’t forget, Trans Rights are Human Rights.

Profile Improvements are here! Pin photos to the top of your profile! Hide a photo from your profile! That’s it! More small changes that rule! Because we love you! Okay!

Here at Glass, we update the app every two weeks to improve your experience and stability of the app!

Threaded Comments are here! Keep your conversations organized, contained, and go back and forth without clutter. A small shift with a big change.

And, back by popular demand in the Cat Category, all the little things you’ve been missing.

Oh, and also some bug fixes probably. Can you imagine if we did the generic notes? Let’s give it a go. Here at Glass, we update the app every two weeks to improve your experience and stability of the app! You’ll really notice this time. Definitely not just because no one created budget for content.

Couldn’t even make it through the bit.

Sorry. Some fixes.

Anyway. Love you.

It’s funny how the things that can excite, teach, celebrate, or break us, often have a way of appearing suddenly. When I was two years old, before Amtrak cutback on their routes and middle of nowhere Idaho was still serviced, my grandfather took the train from Chicago to spend a couple of weeks with us in the summer. We had just purchased a used Gold Astrostar Van with a side sliding door that took work to close. The trip with my grandfather flew by, not that I remember it. The first memory I have from life comes from us dropping him off at the train station.

He said goodbye to me with him soft voice and left me buckled into the car seat. The rest of my family got out of the van to walk him to the door. My dad couldn’t get the sliding door to close, so he left it open — we were double parked and they had to hurry. And that’s when she came. A stray cat hopped into the van for the 90 seconds I was alone and immediately laid down on my lap, purring herself asleep.

My parents returned, sans a grandfather, to find me petting her. I looked at them and exclaimed, “Train cat!” When my mother reached in to pick her up and set her down, she turned back and hissed. I said, “No! Train cat mine.” And that’s how we adopted Train Cat, from now on known as TC.

She wasn’t an indoor cat, but she came inside for me all the same. We’d let her out during the night and she’d return with new wounds or mice or bugs; murder presents for us in exchange for tummy rubs and regular food. TC wasn’t an indoor cat, but she pretended to be one for me.

When I five, TC didn’t come home one morning. While looking around the neighborhood for her, we realized a couple down the street had moved that morning. TC had another home down the road that we didn’t know about and when they left, they took her with them. A blessing and curse — we knew she was safe and alive and well-fed, hunting mice and bugs in another place. But a curse all the same, because TC wasn’t coming back.

There’s beauty in the impermanence of life, full of joy and surprise and train cats. Which is a long way of saying, we think the spirit of Train Cat helped us finally squash a bug we’ve been hunting down for months.

The heat death of the universe is going to come for us all — the stars will drift apart, the light will land on it’s last leaf, and everything will go quiet and still. As Tootie and the gang tried to show us, it’s just the fact of life. We are the universe experiencing itself and our egos personalize it, and we find comfort in each other towards space’s cold indifference. Poets and artists have written about this for millennia to comfort us, help us accept it. What art has the power to do for us to understand large things we can’t comprehend without it will always leave us breathless and the artists over the next millennia will write about the same.

All we are is dust in the wind.

Just know, as time itself draws to a close, right before everything collapses in on itself to have yet another Big Bang, we’ll be there… pushing a quick bug fix release for a handful of you who can’t sign in.

We’re bringing Highlights to the app! Find new photographers to follow, read up on new features, and get inspired with our interview series. You’ll also never miss a new product announcement.

See? That guy buying Twitter isn’t all bad — sometimes we get things like Highlights in Glass. Which is nice. You’re nice. Okay. That’s it.

*INT — Zoom Room — Our heroes are discussing the latest release. There is framed art on the walls behind them displaying their personalities. It’s mid-morning in Mexico for one of them, the rest are banished in the darkness that is Amsterdam in the winter. Sunshine pours through a single window, bathing Marketing in light while Design and Eng pretend to not be jealous.*
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Marketing: “What’s in the release? Improved bug logging on the backend, and the fix for that terrible logout bug?”
Eng: “Yes, but say it less confidently.”
Marketing: “Okay. Logging and a fix for the logout bug??? Maaaaaybe?”
Eng: “Good enough.”
*They all share a chuckle.*
Marketing: “That’s what we strive for here. Good enough!”
Design: “We didn’t actively make it worse!”
Marketing: “We love to see it.”
Design: “Okay, ship it. Onto the next thing.”
Marketing: “Wait, I still have to write the release notes.”

We gotta stop meeting like this.

Don't mind us. Just some housekeeping.

Having trouble signing in after 3.1? We fixed that. Sorry about that! While we were at it, we also fixed some display bugs on iPad that snuck past our QA team. (That's me. I'm the QA team. Do y'all know there are only a handful of people who build Glass? We're small. And sometimes, you know, whoops. Anyway. I don't know how to finish this parenthetical chat we're having. We just really appreciate you, you know? Okay, that's good. You're good. We're all good.)

Hey, you. Yeah, you! New way to explore Glass just dropped.

Cameras and Lenses, yeah, just tap right in. Want to see every photo taken by a Leica Q2 to see if you can justify buying one this time around? Need to roll through a new lens you’re thinking of picking up? Find inspiration from other folks who have your exact camera so you don’t upgrade?

This is a really fun way to explore Glass.

Oh! As our community continues to grow globally, we wanted to make sure everyone can participate. See a comment in a language you aren’t fluent in? Long press the comment to bring up iOS’s Translate option.

Right now — We’re laying the groundwork for upcoming features, squashing some bugs, and improving our onboarding flow. Keeping it loose, keeping it tight. You know, the regular. What you expect from your favorite photography brand.

Soon — We have a handful of improvements coming to Search & Discovery. Camera feeds? Exploring every photo taken by a certain Lens? Yes please.

Sorry, it’s late and the weekend so these here notes aren’t gonna be something special.

Bugs. We had a bug or two that we fixed. Specifically a lil fella that kept logging you out. That miscreant is long gone now. Hopefully. Pretty sure. Should be toast now. No more.

Oh, speaking of toast — new post toasts! Wait, is that lingo? That might be app lingo. Sorry. The best brands don’t talk in lingo. The little notification on the main feed that lets you know there are new posts. That’s called a toast. New post toast. Say that five times fast.

It’s not hard or anything, it’s just fun to say. See? Told you these release notes weren’t gonna be very good.

Another year, another bug fix update right after the new iOS comes out. We also squashed a couple of bugs. Including fan favorite — fixed the swipe keyboard bug. Swipe away, friends. Swipe away.

Glass Anywhere is here and email & password login is live!

Want to use Apple ID? Perfect — it’s still there and wonderful. Want to take more personal control with email and password? We’ve got you. Already signed up for a membership with Apple ID and want to switch? Just head to your Profile Settings to get started.

Shoutout to John, who noticed that we were using the wrong apostrophes — it’s been fixed.

We’re gonna take a nap now. But once that’s done, we’re getting to work on improving search and discovery. More on that soon.

A polish update! As we get closer to launching Glass Anywhere with email login and payments, we needed to clean up a few things in the app.

— Caching should be greatly improved. Photos should load faster and you should see the full color frame less often. (Still may see it on a slow/bad internet connection.)
— Improved profiles when you're scrolling.
— Regular ol' bug fixes. Bugs, right? Who needs 'em. Not us.

Introducing Bookmarks!

There are so many inspiring photographs on Glass. Now you can keep better track of them. Glass 2.1 introduces Bookmarks! See a portrait with perfect lighting you want to try to imitate next time you’re in the studio? Bookmark it. A kind conversation between a few folks sharing tips you want to make sure you don’t forget? Bookmarks. Just really love how you feel when you see the photo? Mark that book, friend.

Bookmarks are completely private and just for you.

Have you ever turned your phone on its side to see a photo in landscape mode? Us too. With this update, it actually does something. Full Screen Mode is here! It especially shines on iPad.

We also knocked a few bugs out, polished a few little bits and bobs, etc.

You know. The usual.

Glass for the Web, links, bug fixes, oh my! Glass for the Web is here and it is wonderful.

You can now use Glass on your iPhone, iPad, and in any browser you want. Your photos shine on iPhone, mesmerize on iPad, and they’ll blow you away on the Web. Just head to glass.photo/signin to get started.

With the addition of Glass on the Web, we have a new feature on iOS & iPad — Links! Just like our chronological feed, we’re out here celebrating features from the early 2000s.

Links in the captions? Do it to it. Sharing a link in the comments? Definitely. Spamming people with links to your NFT collection in the comments over and over and over and over? One way ticket to Account Deletion, population You.