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
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
Not sure if this is the right place. First of all I’m super happy I can hide posts now also hiding by scrolling past is really nice. However it seems that hidden posts don’t even show up in saved posts. Shouldn’t the saved status habe priority over hidden? I don’t like to see anything twice unless I save it for later but it seems this is impossible right now?
Thank you so much!
Hi, thanks for the feedback! That bug will be fixed in the next release (I’m just waiting on Google Play now).
Anxiously awaiting new release. And got it. Thank you.
I can only see my favourite subs, and not the main list anymore. Is this just me?
Also would love to be able to pin and unpin community posts as a start to mod tooling.
None of your subscriptions are showing up?
I’m experiencing a possibly related issue- I can only see local communities in my subscription list. Curiously, my frontpage seems to be functional with subscriptions to federated communities coming through like normal.
[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!!
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!
This is a really tiny thing but can the card dividers be removable? I personally think having the cards themselves is enough separation and the dividers end up as visual clutter.
I’m sure there are people who want them, so could those be made into an option or something?
Holy shitballs! You went from concept and nothing, to this, in under 30 days!? We’re not worthy!
😂 glad you’re enjoying Connect!
Just commenting to say how impressive and robust the app is considering how new it is. It’s now my default.
Hello, I noticed you added an option to leave post title above media posts. I’m very thankful for that. I have a suggestion on changing its current looks though.
I think it would look much better if you also moved these specific details above the media but below the post title similar to how text posts look.
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 (!lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca) 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.
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A few things that currently annoy me:
- Every update my settings reset, even the default view thingy in the left menu
- Posts seem to always show a rating one higher than the actual rating
Sorry for not having better complaints, I’m slowly running out of them
Also could you make images “swipe-away-able”, or make the tap away more reliable and significantly faster? Every time I want to go through a gallery and rapidly open and close the images one after tge other I feel like I spend twice as much time waiting for them to close than on actually looking at them
Edit: Seems the rating is also instance dependent, I just tested on one where it’s reliably +1 for all posts. Also found a new annoyance: tall image scrolling lacks momentum (tap a tall image, double tap it to zoom in, scroll up and down. You’ll notice the scroll stops as soon as you release your slide gesture, unlike all other scrollable elements which continue with some momentum, slowly coming to a stop much further down. This leads to scrolling through images feeling extremely sluggish)
Okay, fucling love connect, thanks for adding themes color selection!!!
All I need is being able to chance theAMOLED color to a color picked like in the picture to get the aesthetic I wanted! Thx for all the updates they’re amazing!
EDIT: I just realized that If I use dark or light mode I can change the background color too ahahaha. Oh man I love this app
Which app is this screenshot from?
I love that you’re doing this and I see tons of improvement from just 2 days ago.thank you.
Instance level blocking??? This is awesome, really, thank you so much.
Did you also add a karma count when looking at people’s profiles? Or was this there before and I just didnt notice?
Seriously the amount of work you are pouring into the app is impressive, and it is pretty much unrivaled at the moment.
PS: May I suggest a feature? Profile notes, where you can add a note to profiles so you can remember some people you interact with. In case it isnt clear what I mean, both Mastodon and Kbin have this feature, you go to a profile and it says “add note”, there you can write something about the user that only you can see and it helps keep track of people here.
