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v1.0.5.4 (TestFlight) feedback (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hello,

As the TF version specifically asked for feedback on a couple of points that I've noticed differences, here we are.

  1. ~~Performance: it feels less fluid than before on my iPhone 14 Pro. Not game-breaking, but scrolling is slower (it feels like it never uses 120Hz scrolling now), some actions (voting/saving) feel slower or take multiple taps to register/happen~~ (I was wrong about this, the TF version is visibly faster than the App Store one) and I've noticed quite a lot of videos not loading at all (usually NSFW ones). The player becomes irresponsive and in some cases I've had to reload the app to resume using it.

  2. Fonts: I'm not sure if the iPhone 14 Pro is considered small, and I use the font size slider at the 3rd point from the left, but the layout is slightly different. The fonts are larger than before, but if I move the slider one point to the left, they get smaller than before.

And one extra thing I've noticed: there is no way to scroll back to the top of a community or feed without triggering a reload. Is this intended?

Thank you though, this app keeps getting better.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Thanks for the feedback!

  1. Surprising to see that you're having worse performance on iPhone 14, I've got a 14 too and seem to have better performance actually. Could you give some more info about how/where you're seeing this? Compact/large posts, inside communities or all etc? Minor stutters or just lower FPS in general?

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?

  1. Hmm, not sure what do you mean by a slightly different layout. The last version increased the size of text for compact posts to reflect large posts, but other than that I haven't changed the font system in the last few versions.

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yep, Avelon is very good already. Thank you for the great work!

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