Connect 1.0.63 Released
Hi, Connect 1.0.63 is our two week birthday (from this post). Hard to imagine it's only been two weeks. This version brings a lot of new things but the big features would be instance level blocking, 'show more comments' buttons to make comment views more compact, new theme options, and the ability to mark a post as read while scrolling.
What's new
- Added community icons next to names in the main feeds
- Added an option to show @instance labels on all usernames and communities
- Added instance level blocking
- Added dividers between cards
- Create post community suggestions are improved, will now autofill with your subscriptions and suggest a community you've subscribed to first
- Added show more comments buttons
- Added option to mark posts as read on scroll
- Added more theme options
Fixes
- Fixed an issue with the profile tab not refreshing in some scenarios
- Changed community icons to be smaller and they should load faster
- Added some new sort options for posts
- Fixed notification icon hopefully (no more blank square)
- Fixed swipe to reply not working from the inbox
- Viewing a comment from your inbox will now remove the comment when you go back
- Improved the tap target when interacting with a short comment
- Fixed an issue with uploading an image in comment view
- comment title text now wraps instead of getting cut off
- Improved memory usage when scrolling through a lot of images (still some more improvements coming on this one, we're not freeing up images in memory as often as we could be)
- Fixed an issue with NSFW communities not being searchable (and subsequently some link handling being broken if the community is marked nsfw)
- Fixed an issue with the search back button
- Fixed an issue with incorrect passwords if the length is more than 60 (it's now capped to 60 which is what Lemmy does).
In case you're wondering what was in versions .60-.62, they were all minor hotfixes that have been combined into this list. Also for those wondering when it's going to be open sourced it's coming, I hear you! my focus right now is on adding features and improvements.
Links:
-kuroneko
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Hello, I noticed you added an option to leave post title above media posts. I'm very thankful for that. I have a suggestion on changing its current looks though.
I think it would look much better if you also moved these specific details above the media but below the post title similar to how text posts look.
Thank you, it's by far the best app right now
Glad you like it!
2 weeks?? I downloaded the app 2 days ago and assumed it had been around much longer with how well its built and organized. Yall are doing great work, thank you!
Happy 2-week app-iversary! 😀
You're doing great work! You're going to make the devs from Boost, Sync and like begin to sweat and keep up with you!
Instance level blocking??? This is awesome, really, thank you so much.
Did you also add a karma count when looking at people's profiles? Or was this there before and I just didnt notice?
Seriously the amount of work you are pouring into the app is impressive, and it is pretty much unrivaled at the moment.
PS: May I suggest a feature? Profile notes, where you can add a note to profiles so you can remember some people you interact with. In case it isnt clear what I mean, both Mastodon and Kbin have this feature, you go to a profile and it says "add note", there you can write something about the user that only you can see and it helps keep track of people here.
Wow this is a HUGE update. Amazing work!
Wanted to point out a few more things I've noticed
This happened with the last update as well. It took me a bit of time to figure out why some things seemed a little off. At least with this update I realized immediately why things weren't right. Despite seeming kind of small, I think this is a somewhat serious issue, since it feels like the update did a lot to change the interface, even though it didn't.
That being said, Connect is awesome and this certainly isn't a deal breaker for it.
I can only see my favourite subs, and not the main list anymore. Is this just me?
Also would love to be able to pin and unpin community posts as a start to mod tooling.
I'm experiencing a possibly related issue- I can only see local communities in my subscription list. Curiously, my frontpage seems to be functional with subscriptions to federated communities coming through like normal.
None of your subscriptions are showing up?
Correct. It was like this in the previous version too, though only today. I'm sure it was fine yesterday.
Maybe you collapsed the list?
That isn't it sadly.
Hmm. Have you tried clearing the app's cache?
Sadly that didn't work. I've tried completely clearing the apps data, and the problem persists after logging in again.
[Feature request ]
Example of link preview in the post details.
As-is view
My favorite lemmy app, keep up the great work!!
A couple requests:
When I post a comment, the view should be on the comment I posted, in full view. It shouldn't require an extra click to continue reading other comments.
Can we get more font size options? Small is too small and medium is too big.
Block community doesn't always work? I've blocked c/formula1 at least 7 times now. I don't think it was 7 unique communities.
Maybe more theme options? Something in between dark and AMOLED
If I do a search, the back button on the top left of the search results page is seemingly broken (I see it says this is fixed; I don't think it is?).
Blocking instances isn't working for me at all. An instance is showing in the list and I made sure it was spelled correctly but posts still show up when I'm browsing All, etc.
Thanks for all the work you do. The app has improved a lot.
Small things that I notice to improve are:
[Design issues]:
[Bugs Report]:
[Feature request]:
Thanks again
This is a really tiny thing but can the card dividers be removable? I personally think having the cards themselves is enough separation and the dividers end up as visual clutter.
I'm sure there are people who want them, so could those be made into an option or something?
Theme changes don't save, past the current session, reverting back to default, when the app is restarted, or when making changes to general settings....🤷🏻♂️
Looking into that now. Thanks for the feedback! Edit: rolling out 1.0.65 now with that fix
Still experiencing this with 1.0.65. Colours revert on app restart, and in subsequent opens of the theme settings they seem to pick up the the colour of other elements.
Just updated to the latest version, certainly sorted that issue out quickly! All good now, thanks for the update...👍🏼
Holy shitballs! You went from concept and nothing, to this, in under 30 days!? We're not worthy!
😂 glad you're enjoying Connect!
Loving the app, thank you for making it. Title font size is awesome but I still have trouble with comments font even on largest setting.
I hope you can find time to add "old man sized" fonts for comments. Thank you!
I'll take a look! Thanks and I'm glad you're liking it.
Not sure if this is the right place. First of all I'm super happy I can hide posts now also hiding by scrolling past is really nice. However it seems that hidden posts don't even show up in saved posts. Shouldn't the saved status habe priority over hidden? I don't like to see anything twice unless I save it for later but it seems this is impossible right now?
Thank you so much!
Hi, thanks for the feedback! That bug will be fixed in the next release (I'm just waiting on Google Play now).
Anxiously awaiting new release. And got it. Thank you.
The pace of development is incredible. Thank you! 👏🙇♂️
I'd really really like to seethe domain of external links under the post title. Don't need a summary or anything, just a general idea of where I'm heading.
How can I donate money to you? This is absolutely incredible work.
There is a link at the end of the post
Just commenting to say how impressive and robust the app is considering how new it is. It's now my default.
Appreciate the hard work. The app is fantastic.
Looking good. However, profile pic is cut off on nav slider. Also seems of altered quality and no way to re-choose photo to possibly correct.
Also not sure how profile information is pulled but mine in Connect says I've been here a week and I've been here a month.
Huh mine too actually. I'm pulling in the publish timestamp which sounded like the correct call. Will take a look.
Ah I think it's related to the image dimensions and trying to force it into a 1:1 aspect ratio circle. I'll fix that in the next release. Ability to add/edit avatars would be a nice feature.
I replied to myself. Profile creation data appears wrong.
Agreed and thank you.
This app is fantastic! It's my daily driver recently. You're doing an awesome job.
I've mentioned it in other threads but, my favorite feature of the Joey reddit app is the hide post on scroll past.
This app is nearly perfect for how I use it, save that feature.
Curious if it's possible. Cheers!
Edit: Holy fuck I should have read more closely. It's there! And it works great!
Haha! Glad you're enjoying Connect!
I noticed posts that don't have a picture have their title, and post detail line directly that, spaced to the right and not left aligned. I'm guessing the space is due to picture padding or something. The OCD people like me would appreciate it if it was aligned. 😆 Sorry to nitpick.
Okay, fucling love connect, thanks for adding themes color selection!!!
All I need is being able to chance theAMOLED color to a color picked like in the picture to get the aesthetic I wanted! Thx for all the updates they're amazing!
EDIT: I just realized that If I use dark or light mode I can change the background color too ahahaha. Oh man I love this app
Which app is this screenshot from?
Boost, I'm liking connect and lemmy tho
Great update guys really love the progress you guys are making. It's honestly incredible how fast you all are working.
That being said, I have one issue:You save images downloaded to downloads/connectIdk if it's just my phone or if it's android in general, but for some reason this nested folder in downloads isn't seen by apps when I go to post a photo.I was on the wrong update, lol.
Can we
get that changed to pictures/connect, ormaybe have an option to choose where things are saved?Thanks for the feedback! Is this on 1.0.63? The files should be saving to Pictures/connect.
It'd be really nice if we could set the location. Even better if we could set it for each download, e.g. so we could sort & categorize at download time.
Oh dang, I'm a dumdum, I was on the previous update, I must not have checked the settings since the last update there were so many new ones I thought I was on the latest version, sorry for the confusion
A few things that currently annoy me:
Sorry for not having better complaints, I'm slowly running out of them
Also could you make images "swipe-away-able", or make the tap away more reliable and significantly faster? Every time I want to go through a gallery and rapidly open and close the images one after tge other I feel like I spend twice as much time waiting for them to close than on actually looking at them
Edit: Seems the rating is also instance dependent, I just tested on one where it's reliably +1 for all posts. Also found a new annoyance: tall image scrolling lacks momentum (tap a tall image, double tap it to zoom in, scroll up and down. You'll notice the scroll stops as soon as you release your slide gesture, unlike all other scrollable elements which continue with some momentum, slowly coming to a stop much further down. This leads to scrolling through images feeling extremely sluggish)
I love that you're doing this and I see tons of improvement from just 2 days ago.thank you.