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Connect for Lemmy App

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Hi, past couple days have seen a influx of new users so welcome everybody! This release is aimed at improving customization options and some requested improvements. The secondary buttons on post cards can now be customized, added a 'Hide above' option which will hide all posts above the selected post, and the upvote colour can now be customized (also applies to the new comment counter and swipe action background on upvote tiles).

Changes

  • Upvote colour can now be customized
  • Fixed a bug with the subscribe button not being in the correct state within About Community
  • & symbol now renders correctly on posts and comments
  • global setting moved up within the Settings page to make it more obvious
  • filter terms now accept regex (should start and end with a "/" eg /foo/)
  • spoiler tags should now work for multi-line spoilers
  • Added a toggle to display comment debug information (shows id, children count, hot rank, upvotes, downvotes - probably only useful for debugging).
  • Fixed an issue where 'View More' is showing when it shouldn't be

What would you like to see next: Tablet UI or more granular theme customizations?

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-kuroneko

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm amazed how light weight this app is. The quality is here, it's basic and it doesn't take huge space.

A well done app!

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

I was thinking about being able to comment with one of the other logged account.

While browsing with one of my multiple accounts, I comment and can choose to post with another one.

I don't know how this is possible and if I was clear.

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

I think you could do that with Boost for Reddit, but I can't go check because fuck reddit for breaking my favorite app. Anyway, based on that it may be possible but also Lemmy works entirely differently so... Maybe

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also, you should add a "paid key" that we can download from the play store so we can pay for it and support you. I make some money from Google rewards and I don't mind donating them to something I'm using. Just a suggestion.

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

Could make an IAP be a donation option so a "paid key" is unneccesary

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If that can connect to my Google wallet/rewards money, then hell yeah, I'd love to donate every now and then. I appreciate the work put into these apps. I'm actually going to ask other apps devs I use to do the same

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

I've got Rewards money that expires in about a week. I'd love to be able to use money tied up in Google Play to make a donation. I don't know what else to use it on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Same here. I don't buy anything from the app store. I only donate to the free apps I use

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

Simple Mobile does that. There's a separate "thank you" app you can buy just to throw a few bucks their way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yup, that's exactly what I meant. I have one for an app called YMusic that I actually purchased. There is an app that has an actual "donate to me" button that always connects to my Google wallet.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Upvote colour can now be customized.

Woohoo! This looks so good now, thank you Kuro!

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

I'd just like a quick toggle matching theme for Lemmy vote colors in general (blue up/red down).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I hear ya. Do you mean like a universal scheme?

I personally think light blue and grey are good for up and down, respectively.

Slightly off topic, but related: should I be seeing   in your user name?

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

I don't know which is the "real" Lemmy color scheme with theming and all that, but I think it's generally the opposite of Reddit, with the blue upvote and the more red downvote.

Could you maybe screenshot my username? The O and R should be different, and the last part is a raccoon emoji. If it doesn't show correctly, I'd like to know haha.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The default is blue and red on a browser (in dark mode at least).

The pic is using Connect. But I'm typing this from a browser and it's like that here too

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

Oh wow. Very strange. I figured it was putting that at the end in place of the emoji or one of the other letters, but the emoji is clearly there, as are the letters. I haven't seen it happen in any app or browser when viewing my own profile, posts, or comments, so I'm not even sure how to fix that. 😅

EDIT: There was an extra space at the end. I deleted it, and I hope that was what was causing it. I appreciate it!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It looks like on both web and Connect it has  s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Well, dang. I might just have to have a boring old regular display name then. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for all your hard work! Can't believe how great Connect is in such a short period of time.

Whenever you have time, could you implement saving your place in the comments when coming back to a post. Sometimes I exit a post by accident and when I go back in its takes me all the way to the top.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

+1 for that feature.
Thank you devs for doing all the hardworks for this project<3

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

@kuro thank you so much for making such a great app!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Feature request: Hide annoying emoji display names (show usernames)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not sure if this is what you're looking for but 'show instance tags in names' will show the real usernames and not display names.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks, it works! The setting is a bit confusing though, I didn't understand what the setting does until you explained it.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I feel personally attacked. 😂

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Connect is a great app, support this dev!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

My vote for next changes would be to have granular theme customizations (choosing specific color to apply to specific screen elements), AND the ability to export / import themes and settings. Tablet UI features would also be nice (e.g., landscape mode for posts | comments in side-by-side panels).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Allowing us to customize the comments more would be nice. Like I don't want the top level comment to collapse when clicked, just its replies. Also it would be nice if the left padding on the comments was reducible and the colour bar could be made thicker.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'd like to see a way to scroll to the top on a single button press. If there's one then I'm blind lol

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hate to sound like I'm begging for features and don't want to do a whole separate post, but is there any chance for an "auto-hide child comments" option in the future that collapses replies to top level comments until opened by the user?
It's the only feature I really miss from RiF and RES.

Other than that everything seems to be working great and this is my favorite Lemmy app so keep up the great work!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You're a legend

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Tablet UI please with columns!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Awesome app. Reminds me most of baconreader

Not sure where to raise this but I'm getting a bug where posts will toggle between read and unread when opening comments from list mode

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is there a way to edit your profile from within Connect? Like updating display name and bio, or uploading a new avatar or banner? I feel like there's been a handful of things I didn't think Connect could do, but found out later that I was just overlooking it or didn't recognize it in the settings.

Another random question - the area in the pop out panel on the left where your username/avatar is displayed at the top (it's blue for me). Should that be showing my user banner? If not, can that be a thing?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the update. Yay the page numbers are not showing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Looks great, thanks for the hard work!

Additional theming would be nice. Personally, I would like the option to move the upvote/downvote arrows and points count to the left of the post in list mode.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you for all your hard work!

Auto collapse comments would be cool

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Option to make comment icon do same as comment number would be great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Love your app, only thing that bugs me is the inanity to have more than one account configured. Try to add a second and you can't go back to the first without signing out of everything and starting over.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Can you explain further? I'm not the dev or affiliated, but I have two accounts on different instances signed in, and I can toggle between them without issue. I just recently also got settings to configure per account rather than app wide. I might be able to help?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hide Above is a pretty sick idea, and solves a problem I didn't realize I've been encountering for years on Reddit clients. I hate scrolling up to hide stuff I just saw.

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