Added post style settings pane
Added Font size option
Added more compact post functionality
Added SafeArea
Hey everyone! We have been blown away by the response to Liftoff and we really appreciate the support of the community. We're passionate about creating an app that we want to use and we're excited with the progress. There have been a ton of updates and bugfixes this week and we wanted to share the latest state of things
There are a few bugs still that we're working through and we really appreciate all the support from the community helping us Beta test. Here are some of the known issues we're working on:
User and community link opening within the app is finicky #107
Separate default comment sort from default post sort
New sort in community page's posts sometimes not working properly
Unclear usage of everything feed causing seemingly duplicated posts across the difference instances.
Everyday it gets harder to pick a lemmy app to use that isn't Jerboa. Lmfao. This is great! Atm im between this and Thunder.
I do have one issue i see wasn't fixed, but i believe someone has mentioned it. Which is I cannot see content if i go directly to an NSFW sub. It acts like there isnt anything there, but i know I'm able to as I can see it in the everything feed and subscribed feed.
I can easily see this becoming my new time sink once Boost dies in two days! Loving the app so far, very very impressive for such an early version. One thing I'd love to see (correct me if this is already possible) is having the refresh not only available at the top of the page. Having to scroll up for half a minute just to refresh is a bit tedious :D
Just installed the app via the playstore. I needed to use the website to be able to access it.
BTW, rating can't be correct:
Content rating
PEGI 18 • Extreme violence
I like how you can add multiple accounts and get an overview of all the subscribed channels in 1 view. Posting seems to be an issue yet, at least here with multiple acocunts. (probably pebkac issue, as it's less then an hour on the device)
I keep getting a message like this whenever I try to interact with or subscribe to a community outside of lemmy.world.
I'm easily able to do this in other apps like Thunder.
What do I need to do differently? "This thread was retrieved via lemmy.ml. You are not logged in there."
Everyone says Liftoff is one of the best apps but I find it unusable as I can't interact with any other federation.
If you're using the everything view from the home feed then you're going to get posts that you might not be federated with, an aggregate of any instances you've added to the app.
We're working through tweaking this view and making it smarter to be able to support that interaction. Also I'm not sure thunder actually can do that because im thunder you're seeing comments/posts that are "outside" of lemmy.world but you're accessing them through lemmy.worlds federation.
Long story short if you want it to work like thunder, just use the Lemmy.world -> all feed on the home tab and you'll still see those posts that are "outside" you'll just be seeing them through Lemmy.worlds federation
I think it would help a lot if it defaulted to [email protected] as calling it "All" which is the same as it's called on any lemmy instance when logged in is super confusing. They are not the same thing.
Perhaps rename Liftoff's All to "All@notloggedin" or non-interactive. It's not intuitive and didn't make sense in the app settings either; I had to read your explanation here to understand.
Otherwise, Liftoff is great. Thank you for working on it.
Are any iOS users having some serious performance issues with Liftoff? I’ve tried both TestFlight versions and no matter what settings I use, Liftoff feels very sluggish.
We're working on improving refresh rate from current default 60Hz, would that explain what you're seeing? It's my main app for browsing Lemmy and it's generally doing pretty well unless there's about 1000 comments in a thread.
Love the app! One issue I'm having that is keeping me hopping back and forth between apps is download links don't work for me in the integrated browser. Could you possibly add the option to open in external browser?
Why can't I upvote and comment from other instances? I couldn't comment on the app but I am doing it on wefwef.app website right now, so if should be possible.
Oh you might be on to something. There was a similar bug report but we thought it was their password length. It might be spaces. I'll take a lol. Thanks!
My most awaited feature is for the download button to work. Liftoff is miles ahead of the other lemmy apps, if that button worked it would be feature complete at least as far as I know how to use it.
Love the new update! Are you guys considering adding post/comment text size adjustment as well (rather than just title/header)?
eta: It would also be great to be able to see the bottom navigation when viewing an instance/community page. The little autocorrect bubble is a bit wonky when writing comments as well.
Sure! Here are a few screenshots. If you see the small gray/blue(?) line a bit above the highlighted text in the third screenshot, that's where the autocorrect/text replacement was + it did work when I tapped it. But there have been a few instances where I haven't been able to see it at all, I'm assuming it's somewhere off-screen?
Can you do something about the size of the reply graphics? I'm talking about the green, orange, etc line that appears next to a comment when it is a reply. They're so narrow and the green one starts at the edge of the screen, making it almost invisible.
Just one request. In compact view, it would be really cool if the post header appears left of the thumbnail. Right now it shows above the thumbnail and a lot of real estate is left open
Edit: I downloaded, the app from the app store, It seem to crash a lot when logged in, I wonder if its related to the instance Im logged in, currently using lemmy.world.
Found out it was a lemmy.world issue. I had a lemmy.ml account tried logging in with it and that seem to fixed the problem. I guess it is related to the switch to http which happen in lemmy 0.18 while lemmy.world is still in 0.17.
Edit: While still using lemmy.world account, some observation I saw, It seem to crash only when viewing the first screen you encounter when opening the app, if you wait long enough there. If viewing directly to a community it works just fine.
Hiya, thanks for the app, my favourite so far! One QOL I'd like to suggest is a left-handed card view, where the image or content is displayed on the left side of the card instead of the right. So my fellow left-handed friends can navigate a lil' easier. Thanks!