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Interstellar App @kbin.earth jwr1 @kbin.earth

Interstellar major update: Google Play, Lemmy support, user/magazine mentions, and much more

New

  • General Lemmy support, including account login, feed view, voting, commenting, viewing communities, viewing user profiles, searching, and more. The main features not included in this release are viewing notifications, viewing/interacting with direct messages, and creating new posts. Thanks @jwr1 and @olorin99.
  • Support for editing your user profile, including the about and uploading a new profile avatar and banner; thanks @olorin99.
  • Huge improvements to the user screen, including being able to view a user's threads, microblogs, comments, replies, follows, and followers; thanks @olorin99.
  • A new user/magazine mention feature; if a user/magazine mention is detected in markdown, it tries to fetch the corresponding avatar and name and allows you to click to view the user/magazine page if available.
  • Support for blocking users, magazines, and domains.
  • Support for reporting posts and comments.
  • Show a copy button on the open link dialog.
  • Show an option for posts and comments to open them in a browser.
  • Add local filter to magazines explore.

Fixes

  • Add post/comment deletion confirmation.
  • Fix account list sorting to go by host, then the local name.
  • Fix the coloring for the subscribe button so it's easier to tell when you're subscribed or not.
  • Hide the error snack bar for several common errors, including render layout issues and image loading issues.
  • Fix empty search error from the search screen.

Google Play: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=one.jwr.interstellar

Just as a side note, those who have the app previously installed will need to re-signin into their accounts and might need to clear their app data if the app doesn't start up, as a few changes have been made with the way accounts are stored.

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  • Thanks for your hard work. I would not be using kbin/mbin at all if not for your app.

    Some suggestions:

    • The top and bottom toolbars are taking a lot of screen space, even though I am using a huge phone. Can you consider changing some buttons into menus, or shrinking the size of the buttons?
    • Can you provide an option for showing the instances of posts and users?
    • Can you provide an option to disable swipe left/right gestures?

    • Thanks for the kind words.

      The top and bottom toolbars are taking a lot of screen space, even though I am using a huge phone. Can you consider changing some buttons into menus, or shrinking the size of the buttons?

      Just to clarify, you mean the sections with the sub, mod, fav, and all tabs on the top, and the feed, explore, profile, and settings buttons on the bottom? I've already thought about how to make the top portion customizable, so hiding the sub, mod, fav, and all tabs could be an option to put in the settings. As for the bottom portion, I feel that it's necessary to keep, especially considering many mobile apps have their global navigation in the same spot. It is possible, though, that we could make it so it hides on scroll, or maybe have a button that toggles its visibility.

      Can you provide an option for showing the instances of posts and users?

      You can already see the instance of a user or magazine. If you click the little "@" button next to a user or magazine name, it will display the host (if the button's not there, the user or magazine is on the same instance as you). Additionally, if you actually click on the user or magazine name (not the "@" button), it will pull up a detailed user/magazine profile, of which, near the top, is listed the full user/magazine reference name (with the instance), like "! fediverse @ lemmy.world" or "@ randomusername @ kbin.social". If you meant always show the instance of a user/magazine (instead of replacing it with an "@" button), I've also thought of adding that as an option in the settings.

      Can you provide an option to disable swipe left/right gestures?

      If you're referring to the swipe gestures on the screens with tabs, that actually comes by default with the framework, but I can see if there's an easy way to disable it.