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Lemmynade Alpha v4 — Community discovery, compact feed, video support

Hey testers! New update just dropped.

If you're new here, Lemmynade is the refreshing web app for Lemmy, currently in development. The goal is to make Lemmy more powerful, approachable, useable, and sustainable. Follow [email protected] for announcements and updates like these.

This release brings a new compact feed style, experimental video support, and a unique algorithm to help you find interesting communities on Lemmy. Read on for the full list of changes.

Open Lemmynade →

What's New

  • Community Discovery has been added to the Search tab in three sections—Trending, Popular, and New. Most notably, the Trending communities section uses a unique blend of algorithms that refreshes with undiscovered communities every 10 minutes. Never run out of topics to follow again!
  • The Compact Feed can now be selected as Feed Style in your Appearance settings.
  • Video Support has arrived. Watch videos directly in your feed and have them autoplay as you scroll. (Note: This feature is experimental and some videos may not load. Only YouTube links and direct links to videos are supported for now. YouTube videos are partially routed through Piped or Invidious in attempt to protect your privacy.)
  • Profile Editing has been added in the Account tab.
  • You can now copy user and community mentions from the context menu. This makes it easier to mention a community or user in your comments and posts. (Tap and hold on any community name or username to show the context menu)
  • You can now search and filter your communities if you follow or moderate any.
  • You can now open direct links, videos, and images right from the ••• menu on a post.

Fixed & Improved

  • The Lemmynade icon has been redesigned based on community feedback. (You'll need to delete and reinstall Lemmynade to use the new icon if you've installed it to your home screen)
  • In preparation for sharing features and search engine indexing, Lemmynade no longer requires the access key previously listed in the community sidebar. This was a temporary measure to filter out bad actors and focus on testing.
  • The Explore tab has been renamed to "Search" for clarity.
  • On community pages, more of the description is visible so you don't need extra taps or clicks.
  • To prepare for the future ✨, Settings have been rearranged a bit. Impressive, I know.
  • Sometimes, if you got your username or password wrong, Lemmynade would tell you that your instance was not valid. This wasn't always true, so it has been fixed.
  • Local/remote indicators next to usernames and communities have been removed to reduce clutter. You can now tap-and-hold on community names and usernames to immediately see what instance they're from.
  • As a subtle nod to one of the original readers, the "My Feed" icon was changed to a newspaper.

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If you have any questions or ideas, submit feedback or drop a comment below. Enjoy!

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Lemmynade Alpha v3 — Chats, better inbox, scaled sorting, optimizations galore

Hey testers! Here's another update to add to the winter charm.

If you're new here, Lemmynade is the refreshing mobile web app and desktop site for Lemmy, currently in active development. Follow [email protected] for announcements and updates like these.

This release brings private messages, an improved inbox, and scaled sorting to the table while greatly improving your Lemmynade doom scrolling experience. Huge thanks to the valuable testers that have taken time to report bugs and submit ideas.

Open Lemmynade →

What's New

  • Private Messages can now be viewed and replied to under Inbox → Chats
  • Scaled Sort (new to Lemmy 0.19.x) is now available as the "Spotlight" sorting option throughout Lemmynade (named this way to make more sense to the average user)
  • Infinite Scrolling has been rebuilt from the ground up. Your scroll position is now saved correctly, everything is faster, and many bugs have been exterminated.
  • The Inbox has been updated with infinite scrolling, slightly faster loading times, and simplified filtering
  • Your Home Feed tabs (My Feed, Local, and All) can now be switched between without loosing your place
  • In addition to long-pressing on user/community names, you can now Block & Unblock users and communities on their individual pages from the ••• menu
  • Upvoted & Downvoted Posts are now browsable from dedicated sections in your Account page
  • Profile Age can now be seen from user profile pages

Removed

  • Support has been dropped for instances running Lemmy 0.18.5 and lower. This was a tough decision, but will ultimately allow faster, more focused development on new features while we're still in alpha testing.
  • Vote scores have been removed from user profile following changes made in the latest Lemmy update

Fixed & Improved

  • Context menus and dialogs are snappier with better animations and reworked interactions
  • The top and bottom app toolbars are now a bit smarter about when they auto-hide
  • Fixed an issue that prevented clicking or tapping on action buttons on post pages
  • Minor bug fixes and improvements have been made in preparation for desktop layout down the road
  • Links in the feed and on individual post pages now use the same description (as they should)
  • Fixed an issue that caused images to flash when opening a post
  • The one-time-password field on the login page is now always shown to accommodate discrepancies between instances for the time being until the login page redesign
  • Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the description of a post's attached URL to overflow outside of its container
  • Fixed an issue where posts were being marked as read from post feeds if your finger touched them while scrolling
  • A heart has been added to the top of the home page to make it easier to support Lemmynade's development
  • Many other minor bug fixes and improvements

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If you have any questions or ideas, submit feedback or drop a comment below. Enjoy!

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Lemmynade Alpha v2 — Ad-blockers, less bugs, more speed

Hey all, thanks again for the valuable feedback and cheers over the weekend!

With this release, you'll notice things feel much snappier overall. Most notably, some ad-blockers were causing massive lag throughout the web app.

Open Lemmynade →

What's New

  • Text can now be selected in posts, comments, and other areas you might want to copy things

Fixed

  • Ad-blockers were causing Umami Analytics to throw fatal errors, reloading each page unnecessarily. I'm not trying to pull a YouTube, so this was fixed and you can now use your ad-blockers freely.
  • Fixed a bug that would cause the "Signing In" overlay on the installed web app to never disappear (even after successfully signing in)
  • Fixed a bug that was adding up to half a second of unnecessary loading time to each page
  • Fixed an issue where reloading community pages and some pages with markdown caused an error
  • Fixed a bug that made text unreadable (white-on-white) in dropdown menus in Vivaldi

If you've got questions (or just wanna talk trash about Lemmynade's icon), join us over at [email protected]! Otherwise, follow [email protected] for more announcements and updates.

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