Thunder App

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An open-source, cross-platform Lemmy client for iOS and Android.

This community is intended to discuss features and feature suggestions for Thunder; as well as friendly, respectful talks about Lemmy in general.

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why is the create comment button at the top? (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Of the many Lemmy clients I've tried, Thunder is the one I like the best, but the one place I have nits is the creating a comment experience.

After typing the comment you have close you keyboard, to have any hope of the create button being visible (if your comment is really short) and then scroll all the way back up to the top. Isn't the bottom the obviously better place for this button?

Even worse, if in trying to scroll the screen, you accidentally hit the little horizontal bar at the top, you just lose your comment.

Finally, it seems to always lose my place in the thread and put me back at the top after entering a comment.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Create a comment view has been reworked and is in the codebase though there are still improvements to be made.

With the new create comment view, the create button is on the top bar so it's always accessible. Touching the top bar will not close the create comment dialogue either.

There is still the issue of a comment draft not persisting and your place in thread being lost after creating a comment. The latter being a particularly annoying user experience for myself. I'm hoping one of us will be able to address that soon. A few of us haven't had a lot of time to work on Thunder lately, myself included :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Time's always a problem, but I'm happy it's on the radar!

Would it be possible to do the thing in the Play store that some apps do where we could opt into the "beta program" and get nightly builds? (If having us test it would be helpful...)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You would have to ask @[email protected] regarding the play store beta thing.

But we have early builds that get uploaded to IzzyOnDroid. You can also get them directly from GitHub.

The last release was 2 weeks ago unfortunately due to irl stuff. But the hope is to have a new nightly soon :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hey! As mentioned on my recent post, I'll try to get some pre-releases/nightlies on GitHub within the next couple of days. Unfortunately, setting up the beta program on Google Play will take longer and is not something that I am actively working on at the moment, but I do want that to be a thing in the future (long term)