I will admit I am very biased as a contributor to Thunder. I'm not an expert on all clients but Thunder has some super cool features.

• Really good markdown rendering (I've seen it render things that the other "big" apps miss.
• The agility to post and (soon) comment as any of your logged-in accounts.
• Notifications for inbox messages, soon to be integrated with UnifiedPush.
• Really good Lemmy link parsing and in-app navigation.
• Ability to favorite communities.
• Customizable swipe gestures, username and community name formatting and coloring, action colors, etc.

And these are just some of the recent things on the top of my head! I'm sure others can chime in with things I missed!

This feature is now in development for Thunder!

https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/pull/1516

Hey, thanks for sharing this! We now have a GitHub issue open to track the two small things that Thunder failed. Nice to see it did so well, though! :-)

https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/issues/1513

This isn't yet supported from the account page (it should be at some point), but there is a workaround. It you navigate to your user profile elsewhere in the app, for example by searching for yourself or tapping your username on a post/comment, then scrolling should hide the banner as you expect. Hope that helps!

Just FYI, coming from a Thunder dev, the full contents of deleted and removed contents are available via the API, and it's up to us to hide the contents. It's easy to miss use cases (like another user mentioned you can see deleted comments by replying in Sync; that's just an (easy) oversight by the dev). I'm glad to hear that they won't even be available in the API starting with 0.19.4!!

Not yet.

https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/issues/1112

Hi @[email protected], is it possible that you could show a screen recording of the issue you're seeing? I'm wondering if you're seeing the playback controls (play/pause/seek/etc). These appear over the video at the very beginning and have a dimmed background so you can see the controls. This is pretty standard for video players (e.g. YouTube does the same). As @[email protected] said, you can tap anywhere to hide the controls and undim the video.

Here's a direct link to that setting. :-)

Thunder Setting: Account > Feed > Default Feed Type

Glad you like it!

Since you mentioned RDP over SSH, I thought you might be interested in this GUI tool I made to do just that.

https://github.com/micahmo/RDPoverSSH

Hey there! You can block communities in a bunch of different ways!

• From long-pressing on a post and pressing the Community option and then Block Community.
• By navigating to a community page, pressing the top banner / info button, and pressing Block Community.
• By navigating to the account page, settings gear icon, scrolling to Blocked Communities, pressing the plus icon, and searching for a community to block.

There may even be some more ways I'm not thinking of. Plus if you block a community via the web UI or any other app, Thunder should respect that.

Let us know if that helps!

Aside from everyone else's suggestion to disable battery optimizations, which is a likely culprit, I would also suggest logging out of your account(s) and back in. Sometimes if there is stale info, the notifications will fail silently in the background.

Thunder allows cross-posting! It should follow the web UI implementation (where the body of the new post has a link to the original, plus the original contents in a quote block).

Let OP/mod colors take precedence and override the default color with them

I think this is a good idea! This should allow for colorized user/instance names while keeping special user badges distinguishable.

Just chiming in here to say that this has already been implemented in the current prerelease and should be available in the upcoming general release!

Hi all,

Continuing the discussion from GitHub... Here is the PR I opened.

https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/pull/766

However, there's still some discussion to be had about whether this is the right change.

@snowe, a couple questions...

• Can you log in via Liftoff? They also have a 60 char limit. https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff/blob/3055896657ef05772dc5fa18c5b3ab285b93f54a/lib/pages/settings/add_account_page.dart#L199
• When you say, "It seems like the password limit is set to 60 characters so I’m unable to login to my instance.", did you try logging in with a truncated password? Or are you just assuming that, if we limit the length, it won't work? I only ask because this Thunder discussion led us to find that truncating actually works for some users, which is what led to the original limit.

Thanks!!

We don't officially publish a build for Windows, but you can build it yourself and target Windows. Here's what the icon would look like in the taskbar. Not sure if it's exactly the same as what you saw!

As one of the Thunder devs, I can say there are markdown libraries. Thunder is written in Dart/Flutter and there is a great library that we use.

https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_markdown

That said, and as others have mentioned, markdown is not as well standardized and it seems like just about every site renders it differently, so there are a lot of edge cases to handle. Lemmy also has several unique implementations of things, such as spoilers, superscript/subscript, and the ability to tag users/communities without a hyperlink.

In fact, one of the things Thunder failed on (table alignment) is a known bug in the markdown library we use. :-)

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/109487

Hey, thanks so much for the response! It's incredibly useful to hear real feedback like that, and I appreciate the time you took to write it all up.

I think it's been a couple months since I had seen an update in fdroid, which is usually my signal to check out the latest.

Fair enough, this latest release cycle has been a little slower, but there is a new update coming soon. We're also working on putting pre-releases on F-Droid in a different channel for those who want to be on the bleeding edge (the pre-releases come out much more often).

Multis would be amazing.

I assume you mean multi-communities, where you can view a feed of posts from multiple communities at a time? If that's what you mean, does this GitHub issue cover your ask?

https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/issues/13

Images would get squished in full height mode

This one has been hard for the devs to reproduce, but you're not the only seeing it. If you want to follow progress on fixes, check out this issue.

https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/issues/1448

Clear read posts is a super useful one in Voyager, a nice-to-have for thunder

This one we do have! It's available via the Floating Action Button. By default you can long-press or swipe up on the FAB to see additional options, including "Dismiss Read". But the FAB is also super customizable, so you can make that the default action or the long-press action if you want.

Had an issue with messages, unable to reply from inbox maybe? Can't remember exactly what it was.

As part of the upcoming release, the inbox has been redesigned, so hopefully replying should work now!

Anyway, no need to respond, just wanted to follow up and say thank you again for the time and the thoughts.

I think you hit the nail on the head. I'll just add for clarity that (unless something has changed) Lemmy can only determine cross-posts based on matching links (whether it's an article, image, etc.). There is no way to correlate text cross-posts, which is why the UI (both the Lemmy web UI and Thunder) put the little "cross-posted from..." note in the body. At the very least, that helps the user find the original post from a cross-post, considering there is no special relationship in the back-end between cross-posted text posts.

Again, this was my understanding of how things worked last time I looked into this.

Oh good catch! You're absolutely right, we only look up the first 50 unread messages when we generate notifications.

https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/blob/f02fbfa0f80c26c59d4e7a88fced8059807e6df7/lib/notification/utils/local_notifications.dart#L75

We would have to implement some paging here to retrieve all unread messages.

Tagging @[email protected] as you might be interested in this!