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Hey everyone! We have been blown away by the response to Liftoff and we really appreciate the support of the community. We’re passionate about creating an app that we want to use and we’re excited with the progress. There have been a ton of updates and bugfixes this week and we wanted to share the latest state of things
v0.9.18 Release
iOS:
Android:
- GitHub
- Play Store
- F-Droid is coming
- If you want to stay up to date with the latest releases before it gets on Play Store or F-Droid, checkout Obtainium
Changelog
- Fixed issue where “Everything -> Subscribed” feed showed no posts
- Added better compact view
- Added Post Customization page in settings with live preview
- Added ability to customize font size
- Added ability to quickly toggle between card and compact view
- Fixed mark as read not working, added mark all as read
- Fixed issue with comment share link not being generated properly
- Added Gesture Navigation (Thanks shocklateboy92!)
- Added TOTP Login support (Thanks swmarks!)
- Added animation configuration (Thanks johnc86!)
Known Issues (In progress)
There are a few bugs still that we’re working through and we really appreciate all the support from the community helping us Beta test. Here are some of the known issues we’re working on:
- User and community link opening within the app is finicky #107
- Separate default comment sort from default post sort
- New sort in community page’s posts sometimes not working properly
- Unclear usage of everything feed causing seemingly duplicated posts across the difference instances.
- Check here for a full list
Screenshots
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Y’all are doing really great work, and so goddamned quickly too. Jerboa won’t even let me log in, much less navigate this easily.
Thanks for checking us out!
Everyday it gets harder to pick a lemmy app to use that isn’t Jerboa. Lmfao. This is great! Atm im between this and Thunder.
I do have one issue i see wasn’t fixed, but i believe someone has mentioned it. Which is I cannot see content if i go directly to an NSFW sub. It acts like there isnt anything there, but i know I’m able to as I can see it in the everything feed and subscribed feed.
There’s a few bugs around NSFW, I hadn’t gotten to those yet but I will!
Do we have any notification of getting replies yet?
Using oled dark if that makes a difference
Push notifications are on our to-do list
I meant a notification in app, like a number next to the bell or it just changing colour.
Oh yes we’re tracking an issue for that. It will be implemented
Lovely, thank you.
Would love to be able to jump to the top of the feed by hitting the home button too if that’s being planned.
You’re all doing a great job so far. I already feel that little bit of loyalty to liftoff.
Will you implement UnifiedPush?
Yeah that’s on my list. We’ll have to implement something for iOS also so we’re taking this enhancement slow.
Just installed it and loving it so far, it’s great that we’re getting options now.
I can easily see this becoming my new time sink once Boost dies in two days! Loving the app so far, very very impressive for such an early version. One thing I’d love to see (correct me if this is already possible) is having the refresh not only available at the top of the page. Having to scroll up for half a minute just to refresh is a bit tedious :D
Yes this is coming!
Much appreciated :)
Coming from Apollo (RIP and o7,) I love this app so far!
Your app is awesome, many thanks. I’m missing only the possibility to change the main color, otherwise it has aöready everything I need.
Just installed it. Can’t wait to try it out 😁
Just installed the app via the playstore. I needed to use the website to be able to access it.
BTW, rating can’t be correct:
Content rating PEGI 18 • Extreme violenceI like how you can add multiple accounts and get an overview of all the subscribed channels in 1 view. Posting seems to be an issue yet, at least here with multiple acocunts. (probably pebkac issue, as it’s less then an hour on the device)
I keep getting a message like this whenever I try to interact with or subscribe to a community outside of lemmy.world. I’m easily able to do this in other apps like Thunder. What do I need to do differently? “This thread was retrieved via lemmy.ml. You are not logged in there.”
Everyone says Liftoff is one of the best apps but I find it unusable as I can’t interact with any other federation.
If you’re using the everything view from the home feed then you’re going to get posts that you might not be federated with, an aggregate of any instances you’ve added to the app.
We’re working through tweaking this view and making it smarter to be able to support that interaction. Also I’m not sure thunder actually can do that because im thunder you’re seeing comments/posts that are “outside” of lemmy.world but you’re accessing them through lemmy.worlds federation.
Long story short if you want it to work like thunder, just use the Lemmy.world -> all feed on the home tab and you’ll still see those posts that are “outside” you’ll just be seeing them through Lemmy.worlds federation
I think it would help a lot if it defaulted to [email protected] as calling it “All” which is the same as it’s called on any lemmy instance when logged in is super confusing. They are not the same thing.
Perhaps rename Liftoff’s All to “All@notloggedin” or non-interactive. It’s not intuitive and didn’t make sense in the app settings either; I had to read your explanation here to understand.
Otherwise, Liftoff is great. Thank you for working on it.
Thanks for explaining that! For some reason this didn’t click for me.
Just installed the app and really like it so far. Keep up the great work!
I’d love to see the ability to hide read posts. I’m coming from baconreader and loved that feature.
I think that can be enabled from your user settings on your instance. Not sure how well it works with Liftoff
Love the app! One issue I’m having that is keeping me hopping back and forth between apps is download links don’t work for me in the integrated browser. Could you possibly add the option to open in external browser?
Yes that PR is open and this functionality will be in the next release
Are any iOS users having some serious performance issues with Liftoff? I’ve tried both TestFlight versions and no matter what settings I use, Liftoff feels very sluggish.
Using it right now and it feels ok and fluid.
What device are you using? I’m wondering if it’s related to ProMotion.
A 2021 iPad Pro.
We’re working on improving refresh rate from current default 60Hz, would that explain what you’re seeing? It’s my main app for browsing Lemmy and it’s generally doing pretty well unless there’s about 1000 comments in a thread.
My most awaited feature is for the download button to work. Liftoff is miles ahead of the other lemmy apps, if that button worked it would be feature complete at least as far as I know how to use it.
We have a contributor working on that!
Why can’t I upvote and comment from other instances? I couldn’t comment on the app but I am doing it on wefwef.app website right now, so if should be possible.
Same, it’s pretty unusable to me since I can’t interact with or join communities I’m interested in unless I’m outside the app.
