Hi, thank you everyone for the feedback. This release mostly is just added improvements that have been highly requested. 113 adds draft posts and comments as well as video playback for most video services. I’ve also added support for ::: spoiler tags ::: (although just a first iteration and I’m still playing with the styling), improved how communities and persons are fetched from remote instances (less API remote object not found errors) and some performance optimizations.

Changes

  • Draft posts and comments
  • inline video player (now muted and doesn’t pause other audio sources)
  • better post truncation (ends on a word end when possible)
  • Inbox no longer limited to the first page, added infinite scroll
  • Post list now displays a small page header every 20 posts (clicking jumps to the top)
  • Enabling full usernames (@instance) now uses the username and not the display name
  • Fixed an issue where some comments weren’t showing up in large threads.
  • post images now fade in (less flash)
  • Fixed an issue where posting a comment would stay at the edit page

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-kuroneko

  • christophski@feddit.uk
    15·
    10 months ago

    Connect has fast become my chosen lemmy app, thanks for the hard work!

    One thing I miss from Relay is the comment navigator buttons floating at the bottom, any chance of a feature like this?

    • Kuro@lemmy.caOPM
      4·
      10 months ago

      Hi. Thanks for the feedback! I can take a stab at it. What does that second button do with the comments icon?

      • grandim@lemmy.ca
        5·
        10 months ago

        It brings up this search interface

        • Threads will navigate between top comments
        • Search word will ask for a search term and then navigate between comments with that term.
        • Time will prompt user to input an amount time with a slider bar, navigation arrows then only look for comments that are newer than that time
        • moderator searches for moderator comments.
      • christophski@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Wow that really would be great, definitely would be the last thing I’m looking for in the app! Do you have a way of donating to the app?

  • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
    11·
    10 months ago

    The rates of updates is wild. People like you are turning the fediverse dream into reality. Thank you.

  • crab@lemm.ee
    8·
    10 months ago

    Thanks for the fast updates.

    One request I have is that for when opening web content, the title is just “Web”. I think it would be better to show a URL, or “Web - [URL]”, to double check that the loaded URL is the expected one. Maybe long press to copy the URL. Maybe a progress bar too.

    Thanks again.

      • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
        4·
        10 months ago

        While we’re on the in-app browser topic, any chance the Android back button can act as a browser back button? E.g. You click a post link, and are in the in app browser and follow another link. The top back button will take you back to the post view, but the android back button just backs you up a browsed page.

  • burgersc12@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    10 months ago
    Alert

    It works!

    But the formatting feels wrong. The way lemmy has it on the web ui it shows “Alert”, and the “It works!” gets hidden. The whole thing is hidden on Connect, but I think they should behave the same way :)

    • Flughoernchen@feddit.de
      5·
      10 months ago

      With the implemented amoled theme it’s not possible to see somethings hidden there, as both the spoiler and the background are pitch black. So entire spoilered comments would just appear empty. Showing the “Alert” could help here as well. Otherwise is there a way to change the default hiding color slightly?

  • Finkler@lemmy.world
    6·
    10 months ago

    Have to say Connect has definitely become my goto app and I have nothing but praise for the dev. Just updated to latest and thoroughly enjoying it except for what is probably just a silly thing and that is the Page 1 Page 2 when scrolling. I know it may seem silly and nitt picking but for some reason it just seems to me that we have been without it till now and it just doesn’t add anything to using the app.

    I will be downgrading to the previous version as I just prefer not to see that.

    This is in no way meant as anything negative against the dev or how he wants things to be as it is their time and effort going into this and then allowing us to have it free.

    Right my little ramble is over I will leave you all in peace now :)

    • Kuro@lemmy.caOPM
      3·
      10 months ago

      Thank you for the feedback! I’ll add a setting to disable page headers.

  • Lem453@lemmy.ca
    6·
    10 months ago

    Two things I miss from sync:

    1. After hiding a post, a small popup that lasts for 10s allowing you to unhide it in case the swipe was a mistake

    2. A section in your profile to see hidden posts in case you want to come back to something

    Thanks! Fantastic app!

    • Dagnet@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 months ago

      That’s the opposite of a small request, maintaining a second UI can easily double the work for devs

  • Montoya@lemmynsfw.com
    4·
    10 months ago

    hello! thank you for all your great work, the app has come such a long way in the ladt few months! is there a way to disable the page header every 20 posts in the settings ?

  • Skyline@lemmy.cafe
    3·
    10 months ago

    Hi. Thanks for the release. It’s excellent and I’m really enjoying using Connect!

    Here are a couple of small requests from a compact layout user:

    • Would it be possible to add dividers between posts in compact layout? Currently there is a lot of text and little visual separation.
    • Would you consider adding an option to move the thumbnails to the right?

    And here are a couple of minor issues I’ve noticed:

    Thanks again for your work.

    • Ja'Crispy@lemm.ee
      3·
      10 months ago

      Would you consider adding an option to move the thumbnails to the right?

      This is the ‘reversed list’ option under the post customization settings

  • flamingos-cant@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    Thank you for all your hard work. Would it be possible to let users customise the code block colours? I’m colourblind and find the default quite hard to read.