Hi everyone!

First of all thank you for all the amazing feedback I have gotten so far. I was a bit overwhelmed by the response on my first release, but I’m happy to see so many people enjoying Avelon. This update addresses a ton of the most common feedback I have received with a lot of useful new features including swipe gestures, a new inbox and a new subscriptions page.

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Changelog

• Swipe gestures for posts and comments
  • Fully customizable! Head over to the new gestures page in settings
  • Quickly perform actions such as upvote, downvote, save and reply
  • Also added swipe gestures to various other parts of the UI
• Inbox to view your replies
  • Quickly respond using gestures
  • Quickly open the relevant post
• New subscriptions page
  • More compact, grouped alphabetically
  • Not a tab any more (reachable by swiping back in posts)
• Community links now work in-app
• Added ability to save comments
  • No way to see saved comments atm. Coming later!
• Added customizability to thumbnail position
• Add option to enable more sort options (6 hours, 12 hours, 3 months etc.)
• Add option to show both upvotes and downvotes
• Added ability to save etc. from within a post
• Add swipe gestures to the in-app-webview
• Add purple accent color (yellow too in previous build)
• Reworked navigation system (no longer brings you to a different tab unexpectedly)
• Restructured settings a bit (will be more changes here over time)
• Fixes issue where your own votes would often be counted twice
• Fixed some typos
• Fixed alignment issues with tab bar
• Fixed overflow issue with some posts (hopefully)
• Attempted to temporarily fix ios17 reply crash
• Lots of other things I probably should have written down earlier

Screenshots

Known Issues / Future Features

• Adding posts
• Viewing profile pages
• Viewing saved comments
• Blocking/filtering
• Multiple accounts
• Adjusting text size
• And more stuff!

Replies have been crashing on the iOS 17 beta and I’ve added a temporary fix that hopefully resolves this (though it lacks markdown highlighting). I’m not on the beta yet myself so unable to verify or add a proper fix for now, will look at this once I get a device on the beta.

Given how many features this update adds, I do expect the build to be a bit less stable than before. If you encounter any bugs/crashes I really appreciate your feedback, either here or through testflight.

Hope you enjoy the update, and let me know what you think about all the new features!