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Connect 1.0.63 Released (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi, Connect 1.0.63 is our two week birthday (from this post). Hard to imagine it's only been two weeks. This version brings a lot of new things but the big features would be instance level blocking, 'show more comments' buttons to make comment views more compact, new theme options, and the ability to mark a post as read while scrolling.

What's new

Added community icons next to names in the main feeds
Added an option to show @instance labels on all usernames and communities
Added instance level blocking
Added dividers between cards
Create post community suggestions are improved, will now autofill with your subscriptions and suggest a community you've subscribed to first
Added show more comments buttons
Added option to mark posts as read on scroll
Added more theme options

Fixes

Fixed an issue with the profile tab not refreshing in some scenarios
Changed community icons to be smaller and they should load faster
Added some new sort options for posts
Fixed notification icon hopefully (no more blank square)
Fixed swipe to reply not working from the inbox
Viewing a comment from your inbox will now remove the comment when you go back
Improved the tap target when interacting with a short comment
Fixed an issue with uploading an image in comment view
comment title text now wraps instead of getting cut off
Improved memory usage when scrolling through a lot of images (still some more improvements coming on this one, we're not freeing up images in memory as often as we could be)
Fixed an issue with NSFW communities not being searchable (and subsequently some link handling being broken if the community is marked nsfw)
Fixed an issue with the search back button
Fixed an issue with incorrect passwords if the length is more than 60 (it's now capped to 60 which is what Lemmy does).

In case you're wondering what was in versions .60-.62, they were all minor hotfixes that have been combined into this list. Also for those wondering when it's going to be open sourced it's coming, I hear you! my focus right now is on adding features and improvements.

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-kuroneko

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Great update guys really love the progress you guys are making. It's honestly incredible how fast you all are working.

~~That being said, I have one issue:~~

~~You save images downloaded to downloads/connect~~

~~Idk if it's just my phone or if it's android in general, but for some reason this nested folder in downloads isn't seen by apps when I go to post a photo.~~

I was on the wrong update, lol.

Can we ~~get that changed to pictures/connect, or~~ maybe have an option to choose where things are saved?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A few things that currently annoy me:

Every update my settings reset, even the default view thingy in the left menu
Posts seem to always show a rating one higher than the actual rating

Sorry for not having better complaints, I'm slowly running out of them

Also could you make images "swipe-away-able", or make the tap away more reliable and significantly faster? Every time I want to go through a gallery and rapidly open and close the images one after tge other I feel like I spend twice as much time waiting for them to close than on actually looking at them

Edit: Seems the rating is also instance dependent, I just tested on one where it's reliably +1 for all posts. Also found a new annoyance: tall image scrolling lacks momentum (tap a tall image, double tap it to zoom in, scroll up and down. You'll notice the scroll stops as soon as you release your slide gesture, unlike all other scrollable elements which continue with some momentum, slowly coming to a stop much further down. This leads to scrolling through images feeling extremely sluggish)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Holy moly, that's a lot for one day's work. My preferences got wiped again, but that's probably to be expected with the total rework of the settings screen.

The only issue I'm noticing now is that -- with particularly dense comment threads -- tapping on my comment from my Profile will often load the corresponding post with no comments visible. Usually this is accompanied by an error at the bottom of the screen saying the comment could not be found (occasionally the error does not appear).

Maybe it's just a "lemmy.world is overloaded" issue, but .world has actually seemed pretty stable since yesterday.

[–] ViperActual 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Loving the updates so far!

Small request though: Toggleable setting that adds a hide/show button to each comment so that we can immediately hide a post instead of waiting for the long press to trigger. I know screen real estate is at a premium for most phones, which is why this would be a Toggleable setting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a setting for reversing comment actions so they can be hidden with a tap, is that what you're looking for?

[–] ViperActual 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for being so responsive! I tried out that setting just now and it's not quite what I mean in terms of UX. To preface: I'm not trying to make your app a clone of RIF which I heavily used, and your app does feel the most similar to that for me so do what you will with my feedback.

My main issue with the way Connect currently behaves is if I wanted to collapse the first few comments after returning to a post, I'd have to either toggle the setting to tap each comment to hide them all, before toggling it again so that I can interact with the comments normally, such as voting, bookmarking, sharing, etc. Whereas, if the options were available all at once when tapping on a comment, I can do everything in two taps, versus one or the other, with two taps, or waiting for a long tap to process.

As stated previously, I know screen real estate is at a premium for some devices, so cramming more buttons below each comment is not necessarily ideal. But what RIF did well, was including these features all at once to the user when the comment was tapped, by displaying extra action buttons above the selected post, in addition to the normal interaction buttons below the post. See the screenshot attached below:

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Edit: To add to this, after rereading that post, I'd like to make the distinction that I mean collapse a comment, everywhere I say the word hide. As there are many times I'd like to reread comments if new replies are posted below them, and I've yet to figure out how to unhide comments after testing the hide feature out.

Edit 2: Also just noticed a bug. Viewing the community info displays Subscribe for all instances, regardless of actual subscription state.

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