Hi, been reading feedback and implementing the ones that I think would be good to add. This release brings a favourites bar to the drawer, the ability to set a default page, More text size options, and an overhauled settings page.
Still on the hunt for a new app icon, if you know a designer please let me know!
Next things I want to tackle are improving the markdown editor and adding in user/community/instance block lists.
Finally thank you for your continued support! The feedback has been very helpful in improving Connect.
Changelog:
Added option for enabling notifications across all signed in accounts
Added Text overrides for comments and post titles
Added option for disabling swipe and markdown editor
Added favourites to sidebar. These are account specific and different accounts can have different favourites.
Added option to set default page
Added an option to hide the bottom bar on posts for smaller cards
Added animations when expanding a comment thread
Added option to reverse the comment interactions (tap and long press)
Added password reveal button on sign in
Added some spacing between posts to visually break them up
Removed domain name text on list views thumbnails
Added a search option scoped to the current community you are in
Added option for high refresh displays
Changed FAB icon in post details to a reply icon
Changed collapsing comments so the comment body also collapses
Fixed a bug with the comment body not showing when editting
Fixed a crash on foldable devices
Fixed a bug where your own comments would appear to have more points than they really had
Yeah possibly if there is enough interest. I'd just want to clean up the codebase first since the current pace of development makes things a bit messy.
Open sourcing the codebase would most definitely increase the interest in the app, and as such also invite people to contribute to the project.
This is also probably one reason many will skip the app, because of not being open source.
Not saying it's a bad thing, but just a thought. I like the app, started my Lemmy journey with it, but wanted to go for an open source instead. Keep up the good work! Following the development of this!
One thing that still really bothers me is a lack of instance identification. In the list of subscriptions, I've got 2 "gaming", 2 "asklemmy", 3 "technology". Usernames and community names also seem to be missing instance addresses, which are important if for no other reason that different instances have different moderation rules.
Is this an oversight or does Connect just not want to embrace federation at all?
Oh man, this app is definetly my favorite rn, it sso good that when I go to desktop it feels so lacking and I'm trying find a desktop equivalent of connect
I'm happy the bug I reported got fixed, but I have a small request: can you add an icon to the pinned posts so we could distinguish them from regular posts?
Really impressed, especially for being developed so fast. Once the block lists are added I'll probably start using it as my full time Lemmy app.
One suggestion I have would be to put the save settings button in a location that is accessible no matter where you scroll in the settings (title bar? FAB?). That would a) make it more convenient when the user is tweaking settings and going back and forth to the feed to see the effects and b) make it clear that the settings do not automatically apply when you change them.
I've tried all of the Android Lemmy apps and Connect is the best. I'm having an issue with scrolling the frontpage and possibly others. As I'm scrolling I keep passing the same posts like a loop. It usually sorts out after a bit but I don't see any other mentions.
I am really liking this app! I switched over from RIF is Fun over on Reddit, and after flipping a few settings, this works almost exactly the same as I had that one set up.
I have run into a couple of issues though. I was initially having some trouble signing in, it told me my username wasn't found. When I tried logging in using my email address instead of username, it worked.
I was also writing a comment on a post, switched over to another app, then when I switched back to Connect, it took me back to the home screen, erasing the comment I had started writing. I can not seem to reproduce this again.
Can we have a more detailed search for communities? For example I would like to search for all communities with "android" in the name, with details on which instance it is hosted. It should show subscribers and post count so I can see which ones are active.
It would be nice to quickly subscribe from the search.
Thanks. Enjoying connect so far!
I had to comment on this thread as trying to add a new post have me a JSON serializer error.
Not sure if it's a known issue, but browsing on this post from lemmy.world account, when I click on cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ninja/post/27359, it open the post 27359 from the lemmy.world instance, which is about a completely different subject.
Just updated to 1.0.39 and also have the same behavior. Anyway, thanks for the hard work on the app!
I would like a horizontal line seperating the comments to help with visual clarity of where each comment ends at.
I'm really happy you added in the option to hide read posts, I'm not sure how it works though since a lot of posts I've seen are still shown. I'd prefer for the option of either mark as read when opening the post or mark as read if scrolled past a post. And a button to manually hide all read posts to clear the feed manually.
And maybe if it's not too much, the ability to toggle profile pictures to show up next to the commenter's name to give the all more expression (ability to toggle for ppl who are using their cellular data so they won't download as much things when using the app)
Really appreciate and care for this app, favorite so far!
Strange issue, we can seem to post to c/nfl using the app and we don't know a workaround. The app can't find the community when posting, but comments and searching works fine. We can post using a browser with no issue. Any clue?