I guess it’s not a very widely requested feature? It’s interesting to me that Avelon is literally the only iOS app among the many that exist so far that has been able to enable GIFs automatically animating and displaying on the timeline instead of just displaying a link to the GIFs location. I prefer a couple other apps over Avelon in terms of other features but I still end up just staying with Avelon because of this one feature none of the other apps have.

Also, I don’t really expect anyone to know the actual answer to my question I’m mostly just venting and hoping to get this noticed by some app developers.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10278061

Hi everyone and happy new year! It's finally time for another Thunder release. As always, there have been many improvements, additions, changes and fixes in this release which should make for a even better Thunder experience. If you have any suggestions or feedback, feel free to discuss it in the Thunder community or on GitHub.

A quick reminder: if you are using the Google Play version or App Store version, please note that it may take a bit of time before you receive the update. Now onto the update notes. This update brings a few major features:

🎉 Features

• You can now edit your own posts, and set the appropriate language for your post. When you open your own post, you will see a pencil icon which will allow you to edit your post along with the language.
• The Settings page has been overhauled and re-organized, with post and comment previews for certain visual settings. This should hopefully provide a better overall experience for adjusting and customizing your settings.
• You can now set Thunder's app language to any of currently available translations. Please note that the translations are not fully complete, and you may encounter untranslated content.
• Additional settings have been added in which sync up with your Lemmy account. This includes showing/hiding read posts, showing/hiding scores, and showing/hiding bot accounts.
• There is now a Safari extension which allows you to open Lemmy links within Thunder for iOS users. This extension is disabled by default, but can be enabled in the system settings under Safari -> Extensions.
• Favoriting communities is now available. When you favorite a community, it will be prioritized throughout the app (in the drawer, search results, etc.)
• Keyword filters are now available in the Settings page. Adding keywords will filter any posts whose title or body containing one or more keywords.
• Many quality-of-life improvements including collapsible post bodies, more community translations, addition of more sort types, improved search filters.

⚙️ Performance

• Improved general loading times when starting up Thunder. This should result in some drastic improvements for certain instances.
• Updated many under-the-hood dependencies.

And much much more. I can't possibly go through all the changes in the changelog, but for those who are curious, feel free to check out the full changelog on the GitHub announcement.

As always, this is an alpha release, so do expect bugs to pop up here and there. We have a Matrix space if you would like to join in on discussions: https://matrix.to/#/#thunderapp:matrix.org

If you find any issues or would like to suggest features, please open up a new issue! As always, contributions are always welcomed here.

I would just like to thank everyone for the continued support and contributions. Thunder is still a project that I can only work on the side, and knowing that others enjoy it drives me to continue working on it!

If you would like to show a token of appreciation, you can buy me a coffee. The donations will help support some of the development overhead costs!

• https://ko-fi.com/hjiangsu
• https://en.liberapay.com/hjiangsu/

Thanks again for everything so far, and I hope you enjoy this update! Here’s a new year's resolution for you for reaching the end of this post 🎉

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/7792059

Hey testers! Here's another update to add to the winter charm.

If you're new here, Lemmynade is the refreshing mobile web app and desktop site for Lemmy, currently in active development. Follow [email protected] for announcements and updates like these.

This release brings private messages, an improved inbox, and scaled sorting to the table while greatly improving your Lemmynade doom scrolling experience. Huge thanks to the valuable testers that have taken time to report bugs and submit ideas.

Open Lemmynade →

What's New

• Private Messages can now be viewed and replied to under Inbox → Chats
• Scaled Sort (new to Lemmy 0.19.x) is now available as the "Spotlight" sorting option throughout Lemmynade (named this way to make more sense to the average user)
• Infinite Scrolling has been rebuilt from the ground up. Your scroll position is now saved correctly, everything is faster, and many bugs have been exterminated.
• The Inbox has been updated with infinite scrolling, slightly faster loading times, and simplified filtering
• Your Home Feed tabs (My Feed, Local, and All) can now be switched between without loosing your place
• In addition to long-pressing on user/community names, you can now Block & Unblock users and communities on their individual pages from the ••• menu
• Upvoted & Downvoted Posts are now browsable from dedicated sections in your Account page
• Profile Age can now be seen from user profile pages

Removed

• Support has been dropped for instances running Lemmy 0.18.5 and lower. This was a tough decision, but will ultimately allow faster, more focused development on new features while we're still in alpha testing.
• Vote scores have been removed from user profile following changes made in the latest Lemmy update

Fixed & Improved

• Context menus and dialogs are snappier with better animations and reworked interactions
• The top and bottom app toolbars are now a bit smarter about when they auto-hide
• Fixed an issue that prevented clicking or tapping on action buttons on post pages
• Minor bug fixes and improvements have been made in preparation for desktop layout down the road
• Links in the feed and on individual post pages now use the same description (as they should)
• Fixed an issue that caused images to flash when opening a post
• The one-time-password field on the login page is now always shown to accommodate discrepancies between instances for the time being until the login page redesign
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the description of a post's attached URL to overflow outside of its container
• Fixed an issue where posts were being marked as read from post feeds if your finger touched them while scrolling
• A heart has been added to the top of the home page to make it easier to support Lemmynade's development
• Many other minor bug fixes and improvements

If you have any questions or ideas, submit feedback or drop a comment below. Enjoy!

• 🚌 Feedback & Roadmap
• ✨ Changelog
• ☕ Buy Me A Coffee

I thought it would be a cool idea to do a poll right before the year ends to see what everyone is using

Android Poll

iOS Poll

Are there any apps that feature swiping between posts?

Hi everyone,

The day has arrived: Lemmynade—a refreshing mobile web app and desktop site for Lemmy—is now open for testing! Scroll to the bottom to get started, or read the full post to learn more.

Get started!

While we're in alpha, expect to encounter plenty of bugs. You can report a bug or submit a feature request anytime from the ••• in the upper-right corner of Lemmynade. When you're ready, copy the Access Key below and continue to Lemmynade (lemmynade.app) →

Access Key:

$2a$09$CXwryuYDFviv89lZJ84uUuagWcEzLUE5KlbuM9irX5Cu4SKfUNAVG

Known Issues

• The desktop layout will be available at a later date. Lemmynade is best used on small screens and mobile devices for now
• Post creation is not the most elegant experience at the moment
• Accessibility for screen readers, etc. is very limited at this time
• Tabs do not always retain the last route or history
• Sometimes, when returning to your home feed, it may spit you out above or below the scroll position you were at last
• Markdown does not support tables, spoilers, and a few others at the moment

Links

• [email protected]
• Feature Request
• Bug Report
• Changelog
• ♥︎ Support

– silas

Community moderators and contributors have released a statement:

Many people in the Artemis community have been patient and understanding of the lack of activity, ever since a prior period of radio silence was justified by Hariette saying that she was recovering from chronic pain.

However, this has gone on for long enough that the official Artemis Camp instance has failed over and never recovered. This is a problem for Artemis app users, since it is the only instance that is supported.

We are also unable to continue performing our duties as moderators in the Camp instance as a result. This effectively means that the entire project is dead.

Statement by Artemis Moderators

I JUST finished this feature for Quiblr but I was anxious to get it out to the community and get some feedback!

I took a very different approach from the vanilla Lemmy messaging. Let me know how you like it

Have been wondering about this in terms of how safe/secure it may be to use them. Not that a Lemmy account is exactly something to fret a ton over, but I always appreciate a little more peace of mind.

Searching through here I found where Alexandrite's dev gives a rundown to someone asking in regards to their work, but I didn't surface similar for others. I've tried running some broader searches but haven't had a ton of luck, so thought I'd ask.

Lemmy Phantom is now Quiblr! Additionally, users can now login, post, comment, and vote on lemmy using a sleek and speedy UI!

I add new functionality all the time so go check it out and let me know what you think!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/8708556

Arctic v0.2.7 is out

Arctic v0.2.7 is out on TestFlight. This update is focused on backend optimization and push notification features.

Community Notifications

You can now setup notifications for individual communities. Notifications can by filtered by post keywords, post author, and post score. In the coming releases I will add support for more filtering options. To list a few, filter by phrase rather than keyword, upvote/downvote rather than just score, multiple authors, comment count, pinned(stickied) posts, etc. I’ll also be adding support for temporary notifications,community notifications that will automatically expire after a set amount of time.

Account Notification Options

Account notifications can now be toggled by type, you can toggle notifications for: badges, replies, mentions, and messages. This also adds support for mods/admins. You can enable mod notifications for new post/comment reports, and admin notifications for new user registration applications. note that user application cannot currently be viewed within Arctic.

Community Jump

You can now tap the title in any posts feed and quickly jump to a different community using the community selector.

Backend Improvements

Arctics Lemmy API wrapper has now been extracted into a swift package (Swimmy) for improved maintainability and so it can be utilized as a shared code base for Arctics Push Notification server. In doing so, I also added support for Combine allowing for improved error handling with the API.

Arctics Server

I’ve migrated Arctics notification server to a new hosting provider. With the new provider, I may be able to offer all notification options as a free service provided I can sustain off of small donations. This would be ideal, as I never wanted to paywall any features in Arctic. I’ve also setup getarctic.app a new home for Arctic. The website is quite barebones at the moment, but I will be updating it as my time allows.

As always, thank you to everyone for helping test Arctic, and providing feedback. I know new features have slowed in the last few releases. Going forward I’ll be working on polishing the current feature set in hopes of an AppStore release in the next couple of weeks.

v0.2.7 full change-log

• Added Community Notifications
  • Setup notifications for any community
  • Configure filtering options (author, keywords, score, more filters coming soon)
  • Add unlimited watchers
• Added support for granular account notification options
  • Badges (Application notification badge)
  • Replies (Comment and Post replies)
  • Mentions (User mentions)
  • Reports (Moderator reports)
  • Applications (Admin user registration applications) (Arctic does not currently support showing applications in the app)
• Updated the community selector to default to subscribed communities
• Added typing suggestions when searching communities in the community selector
• Added support for displaying thumbnails in push notifications
• Added support for stripping markdown elements in push notifications
• Added community jump to the Posts Feed, tap the title in the navigation bar to quickly jump between communities
• Added Changelog to settings
• Migrated API backend to a package (Swimmy) shared between Arctic and Arctic's push notification server
• Fixed issue on iOS 15 where the Post feed search bar could overlap elements of the navigation bar**

Links

• Website: getarctic.app
• TestFlight: testflight.apple.com

Previews:

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/8302571

Hello everyone, its me again back with another announcement. Thunder v0.2.5 is now officially released on GitHub, Play Store and the App Store (pending reviews). This latest update brings a lot of new additions, tweaks, and performance improvements to enhance your Thunder experience!

If you encounter any bugs or issues, creating an issue on GitHub goes a long way! I can’t go through the full list of changes here, but I’ll mention some of the bigger ones:

ℹ General

• Lemmy 0.19.x support is now partially supported on Thunder (see known issues below). This will hopefully allow for a smooth transition experience once the official Lemmy 0.19.x update is released. This also means that instance blocking and the new sort types are available to use for instances running on 0.19.x.
• More language localizations. Thanks to the community, there have been a ton of localization done on Thunder. This includes initial support for Norwegian Bokmål, Spanish, Polish, Ukrainian, Finnish, and Swedish. If you want to contribute towards additional languages, feel free to reach out on GitHub!
• Overall UI and UX improvements across the board including post title suggestions when creating a new post with a URL, post and comment actions on long-press menu, trending communities on the Search page, and so much more.

⚙️ Performance

• The feed page has been reworked from the ground up to provide you with a smoother and hopefully more seamless experience. This is a more under-the-hood change so you may not notice much change to the visuals.

🎉 Features

• Anonymous profiles are now available. This allows you to add an instance and browse that instance without having to create an account or log in. To do this, simply tap on "Add Anonymous Instance" on the profile selection page and enter in the instance of your choice.
• The search page has now been revamped to include even more options, including users, posts, comments, and links. Additionally, you can adjust the sort type and the feed type to better narrow your search results.
• New sharing options for posts. When sharing posts, you now have the ability to customize what you want to share. You can share the link, the media, title, and so much more.
• For Android users, you can now set Thunder to open links by default. To do this, go to Settings -> General -> Links and select the URLs you want to open with Thunder.

To see the full changelog for this release, check out the official GitHub release page.

⚠️ Known Issues

There are some known issues with this update that I’m already aware about. Theses issues were found after submitting the build to the Play Store/App Store. I’m currently working on these issues and fixes should be coming in another update sometime soon.

• Some markdown links are being parsed incorrectly. This results in some links not showing up properly, or some links showing duplicate text.
• Lemmy 0.19.x support is currently only available up to 0.19.0-rc.4. There have been some more changes since then which are being addressed.

As always, this is an alpha release, so do expect bugs to pop up here and there. We have a Matrix space if you would like to join in on discussions: https://matrix.to/#/#thunderapp:matrix.org

If you find any issues or would like to suggest features, please open up a new issue! As always, contributions are always welcomed here.

I would just like to thank everyone for the continued support and contributions. Thunder is still a project that I can only work on the side, and knowing that others enjoy it drives me to continue working on it!

If you would like to show a token of appreciation, you can buy me a coffee. The donations will help support some of the development overhead costs!

• https://ko-fi.com/hjiangsu
• https://en.liberapay.com/hjiangsu/

Thanks again for everything so far, and I hope you enjoy this update! Here’s a cookie for you for reaching the end of this post 🍪

Download from google play

GitHub

Muffed Lemmy community: [email protected]

Muffed is a completely free and open source lemmy client designed to feel fast and smooth. Currently available on android with iOS support coming soon.

I made a post about this app on here before so i will go over the new features that I have been implemented since then:

v0.6.0

• Inbox Page
• Text Resizing

v0.7.0

• Search in communities
• Upload Images to posts and comments
• Redesigned create post screen

v0.8.2

• Redesigned community page
• Edit Posts and Comments

v0.8.4

• Redesigned community info page
• Improved Home screen

Thank you for reading if you find any bugs or have any feature requests please open an issue on github.

I have pro on both and like both. Is there some criteria others have used in the past to pick their favorite? They seem so similar to me. Does one have a killer feature the other does not?

Check it out at lemmyphantom.com!

This is currently a reader app (no login functionality) but I would love any feedback from the community!

Some features include:

• Dark/Light Mode
• Various formats (card, narrow, masonry)
• Themes
• Accessibility (dyslexia font)
• NSFW controls (blur, filter)
• Privacy focused (not even Google Analytics)

I've been building this in my free time but feel free to discuss or provide feedback in the new Phantom community

I have tried both boost and connect, with both of these kind of working. Connect has been my favorite but it continues to be, glitchy unfortunately. Boost is great but it's hide red feature doesn't seem to work well.

Are there any other lemmy apps on Android with this feature, or anything similar to try out?

cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/2632504 ([email protected])

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.toldi.eu/post/229830 ([email protected])

@[email protected]:

Hello everyone!

It's been some time since our last update. As the version number indicates, this is primarily a bugfix update; hence, it doesn’t bring the "big new feature" I had hoped to introduce. The most important change here is that this version of Eternity will be compatible with the upcoming Lemmy version 0.19.

It's worth noting that upon upgrading to this version, you may need to log out and then log back into your account, based on my experience.

For the next release, I want to address more of the common issues found in our bug tracker. So, there may be another minor update shortly, but I can't make any promises at the moment. I've also made some progress with multi-community support and I plan to introduce modding tools as well.

In the meantime, thank you so much for your continued support.

Forgive me if this has been asked before, but are there any lemmy mobile apps that support mod functions?

Download from Github

Join the Muffed Lemmy Community: [email protected]

Muffed is a Lemmy client for Android (iOS support coming soon) written in flutter.

Muffed is fully free, open source and does not contain any sort of tracking or advertisements. It's always being worked on with updates coming at least once a week.

I would love you to try it out and tell me how it goes :)

I pass up a lot of good crossposting opportunities because I haven't seen this in any of the iOS apps yet. Anyone know of one that has it (other than the standard web page of course?). Thanks.

I host a Lemmy.world web UI at https://lemminator.netlify.app/ on Netlify's free tier. Due to intense usage, I got an e-mail warning me that 75% of my functions allowance has been depleted:

I assume that when this counter hits 100%, people who use it will be locked out until the bill cycle resets. Although instance admins can self-host Lemminator, it's still missing a few features like post creation and registration that admins might consider essential.

What do I do? Are there any other free Netlify-like services where I wouldn't run into this usage limit?

All the apps make it very difficult to create a post. You have to know what community you will be posting to, search for the community, click the three dots, click create post, click whether it’s a photo/link/text and then start posting.

Why not just have a Create Post button with the title field, url field, body text field, and a button to upload a photo and then a choose community button

About

Tesseract is a Lemmy UI that is designed to be sleek, responsive, mobile friendly and media-rich.

Feature Highlights

The following features are unique to Tesseract:

Full Media Support in Feed and Posts

• Spotify
• YouTube/Invidious/Piped
• Soundcloud
• Vimeo
• Bandcamp
• Odysee (as of 1.2.8.1)
• odesli Song Link / Album Link (as of 1.2.8.1)

Community Browser / Enhanced Discovery

• Browse the communties of other instances and seamlessly load and subscribe to them. No more of that obnoxious copy/paste, search, wait, search again, subscribe hokey-pokey dance.
• Post and comment menus let you browse the communities of the originating instance

Code Syntax Highlighting

Code blocks and inline code can be syntax-highlighted.

Image/Media Proxying and Caching

Privacy conscious users have long requested media be proxied through Lemmy. While I can't add that to the API, I can add it to the UI. Additionally, since the media is already flowing through Tesseract, it made sense to optionally cache the proxied media for re-use.

• Enhance user privacy, reduce bandwidth to other instances, and speed up serving content to your users.
• Can cache any media proxied through it. Tesseract can act as a caching proxy for your instance as well as cache media originating on other instances as well as outside resources (Giphy, Catbox, Imgur, Yarn, etc).
• Administrators must explicitly enable this module, and users must enable media proxying in their app settings.

Fediseer Integration

• See any endorsements, hesitations, and censures given to instances you're interacting with.

Highlights

Check out [email protected] or [email protected] as seen through Tesseract.

Take a Test Drive

If you want to connect Tesseract to an instance of your choosing, we host a public instance at https://tesseract.dubvee.org. It loads to DubVee by default, but you can change the guest instance or login to any Lemmy server you want.

Additional Features

Designed for desktop and mobile.

Install as a PWA on either or just use it through the web.

Multiple Account Support

You can add multiple accounts and easily switch between them. Accounts can even be on different instances if the administrator chooses not to lock Tesseract to theirs.

Multiple Hosting Options

If you host your own Tesseract instance, you can use it as a frontend for any Lemmy instance. Instance admins can host Tesseract on a subdomain or even replace Lemmy-UI with it. You can even run it on localhost if you want, though image uploads will not work due to CORS.

Highly Configurable

• User-configurable image/video sizes in feed and posts
• Full Lemmy server config options.
• Most aspects of the UI can be configured by the end user. Server admins can set default preferences via env vars.

Better Moderation Tools than Lemmy-UI

• Can access moderation actions from the feed without having to click into the post as with Lemmy-UI
• Local instance admins have full moderation control of the instance as with Lemmy-UI
• Modlog support on both desktop and mobile.
• Can simply click "reply with reason" when taking moderation actions to send the user a message with the removal details. Template is user-configurable.
• Enhanced modlog filtering.
• Community- and user-specific buttons that will pre-filter the modlog automatically.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.xylight.dev/post/307136

Try it out at https://photon-git-themes-xylight.vercel.app/settings/theme

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/6770347

This is a very small update, but hopefully it's helpful! As I mentioned in the last update, I'm a little tied up with other commitments right now, so I haven't had a chance to implement the other features on the to-do list. This one was requested the other day, and it was simple to add since I could reuse a lot of existing code.

Links:

• Firefox Add-on
• Chrome Extension
• Edge Add-on (waiting as of 2023-10-09)
• GitHub

❓ What is Instance Assistant?

If you're new to Instance Assistant, it is a browser extension with a collection of tools and features to simplify your browsing experience on Lemmy and Kbin. It is available on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge; you can also install it from the releases page on GitHub.

For a full list of features, please see the GitHub homepage: https://github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant

⭐ What's new in v1.2.6?

• Redirect user profile pages: When you want to message a user and click on their profile, you might end up on a foreign instance. To message them, you need to modify the URL or copy/paste. Instead, you will now find a little button to jump you to your home instance.

💛 Also

Thank you for all the suggestions and feedback! Like I said before, I'm really happy to see that people are using the extension and finding it useful. Please continue to make suggestions and contribute your expertise.

Cheers :)