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Hey everyone.]

So update 98/99 has gone live which fixes the crashes (thanks for the reports).

I'm gearing up for a pretty sizable release but just wanted to check in and ask if there was any issues you're having that I should know about or any new feature requests.

Sorry for the bad comms but I'm making my way through lots of messages and posts on here. Thanks for the patience as I get through these all.

Cheers, Lj

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[โ€“] jarmitage96@lemmynsfw.com 64 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Umm... Redgifs stopped working

[โ€“] GingeyBook@lemm.ee 57 points 8 months ago

Dad please turn the porn back on

[โ€“] ljdawson@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

Fix is going live. I completely rewrote this part and should be able to fix it remotely in future without deploying a new apk.

[โ€“] sachabe@lemmy.world 34 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I'm partly colorblind and it's super hard for me to see when I upvoted or downvoted a post. Just making the up or down arrow bolder (or circled) once it's been clicked would fix the issue completely for me and all types of colorblind people.

Thank you for the great work ๐Ÿ’›

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[โ€“] Nick@mander.xyz 21 points 8 months ago

Just chiming in to say thanks for the update and all the hard work!

[โ€“] w00@feddit.de 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (13 children)

Changing default sort to hot does not stick for me.

Redgifs is broken (as is tradition) ยฏ\_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

Device information

Sync version: v23.11.29-22:27    
Sync flavor: googlePlay    

Ultra user: false    
View type: Slides    
Push enabled: false    

Device: bluejay    
Model: Google Pixel 6a    
Android: 14
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[โ€“] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The biggest thing I'd wish for is full markdown support, stuff like spoiler tags, superscript and tables is still not working properly and it would be nice if it did.

I also don't know if this is a bug others experience or if I have messed something up on my device, but clicking community links sometimes opens up the link in browser instead of in Sync.

Finally, highlighting new comments on a thread re-visit would be a dream, but last I heard it wasn't supported by the backend. But maybe an option to highlight comments made during the last X minutes as a sort of hack?

[โ€“] ljdawson@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Noted, I think its probably time to completely replace the old markdown processor.

As for tables, how are they not working right?

Do you have an example of a link that opens the browser?

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[โ€“] hysterika@lemmynsfw.com 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hello, I'm a slut and I'd like to be able to upload NSFW pictures again โฃ๏ธ

[โ€“] ljdawson@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'll get that enabled again ๐Ÿซก

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[โ€“] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

He lives!

I thought I made a post, but it didnt get any replies and doesnt show up on the community posts for me.

But I was running into some posts where the image fails to load, like this one

https://lemmy.world/post/12685097

While the thumbnail sometimes loads, the image gives me that error.

Also been running into a lot of images that say โ€œimage was actually a webpageโ€ or something along those lines.

Thanks!

[โ€“] frosty99c@midwest.social 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That loads for me with no issue.

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[โ€“] jballs@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 months ago

Just wanted to say thanks for the post, even if it was a quick one to say releases are coming. I had been considering signing up for your paid version but was hesitant to pull the trigger because I feared the project had been abandoned. Since it's not, I'm signing up now. Appreciate all the work you put into the app!

[โ€“] Zoldyck@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

Good to see you're still alive! Looking forward to future updates and improvements.

[โ€“] winter@slrpnk.net 12 points 8 months ago

I'm eagerly waiting for separate upvote and downvote counters ๐Ÿ˜ผ but let me know if you were only asking for features not discussed previously to shut up next time

[โ€“] Pringles@lemm.ee 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I have a feature request. Harmonic for hackernews has the option to open a url directly on archive.org, which I think is a pretty neat feature. Would it be possible to add this?

[โ€“] ljdawson@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

You can use the wayback machine api to retrieve the latest snapshot of a particular url, which is useful to evade paywalls.

[โ€“] ljdawson@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Perfect. I'll add support.

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[โ€“] Kovukono@pawb.social 12 points 8 months ago

I'd love it if clicking on the thumbnail of an image opened the raw image, instead of the compressed view, so instead I have to go into the post and click the image there for full resolution. It's especially noticeable for larger images with small text.

[โ€“] frankspurplewings@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Thank you for making this app ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’œ

[โ€“] kratoz29@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

The only bug I'm having with Sync for Lemmy is that it does lots of wakelocks in the background, I had to set the app to restricted mode in the battery settings as a workaround.

I don't know if this is because it tries to fetch notifications (a feature not available yet) or IDK.

Setting it up to "restricted" instead of "optimized" basically fixes idle issues, although I can see the app refresh a lot more than when it is optimized...

Sync for Reddit never had this issue, I always had it in optimized mode and it barely was active in the background.

Pictures for reference:

EDIT: I am experiencing this issue with AOSP, with MIUI I did not, but I'm guessing it is only because MIUI is more aggressive with apps in the background.

EDIT 2: Also I'm seeing a new gap just below the main post in the newest version ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] IronRain@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I also noticed a gap, and I'm wondering if it's where the ad banner is now. I really hope not and that this is just a visual bug, because it's pretty glaring and distracting.

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[โ€“] Oneeightnine@feddit.uk 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Using Boost for Lemmy as the example here.

Since release Sync just hasn't been able to handle tables. Every other app I use does it no problem, but sync really struggles with it.

[โ€“] Oneeightnine@feddit.uk 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Another example, although less painful for the eyes.

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[โ€“] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Nothing to report or add, I just appreciate you!

[โ€“] ljdawson@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

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[โ€“] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can we have the swipe mode for pictures that we used to have in Sync for Reddit?

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[โ€“] CMahaff@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

I'm hoping the new update will include the new "scaled" sorting option. I think it will really help support smaller communities on Lemmy if more people use it.

[โ€“] Knives@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

In Sync for Reddit we had the ability to view previously upvoted posts. I don't know if Lemmy supports that, but that was a feature I used often to go back to something. Thanks

[โ€“] Tagger@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Sometimes, when people post multiple photos, only the first one loads

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[โ€“] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago

Features wise, full mod tools would be awesome, but I figure you've got that on the list already. Same with the latest lemmy stuff like instance blocking at the account level.

Beyond that, the only thing I can think of is more granular control over theming. I finally found a set-up that's working for me, but I know it took some fiddling that could have taken less time if I had been able to tweak background colors, or whatever. I've seen other people talk about that for sync, as well as other apps that a don't even have the options sync does. From a usability perspective, contrast between sections of the ui can be the difference between literal headaches and a relaxing scroll.

But, again, that's pretty low priority imo.

[โ€“] then_three_more@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (11 children)

Images like the one in this post don't automatically open at full resolution. There's a discussion in the comments about the steps to get it to open at full resolution.

https://lemmy.world/post/12703748

[โ€“] Cal_@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Seems to work for me. Seems to display the higher resolution in a mosaic. As I zoom I can see the text sharpen.

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[โ€“] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I'll add another feature request that I forgot: instance browsing. Being able to see a list of communities within a remote instance would be nice (preferably sorted by subscribers like in the web UI). Being able to see the Local feed from a selected remote instance would also be useful. I think both those features could help with community discovery.

EDIT: disregard most of this, I was blind to the instances button. It would still be nice to see the communities-list on an instance sorted by size.

[โ€“] mom@nom.mom 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

Is that different than using the "instance" button to go to (for example) lemmy.world and then the "communities" button to bring up this list:

(Edit: I see that my pic isn't all sorted by size, and that's a difference, but I'm genuinely curious about other ways to browse other instances since I'm basically alone on mine)

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Is there a way to make "deleted by user" stand out more as a system message? The current styling makes it look like they literally commented "deleted by user"

[โ€“] WeirdAlex03@lemmy.zip 6 points 8 months ago

Any chance of an option to flip the upvote/downvote colors to the Lemmy ordering (blue up/red down)? It's always a little jarring going between the app and website and seeing all my votes are backwards

[โ€“] mom@nom.mom 6 points 8 months ago

I'd still like to see OpenBoard keyboard get to auto-complete/correct in the title field (and Swiftkey, I've heard). I don't know what's up with that, but it makes me sad.

The spoiler tags could use an overhaul so they are consistent with the rest of Lemmy. (Obviously handled in the markdown overhaul you mentioned)

Being able to edit image posts, or the titles of posts in the app would be appreciated.

The other thing that's on my list is the inbox thing. There's the discrepancy in badges for unread - bottom nav bar gets the badge, but the other views don't seem to; there's also the crashing when I change to other views in my inbox if I get there from the left drawer or the top "More Actions" area. (Pretty sure I made issue tracker reports on those.)

Welcome back, LJ! Thanks for all the work you put into Sync - it is such a good interface and user experience overall, and I love it.
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Glad to see you're back, LJ, hopefully things are going ok in life for ya.

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