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Hi, apologies in the long delay on this release. It took a couple days for Google to approve it and it went through a number of beta rounds before the bugs were ironed out. This release brings swipe customization and a couple new settings. As always thank you everyone for your feedback!

Changes

  • Swipe customizations
  • Comment navigator now moves to where your previous comment was and not centered
  • Image caching should be a bit smarter now and release memory when not in view
  • volume navigation now defaults to OFF
  • edge to edge display now defaults to OFF
  • Image close gestures can now be controlled in settings
  • Post card layout UI improvements
  • Added setting for double tap to like posts
  • Post card is now affected by the 'handedness' setting
  • The list of moderated communities now shows up in the sidebar
  • Adds list of Admins/Mods to the about instance and about community pages
  • Current Sort title text is now in the tertiary theme colour to make it stand out a bit more, removed 'via ' text.
  • Added option to see full upvote and downvote counts on post cards
  • The top app bar should now appear sooner when scrolling up
  • !community markdown now correctly links to a community
  • Card view with height limited will crop the image versus displaying the image fitted to the container

Also I'm testing out a fix to some comments not appearing on 1.0.109 beta, let me know how that looks. Next on my list is either drafts or an improved video player.

Edit: 1.0.110 beta changelog

  • Adds draft functionality for posts and comments
  • Adds video player for most video types (still experimental, working out the bugs on this one)
  • Fixed going into comments from the inbox not scrolling the view

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::: Test :::

-kuroneko

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[–] Pleonasm@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Option to make both the comment icon and number on a post open the comments would be great. I basically never want to comment directly on a post without first opening it and I'm constantly fat fingering the icon when I want the number.

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks for your feedback! I'll make this an option in the next release.

[–] dmention7@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Thanks for all your work on this app!

It's been awesome to see feedback and issue reports being addressed quickly.

[–] Panties@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the great app!

[–] dmention7@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks for all your work on this app!

It's been awesome to see feedback and issue reports being addressed quickly.

[–] erre@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you! 🙇‍♂️

[–] ashtrix@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for the great work as always! Any plans to add an option to be able to disable the confirmation on exit?

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wasn't but I can add it in the next release. Thanks!

[–] ashtrix@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks, that would be amazing!

[–] cc8@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago
[–] FathomThat@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to use RIF back in the days, and there's one feature I sorely miss, maybe this could be implemented? RIF had the option to preselect TWO directories for (image) downloads, so you could have one for all the stuff you're willing to show your grandma and the ... rest.

That, or the ability to ask where to save every one. It's a lot easier to sort the cat pictures from the meme pictures if I can just save them in different folders directly, for example.

[–] twistedtxb@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Inline video player is a game changer, thanks!!

Suggestion: have autoplay to be muted by default.

[–] LazyKatze@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] twistedtxb@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Volume is not normalized. Sometimes when scrolling it gets really fucking loud

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Muted inline playback coming soon! Will be in next release.

[–] Attempted_Render@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Great update! The app feels more responsive now in addition to all the nice new features.

One thing I noticed is that disabling swiping up to close images also completely disabled the ability to drag images around the screen when not zoomed (i.e. scroll outside the image bounds. As someone who often uses Connect with other app windows displayed on too, it would be useful to still keep this ability even when swipe to close is off.

Also, going back from an image view (I use gesture control, so swiping away from the left/right edge) feels very slow and unresponsive compared to going back from a post comments view.

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah I'll enable panning again, I wasn't sure anyone would find it useful while also disabling swipe to close. I'll look into closing image views from system gestures as well, it shouldn't be too slow to close. Thanks for the feedback!

Awesome, thanks!

[–] siipale@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any chance to have an option to disable the post hiding via long press? I have used that feature many times daily but 100% by accident.

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi! Are you talking about long press on comments?

[–] siipale@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. I meant to say comments instead of posts.

[–] sirxdaemon@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have the include instance tags in names enabled but I noticed if you have a display name set, your display name is shown rather than your actual username. For security reasons, I think with that option enabled, their actual username should be displayed before the @instance part. Maybe the display name could follow afterwards in brackets or something. You can change your display name to whatever you want and that could potentially be an identity issue.

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's a good idea! I'll add that in the next release.