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
  • 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?

  • 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

  • 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.

    • 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.

    • alliestear@midwest.socialEnglish
      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

  • sloonark@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    When I tap on a link to a community in another instance, it takes me there, but if I then try to subscribe it tells me to pick my account first I do this, then it reloads the page, and only then can I subscribe. What is the point of this step? Liftoff obviously already knows what account I’m in so why do I need to choose it before I can subscribe?

  • veroxii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    Great work. Can I ask again please for allowing to change the font size of comments?

    My eyes are not that great anymore and the current comments are at the edge of readability for me.