Hi, Connect 1.0.63 is our two week birthday (from this post). Hard to imagine it’s only been two weeks. This version brings a lot of new things but the big features would be instance level blocking, ‘show more comments’ buttons to make comment views more compact, new theme options, and the ability to mark a post as read while scrolling.

What’s new

  • Added community icons next to names in the main feeds
  • Added an option to show @instance labels on all usernames and communities
  • Added instance level blocking
  • Added dividers between cards
  • Create post community suggestions are improved, will now autofill with your subscriptions and suggest a community you’ve subscribed to first
  • Added show more comments buttons
  • Added option to mark posts as read on scroll
  • Added more theme options

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with the profile tab not refreshing in some scenarios
  • Changed community icons to be smaller and they should load faster
  • Added some new sort options for posts
  • Fixed notification icon hopefully (no more blank square)
  • Fixed swipe to reply not working from the inbox
  • Viewing a comment from your inbox will now remove the comment when you go back
  • Improved the tap target when interacting with a short comment
  • Fixed an issue with uploading an image in comment view
  • comment title text now wraps instead of getting cut off
  • Improved memory usage when scrolling through a lot of images (still some more improvements coming on this one, we’re not freeing up images in memory as often as we could be)
  • Fixed an issue with NSFW communities not being searchable (and subsequently some link handling being broken if the community is marked nsfw)
  • Fixed an issue with the search back button
  • Fixed an issue with incorrect passwords if the length is more than 60 (it’s now capped to 60 which is what Lemmy does).

In case you’re wondering what was in versions .60-.62, they were all minor hotfixes that have been combined into this list. Also for those wondering when it’s going to be open sourced it’s coming, I hear you! my focus right now is on adding features and improvements.

Links:

-kuroneko

  • @[email protected]English
    6•1 year ago

    Wow this is a HUGE update. Amazing work!

    Wanted to point out a few more things I’ve noticed

    • I’ve noticed that some settings don’t persist after Connect is updated. I’m not sure if that’s because the settings pane changes with new options hence it can’t be persisted but just something I noticed
    • It would be nice to have a drafts section for comments and posts such that you can temporarily save it and come back to editing it and finishing it up.
    • It would be awesome to see a preview of either the post or comment that you are replying to with the username there as we so you have reference as to what you are replying to.
    • When you tap to bring up the menu to interact with comments, maybe a setting to squish the icons to either the right or left would be nice to have for those who are browsing with one hand
    • It would also be nice to have an indicator of how many Unread messages you have in your inbox beside the word Inbox in the menu and possibly even on the hamburger menu itself to alert you to look into the menu
    • In the About Instance page, I’ve noticed that the total subscribers count doesn’t show, but it does in the About Community page.
    • When you tap on the About Instance menu, it takes you to a new window context as expected to show you the necessary details and when you navigate back, it takes you back to where you were as expected. However, in the About Community page, it seems to be more of an overlay in the same context such that if you do navigate back, it takes you completely out of the post that you were viewing when you had clicked About Community.
    • In the About Instance and About Community pages, would be nice to have an Open context menu to open it up externally on a web browser as well. I think it’s only there in About Community at the moment.
    • Would you be able to allow to search for Communities that may not exist in the Instance search using the full address ([email protected]) like we can on the Lemmy web app
    • @cspiegelEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      I’ve noticed that some settings don’t persist after Connect is updated. I’m not sure if that’s because the settings pane changes with new options hence it can’t be persisted but just something I noticed

      This happened with the last update as well. It took me a bit of time to figure out why some things seemed a little off. At least with this update I realized immediately why things weren’t right. Despite seeming kind of small, I think this is a somewhat serious issue, since it feels like the update did a lot to change the interface, even though it didn’t.

      That being said, Connect is awesome and this certainly isn’t a deal breaker for it.