Connect 1.0.120 Released
Hi, past couple days have seen a influx of new users so welcome everybody! This release is aimed at improving customization options and some requested improvements. The secondary buttons on post cards can now be customized, added a 'Hide above' option which will hide all posts above the selected post, and the upvote colour can now be customized (also applies to the new comment counter and swipe action background on upvote tiles).
Changes
- Upvote colour can now be customized
- Fixed a bug with the subscribe button not being in the correct state within About Community
- & symbol now renders correctly on posts and comments
- global setting moved up within the Settings page to make it more obvious
- filter terms now accept regex (should start and end with a "/" eg /foo/)
- spoiler tags should now work for multi-line spoilers
- Added a toggle to display comment debug information (shows id, children count, hot rank, upvotes, downvotes - probably only useful for debugging).
- Fixed an issue where 'View More' is showing when it shouldn't be
What would you like to see next: Tablet UI or more granular theme customizations?
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I'm amazed how light weight this app is. The quality is here, it's basic and it doesn't take huge space.
A well done app!
I was thinking about being able to comment with one of the other logged account.
While browsing with one of my multiple accounts, I comment and can choose to post with another one.
I don't know how this is possible and if I was clear.
I think you could do that with Boost for Reddit, but I can't go check because fuck reddit for breaking my favorite app. Anyway, based on that it may be possible but also Lemmy works entirely differently so... Maybe
I think Sync had it too. It pretty useful to scroll with one account and pick one of the 10 alts to comment.
I've got Rewards money that expires in about a week. I'd love to be able to use money tied up in Google Play to make a donation. I don't know what else to use it on.
Simple Mobile does that. There's a separate "thank you" app you can buy just to throw a few bucks their way.
Thanks for all your hard work! Can't believe how great Connect is in such a short period of time.
Whenever you have time, could you implement saving your place in the comments when coming back to a post. Sometimes I exit a post by accident and when I go back in its takes me all the way to the top.
+1 for that feature.
Thank you devs for doing all the hardworks for this project<3
Woohoo! This looks so good now, thank you Kuro!
I'd just like a quick toggle matching theme for Lemmy vote colors in general (blue up/red down).
Yeah I hear ya. Do you mean like a universal scheme?
I personally think light blue and grey are good for up and down, respectively.
Slightly off topic, but related: should I be seeing in your user name?
I don't know which is the "real" Lemmy color scheme with theming and all that, but I think it's generally the opposite of Reddit, with the blue upvote and the more red downvote.
Could you maybe screenshot my username? The O and R should be different, and the last part is a raccoon emoji. If it doesn't show correctly, I'd like to know haha.
The default is blue and red on a browser (in dark mode at least).
The pic is using Connect. But I'm typing this from a browser and it's like that here too
Oh wow. Very strange. I figured it was putting that at the end in place of the emoji or one of the other letters, but the emoji is clearly there, as are the letters. I haven't seen it happen in any app or browser when viewing my own profile, posts, or comments, so I'm not even sure how to fix that. 😅
EDIT: There was an extra space at the end. I deleted it, and I hope that was what was causing it. I appreciate it!
It looks like on both web and Connect it has s
Well, dang. I might just have to have a boring old regular display name then. Thanks!
Feature request: Hide annoying emoji display names (show usernames)
Not sure if this is what you're looking for but 'show instance tags in names' will show the real usernames and not display names.
Thanks, it works! The setting is a bit confusing though, I didn't understand what the setting does until you explained it.
But still shows the display name (if a user has one) before the instance tag though. What OP meant I guess was just showing the original username (even the user has set a display name)
I feel personally attacked. 😂
@kuro thank you so much for making such a great app!
My vote for next changes would be to have granular theme customizations (choosing specific color to apply to specific screen elements), AND the ability to export / import themes and settings. Tablet UI features would also be nice (e.g., landscape mode for posts | comments in side-by-side panels).
Connect is a great app, support this dev!
I'd like to see a way to scroll to the top on a single button press. If there's one then I'm blind lol
You can do it by scrolling up just enough to get the top bar, then in the three-dot menu, hit refresh. Obviously it refreshes, but it also brings you to the top.
I would like it if the refresh button wasn't in a submenu.
Not related but I would also like to see the topic in the top bar... When browsing comments i sometimes forget what the topic was (especially when i put my phone down for a bit.
Allowing us to customize the comments more would be nice. Like I don't want the top level comment to collapse when clicked, just its replies. Also it would be nice if the left padding on the comments was reducible and the colour bar could be made thicker.
Is there a way to edit your profile from within Connect? Like updating display name and bio, or uploading a new avatar or banner? I feel like there's been a handful of things I didn't think Connect could do, but found out later that I was just overlooking it or didn't recognize it in the settings.
Another random question - the area in the pop out panel on the left where your username/avatar is displayed at the top (it's blue for me). Should that be showing my user banner? If not, can that be a thing?
Awesome app. Reminds me most of baconreader
Not sure where to raise this but I'm getting a bug where posts will toggle between read and unread when opening comments from list mode
Tablet UI please with columns!
I hate to sound like I'm begging for features and don't want to do a whole separate post, but is there any chance for an "auto-hide child comments" option in the future that collapses replies to top level comments until opened by the user?
It's the only feature I really miss from RiF and RES.
Other than that everything seems to be working great and this is my favorite Lemmy app so keep up the great work!
I'll see what I can do :)
You're a legend
The toast requires the feed to be scrolled down in order to view it with swipe to hide but shows up normally with the hide button or actioned through the post options menu. Imyalso hoping it's fixed since I mainly use swipe to hide but I guess for now I'll probably use the hide button.
Looks great, thanks for the hard work!
Additional theming would be nice. Personally, I would like the option to move the upvote/downvote arrows and points count to the left of the post in list mode.
Thanks for the update. Yay the page numbers are not showing.
Thank you for all your hard work!
Auto collapse comments would be cool
Love your app, only thing that bugs me is the inanity to have more than one account configured. Try to add a second and you can't go back to the first without signing out of everything and starting over.
Can you explain further? I'm not the dev or affiliated, but I have two accounts on different instances signed in, and I can toggle between them without issue. I just recently also got settings to configure per account rather than app wide. I might be able to help?
I guess it's just me. I added a second. But when I try to switch accounts there is no change. It never changes from one account to the other.
Sadly didn't help.
My primary is lemmy world. If I add ml, it will switch to ml, but the only way to get back to world is to sign out of ml and sign back to world.
You're able to switch from .world to .ml but not back? If you add a guest account can you switch to a guest account?
My primary is world. When they were being ddosed last week I tried to add my ml account. It logs into ml, but it's then stuck on ml no matter what. I have to sign out of ml which leaves just world... but I still can't log in, so I have to login to new instance and put in my user and pass torsion back into world fresh.
Hide Above is a pretty sick idea, and solves a problem I didn't realize I've been encountering for years on Reddit clients. I hate scrolling up to hide stuff I just saw.
Option to make comment icon do same as comment number would be great.
Strangely, this update cuts down the last letter of startrek.website's instance domain name, leaving it like "startrek.websit" and making the instance and its communities unreachable.
this is the only example I've found where it does this, pretty weird.
Hi, thanks for the feedback and I'm pushing a hotfix for this issue now.
Edit: hotfix is live, 1.0.131. Thank you for raising the issue!
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Issue I'm having is Connect not being able to render tables.
Hi, this should now be fixed on beta 129 (or if not on beta I'm hoping to release tomorrow).
Excellent news! We removed the images for this week as a precaution.
I'm glad to see that posting a comment no longer brings me to a single comment chain page. However, the app still puts my view to the top of the thread instead of keeping track of where I was, so I have to scroll down through everything I've seen already to get where I was. Is this fixable?
Thanks for the feedback, I'll take a look!
Material You support would be great 👍
Any way we can add the lemiverse.net search function into the app? I know how to find communities, but idk if there's a way to search for instants? I've also posted about it: https://lemmy.world/post/2737749 but I think posting here would also get more traction (also, I can't be the only one haha).
I'm glad to see the toast notification added to undo hidden posts and it would be nice if the option was extended to the Hide Above feature as well. I accidentally tapped it and a bunch of posts were hidden as a result.
Is there a way to change which browser "open external" uses? My phone defaults to Chrome but I'd like to switch it to Samsung browser. Not seeing it in Connect settings
Another thing I've noticed- if I switch to a different app, then switch back to Connect, it doesn't remember where I was. It just reloads all/homepage/local/whatever and puts my view at the top of the page. It would be nice if it stayed in the thread I was in, and remembered where I was scrolling before, so when I click back, I can continue where I was.
The thing that's been bothering me the most lately is the swipe-left-to-upvote being so close to swipe-left-to-hide. I only ever swipe to hide, so I don't ever deliberately swipe to vote, but having upvote be a swipe-left motion baffles me. Why not move that to a swipe-right motion? It's common for me to downvote, then attempt to hide via swiping, but the UI interprets my swipe as an upvote, which negates my downvote, so I have to click downvote again and retry.
I see now this is customizable, that's great. I've eliminated the automatic swipe-left-to-upvote and -save entries
is there a way to suggest ideas in-app?
Maybe I have not figured it out, but can I not have it show only feeds from my subscribed communities? Basically I can select all and see everything or local and it is just my instance. I want to see a random selection just from the communities I subscribe to based on top best, day, month etc.
Also maybe a ignore list. Ie. I put cat in said list in Reddit and very few cat videos came thru.
That's what the "Frontpage" is
Ah I thought that was kind of a Lemmy front page of all posts. Rather dumb of me.
Thanks. Now I don't have to filter out memes all day.
A few feature ideas if you done mins considering:
A 10s pop up after a post is hidden to unhide it
A way to see all hidden posts to find something later if needed
Button to hide all posts that are above the post currently on screen
These were all killer features in sync for Reddit, not sure if the Lenny version has it but it's very useful. Thanks!
Maybe it was fixed earlier, but now I can finally actually login using this app.