Connect for Lemmy App
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! # Links: - [Google play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect) - [you can support me here](https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kurononeko) -kuroneko
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.
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 
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
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.
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?
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 !teletext@fedia.io or !FloatingIsFun@fedia.io 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.
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.
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
Just started today. Possibly related to the recent updates. Swiping to back out still works, at least for images v1.0.190
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I may have missed it, but is there a way to see all of my subscriptions at once?
Blocking a user hides their content in comments, but it still shows up in inbox when viewing all as well as in comment chains in the profile view. It would be great if blocked users didn't show up in these places. Let me know if there's more info needed.
Version: 1.0.187 (187) Hardware: Google Pixel 7 Expected behavior: When swiping "back" on the main/posts page, expect to see "Are you sure you want to exit? Y/N"-type notification. "No" will return you to the app, whereas "Yes" will "close" the app (as in, reopening the app is a fresh open, not 'pick up where you left off'/minimize) Observed behavior: Swiping "back" on the main/posts page just minimizes the app
I just upgraded from a Galaxy J7 to a Pixel 3, which seems to have fixed the following problems: * Clicking on my profile shows me someone else's profile * Refreshing immediately after changing profiles results in no block list being applied So, it seems those issues were specific to older hardware. I am still seeing the issue where trying to save redgifs videos in-app only saves a stub file instead. Though, seeing as redgifs made their videos unsaveable in browsers, maybe this is due to deliberate site shenanigans. Voyager seemingly also can't do this. Though, Voyager doesn't download anything at all, as opposed to Connect's stub files. If the resulting file is non-functional, I think saving nothing would be better, ideally with an error message saying the file could not be saved.
Just a quick observation: I cannot scroll the entirety of the comments within a post that extend beyond a few lines. I can collapse comments and get a bit further but it hits an invisible wall. I have tried adjusting my scroll settings within DeX and the issue persists. I just wanted to make a post for awareness - I am grateful for Connect and it works perfectly for me within the intended phone/app mode. Cheers!
Using a new device, I'm finding that top level comments for posts don't have much by way of padding or margin on the left (or right). On this new device, these comments can be difficult to read due to a curved screen. Is there a way I can somehow add some padding?
I mentioned this in a comment but I figured it would get lost there. The recent update means redgifs videos now load (yay) but reveals a new problem: videos cannot be saved in-app. Attempting to do so (with file permissions enabled) instead saves a tiny file with the same name, but none of the data. As redgifs disallows saving from their site in-browser, this effectively makes redgifs content unsaveable. Any solution or workaround would be appreciated.
Could we please have the navigation bar be transparent?
I'd like to see an option to open a particular post as a different user. Mastodon clients have this and I find it pretty handy. ie. Clicking the menu on a post should have "open as" which then lets you select one of your other logged in identities, and switches back to the post from that account.
This sounds like a really cool feature if not to difficult to add. https://dubvee.org/post/1621850
I've noticed a lot of blank comments that look active. Opening the comment in a browser shows it was removed by a mod. So those mod messages aren't being displayed. Here are a couple of screenshots showing the problems:  In Connect.  In Firefox Example post: https://lemmy.world/post/18146992
Just curious if there is a way as I've been subscribed to a couple now that just vanished out of nowhere and it's a bit annoying to have dead instances on the switch screen.
I'm not sure why but shields.io images don't display in Connect.
The MediaBiasFactChecker bot leaves comments that I like to see so I don't want to block it....but it's designed for how the browser version of Lemmy handles spoilers. It says "(click to view the whole report)" which expands the multiline comment. On Connect, the entire spoiler section shows up (but blacked out, of course). Honestly I prefer the way Connect handles it now but I don't expect the bot maker to change their formatting to cater to just one app so an option for it would be awesome
This is after I click on View All in my Inbox. Thanks!
The display of inline images in posts is not very good (they are often a bit small). Sometimes they aren't too bad - the second image is ok but not as large as it could be, but the top one is tiny. Can this be improved?
Spinner shows while thumbnail is being shown _after_ upload and thumbnail is being generated, but not when actually uploading. (I am attempting to attach gif to this post, but not sure if upload has failed, still going or just not possible.) I am mobile while I am creating this post, so uploads are laggy anyway.
Today I've visited TechCrunch from a posted link https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crowdstrike-offers-a-10-apology-gift-card-to-say-sorry-for-outage/ and after some reading couldn't exit it at all tapping both my back key and the back arrow on the top. Due to how inconvenient the arrow on top is, I suggest to make it the exit button that closes the browser and returns user to Lemmy at once, while usual back buttons keep acting like they are now.
This is super annoying, as I try to pinch gesture zoom in on an image, and I'll go out of the media back to the list again instead. I'd like to click to already zoom in somewhat, making punch zoom even easier If I want to get out, I'll press the back button on my phone, or the back button of connect
There used to be rounded rectangles around each post, now there's nothing separating it from the following post. I tried changing the colors and it's still gone. Full Width had a bar between them so I'll use that for now...but I kind of miss the Card view showing cards
Search is fine, but there have been several cases where I have wanted to manually enter a community name and instance. Search can be odd at times and being able to have connect at least attempt to jump to a community would be a nice to have.
Edit: I can now post and view cat pics. Yay! Searching for "cat" or "cats" yields cat@lemmy.world with Connect, but not from web. "cat" is an invalid community. cats@lemmy.world should be correct community and listed in search results.
Can this be fixed to collapse just the subcomment?
Hey I've been using Connect for a while with the Amoled theme. Nothing makes me enjoy the app quite like a pure black background. With the new release, the background of posts in the feed and comments in the post is not amoled black but dark theme black. The sidebar menu is also affected. This was incredibly jarring and I don't know how I can go on like this. I appreciate the hard work and hope this is fixed soon, thanks It has been fixed
