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Thunder App

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

This community is intended to discuss features and feature suggestions for Thunder; as well as friendly, respectful talks about Lemmy in general.

Please use the GitHub repository linked below to submit bug reports, so keeping track of them is easier, and make sure to search first if you already can find an issue for your report.

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

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TestFlight Beta: Link

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Alpha Release [v0.2.1+7] (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Oh hey look, its another release around the corner! This release adds in OLED dark mode, initial inbox features, better accessibility, compact mode, and improvements to a whole bunch of things too long to post here.

Obligatory message: If there are any developers out there who want to contribute to this project, that would be greatly appreciated!

Update: A hotfix has been released to fix some initial issues with the release: https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder/releases/tag/v0.2.1%2B7

To see the full details of this release, check out the GitHub release announcement: https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder/releases/tag/v0.2.1%2B6

For those on TestFlight, the update should automatically install on your device. For those who obtained the app through IzzyOnDroid, that update should eventually reach your devices!

There is also a discussion page here for any general discussions about this release if anyone is interested: https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder/discussions/67

It has been incredible to see all the community support and feedback from the last release! Let's continue this and make Thunder an even better experience :D

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thunder is quickly becoming my favorite Lemmy app, absolutely great job so far.

A few suggestions/wishlist items for me:

Is it possible to make it so when you swipe to the right on the bottom bar, it can open the side menu? Right now, especially on large screen phones, having to click the top left corner is very difficult one handed.

I would also love to have an option to click to collapse the text in a main post (the one submitted by the original poster).

One more minor thing, the icon on Android looks pretty bad, at least on a Pixel. A Material You icon (that changes with the system theme) would be amazing, but I would be happy with an icon that used the circle system theme instead of a square icon inside a white circle. Material You theming for the entire app would be even better.

Overall this app is phenomenal, I'm super excited to see how it progresses. I'm also happy to buy a premium version/donate, so know there are people out here that will happily pay for you to continue development.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, thanks for all the feedback! I’m glad you’re enjoying it 😁

Is it possible to make it so when you swipe to the right on the bottom bar, it can open the side menu

Right now, you can swipe right from the feed view to open up the sidebar! No need to tap on the hamburger icon

I would also love to have an option to click to collapse the text in a main post (the one submitted by the original poster).

I think that’s a good idea! If you don’t mind, feel free to create a issue on GitHub for it to be tracked! It’s a bit difficult for me to keep track of all the suggestions on here 😅

One more minor thing, the icon on Android looks pretty bad, at least on a Pixel.

This is actually hopefully coming in the next release! Someone kindly contributed to fixing icons on Android as I don’t have a physical Android device to test on

Overall this app is phenomenal, I'm super excited to see how it progresses. I'm also happy to buy a premium version/donate

Thankyou!! For now, I wont accept any donations because I want to make sure I can create and deliver something that is fully featured and good to use first! This initially started as a personal project of mine and it continues to be (although I have spent a lot more time over the past week organizing things and fixing things since Thunder blew up so much 😅)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but I can't figure out how to get the side menu to pop out unless I press the hamburger menu. If i slide from the center left edge, it upvotes a post in the feed. If I slide in from the edge of the left of the screen, it uses the back button gesture and exits the app. If I slide from the menu at the bottom, nothing happens at all. This is on a Pixel 7 with gesture navigation - maybe it works with button navigation, but it does not seem to work with gestures enabled.

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

Update: I have added a gesture for the bottom nav bar to open and close the side menu when you swipe left/right!

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

Compact mode is so goooood. This is seriously one of the best looking Lemmy apps by far :)

I wouldn't mind if the bottom nav bar slid offscreen as I scrolled through my feed - a few other apps do this which I do like. It slides back in usually if you scroll back up a little
would love some up/down arrows to navigate through parent threads in comment view (bonus points if holding down the up arrow brings you back to the top of the post!)
it would be cool if we could select the accent color of the app (currently seems to be purple?) - some other apps offer the option for this to pull the system accent color on Android which is pretty neat!
I noticed that images on my feed autoplay if they're animated, and I think if possible it would be cool to have a toggle to not have these autoplay? Personal preference, but also probably a good place to save data
I'd mentioned it in another post, but eventually would love the option to have thumbnails on the right side in compact mode
one small tweak I'd suggest coming from jerboa - they color the community name on a post to help it stand out a bit from the title and instance and other info (I think with the accent color?)
a feature request coming from Boost for Reddit - in that app you can long-press the community name on a post in-feed for a popup menu in which you can quickly block/hide that entire community from your feed, without clicking through to that community. Huge time saver!

Sorry for the wall of text, but hope there's some helpful/constructive stuff in there. Thanks for building such an awesome experience here!

EDIT: added some screenshots to explain a few points above. I'd also consider moving account view/account switcher into the side panel (some other reddit/lemmy apps do this as well), while keeping home/search/notifications/settings in the nav bar, since one may be less likely to need immediate access to that menu?

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

Oh wow, thanks for taking all the time to write the feedback! I’m glad you’re enjoying it so far. More feedback is always better than less 😄

It would be awesome if you could create these points into issues on GitHub, so that it can be tracked and discussed about within the community

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

The compact mode is fantastic and the accessibility is already top notch. This may very well be the most screen reader accessible lemmy app. If not its in the top 1% for sure.

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

Thank you so much, the app looks great and works well with lemmy.ml

With Lemmy.world I have an 400 error, I guess because they are still running .17.4 instead of .18?

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

test comment. test edit. More test edits.

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

Wow. Thanks for putting an inbox here. And for making buttons labeled for voiceover. This and Mlem are my favorites so far. Keep up the great work! 😊

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

I just figured out how to swipe for up/down vote. Can't say I care for it. Buttons?

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

Becoming my favorite lemmy app! Thank You

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Compact mode is amazing! That was the one thing keeping me on Jerboa. Thank you for your efforts!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Does commenting on posts work? I'm having trouble seeing them show up after submitting

Edit: replying to comments seems to work, but replying to posts doesn't for me :(

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

Seeing as you edited your comment. How did you do that? I can't get an edit option to appear

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does commenting on posts work? I'm having trouble seeing them show up after submitting

Hmm, do you mean commenting on posts from the feed, or when you enter the actual post page and attempt to comment?

Commenting from the post in the feed is currently not implemented yet. However, you should be able to comment on the post when you’re in the post itself

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I'm in the post and I tap the floating action button to make a new top-level comment, pressing the submit button closes the comment modal but doesn't seem to do anything else.

When replying to a comment, it refreshes and shows the new comment correctly

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

Don’t mind this reply - I’m just doing some testing right now to get a fix for this out ASAP

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