Hey everyone.]
So update 98/99 has gone live which fixes the crashes (thanks for the reports).
I’m gearing up for a pretty sizable release but just wanted to check in and ask if there was any issues you’re having that I should know about or any new feature requests.
Sorry for the bad comms but I’m making my way through lots of messages and posts on here. Thanks for the patience as I get through these all.
Cheers, Lj
I’d like to be able to cross post like I can in the web frontend.
Good to see you’re still alive! Looking forward to future updates and improvements.
I’m partly colorblind and it’s super hard for me to see when I upvoted or downvoted a post. Just making the up or down arrow bolder (or circled) once it’s been clicked would fix the issue completely for me and all types of colorblind people.
Thank you for the great work 💛
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Yellow is very visible, it was intentional but with no specific purpose :) There are multiple types of color blindness but all of them will be aggravated if a font or shape is thin or just outlined (which is not the case with a filled in heart emoji)
It’s blue, you plonker
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Is there a particular significance of a yellow one?
Edit: oh dammit I just got it.
Yellow is actually quite normally visible for most colorblind people. Blue is as well, interestingly.
The most typical type of colorblindness involves inability to distinguish between red and green.
Which view type are you using?
I’m not sure where to find which one I’m using. I use dark mode and the colors I’m having trouble with if the font is too thin or small are the orange and light blue. Changing the font weight or adding another style would also mean this is visible in night mode on Android (which removes all colors)
Edit : I investigated the viewtypes and they all have the same issue of using the same font size and weight, just using the orange/blue color for the number of upvotes and the selected arrow.
Edit 2 : increasing brightness helps a lot with the colors, but I’m mostly using Sync at night on minimum brightness.
The best way for you to visualize the issue would be to activate black and white night mode on Android :)
Thanks for the update.
Would allowing setting a custom color help?
Not sure how I would use that. Do you mean 2 custom colors to change both the default orange and blue? I can perfectly distinguish them when they’re on a bolder shape (🟠🔵), it’s just a lot harder (or sometimes impossible) on a thin line/symbol.
Again, the most efficient way to handle it would be to have a different style for the selected arrow (bolder, bigger, underlined or circled for example), on top of its color. It would then work as well in bedtime mode (b/w and low brightness) for everyone, not just for color blind people :)
I think bedtime mode activates by default on newer Android devices after 10pm when the phone is charging. That’s how mine (OnePlus) was set up.
I see my initial reply was upvoted about 30 times. Statistically speaking, I don’t think these would be only from color blind people
Added support for the next release to change the colors.
Nothing to report or add, I just appreciate you!
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Images like the one in this post don’t automatically open at full resolution. There’s a discussion in the comments about the steps to get it to open at full resolution.
Works for me
Seems to work for me. Seems to display the higher resolution in a mosaic. As I zoom I can see the text sharpen.
I get a really low resolution version unless I follow that work around that someone suggested on the thread.
Clicking on the image and zooming in works no?
Well this is weird. When I’ve gone on it again it loads at full resolution and I can zoom in fine. When I was opening it yesterday it seemed like it was just opening the thumbnail.
Whenever that happens to me backing out and reloading the post once or twice will load in the full res one.
Sometimes large images seem to load a lower resolution image and you have to click out and click again for it to load. Usually I notice it when peeking.
Peeking loads a lower resolution one. You have to click to open it fully to load the full resolution version.
What about actually tapping the image?
Edit:the post above loads the lower res one for me when I just tried opening it. Going back again brought up the full image.
Tapping will load the preview for the animation and then the full one after. Could have been a network issue?
Which animation? Like from low res to full?
Yes just while the image is opening.
I’m hoping the new update will include the new “scaled” sorting option. I think it will really help support smaller communities on Lemmy if more people use it.
More ads? Seriously?
I pay, and its worth it, free is never free.
Sorry what is this trying to say?
You linked to kernel.org implying that some things listed as free are actually free. I screenshot the bottom of the kernel.org page that lists the financial supporters of the nonprofit.
I was pointing out that free to you and me is still not free it’s still supported but does not work for profit or sell it’s production as the financial supporters donate their money.
free is never free.
This phrasing is specifically used around the idea of “if you’re not paying, you’re the product.” The kernel is free, in that it costs nothing to use and it does not collect data. Free things still do cost time/effort, which is often equated with money, but those are actually two different things that are being conflated. Now if you’d said something along the lines of “free stuff still costs peoples time,” yeah I’d agree with that, but that’s not what the sentiment your message communicated.
Absolutely no one is going around saying that free stuff doesn’t take effort.
Yes. Seriously.
Then pay for it. This is one guy soloing an app in his free time. If you want more features it requires more of his time to work on them and time spent developing this app is time not working his full time job making steady income. We have no right to ask for more of his time for free.
I’m fine paying, but $20 to remove ads is a very big ask for a mobile app, when it was maybe $3 or $5 for the old reddit app. Especially so when it seems he comes and goes and updates to a very in development app have stopped for months at a time.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not making any demands, I agree with everything you say, but the ad removal option is quite a lot especially when there are many free lemmy apps too.
I’d love the ability to view and manage reports, and ban users.
Alao viewing upvotes / downvotes. All the admin features basically.
I recently started using a VPN and have found that I can’t post comments while my connection is secured. Don’t know if that’s a Sync issue or what.
My app still crashes if I try to view my messages inbox :(
Everytime? Not seeing this coming through
There’s a thing where if you go to the inbox from the left drawer, and change your … page? View? From, for example, Unread Replies to Mentions, or whatever, and it crashes every time. Also the More Actions inbox is like that.
Edit: just tried again - left drawer inbox, go from All Replies to Unread Replies, crash.
Edit 2: found the GitHub issue about it: Issue 446 if anyone else wants to add info to it.
Thanks for making a great app! I have been satisfied with it and don’t mind slow releases. :)
Any chance of an option to flip the upvote/downvote colors to the Lemmy ordering (blue up/red down)? It’s always a little jarring going between the app and website and seeing all my votes are backwards
I’d love the ability to block entire instances from within the app, or hide if that API isn’t available.
Is it different from the instance filter here: Settings shortcut: Filters > Instance filters ? (I see that I have accounts blocked and communities blocked, but I haven’t tried blocking or filtering any instances)
Ah! I spent ages looking from the Instance page but didn’t think to look in there. That’ll do!
He lives!
I thought I made a post, but it didnt get any replies and doesnt show up on the community posts for me.
But I was running into some posts where the image fails to load, like this one
https://lemmy.world/post/12685097
While the thumbnail sometimes loads, the image gives me that error.
Also been running into a lot of images that say “image was actually a webpage” or something along those lines.
Thanks!
That loads for me with no issue.
checking back on it now, it seems to be working again. Weird!
I’m having an issue where the toggle for post-title -with-share when sharing an image does nothing - but I don’t see anyone else with the issue, so maybe it’s just me?
