Welcome to v1.41.0. This release adds a feature I’ve wanted for a while now (but likely no one else wanted). This release adds the ability to record an advanced screenshot.

In some cases, posts and comments can contain animated GIFs. When taking screenshots of these, context may be lost because the GIF animation is removed. The record screenshot feature allows users to take a recording of a screenshot, preserving animated GIFs in posts or comments. The feature allows you to record a screenshot as either a GIF, MP4 or WEBM and contains a lot of configurable settings.

Note that this feature currently does not work for videos (eg. MP4s) in posts because the video player renders these in a specialized way that cannot be captured by the method used by the app.

Full changelog

  • Added a feature to “record” a screenshot as a video or GIF.
  • Added option to mark a post as read/unread in the post option’s menu.
  • Changed long tap on the header, expand button or the side to expand actions as well.
  • Fixed a bug where links are invisible in conversations.
  • kratoz29English
    3•3 months ago

    Interesting feature, any gif communities recommended to try it out? 😀

    • idunnololzOPM
      3•3 months ago

      LOL I don’t think the majority of people will ever use this feature. This is honestly just a feature I want to use so I implemented it. I’ll implement more general features in the next release :P.

      • kratoz29English
        3•3 months ago

        Totally fair, nothing wrong in making YOUR client as good as you want it to be, I am now actually curious what other features you’ll like to adapt 🤣

      • @[email protected]
        3•3 months ago

        I really like the ability to merge communities into one feed. Do you think Lemmy will ever make something like hierarchical/multi-topic communities a thing?

        I’m thinking like:

        linux linux.general linux.newinstall linux.hardware

        …subscribing to ‘linux’ gets you all subfeeds (including ones added later) except for what you filter out. But you could also just subscribe to one or two of them, excluding the rest (and new sibling subcommunities).

        I know this isn’t your choice, and you have a different codebase. I’m just wondering your opinion on if you think something like that could realistically make it into the Lemmy codebase.

        • idunnololzOPM
          2•3 months ago

          I think such a feature wouldn’t be too difficult to add if the developers of Lemmy really wanted to add it. I think though that given the current state of Lemmy, there are a lot of other more important features that the developers are likely working on first. There is also the question of whether this feature would be good to add.