Hi, Today’s update brings an improved community list in the drawer, block list management for users and communities, ability to hide read posts, and various minor improvements/fixes. You can also now view the about page for Communities as well including subscriber count, active users, and number of posts.

Thank you as always for your continued support and encouragement! The feedback has been very helpful in improving Connect. I hope we can make this the best way to browse Lemmy.

Still on the hunt for a new app icon, if you know a designer please let me know!

Changelog:

  • Inbox now refreshes after marking all read

  • Made the drawer lists more compact

  • Added option to Hide read posts

  • Show post titles when viewing a user’s comments in user view

  • Disabled loading more comments when scrolled to the bottom of posts as it looks like comment pagination isn’t working properly on 0.18 and resulted in duplicate comments.

  • Added indicator that a post has been read, the text will turn grey.

  • Added pin icon to featured posts

  • Added About Community view to see the details of a community

  • Added instance names in drawer and community search suggestions

  • Added share links to communities, comments and posts

  • long pressing a post thumbnail will open the url in an external browser

  • Added white background to web views to make text more readable

  • Added block list management for users and communities

  • Fixed a create post error on some communities (JSON relative path error)

  • I’m now precaching some API calls so it should load things even faster

  • Added de-duplication on post list API calls to remove some duplicates that were showing up due to the pagination implementation

  • Fixed a bug where viewing a comment thread would show all comments

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-kuroneko

  • @[email protected]English
    2•1 year ago

    Good stuff! I would appreciate having an option to block user and block community in the post overflow menu.

    I do most of my browsing in the All feed and it’s inconvenient to have to open a community to block it.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 year ago

      I’m going to make a few more suggestions. Please don’t feel pressure to implement, the app is already really good.

      • A settings toggle to either show or hide comment actions by default. For people who interact with comments a lot the extra click to expand the comment gets tiring, whereas other people will prefer collapsed by default to reduce clutter.

      • An option to put comment like/dislike buttons on the right side. At the moment it’s a bit of a reach for right handed people even with a “small” phone.