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Boost For Lemmy

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Hi Boost gang,

The first version of Boost for Lemmy is almost ready. If you want to test the app for bugs and give feedback before the app is published, follow this link https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.rubenmayayo.lemmy to enable an early access option on the Boost for Lemmy Play Store listing.

Thanks for your patience!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It looks like the "c" community links aren't working. Like this: /c/boostforlemmy@lemmy.world.

The Trending Communities posts are full of these if you need more examples (here's today's post).

Edit: weird, my comment links aren't working. They're showing as normal text for me, but when you go to copy, select text, you can see that they're hyperlinks.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

๐Ÿ˜™๐Ÿ‘Œ

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just got it installed and set up! Looks great!

If I had one complaint it would be that mod tools are missing. :( Or if they are there, I can't find them. :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This look great! Was struggling with Jerboa for the last few days. I gave up and got into Tildes instead!!

This feels familiar!! ๐Ÿ‘ Awesome

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Loving it so far! I'm glad Boost is back! I have one problem, though! I'd love to pay to remove the ads but when I press Remove Ads I get a screen with a blue background and "Remove Ads" right in the middle of the screen but there doesn't seem to be a way to actually pay to have the ads removed!

Other than that, it works really well. Feels very responsive, too!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very nice. Within five minutes of using it I've removed other Lemmy apps from my phone.

It would be nice to have something that guides you through finding communities in other servers as I don't feel like I'm seeing them all.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know if it has been posted. After try many lemmy client its end to sync and boost.

But compared both apps there is one difference that I feel, scrolling performance is better on sync. On boost feel little bit lag/stutter.

Else just customization like other comments mentioned.

I hope it will be fixed in next build.

Thanks for build great apps. ๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's great, I bought ad free just for your efforts. But 2 problems so far:

  1. error on uploading any image of any dimensions in any sublemmy.

  2. can't see the videos, not in preview Mode, nor in full-screen Mode.

What can i/we do?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Only issue I'm having is random timeouts, but I think that just a lemmy thing in general. Nice app

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm excited to switch over and will definitely report any wonkiness.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Is is possible to opt out from comments notification on own posts? I didn't find the checkbox as I used to have in the old reddit app.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Images are able to be posted in comments. Ability to press and make them bigger would be useful.

Understood would be difficult with the press to collapse feature.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Loving the app! I'm having trouble swiping away media. It doesn't feel sensitive enough and usually takes me several swipes. I've enabled the tap to close which works amazingly but muscle memory wants to swipe.

Recommendation/Hope: it would be amazing to have a media peek where I can tap and hold on a thumbnail and it enlarges the picture. Awesome app, thanks!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Not sure if it's Boost or YouTube Revanced at fault but got the following error when I tried to open a Lemmy link to a video: https://postimg.cc/q6sW77x0

Also, the sign-up journey is a bit confused. Clicking sign up takes me to joinlemmy, which then just lands me on a home page for whichever instance I click. Might be more user friendly to prompt for a choice of instance and take them directly to that instance's sign up page. And maybe have a button for "not sure? Explore here" or something similar that would take you to joinlemmy

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Being taken to the instance that just selected makes pretty firm logical sense to me, personally. Is the sign up process/path uniform across all instances?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The few I checked were, but not sure if the path is defined as part of the Lemmy protocol.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Is there an option for the comments where I can just long-press to select and copy text instead of needing to go into a copy menu and then using the select text option? That can be bit tedious, and I typically copy most longer comments and send them to my voice-aloud app for TTS. It's definitely the main feature I miss about the old RIF app - easy text selection and perfect Bluetooth keyboard/mouse support.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A minor ui glitch(?)

When scrolling through posts I noticed that occasionally the post summary would slightly scroll up cropping the first line in the summary.

After playing with it for a few minutes, I can reproduce the behavior by pressing on the summary, holding the press and dragging left or right, continuing to hold the press and dragging up or down.

It seems I tend to scroll with a slight diagonal motion instead of a pure up and down motion.

Screen shots showing the glitch: The post in [email protected], the "hey guys..." line gets scrolled off screen with the "diagonal scroll motion"

Normal post look

Glitched look

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

would.

can't login to my instanse. nor another.

am not making a new login.

android13

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Does your password have more than 60 chars? If that's the case, type only the first 60 chars. This should be fixed for the next version.

If not, let me know the error message.

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