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Hi, it's been a while since I've done one of these so this will be changes between 150 and 171. I've been focused on resolving image and performance issues mainly in this time but I also added a couple new things too. Youtube links now open in-app (configurable in settings), there's an option to remove special characters from display names which also changes bubble letters into plain letters, search results are now sortable, and mentions now show up correctly in the inbox.

Added

  • Tagged comments (person mentions) now show up in the inbox
  • Option to control where Youtube links open
  • Option to hide special characters in usernames (and transform bubble letters)
  • Added sort options to search
  • Youtube links now bypass the webview and open directly in app
  • Added experimental setting to highlight new comments (defaulted OFF)
  • Added back navigation inside web views
  • Added scaled / controversial sort options
  • Added initial support for Lemmy 0.19

Upgrades

  • Upgraded various libraries
  • Upgraded Fliutter 3.13 -> 3.16

Fixed

  • User Profile comment links on foreign instances now resolve correctly
  • Fixed an issue clicking on saved comments from foreign instances
  • Fix a flash when expanding images in some scenarios (not in cache)
  • Fix a minor flash on user avatars and community icons
  • Video Player bar text is now always white
  • Fixed an image flash when a cached image is no longer held in memory
  • Fix an issue with how I'm calling the Pictrs API on Webp images
  • Added a secondary image cache for avatars/icons
  • videos now start smaller while loading instead of taking up full height
  • Fixed an issue where images could fail to load when clicked
  • Fixed comment notifications not showing the correct comment thread
  • Smoothed out the image close animation a bit more
  • Possibly fixed a bug with clicking comment replies from the inbox
  • Fixed a bug with the link handler resolving post card clicks
  • When link handler resolution fails now loads posts from the remote instance
  • Fixed a comment display error with inline videos
  • Fixed a link handler issue where it could fail on posts from different instances
  • Fixed an issue with urls similar to Lemmy format being mistaken for a Lemmy instance
  • Fixed a crash related to link handler finishing before its transition completed
  • Fixed issue with vote actions not refreshing post cache
  • Refreshing post list now scrolls to the top
  • Fixed an animation flash when expanding images
  • Fixed a login issue with instances on v0.19
  • Video player now mixs with other audio instead of taking over
  • Upgraded various libraries
  • Fixed an issue with thumbnails apppearing blurry
  • Fixed a bug where links without any protocol prefix would crash
  • Increased the cache size from 100 objects to 200

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

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submitted 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Long pressing on a comment has always collapsed it unless you were replying to the comment, then you could long press to highlight a string of text to quote for a reply.
Now, long pressing closes the parent in reply mode and there is no way to highlight text to copy for quoting purposes.

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Same problem as the original post linked. In the comments someone gave the solution but deleted the comment. I've tried to copy-paste to see what it was, but it says Permanently Deleted. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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I've enjoyed using Connect but I've got no clue how it got this big.

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Connect automatically hides every post I click on. It also, at least on my phone, often closes down and restarts when I switch apps or lock my phone which causes to me lose any comment I was in the middle of typing because, even with drafts ON, it would forever hide that post and there's no where for me to find it again. This has been the most frustrating app feature and nothing comes close to it.

Btw I tried to disable every 'hide post' option in settings, but Connect still hides every post I open once.

A history of visited or hidden posts will solve the issue.

I'd also like to thank the app devlopers for keeping the app light, fast, and ad-free at least for the time being.

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Would be nice to have a user's instance displayed in the results on the user search page. I was glad to see the change for the feed and post page and it would be helpful to be able to distinguish who's who at a glance. Particularly when you're trying to find a specific user and there's multiple accounts across instances with the same nickname.

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When an inline video is present, Lemmy Connect doesn't display it - just a blank space.

Eg. This post, number 10: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/28135123

On the web interface it works, so it ought to work in Connect too.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Hey, connect Caches several gigabytes of data and occasionally crashes because of that. i don't think thats how it should be. Though i might report it.

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Lemmy Connect attempts to add ?format=webp to the image URL when loading .gif image, this makes many Lemmy servers return an error. When opening the post in the web browser, without the extra addition to the image URL, the image loads correctly.

Post where the bug is present: https://lemmy.world/post/19556846

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I'm upset that a meme I tried to remake with Unicode box drawing characters lines up terribly in apps: https://lemmy.ca/post/28490027 Shouldn't code blocks render in monospace?

On Lemmy's web frontend it's perfect:

On Connect it looks like this:

On Jerboa it's basically the same:

Eternity does use monospace but the box drawing characters seem to be too wide.

All I can find about it here is one post from a year ago: https://lemmy.ca/post/1492857

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Hey, I saw the link to this community in my settings today and just wanted to say thanks for the app. I use it every day.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Hi there, I've got this issue that when I try to upload an image it just doesn't work. It doesn't give me any error messages, the image is simply not uploaded. I click upload and nothing happens. If it's a screenshot, sometimes it'll work, sometimes it won't. Connect doesn't give me any feedback if the image is uploading at all, or if the request was denied or ignored or whatever.

The issue seems to be worse when trying to upload an image in a comment. Has anybody else encountered this problem?

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

This seems to have surfaced when trying to open an Mbin magazine from Connect (via Lemmy of course), by tapping on them in the subs list (or searching/tapping).

If I search for [email protected] or [email protected] they both give this error, so I think it's something to do with Mbin magazines. I haven't seen it happen on Lemmy communities.

Hopefully tapping those links will show the error - they do here.

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I often want to copy some phrase from a post to search it on the web. Long-pressing post text minimizes this post into a single line, which is not very useful IMO, I would rather have text selection cursor like in a web browser.

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For some reason i cant reach the send button, its under the keyboard and pressing the back button (to close the keyboard) disregards all changes and closes the DM screen. I think this might be fixable in a "easy" way where if the keyboard is open, the back button only closes the keyboard (and maybe do the save draft thing for DMs as well if possible)

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

EDIT: Can confirm the update just fixed this, thanks for the quick fix!

Since the last update, I can't back out of the Post screen using hardware or in-app back buttons. The only way to back out is to first type something then hit back, which triggers the Stay/Leave popup. Before picking either option it already backs out of and discards the post, then choosing Leave backs out one more screen. Picking Stay does nothing.

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Starting yesterday, Connect hard crashes when you attempt to click on the Inbox and the same happens if you click on the notification bell showing that there are messages.

As of this morning, the Inbox sidebar label is coloured Red instead of Blue.

Connect Version 1.0.190 Android v13 with latest security patches

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Just started today. Possibly related to the recent updates.

Swiping to back out still works, at least for images

v1.0.190

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

This morning, connect is empty. All view modes are blank like the screenshot. Randomly ONE post shows up if I refresh a LOT, but immediately disappears. I can read and view my profile, but any posts I try and load from there are empty too.

Edit: I appear to be able to scroll the blank space for quite some time.

Editedit: other clients do not appear to be affected.

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bug with exiting images (self.lemmyconnect)
submitted 2 months ago by hitmyspot to c/[email protected]
 
 

I just recently got the 190 update pushed. It mentioned lots of fixes. One was image handling.

I have found that now exiting an image is a bit slow or glitchy. A single gesture to go back does not exit and instead it needs two. Tapping an image instead still closes it but there is a delay that wasnt there before.

I'm on a pixel 7pro with gesture navigation.

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After editing a comment, UI fails to load the next page. Haven't tested if it's only in non-native instances.

Anyway, if I want to review an edit, I have to hit back twice, refresh, then scroll to find my comment again.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Most don't load for me. Just get a black screen. The ones I've checked were mp4s from imgur. Not sure if that accounts for all of them though.

Edit: I think it started after the most recent update. Edit 2: mp4s from catbox.moe also doesn't work. It shows a spinner at the bottom but never loads.

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Looking at the blown-up thumbnails while waiting for the full-size images to load is pretty uncomfortable for my eyes... they search for detail that isn't there yet, and get strained. If there was an option to just see a spinning wheel or similar, I'd choose it in a heartbeat. Alternatively, displaying the image line by line as it loads (slow scan from top to bottom) would be even better, as it would allow me back out before loading the whole thing.

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I may have missed it, but is there a way to see all of my subscriptions at once?

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Like in this post that showed up on my all feed: https://lemmynsfw.com/post/14828436 (nsfw, of course)

There's an image in the post url (which blurs on my feed) and there's also an image in the post body (which does not blur on my feed)

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