BARQ 2.0 OUT NOW!!
Notifications fixed! New chat experience!! Better profiles!!! and MORE!!!! AHGHH
This update lays the foundations for some very cool stuff too, stay tuned ๐งก
(the app might not be updated for everyone yet, we're rolling this out over the next few days! :3)
HI :3
๐จ๐จ๐จ HUGE UPDATE DROPPING SEPTEMBER 1ST!!! ๐จ๐จ๐จ
FIXED NOTIFICATIONS! ๐ฌ
REVAMPED PROFILES! ๐ค
NEW, BETTER CHAT!! ๐ฃ
AND MUCH MUCH MORE
thanks you so much for your support everyone, enjoy the update when it drops!!๐งก๐งก๐งก
Thank you
@Dragoneer
for providing a space for us weirdos to learn, grow, and share amazing creations with each-other.
Youโve allowed the furry fandom to connect in ways for which we will forever be grateful.
Hi all! My last announcement sparked a lot of discussion. Looking back, I may not have been able to put everything into words properly. Writing policy is hard :(
p.s. please don't kill our social media manager on her first day โค๏ธ
Over 8000 furries have joined the barq beta. But where do they live?
๐บ๐ธ 2850
๐ฒ๐ฝ 1685
๐ฌ๐ง 595
๐ฉ๐ช 581
๐ณ๐ฑ 235
๐ฆ๐ท 204
๐จ๐ฆ 193
๐จ๐ด 159
๐จ๐ฑ 154
๐ซ๐ท 140
โก๏ธ To clarify: interests are user generated. We do not add these ourselves.
We've removed the inappropriate tags and banned the user who submitted them!
Please keep reporting profiles when they have inappropriate content while we are working on prevention of these sort of tags
๐จ๐ข BIG THINGS COMING TO BARQ?! ๐ข๐จ
The team has been hard at work on a complete rewrite of our app: "BARQ Next"
We're excited to let everyone get their paws on it soon
๐ Stay tuned for more details :3
#BARQNext
We get a lot of questions about why photos with puppy gear are moved to the AD (After Dark) profile. The reason is that we consider it fetish gear and thus AD. We understand that it can be worn in a non-fetish way, but currently we will treat all photos the same. Sorry puppies๐พ
psstt โจ ๐ถ
YOU LIKE CUTE T-SHIRTS? COOL WE DO TOO!
We partnered with
@TriangleManor
to bring you barq's first EVER merch drop: "TTYL" featuring art by the amazing
@Serpent____x
๐ขPre-orders are now open!๐
(Hoodie and tank-top option also available :3)
NEW SONA ALERT ๐ข๐ถ
The votes are in...
Introducing our border collie!
a fluffy new face for Barq!
Barq IS for friends so didn't want anyone to feel left out
The red panda, raccoon, and shiba will all be featured alongside our collie in the future :3
Any name suggestions? ๐
โจ We've heard your feedback! :3 โจ
Messaging is better than ever in our upcoming BARQ Rewrite:
โ๏ธ Notifications WORK!!!!!
โ๏ธ Group chats
โ๏ธ Read markers
โ๏ธ Typing indicators
โ๏ธ Message requests
๐งก focus more on meeting new friends, and less on your messages being seen :3c
The beta is exploding! We have made some improvements in the server architecture so we should be able to welcome more users soon. We will also move from the internal testing to the public app stores to make downloading easier :)
Thanks everyone!
๐จReady to test out an all NEW Barq?๐จ
Our app rewrite 'BARQ Next' is now in OPEN BETA!
โจA Whole New Chat Experience!
โจNew profile look
โจGroup Overhaul
โจMUCH MORE
๐ Join the beta:
๐Share your feedback on BARQ Next here:
(1/2)
We have reached 10.000 testers on iOS. This is the maximum amount allowed on TestFlight, which means we will have to move to the official App Store now. We will do this in the coming days ๐ฅณ
Another huge milestone hit ๐ฅณ
Thanks to everyone for joining and providing useful feedback and insights!
Since we are about to hit our maximum user count for beta testing on the App Store and Play Store, we will move to the official stores very soon :3
HEY :3
barq is growing fast!! To help cut spam and bots, new accounts will have to wait three days before they can initiate messages and interact with groupsโจ
some very exicting stuff coming up, looking forward to share more in the future.......
Hi! ๐ Over the past few months weโve 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! ๐ฅณ
Check out the comment below for the blogpost!
Hello! Our entire team is European based. I can see from the discussions, views held by European furs and their conventions must be very different from views from American furs and their conventions. Bear with us while we are finding a good middle ground! ๐ถโค๏ธ
@SparkyTheCat_
Users who currently have an account and will not reach the age of 18 as of Oct 1st, will have their account suspended. They can contact moderation to have their account reinstated once they reached the age of 18.
They can also request account deletion as well.
2022 was wild! We went from beta to almost 90k users ๐ฑ We'd like to thank everyone for the love and support we've received โค๏ธ and wish everyone a happy new year! ๐ฅ
To an even greater 2023!
2022 BARQ rewind in the thread below ๐โฌ
Over 26.000 furries have already joined the beta. Thank you all so much for the support, especially our Patrons! We have received a lot of good feedback and are now working on the next update (0.38) that will already implement some of it :3
Roadmap:
Your fursona is an important part of your furry identity. In the coming updates we will work on improving how fursonas are shown and managed on barq.
What would you want barq to show about fursonas / your fursona?
Another amazing milestone: 100.000 users ๐
Thanks everyone for being a part of BARQ and for all the love and support youโve all given us over the last year โค๏ธ
๐ Read more:
We sincerely apologize for the mistake on this. The phrase ACAB is not banned on our app, and we fully support the BLM movement. Warnings relating to this mistake will be cleared ASAP. (If you received a warning for this, please contact our support team.) [1/2]
Friends inbound! ^w^
Which BARQ! Fursona is the most friend-shaped of them all?
Cast your vote for your favorite BARQ mascot at
let us know what you love about your favorite lil guy in the replies!
Read more here:
#BARQFursona
Last weeks we've been busy creating a new design framework for barq. The new interface is more consistent, better performing and a lot easier to work with. The new design will release next update together with many new features and improvements ๐ฅณ
happy pride month๐ถ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
PSA: transphobes and bigots have no place on barq, if you encounter any on our platform please report them so we can vaporize them :3
A new search is coming! ๐๐
The next update will add a brand new search engine.
You can finally search by interests, species ๐ถ, kinks ๐พ and whether youโre mutuals ๐ฏ
The new search is also a lot quicker ๐โโ๏ธ :3
Thank you so much for all the love and support our app has gotten! We reached 5k followers on Twitter, what an amazing milestone! ๐ฑ
We thank you for the continuing support! ๐ถโค๏ธ
We've hit another amazing milestone: 35.000 registered users ๐ฅณ Thanks everyone for joining, engaging and providing useful feedback. Also a huge thank you to our Patrons who make all of this possible!
You all have sent 50.000 replies in 14.000 discussions and over 1.000.000 DMs!
We should be up and running again! We are going to migrate to a new cloud provider soon, hopefully that will fix all networking issues ๐
Thanks everyone for the patience and overwhelming support.
It's been almost a month since we last tweeted something, but we're not dead! In fact, we are busy working on the next big update for the upcoming con season.
Better searching and filtering, improved room parties, room sharing and useful information about the conventions!
BOO :3! Get ready for a spooktacular Halloween event brought to you by BARQ! ๐โจ
Announcing 'BARQ!'s HOWL-O-WEEN!' - a online month-long celebration of fur and frights! ๐ฆ๐ป Show off your Halloween spirit and win exclusive BARQ swag!
๐ Read more here:
We see you
@FurFest
๐
over 2,000 barq users in attendance!
Keep an eye around the main hotel for these exclusive MFF 2023 stickers, only 150 produced so you'll be a pretty big deal if you find one :3
Another great milestone has been reached: over 50.000 furries have joined barq ๐ Thanks to everyone for the overwhelming support, feedback and trust. Special thanks to our Patrons who've helped us get where we are today โค๏ธ
We can't wait to see what the future brings :3
BARQ has been out for a year nowย ๐ What do you think of the app ๐ฑ, and what features would you like to see added / improved? Help shape BARQ's future by filling out this (short, promise!) survey :3
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Update 0.38 is out and will bring a lot of new privacy and profile options. Users will have even more control over who can view their profile and interact with them.
We've also made our location system more advanced and fixed a lot of bugs :3
A little over a week left to participate in
#barqoween2023
! , you could win your very own barq bandana and be (almost) as stylish as our resident pubby :]
learn more:
For those wondering why barq is so slow at the moment. We are currently processing 18.000 requests per second to the database. The DB can handle it but the API is struggling ๐ด
We have just submitted barq 1.1.0 to the App Store and Play Store. This update allows users to create an account via email and Apple ID. Upcoming updates will add ways to move your account from Telegram to email and Apple ID too.
The last two months we've been very busy improving the server performance and moderation tools. We are happy to say that we have finished the improvements and can now focus on app updates again ๐
The server is way faster and more stable now ๐ฅ
There are over 9000 different species listed on barq. To name a few: Fox, Wolf, Fox/Wolf, Wolf/Fox, Foxwolf, Wolffox, Folf...
Wouldn't it be great if you could add multiple species to your fursona ๐
Great news for everyone who has been stuck on the loading screen!
We have finally found out what causes the issue and are working on fixing it ๐
Bugs are fun
The first
#barqEvent
at
#Eurofurence26
was a success! ๐
Thanks everyone for coming and I hope the winners of the quiz are happy with their very High Quality T-shirtโข ๐
Thanks for everyone who just joined our beta! We have a huge influx of new users so there could be some growing pains. Please report any bugs you encounter so we can fix them for you :3
๐๐
Hey, you! ๐ซต
Are you currently at
@NordicFuzzCon
?
We are selling some official NFC-themed BARQ! bandanas at the dealers den! Come take a peek at table 48 ๐
#NFC2024
#NordicFuzzCon
The long awaited 1.8 update is out now ๐ฅณ! New app icon, completely new ๐ Profile Search, ๐ญ Improved Chats, ๐ฃ Improved Groups & Replies, ๐ถ LastFM Integration and many ๐UX improvements
Read the full changelog here:
We have just finished our migration to a new hosting provider (AWS). This already improved the stability of the push notifications and made each request 35ms faster ๐
Coming days we will release more speed improvements and bug fixes :)
If your Telegram account was visible to "Everyone" we've changed your visibility to "Mutuals only". This is to protect you from potential spammers trying to reach out to you via Telegram. If you do want it to be visible to everyone, you can change this back in your profile๐
Hallo! It's been a while since we last posted an update.
Lots of things are in the works at the moment and we can't wait to show you ๐
In the meantime, we did update our website to look more goodโข! Keep an eye out for any updates on there โจ
Yesterday we reached the amazing milestone of 80.000 registered users ๐ We would like to thank all users and supporters for the feedback, love and support we have received over the past year โค๏ธ
Yesterday we noticed a huge uptick in suspicious traffic to barq and all that traffic caused the servers to go down. We've migrated our servers to a new cloud provider and made some other improvements. Hopefully the servers will run more stable now :3
In lieu of market trends, we've chosen to rebrand Barq to the more refined 'B.'
Be sure to spread the word about โB, the everything app for
Furriesโ to all your friends!
Art by
@KappnHunter
๐ Due to the API recently being used to spam we have limited the amount of profiles you can like at the same time.
๐กThis doesnโt count for mutuals.
Our developers are currently working on a more refined anti-spam and we will to remove the limitation once thatโs finished! โจ
[1/3] Ey! ๐
The time has come to open up BARQ! Next for Supporters to test out our new, shiny and improved app!ย ๐ฅณย ๐
In the next months you can explore and help test the app with us to make it even better! Your feedback is very much appreciated. ๐
We've been getting a lot of messages about Barq not working. Some systems are down, according to our status page. This happens every now and then, it'll be back up and running again soon! ๐ถโค๏ธ
Last week we've been working on update 0.39! This update will give owners more control over their communities. The update also includes a lot of bug fixes and speed improvements. Thanks for all the support, feedback and ideas!
Just released a server update to make the chats load a lot faster. Before it took ~2 sec, now it's 0.04sec๐จ
Small development update: we are currently working on moderation tools for community admin/moderators :3