Last release added some features I wanted in the app. So to balance it out, this release will be focused on adding features users want.

I got a large influx of feature requests which is great.

Since there are so many feature requests I am going to break this release into multiple smaller parts. This way I can push out new features as they are implemented instead of doing a massive release all at once.

Full changelog

  • Added a setting to control whether videos should auto-play. Default true.
  • Added new comment count to posts.
  • Added a view to the post screen if there are no comments.
  • Added a setting to enable uploading images to Imgur.
  • Added a setting to control how many animations are enabled within the app
  • Added a setting to adjust the caching policy for the app. The options are aggressive, moderate (default), lite and minimum. Aggressive will cause the cache to be used more often resulting in better performance but things might be stale. Minimum will greatly reduce what is cached, reducing performance but ensuring things are up to date.
  • Added a button to view the browsing history in the history settings screen.
  • Changed the behavior of the navigation menu. If a navigation menu item is currently selected and it is tapped, the app will navigate you to the “home page” of that navigation item.
  • Changed the style of read posts to dim the entire post item. This behavior can be changed in settings.
  • Changed notification behavior so that when a notification is tapped, the inbox screen will auto-refresh unread messages.
  • Changed the browsing history screen to open pages within itself instead of within home. Eg. if you tap on a post in the history screen, the post will now open in the history screen. This makes the behavior more consistent with other screens such as inbox or saved.
  • Fixed several bugs related to the compose post screen.
  • Fixed a bug where the create post screen mistakenly only shows comment drafts instead of post drafts.
  • Fixed a bug where the loading indicator is not shown when comments are still loading.
  • Fixed a bug where the imageviewer will appear unresponsive if the user leaves the app and then comes back.
  • Fixed a bug where tapping on a notification item will create a weird back stack state. This fix will make navigation more intuitive.
  • Fixed a bug where the inbox screen will automatically open an inbox item every time it’s opened if a notification was tapped before.
  • Fixed a bug where tapping on a notification will cause the inbox screen to be stuck in a weird state where certain actions will be ignored/do nothing.
  • Fixed several crashes
  • Fixed a bug where errors are cut off or not centered properly.

v1.42.1

  • Added a setting to enable uploading images to Imgur.
  • Fixed a bug where the loading indicator is not shown when comments are still loading.
  • Added a setting to control how many animations are enabled within the app

v1.42.2

  • Fixed a bug where posts will become unread if the app is closed and opened again.
  • Fixed a bug introduced by the animation setting change. When expanding a post in the community post feed screen, sometimes the post will not expand.

v1.42.3

  • Fixed a bug where post thumbnails will disappear sometimes when the post is tapped.
  • Fixed a bug where the imageviewer will appear unresponsive if the user leaves the app and then comes back.

v1.42.4

  • Fixed a bug in the post list where the content will disappear when tapped. This only affects the full content layout.

v1.42.5

  • Fixed a bug where tapping on a notification item will create a weird back stack state. This fix will make navigation more intuitive.
  • Fixed a bug where the inbox screen will automatically open an inbox item every time it’s opened if a notification was tapped before.
  • Fixed a bug where tapping on a notification will cause the inbox screen to be stuck in a weird state where certain actions will be ignored/do nothing.
  • Changed notification behavior so that when a notification is tapped, the inbox screen will auto-refresh unread messages.
  • Added a button to view the browsing history in the history settings screen.
  • Changed the browsing history screen to open pages within itself instead of within home. Eg. if you tap on a post in the history screen, the post will now open in the history screen. This makes the behavior more consistent with other screens such as inbox or saved.
  • Added a setting to adjust the caching policy for the app. The options are aggressive, moderate (default), lite and minimum. Aggressive will cause the cache to be used more often resulting in better performance but things might be stale. Minimum will greatly reduce what is cached, reducing performance but ensuring things are up to date.
  • Fixed several crashes

v1.42.6

  • Fixed a bug where errors are cut off or not centered properly.

v1.42.7

  • Fixed a bug where importing settings can cause crashes.
  • Tighten up some margins/padding.
  • Added a setting to enable condensed style for comment headers.

v1.42.8

  • Changed spoiler tags to make the space between ::: and spoiler optional.

Update

v1.42.1 is being release at the time of writing (9/2/2024). It adds more user requested features.

Update 2

v1.42.2 is released to address a bug in v1.42.1.

Update 3

I’m going to be wrapping up on community suggestions work at the end of this weekend. I will try to implement as many of the remaining suggestions as I can however it’s unlikely I will be able to implement all of them. If I cannot implement your suggestion in time, I will implement your suggestion in a future release. It just means that your suggestion might not be prioritized.

The reason why I am doing this is so that I can prioritize implementing other features that I think would improve the app. As the community suggestions release wraps up I want to thank everyone who shared their suggestions during the release.

Update 4

Released v1.42.5 which contains the last of the user requested features I will implement for this release.

Update 5

Fixed some bugs and doing another release.

Update 6

Fixing more bugs.

  • Fixed a bug where importing settings can cause crashes.
  • Tighten up some margins/padding.
  • Added a setting to enable condensed style for comment headers.

Update 7

Fixing more issues.

  • The app always assumed that spoiler tags had to start with ::: spoiler, however I tested this on the website and actually the space between ::: and spoiler is optional. Eg. the website renders :::spoiler as a spoiler block. So for parity, I am changing the logic in the app to also allow :::spoiler.
  • idunnololz@lemmy.worldOPM
    6·
    2 months ago

    Just to track this somewhere. I found a bug in the latest release where if you tap on an item with a thumbnail in the post feed and go back to the post feed, sometimes the thumbnail is stuck loading.

    • idunnololz@lemmy.worldOPM
      6·
      2 months ago

      You can also donate on Kofi. I’ll add donation via Google play to the roadmap though. I’m in bed but will look into the dim post issue tomorrow.

    • idunnololz@lemmy.worldOPM
      3·
      2 months ago

      I just tried to reproduce the bug but I was unable to. Could you please list the reproduction steps? Thank you!

        • idunnololz@lemmy.worldOPM
          3·
          2 months ago

          Sorry for replying so late. I was finishing up some features and didn’t want to lose track of these bug reports. This is a known issue. I will look into this issue for the next release. Essentially what is happening is that the app is tracking read state client side for two reasons (1) improve responsiveness and (2) reduced number of network calls. However the app currently only tracks this in memory. If you completely kill the app, the client side read state is reset. Refreshing the posts will cause the read state to be synced with the server which is why you see what you see.

          The fix will likely involve persisting the client side read state tracking to disk so client restarts will not wipe the state.

    • idunnololz@lemmy.worldOPM
      3·
      2 months ago

      Thanks! I think I accidentally introduced a bug though when I added it as I don’t see the loading spinner anymore when comments are loading. Will look into it.

  • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Hey man, can we get a feature that when we highlight a text in a post and use the quote button it automatically pastes the highlighted text? (Without needing to copy the text prior).

    Some clients have taught me that way and I feel strange when I need to copy then paste the text next to using said button 😅

  • Nithanim@programming.dev
    2·
    2 months ago

    What I also found is that the image viewer touch inputs break when returning to it from the lock screen.

    • open image fullscreen (without controls visible?)
    • lock device
    • unlock device
    • image viewer stops responding to inputs and can only be closed via system back

    Notes: i am on a portrait tablet (sadly) but with rotation in landscape. Therefore, the lockscreen is in portrait and also for a split moment apps are also until the “forced” rotation kicks in. Maybe that helps it bugging it.

    Edit: well, fuck, that forced rotation seems to be the problem… I mean it would be cool if if this shit would be configurable, because I fucking hate, how the lockscreen is always sideways… Ignore this bug if it is too shitty to find or fix.

    • idunnololz@lemmy.worldOPM
      3·
      2 months ago

      If you have reproduction steps I can try to fix it however with just a regular phone I cannot reproduce the bug.

      • Nithanim@programming.dev
        2·
        2 months ago

        Oh, wow, thank you!

        Now I just have to figure out how to donate because kofi just refuses to successfully process any donation I am trying to make.