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Sync for Lemmy v120 release notes. Notifications, revamped messaging and finally out of beta! (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Key points

Message notifications are back!
A big refresh to messaging
- Added a new unified inbox option "all" combining comment replies, mentions and direct messages
- Quick action buttons are now shown for comment replies, mentions and direct messages
- Comment reply actions (more icon) now shows the user and community rows (with additional options)
- Comment replies now show the community icon and post title
- Comment replies have had a visual refresh
- Comment replies, mentions and direct messages can now be quickly reported and marked as read
- Comment replies, mentions and direct messages can now be marked as unread
- Added a quickly reply swipe gesture
- Added page dividers
- Your own send direct messages can now be deleted
- Direct messages are now shown in threads

New

Added .webm support to the image viewer and image peek
Added "linked instances" and "blocked instances" to the instance chip group

Changes

Experimenting with always showing the community icon in feeds
Updated the reply icon

Github issues closed

View mode not updating properly #402
No messages returned snackbar doesn't automatically go away #333
Add ability to disable "view more" toast messages #365
Allow images in comments to use shared element transitions #391
Add new app icons to replace the legacy S4R ones that were removed #389
Add option to swap upvote and down vote colors to match Lemmy #386
Username doesn't show in the account picker if there is no display name #451
Account settings save button not disappearing after saving #448
When swapping between automatic and manual theming, some elements don't change color properly #479
Override sort dialog shows cancel button twice #484
Username of non active account in account picker is empty #492
Crash on startup with latest update #445
Missing username in picker #478
Not showing link options properly and crashing when clicked #513

Other fixes

Fixed a title displaying issue caused by the recent change to titles
Fixed a crash when clicking link options on a text post
Fixed a bug where the description of the current messaging section in the toolbar wouldn't update correctly
Fixed an issue with a broken lift target in messaging causing the status bar not to change color

v122 adds support for a super secret upcoming new feature...

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The new default inbox view is pretty unreadable, at least for me. The entire screen is filled by like 1.5 replies, there's tons of dead space. Is there any way to change the view options of the inbox? I can't seem to find any.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Not currently. What would you like?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

An option to hide the buttons below each reply unless you short / long press the comment, similar to how the normal comment section currently works. That would compress the space each reply takes by quite a bit.
An option to replace the post title with the context of the reply, what comment was the reply posted to? The post title is very frequently irrelevant to the actual discussion taking place.
Have the same swipe options apply to replies as to comments. E.g. upvotes, downvotes, etc.

Granted, I'm not a UI expert, so this is my personal feedback.

Edit to add: This is not to say I hate the changes, love the recent progress on the app :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Currently, whenever there has been a new reply, the inbox defaults to (and then remains at) "all unread".

I like having it on "all" and would like for it to remain there.

Could this be an option? For messages to remain at whatever tab they were last set to and stay there when there are new messages.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Overall, I prefer the old version. Sometimes I need to be reminded of the context of a reply, I can just tap the reply. Other times it's obvious from the message itself.

Right now the post title font is larger then the reply font. It should be the other way around. The reply should be the most obvious thing, and the ancillary stuff should be small and compact. But including the title at all should be optional, as well as the icons.

I personally don't want to see user avatars or community icons or even the post title, really. I also don't need it to have a cute speech bubble. The reply should use the full width to save vertical space.

There's a lot of wasted space for one line replies. And longer replies end up being taller than need be because of the indent. And seeing the same post title over and over is oddly bothersome.