Sync for Lemmy v120 release notes. Notifications, revamped messaging and finally out of beta!
Sync for Lemmy v120 release notes. Notifications, revamped messaging and finally out of beta!
Key points
- Message notifications are back!
- A big refresh to messaging
- Added a new unified inbox option "all" combining comment replies, mentions and direct messages
- Quick action buttons are now shown for comment replies, mentions and direct messages
- Comment reply actions (more icon) now shows the user and community rows (with additional options)
- Comment replies now show the community icon and post title
- Comment replies have had a visual refresh
- Comment replies, mentions and direct messages can now be quickly reported and marked as read
- Comment replies, mentions and direct messages can now be marked as unread
- Added a quickly reply swipe gesture
- Added page dividers
- Your own send direct messages can now be deleted
- Direct messages are now shown in threads
New
- Added .webm support to the image viewer and image peek
- Added "linked instances" and "blocked instances" to the instance chip group
Changes
- Experimenting with always showing the community icon in feeds
- Updated the reply icon
Github issues closed
- View mode not updating properly #402
- No messages returned snackbar doesn't automatically go away #333
- Add ability to disable "view more" toast messages #365
- Allow images in comments to use shared element transitions #391
- Add new app icons to replace the legacy S4R ones that were removed #389
- Add option to swap upvote and down vote colors to match Lemmy #386
- Username doesn't show in the account picker if there is no display name #451
- Account settings save button not disappearing after saving #448
- When swapping between automatic and manual theming, some elements don't change color properly #479
- Override sort dialog shows cancel button twice #484
- Username of non active account in account picker is empty #492
- Crash on startup with latest update #445
- Missing username in picker #478
- Not showing link options properly and crashing when clicked #513
Other fixes
- Fixed a title displaying issue caused by the recent change to titles
- Fixed a crash when clicking link options on a text post
- Fixed a bug where the description of the current messaging section in the toolbar wouldn't update correctly
- Fixed an issue with a broken lift target in messaging causing the status bar not to change color
v122 adds support for a super secret upcoming new feature...
This is exactly the reason, after using Sync for YEARS on reddit, I paid for Sync on Lemmy the minute it was available.
This is absolutely the best application for browsing this type of forum. I get why some other folks prefer FOSS/Free/Non-ad based apps, but I have no qualms about shelling out the cash for a really well designed app that I use just about daily.
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Yeah its not even close. Lj, you are an extremely skilled developer. Thanks for making such a good app
Sync apps have been my go-to for 10 years. Here's to 10 more 🍻
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Added .webm support to the image viewer and image peek
This, along with the other image viewer fixes is a massive quality of life upgrade! 🙌
Holy shit. This looks like an epic update!
Sync is actually just the best.
You're the best LD!
♥️
In the play store description I noticed you refer to "subs" but they're called "communities" here.
Cheers I'll change that.
Great. You've been killing it lately, thank you.
While you're at it this setting should probably say "Body" or maybe "post body" instead of "selftext".
Settings shortcut: View type > Show selftext previews
Edit: oh, found it in a couple other spots
Settings shortcut: Post options > Long press selftext to select text
Hey, think you could tinker with the "Glide Failed to Grab This Image" bug? It's happening more and more now, and it even happens to images I post.
Common LJ W. Happy lifetime Ultra supporter.
Excellent work boss, as always 👍🏻
Edit: Wow the messaging section is looking good, Sync for Reddit never looked that nice!
Superb! Thank you for the hard work!
Thank you so much for the continued updates!
Something about the fixes for usernames not showing up appears to have undone the fix for #122. I can see my username in plaintext for the current account even though I have hidden the display names.
This is awesome, nice work!
Hope push notifications are next! (yes, I'm on Ultra)
Notifications! Yes! Thank you.
(Can someone please reply to this, so that I can test if they work for me? Thanks. 🙂)
Great work, thank you. I'm wondering if you've put any more thought into displaying downvotes on comments? Now that post editing is fixed that's basically the only thing I keep going back to the PWA for.
Much preferred the old inbox. If I get 5 replies to a comment I dont need to see the post title above all of them (I dont really want to see it above any of them.) I clicked the "show post titles in replies" option in the messaging options section to off but it made no difference.
I'm wondering that also. The extra functionality is nice but it's going to take some getting used to. I'll adjust though
New messaging looks awesome!
Is there a way I can bind sync to be my default app for links to my instance? Annoying that someone sends me a lemmy.ca link and I have to go find it manually in sync, or just view it in my browser.
Oh true, Fediverse links are still not handled ideally. I know there's technical limitations to fedi app developers keeping an up-to-date list of domains that their app can open links from, but it would definitely be nice if there were some easier way to do things.
One side note, I've noticed that Megalodon (a Mastodon client) has a pretty good workaround for this issue -- if you use the share sheet to share a link with Megalodon, it gives you the option to post the link or to attempt to open the link in the client. That'd be a pretty killer feature to have in Sync, if there isn't some easier/better way to make it easier to choose certain Lemmy domains to open in Sync by default.
Any plans on emoji pickers for instances with custom emojis?
Custom emojis also currently render much larger than they should.
Nice one.
Thanks boss! Much appreciated
Not sure if you know this already, but spoilers made by people using the website version don't load properly.
The markdown for spoilers can be found here https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/02-media.html
test spoiler
TEST
Hmm that's weird, that one worked. But if I try viewing this post https://sopuli.xyz/post/10635149, the spoilers are a mess.
My experience exactly when I tried mentioning the spoiler problem (there's a markdown-specific post here if you wanted to add anything else, btw)
I think there are 3 ways of marking spoilers and Sync only recognizes 1 of them or something. Even on this community's about section there's a spoiler that doesn't work in the app.
¯\_ (ツ) _/¯the spoilers are a mess.
Yup. They are (for now)!
Excellent!
The new default inbox view is pretty unreadable, at least for me. The entire screen is filled by like 1.5 replies, there's tons of dead space. Is there any way to change the view options of the inbox? I can't seem to find any.
Not currently. What would you like?
- An option to hide the buttons below each reply unless you short / long press the comment, similar to how the normal comment section currently works. That would compress the space each reply takes by quite a bit.
- An option to replace the post title with the context of the reply, what comment was the reply posted to? The post title is very frequently irrelevant to the actual discussion taking place.
- Have the same swipe options apply to replies as to comments. E.g. upvotes, downvotes, etc.
Granted, I'm not a UI expert, so this is my personal feedback.
Edit to add: This is not to say I hate the changes, love the recent progress on the app :)
Currently, whenever there has been a new reply, the inbox defaults to (and then remains at) "all unread".
I like having it on "all" and would like for it to remain there.
Could this be an option? For messages to remain at whatever tab they were last set to and stay there when there are new messages.
Overall, I prefer the old version. Sometimes I need to be reminded of the context of a reply, I can just tap the reply. Other times it's obvious from the message itself.
Right now the post title font is larger then the reply font. It should be the other way around. The reply should be the most obvious thing, and the ancillary stuff should be small and compact. But including the title at all should be optional, as well as the icons.
I personally don't want to see user avatars or community icons or even the post title, really. I also don't need it to have a cute speech bubble. The reply should use the full width to save vertical space.
There's a lot of wasted space for one line replies. And longer replies end up being taller than need be because of the indent. And seeing the same post title over and over is oddly bothersome.
Love the update! Thank you, Mr. LJ!
Sadly though, I just got my first reply notification (yay!) … and the inbox notification badge that tells me I have 1 new only shows up on the bottom nav bar and not in my left drawer or more actions inboxes..
I can screenshot them if you need me to.
Which action boxes?
Adding it to the drawer is on my todo
Using the "More Actions" menu via the three-dots button at the top of my Subscribed feed, this is my view:
In the lower left of that menu is my Inbox icon, with no "new messages" badge. (I admit I don't know all the right words) In the dimmed bg you can see my Bottom Nav bar, with a badge on it.
(Cropped view of the 2 inbox icons)
Question - I notice that the little nav bar dot with a number to indicate new replies or messages is now showing in dark grey rather than orange. I had a look in settings, but I can't see a way to choose the colour for that. Anyone know of a way?
Normally appears here when there's a new reply:
In case it's useful...
Device information
Sync version: v24.03.19-19:12 Sync flavor: googlePlay View type: Smaller cards Push enabled: false Device: raven Model: Google Pixel 6 Pro Android: 14Is your theme base colour grey?
It is, yeah - I guess that's the setting for the notification. Thanks very much :-)
Hi, right now ultra users can either add a new user tag or remove it. Can you please make it editable too? @[email protected]
I wish this Sync had the "sort communities list by times visited" option like Sync for Reddit
Is the free version showing ads ??
Yes, it does show ads. It does that. (The same way a lot of apps handle free-tier.)
There are other Lemmy apps out there that don't show ads, but I think Sync is the most polished of the bunch.
