Last week I received some constructive criticism on the project's Matrix room by @[email protected] — BTW if you guys are not on Matrix yet, you are all invited — and there was an interesting point about the bottom navigation bar, which I converted to an issue to better keep track of it.

The original idea was to alter the order of the items in the navigation bar, and I was also suggesting to make it entirely configurable as for which items to include and in what order. But the whole question is more complex than that, e. g. because some people don't expect to find "Settings" in the bottom navigation at all and would like it to be in the navigation drawer on the left.

Personally, I would also like to have bookmarks in the bottom navigation bar instead of settings and would like to swap things that are displayed there and shortcuts that appear in the profile screen (e.g. bookmarks, upvotes/downvoted, drafts, etc.) even if this implies some rework on global navigation and the UI.

Additionally, you know that I am not a big fan of shortcuts in the profile either, but I would prefer to have a panel on the right (like community info or user info) containing all these shortcuts and the logout action instead of placing it in the top bar.

I am therefore creating this post to foster discussion about this topic and gather ideas, so feel free to leave your opinion no matter how much rework it implies.

Hi everyone, this is the last development release for this month! This release has a lot of improvements for the majority of which I have to thank @[email protected] for all the time dedicated to debug and fix issues (and implementing new features like the most needed highlight in search results). This release includes also some of the feedback provided by @[email protected] especially in layout updates towards a more M3 compliant look. Finally, translations have been updated with your suggestions on Weblate, which is helping a lot in making user experience better for everyone. Thanks a lot for all your help and contributions, enjoy the weekend and remember L. F. E. T. 🦝

Hi everyone! This week's dev build contains a feature I'd been planning to add for ages: the possibility to restore contents (posts and comments) you have deleted previously.

There are also several features you requested (and I'm very happy to receive your advice), e.g. the possibility to add/remove favorites directly from the navigation drawer, enhanced community list in drawer with sorting, add the "edit" option in the card swipe actions, configurable inbox preview length and so on.

Finally there are quite a few fixes for markdown rendering, one of them with the help of NicKoehler. Thanks to those who helped either with code contributions or with your bug reports (which made it easier to found the issues).

Hope you like it and have a nice weekend as always! p.s. Next week I will be off so don't worry if I am not reactive as usual.

The weekly development release is out! The big news for this one are:

• the brand new and awesome application icon (and splash screen) created by NicKoehler
• the translation to Traditional Chinese and Cantonese made by Cloudless ☼.

Since I am starting receiving contributions and wanted to give credits to those who deserve it, I added a new "Acknowledgements" screen in the "About" dialog where you can see the list of people who helped with artworks, localizations, code, etc.

Other improvements, involve the possibility to create new communities and started the support for new Lemmy 0.19.4 features (LocalOnly communities, show personal ban status, initial vote display mode depending on remote settings, list hidden posts, list uploaded media, etc.) but more will come in future releases. More info in the changelog on GitHub as always.

Have a nice weekend and, remember, L. F. E. T. 🦝

Ciao everyone, recently I was asked on the GitHub discussions section of the repository whether it would be possible to host translations on Weblate in order to crowdsource the effort of localization. I had created that thread myself a lot of time ago and forgot about it as it had no interactions. But that user was right, the translation into their language was of poor quality and in my opinion all users deserve to use the app in their native language and have a good experience with it.

I decided then to move all the resources to Weblate and see if anyone wants to help out. Feel free to add languages, be them national, regional, or even constructed languages, because for me they matter too and, in case you didn't notice, Raccoon is available also in Esperanto and Toki Pona.

I hope you like this initiative and, as always, thanks for your suggestions, ideas, contributions and support.

So, recently Lemmy 0.19.4 has been released and it should be the focus of the releases of this client in the following weeks.

There are no breaking changes (technically) so rest assured that, even if you are on the "stable" channel and do not install the latest development release, things will continue working and the app won't crash or become unresponsive while you are using it.

Nonetheless, I think there are very interesting features such as the list of all media you have uploaded or the possibility to see all posts you have hidden (provided that you have hidden them permanently, unlike what the app does now i.e. marking them as read and hide them temporarily).

What are the features that you would like to have and what are the most important ones that you think will bring quality of life improvements to your user experience?

Ciao guys, as usual for thr first week of the month, a new production release has been published!

This version contains some stability issues (especially when navigating through comments or posts, opening and closing a post detail, etc.), some performance improvements when opening contents or refreshing (for cases that were, at least to me, very annoying) and several layout enhancements (duplicated paddings, progress bars where they shouldn't be, system nav bar color, etc).

There are a couple of brand new features too, such as admin tools and the default editor language on a per-instance basis, plus the downvote option is not shown any more if it is not allowed by your instance.

There are lot (trust me, a lot) of under the hood improvements: new unit tests being added, several dependency updates and the whole project was migrated to Kotlin 2.0.0, Compose Multiplatform 1.6.11 and Gradle 8.8. As you may have noticed, this made it also possible to launch iOS builds apart from Android ones, and I dont exclude that in the future I may be working on a desktop port.

Have a nice month! 🦝🏳️‍🌈🦝 And enjoy the release!

Cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16076976

So, guys, this is the last development release of this month be prepared for a stable release next time! Even though there are not so many shiny big new features, the only notable one if the ability to mark/remove posts as featured on an instance level for administrators, there are many fixes and under-the-hood improvements, mainly the project has been migrated to Kotlin 2.0.0 and Compose Multiplatform 1.6.10, new tests have been added and there are several fixes for the bugs you have reported in the past week. Additionally, the fact that I've managed to build the iOS counterpart of the app, which had been abandoned forever, gives me hope that one day we'll be able to ship something for other platforms too to increase the adoption of the project.

Next week I'll be working on a couple of reports I've received recently which I choose not to include in this build because I did not want to delay this release: the ability to set a preferred language community-wise and the navigation bar appearance. And then we'll be ready for 1.11.0!

As you may (or may not) know this is a multiplatform project, but I've always given precedence to the Android version because Compose was still in its early stages on iOS.

But attending to KotlinConf'24 last week was really inspiring for me and gave me the bravery (and a little bit of recklessness) needed to spend a couple of nights staring at build errors and Xcode configuration files to make everything work together again.

And I did it! I am not going to distribute an iOS version of the app any time soon, but I wanted to just share with you guys that theoretically it could be done, and that's great news!

🎉🎉🎉

As anticipated, this development release contains mainly user experience improvements and fixes. The option to downvote a content is not visible any more if the current instance does not allow it, inbox items are marked as read after being opened or voted, the action items are bigger as you requested and an unwanted margin at the start of comments has been removed. Additionally, more unit tests have been added and several navigation, pagination and caching issues have been solved. I'll be away for some days from tomorrow, so until next week! Report any issues on GitHub please, sorry if I don't answer immediately but will take care of everything when I'm back.

Hi everyone! We are halfway through between version 1.10.x and 1.11... next week I am not going to have much time because I'll be attending KotlinConf '24 (btw, if anyone happens to be there, let me know!). So, what to expect for this project?

I am continuing on various user experience and layout improvements (especially the inbox section), I've fixed crashes I received reports for and, if I manage, I'll work on a small enhancement which I've been postponing for too long: hide the ability to downvote if your instance does not allow you to do so.

That's it, enjoy the weekend! I'll publish the next pre-release build on Tuesday May, 21st if you don't mind.

Hi guys, new week new development release! This week I have been working to fix some annoying bugs, e. g. a loader incorrectly positioned before video playback, the pull to refresh indicator was a incorrectly positioned in some screens, and a visual bug while replying to a comment.

Additionally I added a couple of new features, such as administration tools and configurable indent amount for comments which you requested.

Finally I have made several improvements under the hood, adding new unit tests, refactoring code, reimplementing the bookmarks screen to unify the pagination logic and created a CI workflow in order to enforce state checks, so that non-compliant pull requests cannot be accidentally merged.

I hope you enjoy it, have a nice weekend, be responsible and, as always, L. F. E. T. 🦝🦝🦝

I am considering a change in the upvote and downvote buttons, which version do you prefer? Or, alternatively, do you have any other proposals? Let me know in the comments.

Please don't ask me to put a setting for it and have both versions. 😂

Ok, so seemingly even version 1.10.1 wasn't perfect, there was a bug in how the post body max lines setting was enforced, plus a series of small issues (account switching, message loading at the beginning of conversations, the status bar style not being applied correctly with light theme) and several layout that still needed improvements.

I wanted to address as many issues as possible but not force everyone to update, so here is a development build for those who want to install the latest release.

Did I say "if anything goes wrong I can always release a patch"? Yes I did... and here's the patch.

This is mainly to solve a bug with the keyboard in coment creation, a bug in account switching and improve the image detail screen.

Thanks to those who took the time to report these issue and explain them to me.

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Ok, I've decided this month's release is ready, so hopefully soon you should be able to get your updates through the stores.

This version has so many changes that I really struggled to make everything fit into the character limit, but if you play around you'll notice that there are quite a few new things.

It is now possible to fade out read posts, import/export app settings in JSON, navigate to previous or next comment in post detail and even navigate to previous/next post if you opened the detail from a list. Other new features are title autocompletion, bot account highlighting, an option to have full width (besides full height) images, custom tabs support, a monochrome alternate app icon, the ability to receive contents from the system "Share" menu and a brand new "sidebar" used to display community and user info.

Plus, of course, a lot of UI improvements and bug fixes based on your most valuable feedback. Thanks to everyone who dedicated some time to give suggestions, report or fix bugs, and helped in any way.

You are awesome! And, for those who know me a little bit, maintaining this project makes my life better.

Cross posted from: https://feddit.it/post/7533035

Ok, this week's development release is receiving a lot of feedback (a huge thank you to all contributors!) so I'm splitting its lifecycle in half. I've worked through most of the requests and reports yesterday and I'm releasing a new intermediate release today so that from here until Wednesday I have time to collect further feedback and make further fixes.

I hope I'll be able to release 1.10.0 soon in order to deliver all updates to users that stick with the stable version, so unless there are blocking bugs or serious things, the next release will be pushed to the stable channel.

Have a nice weekend, raccoons of Lemmy 🦝 L. F. E. T. 🦝

Cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/13516196