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Sync for Lemmy

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Welcome to Sync for Lemmy!

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Welcome to the official Sync for Lemmy community.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Community Rules


1- No advertising or spam.

All types of advertising and spam are restricted in this community.



Community Credits

Artwork and community banner by: @[email protected]


founded 1 year ago
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Key points

  • First round of modtools added
  • Added spoiler support
  • Hidden posts stay hidden
  • Sync can now open lemmy links from the top 50 instances

Ultra

  • Added the option to export and import subscribed lists
  • Added the option to translate text from images
  • Generate "ultra previews" for posts with missing thumbnails
  • Display website previews in comments (enable in Settings > Ultra)
  • Select text from images during post submission

New

  • Added modtools
    • Pin / unpin posts
    • Remove / restore posts
    • Lock / unlock posts
    • Ban / unban users from a community
  • Hidden posts now remain hidden after a refresh (shown on profiles)
  • You can now select Sync to handle Lemmy links from any of the top 50 instances
  • Last edited timestamps
  • Added the percentage of upvotes a post has received
  • Webp images now animate when opened
  • You can now open additional folders when selecting media to upload (three dots)
  • Clicking on a comment from the inbox now shows the full comment list
  • Simplified accounts are listed in the picker
  • NSFW previews are now blurred and respect the full height setting
  • Renamed "Show emotes" to "Show embedded images" in the comment settings
  • Switched to a brighter color for highlighting text fields in night mode
  • Filtered communities are no longer shown in recents
  • Images in comments are now swipeable when opened
  • Added "open url" action to the community picker when a URL is posted

Usability

  • Added tooltips to the editor icons
  • Added support for the Open Dyslexic font

Github issues closed

  • Viewing Inbox message in original context does not show comment being replied to #187
  • Add Lemmy spoiler support #127
  • Import / Export Subscribed Communities #111
  • Tooltips are MIA from the reply and edit pages #291
  • Recents thread list links to reddit url #289
  • Translate option does not appear on image posts with a body #292
  • Add option to copy body text from post #281
  • Displaying more server side info for home instance #273
  • Show all Parent Comments instead of showing many levels of comments #267
  • user filters not working #268
  • Add an indicator whether a comment/post has been edited #266
  • Hide action does not work #60
  • Toggle account action button should cycle between anonymous #255
  • Paid Ad-Free APK file without AdMob bundled #250
  • Restoring Purchase on Chromebook Gives Error #248
  • Separate Downvote & Upvote Scores + Vote Total in Profile #249
  • Ability to return to full Post thread at position of comment #254
  • Add Translate Text option in addition to Extract Text Ultra Feature #252
  • App continually crashes if default post sorting is changed in settings #154
  • Error toast when no posts available says "sub has no posts" instead of community #234
  • Wrong permalink instance #235
  • REQUEST Dyslexic friendly font #222
  • Add option to blur NSFW previews #323
  • Reappearing hidden posts, app scrolls up automatically. #324
  • Emote filter is also filtering regular embedded pictures #321
  • [Ultra] Extract Text From Images for Post Title #315
  • Posting: Community selector shows communities I filtered/blocked #313
  • Photo album navigation across multiple image links within the same post or comment #316
  • Wording not consistent when subscribing to community #307
  • Photo picker doesn't show albums from external storage #304
  • The input box types are mismatched? Title thinks it's a URL and URL think it's a title #303
  • The app should give a dialog asking if you want to leave when you cancel a submit #294
  • profile pictures still low res when enlarged #270
  • Enhancement: Load parent when clicking on comment reply in inbox #285

Other fixes

  • Fixed an issue where the profile section as missing in the small toolbar
  • Fixed an issue where the domain was inserted into selftext before the link
  • Fixed an issue with the link handler freezing
  • Fixed an issue where sharing a comment would share the wrong link
  • Plus can now be used in the username input
  • Fixed an issue where the title field was not autocompleting
  • The title field now auto selects on open when submitting
  • Fixed an issue where user highlighting wasn't respecting instances

Updates

  • com.google.firebase:firebase-crashlytics-gradle > 2.9.8
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[โ€“] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Current priority #1 is to fix the remaining comment display issues.

Edit: all fixed, will be pushing live tomorrow.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Speaking of, I'm sorry to say I think this update broke opening comments on my device.

Device information

Sync version: v23.08.23-18:29    
Sync flavor: googlePlay    

Ultra user: true    
View type: Compact    
Push enabled: false    

Device: heroltebmc    
Model: samsung SM-G930W8    
Android: 8.0.0
[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will get that patched asap. Funnily enough that crash helped me work out why images aren't showing in comments too on android 8.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

That's awesome. A nice two for one. Thank you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I had to revert to the previous version to send this comment because even opening the comments section on my new version makes my app crash entirely. I sent a crash report too

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

What android version are you using? I'm on 8 and have the same problem. A fix is on the way. How did you revert in the meantime? I'm using summit atm

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Can confirm

[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

First round of modtools added

THANK YOU!

I've been wanting mod tools since I started using Lemmy a few months ago. Even this little bit is super helpful.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice, I hope the app is making enough to keep the updates coming.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sync can now open lemmy links from the top 50 instances

This is appreciated.

I wish there were a way to add to the list of supported URLs as a user. Looks like that would be an Android enhancement.

Is there any mechanism in Android's intent-handling to make this more flexible today or are we stuck for now?

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly they have to be hard coded in

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Would there be a form or a submission process to getting certain domains included? I guess opening a GitHub issue for each one?

Trying to get

https://4wd.social/

To work

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That instance has 1 user per month. Going to guess that's you?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Disappointed that importing and exporting subscribed lists is an Ultra feature :( I can't afford ultra.

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There has to be some kind of good feature locked behind to make money, you can use a different program to do this anyways.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I do understand - it's just a shame.

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

I made a script to transfer subscribed subreddits to lemmy: https://github.com/induna-crewneck/Reddit-Lemmy-Migrator

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Thanks for the update.

Is there an option to show hidden posts on refresh?

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'd love this to be an option. I like temporarily hiding read posts to find unread content more quickly, but being able to refresh and see them again.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Tap on your in-use account where you go to add another account or switch between accounts. That refreshed and showed all the read/hidden posts for me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Nice, thanks. That worked.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That feels like a bug. Maybe there should be a setting to chose between permanently hiding (including beyond switching accounts) and hiding until refresh. I would prefer the former and that's how it was on Sync for Reddit, but it seems there's an audience for the latter option

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Just paid for ad-free baby! Let's go.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Woo, so many changes and fixes. Thanks for the image picker one!

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Kind sir, I now give upon you my money.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good god you work fast. Great stuff, thanks so much for adding the mod tools ๐Ÿฅฐ

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the hard work LJ!

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

A lot of great changes, this is awesome!

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Awesome! Is beta 34 going to be available to everyone, or only the Play beta users group?

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Hell yeah these are awesome updates, THANK YOU for app mod tools, I have been waiting for somebody to do it lol. Great work man.

That being said, could you bring native playback for catbox.moe videos? It's essentially lemmy's imgur

Also redgifs opens the API link and fails downloads instead of opening the actual video

These are def nitpicks as I know the app is still in beta, thank you for all you're doing!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Awe yiss! Amazing velocity of updates, thank you!

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Great Update. The improved hidden post behavior is a good step in the right direction. Another feature from Reddit Sync I'm missing is the account selector while commenting.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Did the Lemmy hype die down? It sure feels like it. Still missing content.. can't leave Reddit yet.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Chicken and egg. I completely stopped using Reddit and I'm fine.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Well, when contents don't follow people will return to the old place.
Like Lemmy lacks sports contents, so I keep returning to Reddit for dose of sports contents.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Last I read we lost about 10k users from the high point. But who knows how many if them were posting and commenting?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of them were probably also duplicate accounts as people found an instance that fit them

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think it's this. I was posting on 3 different accounts until I found one to settle in.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A problem is also that we don't know about some instances, lemmit.online has the content you seek. And check c/[email protected] if you'd like to discover more new stuff.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
  • Sync can now open lemmy links from the top 50 instances

https://lemmy.world/post/3769853 Doesn't seem to work. The post linked there opens up in an internal browser

Edit: Click through to the lemmy.ml post

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Works for me. You need to go into app settings and check the domains which you want Sync to allow to handle.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! Is there a way to return the solid red NSFW previews? I tried unchecking the blur setting, but everything is still blurred.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Posting on 34!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for fixing the image picker issue, very much appreciated

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I feel like this version is slower to read comments since it seems to load all of them and then scrolls to the right comment.

I think before it was showing the comments right away but there was a button to load the parent comment.

I went from beta 29 to this one though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Changed the behaviour for the next release.

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