Hi, Connect 1.0.63 is our two week birthday (from this post). Hard to imagine it’s only been two weeks. This version brings a lot of new things but the big features would be instance level blocking, ‘show more comments’ buttons to make comment views more compact, new theme options, and the ability to mark a post as read while scrolling.

What’s new

  • Added community icons next to names in the main feeds
  • Added an option to show @instance labels on all usernames and communities
  • Added instance level blocking
  • Added dividers between cards
  • Create post community suggestions are improved, will now autofill with your subscriptions and suggest a community you’ve subscribed to first
  • Added show more comments buttons
  • Added option to mark posts as read on scroll
  • Added more theme options

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with the profile tab not refreshing in some scenarios
  • Changed community icons to be smaller and they should load faster
  • Added some new sort options for posts
  • Fixed notification icon hopefully (no more blank square)
  • Fixed swipe to reply not working from the inbox
  • Viewing a comment from your inbox will now remove the comment when you go back
  • Improved the tap target when interacting with a short comment
  • Fixed an issue with uploading an image in comment view
  • comment title text now wraps instead of getting cut off
  • Improved memory usage when scrolling through a lot of images (still some more improvements coming on this one, we’re not freeing up images in memory as often as we could be)
  • Fixed an issue with NSFW communities not being searchable (and subsequently some link handling being broken if the community is marked nsfw)
  • Fixed an issue with the search back button
  • Fixed an issue with incorrect passwords if the length is more than 60 (it’s now capped to 60 which is what Lemmy does).

In case you’re wondering what was in versions .60-.62, they were all minor hotfixes that have been combined into this list. Also for those wondering when it’s going to be open sourced it’s coming, I hear you! my focus right now is on adding features and improvements.

Links:

-kuroneko

  •  Elkaki123   ( @Elkaki123@vlemmy.net ) 
    6•1 year ago

    Instance level blocking??? This is awesome, really, thank you so much.

    Did you also add a karma count when looking at people’s profiles? Or was this there before and I just didnt notice?

    Seriously the amount of work you are pouring into the app is impressive, and it is pretty much unrivaled at the moment.

    PS: May I suggest a feature? Profile notes, where you can add a note to profiles so you can remember some people you interact with. In case it isnt clear what I mean, both Mastodon and Kbin have this feature, you go to a profile and it says “add note”, there you can write something about the user that only you can see and it helps keep track of people here.

    •  Papamousse   ( @Frederic@beehaw.org ) English
      1•1 year ago

      Seriously, it’s incredible, When I downloaded it on google play 2 weeks ago there was 25 download only IIRC, it was already impressive for an app that was made in like 4 days. And the dev is updating it days after days!

  •  sikhness   ( @sikhness@lemmy.ca ) English
    4•1 year ago

    Wow this is a HUGE update. Amazing work!

    Wanted to point out a few more things I’ve noticed

    • I’ve noticed that some settings don’t persist after Connect is updated. I’m not sure if that’s because the settings pane changes with new options hence it can’t be persisted but just something I noticed
    • It would be nice to have a drafts section for comments and posts such that you can temporarily save it and come back to editing it and finishing it up.
    • It would be awesome to see a preview of either the post or comment that you are replying to with the username there as we so you have reference as to what you are replying to.
    • When you tap to bring up the menu to interact with comments, maybe a setting to squish the icons to either the right or left would be nice to have for those who are browsing with one hand
    • It would also be nice to have an indicator of how many Unread messages you have in your inbox beside the word Inbox in the menu and possibly even on the hamburger menu itself to alert you to look into the menu
    • In the About Instance page, I’ve noticed that the total subscribers count doesn’t show, but it does in the About Community page.
    • When you tap on the About Instance menu, it takes you to a new window context as expected to show you the necessary details and when you navigate back, it takes you back to where you were as expected. However, in the About Community page, it seems to be more of an overlay in the same context such that if you do navigate back, it takes you completely out of the post that you were viewing when you had clicked About Community.
    • In the About Instance and About Community pages, would be nice to have an Open context menu to open it up externally on a web browser as well. I think it’s only there in About Community at the moment.
    • Would you be able to allow to search for Communities that may not exist in the Instance search using the full address (!lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca) like we can on the Lemmy web app
  •  sirxdaemon   ( @sirxdaemon@lemmy.ca ) English
    2•1 year ago

    I noticed posts that don’t have a picture have their title, and post detail line directly that, spaced to the right and not left aligned. I’m guessing the space is due to picture padding or something. The OCD people like me would appreciate it if it was aligned. 😆 Sorry to nitpick.

  •  Elegast   ( @Elegast@lemmy.ca ) English
    2•1 year ago

    This app is fantastic! It’s my daily driver recently. You’re doing an awesome job.

    I’ve mentioned it in other threads but, my favorite feature of the Joey reddit app is the hide post on scroll past.

    This app is nearly perfect for how I use it, save that feature.

    Curious if it’s possible. Cheers!

    Edit: Holy fuck I should have read more closely. It’s there! And it works great!

  •  exonac   ( @exonac@feddit.de ) English
    2•1 year ago

    Not sure if this is the right place. First of all I’m super happy I can hide posts now also hiding by scrolling past is really nice. However it seems that hidden posts don’t even show up in saved posts. Shouldn’t the saved status habe priority over hidden? I don’t like to see anything twice unless I save it for later but it seems this is impossible right now?

    Thank you so much!

  •  redjard᠎   ( @Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
    1•1 year ago

    A few things that currently annoy me:

    • Every update my settings reset, even the default view thingy in the left menu
    • Posts seem to always show a rating one higher than the actual rating

    Sorry for not having better complaints, I’m slowly running out of them

    Also could you make images “swipe-away-able”, or make the tap away more reliable and significantly faster? Every time I want to go through a gallery and rapidly open and close the images one after tge other I feel like I spend twice as much time waiting for them to close than on actually looking at them

    Edit: Seems the rating is also instance dependent, I just tested on one where it’s reliably +1 for all posts. Also found a new annoyance: tall image scrolling lacks momentum (tap a tall image, double tap it to zoom in, scroll up and down. You’ll notice the scroll stops as soon as you release your slide gesture, unlike all other scrollable elements which continue with some momentum, slowly coming to a stop much further down. This leads to scrolling through images feeling extremely sluggish)