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:
-kuroneko
Hi! Is that when scrolling through the post feed only or throughout the app (e.g. comments and profiles). Does turning off swipe actions or mark post read on scroll have any effect? (Just calling out those two as they use a bit more power). Does changing post view between cards and list view have any effect?
Just the post feed so far.
Swipe actions were on, I switched them off and will test. Mark post as read is off.
Changing view has not caused a change (I had changed that earlier today just to try the view out).
Getting ready to check to see if swipe actions being off changes anything.
I’ve been trying off and on. Changing swipe actions on or off didn’t change anything. None of the view options did eithet.
Ok thank you. Do you see any improvements in the latest beta v138?
It’s happening less, for sure. Maybe twice or three times a day rather than a steady stream of it
I think I found the problem.
It took a bit for me to realize it, but the crashes were happening at the same time as my always-on VPN would drop out. Since that’s usually only a second or two, I didn’t see the notification flash for the VPN drop as I was paying attention to lemmy lol.
So far, turning off the alway-on setting has given no Connect crashes, even when the VPN glitches out. Not sure why it was impacting connect and not other apps, but that’s what seems to have been the cause
Edit: correction. It happens when the VPN drops, regardless of the always-on setting.
Just switched to beta, I’ll give it a good test and respond asap