Sorry guys, I wanted to make the latest changes available as soon as possible, but I've had quite some busy days this week, so to tried to accomplish all I could in the evenings and release yesterday morning in a hurry.

The result was — as one could easily foresee — far from optimal. Here is a bugfix release which fixes some issues, especially with Settings being moved to the sidebar, new profile menu and content (especially post detail) loading.

Thanks again to @[email protected] for bug reports and @N7_[email protected] for helping out with the development.

Here is another pre-release, which can be closer to the next stable one depending on the feedback I receive.

The most notable changes concern the bottom navigation, navigation drawer and profile screen, where some items have been moved around to better use screen space.

Additionally, the uploaded media list has been completed with the possibility to delete items.

will delete it later

I want to thank all those who installed the latest development builds and gave feedback, you are being really helpful with both bug reports and suggestions for improvement — thanks @[email protected] in particular!

In this intermediate release I fixed some bugs with navigation, moderator/admin indication in comments and layout; implemented some enhancements like long press on bottom navigation items and updated the translations — a special mention for gallegonovato for Spanish one and outer_air for Brazilian Portuguese.

If everything goes well, by the end of this week or the beginning of next one I'm going to release this month's stable version in prod.

🦝🦝🦝

Last week I received some constructive criticism on the project's Matrix room by @[email protected] — BTW if you guys are not on Matrix yet, you are all invited — and there was an interesting point about the bottom navigation bar, which I converted to an issue to better keep track of it.

The original idea was to alter the order of the items in the navigation bar, and I was also suggesting to make it entirely configurable as for which items to include and in what order. But the whole question is more complex than that, e. g. because some people don't expect to find "Settings" in the bottom navigation at all and would like it to be in the navigation drawer on the left.

Personally, I would also like to have bookmarks in the bottom navigation bar instead of settings and would like to swap things that are displayed there and shortcuts that appear in the profile screen (e.g. bookmarks, upvotes/downvoted, drafts, etc.) even if this implies some rework on global navigation and the UI.

Additionally, you know that I am not a big fan of shortcuts in the profile either, but I would prefer to have a panel on the right (like community info or user info) containing all these shortcuts and the logout action instead of placing it in the top bar.

I am therefore creating this post to foster discussion about this topic and gather ideas, so feel free to leave your opinion no matter how much rework it implies.

Hi everyone, this is the last development release for this month! This release has a lot of improvements for the majority of which I have to thank @N7_[email protected] for all the time dedicated to debug and fix issues (and implementing new features like the most needed highlight in search results). This release includes also some of the feedback provided by @[email protected] especially in layout updates towards a more M3 compliant look. Finally, translations have been updated with your suggestions on Weblate, which is helping a lot in making user experience better for everyone. Thanks a lot for all your help and contributions, enjoy the weekend and remember L. F. E. T. 🦝

Hi everyone! This week's dev build contains a feature I'd been planning to add for ages: the possibility to restore contents (posts and comments) you have deleted previously.

There are also several features you requested (and I'm very happy to receive your advice), e.g. the possibility to add/remove favorites directly from the navigation drawer, enhanced community list in drawer with sorting, add the "edit" option in the card swipe actions, configurable inbox preview length and so on.

Finally there are quite a few fixes for markdown rendering, one of them with the help of NicKoehler. Thanks to those who helped either with code contributions or with your bug reports (which made it easier to found the issues).

Hope you like it and have a nice weekend as always! p.s. Next week I will be off so don't worry if I am not reactive as usual.

The weekly development release is out! The big news for this one are:

• the brand new and awesome application icon (and splash screen) created by NicKoehler
• the translation to Traditional Chinese and Cantonese made by Cloudless ☼.

Since I am starting receiving contributions and wanted to give credits to those who deserve it, I added a new "Acknowledgements" screen in the "About" dialog where you can see the list of people who helped with artworks, localizations, code, etc.

Other improvements, involve the possibility to create new communities and started the support for new Lemmy 0.19.4 features (LocalOnly communities, show personal ban status, initial vote display mode depending on remote settings, list hidden posts, list uploaded media, etc.) but more will come in future releases. More info in the changelog on GitHub as always.

Have a nice weekend and, remember, L. F. E. T. 🦝

Ciao everyone, recently I was asked on the GitHub discussions section of the repository whether it would be possible to host translations on Weblate in order to crowdsource the effort of localization. I had created that thread myself a lot of time ago and forgot about it as it had no interactions. But that user was right, the translation into their language was of poor quality and in my opinion all users deserve to use the app in their native language and have a good experience with it.

I decided then to move all the resources to Weblate and see if anyone wants to help out. Feel free to add languages, be them national, regional, or even constructed languages, because for me they matter too and, in case you didn't notice, Raccoon is available also in Esperanto and Toki Pona.

I hope you like this initiative and, as always, thanks for your suggestions, ideas, contributions and support.

So, recently Lemmy 0.19.4 has been released and it should be the focus of the releases of this client in the following weeks.

There are no breaking changes (technically) so rest assured that, even if you are on the "stable" channel and do not install the latest development release, things will continue working and the app won't crash or become unresponsive while you are using it.

Nonetheless, I think there are very interesting features such as the list of all media you have uploaded or the possibility to see all posts you have hidden (provided that you have hidden them permanently, unlike what the app does now i.e. marking them as read and hide them temporarily).

What are the features that you would like to have and what are the most important ones that you think will bring quality of life improvements to your user experience?

Ciao guys, as usual for thr first week of the month, a new production release has been published!

This version contains some stability issues (especially when navigating through comments or posts, opening and closing a post detail, etc.), some performance improvements when opening contents or refreshing (for cases that were, at least to me, very annoying) and several layout enhancements (duplicated paddings, progress bars where they shouldn't be, system nav bar color, etc).

There are a couple of brand new features too, such as admin tools and the default editor language on a per-instance basis, plus the downvote option is not shown any more if it is not allowed by your instance.

There are lot (trust me, a lot) of under the hood improvements: new unit tests being added, several dependency updates and the whole project was migrated to Kotlin 2.0.0, Compose Multiplatform 1.6.11 and Gradle 8.8. As you may have noticed, this made it also possible to launch iOS builds apart from Android ones, and I dont exclude that in the future I may be working on a desktop port.

Have a nice month! 🦝🏳️‍🌈🦝 And enjoy the release!

Cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16076976