Beejive 4.3 ($9.99) is, unfortunately, one of the more confusing and buggy versions of this otherwise-excellent instant messaging app. I’m not terribly sure which bugs from the last versions were fixed, but I can vouch for the existence of a few new ones. Turning a chat from landscape to portrait mode, for example, will sometimes kill the conversation (requiring you to delete it) or simply turn the wallpaper to black.
It took me quite a while to find the new “Buddy Pounce” option within the maze of pop-up and slide-out menus within Beejive, but I finally found it by tap on my buddy’s avatar to enter Contact Details and noticed a new alarm icon within the Username field. Tapping on the icon will activate a “buddy pounce” push notification that will, in theory, alert you to the next time your buddy comes online. These are one-shot alarms for now, but in my brief experience with the app this evening, I’m not even sure they’re capable of even activating. I’ve even gone so far as to delete and re-install Beejive 4.3 on my iPhone, but I still can’t get buddy pounces to work.
Nothing makes up for how vague the description of this new feature is, or for the lack of instructions on how to use it, but a functioning “buddy pounce” would certainly have been a start.
On the bright side, the menus have been organized in a much more logical manner within the Settings tab, and it is genuinely easier to navigate now than it was before. It’s about the small things, people.
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