Hi, this update is mostly focused on some performance updates to Image rendering and memory management. I stripped out the old plugin I had doing this and am now handling things a bit more manually. Hopefully this should improve the experience of long scrolling sessions. I did refactor a lot so if you see any bugs here please let me know! Large new additions in this release are URL domain filters, and video zoom. I'm starting work on settings import/export but it's not ready just yet.

Added

• Added URL Domain filters
• Added video zoom (double tap, pinch)
• Added a link icon to posts without thumbnails
• Added None as a comment long press action
• Better handling when proxied comment resolve fails

Fixed

• Fixed voting on posts refreshing the video player
• Fixed some issues with image heights not fitting correctly
• Minor hotfix to change the link icon on posts to be centered and not left aligned
• Improved the list of subscriptions for large lists
• Fixed an issue where images would sometimes not free from memory
• Fixed photo view not expanding
• Fixed a small screen flash on image expand
• improved performance of large images
• All Snackbars now last for 5 seconds
• Fixed markdown not loading in some cases when it should
• URL confirmation prompt now also applies to external links
• Fixed an issue with switching accounts when uing an email to log in
• Fixed an issue with Spoiler tag sometimes not appearing
• shouldInstanceBlockIncludeUsers no longer defaults to on
• Fixed reply swipe gesture
• Improved freeing of memory in some cases for preloaded images
• Fixed comment navigator when showing all comments
• Create comment screen no longer has discard prompt if drafts are enabled

Thank you everyone for all of the support and suggestions, please keep them coming and we'll continue to make Connect the best app for browsing Lemmy!

Links:

• Google play
• you can support me here

-kuroneko

Hi, I've just been responding to feedback and implementing suggestions and release 141 is just that. Large new features are in-app release notes, customization for comment long-press actions, and community filters. Alongside a dozen smaller fixes, additions, and optimizations.

Added

• Added hex input to colour pickers
• Added setting to change comment long press action
• Added option to hide nsfw in main feeds but not inside communities (note currently only applies to 'hide')
• Added sign up button on sign in page
• Added sticky sort (remembers changes to sort)
• Added community filters (filters posts from communities whose name matches a filter)
• Added setting to control notification time Interval (10S to 12H)
• Added share and hide to comment swipe actions
• Added release notes to app startup
• Added setting to control release notes

Fixed

• Fixed table markdown in some scenarios
• Fixed the exit confirmation not showing when the left drawer was disabled
• Fixed issue with jumping to parent comment being offset in comment navigator
• Fixed draft comments loading the wrong comment while editing when you have multiple comments
• Fixed 'View full post' modal not disappearing on click
• Fixed theme setting not persisting
• Some optimizations to how posts are laid out, scrolling should feel smoother
• Small logo tweak

Thank you everyone for all of the support and suggestions, please keep them coming and we'll continue to make Connect the best app for browsing Lemmy!

Links:

• Google play
• you can support me here

-kuroneko

Hi, I wanted to get more into theme and customization improvements but a lot of great feature requests came up and I ended up just implementing those instead. I might need a better system to compile release notes soon as in the past week there have been 11 beta releases and it's a bit tedious to go through each to compile the final release notes. Probably the biggest change in this release is the way back navigation works, hopefully it's now in a state that is more intuitive instead of back activating the drawer menu.

Thank you to everyone that has taken the time to provide feedback and suggestions, even if I haven't had the time to respond I've read them all. It's really appreciated!

Also Connect turns 2 months old on Tuesday. Kind of crazy how quickly that went and how much the app has changed in that short amount of time. Thank you again to everyone that has stuck with me these past 2 months, Connect is as much your app as it is mine.

Changes

• Changed back button behaviour and a swipe gesture to show the menu.
• NSFW blur is now a real blur
• [Post card] Changed the comment icon to go to comments and added an optional 'reply' icon which preserves the older behaviour
• Added Search bar to settings since they are now a lot of settings
• Changing sort order in list views no longer changes your sort order setting
• Long pressing a setting will now copy its name
• Marking posts read on scroll should now be more reliable for long posts
• Added 'Undo Hide post' action when hiding a post
• Added some padding to user avatars
• Added setting to autohide comment replies
• Increased the hitbox for the comment button to include the number
• Added undo for the 'Hide Above' action
• Removed a small fade in for images so they now load immediately
• Added 'Subscribe' to the post action menu
• Added setting for sticky bottom bars or hiding on scroll
• Fixed an issue with the 'Saved' page now combining posts and comments correctly
• Added experimental option to remember scroll position in comment lists
• Added setting to hide markdown images
• Added "copy article url" to post action menu
• Added volume controls to video and saving so changes persist to future videos
• Added icon to flag bot accounts (robot)
• Improved 'Experimental post swipe navigation' to include a swipe to previous and if swipe gestures are turned off the entire page is a swipe target
• High refresh rate defaults to on
• Improved the 'Block' page, list of communities to block now shows all results instead of 1 page of results
• Fixed issue within the inbox where comments could sometimes be duplicated
• Fixed table markdown when combined with images
• Fixed an issue with .website instance names not loading correctly

More theme customization is coming!

Links:

• Google play
• you can support me here

-kuroneko

Hi, past couple days have seen a influx of new users so welcome everybody! This release is aimed at improving customization options and some requested improvements. The secondary buttons on post cards can now be customized, added a 'Hide above' option which will hide all posts above the selected post, and the upvote colour can now be customized (also applies to the new comment counter and swipe action background on upvote tiles).

Changes

• Upvote colour can now be customized
• Fixed a bug with the subscribe button not being in the correct state within About Community
• & symbol now renders correctly on posts and comments
• global setting moved up within the Settings page to make it more obvious
• filter terms now accept regex (should start and end with a "/" eg /foo/)
• spoiler tags should now work for multi-line spoilers
• Added a toggle to display comment debug information (shows id, children count, hot rank, upvotes, downvotes - probably only useful for debugging).
• Fixed an issue where 'View More' is showing when it shouldn't be

What would you like to see next: Tablet UI or more granular theme customizations?

Links:

• Google play
• you can support me here

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-kuroneko

Hi, thank you everyone for the feedback. This release mostly is just added improvements that have been highly requested. 113 adds draft posts and comments as well as video playback for most video services. I've also added support for ::: spoiler tags ::: (although just a first iteration and I'm still playing with the styling), improved how communities and persons are fetched from remote instances (less API remote object not found errors) and some performance optimizations.

Changes

• Draft posts and comments
• inline video player (now muted and doesn't pause other audio sources)
• better post truncation (ends on a word end when possible)
• Inbox no longer limited to the first page, added infinite scroll
• Post list now displays a small page header every 20 posts (clicking jumps to the top)
• Enabling full usernames (@instance) now uses the username and not the display name
• Fixed an issue where some comments weren't showing up in large threads.
• post images now fade in (less flash)
• Fixed an issue where posting a comment would stay at the edit page

Links:

• Google play
• you can support me here

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-kuroneko

Hi, apologies in the long delay on this release. It took a couple days for Google to approve it and it went through a number of beta rounds before the bugs were ironed out. This release brings swipe customization and a couple new settings. As always thank you everyone for your feedback!

Changes

• Swipe customizations
• Comment navigator now moves to where your previous comment was and not centered
• Image caching should be a bit smarter now and release memory when not in view
• volume navigation now defaults to OFF
• edge to edge display now defaults to OFF
• Image close gestures can now be controlled in settings
• Post card layout UI improvements
• Added setting for double tap to like posts
• Post card is now affected by the 'handedness' setting
• The list of moderated communities now shows up in the sidebar
• Adds list of Admins/Mods to the about instance and about community pages
• Current Sort title text is now in the tertiary theme colour to make it stand out a bit more, removed 'via ' text.
• Added option to see full upvote and downvote counts on post cards
• The top app bar should now appear sooner when scrolling up
• !community markdown now correctly links to a community
• Card view with height limited will crop the image versus displaying the image fitted to the container

Also I'm testing out a fix to some comments not appearing on 1.0.109 beta, let me know how that looks. Next on my list is either drafts or an improved video player.

Edit: 1.0.110 beta changelog

• Adds draft functionality for posts and comments
• Adds video player for most video types (still experimental, working out the bugs on this one)
• Fixed going into comments from the inbox not scrolling the view

Links:

• Google play
• you can support me here

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-kuroneko

Hi, happy Thursday everyone. Just a small release which brings an option for per-account settings, settings now auto-save (no more 'save' button), and an option for turning off volume button comment navigation. and a minor bug fix. Going to be testing it a bit and then hopefully it will be live later today.

Changes

• Per-account settings
• Auto-save settings
• Setting for volume navigation
• Fixed an issue with comment creation sometimes not including the post when adding a top-level comment.

Links:

• Google play
• you can support me here

-kuroneko

Hi all, just some small fixes and a much requested feature in this update. I made the arrow hit targets a bit bigger so they're easier to click. Also comment navigation got a fix and should work more reliably now. This release brings community suggestions to the 'Create a post' page so the list should auto-populate as you type.

Please use this thread for any feedback about the changes! The update will hopefully go live tomorrow.

Cheers, Kuro

EDIT: follow on changelogs below

1.0.91

• Changed comment icon to a reply
• Changed FAB icon in post details to a reply
• Blocking an instance from the post card now blocks the community instance
• Reduced the padding on the bottom drawer

1.0.92

• volume control comment navigation

1.0.93

• Report dialog for adding report messages

1.0.94

• swipe up or down to close image views

1.0.95 (now live)

• back button fix

Hi, firstly thank you to all the beta testers that have helped find bugs and issues. I hope this release is even more stable as a result. It's been a couple days since the last release so I was able to get a lot done in this one. Big changes include a bottom navigation drawer, comment navigation, and improvements to the settings page.

What's new

• Optional bottom navigation drawer
• Comment 'next' 'prev navigation bar
• Left hand/ right hand mode which squishes comment actions to the left or right.
• Setting to mark post as read when viewing image
• Added setting for changing the theme text colour
• Community label is displayed in the profile list of posts
• Ability to mark posts as read when viewing images
• Ability to fix the top bar
• Added sort option for Top '1 hour'
• Clicking links now first confirms with the user

Fixes

• Memory optimizations to make scrolling smoother
• After adding reply, no longer switch to single thread view
• Fixed issue with reply button
• Display message when all posts in a list are being filtered
• Fixed issue with editing replies with special characters
• Improved comment navigator to scroll to a more centered position
• Added a post image to the settings post edit page
• Fixed issue with preload option not saving
• Bell notification icon should update a bit more smartly

Links:

• Google play
• you can support me here

-kuroneko

Hi, I'm working on the next release and there's a lot of changes so rather than just release it straight away I'd like your help! Hopefully this way those that don't want the newest features can enjoy a more stable experience and those that want to play with new features can do so as well.

Here is the link to join:

• Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect
• Join on the web: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect

edit: I won't post the release notes until it fully releases in a couple days or so so as to not spoil anything :)

Beta 1.0.85 Changelog:

• Fixed issue with reply button
• Display message when all posts in a list are being filtered

Beta 1.0.84 Changelog:

• Fixed issue with editing replies with special characters
• Improved comment navigator to scroll to a more centered position
• Added a post image to the settings post edit page
• Fixed issue with preload option not saving
• Bell notification icon should update a bit more smartly