Connect for Lemmy App

Currently, there is only one setting for how posts are sorted by default (new/hot/top of the day/etc) which can be found under Settings > Posts.

Having separate settings for feeds (global/local/subscribed) and communities would be useful.

Settings option to have the comment count of a post displayed just below the title (see red marking on image)

This would be primarily needed for particularly long posts that don't fully fit on the screen. Currently, I have to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the post ti find out if there are any comments I might want to read. This might only be an issue for those who have "Title above content" enabled in the settings, like me

Note: I might be somewhat confusing that I posted a Connect screenshot of a post including another Connect screenshot.

After making changes in the settings, Connect notifies me that the settings have been saved. When I exit the settings afterwards, the changes aren't applied. At other times, the changes are applied initially, but the app reverts back to the previous settings after closing and opening it again. Changing one setting at a time rather than making multiple changes seems to help a little bit, though I can't reliable verify that behaviour.

Simply put, an option for 2 or 3 columns for cards or full-width (technically half- or third-width now) would be nice to see more posts on screen at once. Taking inspiration from rif.

Sometimes I get language not allowed when I try to reply to a post or message. Seems odd given that the post is in English.

It'd be really nice to have an option to disable the animations in Connect!

I generally don't like them in any UI, and have all animations disabled for everyone else on my phone. It'd be great to disable them in Connect, also!

With RIF is Fun, if content cannot be submitted, or the user decides not to post yet, they can save their text as a draft in local storage. Later, they can retrieve said draft, edit the contents, and post it, if they'd like.

Would Connect entertain the idea of implementing drafts? I think it would be even more useful with Lemmy, because most Lemmy instances are operated by hobbyists without SLOs, and I have observed problems with posting much more frequently than Reddit.

Sometimes, when I submit a comment, the submission runs into an error, and the form disappears. This means that I lose my text altogether.

It would be great to ensure that content gets submitted correctly prior to closing forms!

I had written a rather lengthy response to a post, and put quite a bit of effort in my argument. When I submitted the reply I got a "language not allowed" error, and everything I wrote was lost.

I think an error when posting something should not result in the screen changing back and losing everything written. The error should be displayed and the user allowed to fix the problem or somehow allowed to save the post locally, e.g. by copying and pasting it somewhere else.

I want to open large image with comments below when clicking on a post, like in Jerboa

Is anyone else having the same problem? The app was updated three days ago, but yesterday it refused work at all. It crashes at startup. Nothing loads up. My android is updated at 13.

Coming from baconreader one of the most useful things for me was the ability to curate a few different "front page" feed. I think Reddit had multi-Reddits which this was based on.

Also being able to set favorite communities made it possible to easily navigate these and other communities I liked to view a lot.

There are communities that i love when I am looking for something specific but I don't necessarily want them in my front page.

Sometimes when I'm trying to navigate the side pane, Connect only gives me a couple of options. One of which is a huge SIGN OUT button that I've accidentally clicked a half dozen times already

I don't think we even need a sign out button in that menu - imo it should be in a sub menu - but if it's gonna stay there could you shrink it way down?

Padding between posts seems to be bugged on v1.0.106 making out difficult to see when one post ends and another starts.

I can't seem to see posts that are below 0 points.

If I respond to a person, and their post gets downvoted, mine also becomes contextually unviewable.

Same seems to happen if I respond to someone and they delete their post.

Is this a connect feature? Where can I change this? I don't want posts to be hidden unless I hide it manually. I always want to be able to revisit my posts in the threads they were posted in.

Super low-priority change request but sometimes the notifications and status bar blur (like in the attached photo) with the titles and photos and obscures both at the same time. Would love to have an opaque bar to keep the notification bar separate.

Recently I've had trouble with double posting. I swear I used to type my words, hit the airplane and I was done. Was another screen added? It seems like I used to be taken back to the comment list and now it puts me in the editor and I get confused. I think that the comment hasn't posted so I hit the airplane again and double post. Anyone else having issues?

Howdy,

For some reason I can no longer see the Next\Previous comment bar. I have disabled\re-enabled show comment bar and comment navigator. Is this handled somewhere else?

Version 1.0.104 (but have noticed this for a while).

Hello, just picked up the Connect app and I've been enjoying it the most of any Lemmy app so far. However, I've been getting the following strange behavior, which may be a bug:

Viewing a specific post (https://lemmy.world/post/2104570) shows that there are (at time of writing) 76 total comments, but actually scrolling through reveals only ~37-40, even after expanding collapsed ones. Navigating directly to this post in a web browser reveals more comments than are shown in the app (still less than 76, around 65 or so, but I assume this is some other bug with Lemmy). Reloading the thread does not fix it and this has persisted across 2 days by my checks. I don't have any instances or users blocked, and I don't think that blocking communities would lead to this behavior (I haven't blocked the one in question). Am I missing something?

It seems that I'm unable through either ineptitude or issue to view long pictures. Help?

Recently I've noticed that there's a slight delay between tapping on a post to view it and when it actually opens. I realized that this must be to support double-tap voting, as the app has to wait for the full double-tap timing window after your first tap to determine if you were going to perform a double-tap to vote or if you actually wanted to view the post.

I'd really appreciate a setting to disable this feature as I find the slight delay when opening every post to be very annoying.

I have noticed that only a small handful of gifs will play automatically and within the app while scrolling through a community, but the vast, vast majority of the time a link is shown and you have to navigate away from the feed / lemmy (in the built in browser) to view them.

I thought it might be a limitation of lemmy / the fediverse until I saw the few above mentioned gifs.

Is the playing of (nearly) all gifs within Connect something that can happen and will come in time?

Thanks.

I've subscribed to the beta testing program so this is not likely to affect most of users, but after updating to 1.0.101 (yesterday) I can't use any swipe action on posts any more, neither in card view nor list view nor fullwidth. It gives a double haptic feedback, as if the action was sent and cancelled immediately afterwards. Saving, upvoting and replying work seamlessly from the post buttons. Restarting/logging in again did not help (and the fact that the actions work with the buttons seem to indicate that my account is entitled to upvote/reply to that post). For comments everything works fine though.

Edit: my bad, already reported here

I hate this feature with a burning passion. It makes it hard to zoom in and move around. It's slow. And when my screen dims while I read I can't wake it up without closing the image.

Please let me disable this feature in settings

I have recently been having an issue where filters are applied, not by me, while I'm browsing in Connect. Entire communities are showing no posts with the message, "Empty because all posts are being filtered". There are no filters turned on in the settings that I can see. Many comments are also hidden due to filters, including my own. I have checked in using the browser interface and everything is normal there.

Is there a setting I am missing, or do I have another issue with the app?

Edit: Issue solved, apparently I had blocked lemmy.world though I'm not sure how.