Key points

  • Random and random nsfw back as actions!
  • Added the ability to browse all instances and communities on an instance
  • Added admin tools (see #312 for details)
Ultra
  • Added a new article summarizer
New
  • Added user + community block managers (Settings > Lemmy preferences)
  • UI changes to the post options bottomsheet
    • Icons are now shown next to the user and community items
    • User and community items can be expanded out
    • A few user items have been moved to a separate bottomsheet
  • The filters bottomsheet now uses icons
  • catbox.moe links are now opened in-app (can be disabled)
  • Imgur video posts now show a small preview image
  • You can now view the moderators of a community
  • Added an option to disable the new hiding behaviour (Settings > experimental > keep posts hidden)
Github issues closed
  • Deep linking causes a transparent, unresponsive Activity to appear if Sync isn’t already running #345
  • Random NSFW #246
  • Expose instance name and view its communities #242
  • Add the ability to generate a random base theme color on app launch #358
  • “Failed to start subscription purchase (2)” when subscribing to Ultra #231
  • Crash when using lemmy.ca instance #204
  • Unable to share direct image on Android 14 Beta #104
  • Unable to direct share image #216
  • Remove the “Display if a post is OC” setting #361
  • Block button shown twice in the about menu #403
  • Block list #305
  • Block button does not change to “Unblock” when you block a community #300
  • [Feature Request] Block Community option added to Post Menu #225
  • Function to unblock a user #269
  • When viewing comments in your own or someone else’s profile… #401
  • Summarize article/post/comment feature for Ultra #251
  • Switch Media Upload Dialog for Bottom Sheet #160
  • Support for verified links (top X instances maybe) #77
  • Community in drawer sidebar has blank space between name and instance #47
  • Back arrow in action bar isn’t visible in login screen on tablets #53
  • Theme sharing generates screenshot only #96
Other fixes
  • Fixed a crash when starting chrome custom tabs
  • Fixed a crash when searching
  • Added a potential crash for TextViews crashing
  • Fixed an issue where searching from the drawer would say todo…
  • You can now enter “-” and “_” in the username field
  • Fixed a crash where some S4R backups would cause a crash
  • ProgressBottomSheetDialogFragments now auto dismiss
Updates
  • androidx.annotation:annotation > 1.7.0-rc01
  • com.google.android.material:material > 1.11.0-alpha02
  • com.google.firebase:firebase-crashlytics-gradle > 2.9.9
Notes
  • NSFW images can no longer be uploaded via Sync
  • Android 14 should behave better now
  • View + saved are now enabled by default in the actions manager
  • Your default community has been reset to handle the new local feed changes
  • The voting icons in comments now match slides
  • The profile icon is now accessible via the 3 dot menu for comments
  • @[email protected]
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    52 years ago

    It appears filtered communities are not filtered when viewing/browsing an instance.

    Great update overall!

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      I haven’t been able to find a way of viewing where filters work at all. Are they broken, or do they only work in specific circumstances?

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        When I’m browsing “everything”, and see a post I want to filter out I click the three dots, then at the bottom of the popup there’s a filter tab. From there you can filter out from seeing posts from that person or from that community.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          It does work on anything but “everything” as far as I can tell, however. If I’m looking at an instance, filtering communities does nothing.

  • @[email protected]
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    32 years ago

    Is there currently a way to unhide an individual post once I’ve clicked “hide”? I want “keep posts hidden” on, but if I hide a post by accident I want to be able to unhide it.

    • Ljdawson (Sync dev)
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      32 years ago

      If you switch between accounts it will unhide. Planning to add an extra section here.

  • @[email protected]
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    332 years ago

    NSFW images can no longer be uploaded via Sync

    Why not? How can Sync tell if an image is NSFW?

    • Ljdawson (Sync dev)
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      This was added in response to last weeks incident. Once additional tools are in place on instances I’ll look to remove this.

      Sync uses a local ML model to attempt to classify nsfw content.

      • @[email protected]
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        212 years ago

        Neat, thanks!

        Think the restriction might be lifted in the future once this CSAM thing is figured out?

        Not a huge deal to me, I don’t plan on uploading any NSFW content and my instance has disabled all image uploading (for now) anyway. Really, I’m just curious.

        • Ljdawson (Sync dev)
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          242 years ago

          Yup. As I said once additional tools are in place on instances to deal with this issue I’ll look to remove the check in app 👍🏻

          • @[email protected]
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            102 years ago

            I’ll see myself out 🤦‍♂️

            Thanks for all the hard work btw! Really looking forward to the article summaries.

    • @[email protected]
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      182 years ago

      Why not?

      Because Google is a diarrhea-soaked abomination of a company that will accuse you of personally trafficking child porn if people have the ability to abuse your app for unintended purposes. This is probably coming because lemmyworld’s shitposting board was closed after people spammed it with CP, and LJ is trying to get ahead of Google so they don’t de-list his app. Unfortunately for him, Google reviewers don’t (can’t) read, and will delist his app for a few days anyway. Calling it now.

    • Ljdawson (Sync dev)
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      62 years ago

      The current production channel is still “beta” for now.

      There’s an internal track I’m doing testing releases on but that’s limited to 100 spaces sadly.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 years ago

        Oh cool, so I’m already using beta! Is there any way to force an update to get the upper mentioned changes?

            • @[email protected]
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              22 years ago

              Just got it on my end, didn’t show up as a pending update in the My Apps section until I searched for the app manually - seems to do the trick!

              • @[email protected]
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                42 years ago

                Yup, I got it as well today. Updated automagically, noticed the new buttons right away. Sweet!

          • Anony Moose
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            I might break my screen with how often I’m hitting refresh on the Play store *(  ̄皿 ̄)/#_

  • candyman337
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    42 years ago

    Added ability to browse all instances on communities on an instance

    I am confused as to what this means, can you elaborate?

    • Ljdawson (Sync dev)
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      Go to “everything” and you’ll see two new chips “communities” and “instances”

      • @[email protected]
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        52 years ago

        Go to “everything” and you’ll see two new chips “communities” and “instances

        FTFY

        This new feature is an absolute game changer!!! Amazing!

      • @[email protected]
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        52 years ago

        Wow, I love this. I’ve generally relied on looking at stuff that hits the main feed to find content but this has opened up so much extra content that I didn’t know existed. Great feature!

            • nudny ekscentryk
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              42 years ago

              go to More Actions by either clicking the FAB (floating action button in the bottom-right corner of your screen) or […] in the top-right corner. You should see an overlay menu with extra actions, within them you’ll see Random and Random NSFW.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 years ago

        Love having that available! Could you add a search bar in the list, though? It’s kind of difficult finding specific instances sometimes.

  • @[email protected]
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    32 years ago

    My filters aren’t being applied across any of my installed accounts. Suggestions for troubleshooting unapplied filters?

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        I can’t as it’s most prominent on my nsfw alt account where I’m filtering out weird porn.

            • Ljdawson (Sync dev)
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              22 years ago

              For every account? One account?

              Those are set correctly so I’m trying to work out what you’re expecting and what’s not happening.

              • @[email protected]
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                32 years ago

                I’m using a lemmy world account and browsing local on lemmy world. I have /c/apple filtered, but I still see a post from it in my local feed. There are other communities that I have filtered that are showing up in my local feed as well.

                • Ljdawson (Sync dev)
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                  62 years ago

                  Gotcha, thanks for being patient with me there lol. Will patch for the next release.