Today I noticed that refreshing my home feed (topday) was dramatically changing the results I would see, especially on posts that I knew were less than 24hrs old. I started opening the comments on the top post and refreshing home, and the post would go away. I was aware of the "Hide Read Posts" setting, so I went and confirmed it was off. I switched it on and off again to see if setting it to off again would do it, but no. Closed app, force stop app, no change.

UPDATE: There is a setting in Lemmy for "Show read posts" which had become unchecked on my account. I don't use lemmy directly -- I only use lemmy through the connect app. Perhaps lemmy reset this setting, but it's possible that the app updated this setting incorrectly? I'll remove the post if this is ruled out.

Seems like sort by date is the only sorting method at the moment.

ATM I can choose only among Frontpage, Local, and All

When switching accounts there's some weird behavior if global settings are switched off (both accounts have their own settings). After switch all the settings are either set back to default or partially changed.

For example one time it changed text color to black against black background so it was very difficult to navigate the app to change it back to normal (I could only see black). Sometimes it still shows the correct setting on the settings menu but I have to reset it to the same value in order to make it effective.

It would be useful to also have a safety feature on the app that doesn't let text color ever be too similar to background color regardless of the theme settings. I don't think there's any use case for all text to be invisible in the app.

I'm getting weirdness trying to scroll to top on the latest beta. It seems to endlessly scroll the same articles and never reaches the top. Also, when I hit the refresh option from the menu it used to go to the top and no longer does - I have to go and find the Frontpage option in the sidebar to get to the top (quite laborious). Can we get a "back to top" button? Or maybe a "go to my default page" button on the top bar?

Hi team, thanks for creating such a nice app, just switched from jerboa and I much prefer the UI on connect. I'm not sure if it's just me but gifs don't seem to play unless I open them in an external browser?

Says "Unexpected character (at character 1)". I would upload a screen shot, but, well...

Most images look squeezed in list view. Have tried switching and back to no avail. V. 1.0.150

New Bug Of The Day :)

Step to reproduce: set all settings for all accounts to blur nsfw content ; subscribe to an nsfw sub ; when a post appear (as intended as a nsfw gray square) click on the name of the author - results : all the post history of the author is uncensored.

Edit: same happen if I click on the subbed community from the left panel.

Good luck with this one, and as ever, thanks and congrats for your good work and dedication.

When you reveal a spoiler the black rectangles go away and it then renders the text in white, but on a white background (light coloured theme) The text renders is exactly the same colour as the background and so you can not see it unless you highlight the post, this renders the background of the post as light grey and there is just about enough contrast difference to now read the text.

When spoiler text is revealed it should render in the same colour as normal text. I'm not sure why it's white.

See images below for demonstration.

My phone has 4 gig ram (android 11). Do i lack ram ?

Can we get an option to change the behaviour of the Android Back button when using the in-app browser?

My preference would be that it would act like a browser back button and take me back a page if I've browsed beyond the initial page I went into the browser for. The in-app back button at the top left would still always take me back to the post or post list like it currently does. Additionally, I'd prefer that the Android never brought me out of the browser, even if I was on the initial page, but some people might not like that.

Or... Having a dedicated browser toolbar with back, forward, refresh and the url would be ínteresting.

Thanks for the awesome app!

Why lemmy.ml posts act this way? apparently i am not the only one suffering from this

Is there a way to block those bots that just directly link recent Reddit posts from similarly named subs? Or is this a feature you would consider implementing in the future, if feasible? There's generally no interaction on these posts. They get spammed in batches it seems, which clogs my feed, so I'd rather just not see any of them.

It would be nice if browsing an instance as guest would allow post bookmarks, and mark scrolled posts as read and hide read posts, then if possible a feature to export those preferences (at least the bookmarks) locally. The problem arised when i couldnt get an account for Lemmygrad and wanted to consume its content, browsing as guest didnt allow posts to be bookmarked, alsoread posts couldnt be hidden so each time i browse as guest i get the already seen posts. Seems fancy but would appreciate if implemented. Thanks a ton.

I've been trying the various clients and like Connect the best so far. However, one thing I am seeing is that Connect doesn't pull in the post comments from lemmy.world while the others do. Connect says something about API error.

I know lemmy.world had some issues recently with the comments, but it seems odd that other apps are pulling them in just fine while Connect is not.

I'm not seeing this with any other instances.

Just wanted to share the data point.

Thanks

Hi, this update is mostly focused on some performance updates to Image rendering and memory management. I stripped out the old plugin I had doing this and am now handling things a bit more manually. Hopefully this should improve the experience of long scrolling sessions. I did refactor a lot so if you see any bugs here please let me know! Large new additions in this release are URL domain filters, and video zoom. I'm starting work on settings import/export but it's not ready just yet.

Added

• Added URL Domain filters
• Added video zoom (double tap, pinch)
• Added a link icon to posts without thumbnails
• Added None as a comment long press action
• Better handling when proxied comment resolve fails

Fixed

• Fixed voting on posts refreshing the video player
• Fixed some issues with image heights not fitting correctly
• Minor hotfix to change the link icon on posts to be centered and not left aligned
• Improved the list of subscriptions for large lists
• Fixed an issue where images would sometimes not free from memory
• Fixed photo view not expanding
• Fixed a small screen flash on image expand
• improved performance of large images
• All Snackbars now last for 5 seconds
• Fixed markdown not loading in some cases when it should
• URL confirmation prompt now also applies to external links
• Fixed an issue with switching accounts when uing an email to log in
• Fixed an issue with Spoiler tag sometimes not appearing
• shouldInstanceBlockIncludeUsers no longer defaults to on
• Fixed reply swipe gesture
• Improved freeing of memory in some cases for preloaded images
• Fixed comment navigator when showing all comments
• Create comment screen no longer has discard prompt if drafts are enabled

Thank you everyone for all of the support and suggestions, please keep them coming and we'll continue to make Connect the best app for browsing Lemmy!

Links:

• Google play
• you can support me here

-kuroneko

Hello and thanks for the great work on connect.

Just some feedback for gifs in connect. I use the latest version 1.0.141 on android.

There seems to be an issue regarding data consumption. I realized that the app uses huge amount of data when playing gifs. So I tested and an embedded gif that was consuming almost 200mb in the app actually only consumes 40mb when played in Firefox on the original hosting website.

Also the app is quite huge with 0.9 gb on the phone storage. Is this normal? This seems to be alot for an app thats probably doesn't have to cache much data.

It would be awesome if you could have a look into this.

Many thanks

... Edit: spelling

Since the much earlier version of this app, the sidebar has been basically unusable, it almost completely freezes up anytime I do anything on it. Is there any fix for this? Is this a know issue? What's going on?

I'm pretty sure it has something to do with how the sidebar renders my subscriptions. As soon as they load everything in the sidebar takes forever.

This is the thing that has kept me from using this app despite basically being theost feature rich lemmy app.

On beta (from the g play store) 1.0.144 I can't zoom on pictures anymore. Pinch doesn't work, double-tap neither. I've disabled all gestures/tap actions in case the touchscreen registered something wrongly.

Pics only occupy 1/3 of screen if clicked from List view; shows full screen from Card view. It's the same on 3 different accounts on 3 different instances - can't zoom in or out.

Thank you for your commitment to Connect and Lemmy.

Android 11, oppo a53

When I open the post itself the spoiler text is hidden but in the main scrolling view the cards display the spoiler text

Version 10.0.141

I would like to be able to export the settings I have for Connect so in case I ever have to reinstall this app I can restore all the settings I had for it instead of redoing everything manually.

I often vote/save/hide posts by accident so I turned off global swipe actions, however I noticed I can still swipe on posts.

I shared a post on lemmy.world with someone today, but the post url was https://slrpnk.net/post/1690717. Is this maybe because the person who posted it has their account there?