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:
-kuroneko
@Kuro
Suggestion 1: Is there any plans on highlighting new comments. Currently you can see when scrolling posts that there are new comments since last seen 💬 56 (+15) which is great but once viewing comment I would love to highlight the new comment when scrolling through them.
Maybe a custom colour on the level side pane and/or background for new comments. Would also be nice if the parent comment some how highlights it has new comments maybe adding (+1) or a * somewhere
Suggestion 2: Setting for how many comment levels should be displayed by default.
- You can fix that for now by sorting by newer comments
I thought that too but it only sort parent comments time by new, not replies/child comments
At least when I checked, will have to check again since it was a couple of versions ago 😊
Oh right. I didn’t think about it
Is there any plans to support links outside of the app? I would love to be able touch on a link on my browser and Connect would spring up like Reddit clients did for Reddit.
Trailing spaces in the username field should be deleted. I was having problems logging in and it took a moment to realize the problem since it was working fine on mobile. On Android, and I think on iOS as well, the keyboards will add a space to end of words by default. I was tapping in the keyboard suggestion for my username and it also added a space afterwards. When I tapped on login, the process included the space, which resulted failure to login. Not sure if having a username property to the field on Connect would help with the Google keyboard in not adding the space.
Updated and volume buttons are back to controlling volume as they should be! Tested on the homepage and working fine. I tested in a thread with a ton of comments as well and at first the volume buttons were navigating between comments as they had been so I decided to check the settings where I was able to disable this setting (and then the settings auto-saved so that is also working!). I personally hadn’t noticed the issue in the last fix for comment creation not always including the post but I’ll keep an eye out in case it crops up in this version of the app. Thanks @kuro_neko@lemmy.ca for the quick fixes!
Is there a planned feature list somewhere public?
Two things I’d like from RiF are :
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markdown links opening in a little popup that shows you where they really go.
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Draft comments, so if you’re writing a message to someone, you can go off in the middle and check something else on Lemmy using Connect without losing what you’ve already written.
And one other thing is an option to customise how code blocks look, though maybe I’m just missing that in the options.
Number 1 is already a thing. It was a pretty recent update.
Is it an option I have to turn on? “Always trust domains” seemed like it could be it, but toggling doesn’t seem to make a difference for me.
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Damn. I suggested the volume navigation 3 days ago and it’s already here. Thanks!
Thanks!
Happy to throw a few pounds via Google pay, but not trusting a unknown payment site.
Is it buymeacoffee or their payment processor, Stripe you have a problem with? They’re both very well known, I don’t know how you could see them as “unknown”…
Awesome work, gotta ❤️ Connect. I wish it had a tablet mode with dual pane view. Otherwise it has everything I need.
The animation on the options menu for posts is fine but personally, I prefer speed and forgoing the animation; so an option to disable effect animation would be nice.