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
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.
Thank you, it’s by far the best app right now
Glad you like it!
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
None of your subscriptions are showing up?
Correct. It was like this in the previous version too, though only today. I’m sure it was fine yesterday.
Maybe you collapsed the list?
That isn’t it sadly.
Hmm. Have you tried clearing the app’s cache?
Sadly that didn’t work. I’ve tried completely clearing the apps data, and the problem persists after logging in again.
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[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
A couple requests:
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When I post a comment, the view should be on the comment I posted, in full view. It shouldn’t require an extra click to continue reading other comments.
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Can we get more font size options? Small is too small and medium is too big.
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Block community doesn’t always work? I’ve blocked c/formula1 at least 7 times now. I don’t think it was 7 unique communities.
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Maybe more theme options? Something in between dark and AMOLED
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If I do a search, the back button on the top left of the search results page is seemingly broken (I see it says this is fixed; I don’t think it is?).
Blocking instances isn’t working for me at all. An instance is showing in the list and I made sure it was spelled correctly but posts still show up when I’m browsing All, etc.
I am also getting this, you’re not alone.
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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!
Thanks for all the work you do. The app has improved a lot.
Small things that I notice to improve are:
[Design issues]:
- in fullwidth mode and with the dividers active, between the post and the first comment there is too big an empty space
- the search bar and its buttons are too big. In addition, when you recall the elements of the main bar move slightly upwards
[Bugs Report]:
- still remains the bug in the search bar in the side menu which, if you close the keyboard, is not recalled by clicking again on the bar
[Feature request]:
- I would like a feature to report posts and comments
- I would like a setting to have the top bar fixed when scrolling
- I would the option to open links in an external browser didn’t apply to images
Thanks again
Holy shitballs! You went from concept and nothing, to this, in under 30 days!? We’re not worthy!
😂 glad you’re enjoying Connect!
The pace of development is incredible. Thank you! 👏🙇♂️
