Hi, Connect 1.0.63 is our two week birthday (from this post). Hard to imagine it’s only been two weeks. This version brings a lot of new things but the big features would be instance level blocking, ‘show more comments’ buttons to make comment views more compact, new theme options, and the ability to mark a post as read while scrolling.
What’s new
- Added community icons next to names in the main feeds
- Added an option to show @instance labels on all usernames and communities
- Added instance level blocking
- Added dividers between cards
- Create post community suggestions are improved, will now autofill with your subscriptions and suggest a community you’ve subscribed to first
- Added show more comments buttons
- Added option to mark posts as read on scroll
- Added more theme options
Fixes
- Fixed an issue with the profile tab not refreshing in some scenarios
- Changed community icons to be smaller and they should load faster
- Added some new sort options for posts
- Fixed notification icon hopefully (no more blank square)
- Fixed swipe to reply not working from the inbox
- Viewing a comment from your inbox will now remove the comment when you go back
- Improved the tap target when interacting with a short comment
- Fixed an issue with uploading an image in comment view
- comment title text now wraps instead of getting cut off
- Improved memory usage when scrolling through a lot of images (still some more improvements coming on this one, we’re not freeing up images in memory as often as we could be)
- Fixed an issue with NSFW communities not being searchable (and subsequently some link handling being broken if the community is marked nsfw)
- Fixed an issue with the search back button
- Fixed an issue with incorrect passwords if the length is more than 60 (it’s now capped to 60 which is what Lemmy does).
In case you’re wondering what was in versions .60-.62, they were all minor hotfixes that have been combined into this list. Also for those wondering when it’s going to be open sourced it’s coming, I hear you! my focus right now is on adding features and improvements.
Links:
-kuroneko
Wow this is a HUGE update. Amazing work!
Wanted to point out a few more things I’ve noticed
- I’ve noticed that some settings don’t persist after Connect is updated. I’m not sure if that’s because the settings pane changes with new options hence it can’t be persisted but just something I noticed
- It would be nice to have a drafts section for comments and posts such that you can temporarily save it and come back to editing it and finishing it up.
- It would be awesome to see a preview of either the post or comment that you are replying to with the username there as we so you have reference as to what you are replying to.
- When you tap to bring up the menu to interact with comments, maybe a setting to squish the icons to either the right or left would be nice to have for those who are browsing with one hand
- It would also be nice to have an indicator of how many Unread messages you have in your inbox beside the word Inbox in the menu and possibly even on the hamburger menu itself to alert you to look into the menu
- In the About Instance page, I’ve noticed that the total subscribers count doesn’t show, but it does in the About Community page.
- When you tap on the About Instance menu, it takes you to a new window context as expected to show you the necessary details and when you navigate back, it takes you back to where you were as expected. However, in the About Community page, it seems to be more of an overlay in the same context such that if you do navigate back, it takes you completely out of the post that you were viewing when you had clicked About Community.
- In the About Instance and About Community pages, would be nice to have an Open context menu to open it up externally on a web browser as well. I think it’s only there in About Community at the moment.
- Would you be able to allow to search for Communities that may not exist in the Instance search using the full address ([email protected]) like we can on the Lemmy web app
I’ve noticed that some settings don’t persist after Connect is updated. I’m not sure if that’s because the settings pane changes with new options hence it can’t be persisted but just something I noticed
This happened with the last update as well. It took me a bit of time to figure out why some things seemed a little off. At least with this update I realized immediately why things weren’t right. Despite seeming kind of small, I think this is a somewhat serious issue, since it feels like the update did a lot to change the interface, even though it didn’t.
That being said, Connect is awesome and this certainly isn’t a deal breaker for it.
[Feature request ]
- Option to view modlog in the instance view.
- Larger font option for comments.
- Link preview option. Example below.
- option to interchange position of community name and username.
Example of link preview in the post details.
As-is view
My favorite lemmy app, keep up the great work!!
I’d really really like to seethe domain of external links under the post title. Don’t need a summary or anything, just a general idea of where I’m heading.
How can I donate money to you? This is absolutely incredible work.
How can I donate money to you? This is absolutely incredible work.
There is a link at the end of the post
Happy 2-week app-iversary! 😀
You’re doing great work! You’re going to make the devs from Boost, Sync and like begin to sweat and keep up with you!
Thank you, it’s by far the best app right now
Glad you like it!
The pace of development is incredible. Thank you! 👏🙇♂️
Thanks so much for everything!
Still having the issue on some of my accounts (not all of them) that some subs will show as being not subscribed to even tho I am, and wont let me add them to favorites. I thought it was a tablet specific issue but I can reproduce it as well on my phone.
Is there anything in common between the subs that aren’t showing up? I know sometimes subscribing goes into a ‘Pending’ state which the app currently doesn’t do a good job of conveying. It shows up correctly on the website?
My subscriptions no longer show up in the app since this update. On web ui and Jarboa they are there.
I tried the following:
- complete wipe / uninstall (data / cache) of Connect
- tried to unsub from the web and resub through Connect
- tried to unsub from connect and resub trhough the web
always the same results. Its pretty hard to know which specific communities are overall affected, but I can tell you that it’s not a “pending” issue and it doesnt seem to be related to specific community instances or account instance. (I can reproduce this throught my sh.j.w account and .world account, and have seens issues with .ca / .world communities)
fwiw a complete wipe seems to have made it worse. before I could see the Connect community appear in my subs on one of my accounts, now its gone on both. Let me know if you want me to try something else!
Appreciate the hard work. The app is fantastic.
Looking good. However, profile pic is cut off on nav slider. Also seems of altered quality and no way to re-choose photo to possibly correct.
Also not sure how profile information is pulled but mine in Connect says I’ve been here a week and I’ve been here a month.
Huh mine too actually. I’m pulling in the publish timestamp which sounded like the correct call. Will take a look.
Ah I think it’s related to the image dimensions and trying to force it into a 1:1 aspect ratio circle. I’ll fix that in the next release. Ability to add/edit avatars would be a nice feature.
I replied to myself. Profile creation data appears wrong.
Agreed and thank you.
2 weeks?? I downloaded the app 2 days ago and assumed it had been around much longer with how well its built and organized. Yall are doing great work, thank you!
Holy moly, that’s a lot for one day’s work. My preferences got wiped again, but that’s probably to be expected with the total rework of the settings screen.
The only issue I’m noticing now is that – with particularly dense comment threads – tapping on my comment from my Profile will often load the corresponding post with no comments visible. Usually this is accompanied by an error at the bottom of the screen saying the comment could not be found (occasionally the error does not appear).
Maybe it’s just a “lemmy.world is overloaded” issue, but .world has actually seemed pretty stable since yesterday.
Switching view type seems to not apply until app reset with this version
Will hotfix this now. Thanks for the feedback! Edit: rolling out 1.0.65 now with that fix
Loving the app, thank you for making it. Title font size is awesome but I still have trouble with comments font even on largest setting.
I hope you can find time to add “old man sized” fonts for comments. Thank you!
I’ll take a look! Thanks and I’m glad you’re liking it.
Theme changes don’t save, past the current session, reverting back to default, when the app is restarted, or when making changes to general settings…🤷🏻♂️
Looking into that now. Thanks for the feedback! Edit: rolling out 1.0.65 now with that fix
Still experiencing this with 1.0.65. Colours revert on app restart, and in subsequent opens of the theme settings they seem to pick up the the colour of other elements.
Just updated to the latest version, certainly sorted that issue out quickly! All good now, thanks for the update…👍🏼
This app is fantastic! It’s my daily driver recently. You’re doing an awesome job.
I’ve mentioned it in other threads but, my favorite feature of the Joey reddit app is the hide post on scroll past.
This app is nearly perfect for how I use it, save that feature.
Curious if it’s possible. Cheers!
Edit: Holy fuck I should have read more closely. It’s there! And it works great!
Haha! Glad you’re enjoying Connect!
