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[2025-07-30] Thunder Development Update (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by darklightxi@lemmy.world to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

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Hey everyone! I just wanted to share a quick update on Thunder’s development for those who might not be following our progress on Matrix or GitHub.

The next nightly build of Thunder should be out soon (give or take about a week, depending on when I wrap up internal testing) and will include initial support for PieFed. This has been quite a large undertaking and has resulted in a ton of under-the-hood changes to Thunder’s internal logic. Because of that, the upcoming nightly build will be highly experimental and may introduce more bugs than usual.

If you’re currently running the nightly builds (including TestFlight), I highly recommend backing up your Thunder settings and local database just in case something unexpected happens.

While the upcoming nightly will support PieFed, general availability won’t be coming for some time. This is to give us plenty of time to fix any remaining issues, improve PieFed support, and make sure Thunder is stable before releasing the next update (v0.8.0).

Here’s a quick overview of what will be supported for PieFed in the upcoming nightly:

Browsing feeds (all, local, subscribed), posts, and comments
Logging into existing PieFed accounts
Interacting with posts, comments, and users (vote, save, block, etc.), including some moderator actions
Searching for content (posts and comments)
Basic notification support (replies and mentions)

And here’s what won’t be supported just yet (requires some additional work):

Updating your PieFed account settings
Reporting posts or comments
Viewing private messages
Viewing the modlog or post/comment reports

If you’d like to stay up to date with nightly releases, check out !thunder_nightly@lemmy.world or join our Matrix space!

Finally, if you have any questions about Thunder at all, feel free to leave a comment and I’ll do my best to answer them.

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Thunder Release [v0.7.1]: Core upgrades, bug fixes, and UI/UX enhancements! (github.com)

submitted 2 months ago by darklightxi@lemmy.world to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

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Hey everyone, Thunder v0.7.1 is finally here! This release primarily focuses on improving Thunder’s core architecture in preparation for upcoming API changes. As a result, there aren’t too many new features this time around. The work is still ongoing and will take a bit more time to complete, but doing so will lay the foundation for Thunder to more easily support future API versions and platforms.

As always, if you experience any issues or have suggestions or feedback, feel free to share them with the Thunder community or on GitHub.

For those using Google Play or the App Store, it may take a couple of days to receive the update as it's being rolled out.

If you're enjoying Thunder and would like to show some support, star this project on GitHub! This helps gain visibility for the project and allows more contributors to help with the continued development of Thunder. If you'd like to show some appreciation, here is a post with details on how to donate to the active contributors of Thunder.

We have a Matrix space if you would like to join in on discussions: https://matrix.to/#/#thunderapp:matrix.org

Here are the changes between versions v0.6.1 and v0.7.1. For improved readability, internal issues introduced and fixed in nightly versions will be largely omitted.

Additions

Added ability to search for top-level settings by micahmo in #1668
Added semantic labels to all overflow/popup buttons by micahmo in #1705
Added semantic label to community search subscription button by micahmo in #1790
Added ability to mark private messages as read by hjiangsu in #1762
Added ability to toggle community icons in compact mode by hjiangsu in #1746
Added prompt to add original post body when cross-posting links and images by hjiangsu in #1759
Added action chips to user and community headers by hjiangsu in #1851
Added loading indicator on startup under slow network connections by micahmo in #1795
Added additional support contact in About page by hjiangsu in #1866

Changes

Enabled the experimental post page to be the default by hjiangsu in #1713
Enabled full-height images in default configuration by hjiangsu in #1756
Enabled ability for last tapped post to preserve it's state by micahmo in #1520
Improved markdown link behaviour by micahmo in #1700
Improved UX for toggling pure black theme by hjiangsu in #1690
Improved visibility of comment navigator in dark mode by micahmo in #1691
Improved message clarity of "Mark all as read" action by micahmo in #1766
Improved reply preview actions touch area by hjiangsu in #1815
Improved notification user handling by micahmo in #1865
Improved handling of tall images in feed/post by hjiangsu in #1709
Improved comment depth indicators by hjiangsu in #1788
Improved post loading under slow network connections by micahmo in #1796
Improved image handling for instances with image proxy enabled by hjiangsu in #1807
Improved error handling when navigating to a post of a blocked community by hjiangsu in #1808
Improved initial feed loading API calls by hjiangsu in #1852
Display full username in private messages by micahmo in #1823
Display user avatars only when they have an associated image by hjiangsu in #1806
Featured posts are compacted when using card mode by hjiangsu in #1757
Moved author and community metadata to the top of post page by hjiangsu in #1844
Improved community icon setting terminology by hjiangsu in #1747
Removed scrape missing previews option by hjiangsu in #1721

Fixes

Fixed profile modal staying open after logging into new account by micahmo in #1701
Fixed profile modal not closing after switching accounts by micahmo in #1706
Fixed issue navigating to post after creation by micahmo in #1797
Fixed post body not updating after performing an edit by micahmo in #1789
Fixed instance display in post by micahmo in #1799
Fixed comment sort setting label not matching selected comment sort option by micahmo in #1771
Fixed issue where blocked user comments are attached to wrong comment tree by hjiangsu in #1835
Fixed color of block icon on "Block User" button by micahmo in #1693
Fixed color of block community button by micahmo in #1834
Fixed size of vote buttons on the post page by micahmo in #1792
Fixed link images not respecting edge-to-edge option by hjiangsu in #1708
Fixed Bluesky image URL parsing by hjiangsu in #1801
Fixed issue with block quotes not being applied in some cases by micahmo in #1727
Fixed taglines not showing on anonymous accounts by hjiangsu in #1817
Fixed advanced share sheet overflow by micahmo in #1794
Fixed visual glitch when navigating to posts via link by micahmo in #1760
Fixed visual glitch on post page app bar by micahmo in #1783
Fixed search keyboard popping up when using back navigation by hjiangsu in #1738
Fixed video player back button on landscape mode not being displayed by hjiangsu in #1749
Fixed notification page overlapping with bottom navigation bar by micahmo in #1761
Fixed positioning of the pull-to-refresh indicator by micahmo in #1861
Fixed full date setting not accounting for user timezone by hjiangsu in #1758
Fixed FAB settings page navigation by micahmo in #1811
Fixed issue where empty inbox message is shown prematurely by micahmo in #1791
Fixed issue with the feed FAB appearing on the account page by micahmo in #1793
Fixed community naming by micahmo in #1878

Misc

Consolidated navigation, account, and authentication logic by hjiangsu in #1707, #1826
Reorganized account, settings, and removed unused functions/classes by hjiangsu in #1822, #1824
Refactored media thumbnails and related logic by hjiangsu in #1720, #1714, #1715
Refactored post-related components (cards, metadata, widgets) by hjiangsu in #1784, #1730, #1723, #1734, #1740, #1743, #1862, #1867, #1868
Refactored comment-related components (cards, headers, widgets) by hjiangsu in #1800, #1847
Refactored user-related components (avatar, chips, header, indicator, sidebar) by hjiangsu in #1752, #1751, #1753, #1755, #1754, #1764, #1763, #1769
Refactored community-related widgets and logic by hjiangsu in #1750, #1702, #1773
Refactored core logic to use internal models (account, post, feed type) by hjiangsu in #1814, #1838, #1839, #1853, #1836
Refactored user preferences and modlog logic by hjiangsu in #1842, #1831
Refactored navigation and linking (sharing intent, deep link, feed page app bar) by hjiangsu in #1832, #1829, #1863
Refactored instance-related components (list entry, info response) by hjiangsu in #1821
Updated translations from Weblate by hjiangsu in #1781
Updated instances by github-actions in #1688, #1782
Upgraded Thunder to Flutter 3.32.0 and updated gradle/NDK versions by hjiangsu in #1850, #1859

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Is there a way to disable this? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

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What title say, and I couldn't find a option in the settings to hide it or disable it.

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Three must have suggestions (IMO) (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by M137@lemmy.world to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

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Hey, after trying every lemmy android app I could find, I like thunder the most other than Sync. But there are three main things that stop me from fully switching from Sync.

Option to hide bottom navigation bar on scroll, same as we already can with the top one.
Option to change the three dots on every post to a share button, hold for options or have both. I only ever vote, share (to save to read later) or check comments. That one extra step to save to my read later app gets weirdly annoying very quickly.
Compact card mode, looks the same as cards but have the smaller thumbnails to the side like compact does (which side as an option, right would be my choice).

Sorry if anything is badly explained, got no sleep last night so my brain is running on fumes, just ask if needed and I'll try to explain better.

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Any move away from github planned? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 week ago by ook@discuss.tchncs.de to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

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Since I am here already I wanted to ask another question. There's a lot of drama about changes in github management, well, already since MS took it over years ago.

Have there been any considerations for Thunder to abandon github to move to a different platform, such as Codeberg or something else?

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bug with user label (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by ook@discuss.tchncs.de to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

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See linked post, OP has a very colorful emoji username, like many have. If I try and give him a label it does not display at all. It is added, if I go and edit user label I can see it in the box, but it is not shown. You can double check by adding a label to anyone else in that thread, it works as expected.

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[BUG] Quoted text in dark mode appears light-on-light (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 weeks ago by gianni@lemmy.ca to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

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Looks like a small styling issue. Happens with comments as well.

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I can't mark comment replies as read (thelemmy.club)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

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I've had three comments in my inbox for about a week and every day I try to mark them as read, but it doesn't work. They disappear from the list at first, but then when I refresh they're still there. I get the error in the picture which says, LemmyApiException: couldnt_find_comment_reply

I just went to the website and logged into my instance, and I had no problem marking the comments read from there. They disappeared from my Thunder inbox, too, after a refresh.

I saved one of the comments for debugging purposes, in case there's something we can look at.

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Post Author marked/colored in comments? (feddit.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

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In my current app, when the author of a post has also written some comments, his name is not marked anymore.

In former versions, the name was marked in a colored background. I would like to have this feature back.

Have I missed a new setting?

I am using the thunder app v0.8.0-1 on Android 13.

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[Bug] Newlines inserted on either side of superscript text (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 weeks ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

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Images are sometimes not displayed fully (swg-empire.de)

submitted 1 month ago by bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

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I've enabled the option to show images with full height but sometimes they only show a small portion.

Anything I can do to fix this or is this a bug?

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Filters aren’t working on the app (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by rheanne9295@lemmy.world to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

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Hi, I liking using Lemmy, but hate seeing current events that relates to America on my feed. So I use the filter that this app has to keep them out.

Now it doesn’t work anymore and I’m starting to see the muted words on the feed again!

Help!

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(suggestion) threadiverse.link support (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 months ago by pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

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https://github.com/RikudouSage/lemmyverse.link

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Option to bypass image proxying (retry option with direct request) (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Natanael@slrpnk.net to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

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When an attached image is loaded, then if the loading fails the app should check if it's using proxying (domain belongs to posters'/forums' instance or user's instance & contains redirect format URL pointing to another domain) and give you a button to press to retry, which would suggest bypassing the proxy and requesting the original image directly

Motivation: I keep seeing broken image embeds and can't be bothered to view source and try the redirect section in my browser after rewriting it to a proper link for every failed image load

Let the app do that for me

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Action buttons in compact mode? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by rooster_butt@lemmy.world to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

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Is there a way to have clickable action buttons in compact mode. I know you can long press the post and you get the action buttons but that has the vote actions all the way on the left which is hard to press with your thumb.

The way some other app does it is that it gives a button that expands a bar under to access the action buttons.

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New install instantly broken (mementomori.social)

submitted 2 months ago by schnur@mementomori.social to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

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New install instantly broken

I newly installled this app to browse Lemmy Posts without any account anonymously. After I subscribed to 50+ communities, I found out that my feed for those is greyed out. Furthermore the list of subscriptions is a total mess because only a few of them are actually clickable, some redirect me to a community I never subscribed to and every community is listed there at least three times.
Any ideas what I can do? I'd heavily appreciate a solution that doesn't involve me needing to resubscribe to every channel.
Using GrapheneOS/routed through Tor. Shouldn't affect it in my opinion.

@thunder_app

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[Bug] Comment age gets pushed offscreen (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

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Seems to be new with v0.7.1.

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Language change doesn't save (feddit.uk)

submitted 2 months ago by swarfega@feddit.uk to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

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I'm new to the app but noticed in 0.6.1 that despite changing my language to en_GB as soon as I leave settings and go back in, it reverts back to the US English setting. I went to your site and saw the link for translations and noted that the English (United Kingdom) had 0 translations. I signed up for an account and completed the language translation to 100% and so waited for a new release. Now that 0.7.1 is out the same issue occurs. Has the transition not been imported or am I hitting a bug?

Thanks for the great app!

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piefed support (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago by ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

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Are there any plans for supporting piefed, another federated platform "close" to Lemmy? Just saw another client (Interstellar) being able to connect to Lemmy, mbin and piefed instances, wondered if its on the Thunder roadmap?

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gboard keyboard in thunder pops up every time. (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 3 months ago by ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

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When using the Gboard keyboard in thunder, every time I go back to the main page the Gboard keyboard pops back up. Has anyone figured out how to use Gboard without this happening?

Note 20 ultra android 13. one ui 5.1

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(Suggestion) Multicommunities (=multireddits) (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

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Couldn't find this in the search here so not 100% it has been suggested before:

Can we have an new option to group communities into one feed? This was called a multireddit back on reddit, allows more granularity for feeds.

This is even more useful here on Lemmy, e.g. there are 3 separate communities on different servers about the same or very similar topics. A multicommunity of these 3 would simply merge their feeds into one. Then you won't need to check them individually for new posts anymore, just check the muticommunity.

Not sure how you would solve posting to a multicommunity, maybe needs an extra selection to which actual community this should be posted to.

I think there is already a Lemmy app that has implemented this, don't remember which one...

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Connecting hangs until I restart app (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Shadow@lemmy.ca to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

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I'm routinely running into an issue where if I haven't used the app in a while (a few hours), it hangs trying to connect. I then force restart and it's fine.

I was running onto this on the play store version but I'm on 0.7.0-1 now and still seeing it regularly.

Known issue? Or any suggestions on how to debug?

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NSFW images not blurred (pawb.social)

submitted 4 months ago by Obeca@pawb.social to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

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Images in NSFW communities are not treated the same as images individually marked as NSFW, and after a Lemmy update images in NSFW communities cannot be individually tagged as NSFW I hear.

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How do I view posts and comments that I have saved? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by heydo@lemmy.world to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

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I tap the star icon to save a post or comment, but how do I view those saved posts?

I can't find anywhere in the app to view these

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How Do I Mark Messages As Read (programming.dev)

submitted 4 months ago by RobertTableaux@programming.dev to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

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Hello, just trying to figure out how to make a single message as read - at present all I see is the “Mark All Read” in the upper right hand corner, but I’d like to mark them off one at a time. Thanks!