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!

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-kuroneko

    • KuroOPM
      6·
      10 months ago

      It’s the messages at the bottom of the screen For example after hiding a post.

  • Swim
    6·
    10 months ago

    Great app! Thank you for your dedication to this project.

  • SheeEttin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    At least in list view, thumbnails seems to be stretched/squished to square, instead of being cropped or padded like they probably should be. Is that new or known?

    • KuroOPM
      3·
      10 months ago

      I’ll take a look. Thanks for the feedback!

  • ★ 𝐘𝖔𝖕𝖕𝖆★ @lemmy.world
    3·
    10 months ago

    I know its a connect group but other day this guy kept asking me to use sync. Can someone please list the pros and cons of using sync. For me connect is okay but I was curious why people were asking me to use sync.

    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      31·
      10 months ago

      It’s a bit more polished and less janky, as it was an established Reddit app that got ported over. I haven’t been too impressed with the features, and since it doesn’t have “horizontal swipe for next post”, I haven’t used it much. You should try for yourself though. I tried half a dozen Lemmy apps before settling on Connect.

    • ReallyZen@lemmy.ml
      1·
      5 months ago

      I fully don’t get sync. It’s drowned in ads (or, if you have custom DNS, full of endless black placeholders for ads), and feature-wise just like Connect. I haven’t checked for a while, but I remember people asking for stuff that was already here on Connect.

  • spitz@lemmy.ml
    2·
    10 months ago

    Hello!

    I’m sure this is my own fault, but I seem to be accidentally hiding some posts. How do I unhide them?

  • Chris5aNSFW@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    Thanks for the awesome work on the app and taking all the feedback everyone has to make the app the best one out there. It’s great and keeps getting better everyday.

  • spitz@lemmy.ml
    1·
    10 months ago

    In the past 24 hours, I’ve had random images not loading, random threads not scrolling, random posts getting hidden. Would this be related to the latest update?

  • ashtrix
    1·
    10 months ago

    Not sure if it was this version or last but I just noticed a slider for text font size was added. Thank you for this, It works great!

  • morphballganon@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I’ve observed what I think is a bug. If I hide a thread (A) then enter a thread (B), then back out of it, thread A is now unhidden until I refresh. This is the case even if I blocked thread A’s community before hiding it.

  • netburnr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Fixed an issue with switching accounts when uing an email to log in

    Finally I can switch accounts! Everyone else told me I was crazy, but after logging out and readding .ml and .world I can switch accounts!

    That said, my old account is still there and I can’t switch to it to get rid of it.

    So half fixed in this version

    • burgersc12@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Someone else posted about having issues signing in when they had the same name for accounts. iirc the name was RxBrad and they had three or four accounta with the same name and also had trouble logging in. Could be related?

  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    There’s a new bug which I first noticed in 1.0.150:

    Using horizontal swipe to navigate between posts often yields a different list (or at least a different order) than scrolling through posts.

    Anyone else notice similar behavior?