I'll add this in 1.0.8!
Hi, sorry for the late reply. Don't have a plan for this atm, but I'll look into it
Thanks for all the info! You're right, this is a result of the youtube embed feature. Even with the option disabled, the app still does some preprocessing to get embedded links so you don't have to reload everything in case you turn it on. I'll look into converting the links back if you open them directly in the browser
Hmm, IMO that'd get a bit cluttered and would be easy to hit accidentally. The quickest way to refresh right now is probably tapping the top and doing a quick pull-to-refresh.
Thank you - this is pretty much the best bug report ever. Are you a dev by any chance? :p
Didn't even know about the "pending" subscription type, I'm sure other lemmy app devs are also unaware. The lemmy api is not super well documented atm, so it requires a fair bit of poking around in the code to figure out how stuff works.
I've noticed this for ampersands too, but wasn't sure if it was an issue on my end or some encoding thing in other input forms or the backend itself. Seems to be the same in the regular web frontend for instance. Hmmm
Hmm, that's weird. How many subscriptions do you have? Works consistently for all my accounts, so not sure what could cause this. Please let me know if the issue persists!
Have you checked out the "reduce white point" option in accessibility settings? Does that improve things or is there still too much contrast?
Hmm, yeah would probably be useful to have it there too, but don't wanna remove the markdown highlighting either. I'll have to think about how it could be implemented in a nice way. You can always just swipe the reply sheet down and then select what you need since the draft will be saved meanwhile
IMO the most important thing by far is making the core app experience as solid as possible. Things like post feeds, comment sections, posting, sharing, image viewers, inboxes, replying, editing, text selection, user profiles, swipe gestures, searching, font settings, sorting options, display options, hiding read posts and everything else you'd expect takes a lot of time to develop, maintain and polish. The vast majority of my development time is spent on improvements, bug fixes and new features for everyone, and I really do care a lot about creating a great experience that can help improving Lemmy overall. Offering some more niche nice-to-have features on top of that is a good way to support everything else.
I'm not going to add a higher tier - as I briefly mentioned in an earlier comment my goal is rather the opposite. If Lemmy keeps growing, Avelon Pro could at some point make sense as a $5-or-something one-time upgrade. Unfortunately that's just not the case right now.
I posted a reply to your post about that, its a bug with an accessibility setting in iOS. Forgot to include the fix in 1.0.7, but you can resolve it for now by disabling "Button Shapes" in the iOS accessibility settings.
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/2944211
Hi everyone! Thanks for all the feedback so far, lot’s of really great suggestions and useful criticism! I’m very happy to see so many people using the app, nothing is more motivating honestly.
This update adds a bunch of requested features, including:
- Multiple account support
- Hold down the tab-icon to switch!
- Profile pages
- Tap any user to see their comments, posts and recent activity
- Favorite subscriptions
- For those of you with just a tad too many communities to keep track of
- Share sheet integration for posts & images
- Added option to block communities/users
- Added new page to view saved comments
- Improved the UI for settings
Since the last update I’ve also added:
- Full-width swipe to go back (super nice for large phones!)
- Smarter option to show both downvotes and upvotes only for controversial …in addition to a bunch of bug fixes and improvements all-around.
Hope you enjoy the new changes, and let me know what you think!
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Hi everyone! Thanks for all the feedback so far, lot’s of really great suggestions and useful criticism! I’m very happy to see so many people using the app, nothing is more motivating honestly.
This update adds a bunch of requested features, including:
- Multiple account support
- Hold down the tab-icon to switch!
- Profile pages
- Tap any user to see their comments, posts and recent activity
- Favorite subscriptions
- For those of you with just a tad too many communities to keep track of
- Share sheet integration for posts & images
- Added option to block communities/users
- Added new page to view saved comments
- Improved the UI for settings
Since the last update I’ve also added:
- Full-width swipe to go back (super nice for large phones!)
- Smarter option to show both downvotes and upvotes only for controversial …in addition to a bunch of bug fixes and improvements all-around.
Hope you enjoy the new changes, and let me know what you think!
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/2030083
Hi everyone!
First of all thank you for all the amazing feedback I have gotten so far. I was a bit overwhelmed by the response on my first release, but I'm happy to see so many people enjoying Avelon. This update addresses a ton of the most common feedback I have received with a lot of useful new features including swipe gestures, a new inbox and a new subscriptions page.
Community: !avelon@lemm.ee
Changelog
- Swipe gestures for posts and comments
- Fully customizable! Head over to the new gestures page in settings
- Quickly perform actions such as upvote, downvote, save and reply
- Also added swipe gestures to various other parts of the UI
- Inbox to view your replies
- Quickly respond using gestures
- Quickly open the relevant post
- New subscriptions page
- More compact, grouped alphabetically
- Not a tab any more (reachable by swiping back in posts)
- Community links now work in-app
- Added ability to save comments
- No way to see saved comments atm. Coming later!
- Added customizability to thumbnail position
- Add option to enable more sort options (6 hours, 12 hours, 3 months etc.)
- Add option to show both upvotes and downvotes
- Added ability to save etc. from within a post
- Add swipe gestures to the in-app-webview
- Add purple accent color (yellow too in previous build)
- Reworked navigation system (no longer brings you to a different tab unexpectedly)
- Restructured settings a bit (will be more changes here over time)
- Fixes issue where your own votes would often be counted twice
- Fixed some typos
- Fixed alignment issues with tab bar
- Fixed overflow issue with some posts (hopefully)
- Attempted to temporarily fix ios17 reply crash
- Lots of other things I probably should have written down earlier
Screenshots
Known Issues / Future Features
- Adding posts
- Viewing profile pages
- Viewing saved comments
- Blocking/filtering
- Multiple accounts
- Adjusting text size
- And more stuff!
Replies have been crashing on the iOS 17 beta and I've added a temporary fix that hopefully resolves this (though it lacks markdown highlighting). I'm not on the beta yet myself so unable to verify or add a proper fix for now, will look at this once I get a device on the beta.
Given how many features this update adds, I do expect the build to be a bit less stable than before. If you encounter any bugs/crashes I really appreciate your feedback, either here or through testflight.
Hope you enjoy the update, and let me know what you think about all the new features!
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Hi everyone!
First of all thank you for all the amazing feedback I have gotten so far. I was a bit overwhelmed by the response on my first release, but I'm happy to see so many people enjoying Avelon. This update addresses a ton of the most common feedback I have received with a lot of useful new features including swipe gestures, a new inbox and a new subscriptions page.
Changelog
- Swipe gestures for posts and comments
- Fully customizable! Head over to the new gestures page in settings
- Quickly perform actions such as upvote, downvote, save and reply
- Also added swipe gestures to various other parts of the UI
- Inbox to view your replies
- Quickly respond using gestures
- Quickly open the relevant post
- New subscriptions page
- More compact, grouped alphabetically
- Not a tab any more (reachable by swiping back in posts)
- Community links now work in-app
- Added ability to save comments
- No way to see saved comments atm. Coming later!
- Added customizability to thumbnail position
- Add option to enable more sort options (6 hours, 12 hours, 3 months etc.)
- Add option to show both upvotes and downvotes
- Added ability to save etc. from within a post
- Add swipe gestures to the in-app-webview
- Add purple accent color (yellow too in previous build)
- Reworked navigation system (no longer brings you to a different tab unexpectedly)
- Restructured settings a bit (will be more changes here over time)
- Fixes issue where your own votes would often be counted twice
- Fixed some typos
- Fixed alignment issues with tab bar
- Fixed overflow issue with some posts (hopefully)
- Attempted to temporarily fix ios17 reply crash
- Lots of other things I probably should have written down earlier
Screenshots
Known Issues / Future Features
- Adding posts
- Viewing profile pages
- Viewing saved comments
- Blocking/filtering
- Multiple accounts
- Adjusting text size
- And more stuff!
Replies have been crashing on the iOS 17 beta and I've added a temporary fix that hopefully resolves this (though it lacks markdown highlighting). I'm not on the beta yet myself so unable to verify or add a proper fix for now, will look at this once I get a device on the beta.
Given how many features this update adds, I do expect the build to be a bit less stable than before. If you encounter any bugs/crashes I really appreciate your feedback, either here or through testflight.
Hope you enjoy the update, and let me know what you think about all the new features!
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Hi there fellow Apple enthusiasts!
Yesterday I announced that my native iOS app for Lemmy called Avelon is finally ready for testing, and I figured some people here might also be interested in checking it out!
My focus for the app has been performance, design and ease of use. As you can probably tell I got a lot of inspiration from Apollo and other iOS-first apps - but I think I've added my own cool spin on both the design and functionality.
Here's a couple screenshots of the app:
If you wanna try it out I'd greatly appreciate any feedback/suggestions so I know what to focus on next! I think the core experience is pretty solid already, but the app still lacks some important features such as adding new posts.
Avelon is developed in Swift using almost enitrely SwiftUI. For those unfamiliar, SwiftUI is the newest UI library by Apple intended to replace things like UIKit over time. SwiftUI is cross platform, so Avelon also runs on macOS actually, though the UI is not tweaked to fit mac just yet. The tech is really great to work with, and it makes it super easy to fit right into iOS. I posted some more details about the project over on the community page for the app here if you wanna check it out.
Thanks, let me know what you think!
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/1358038
Hi everyone! I'm happy to announce that my iOS Lemmy app "Avelon" is finally ready for beta testing! I've been working tirelessly on the app lately and I think it is turning into a quite solid experience now. I'm very excited to hear what you think and gather more feedback before I move towards an App Store release.
My focus for Avelon has been to polish the base functionality as much as possible to ensure that the day-to-day browsing feels as good as possible. I've also done things a bit differently to make it easier for new people to try out the Fediverse. Rather than requiring new users to look through a complicated list of instances the first time, the app automatically shuffles a list of preset instances so you don't need to think about it until later when you register. This will hopefully also reduce the load on individual servers.
Features
Avelon already supports quite a few cool features:
- Posts and feeds
- Clean UI to explore all your feeds
- A pretty nice comment view
- Support for images, GIFs, videos, youtube
- See community feeds and sidebars
- Quick search communities and subscriptions
- Login to your account
- Reply to posts/comments (with markdown highlighter!)
- View and edit your old comments
- Upvote comments and posts
- View/manage your followed communities
- Design & customization
- Dark and light mode with customizable accent color
- Compact posts, large posts and gallery view
- Footer/header bars automatically hide for a cleaner experience
- Change behavior such as tap to collapse, default sorting etc.
- Long press actions for a less cluttered interface
..and probably some other things I can't remember just now.
Screenshots
Check these out!
Join the beta
The beta is available on testflight through this link (limited to 1000 testers for now):
Join Avelon Beta on Testflight
The app is supported on all iPhones with iOS 16 and higher (worked ok on my old iPhone X!). I'd love to hear what you think about the overall user experience, design, functionality, stability as well as any bugs or issues you might find. A few important features are still missing, most notably adding new posts. I'd love to hear what additions you are most interested in me looking at first:
- Creating posts
- Viewing users comments/posts
- Saving posts/comments
- Report/mod tools
- Multiple accounts
- Themes/more customization
- Improved image/video viewer
- Anything else?
Thank you & future plans
First, I'd like to thank Christian Selig (the developer of the Apollo app) for creating a really amazing app that I've been using every day for the last several years. As you can tell, Avelon is definitely inspired by Apollo (though I think I've put my own personal spin on the design and functionality!).
If people enjoy Avelon I'd like to spend more of my free time working on it and improving the app over time. In the spirit of transparency, I'd like to mention that I might do some kind of "pro" version at some point later on to support the project. All the base functionality people need will of course be free, but pro features could be additional "nice-to-have" features like themes or advanced tools etc. I'm not planning to do anything paid just yet though, just wanted to mention it. Right now my focus is to provide a great experience and to help build the Lemmy platform into something even better.
Finally I'd like to thank the Lemmy developers as well as everyone using the platform. Everyone contributing is making this platform the amazing place it is turning into. I personally haven't browsed the site-that-should-not-be-named since the API shut down - I decided to spend all that time on developing this app instead. And I'm really excited to see what Lemmy becomes over the years.
Sigve Røkenes
/evgiz
Hi everyone! I'm happy to announce that my iOS Lemmy app "Avelon" is finally ready for beta testing! I've been working tirelessly on the app lately and I think it is turning into a quite solid experience now. I'm very excited to hear what you think and gather more feedback before I move towards an App Store release.
My focus for Avelon has been to polish the base functionality as much as possible to ensure that the day-to-day browsing feels as good as possible. I've also done things a bit differently to make it easier for new people to try out the Fediverse. Rather than requiring new users to look through a complicated list of instances the first time, the app automatically shuffles a list of preset instances so you don't need to think about it until later when you register. This will hopefully also reduce the load on individual servers.
Features
Avelon already supports quite a few cool features:
- Posts and feeds
- Clean UI to explore all your feeds
- A pretty nice comment view
- Support for images, GIFs, videos, youtube
- See community feeds and sidebars
- Quick search communities and subscriptions
- Login to your account
- Reply to posts/comments (with markdown highlighter!)
- View and edit your old comments
- Upvote comments and posts
- View/manage your followed communities
- Design & customization
- Dark and light mode with customizable accent color
- Compact posts, large posts and gallery view
- Footer/header bars automatically hide for a cleaner experience
- Change behavior such as tap to collapse, default sorting etc.
- Long press actions for a less cluttered interface
..and probably some other things I can't remember just now.
Screenshots
Check these out!
Join the beta
The beta is available on testflight through this link (limited to 1000 testers for now):
Join Avelon Beta on Testflight
The app is supported on all iPhones with iOS 16 and higher (worked ok on my old iPhone X!). I'd love to hear what you think about the overall user experience, design, functionality, stability as well as any bugs or issues you might find. A few important features are still missing, most notably adding new posts. I'd love to hear what additions you are most interested in me looking at first:
- Creating posts
- Viewing users comments/posts
- Saving posts/comments
- Report/mod tools
- Multiple accounts
- Themes/more customization
- Improved image/video viewer
- Anything else?
Thank you & future plans
First, I'd like to thank Christian Selig (the developer of the Apollo app) for creating a really amazing app that I've been using every day for the last several years. As you can tell, Avelon is definitely inspired by Apollo (though I think I've put my own personal spin on the design and functionality!).
If people enjoy Avelon I'd like to spend more of my free time working on it and improving the app over time. In the spirit of transparency, I'd like to mention that I might do some kind of "pro" version at some point later on to support the project. All the base functionality people need will of course be free, but pro features could be additional "nice-to-have" features like themes or advanced tools etc. I'm not planning to do anything paid just yet though, just wanted to mention it. Right now my focus is to provide a great experience and to help build the Lemmy platform into something even better.
Finally I'd like to thank the Lemmy developers as well as everyone using the platform. Everyone contributing is making this platform the amazing place it is turning into. I personally haven't browsed the site-that-should-not-be-named since the API shut down - I decided to spend all that time on developing this app instead. And I'm really excited to see what Lemmy becomes over the years.
Sigve Røkenes
/evgiz
Here is fine, thanks! Should be fixed now