Hi, happy long weekend everyone! Hope everyone is having a good day so far. I’ve been listening to feedback and made a couple changes in 1.0.46. I added an about page for instances with a “Browse as guest” button. Fixed some issues with the link handler, and improved the experience of replying to long comments.

Changelog:

  • Fixed replying to long comments.
  • Made the comment and post create input fields more performant, hopefully fixed a flickering keyboard issue
  • Preloads images on post lists so image jump-in should be reduced
  • Added unsubscribe button to subscriptions list
  • Added about community button to all communities in the drawer
  • Added about instance button to all communities in the drawer and the top right menu.
  • Improved the link follower in some cases to better detect posts and communities.
  • If a post cannot be loaded on the local instance, attempt to view it on the foreign instance
  • Added setting for adding dividers between top comments and between all comments
  • Added setting for always displaying the comment bar
  • Changed the app icon to something a bit more material design-y
  • Added setting for even larger comment text size

Links:

-kuroneko

  • circuitfarmer
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    111 year ago

    Loving this so far.

    My only real complaint is the swipe gestures. They seem a bit too easy, in that I find myself swiping stuff just trying to scroll up and down. Also, it seems awkward that returning the swipe to the right edge with my finger still yields an upvote. Personally I’d prefer if I only got the upvote if I release my finger while the upvote icon is still showing – not sure if that’s a common opinion though.

    • 𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙚
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      51 year ago

      I’ve found that it’s a bit easy but my muscle memory has accepted it already. Maybe a delay in triggering the action would be useful? As in, slide to up vote and holding it for half a second or something. 🤷‍♂️

      But yeah not sure how common the opinion is.

    • @tentphone@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      11 year ago

      Personally I’d prefer if I only got the upvote if I release my finger while the upvote icon is still showing – not sure if that’s a common opinion though.

      Totally agree. Something seemed off about how the swipe actions worked but I couldn’t put my finger on it

  • @Xanvial
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    71 year ago

    Is it possible to only exit the app if back button pressed twice? I keep accidentally close the app

  • Adori
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    61 year ago

    Oh man, thanks for adding that comment divider, I really apreciate you listening to feedback :)

  • @burgersc12@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    It looks like the format !lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca tries to bring you to a user page instead of a community, can you add that please!

    Edit: I like browse as guest, but I didn’t realize you “sign in” and it shows as an account for every instance you browse. I browsed 5 before realizing I should be signing out!

  • @Zarxrax@lemmy.world
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    51 year ago

    What exactly is the “comment bar”?

    Also, I now see a thick gray line between top level comments, regardless of whether or not I enable the new setting for comment dividers. (Looks like enabling that additionally adds a thin line between comments)

  • HamSwagwich
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    41 year ago

    I like it, but the fact that you can’t pinch to zoom an image almost kills it for me.

    • Ends
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      11 year ago

      But you can, no? Just tap the image first, then it loads in full resolution, and there you can zoom just fine. Only thumbnails can’t be zoomed.

      • HamSwagwich
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        11 year ago

        Dang I guess you can now. It wasn’t working when I first tried it. Awesome

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          11 year ago

          You weren’t the only one with that issue, who knows what the reason was. Hooray!

  • @sikhness@lemmy.ca
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    41 year ago

    Absolutely love how you listen to so much of our feedback. This app is truly built for the people haha.

    Are you planning to open source it at all?

    Also, I’ve noticed that the about community and instance pages either don’t show the user metrics or just show some of the user metrics and not all of them anymore since this update. Not sure if it’s a bug or intentional.

    • @sinnerdotbin@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Are you planning to open source it at all?

      I am also wondering this myself. I don’t fault anyone for not, but may have an impact on my long term commitment with where my interest in this space is.

      Also latest updates seemed to fix the issue with fold type phones.

  • RxBrad
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    31 year ago

    Is Card View broken, or was there an intentional change?

    Card View used to have a nice, grey box that surrounded each post.

    Now it’s almost indistinguishable from Fullwidth. No grey box, same divider lines as Fullwidth. Card View just has image previews chopped to a specific height.

    • KuroOPM
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      41 year ago

      Sounds like a bug. I’ll check it out and have it fixed in the next release! Thank you.

      • 𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙚
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        I see you already pushed an update to address this.

        If the cards are going to be in a grey box container, they don’t need the divider that was added in this release I think.

        I asked about the divider on the last release thread because I thought removing the grey boxes was intentional 😬😅

        Thank you for all the work you’re putting into it!

      • RxBrad
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        11 year ago

        Thanks! I figured it was only right that I buy you a coffee, since I keep harassing you on here. Keep up the good work!

        Sync for Lemmy who?

        • KuroOPM
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          11 year ago

          Haha thank you! And glad you’re enjoying Connect

    • 𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙚
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      11 year ago

      I see you already pushed an update to address this.

      If the cards are going to be in a grey box container, they don’t need the divider that was added in this release I think.

      I asked about the divider on the last release thread because I thought removing the grey boxes was intentional 😬😅

  • @Robertej92@lemmy.world
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    21 year ago

    Hi, is there a way to remove the option to have swiping up/downvote a post? Accidentally downvoted a couple of posts before I noticed the function

  • @OrangeCorvus@lemmy.world
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    21 year ago

    Added setting for adding dividers between top comments and between all comments

    Thanks so much for this! Great app

    • KuroOPM
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      51 year ago

      47-50 were just minor hotfixes. 47 I fixed a bug with card backgrounds, 48-50 adds retry to some API calls as the servers were starting to time out with all the traffic.