I was trying a couple of Lemmy apps and hard committed to Connect today! Gotta say, it's the closest thing I've seen to RIF so far!

I didn't want to start a Feature Request thread incase someone has already asked for it, so I'll just ask here. Has anyone asked about getting a link confirmation prompt? It was one of the things I really liked about RIF. When you clicked a hyperlink in a comment, instead of immediately going to the link, a small prompt would come up with the URL and Go/Back buttons. It prevented people hiding malicious or misleading links in a hyperlink. For example, like this: https://i.imgur.com/T9AAccX.jpeg

Just so you know I still have this issue where connect won't let me subscribe to some specific communities / some subscribed communities don't appear on my left tab.

I thought that my .ca account was "safe" from this issue but it started happening this morning as well. (Same on .world / sh.j.w)

Fwiw thunder has the same issue, but wefwef works fine. So I sometimes have to resort to the web interface or wefwef to subscribe / view these subs on my subscriptions list

For my use case, Connect is pretty much feature complete at this point. The daily improvements are just icing on the cake.

(Handling of multiple notifications could maybe use a little love, I guess. Seems we only get one at a time, and clearing one just allows the next one to show up.)

Anyhow, this is a way better user experience than any Reddit app I ever used.

I tried to make some requests yesterday but I couldn't find the old thread. Sounds like you addressed my first concern but I'll post them anyway:

~~1. Unsubscribing from communities takes longer because the page takes time to realize I'm subscribed and thus should have an unsubscribe button. Maybe always have an unsubscribe button?~~

2. Posts and comments I've made should still be visible on my profile even if I've since blocked the community they are in (I had to log in as guest to find this thread even though I've commented in it before, presumably because I accidentally blocked the community?).

3. If I make a comment, the view should stay on the full-thread view where I was before, not switch to a single comment thread view. As it is now, after commenting, I have to hit back, click the thread again and then scroll down from the top again to find where I left off.

4. Deleting a comment should be possible from my profile, not require me to navigate the thread it's in to find it.

5. Theme color picker doesn't allow me to scroll all the way down (maybe my phone is shorter/lower res?).

6. If I am in a page like blocked list or my profile, and I click search, I'm trying to search within that page's contents, not the homepage.

I've been oscillating back and forth between wefwef and Connect and think I'm likely to stick with Connect.

I love all the customization options, they really let me change the UI to the way I was used to with RiF.

One thing I'd ask for is an option for text posts to have a dummy thumbnail so that all submission entries have the title, submitter, community, comment/vote counts in the same place. At the moment posts in the list without a thumbnail look a bit disjointed.

Hello! I just wanna say that I've been loving your app. You made my Reddit transition painless. Do you have a paypal link for donations? Also, I want to ask...can you make a way to group communities into folders? I've joined so many similar communities that I would like a way to group them together somehow. Reddit would call these "custom feeds" and it's probably the biggest thing I miss right now. Thanx!!

Your app is now very similar to the third party reddit apps I used to use and I love it.

Could you add another feature to your to do list? It's not really a big priority so I'm okay if it comes very late.

An option for avatars of users to be displayed on their comments.

All actions are extremely smooth on this release. Very nice. Thank you.

App has done a 180 in a couple weeks! Keep up the good work

FYI to anyone with API Issues on this release, your instance admins may have reset authorization credentials (JWT tokens) due to a vulnerability with Lemmy custom emojis. Reinstalling or logging out and back in will fix the issue.

Hi Kuro, could you please address the font size issue as indicated here. It is the biggest thing holding me back from using the app. Thank you!

I'm sorry about the stupid question, but how does connect compress the images? Is it on a server somewhere that compresses them remotely and sends you the smaller file, as that is the only way I can think of to reduce network usage.

Great app! Just one request, can you make it so the android system back button in the internal webview doesn't exit the webview entirely but rather behaves like a browser back button? As it stands, if I click a web link, then click a few more links, then press back, I'm pulled all the way back out of the webview entirely.

The back arrow at the top should do that, not the android system back button.

Awesome work. I definitely appreciate the better thumbnails in list view.

Hot hot hot 🔥!

Thank you so much for adding the horizontal scrolling; the only feature from bacon reader I missed here on Lemmy.

I didn't see it mentioned but after a few posts it kicks me back to the main feed (and not even where I left off when horizontal scrolling)

Also, the mark as read while scrolling didn't seem to mark things as read.

And, not a bug but suggestion. While horizontal scrolling, an obvious post outline to separate the previous and next post would be helpful visually.

Thanks for the great app!

I suspect there is a better solution for thumbnails, but not sure if it's you or Lemmy devs who would have to fix it.

This is how thumbnails look on my device, basically anything with text is completely unreadable:

This image, for example, is 109KB https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7fd7eeaa-f466-4697-8ea9-2f16e4372adc.jpeg

This is what Lemmy generates for it at thumbnail=128: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7fd7eeaa-f466-4697-8ea9-2f16e4372adc.jpeg?format=jpg&thumbnail=128

And this is what my local imagemagick makes when asked to resize the original to 128w at 50% quality: https://ibb.co/ZgT35p4

Lemmy image is 4906 bytes and unreadable and the Imagemagick is 1398 bytes and you can make out the text.

And that's before getting into cropping etc. Basically, there's room for improvement, somewhere.

Edit: seems like pict-rs (the library Lemmy uses for image hosting) uses imagemagick to compress images, so it's probably just to do with the selection of filters/options they've chosen.

I'm not sure but I think upvoted posts add one extra vote for your upvote which is fine when you just upvoted and haven't refreshed the feed yet. But after refreshing the feed those upvoted post's score is always one bigger than when I open the same post in the web app.

Great job. Fantastic app!

[Bug] Unable to reply to a comment

https://lemmy.ca/comment/1013531

Error: language_not_allowed

Thanks for the update!

One weird bug, navigating to about instance then view communities, click any community and it opens completely random community.

Performance is MUCH better now (Reversed List). Maybe it is already "Perfect" but need to keep using the app.

I did some soft scrolling test (lot of light scrolling barely touching the touchscreen) and I couldn't find micro stuttering. (at least not the obvious one!).

I have a doubt: why does "Profile HWUI rendering" (android developer's setting) doesn't show any info when scrolling? Is this because GPU rendering is not used?

Device: Pixel 5

Wonderful app, thank you for your work.

Thanks for your work, I'm enjoying the app!

Great stuff so far. Thanks for a nice app.