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Hey everyone! For more than a month now I've been working hard on the biggest update to Avelon so far. Today I'm really excited to announce that it's finally out on the App Store! The update includes a whole bunch of cool new features for people who want that little extra and QOL improvements all-around.

Some of the highlights of this update include:

  • Community groups
  • App themes
  • Right-edge swipe-to-go-forward gesture
  • Custom app icons
  • GIF/video scrubbing
  • Advanced filtering tools, including keywords & instances
  • Fixes to a bunch of iOS 17 related issues
  • New markdown editor tools
  • Smart comment jump button
  • Ability to manage and clear app cache
  • Support for Lemmy 0.19RC
  • Lots of bug fixes & improvements all around

I really appreciate everyone who has helped with beta testing during the 1.0.6 cycle, you guys are honestly great!! It's super motivating to hear so many people enjoying the app, and as always I'm open to suggestions and feedback. I hope you find the Pro-model I've landed on a fair/decent way to run the app. I've tried my best to consider all factors like affordability, development, as well as the quality & quantity of what Pro offers - and I hope I've found a good middle ground.

As for the future: for 1.0.7 I'm thinking I'm gonna focus primarily on performance, stability & bug fixes, but I'll probably throw in some more QOL features as well. Just let me know if you're missing anything or if you find any pesky bugs or nuisances. Hope you enjoy the update!

~~Edit: Seems to be a slight issue with upgrading to pro, working on it 😅~~

Edit: Fixed!

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

Having an issue with the upgrade on iOS. I’m seeing the button but no pricing, and when I click the button it says it can’t connect to the App Store.

Interestingly, in the App Store it only shows the tip jar as in-app purchases.

Let me also say, great work! Avelon single-handedly kept me engaged and interested in the Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

I’m also seeing the same thing. Also tried uninstalling and reinstalling and it didn’t fix the issue.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Looking forward to a fix

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Same here, probably we need to wait an ios store update?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I totally support y’all having a pro mode, so I don’t want this to come across as me trashing on that in general. But I’m really disappointed to see the Content Filtering options behind a paywall. There are obviously a lot of people who are just going to use that to tailor things more to their preferences. But there’s also a lot of people who would use it to filter out posts that are harmful for them. I think you should reconsider making that a free option.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Hmm, good point. I've tried to focus the update on more "power user" stuff that's not strictly neccessary, but you're right that this could be the case. I'll think about it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I miss the jump comment button being gone now without a Pro account too

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I definitely do have other opinions on what has been paywalled, but I think most of those are convenience features. However, content filtering is important for everyone so you can block harmful crap you don’t want to see. Especially being able to block harmful new instances before they get defederated.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Luckily in a few weeks we’ll all be able to block entire instances on our own.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (11 children)

just saw the price tag, 30 bucks for lifetime pro access is a big no no for me. I'm sorry and I maybe tip you a little amount for the app in its current state, but that price for this app and the locked features is way too high.

And just to put it into perspective, Apollo's Pro unlock (the state of the art app for reddit on ios!) was 5 bucks, so you maybe want to overthink that price tag again...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I agree. I bought Apollo instantly because the value was there. At $30 I’m going to hang back and see how the app fleshes out, but if I’m not getting features like GIF scrubbing in the meantime, I’m probably going to find an alternative. At $10 I would have hit the buy button immediately.

Oh, and I hate subscriptions. I’m never going to subscribe to an app. Just tell me what it costs and I’ll buy it if it’s worth it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Same for me. 10 bucks would have been an instant buy

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What are the prices for the upgrade options? I’m assuming they’re displayed when you choose an option, but since there’s an issue there I’m still in the dark.

Also, how do you attach images to replies?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

30 bucks?! what the heck...i'm sorry man but this seems way overpriced. I mean there are full scale games in the app store which are not that expensive...

not saying that you should not get some money out of your work, but damn...

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The swipe to go forward works amazingly, congrats on the release! 🥳

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Thank you! 😁

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Only thing missing imo is the ability to have the comment jump button in the middle instead of the sides

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Snapping to the sides was actually harder to implement than just anywhere lol, I'll throw in a toggle to allow placement anywhere in 1.0.7

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Feedback on 1.06

  • colors of up/downvotes are odd and should be reversed (blue for up...)
  • it would be great to mark notifications as read with a swipe from the right
  • currently if you want to edit a post it sometimes loads an older, outdated version of this post instead of the current one
  • make it possible to blur a nsfw post again after you unblurred it
  • maybe add some padding to titles and content of posts in the feed to create a bigger interaction area, because if it's includes a link to a site sometimes it's hard to get to the comments, instead you open the link accidentally.

Otherwise great app and the best one out there. Keep up the good work!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Don’t know if it’s intended behavior or not, but when clicking on a post there’s no smooth animation, but when swiping back out of a post there’s an animation.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Nope, not intentional. Mind sharing your device/iOS version? I'll look into it!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

iPhone 13 Pro Max on iOS 17.1 beta, could be because of the beta, not sure if it happened before the beta or not.

video for reference

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I’m seeing an animation both ways. 15 pro max on 17.0.3

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just went to go purchase premium for the month to try it out, but it said it failed to connect to App Store. Would there be any reason for the app to not be able to connect?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hope you'll like it 😎 I misunderstood some stuff in Apple's review process so the app store item is not available yet. Will hopefully be working within a few hours!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah sorry, forgot to update the post - everything is up now!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks to the dev. It’s by far the most polished Lemmy app for iOS right now , and I’ve tried just about all of them.

The pricing is like, a week of morning coffees, so I’m not really sweating it. And that $14.99 for a year is a great option at $1.25/month if thirty bucks will break you.

I’m happy to have bought pro lifetime, and glad you’ve put the number of hours in developing Avelon. I look forward to seeing how it matures.

Oh, just FYI, I LOVE that Avelon is portrait only while scrolling threads. I browse a LOT with the phone while on the couch, or lying in bed, and currently NO other app stays in portrait when sideways. I don’t know any savages who read in landscape. That’s rightly reserved for videos or wide photos, in my opinion. It took Christian YEARS to figure out a toggle in Apollo where you could lock to portrait while browsing text, and auto-rotate only for videos or landscape-only media. It was why I bought Apollo Pro lifetime, finally! But, here’s your Pro lifetime subscription from me, so thanks for making it the way I like it already… ;)

Cheers

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Hey, is it possible to swipe to hide post in pro mode? I only see option to hide above posts on swipe, in free version, but I’m looking for hiding that specific post. Otherwise, nice app!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I second this one. The same functionality (swipe to hide) is also on Voyager. Once you're used to it, you'll really miss it if it's not there.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is there anyway to see video and gifs expanded in full screen and/or landscape?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not at the moment. Adding support for a full screen videoplayer is in my backlog!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Nice! Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Feature Request:

  1. Ability to copy text from comments and posts
  2. Ability to edit posts

No rush, the app is definitely usable and I don’t mind switching apps to copy and paste every now and then

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