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Thunder App Nightly

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An open-source, cross-platform Lemmy client for iOS and Android.

This community is intended for announcements and features related to pre-release builds of Thunder.

If there are any developers who would like to contribute, feel free to reach out on GitHub!

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This is the third, and final pre-release of Thunder for v0.2.1+11! (if all things go accordingly and I don't mess up TestFlight builds again).

Edit 5: New pre-release to fix minor issues: https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder/releases/tag/v0.2.1-alpha.9%2B11

Edit 4: New pre-release to fix issues with missing inbox items, and missing comments on profile/user page: https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder/releases/tag/v0.2.1-alpha.8%2B11

Edit 3: New pre-release to fix issues with long comment chains above 8 not showing up: https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder/releases/tag/v0.2.1-alpha.6%2B11

Edit 2: New pre-release to fix issues with replying from inbox: https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder/releases/tag/v0.2.1-alpha.5%2B11

Edit 1: New pre-release to fix issues with comment editing: https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder/releases/tag/v0.2.1-alpha.4%2B11

There will most likely not be any more additions of features for the next release, just bug fixes for large bugs. I would like to give a huge shoutout to everyone that has been working on PRs for this upcoming release, it has been incredible. This includes but is not limited to @bactaholic, @micahmo, @Fmstrat, @CTalvio, @ajsosa, @guigs4, @coslu, @minicit! Please let me know if I have missed anyone :D

Another note: I have created a Matrix space for Thunder for anyone who wants to have general chat there or to get replies even faster. The link to it is here: https://matrix.to/#/#thunderapp:matrix.org

Be fully prepared to know that these pre-release versions may contain major bugs which could cause Thunder to crash or behave unexpectedly.

For things to test out, I would suggest:

  • Test out everything you possibly can. Place heavy focus on general and most common actions (upvote, downvote, save, reply, comment, creating posts, etc)
  • Look around for any issues with performance overall, or things that seem like they require an immediate fix

Without further ado, these are the changes from the last pre-release:

  • Added initial way to block communities from the long press menu on posts. Long press a post in the feed page to show an option to block a community. Currently there is no way to unblock a blocked community, but that will come in a future release
  • Added a whole bunch of UI tweaks and changes to post page, and in other places - contribution from @CTalvio
  • Addition of community and user banners - contribution from @CTalvio
  • Added pull to refresh to a few more pages - contribution from @bactaholic
  • Showing collapsed comment count - contribution from @micahmo
  • Sharing media directly as images - contribution from @michahmo

...and probably a whole bunch of other under-the-hood changes I forgot to note down 😅

For a full changelog of things that have changed since the last release, visit this link: https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md

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

I am running the latest build published a few mins ago.

I've narrowed down the culprit, I think...

See this comment I made: https://lemmy.world/comment/982778

From the app's front page, from a post I clicked on the /c/, entered a thread, scrolled down to something with a few nests, and replied.

After replied it just reloaded the whole thread, and doesn't show up on my profile in the app. I had to get the link from the browser.

Edit:

  • This comment also doesn't show up.

  • When clicking the main comment from the profile page, I get an error, and it reloads this thread

  • From the profile page I saw your reply when checking "show all" and refreshing, but refreshing a 2nd time clears the whole list

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

Loading comments on profile page does not load any recent comments.

The missing comments on the profile page is noted - this is the GitHub issue on it: https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder/issues/249#issuecomment-1627488891

If I make a comment, it does not display on the thread when I click submit. So I can’t proofread it, let alone edit to fix any mistakes.

Just to clarify, the thread does not update when you press submit when entering a new comment? Does this happen to both the top-level comment (replying to a post) and also sub-comments (replying to replies/other comments)

Replies don’t show up / are very buggy in doing so. Clicking show all does not help. It’s like the client just gets a few replies to requests for data, sometimes.

I'll take a closer look at the inboxing part to see what's causing some of those issues. I probably won't be able to get to all of them for this release, but I'll see if I can fit some of them if they're simple enough to figure out

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

This seems to be 4 or 5-nest deep so I'm recording this reply now.

e: this reply seems to work fine, going to another nested