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Connect for Lemmy App

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Hi, Connect 1.0.59 brings a new profile page, improvements to how routes are handled within the app, and a host of new settings. I hope you like it!

I'm still thinking about what a 'new to Lemmy' onboarding might look like. Also I know some people reported issues with the markdown editor yesterday, if this version still have issues please add a comment and I'll try and sort them out today!

What's new

  • Community name and user name are now direct links, with a setting to disable it.

  • Added a quick link to the official community within the app

  • Added confirmation on exit app

  • Added swiping on the left edge of home will open the drawer.

  • The drawer navigation actions should be more responsive now

  • Added an option to adjust how nested comments look. Also I added a couple presets within Settings to change it. I hope you like the presets I've chosen.

  • Added some improvements to the profile page. Tabs for overall/posts/comments and a page header

  • Added some haptic feedback for swipe actions

Bugfixes

  • Fixed comment cards in the reply view are no longer clickable
  • Fixed a three dot menu being invisible (web)
  • Fixed some routing issues when creating a comment or editting a comment. Instead of the previous state being in history it should now show only the state after the change.

Also please let me know what you think of the colour palettes I've chosen for the comment lines. If you're thinking of one that would be cool I'm happy to add it in :)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The best just got even better, thanks for everything!

Minor gripes:

  • the gesture "remembers" the farthest you go no matter when you actually leave your thumb. (ie if i want to upvote a post and I go a bit too far to the right on the bookmark gesture, and go back to the upvote icon without releasing the gesture, it bookmarks the post instead of upvoting it)

  • it would be nice if the downvote action was included in these gestures, for all the beans posts ;).

  • I still have the same issue on my tablet (also reported by @[email protected]) about not all subs showing up on the left tab. Everything is fine on my phone.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I'm really liking the great leaps in improvements and bugfixes!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Love the fact you're listening to the community and how fast the updates are. Massive kudos, keep it up!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really like this update. Thanks for making the transition over to Lemmy such a positive experience.

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

Could we add functionality to collapse all child comments? Also a way to set that as the default option?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You're killing it!

No joke, connect has become amazing in a very short span of time.

You've actually got more features available than jerboa, and the layout is so nice!

One bug though, did a search and the back arrow at the upper left doesn't work, nor does the back button on the navbar. No issues with scrolling so far on this version.

Thanks for busting ass on this :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Glad you're enjoying it! I've fixed the search back issue you saw.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Another bug I noticed. Tapping Yes here doesn't actually exit the app.

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

Will be fixed in the next release! I realize I've never actually closed Connect...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is the way

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Do you want to exit Connect?
No [Yes](No)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would it be possible to have the community icons next to their names on the frontpage?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the feedback! Good idea and I'll see what I can do.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This was a huge release! Thanks!

One question, it appears that the ability to collapse comment threads with a tap is gone. Is that true? Or did it move?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Should still be there, under 'Reverse Comment Interactions' in settings

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

thanks for the active work, you do an awesome job!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice!

Frantically hitting the Check for Updates button in the Play Store.

(Dang Google, with their staged rollouts on everything...)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is me too. Glad I'm not the only compulsive Play Store checker.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The new version no longer crashes on launch on my Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2, so whatever you did fixed that. The scrolling speed is too slow with a mouse wheel in Samsung DeX though. App looks great otherwise and I'm looking forward to playing with it some more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That might be related to https://lemmy.ca/post/862903 (@[email protected] I haven't forgotten this!) I don't have a good way of testing this currently but I did try increasing the scroll speed before but it made things kind of jumpy on normal touch scrolling.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I like this app very much!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks again for all you're hard work.

Feature request please: Gesture swipe up or down on an image to dismiss it and return to post. Same for gifs/videos if you implement a built-in player at the some point.

Feature request 2: some border padding on images in community view. I enabled show 'Post titles Above Images' but without a border the title and post text look disconnected

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks for this great app! It's replaced the hole RIF left in my soul.

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

Excellent update as always!

A couple of bugs I've noticed.

  • The new fixed thumbnail height toggle doesn't actually seem to work for fullwidth despite it saying so
  • The area for me to tap to see the comments menu or hold to hide and unhide the comments seems to be only on areas where there is text and not the whole section. This makes it hard to interact with comments that are very short on text.
  • There don't seem to be clear card like dividers in card view mode between posts when using the AMOLED dark mode
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the feedback! I'll take a look at those bugs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Such quick updates. Thanks for adding confirmation on app exit.

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

Connect is feeling very good to use! Excellent work with this update, it's becoming my main Lemmy app. I love all of the new features and customization options.

I'm personally a big fan of the "Earthy" color pallete for comment lines.

Thanks for your hard work!

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

Thanks for the app. Can you add a feature to jo just skip to the next parent comment? I loved this feature on RIF

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Press and hold on a comment to collapse it

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

Great work, thank you so much!

Any chance you could support custom tabs? Using the open for anything that currently doesn't work leaves me in webview, which neither has my logins nor tge features I need from my browser.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Enjoying so far. Thanks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is absolutely beautiful. Love the work done in the profile area. Top Lemmy app hands down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I love how small the updates are - 1.5mb! And the whole app is just 26mb. Kudos!

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

New icon is really ugly... Default launcher on Samsung phone.

Otherwise a really great app!

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

Is this on version 1.0.59 or 1.0.58? I thought I had this fixed!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, it's on .58, sorry!

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

Hey there! I really appreciate the constant improvements the updates bring. Connect is the app I mainly use for lemmy now.

~~I'd like to request a feature. Could you add an option for title to be above media(image and videos) posts? It's what I was used to on the various third party reddit apps I used to use.~~

Thanks again.

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

Connect is awesome! 🔥

Feature request: Top 12/6/1 hours :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

These must have been added recently! Will be included in the next release.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Just tried the apps available for Android, and Connect is clearly the friendliest and prettiest client. I know it's early days, but I think I'll be experiencing lemmy from here, at least until Sync comes out.

Request: I'm on team serif for comment font. Can we have font choices?

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

Hi Kuro, thanks for all your awesome work and the crazy rapid development. It's really paying off with how great the app is progressing!

Would you consider adding and option for an alternative cardview, similar to Relay, that has the author, community, post age and title in the header of the card followed by the image or content then in the footer it has the comment count, vote buttons and more options etc.

That order of information is conditioned into me after many years of Relay use 😂

For reference:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the quick update!

One thing I really liked about RIF's comment view is that it had an explicit show/hide button for collapsing/expanding comment threads. The long press to collapse is okay but a bit annoying to use when you're trying to collapse lots of comments with a long nested thread with many branches. Any chance we could get a setting for an explicit button with this functionality?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

request: a smooth transition for moving the lower comment when revealing the comment bar just like in sync

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

Finally got the update. Some great improvements in there! Had to reconfigure my settings, but that only took about 30 seconds.

The swipe to open side menu does seem a bit glitchy, however.

It seems to open the side menu at the same time you swipe back to your home screen. Unfortunately, I just have to immediately clear it away to see my home screen.

Once you're actually on your home screen (which is where you'd expect it to work), swiping doesn't do anything.

Of note, I'm talking about the swipe action to the right from essentially anywhere on the screen. ~~If there's a separate action I'm missing from the extreme left edge, that being overridden by Android's own built-in back gesture.~~

EDIT: Oops. My bad. The Android extreme edge swipe does open the menu from the home view. I'd just not been using it in favor of the swipe from anywhere.

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