Hi everyone!
A new update for Avelon is now out on the app store! This update adds a lot of requested features, including new search functionality, a brand new in-app browser with reader mode, a better video player, user/community instances & lots more. It also fixes all the major bugs reported.
Let me know what you think!
Full Changelog
- Added search!
- Find posts, users, communities, comments…
- Supports both filtering & sorting
- Support for searching inside communities
 
- Brand new in-app browser
- Reader-mode support
- Swipe to dismiss
 
- Better video player
- Fixed bug where videos would immediately pause background audio
- Videos now keep track of where you were if you open a post
- Hidden mute buttons for videos without sound
- No more black bars around videos (unless they are too tall to fit on screen!)
 
- Added option to show community/user instances
- Added bio to profile pages
- Added option to disable haptic feedback
- Added swipe to dismiss for in-app notifications
- Improved quicksearch performance and design (the one shown when tapping the feed title)
- Compact posts now use the same font size as large posts
- If you preferred the old look, there’s a new setting to reduce the compact font size
 
- The account switcher now shows instances if you have multiple accounts with the same name
- Fixed bug where battery could sometimes drain in the background
- Fixed bug where posts/comments would sometimes get stuck mid-swipe-gesture when you scroll
- Fixed bug where thumbnail position setting wouldn’t be saved
- Fixed bug where subscriptions page could sometimes get stuck loading
- Fixed bug where comments would sometimes be at the wrong depth after tapping “show parent comment”
- Fixed bug with image cache where it could grow indefinitely
- Cleaned up context menus a bit
- Improved & cleaned up settings a bit
- Other minor bug fixes & improvements
- deleted by creator 
- Lotsa apps for Lemmy are picking up steam, but this one is excellent! Very crisp, easy, intuitive, and I’m enjoying every tweak so far. Thank you all! 
- Wow!! - Just loved that popup change log in the beginning - Looking at the change log itself shows how much hard work have been done here… - Will slowly go through each one of the changes mentioned here - Thanks a lot for your time and work for the betterment of this beautiful app. 
- Amazing! Made a small donation to you. 
- I’ve been using the app since release, and the experience is amazing so far. Thank you! 
- Looks great! Very nice app. - The explore tab is just mwah. 
- Awesome! Thanks! - One small request: is there a way to create new posts? Maybe it’s not so obvious right now 🙁 
- Much love for fixing the music pausing bug :) 
- Great news! 






