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!
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-kuroneko
I know its a connect group but other day this guy kept asking me to use sync. Can someone please list the pros and cons of using sync. For me connect is okay but I was curious why people were asking me to use sync.
It’s a bit more polished and less janky, as it was an established Reddit app that got ported over. I haven’t been too impressed with the features, and since it doesn’t have “horizontal swipe for next post”, I haven’t used it much. You should try for yourself though. I tried half a dozen Lemmy apps before settling on Connect.
Same. I think i’ll just stick with connect. Thanks.
I fully don’t get sync. It’s drowned in ads (or, if you have custom DNS, full of endless black placeholders for ads), and feature-wise just like Connect. I haven’t checked for a while, but I remember people asking for stuff that was already here on Connect.