Is Lemmy Connect the first and currently only way for individual users to block instances? I know you can block instances if you host an instance yourself, but not everyone wants to do so.

We should be promoting this feature if indeed we are the only one with it as it has been in popular demand, especially lately, with Threads now being a thing.

Hey. I've been using Connect for a couple of weeks now and I like it quite a lot. One thing I've been missing though is the ability to quickly subscribe to a community from an aggregated feed (like All); right now, to do so, I have to open the community and subscribe from there. Seeing that "Block Community" already exists in the context menu for a post, it's only logical to have "Subscribe" there as well. Maybe it's not needed that much in the long run, but it will definitely help me now as a Reddit refugee trying to rebuild my feed.

Hi, Thanks for all the tremendous feedback yesterday. I tried to take that into account and add some of the more requested features. Things to look forward to in this release would be: Improved search options (with tabs for posts, comments, communities, user), user notes section which lets you add global tags to users that only you can see, and report options to comments and posts. I tried to address some of the bugs reported too, and hopefully settings should be working as expected through the upgrade.

What's new

• Added indicator of how many unread messages you have in your inbox
• Added 'Open' option to the about instance page
• Searching for a community with a !community or !community@instance format will now take you there directly
• Added total user counts to the about instance page Added new search page
• The info bar on posts now displays above the image when 'Title about image' setting is active.
• Added user notes (option on the user pages in the top right)

Fixes

• Replying to a comment should now more reliably show that comment
• Card views and lists now use even less memory
• Fixed a left side padding issue in list views when there is no thumbnail
• Fixed user profile 'Joined at' dates to be more accurate
• Better handling of different aspect ratios for the user avatar in the drawer header
• Adjusted some divider spacing on the post details page (reduced some unnecessary white space)
• Hide read posts no longer applies to the 'Saved' page
• Toast colour now matches theme

I'm continuing to monitor a subscription issue where some of them don't show up, I added some retries if the API call fails and more error handling.

Links:

• Google play
• you can support me here

-kuroneko

Hey there!

Because the same communities can exist across multiple instances, it can be hard to keep track of which ones you are subscribed to. I think it'd be super helpful if community names had some kind of indicator whether or not you are subscribed to them; a small check mark, maybe, or a different color if subscribed, etc.

Thank you for all the work on this! Connect is pretty damn great so far.

I can't post any pics I've taken myself or screenshots. Can post downloads and pics sent to me though. So I need to message them to myself and save as duplicate in order to post.

Every time I save my settings my theme UI changes or it'll work for a bit, then I close and open the application and all my settings are reset. Would love if the settings were actually saved x.x

Loving the updates!!!

For some reason my profile on lemm.ee has lost all of its subscriptions, save for one (android@lemero.id). Some additional weirdness to help troubleshoot:

• This doesn't affect my lemmyworld account
• logging in via web UI and other apps has my subs as appropriate
• viewing the frontpage shows properly subscribed communities
• I've tried clearing cache, storage, uninstalling, and reinstalling and the problem persists

If I can provide any more detail to help in diagnosing please let me know.

I cant find out how to display only my subscribed communities and its annoying because it keeps showing me the front page and not what i actually subscribed too.

Can someone explain me what these settings actually do? While self explanatory, I cannot notice any difference after toggling them.

Thanks!

1. I'd love for there to be an option for some sort of persistent opaque header so that the status bar is visible/doesn't overlap text.

2. A more robust search. Some way to separate searching by post, community, instance, user, etc. It's sometimes super difficult to find the community I'm looking for, especially if the name is a word commonly used in posts

As ironic as it may be, Connect 1.0.65 (65) is unable to open this community, from the link in its settings. Also tried other ways to open it in the app, same result.

I checked that lemm.ee isn't defederating with lemmy.ca so I'm not sure what may cause this. Android 13.

Often I tend to scroll too slowly and it registers as a long press so some random comment gets hidden and I have to unhide it. Can you add an option to disable long press actions? Or it could be improved so it doesn't register if it's not a stationary press but I'm not sure whether it would work or if other people already like the way long press works.

Edit: Apparently it already registers only stationary press so maybe either an on/off switch or long press time adjustment would be good to have.

I am testing adding .svg emojis, but Connect for Lemmy doesn't display them at all

Example: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/615979

This is especially relevant when viewing communities like c/memes where I don't necessarily want to click in to read the comments on every thread, But if I open the image, I'd like the post to be considered as read so that it doesn't show up again on my next refresh.

When browsing some communities, I would notice post titles full of urls and stuff. At first I thought these might be spam or something, and then I noticed that they look a lot different from the mobile site.

Trying to post images here, hopefully this works.

As title.

Sometimes I will read a post and then save/bookmark it to go back to at a later date. But if hide read posts is enabled, you can't see those posts in your saved section/folder. You have disable hide read posts.

I am sorry if this has been asked before, but when or will it be open sourced. It is the best Lemmy Client i have used yet but i dont like anything being closed source and i read somewhere the dev wants to open source it at some point. Just interested if there is an estimate.

A popup appears saying it needs write permissions but the permission dialog never appears.

Cheers and congratulations on the appversary.

Hi, Connect 1.0.63 is our two week birthday (from this post). Hard to imagine it's only been two weeks. This version brings a lot of new things but the big features would be instance level blocking, 'show more comments' buttons to make comment views more compact, new theme options, and the ability to mark a post as read while scrolling.

What's new

• Added community icons next to names in the main feeds
• Added an option to show @instance labels on all usernames and communities
• Added instance level blocking
• Added dividers between cards
• Create post community suggestions are improved, will now autofill with your subscriptions and suggest a community you've subscribed to first
• Added show more comments buttons
• Added option to mark posts as read on scroll
• Added more theme options

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with the profile tab not refreshing in some scenarios
• Changed community icons to be smaller and they should load faster
• Added some new sort options for posts
• Fixed notification icon hopefully (no more blank square)
• Fixed swipe to reply not working from the inbox
• Viewing a comment from your inbox will now remove the comment when you go back
• Improved the tap target when interacting with a short comment
• Fixed an issue with uploading an image in comment view
• comment title text now wraps instead of getting cut off
• Improved memory usage when scrolling through a lot of images (still some more improvements coming on this one, we're not freeing up images in memory as often as we could be)
• Fixed an issue with NSFW communities not being searchable (and subsequently some link handling being broken if the community is marked nsfw)
• Fixed an issue with the search back button
• Fixed an issue with incorrect passwords if the length is more than 60 (it's now capped to 60 which is what Lemmy does).

In case you're wondering what was in versions .60-.62, they were all minor hotfixes that have been combined into this list. Also for those wondering when it's going to be open sourced it's coming, I hear you! my focus right now is on adding features and improvements.

Links:

• Google play
• you can support me here

-kuroneko

I've hit back. I've force quit the app. But every time I open it, it's in community view as seen in the screenshot. And there's no nav on the left.

Seems like a bug to me...

I ended up updating to the newest version and then it was back at the regular home page.

Android 13, Pixel 6

I've noticed that anytime I click save settings it seems to reset a bunch of them back to the default. Namely it resets my theme, font size, and some other settings such as refresh rate and swapping comment settings. Things like layout seem to be unaffected.

Ideally there would be no save settings button, if I back out from that screen I would expect that my settings just stick without me having to push a button to commit them.

Redgif is not embedded correctly most of the videos can't play in the app.

I use Firefox by default and I want to use its webview to open the links by default to have blockers enabled and so.

Can this optionally be enabled? I don't see any option related to it.

The last times I updated the app, the settings on the settings page as well as the custom start page got reset to the default

Thanks for a great app!

Lately I have been seeing the same old posts in my feed. Because I haven't interacted with them, they stay there for me to see again a few minutes later. It'd be great to have an option to mark any post seen in the feed as read.

Edit: this dev is adding features faster than I can keep track! Thank you!