Release v0.10.5 · liftoff-app/liftoff
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Added error messages and retry buttons for instance loading errors (zachatrocity) Implemented comment contexts and added "Show context" and "View all comments" buttons (jcgurango, zachatrocity) Fix...

Lots of great changes have been added by our growing team of contributors as highlighted below. If you want to join the team come and say hello at the team discussion on Matrix

Please note that many lemmy servers are under massive pressure today, so you may see many unexpected error messages and silent failures. Please bear with us all!

Updates should appear on TestFlight and Play Store today.

v0.10.5 Release

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Android:

Hello everyone! We are blown away by the tremendous support from the community! Thanks for using our app and helping beta test as we round things out.

It’s been a few days since we’ve posted an update and the team has been hard at work with a TON of bug fixes and some new features.

Change log

  • Added configuration option to automatically convert .webp images to .png for saving (njshockey)
  • Added error messages and retry buttons for instance loading errors (zachatrocity)
  • Implemented comment contexts and added “Show context” and “View all comments” buttons (jcgurango)
  • Fixed several issues with comments not loading correctly after posting a new comment (jcgurango)
  • Fixed and updated ModLog Pages & API (zachatrocity)
  • Added menu item to view a community in a specific instance other than the originating instance (jcgurango)
  • Added shadow to bottom tab bar to visually offset it from cards underneath (swmarks)
  • Added Chrome Custom Tabs / Safari View Controller to replace in app browser on Android & iOS (swmarks)
  • Added deep link support for links like liftoff://lemmy.world/c/liftoff (shocklateboy92)
  • Updated l10n translation hooks, and added strings (mykdavies, zachatrocity)
  • Changed “You’re not logged in, log in” message to dismiss after 7 seconds (christopher-conley)
  • Fixed an issue causing login to fail if there is a space after the username (christopher-conley)
  • Changed photo previews in post feed to have a consistent maximum height and updated opening animation (prefanatic)

What’s coming

  • We hear you about notification badges. Those are coming, PR is opened and being tested. As well as local pushed notifications via scheduling
  • Ultra compact view. Really we will be adding a 3rd view type so we will have card, list, and compact. The current compact view will become list
  • Even more error handling for instance failures.
  • bugs bugs bugs
  • TEHRZA@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Really enjoying this app. Is it currently possible to blur the image preview on NSFW posts? I figured out how to remove them entirely, but I’d like to have them there and clickable, but not completely visible.

  • SpaceBar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Fixed and updated ModLog Pages & API

    What does this mean? Does it have to do with moderating?

    • liftoff@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yes you can now see the mod logs for communities in the about tab of a community page

  • red@feddit.deEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Changed photo previews in post feed to have a consistent maximum height and updated opening animation (prefanatic)

    Thanks, I hate it. I don’t want a preview, I want the real thing. Full pictures in the feed was one of my favorite features about Liftoff and you just removed it completely. Could at least have made it a setting.

    I guess I could live with previews if there was a clear indicator on whether I’m seeing a preview or the whole picture fits the maximum height - now I only realize I need to click on it because e.g. the meme doesn’t make any sense so there’s probably some caption that I’m missing.

    Great work otherwise, thank you for your efforts, but this feature sucks. (Great opening animation, though.)

    • Creazle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I hate to be a bother, but I support this comment. I was quite happy just scrolling my memes without needing to tap on the post, but now top text and bottom text are cut off most of the time.

  • Shizu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    Hi! Can you make the post preview height toggle able? I preferred it the old way and now I have to click the images in order to see my memes fully… That’s rather inconvenient annoying. Edit: changed inconvenient to annoying as it is really annoying to have to click every image.

    • alliestear@midwest.social
      English
      2·
      1 year ago

      Agreed I’d rather see an entirely too long post occasionally than have to click/tap every other one just to see the punchline to a meme I already read half of while scrolling

    • DaniloT@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Came here to post exactly this, it would be much better if it was a toggleable option for the fixed card height, I liked just scrolling and in fact was the reason I switched to liftoff, was just a better experience, now it’s annoying.

  • AaronStC@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    I seem to have lost full height images in my feed. Was one of the reasons I ended up sticking with liftoff.

  • launch_wait_echo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Would it be possible to deselect instances in settings, so they don’t appear anywhere in the app until I reenable them in settings?

  • Kuro@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Connect for Lemmy dev here. That photo opening animation looks great!

  • ekZepp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    HI, the photo preview height is a bit too low, it cuts basically any meme and force you to click on them each time, can you add an height control or a disabile option in future version?

    Also, any way to hide this? I know is a server issue, but can we disable it from showing?

    • zachatrocity@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      We’re gonna shrink it down into a more concise error message for 502s but we’re not gonna stop displaying it