Hi, This update happened faster than I was planning since a lot of these features came together quickly. Large features added yesterday are 2FA support, a markdown editor, and swipe actions on posts and comments. I also reworked some of the API functions so I can immediately update the state with what I think it will be instead of waiting on an api response to update the view. So things should feel overall snappier now.

On another note, thank you everyone for all of the support! We’re at 2.1k active users now and quickly growing. I hope we can make this the best native application for browsing Lemmy and your feedback really helps!

Also, I’m looking for a new app icon. Hopefully something a bit sleeker. If you have design skills please get in touch!

Changelog:

  • Feature: added Image uploads

  • Feature: added markdown editor for new posts and comments

  • Added rounded corners to top of images in full width view

  • Added 2FA support

  • NSFW thumbnails now always show when inside the person view

  • Made clicking into comment from inbox faster

  • Added delete post button

  • Added community selector when making new post (fixes a “community not found” error)

  • Added NSFW toggle for new posts

  • now show instance name in subscription list

  • Added swipe actions (upvote, save, downvote on posts and upvote,save, reply on comments).

  • Added a donation link in settings

  • Overhauled the post create/edit screen

  • Speed up various API actions

Links:

-kuroneko

  •  renard_roux   ( @renard_roux@beehaw.org ) English
    4•1 year ago

    Just downloaded, as I was getting frustrated with Jerboa. So far I’m liking Connect very much, and I have a few suggestions for improvements that might be worth looking at:

    • It seems tapping a comment expands the comment options menu (upvote, etc.), and you need to long-press the comment to collapse it and its children. I would love to be able to switch this behavior around (tap to collapse), as well as the option to always show comment options.

    • This comment field is using only half my screen. I would love it if it used all the available space, shifting the formatting bar down to rest on top of the keyboard. There is a lot of wasted space at the moment.

    • The colored vertical bars that show comment indentation have a lot of spacing. They would work perfectly fine with a few pixels worth of width and no extra spacing. See comment below for screenshot example from Relay (my surely missed Reddit client 😓).

    • Update: the following seems to have fixed itself again, not sure what was wrong 🤔 I don’t know how, but this comment field is wreaking absolute havoc with my keyboard 😟 I’m using Gboard, and it’s behaving completely different here than in any other app on my Android phone. Swipe trails are jumping all over the place; after typing a word wrong and clicking backspace, instead of deleting the word, only the last character gets deleted. Tappinga single letter word (e.g. ‘a’) aftera swiped word doesn’t adda space like normal. I didn’t fix this manually in the last sentence as an example.

    Looking forward to future updates, and I’ll be back with more feedback when and if I come up with some 😊