liftoff

[We've just put out a quick bump to 0.10.9 to include a few fixes. Notes below apply to 0.10.8 and 0.10.9]

Lots of great changes have been added by our growing team of contributors as highlighted below. If you want to join the team come and say hello at the team discussion on Matrix

Updates should appear on TestFlight and Play Store today.

v0.10.9 Release

iOS:

• App Store - preview release as 0.10.7(32)
• TestFlight (will be visible later today)

Android:

• GitHub
• Play Store
• If you want to stay up to date with the latest releases before it gets on Play Store or F-Droid, checkout Obtainium

Hey everyone! I know it's been a few days since we've released but we've got a feature packed release today! Thanks to all our users and the continued feedback, keep it coming!

Change log

• Added MP4 and some redgif support (jjcomer)
• Added swipe gesture actions! (shocklateboy92)
• Added photo cropping before upload! (mykdavies)
• Added code of conduct and tweaks for iOS release (mykdavies)
• Redesign of home tab and themes colors (swmarks & a_minh)
• Fixed alignment of post pills/chips (mykdavies)
• Redesign of compact view to be more compact (zachatrocity)
• Added help text on account page to help guide the user (mykdavies)
• Added RU (asher) and EO (mykdavies) language localisations
• Tons of bug fixes!

Screenshots

Known Issues

• We hear your concerns about dark mode and will address these.
• Swipe actions against posts don't always update the post's icons.

What's coming

• iOS and Android full release! We'll keep test flight and early access going for beta testers!

They seem to have had some success working on this, but it appears that once again, you will need to follow the old routine:

1. go to Settings > Accounts
2. optional (see update below) -- long press on each lemmy.world account to remove it.
3. then add it back again.

[Update: user feedback is that you can just add your existing account again without deleting it and the app will do the right thing]

We are looking at a better way of dealing with this. Thanks for bearing with us.

A number of Lemmy instances have been hacked overnight.

Some may remain inaccessible until they have been secured and restarted.

As a safety precaution logged-on sessions on many servers have been cancelled and you are required to logon again.

Unfortunately, the only way I could find to do this in Liftoff! is by going to Settings > Accounts and deleting each local account by long pressing on it, and then create it again.

All your posts, comments and bookmarks should be preserved during this process.

Please see the linked posts for further details as they emerge.

Thanks all, and please bear with us as this gets resolved.

We had the old (ex-Limbo) version still sitting in TestFlight, but found that some users hadn't realised that they were on that version rather than the current, maintained version so access to that version now been switched off.

If you find you've just lost access to Liftoff!, please join the new TestFlight version at https://testflight.apple.com/join/jKENkGjX -- you should see version 0.10.7 there, with many, many new and improved features!

Lots of great changes have been added by our growing team of contributors as highlighted below. If you want to join the team come and say hello at the team discussion on Matrix

Updates should appear on TestFlight and Play Store today.

v0.10.7 Release

iOS:

• TestFlight (will be visible later today)

Android:

• GitHub
• Play Store
• If you want to stay up to date with the latest releases before it gets on Play Store or F-Droid, checkout Obtainium

Hey everyone! We so appreciate this community continuing to test and use the app. We've got another update with a frequently requested feature: comment style customization!

Change log

• Ability to adjust comment font size and post body font size
• Implemented user deeplinking
• Added separate notification counts on the inbox tabs
• Fixes for copy/paste buttons and loading indicators (swmarks)
• Added Android 13 Themed Icons (aquierick)
• Adjust share links to use lemmy.guide for community and user

Screenshots

Tab Badges

Comment Style settings

Android Dynamic Icons

What's coming

• Ultra compact view. Really we will be adding a 3rd view type so we will have card, list, and compact. The current compact view will become list

Lots of great changes have been added by our growing team of contributors as highlighted below. If you want to join the team come and say hello at the team discussion on Matrix

Please note that some lemmy servers are still under pressure, so you may see unexpected error messages.

Updates should appear on TestFlight and Play Store today.

v0.10.6 Release

iOS:

• TestFlight (will be visible later today)

Android:

• GitHub
• Play Store
• If you want to stay up to date with the latest releases before it gets on Play Store or F-Droid, checkout Obtainium

Hello everyone! We heard you about the the full height preview issues. Just some context we were trying to fix some scroll jittery issues on the card view feed and one approach was limiting the preview height however turns out that's a desired feature so we're going to re approach the problem so we can keep full height images in the preview.

Change log

• Bring back full height preview in card view
• Fixed iOS photo orientation for uploads
• Added horizontal scroll to post title in navbar like RIF had
• Accessibility enhancement for upvote/downvote
• Small bug fixes

What's coming

• Comment Style customizations
• Push notifications - we're gonna balance this and take our time on our approach as we want to maintain privacy focused permissions.
• Ultra compact view. Really we will be adding a 3rd view type so we will have card, list, and compact. The current compact view will become list

Lots of great changes have been added by our growing team of contributors as highlighted below. If you want to join the team come and say hello at the team discussion on Matrix

Please note that many lemmy servers are under massive pressure today, so you may see many unexpected error messages and silent failures. Please bear with us all!

Updates should appear on TestFlight and Play Store today.

v0.10.5 Release

iOS:

• TestFlight (will be visible later today)

Android:

• GitHub
• Play Store
• If you want to stay up to date with the latest releases before it gets on Play Store or F-Droid, checkout Obtainium

Hello everyone! We are blown away by the tremendous support from the community! Thanks for using our app and helping beta test as we round things out.

It's been a few days since we've posted an update and the team has been hard at work with a TON of bug fixes and some new features.

Change log

• Added configuration option to automatically convert .webp images to .png for saving (njshockey)
• Added error messages and retry buttons for instance loading errors (zachatrocity)
• Implemented comment contexts and added "Show context" and "View all comments" buttons (jcgurango)
• Fixed several issues with comments not loading correctly after posting a new comment (jcgurango)
• Fixed and updated ModLog Pages & API (zachatrocity)
• Added menu item to view a community in a specific instance other than the originating instance (jcgurango)
• Added shadow to bottom tab bar to visually offset it from cards underneath (swmarks)
• Added Chrome Custom Tabs / Safari View Controller to replace in app browser on Android & iOS (swmarks)
• Added deep link support for links like liftoff://lemmy.world/c/liftoff (shocklateboy92)
• Updated l10n translation hooks, and added strings (mykdavies, zachatrocity)
• Changed "You're not logged in, log in" message to dismiss after 7 seconds (christopher-conley)
• Fixed an issue causing login to fail if there is a space after the username (christopher-conley)
• Changed photo previews in post feed to have a consistent maximum height and updated opening animation (prefanatic)

What's coming

• We hear you about notification badges. Those are coming, PR is opened and being tested. As well as local pushed notifications via scheduling
• Ultra compact view. Really we will be adding a 3rd view type so we will have card, list, and compact. The current compact view will become list
• Even more error handling for instance failures.
• bugs bugs bugs

Lots of great changes have been added by our growing team of contributors as highlighted below. If you want to join the team come and say hello at the team discussion on Matrix

Please note that many lemmy servers are under massive pressure today, so you may see many unexpected error messages and silent failures. Please bear with us all!

Updates should appear on TestFlight and Play Store today.

v0.10.4 Release

iOS:

• TestFlight (will be visible later today as build 0.10.4.26)

Android:

• GitHub
• Play Store
• F-Droid is coming
• If you want to stay up to date with the latest releases before it gets on Play Store or F-Droid, checkout Obtainium

Changelog

• Added core support for deep links like liftoff://lemmy.world/c/liftoff (shocklateboy92)
• Fixed an issue preventing adding certain instances (swmarks)
• Added translate option to menu on posts and comments (mykdavies)
• Fixed locale not updating (zachatrocity)
• Fixed comment sorting and added Top 1, 6, & 12 Hr. post sort order options (zachatrocity)
• Fixed markdown parsing of lemmy links (zachatrocity)
• Fixed an issue where on-screen keyboard could cover up the comment text input field (zachatrocity)
• Fixed an issue that caused the keyboard to open when exiting a post (zachatrocity)
• Fixed an issue where selecting chat for comment sort would crash (zachatrocity)
• Changed theme for buttons throughout app to follow Primary Color (swmarks)
• Added ability to close fullscreen images with single tap (jjcomer)
• Fixed markdown parsing of lemmy links (zachatrocity)
• Internal project & build updates (shocklateboy92 / jjcomer)

Known Issues (In progress)

There are still some things we’re working through, so here’s a list of our top priorities:

• Account Settings aren’t being saved, error is displayed
• Check our GitHub issues list for a full list

Contributions

As always, contributions are welcomed and encouraged! We have a great community on GitHub and Matrix so don’t hesitate to contribute!

Screenshots

Dark mode

Light mode

Selecting a theme colour

Hey Everyone! The open source community has been hard at work to fix Liftoff bugs and add features. This a big one!

Huge shoutout to the contributors!

Updates should appear on TestFight and Play Store today.

v0.9.19 Release

iOS:

• TestFlight

Android:

• GitHub
• Play Store
• F-Droid is coming
• If you want to stay up to date with the latest releases before it gets on Play Store or F-Droid, checkout Obtainium

Changelog

• Added 3-dot menu on home tab
• Added refresh post button on home tab 3-dot menu
• Added Back to top button on home tab
• Added open in external browser functionality (FriederHannenheim)
• Fixed comment performance in long threads leading to app crash (schocklateboy92)
• Fixed subscribe button not showing pending state
• Fixed double tap to exit to first navigate to home tab
• Fixed post avatar alignment when community is missing avatar
• Added max length on password input to match lemmy-ui
• Remove 2 of 3 default instances, default is now lemmy.world
• Fix issue where wrong community was reported for account posts (jcgurango)
• Increased comment indent
• Fixed issue where your comments would show twice after posting (jcgurango)
• Fixed colors on buttons and links to match theme (jcgurango)
• Fixed issue where communities would show under the wrong instances (jcgurango)
• Added clear search button on search box (iliasChymas)

Known Issues (In progress)

There are still some things we're working through here's a list of our top priority

• NSFW Community posts aren't loading or showing properly in feed

• Account Settings aren't being saved, error is displayed

• Check here for a full list

Contributions

As always, contributions are welcomed and encouraged! We have a great community on github so dont hesitate to contribute!

Screenshots

Limbo and Limmynade have joined forces, and will continue development together as Liftoff!

The past couple of weeks have been tremendously exciting times for all of us as events elsewhere have led to a massive growth in interest in and usage of Lemmy.

Our two separate projects both started with the intention of bringing an existing open-source code base Lemmur up to date, with the aim of helping new users to have a great first experience of Lemmy, while giving existing users access to many rich features. As soon as we became aware of each other we realised that we would work much more effectively by combining our efforts. Read more about what makes Liftoff! special.

We are:

Zach—Extensive experience in Enterprise full stack architecture and infrastructure.

Michael—Many years experience of developing and managing commercial and open source software projects.

Liftoff! is written in Dart for API support and Flutter for front-end development, meaning that it can run wherever Flutter runs. Our primary targets right now are Android and iOS, but the sky’s the limit!

Our current development priorities are to:

• Ensure that the app runs robustly on iOS and Android platforms.
• Identify and address any major bugs affecting key functionality
• Work to improve the user experience on both platforms.
• Release 1.0 version

Beta builds now available on TestFlight and will soon be available on F-Play and Google Store. (Note that the TestFlight page still refers to it as Limbo, but it does indeed install as Liftoff!)

Liftoff code is made available under GPL2.0 and can be found at https://github.com/liftoff-app

We have already had tremendous support from enthusiastic Lemmy users as separate projects and we look forward to continuing to work with you all. Code contributions, bug fixes, issue reports and suggestions are all welcome, so please join us on our journey into the unknown!