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Hi, thank you everyone for the feedback. This release mostly is just added improvements that have been highly requested. 113 adds draft posts and comments as well as video playback for most video services. I've also added support for ::: spoiler tags ::: (although just a first iteration and I'm still playing with the styling), improved how communities and persons are fetched from remote instances (less API remote object not found errors) and some performance optimizations.

Changes

  • Draft posts and comments
  • inline video player (now muted and doesn't pause other audio sources)
  • better post truncation (ends on a word end when possible)
  • Inbox no longer limited to the first page, added infinite scroll
  • Post list now displays a small page header every 20 posts (clicking jumps to the top)
  • Enabling full usernames (@instance) now uses the username and not the display name
  • Fixed an issue where some comments weren't showing up in large threads.
  • post images now fade in (less flash)
  • Fixed an issue where posting a comment would stay at the edit page

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-kuroneko

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[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

The rates of updates is wild. People like you are turning the fediverse dream into reality. Thank you.

[–] polluteyourjorts@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

Awesome! Thanks for the hard work.

[–] christophski@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Connect has fast become my chosen lemmy app, thanks for the hard work!

One thing I miss from Relay is the comment navigator buttons floating at the bottom, any chance of a feature like this?

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hi. Thanks for the feedback! I can take a stab at it. What does that second button do with the comments icon?

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

It brings up this search interface

  • Threads will navigate between top comments
  • Search word will ask for a search term and then navigate between comments with that term.
  • Time will prompt user to input an amount time with a slider bar, navigation arrows then only look for comments that are newer than that time
  • moderator searches for moderator comments.
[–] christophski@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Wow that really would be great, definitely would be the last thing I'm looking for in the app! Do you have a way of donating to the app?

[–] crab@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the fast updates.

One request I have is that for when opening web content, the title is just "Web". I think it would be better to show a URL, or "Web - [URL]", to double check that the loaded URL is the expected one. Maybe long press to copy the URL. Maybe a progress bar too.

Thanks again.

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

All good suggestions, thank you!

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

While we're on the in-app browser topic, any chance the Android back button can act as a browser back button? E.g. You click a post link, and are in the in app browser and follow another link. The top back button will take you back to the post view, but the android back button just backs you up a browsed page.

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

Yeah I'll take a look at that as well. Thanks!

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Nice! Thanks. Love the app.

[–] Lem453@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Two things I miss from sync:

  1. After hiding a post, a small popup that lasts for 10s allowing you to unhide it in case the swipe was a mistake

  2. A section in your profile to see hidden posts in case you want to come back to something

Thanks! Fantastic app!

[–] Skyline@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi. Thanks for the release. It's excellent and I'm really enjoying using Connect!

Here are a couple of small requests from a compact layout user:

  • Would it be possible to add dividers between posts in compact layout? Currently there is a lot of text and little visual separation.
  • Would you consider adding an option to move the thumbnails to the right?

And here are a couple of minor issues I've noticed:

Thanks again for your work.

[–] JaCrispy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Would you consider adding an option to move the thumbnails to the right?

This is the 'reversed list' option under the post customization settings

[–] Skyline@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I have no idea how I hadn't tried that before! 😅

[–] Montoya@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 year ago

hello! thank you for all your great work, the app has come such a long way in the ladt few months! is there a way to disable the page header every 20 posts in the settings ?

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

Hi, Is there a way to manually set the download path for all downloaded pictures and videos?

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

And now there's an option to turn off confirmation on exit. 😁

[–] rollerbang@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Hide posts above?

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

Can we please make it so when we block an instance (usually for feed reasons) we don't block every users comments on every thread?

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

Hi! That's under Block Settings -> Blocked Instances includes Comments.

[–] Jackcooper@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Yay, thanks!!

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you for all your hard work. Would it be possible to let users customise the code block colours? I'm colourblind and find the default quite hard to read.

[–] RxBrad@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Currently on 118 beta. The only bug I've noticed lately is that the ampersand symbol tends not to render correctly in comments.

Example: pork & beans

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

& testing

Edit: that's weird. Thanks for the feedback!

Edit2: it looks normal in the web browser weirdly enough.