Hi, I wanted to get more into theme and customization improvements but a lot of great feature requests came up and I ended up just implementing those instead. I might need a better system to compile release notes soon as in the past week there have been 11 beta releases and it’s a bit tedious to go through each to compile the final release notes. Probably the biggest change in this release is the way back navigation works, hopefully it’s now in a state that is more intuitive instead of back activating the drawer menu.
Thank you to everyone that has taken the time to provide feedback and suggestions, even if I haven’t had the time to respond I’ve read them all. It’s really appreciated!
Also Connect turns 2 months old on Tuesday. Kind of crazy how quickly that went and how much the app has changed in that short amount of time. Thank you again to everyone that has stuck with me these past 2 months, Connect is as much your app as it is mine.
Changes
- Changed back button behaviour and a swipe gesture to show the menu.
- NSFW blur is now a real blur
- [Post card] Changed the comment icon to go to comments and added an optional ‘reply’ icon which preserves the older behaviour
- Added Search bar to settings since they are now a lot of settings
- Changing sort order in list views no longer changes your sort order setting
- Long pressing a setting will now copy its name
- Marking posts read on scroll should now be more reliable for long posts
- Added ‘Undo Hide post’ action when hiding a post
- Added some padding to user avatars
- Added setting to autohide comment replies
- Increased the hitbox for the comment button to include the number
- Added undo for the ‘Hide Above’ action
- Removed a small fade in for images so they now load immediately
- Added ‘Subscribe’ to the post action menu
- Added setting for sticky bottom bars or hiding on scroll
- Fixed an issue with the ‘Saved’ page now combining posts and comments correctly
- Added experimental option to remember scroll position in comment lists
- Added setting to hide markdown images
- Added “copy article url” to post action menu
- Added volume controls to video and saving so changes persist to future videos
- Added icon to flag bot accounts (robot)
- Improved ‘Experimental post swipe navigation’ to include a swipe to previous and if swipe gestures are turned off the entire page is a swipe target
- High refresh rate defaults to on
- Improved the ‘Block’ page, list of communities to block now shows all results instead of 1 page of results
- Fixed issue within the inbox where comments could sometimes be duplicated
- Fixed table markdown when combined with images
- Fixed an issue with .website instance names not loading correctly
More theme customization is coming!
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-kuroneko
“Connect is as much your app as it is mine.”
And it is that user focus and can-do attitude that makes Connect my favorite Lemmy app and Kuro an exceptional developer. Thanks to Kuro for weaving the magic bits and to fellow Connecters for your suggestions and observations!