Hi all - I’m a several-times-a-day Thunder user and really enjoy the app. It’s steadily evolving and improving which is awesome to see and I really appreciate the efforts of the dev team.
One thing that I think is missing is the ability to send and respond to DM’s. Is that accurate (or am I just incompetent) and if so, is there an accepted alternative for handling DM’s?
Hey there, thanks for the kind words!
You’re right - at this time, there’s no way to create or reply to private messages just yet. This is something I want to introduce but I’m just currently backed up with other (not as fun but arguably more important) tasks like preparing Thunder for the upcoming Lemmy API changes and app stability/performance improvements 😅
Given that this has been requested a few times already, I might be able to implement a quick version of this just to have it as an option!
Not at all! Someone sent me a very nice message and I’ve been trying to respond with thanks which is why I ran into this and reached out.
Seriously - great app and hugely appreciate it. Is there a way to finally contribute? I’ve got minimal coding expertise but would like to contribute in some way.
Is there a way to finally contribute? I’ve got minimal coding expertise but would like to contribute in some way.
Of course! We’re always looking for contributors to help with Thunder regardless of level of experience.
Here’s some general information about Thunder
- Thunder is developed using Flutter which allows for cross platform compatibility (iOS and Android at the moment)
- We have Weblate for translations, if you’d like to help localize Thunder into other languages
- If you don’t know where to start, feel free to look through our existing issues on GitHub or join our Matrix space. I’ll gladly answer any questions you have regarding our codebase!
You can certainly reply to them when they appear in the “messages” section of the inbox.
I don’t know about composing and sending them though…
Huh… I cannot for the life of me figure out how.