Liftoff v0.9.18 Release - Bugs and Quality of Life!
Hey everyone! We have been blown away by the response to Liftoff and we really appreciate the support of the community. We're passionate about creating an app that we want to use and we're excited with the progress. There have been a ton of updates and bugfixes this week and we wanted to share the latest state of things
v0.9.18 Release
iOS:
Android:
- GitHub
- Play Store
- F-Droid is coming
- If you want to stay up to date with the latest releases before it gets on Play Store or F-Droid, checkout Obtainium
Changelog
- Fixed issue where "Everything -> Subscribed" feed showed no posts
- Added better compact view
- Added Post Customization page in settings with live preview
- Added ability to customize font size
- Added ability to quickly toggle between card and compact view
- Fixed mark as read not working, added mark all as read
- Fixed issue with comment share link not being generated properly
- Added Gesture Navigation (Thanks shocklateboy92!)
- Added TOTP Login support (Thanks swmarks!)
- Added animation configuration (Thanks johnc86!)
Known Issues (In progress)
There are a few bugs still that we're working through and we really appreciate all the support from the community helping us Beta test. Here are some of the known issues we're working on:
- User and community link opening within the app is finicky #107
- Separate default comment sort from default post sort
- New sort in community page's posts sometimes not working properly
- Unclear usage of everything feed causing seemingly duplicated posts across the difference instances.
- Check here for a full list
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Y'all are doing really great work, and so goddamned quickly too. Jerboa won't even let me log in, much less navigate this easily.
Thanks for checking us out!
Everyday it gets harder to pick a lemmy app to use that isn't Jerboa. Lmfao. This is great! Atm im between this and Thunder.
I do have one issue i see wasn't fixed, but i believe someone has mentioned it. Which is I cannot see content if i go directly to an NSFW sub. It acts like there isnt anything there, but i know I'm able to as I can see it in the everything feed and subscribed feed.
There's a few bugs around NSFW, I hadn't gotten to those yet but I will!
Do we have any notification of getting replies yet?
Using oled dark if that makes a difference
Push notifications are on our to-do list
I meant a notification in app, like a number next to the bell or it just changing colour.
Oh yes we're tracking an issue for that. It will be implemented
Lovely, thank you.
Would love to be able to jump to the top of the feed by hitting the home button too if that's being planned.
You're all doing a great job so far. I already feel that little bit of loyalty to liftoff.
Will you implement UnifiedPush?
Yeah that's on my list. We'll have to implement something for iOS also so we're taking this enhancement slow.
I can easily see this becoming my new time sink once Boost dies in two days! Loving the app so far, very very impressive for such an early version. One thing I'd love to see (correct me if this is already possible) is having the refresh not only available at the top of the page. Having to scroll up for half a minute just to refresh is a bit tedious :D
Yes this is coming!
Much appreciated :)
Just installed it and loving it so far, it's great that we're getting options now.
Coming from Apollo (RIP and o7,) I love this app so far!
Your app is awesome, many thanks. I'm missing only the possibility to change the main color, otherwise it has aöready everything I need.
Just installed the app via the playstore. I needed to use the website to be able to access it.
BTW, rating can't be correct:
I like how you can add multiple accounts and get an overview of all the subscribed channels in 1 view. Posting seems to be an issue yet, at least here with multiple acocunts. (probably pebkac issue, as it's less then an hour on the device)
I keep getting a message like this whenever I try to interact with or subscribe to a community outside of lemmy.world. I'm easily able to do this in other apps like Thunder. What do I need to do differently? "This thread was retrieved via lemmy.ml. You are not logged in there."
Everyone says Liftoff is one of the best apps but I find it unusable as I can't interact with any other federation.
If you're using the everything view from the home feed then you're going to get posts that you might not be federated with, an aggregate of any instances you've added to the app.
We're working through tweaking this view and making it smarter to be able to support that interaction. Also I'm not sure thunder actually can do that because im thunder you're seeing comments/posts that are "outside" of lemmy.world but you're accessing them through lemmy.worlds federation.
Long story short if you want it to work like thunder, just use the Lemmy.world -> all feed on the home tab and you'll still see those posts that are "outside" you'll just be seeing them through Lemmy.worlds federation
I think it would help a lot if it defaulted to [email protected] as calling it "All" which is the same as it's called on any lemmy instance when logged in is super confusing. They are not the same thing.
Perhaps rename Liftoff's All to "All@notloggedin" or non-interactive. It's not intuitive and didn't make sense in the app settings either; I had to read your explanation here to understand.
Otherwise, Liftoff is great. Thank you for working on it.
Thanks for explaining that! For some reason this didn't click for me.
Just installed the app and really like it so far. Keep up the great work!
I'd love to see the ability to hide read posts. I'm coming from baconreader and loved that feature.
I think that can be enabled from your user settings on your instance. Not sure how well it works with Liftoff
Why can't I upvote and comment from other instances? I couldn't comment on the app but I am doing it on wefwef.app website right now, so if should be possible.
Same, it's pretty unusable to me since I can't interact with or join communities I'm interested in unless I'm outside the app.
My most awaited feature is for the download button to work. Liftoff is miles ahead of the other lemmy apps, if that button worked it would be feature complete at least as far as I know how to use it.
We have a contributor working on that!
Love the app! One issue I'm having that is keeping me hopping back and forth between apps is download links don't work for me in the integrated browser. Could you possibly add the option to open in external browser?
Yes that PR is open and this functionality will be in the next release
Are any iOS users having some serious performance issues with Liftoff? I’ve tried both TestFlight versions and no matter what settings I use, Liftoff feels very sluggish.
Using it right now and it feels ok and fluid.
What device are you using? I’m wondering if it’s related to ProMotion.
A 2021 iPad Pro.
We're working on improving refresh rate from current default 60Hz, would that explain what you're seeing? It's my main app for browsing Lemmy and it's generally doing pretty well unless there's about 1000 comments in a thread.
I was eager to try out Liftoff but unfortunately I can't seem to log in on it :/
I noticed my password contains a space in the middle and I always get an "invalid password" error.
I didn't try yet to change the password and try again but I suspect the password field when you login might not like a space in it.
In any case, if I can check if the password is really the issue, I will try to create a proper bug report on the git repository or something.
Thanks for the hard work ! It makes me happy to see devs embracing Lemmy and trying to make the best out of a pretty sad situation with reddit.
Oh you might be on to something. There was a similar bug report but we thought it was their password length. It might be spaces. I'll take a lol. Thanks!
Amazing app, are there plans to change the accent color from teal to something else? Also any chance we can get material you themes in the future?
Yes this is planned
Amazing, thank you!
Love the new update! Are you guys considering adding post/comment text size adjustment as well (rather than just title/header)?
eta: It would also be great to be able to see the bottom navigation when viewing an instance/community page. The little autocorrect bubble is a bit wonky when writing comments as well.
Yes please! came here to say the same thing. Default comments are a little too small
Yeah comment font sizes are coming.
Could you share a screenshot of what you're talking about with the wonky comment writing?
Sure! Here are a few screenshots. If you see the small gray/blue(?) line a bit above the highlighted text in the third screenshot, that's where the autocorrect/text replacement was + it did work when I tapped it. But there have been a few instances where I haven't been able to see it at all, I'm assuming it's somewhere off-screen?
Wow it was so far up there I almost missed it! Lol thanks I'll track this
Awesome thank you for the screenshots
Great job!
I’ve noticed if you turn off drop shadow, it tends to improve scroll in performance and removes jitter
Loving the app so far! Curious if there is a way to comment on different instances without having an account?
Access it through your login's instance. Use the instance -> all view instead of the everything -> all
I feel dumb for not even thinking that. Thanks!
Not at all, it's very confusing. We're gonna adjust the default views to help things not be confusing
Can you do something about the size of the reply graphics? I'm talking about the green, orange, etc line that appears next to a comment when it is a reply. They're so narrow and the green one starts at the edge of the screen, making it almost invisible.
First of all, great app. Question though: it seems there's no button to block communities, am I missing it or hasn't it been added (yet)?
You can from the 3 dots on the community page.
There is however a bug where if you use the everything -> all feed blocked communities will still show up. Working on a fix for that
Cool app, just got it for Android. I'm having issues adding an instance though: !lemmy.eco.br
I didn't see it on your list, but communities I have blocked are showing up on the frontpage when I have "all" selected.
Under the everything -> all? We're tracking bugs related to this.
Great app devs.
Just one request. In compact view, it would be really cool if the post header appears left of the thumbnail. Right now it shows above the thumbnail and a lot of real estate is left open
Any plans to add comment collapsing? Sorry, I'm new to the app, play store installed
Edit: jk, figured it out. Press and hold
Tap to collapse will be in the next release
Long press comment
This is great work! Thank you so much for putting this together so quickly!
Do you plan to offer the option for tap to collapse comment rather than press& hold to collapse?
That PR is open and will be in the next release thanks to a contributor!
Comment test
Great stuff, excited to be helping
Hiya, thanks for the app, my favourite so far! One QOL I'd like to suggest is a left-handed card view, where the image or content is displayed on the left side of the card instead of the right. So my fellow left-handed friends can navigate a lil' easier. Thanks!
Trying to log in with lemme.ee, having issues. It tells me it can't find the instance.
Looks amazing. Def going to be using this on my phone.
Awesome release loving the app!
Edit: I downloaded, the app from the app store, It seem to crash a lot when logged in, I wonder if its related to the instance Im logged in, currently using lemmy.world.
Shouldn't be. Many of us, myself included are using lemmy.world and liftoff as a daily driver.
Found out it was a lemmy.world issue. I had a lemmy.ml account tried logging in with it and that seem to fixed the problem. I guess it is related to the switch to http which happen in lemmy 0.18 while lemmy.world is still in 0.17.
Edit: While still using lemmy.world account, some observation I saw, It seem to crash only when viewing the first screen you encounter when opening the app, if you wait long enough there. If viewing directly to a community it works just fine.
That's a pretty good update! I'd love to see an option for left aligned thumbnails and a comment quick navigation at the bottom, just like Slide had!!
Just tried this out. Blown away with how much you've achieved in such little time.
This leverages an abandoned foundation called lemmur. Those original open source devs laid a great foundation
We're keeping the Foss dream alive
Are you gonna intergrate kbin ?
Not a priority for us right now. But after our 1.0 release we'll look into it
Testing mentions /u/[email protected]
Anyone still seeing 0.0.1 builds should switch to the new TestFlight link https://testflight.apple.com/join/jKENkGjX which tracks the version number correctly.
Test
I've got one suggestion so far and it's adding "block community" below "block user" when pulling up that menu on a post