Happy holidays everyone ❄️! I’m back again to share some updates on Thunder’s ongoing development for those who might not be keeping tabs on our progress in the Matrix space or GitHub.

The next upcoming update will be hopefully released within the next couple weeks, and will bring a whole set of new features and quality-of-life improvements! We’ve been working on some of the most requested features, so I hope you enjoy them.

PSA: Lemmy 0.19.0 is now officially released. As your instances begin upgrading to 0.19.0, please be aware that you will need to log out and log back in for some things to work

Here’s a brief summary of the main features we will be releasing in the next Thunder general build:

• Ability to edit your own posts and set the post language.
• Full reorganization of the settings page, with post and comment previews.
• Ability to search for keywords in comments when you’re in a post.
• Setting to combine comment scores, and show user instance.
• Safari extension to open Lemmy links in Thunder on iOS devices.
• Ability to favorite communities. Favoriting communities will create a new section in the sidebar for quick access, and will prioritize them in community suggestions and search results.
• Ability to set keyword filters. Adding keywords will filter any posts whose title or body containing one or more keywords.
• Performance improvements which should drastically reduce the start up time for some users.
• And much more as described in the changelog!

For those on the nightly or TestFlight builds, you will mostly have access to these features already for testing. Please report any issues that you see so that they can be fixed before it hits general availability.

A huge thanks again to everyone who has been actively contributing, and as always, we are constantly looking for more contributors to the project! Thank you for all the community members for contributing translations. If you would like to help contribute, feel free to reach out on our Matrix space or on GitHub.