Sync for Lemmy

Key points

• Message notifications are back!
• A big refresh to messaging
  • Added a new unified inbox option "all" combining comment replies, mentions and direct messages
  • Quick action buttons are now shown for comment replies, mentions and direct messages
  • Comment reply actions (more icon) now shows the user and community rows (with additional options)
  • Comment replies now show the community icon and post title
  • Comment replies have had a visual refresh
  • Comment replies, mentions and direct messages can now be quickly reported and marked as read
  • Comment replies, mentions and direct messages can now be marked as unread
  • Added a quickly reply swipe gesture
  • Added page dividers
  • Your own send direct messages can now be deleted
  • Direct messages are now shown in threads

New

• Added .webm support to the image viewer and image peek
• Added "linked instances" and "blocked instances" to the instance chip group

Changes

• Experimenting with always showing the community icon in feeds
• Updated the reply icon

Github issues closed

• View mode not updating properly #402
• No messages returned snackbar doesn't automatically go away #333
• Add ability to disable "view more" toast messages #365
• Allow images in comments to use shared element transitions #391
• Add new app icons to replace the legacy S4R ones that were removed #389
• Add option to swap upvote and down vote colors to match Lemmy #386
• Username doesn't show in the account picker if there is no display name #451
• Account settings save button not disappearing after saving #448
• When swapping between automatic and manual theming, some elements don't change color properly #479
• Override sort dialog shows cancel button twice #484
• Username of non active account in account picker is empty #492
• Crash on startup with latest update #445
• Missing username in picker #478
• Not showing link options properly and crashing when clicked #513

Other fixes

• Fixed a title displaying issue caused by the recent change to titles
• Fixed a crash when clicking link options on a text post
• Fixed a bug where the description of the current messaging section in the toolbar wouldn't update correctly
• Fixed an issue with a broken lift target in messaging causing the status bar not to change color

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v122 adds support for a super secret upcoming new feature...

If you come across something that doesn't work pop it here

Evening all.

I've created a status page to monitor all services I maintain to run Sync for Lemmy.

There's not too many at the moment but will keep updating as I create new APIs etc.

Cheers, Lj

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

Links that open natively in Sync (like news articles) are often riddled with ads. Is there any way for the Sync shell to open through a Firefox based browser, which includes native ad block?

I'm not sure if this is related to what browsers I have on my phone. I do have one chromium based browser (kiwi) installed, and if getting rid of that would fix the problem I could look into deleting it and leaving only FF on my phone. But I'm not sure if it's related.

When Samsung last updated One UI several months ago, myself and many other Samsung users (and Pixel users on Android 14 as well, judging by the replies) encountered a bug where swiping posts closed showed only a black background until fully closed, after which the content one would expect to see would appear.

Last night, One UI updated to 6.1 on my device, and when I used Sync this morning, I noticed that the black background bug is no longer happening.

>!Unfortunately I now need to re-learn my navigation gestures because Samsung apparently thinks it's fine to force people to completely re-learn how they navigate their phone overnight...!<

Device information

Sync version: v24.03.26-14:56 Sync flavor: googlePlay

Ultra user: true View type: List

Device: p3q Model: samsung SM-G998U Android: 14

I've added some instances to the instance filters, yet I continue seeing those instances. Is there something else that I need to do to block entire instances?

I'm seeing within Sync a number of users have profile pics that show up on their posts. Is there a way in Sync to set that?

I am trying to block all posts that are links to YouTube on my feed. I tried domain filtering for all 4 of the domains that the YouTube app auto opens. But I still see YouTube link posts. I tried logging out and back in, no luck. Anyone know?

I set the polling interval to never but I still get notifications for some reason. I know I can disable the notifications at the system level, but I would rather the app doesn't do the polling at all currently. Android 14, Pixel 7a.

I'm looking to make links stand out by any means. I find myself always opening them and having something like YouTube or other video services open and start playing while in places where that's not ideal.

[BUG] Unable to remove spoilers in post text --- Sample description When having a spoiler tag in the description of a post, like >!this!<, trying to reveal the text results in an error.

Scenario (steps to reproduce)**

1. Open post with spoiler tag in description
2. Click on the spoiler

Result(s) Error removing spoiler

Device information

Sync version: v24.03.26-14:56 Sync flavor: googlePlay

View type: Compact

Device: OnePlus8 Model: OnePlus IN2013 Android: 13

I've spent quite some time trying to set up the font settings with Sync, and it always seems like the ideal font size would be right between two settings (typically Regular and Medium). I have tried adjusting it in many different ways, also adjusting the base font size, etc but just can't seem to get it dialed in the way I want. Could you maybe add some settings in between the ones that are there now? Or maybe just let us select the size in points directly? Thanks.

I've been using Sync for Lemmy in conjunction with this Lemmy.world account since it first hit the Play store on Android.

For the last month or so, I can no longer successfully upvote or downvote posts or comments within the app. This seems to have been around the time or shortly after the votes changed colors from orange/blue to blue/red for a general time reference; I'm not suggesting that update broke anything, but I wouldn't rule it out.

Anyone else have this problem?

Solution: I had enabled the setting indicating my account as a bot account. I mistakenly thought this meant I wanted to view bot posts, not that I was indicating my account as a bot account.

Thanks all, glad things are working as intended!

I think that's what it says but that's the error I'd say I get about 40% of the time when trying to view image posts. Is this a sync thing or something else?

Question in the title. I don't want to see posts from lemmynsfw, but I don't want to just blanket disable NSFW stuff either since the tag gets used for other things. Is there a way to do this or do I have to individually block each community that shows up in my feed?

I'm unable to visit a community using the sidebar suggested method of searching for "!community@instance" convention.

Is this normal?

Can anyone try going to !newbrunswick@lemmy.ca and let me know if it works? It won't load for me and I tried on an account on that instance and still nothing.

Edit: maybe it's a fluke, or maybe it's a Samsung thing somehow?

Device information

Sync version: v24.03.26-14:56 Sync flavor: googlePlay

View type: Compact

Device: b0q Model: samsung SM-S908W Android: 14

It appears that Sync sorts by numbers > Capital Case > lower case, as noted by !RimWorldPorn being sorted above !android rather than with !rimworld in the subscriptions list as I would have expected.

It's a small thing but just seemed odd. Is this intended?

App version is v24.03.26-14:56 (122)

I can access other forums on lemmy.dbzer0 with Sync, and I can access !piracy from a web browser and other apps so I know the community isn't banned. Seems like Sync can't connect to !piracy specifically.

Is this intentional? Is anyone else having this issue?

Edit: Nevermind, I forgot the smooth-brained lemmy.world admins blocked this community. Time to make another account haha

Is there supposed to be some way to update the default sort settings in Sync? I can do it on desktop on my user account, but I'm not sure if this is possible within the app. Thanks.

Comments that are nested too deep simply become unreadable.

I'm writing this from the post page. Nothing here tells me who I'm signed in as. Same thing for comments. If I want to find out that answer, I have to back out all the way to the timeline. I wish when I was making additive actions like posting and commenting that I could see which account I have selected. "Posting as ..." Or "Commenting as ..." gray and out of the way or something.

I know it'd be problematic to have an account chooser present there because you may be on one account that can view a particular post and switch to an account that doesn't federate that instance, but knowing is good enough for me.

Example post: https://lemmy.world/post/14058825

I've no idea if this is technically possible at all, but on posts like the one above, where multiple images have been added, it would be really handy to be able to swipe between them as if they were in a gallery. At present it's a case of open one, close it, open the next, etc...

Same for comments, not sure if that would be different than posts.

Thanks :-)

I was a long-time subscriber to Sync For Reddit, until the great third party app purge last year when I just boycotted Reddit altogether. Now, a year later, I'm looking to fill that content hole with Lemmy, and stumbled across Sync For Lemmy. I love it! The one functionality I miss from SFR was the embedded player for YouTube videos. It seems that YouTube links will open only in the YouTube app or the external web browser. Is there a plan to reimplement the built-in player?

Formatting works in titles and is pretty interesting.

I somehow moved this to be right aligned and can't figure out how to bring it back centered. Could someone link the setting or help me out?

My Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra had an update the other day and now I can only see titles and descriptions on my feed. No pictures, no thumbnails, and even when I click on where the picture should be, I can't seem to load anything before it times out.

Device information

Sync version: v24.03.26-14:56 Sync flavor: googlePlay

Ultra user: true View type: Slides

Device: dm3q Model: samsung SM-S918U1 Android: 14

This little notification blocks my ability to click things and cannot be dismissed, so I have to wait for it to go away. And sometimes it just doesn't go away. When scrolled to the bottom I can't click on the post to view the comments.

Is there plans to include better moderation Tools? Or are we waiting on Lemmy as a whole to make better ones before we can add them to the app?

Seen on a comment today, this user with an Arabic username, written right to left, is rendered in between the points value and label text in Sync, rather than to the left of the value as expected.

https://lemmy.world/comment/9058593

Device information

Sync version: v24.03.26-14:56 Sync flavor: googlePlay

View type: List

Device: p3q Model: samsung SM-G998U Android: 14

Edit: Attached screenshot with upvote coloration to highlight the two fields.

Am I just missing where this is? I can't seem to get the export to write to a Nextcloud folder so I was going to change it but can't figure out where to do it.

Settings shortcut: Account settings > Export subscriptions

Title. What is the difference between these two actions that can be performed on users and communities?

I'm pretty confused about one thing.

When deleting your own comment, there always stays a placeholder in its place. I noticed this with my own and other lemmings posts.

So far so good, but i tried to reply to a deleted comment by another lemming and above the reply box was the full comment the other user deleted.

I mean the full content of the comment that was deleted.

Is this the normal behavior in Lemmy or is it Sync?

I mean, i want my deleted comments to disappear and not just hidden and for everyone available to read.

Please try it out and reply to my deleted comment in this post. Just above the reply textarea you'll see my deleted comment.

How to show two instances I have subscribed to showing only Subreddits i have subscribed lemmy.world and lemmy.dbzer0 ??

I just noticed this, apologies if this is an old change, but the up vote / down vote colors seem to have swapped.

Do I need to log out? then log back in? I don't want to. But if logging out/in is necessary to refresh my filter settings, I will. I searched for a way to log out/ in but I can't find it, but I will look harder if I need to. Let me know, or anything else I need to do to stop seeing Trump posts. Thanks.

Sync users, in my comment linked above when you tap the second image does it pull up the right one? For me it's about 50/50 whether it will.

This is a bug I noticed a while ago but didn't have any reference examples until now.

Edit: looks like it might have to do with where I tap?

This old thing that sometimes happened in Sync for Reddit seems to happen again here, where comments are always indented even to the point of not rendering correctly because they reached the right border. If I'm remembering correctly, this was fixed by giving the user the option to "Load more comments" in the old app, which opened a new screen starting back at the left border. Can we get something like that again?

Post in question: https://pawb.social/comment/7430106

Device information

Sync version: v24.03.26-14:56 Sync flavor: googlePlay

View type: Slides

Device: RMX3085L1 Model: realme RMX3085 Android: 13