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:
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Inbox now refreshes after marking all read
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Made the drawer lists more compact
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Added option to Hide read posts
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Show post titles when viewing a user’s comments in user view
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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.
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Added indicator that a post has been read, the text will turn grey.
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Added pin icon to featured posts
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Added About Community view to see the details of a community
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Added instance names in drawer and community search suggestions
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Added share links to communities, comments and posts
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long pressing a post thumbnail will open the url in an external browser
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Added white background to web views to make text more readable
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Added block list management for users and communities
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Fixed a create post error on some communities (JSON relative path error)
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I’m now precaching some API calls so it should load things even faster
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Added de-duplication on post list API calls to remove some duplicates that were showing up due to the pagination implementation
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Fixed a bug where viewing a comment thread would show all comments
Links:
-kuroneko
Do you ever sleep?
Bravo on the release!
Damn, these updates coming at the speed of light! Thanks for all the hard work on this app!
Great thx for the fast updates dev in chief 👍👍
Apparently the problem of posting in some communities it’s solved now.
Thanks so much for your work on this app. It is becoming excellent.
I started using Connect temporarily because Jerboa was having issues. But it has gotten so good, I will not be going back to Jerboa. I can’t believe how quickly it is improving.
The long press on images to open is a nice feature to have, I used to enjoy that with my Reddit app.
Thanks again!
After having some problems with jerboa decided to try your app. I have to say that your work is phenomenal.
I have been using the official reddit app for years and being fed up with the ads and the overall direction it was taking I decided to try some third party apps. It wasn’t long after that the whole drama broke out, so it was goodbye reddit for me.
Now I understand what I was missing all this time. Thank you and keep up the good work.
Can you please post an actual changelog instead of linking to Lemmy in the Play Store?
Yeah absolutely. Updated and thanks for the feedback!
Yey! The [Save settings] button is stickied at the top of the screen.
Thank you so much for all your work!!
Is there a 1.0.41? Play Store is showing 1.0.40.
Edit: Now 1.0.42. Thanks!
Ah, actual dark mode. Thank you. Jerboa was nice, but this is easier on the eyes.
Edit: I can’t get the comment text large enough to be comfortable. Back to Jerboa.
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.
I’m going to make a few more suggestions. Please don’t feel pressure to implement, the app is already really good.
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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.
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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.
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I know it’s still early days, but I’d like to give my feedback in the List/compact UI in case no one has mentioned it.
Basically, the lack of delineation between posts, plus the fact that some posts have thumbnails and others don’t, makes it visually confusing. As a result, I never spend more than a few minutes on Connect before switching to another app.
Did you take a look at the handshake error? Still doesn’t work with Android 7.
Hi, this should now be resolved on 1.0.44.
Yea. Seems to be working well. Thanks :)
Hi, yes I think I have a fix and will be rolling it out in the next couple of days. Just need to find a way of testing it.
Is it normal to not see profile images? I’ve noticed using this app that nobody’s profile images are loading in.
Yeah I might add this back in as an option. I noticed some avatars and community icons (maybe from older instances) we’re not being resized correctly so it was trying to download this massive 6MB image and slowing down the experience.
Fantastic work. Can I suggest adding the option to block a community on the the 3 dot menu on each post? It would make the process faster to perform.
