Hi, Thanks for all the tremendous feedback yesterday. I tried to take that into account and add some of the more requested features. Things to look forward to in this release would be: Improved search options (with tabs for posts, comments, communities, user), user notes section which lets you add global tags to users that only you can see, and report options to comments and posts. I tried to address some of the bugs reported too, and hopefully settings should be working as expected through the upgrade.
What's new
Added indicator of how many unread messages you have in your inbox
Added 'Open' option to the about instance page
Searching for a community with a !community or !community@instance format will now take you there directly
Added total user counts to the about instance page
Added new search page
The info bar on posts now displays above the image when 'Title about image' setting is active.
Added user notes (option on the user pages in the top right)
Fixes
Replying to a comment should now more reliably show that comment
Card views and lists now use even less memory
Fixed a left side padding issue in list views when there is no thumbnail
Fixed user profile 'Joined at' dates to be more accurate
Better handling of different aspect ratios for the user avatar in the drawer header
Adjusted some divider spacing on the post details page (reduced some unnecessary white space)
Hide read posts no longer applies to the 'Saved' page
Toast colour now matches theme
I'm continuing to monitor a subscription issue where some of them don't show up, I added some retries if the API call fails and more error handling.
Honestly, I installed Connect while I waited for my Reddit app to be ported to Lemmy.
Now? I think I might stick with Connect altogether. The speed of development, listening to requested features, and communication is unreal. Every time I think of a nice feature that would take 2 months to show up on other apps, I come here and see an update saying that it's been added. I've only been here for less than a WEEK
If it ever gets multi-column for tablet use, it would totally dominate for me. That's the major feature I miss from slide and sync.
Well, that and the tabbed viewing from slide, where you can swipe through your ordered subscriptions from the top of the app. But that's really only useful once you have the ability to order your subscriptions at all.
Theme colours are still unfortunately not wanting to stick. If I change the colours and tap save settings, then back out to the main settings menu and tap save settings there the colours immediately get reset to default.
Regardless of being stuck on the not so nice default colours, this is definitely the best Lemmy app of all the ones I've tried and solidly in the daily driver spot. It doesn't feel like an app that's only been in development a few weeks.
Great update as always, love seeing it getting better and better with tones of features:)
Small visual issue, the is no space between the user name and the tag, dunno if it would make sense to visually (color or style) difference between the name and tag
I was considering requesting making the tags more visible, since I've been making a lot lately and don't want to be a bother, but it's already a done deal. 😆
This is a great update. Thank you for your hard work.
I do have one gripe to share though. When I'm swiping on a comment to upvote it I often overshoot and end up saving. I wish I could move my thumb back a bit to just upvote.
That might just be me though. I never really used these gestures.
Thank you so much for the mark as read while scrolling. I loved that feature on relay. It's awesome having it here now too. Especially useful considering Lemmy is still growing, so being able to hide posts is awesome for coming across fresh content!
Ooh, shiny! The refresh message on AMOLED dark mode is now dark. I'm chuffed. Wicked chuffed. Thank-you.
(And I'm sure all the other updates are nice, too.)
Blocking instances work, at least for me in this version.
Also something's that fixed but not mentioned is posts without pictures are now left aligned, without being spaced to the right a bit. Looks like the picture padding was removed but then for posts that have pictures, the title is right next to the picture. I'm nitpicking again but I think it would be nice if the padding was kept for posts with pictures; and removed for posts without.
Minor feature request: when you click on an image and it goes full screen, there is a dot menu in the top right corner that contains the expected Download option. If possible, could Copy to Clipboard be added? That would allow easy sharing to other android apps without having to first download, then find the downloaded image.
Likewise copy and pasting text from comments and posts, but that might be more difficult.