Hi, it's been a while since I've done one of these so this will be changes between 150 and 171. I've been focused on resolving image and performance issues mainly in this time but I also added a couple new things too. Youtube links now open in-app (configurable in settings), there's an option to remove special characters from display names which also changes bubble letters into plain letters, search results are now sortable, and mentions now show up correctly in the inbox.

Added

• Tagged comments (person mentions) now show up in the inbox
• Option to control where Youtube links open
• Option to hide special characters in usernames (and transform bubble letters)
• Added sort options to search
• Youtube links now bypass the webview and open directly in app
• Added experimental setting to highlight new comments (defaulted OFF)
• Added back navigation inside web views
• Added scaled / controversial sort options
• Added initial support for Lemmy 0.19

Upgrades

• Upgraded various libraries
• Upgraded Fliutter 3.13 -> 3.16

Fixed

• User Profile comment links on foreign instances now resolve correctly
• Fixed an issue clicking on saved comments from foreign instances
• Fix a flash when expanding images in some scenarios (not in cache)
• Fix a minor flash on user avatars and community icons
• Video Player bar text is now always white
• Fixed an image flash when a cached image is no longer held in memory
• Fix an issue with how I'm calling the Pictrs API on Webp images
• Added a secondary image cache for avatars/icons
• videos now start smaller while loading instead of taking up full height
• Fixed an issue where images could fail to load when clicked
• Fixed comment notifications not showing the correct comment thread
• Smoothed out the image close animation a bit more
• Possibly fixed a bug with clicking comment replies from the inbox
• Fixed a bug with the link handler resolving post card clicks
• When link handler resolution fails now loads posts from the remote instance
• Fixed a comment display error with inline videos
• Fixed a link handler issue where it could fail on posts from different instances
• Fixed an issue with urls similar to Lemmy format being mistaken for a Lemmy instance
• Fixed a crash related to link handler finishing before its transition completed
• Fixed issue with vote actions not refreshing post cache
• Refreshing post list now scrolls to the top
• Fixed an animation flash when expanding images
• Fixed a login issue with instances on v0.19
• Video player now mixs with other audio instead of taking over
• Upgraded various libraries
• Fixed an issue with thumbnails apppearing blurry
• Fixed a bug where links without any protocol prefix would crash
• Increased the cache size from 100 objects to 200

Thank you everyone for all of the support and suggestions, please keep them coming and we'll continue to make Connect the best app for browsing Lemmy!

Links:

• Google play
• you can support me here

-kuroneko

Or is there a cross-post button when looking at a post? I haven't been able to find it yet.

I used boost for a while since I used to always use it for reddit. But connect finally won over and is my main browser, one thing I miss though, is in using the user tagging system, boost had a bright green tag on users you used this feature on. This allowed easy identification of your tags. Not saying comment needs to have it bright green but it would be nice to have the option so I can actually see which users are tagged at a glance

When I used Reddit is Fun, it really hogged up data unless thumbnails we're disabled. I've noticed that Connect is also using quite a lot of data, but there is no similar setting that I can find (there's an option to disable preloading images, but I'm not seeing what that changes).

Even if there was just an option to toggle thumbnails manually, it'd be much appreciated.

How does blocking work? I have blocked a few users and this seems to work but today I noticed that one of them replied to a comment that was made to my comment. So not directly to me but to the one who replied my comment. How should it work? Id assume that my comment and any child comments would be hidden to accounts that i have blocked.

I basically never want to watch a YouTube link. But I kinda mindlessly click the next item in the feed if it sounds interesting and I'm always angry when it's a 20 minute long video that could have been a quick 2 minute read. Is it possible to mark these so I can see which ones are videos and avoid them like the plague?

I've got some comments I'd like to delete, but due to them being in threads that were deleted, I am unable to remove them from my profile. Clicking on them in my profile (which is necessary to delete comments) leads to an error screen since the thread doesn't exist anymore.

Could we put a menu on comments in the profile page to delete without going to the thread?

For the curious, the comments are nothing inflammatory or inappropriate, but they remind me of the inflammatory or inappropriate threads they were in, and I'd like to move on.

It's there a way to share content, e.g. web page, directly to the app, instead of copy/paste Title and link? I can't see the app in the offered app list

Not sure if this is a connect problem or catbox problem, but often when clicking an image hosted on catbox, it'll flash the low res then show a broken image picture when it tries to load the high res version.

Unrelated issue but I've also noticed that occasionally when turning the screen on while viewing an external link in-app, the app will crash.

Hi,

Sometimes when using Connect, just browsing the feed, my phone hangs / freeze. In case of a freeze I can't do anything on the screen, I can't press home or previous, nor pull the notification panel.

I've noticed 2 types of freezes, the first type I can still press the power button to lock the screen, when I unlock the phone I get an android pop-up saying the System app is not responding, I click kill and the phone is now usable.

For the second type the power button doesn't even work, I have to long press it to reboot the phone.

I have a Samsung Galaxy S24 running the latest OS.

Does anyone have similar issues?

When browsing on lemmy.ca/c/all and I click through to a post, the local source instance and community for a post is shown as lemmy.world/c/hot. The source instance is something completely different and shown in the post info bar below the title.

This can get awkward when I think I am commenting on a post I think is on lemmy.world or lemmy.ca when it might actually be lemmy.ml.

Highlighting the source instance a little better would be super awesome.

This is easiest done by sorting by Top of 1 hour, so there are only a few posts to scroll past.

When you get all the way to the bottom where there are no more posts to load, try scrolling down.

While you do that, any NSFW image that currently has a blur over it will have the blur squished vertically towards the center, allowing you to see the top and bottom of the image unblurred.

I appreciate all the hard work you do, but this is a hard No for me. I can't use an app that forces me to view landscape gifs in portrait mode. Is a rotation button a feature you'd consider?

I see a couple hundred of these messages every day:

• Post hidden
• Refreshed
• Blocked user
• Blocked community
• Downvotes are disabled

These are good things to know, but if there's no way to make the snackbars disappear automatically after 1-3 seconds, can we PLEASE have an option to disable them?

If it were easy to manually swipe them away, maybe I could deal, but the proportion of the screen that works to dismiss them is comically small. I'm writing this whole post with a Refreshed snackbar just casually hanging out on my screen. I know trying to dismiss it would 99% likely back me out of this post form instead.

Is this happening to anyone else? I try to load comments, then I have to scroll back up and try to figure out where the new ones start.

With the recent Thulean* comment spam attacks, mods have dutifully deleted the offending comments, but Connect still renders the deleted comments.

Thunder seems to have the same bug

Voyager and Jerboa show the comments as deleted

Examples:

https://startrek.website/post/8228446

https://ani.social/post/2729729

https://lemmy.world/post/13350248

Hi all, this might seem like a dumb question, but when I upvote a post in the comments and then go back to the feed, it doesn't show that I upvoted it. Does it remember that I did? What happens if I click it again?

Thanks for any answers. LOVE THE APP

When I view a comment that has inline images inside spoilers, they aren't resolving in Connect.

Other Lemmy apps resolve them okay.

In Connect the post with the new list of Lemmy apps doesn't load properly.

It looks like all the text is there, but it's "glowing" as if it's waiting for something.

In comparison, Jerboa, Voyager, and Thunder load the same post instantly. Jerboa with formatting problems with the tables.

Thanks for the app.

I like how Connect is fairly good at embedding previews, e.g. https://lemmit.online/post/2476390

However, Connect is currently unable to embed Lemmy posts of Reddit galleries.

For example: https://lemmit.online/post/1045136 Points to: https://www.reddit.com/gallery/172hfko (Old Reddit): https://old.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/172hfko/what_are_these_swans_i_found_at_a_flea_market/

Also looking forward to open-sourcing & F-Droid release!

Hi, and thanks for the hard work.

Sometimes I discover an instance a bit specific, like the jlai.lu one who's centered around French speaking communities. Rather than going to the info page of the instance and then either check and click communities listed, or selecting "browse as guest", I would love to have a " browse instance" button like we can for a single community.

It would improve discovery and engagement I think, allow for a wider reach across servers.

What do you think, kuro_neko@lemmy.ca ?

Is that still going to happen ? Or did something happen ? If not do consider open sourcing it. If you decide to make it open source that will be very much appreciated.

When I try to filter a non-English language post I've found that frequently the instance I wanted blocked is not what's added to my block list.

For example, when I try to block the following instance it's adding mastedon.social instead of OP's instance lemmy.eco.br: https://mastodon.social/users/ademir_lemmy_br/statuses/112058841341083344

Testing out I'm guessing its just one for all? Just want to check incase im missing something.

I like to have one for my nsfw account and one for my normal so i only use the right one when im in the right headspace.

When someone posts a link in their comment, there are no options to copy, share, or sometimes even just view the link (I've seen this on some images that it just opens right away on a comment without even asking me, which seems a little too zealous for my taste). This is immensely useful when I don't necessarily want to open a link in the client (I.e. copy and paste to share it or maybe I want to open it in a different app). When a user long-hold presses on a link, you should get options on how to handle it. Some possible interactions are copy, share, and open in external app

Opening a notification from the inbox now seems to go one level too far down. Ie. It opens the replies to the comment you opened, rather than the comment itself. I'm on the latest beta and this must have only just changed.

After the latest dev update on Android, while scrolling down my feed I get stuck over a post and then I'm unable to scroll up or down or select a post. The only way to get out of it is to change the feed filter like from top six hour to top hour then that will get stuck so I have to switch back

I updated to the latest beta, 1.0.175, bit this seems to have a major bug. When scrolling down in a lost of posts, after maybe 20 posts there is no more content. When this happens the app completely freezes and o have to force-quit. And when scrolling really fast through the list of posts, the whole screen turns grey and the all also freezes.

If I upvote something and then go to the comments, upon returning to the main page, the upvote is gone. However I know it's still registers because if I go back into the comments it's visible.

Hey, I only installed the app today and I'm really loving it. I've found a bug, when I switch from my account where I have set the dark theme to the light theme it does not change the theme. Only when I restart the app. It works the other way around though

Hi,

Love the app, but there are a few annoying issues I experience:

1. Inbox won't show more than 10 or so new replies

2. When I click on one with a reply it usually doesn't take me to the parent comment

3. When I click on a comment from inbox sometimes I can't see it in the thread until I click 'view full post'

I see a small + sign followed by the number of new comments to a post since i last saw it.

Could you maybe add and option to have those comments highlighted with maybe a different background son that they are easier to see/find?

I have recently had a new issue start happening.

When I get a reply in my inbox and I click on it, it loads the post but not the comment. In fact no comments at all are loaded.

Also if I find one of my own comments in my profile, and click on it, the same happens.

Is this a setting or a bug?

Is there published timeline or roadmap of when various fixes/features might be implemented? If not, would such a thing be possible?

Personally, I'm eagerly awaiting fixes to Horizontal swipe between posts and extended target areas for comment actions, and I imagine most people have some feature they would like to see implemented. It would be a nice treat to get a sneak peek behind the curtain at what we can look forward to.

No pressure though @kuro_neko@lemmy.ca, and thanks again for an already great app and continued development!

I've noticed that recently comnents on posts no longer have the long colored bars next to them showing their depth into the reply chain. Was this deliberately changed, and is there a way to bring it back?

I've gone through the setting but couldn't find an option to delete cache on app exit.

Is this possible? It seems like connect is generating the largest cache storage of all my apps

I've encountered two problems. How to reproduce them? Here:

1. I post a comment. Then I go back to it via my post history. I edit it and post it. Connect then can't find a comment and shows error. Pressing back returns me first to my cached unedited comment, then to my post history. After a refresh it appears edited.
2. I had answered to a comment that was later removed by a mod. Someone replied to me. I tap either on that notification or on that comment in my history and connect returns a post without any comments at all. It's that comment with Grozev's interview: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/9158971

v1.0.171

That's a 30 comment thread. The reply button disappears around 20ish comments. I'm curious if the app can even do anything to make things like this readable.

Edit: Issue resolved. Download new update of Connect, version 173

If I just swap from app to app without going to my home screen, I get a black screen. I have to got to my home screen and then back to see any content

On android, Samsung 22 ultra.

I see that the new version (1.0.171) says "now jumping to the top when doing a refresh".

For me the list gets refreshed when I open the app. So when I spent way too much time scrolling and finally stop and then later want to spend even more time continuing to scroll I open the app, it refreshes and jumps to the top and I loose the position way down. Now I have to scroll through all the posts I already saw to get to where I left off on the top today list.

Am I just using the app wrong? Or is there a way to make the app only update manually and not automatically when re-opening the app?