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This is something I used a ton in Apollo, and in Sync before that. Basically a floating button near the bottom that lets me tap to jump to the next parent comment.

Thunder added this recently if a current iOS example is useful

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I know how to block entire communities, but there are users I see consistently posting vitriol and insults I’d like to avoid. I tried looking in the users profile and the menu on a comment. What am I missing?

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It would be great if we could add a custom accent color (for example, I’d like to use the hex #f45)

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The biggest feature I notice missing in almost all Lemmy apps, is jumping to the top on the first tap of the tab icon of the view you’re in.

E.g. you’ve scrolled down a bit while in the Posts tab, then you tap the Posts icon, in Apollo, it would jump to the top of the list view in Posts, then second tap would take you to the communities subscribed slideout view.

Avelon does the second function but not the first. Would love to see this added as it’s a great quality of life feature IMO.

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Loving Avelon! I just recently discovered it and have fallen hardcore for it already.

I do want to make a suggestion. I think it would be nice if we could disable the ability to tap the vote count to upvote or downvote. I find myself accidentally tapping and submitting a vote when I didn’t intent do.

I already have the gesture upvote and tapping the arrow to issue a vote so the tapping of the overall count seems unnecessary.

I can understand some people probably like it so perhaps a toggle would be good.

Either way, good work on Avelon and I look forward to using it tons more!

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Hey bud, was wondering if you could start mirroring the RC of a release to TestFlight. I’ve noticed during the last few releases (three at least) that after a TestFlight pass an RC is pushed to the Production channel but not mirrored to TF. That means that the TF testers are back and forth between TF+AppStore, and that TF testers can’t use the feedback function or send logs if we encounter issues in the RCs.

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I want to add Lemmit.online but I can’t because it says login failed. You can’t actually join that instance. Just browse/follow communities

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I have a light sensitivity problem with my eyes, so I find screens easiest to view when matching dark/light mode with my surroundings (night or day respectively).

This works fine in theory, but with some apps the dark mode is very black. This makes the white text uncomfortable to read and can lead to an afterimage when reading in a low-light (but not extremely dark) environment.

Alternative dark/light themes, such as OKSolar (https://meat.io/oksolar) can help with this a lot. Or even just a toggle that enables a slightly less black dark mode.

Hopefully there’s some plans to implement something like this, as I know it can impact a decent amount of people.

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When a NSWF image is tapped it unblurs it. I’d like to swipe it down to keep scrolling, but have it reblur itself.

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Really really liking Avelon so far. First app that may be able to dethrone Memmy for me.

Main Request: add a partner option that goes along with Blur NSFW to entirely hide NSFW. I actually like browsing on all to find new communities but I don’t need those posts in my feed at all unless I specifically want them.

Secondary: While we all wait for Lemmy to introduce instance blocking on a user level, it would be nice to see filtering options for keyword and instance.

Thanks again! Great work!

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Hello. Like many of you I am here from Reddit. A very old and not well known feature of Reddit was to hide posts that you had downvoted. I was a fan of this feature, and it's not available in Lemmy.

Why is this great ?

This is a way to get a fresh view of your homepage. If you are infuriated because one of your favourite subreddit has too many posts about one subject, just downvote posts and forget about them.

Do you think that this could be easily implemented?

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Like typing this message is painfully slow at moments.

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Totally worth a recurring paid plan, it’s one of the key features for me, as it enables much better community discussions.

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Hey guys!

Another week and another Avelon update!

The biggest feature in this version is posting (so you can finally post in this community without using the webui!) and a better native GIF player! The feed should also be even more buttery smooth (unless you doomscroll for 2 hours straight, or so I've heard).

Changelog

  • Added posting! - Supports link posts, image posts and text posts - Automatic uploading of images to Imgur! - (No way to edit posts just yet)
  • Much nicer GIF video player - GIFs can now be paused - GIFs show progress just like videos
  • Added pull to refresh inside posts
  • Videos with audio now play nicer with background music
  • Improved autoplay behavior for videos and GIFs
  • Inline images with a name/alias now show the name as well as the image itself
  • Improved layout on small devices with large fonts
  • Performance improvements (should be even smoother now!)
  • Squashed some pesky bugs

If you enjoy the app, consider leaving a review on the app store as it helps out a lot! And tell all your friends plz

Hope you enjoy the update & let me know what you think!

(Posted from Avelon)

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I’m on an instance that has downvotes disabled, and I’m wondering if we could add an option to hide the downvote button from the UI when the signed in instance has it disabled. I’ve changed the swipe so it doesn’t have the downvote, but it still shows up in the feed.

As well it could be nice to have a setting for an alternate to the downvote swipe so that auto-changes depending on instance as well.

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Often find myself posting a reply only to be met with an error that it can’t post. This is usually because the thread has been deleted (admins can still see the threads) or locked by a moderator. Currently I can only see this by loading up the web ui.

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Hello! Last TF version have issues with UI, see screenshot. And, i cant post image to imgur

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I noticed a couple things on the new TF build. Posting works, but, when both posting and commenting, the content box is bordered by what seems to be a 2px red line.

It’s also slightly counter intuitive when drafting a new post, to have to hit “Done” before being able to hit Publish.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by eatstorming@lemmy.world to c/avelon@lemm.ee
 
 

Hello,

As the TF version specifically asked for feedback on a couple of points that I've noticed differences, here we are.

  1. ~~Performance: it feels less fluid than before on my iPhone 14 Pro. Not game-breaking, but scrolling is slower (it feels like it never uses 120Hz scrolling now), some actions (voting/saving) feel slower or take multiple taps to register/happen~~ (I was wrong about this, the TF version is visibly faster than the App Store one) and I've noticed quite a lot of videos not loading at all (usually NSFW ones). The player becomes irresponsive and in some cases I've had to reload the app to resume using it.

  2. Fonts: I'm not sure if the iPhone 14 Pro is considered small, and I use the font size slider at the 3rd point from the left, but the layout is slightly different. The fonts are larger than before, but if I move the slider one point to the left, they get smaller than before.

And one extra thing I've noticed: there is no way to scroll back to the top of a community or feed without triggering a reload. Is this intended?

Thank you though, this app keeps getting better.

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I am loving the app. However on some posts the width of the text causes it to lose a few characters both sides, as in the screen shot.

Is this a setting I need to change?

I do tend to like my text a little after than normal due to my eyes. Could it be that?

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It would be awesome to have some different color icons to match my Home Screen theme. Thanks for the awesome app

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I think the app is great so far! Two issues.

In the latest App Store version, the subscriptions for 1 of my 3 accounts are all missing. They used to show fine and are still there in other apps. Maybe a cache issue?

The other just might not be done yet. Is there any way to make a new post? Or am I just missing it?

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