Avelon App

After pull and refresh community title, bottom part (bar with icon - score, post count, etc) will place very close to border of this region

Next step: allow copying from OP. Let’s make the most use of that quotation function!

Thank you so much for your hard work!

Hey everyone! For more than a month now I've been working hard on the biggest update to Avelon so far. Today I'm really excited to announce that it's finally out on the App Store! The update includes a whole bunch of cool new features for people who want that little extra and QOL improvements all-around.

Some of the highlights of this update include:

• Community groups
• App themes
• Right-edge swipe-to-go-forward gesture
• Custom app icons
• GIF/video scrubbing
• Advanced filtering tools, including keywords & instances
• Fixes to a bunch of iOS 17 related issues
• New markdown editor tools
• Smart comment jump button
• Ability to manage and clear app cache
• Support for Lemmy 0.19RC
• Lots of bug fixes & improvements all around

I really appreciate everyone who has helped with beta testing during the 1.0.6 cycle, you guys are honestly great!! It's super motivating to hear so many people enjoying the app, and as always I'm open to suggestions and feedback. I hope you find the Pro-model I've landed on a fair/decent way to run the app. I've tried my best to consider all factors like affordability, development, as well as the quality & quantity of what Pro offers - and I hope I've found a good middle ground.

As for the future: for 1.0.7 I'm thinking I'm gonna focus primarily on performance, stability & bug fixes, but I'll probably throw in some more QOL features as well. Just let me know if you're missing anything or if you find any pesky bugs or nuisances. Hope you enjoy the update!

~~Edit: Seems to be a slight issue with upgrading to pro, working on it 😅~~

Edit: Fixed!

Not sure what’s happening, but view this post in your saved posts after saving it so you can see how it displays when scrolling:

https://lemmy.world/post/6493513

I checked it elsewhere and it displayed fine.

It’s impossible to read the first word or two. Also makes it impossible to paste text into a reply. Happens when you post as well. iPhone 13 Pro.

Still trying to figure out reproduction steps, but it happens frequently.

I get a push notification for a new comment reply (from another lemmy app) while browsing inside of Avelon. I click inbox and see no new reply.

I go to pull to refresh, but it won’t refresh, no icon or anything. Just scrolls.

Workaround: I switch from all inbox to unread and then I can see the new reply.

Edit (via bean): Seems that all pages, inbox all, inbox unread, and the post view will only refresh once per load. And have to be navigated away from before they can be refreshed again.

So, when first Avelon was released it was rough just like any new app will be.

I kept it on my phone and was wondering how it would develop and it didn’t disappoint.

Love Avelon looks, feels and works. Especially the grouping of communities.

Keep it up!

I’ve been very confused as to where my list of subscribed communities is, when I discovered that they’re not displaying where they’re supposed to be. Perhaps it’s an issue with my instance (midwest.social)? I only see the 4 sections at the top: nothing underneath. I’m currently running TestFlight version 1.0.6.

Would it be possible to add an option to move the upvote/downvote area to the left side? It would be great for those that are left handed vs right handed.

We already have the ability to move the thumbnails to the left or right side, which is great and would love to see an option like this make its way in too. If it’s not possible no worries but I figured it can’t hurt to ask, thank you!

Opening a user’s profile in the comment section causes the jump button to stop working. There’s no problem if you’re at the top of a comment tree, and the only way to fix is to scroll up. It’s a pretty minor bug I thought I should point it out.

Is there a way to save communities as favorites so you can access them quickly? I haven’t found a way to do so.

As you can see in the above screenshot, the communities on the left hand side like lemmyworld, technology, and microblogmemes all have different font sizes. This is very jarring and needs correcting, plus it’s much harder to read small fonts when it’s all squeezed in there.

One solution could be to put the communities name on the line above the post title or perhaps put it below the upvote/down vote line so it has more space. Please hope you can fix this, as it makes readability difficult, thank you.

Currently videos don’t stop playing after you scroll and if they have sound you have to go back and turn it off

This is a screenshot from Narwhal 2 (one of the last still active Reddit apps), and for context the layout is a lot more consistent. What I mean specifically is the community heading title is always on the far left indent, and it’s always color coded for easier readability. Also for consistency the upvote/downvote numbers are always on the far right indent. My eyes always know where these two things are in that regard. On Avelon the upvote numbers after the community title so the numbers/the button to upvote them aren’t always in the right place. This is a small nitpick to be sure, but as a graphic designer for consistency it would be great to keep things in places they should always be. If you have any further questions, I’m happy to expand and explain my reasonings. Also thank you so so much for making a wonderful app.

I must be very stupid because I can’t seem to find that option anywhere. Or has this not been implemented yet?

I post a lot of things that may need an NSFW tag and that’s not currently possible.

Hey friends, I see you just pushed another test flight build, cheers for all the new updates. However, I just tried changing the App Icon and it doesn’t work at all, just stays on the default one. I tried a bunch to see if it was just one of them glitching out, but none of them work.

Can you please fix when opening a context menu when you click off of it to close it opens whatever you click on instead of just closing the menu.

Thanks!

Hi, seems like a change to authorisation has broken backwards compatibility. Avelon isn’t able to login to instances running 0.19 which is “just around the corner” according to Lemmy devs.

I love having inline video as I scroll through my home feed, however I’m rarely ever able to unmute and listen to them.

Occasionally I’ll see an unmute button in the top right of some videos but the vast majority don’t seem to have a volume or mute indicator at all.

I’m sure I’m missing something obvious 🙈 can anyone help?

The first reply to a comment is always indented one unit too far to the right because that comment gets both the indentation and the line to the left of it. It makes the comment view look kinda messy and wrong.

The first reply to a comment should probably only have the line next to it and not be indented futher to look correct.

You can take a look at how voyager is handling it.

Is it currently possible to view usernames in /all?