7d ago

🚀 Boost for Lemmy 1.0.15 available! - Spoiler support

Hi Lemmy! I've just uploaded a new version, this is the changelog:

Added spoiler support
Added superscript/subscript support
Added domain in link posts
Redesigned account switcher dialog
Increased profile bio limit to 1,000 characters (Lemmy 0.19.6+)
Fixed link-opening delay
Smoother scrolling on image-heavy posts
General performance optimizations
Squashed some bugs 🐛🔨

📲 To join the beta and test the new features follow this link https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.rubenmayayo.lemmy or visit the visit the Play Store and scroll down to "Join the Beta"

⚠️ Found a bug about this version? Comment below

42 comments

B-but I thought Boost was abandoned because you didn't update it for awhile...
On a serious note thanks for your work rmayayo I'm only on lemmy cause of you. I'm not sure how you resist making fun of those "Boost is abandoned" people, really grinds my gears as somebody who's released stuff of my own and had people making similar claims for absolutely no reason (literally have a public git they can look at) but oh well. I've been extremely pleased with Boost both back on reddit and now here on lemmy your work is appreciated man
- Same. When Reddit cracked down on third-party clients, I quickly realized that I liked Boost more than Reddit, and I'm super happy about how it's coming along.
  
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- I don't notice any of that personally (probably missed it). Did the dev reply to any of those claims? Over six months of no updates is kinda worrisome
  
  Occasionally yes but 6 months is frankly just not worrying at all. Loads of projects rarely get updates, for example video games Operating systems, for example take Android, is Android abandoned because each update takes about a year? Obviously no, the frequency of updates doesn't correlate to if the project is abandoned. People hassling rmayayo (albeit via a post) is not at all helpful to actually making any progress. Speaking from experience that kind of bs makes me want to stop working on my project. Obviously my work isn't appreciated if all they care about is release speed. Look to literally any large project, especially in the OSS world and you'll typically see pretty lengthy gaps between releases and very few patches. That means they release less frequently for higher quality, something that isn't possible if the only thing you care about is how often you get updates

Not a bug but a feature request. Can you add the content filters like the reddit boost had? So you can filter between images, videos, gifs, and script posts.
- Yes this is really needed please.
- This is something I'm really missing too. It would be so lovely to be able to filter everything away, except text and link posts, for when I'm in bed at night. It was one of my most used features with Boost for Reddit, so hopefully it can be implemented in Boost for Lemmy some day too :D
  Anyway, thanks for everything you do, rmayayo! Can't imagine using any other app for Lemmy.

Thank you. You'll be rewarded well as more people try out lemmy

Thanks for the update!
I found a post though that still has very bad performance https://sh.itjust.works/post/35534975 - it's safe for work, it's about a game/mod. Scrolling through the post is very choppy, the app (or my phone) is really struggling. I'm using an Xperia 1 VI.
- I see what's going on. Boost only resizes images hosted on Lemmy and that post uses external images 😩
- I thought surely this guy was making it up, but yeah that's odd. I'm on a Samsung Note 10.

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edit: aww no

ZOMG! It works!
- I think maybe if
  ::: spoiler spoiler you start typing first :::
  then continue after the spoiler?
  Huh, I guess not...

This is such a great app

_{Nice super/subscript,} ^Thanks

thank you!! i don't think i can ever adjust to using a different lemmy app (i had to look for an IOS one for my partner and none of them were as good as boost) so im glad you're still developing and being awesome :>

yaaaay! i go between boost and eternity but this new update is wonderful boosts rocket again
all i want now is for the down vote buttons to go away since they're not used on my instance
and maybe support for instance emojis when composing like when you type : and then it autofills suggested instance emojis :)
- The vote buttons is on the to-do list I didn't know about the emojis thing 🧐
  
  no worries!! :) thank you!
  the pr for emojis was here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/877
  don't know if it being in lemmy-ui makes it difficult to be in boost though so if its too much don't worry about it :)

Ty! I'll boost the Rocket (again) 😁
BTW: any chance you can smooth out the Rocket? It shakes pretty bad the whole time.

BETA ME UP BABY

Any plans to add swipe gesture actions to posts/comments?

Thanks for your work!

Thanks so much for your work!

Ayo, welcome back! Thanks for the update

Thanks a lot ! The fix for scrolling image-heavy post is much appreciated.

Thank you for the update!!

I knew getting the ad-free version last week was totally worth it! This app rocks, consider not having a coffee today and supporting this developer!!

Thank you very much for your efforts. Is there a "jump to top" button available? If so, can you point me in the right direction to enable it?
- In feeds is in the bottom-right button with the plus sign

https://youtu.be/lPk_zyRKs1Q

Where should I post feature requests?
(Actually misfeature removal request: Renumbering numbered lists is so bad that even Reddit removed it in the official app)

Thank you!
Out of curiosity, does it still also support Reddit style spoilers?
- Nope, I'm using a different markdown library. Also they wouldn't render on Lemmy website for the rest of users