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Thanks for the feedback!
As for videos not loading, this is most often a backend issue. I do quite a bit of extra stuff in the app now to mitigate this, but some servers are just overloaded and video downloads fail. Are you seeing most problems with GIFs or regular videos?
Tapping the very top of the phone should scroll to the top. If you scroll manually you might be accidentally triggering the refresh gesture, so I may have to look at tweaking it a bit if that's happening to many people.
Also, did you get a chance to test out the posting features?
Thanks!
Ok, a couple of videos that didn't load:
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/2724582 https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/2724527
And one that did not load and also made the player/app unresponsive (NSFW): https://lemmynsfw.com/post/1495824
I'm gonna reinstall the App Store version and check if the performance perception holds water.
Edit: No, you are right, it does not. The TF version is visibly faster than the App Store one.
Thank you, great to see examples! Seems like the first two videos arent actually links to videos, but custom video players kinda like youtube embed. I'll fix it so it shows an error rather than just spinning forever!
It's pretty difficult to support every type of source, since lemmy basically just gives you a random URL that you have to try to understand. Its gonna be an ongoing process to support more and more websites natively, but I think the majority of video links should be working pretty well already!
Yep, Avelon is very good already. Thank you for the great work!