Hi, only bug fixes in this release as the feature I’m working on isn’t quite ready yet and I had to set up a local instance of Lemmy for testing purposes without spamming a live instance. Hopefully this means more testing from my side going forward and more app stability. For thumbnails I’m now loading in better compressed images so you should see memory and network improvements, especially on list views where I also scale the thumbnail to the size of the list card, 1MB images are now 10KB in my testing. I changed the upvote colour to more of an orangey colour. It matches the app icon orange now. If you have the setting to open links in a external browser it no longer applies to opening images.
What’s new
- Upvote colour is now orange
- Thumbnails are now more efficient (especially list views)
- Images no longer open in external browser
- Communities will now respect the ‘Should Launch Externally’ setting on open
Fixes
- Comment hint text (‘Comment’) now matches your theme settings
- Comment textbox is now autofocused so no extra click needed
- Improved the text visibility of the Notificiation icon number
- List view images are now aligned to the top and not the center
- Fixed a minor left padding issue on List view body text
- Adjusted the text for ‘Show Post Bottom bar’ to better reflect what it does
- Fixed a bug with Subscribe/Unsubscribe not showing correct values in the top right action menu
- Fixed the error message when unable to find a person
- Fixed copy url action item for web views
Thank you so much for all of your feedback! A bottom nav drawer seems like the most requested feature currently so please look forward to that! It will have an option to disable for those that don’t prefer it.
Links:
-kuroneko
I suspect there is a better solution for thumbnails, but not sure if it’s you or Lemmy devs who would have to fix it.
This is how thumbnails look on my device, basically anything with text is completely unreadable:
This image, for example, is 109KB https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7fd7eeaa-f466-4697-8ea9-2f16e4372adc.jpeg
This is what Lemmy generates for it at thumbnail=128: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7fd7eeaa-f466-4697-8ea9-2f16e4372adc.jpeg?format=jpg&thumbnail=128
And this is what my local imagemagick makes when asked to resize the original to 128w at 50% quality: https://ibb.co/ZgT35p4
Lemmy image is 4906 bytes and unreadable and the Imagemagick is 1398 bytes and you can make out the text.
And that’s before getting into cropping etc. Basically, there’s room for improvement, somewhere.
Edit: seems like pict-rs (the library Lemmy uses for image hosting) uses imagemagick to compress images, so it’s probably just to do with the selection of filters/options they’ve chosen.
Thank you for diving into this. I suspect it’s how they’re generating the thumbnail as well. Until it changes upstream I’ve increased the thumbnail size so it gets downscaled locally and is a bit more clear. Not the best solution but better than un-readable thumbnails.
Great job. Fantastic app!
Thank you so much for adding the horizontal scrolling; the only feature from bacon reader I missed here on Lemmy.
I didn’t see it mentioned but after a few posts it kicks me back to the main feed (and not even where I left off when horizontal scrolling)
Also, the mark as read while scrolling didn’t seem to mark things as read.
And, not a bug but suggestion. While horizontal scrolling, an obvious post outline to separate the previous and next post would be helpful visually.
Thanks for the great app!
I’ve been oscillating back and forth between wefwef and Connect and think I’m likely to stick with Connect.
I love all the customization options, they really let me change the UI to the way I was used to with RiF.
One thing I’d ask for is an option for text posts to have a dummy thumbnail so that all submission entries have the title, submitter, community, comment/vote counts in the same place. At the moment posts in the list without a thumbnail look a bit disjointed.
I was trying a couple of Lemmy apps and hard committed to Connect today! Gotta say, it’s the closest thing I’ve seen to RIF so far!
I didn’t want to start a Feature Request thread incase someone has already asked for it, so I’ll just ask here. Has anyone asked about getting a link confirmation prompt? It was one of the things I really liked about RIF. When you clicked a hyperlink in a comment, instead of immediately going to the link, a small prompt would come up with the URL and Go/Back buttons. It prevented people hiding malicious or misleading links in a hyperlink. For example, like this: https://i.imgur.com/T9AAccX.jpeg
That was very useful feature on Rif and I would like to see this on Connect too. Feels like partially blindfolded when I can’t see where the hyperlink is pointing at. Also good but a bit rare usecase was to click on prev next buttons when a post or comment had hyperlinks that were too close to each other to accurately click one of them.
Btw, I knew exactly where your hyperlink was pointing at but clicked it anyway :)
Hi Kuro, could you please address the font size issue as indicated here. It is the biggest thing holding me back from using the app. Thank you!
FYI to anyone with API Issues on this release, your instance admins may have reset authorization credentials (JWT tokens) due to a vulnerability with Lemmy custom emojis. Reinstalling or logging out and back in will fix the issue.
Thank you!
Your app is now very similar to the third party reddit apps I used to use and I love it.
Could you add another feature to your to do list? It’s not really a big priority so I’m okay if it comes very late.
An option for avatars of users to be displayed on their comments.
Glad you’re liking Connect. I’ll add that in an upcoming release:)
