Arctic v0.2.7 is out on TestFlight. This update is focused on backend optimization and push notification features.
Community Notifications
You can now setup notifications for individual communities. Notifications can by filtered by post keywords, post author, and post score. In the coming releases I will add support for more filtering options. To list a few, filter by phrase rather than keyword, upvote/downvote rather than just score, multiple authors, comment count, pinned(stickied) posts, etc. I’ll also be adding support for temporary notifications,community notifications that will automatically expire after a set amount of time.
Account Notification Options
Account notifications can now be toggled by type, you can toggle notifications for: badges, replies, mentions, and messages. This also adds support for mods/admins. You can enable mod notifications for new post/comment reports, and admin notifications for new user registration applications. note that user application cannot currently be viewed within Arctic.
Community Jump
You can now tap the title in any posts feed and quickly jump to a different community using the community selector.
Backend Improvements
Arctics Lemmy API wrapper has now been extracted into a swift package (Swimmy) for improved maintainability and so it can be utilized as a shared code base for Arctics Push Notification server. In doing so, I also added support for Combine allowing for improved error handling with the API.
Arctics Server
I’ve migrated Arctics notification server to a new hosting provider. With the new provider, I may be able to offer all notification options as a free service provided I can sustain off of small donations. This would be ideal, as I never wanted to paywall any features in Arctic. I’ve also setup getarctic.app a new home for Arctic. The website is quite barebones at the moment, but I will be updating it as my time allows.
As always, thank you to everyone for helping test Arctic, and providing feedback. I know new features have slowed in the last few releases. Going forward I’ll be working on polishing the current feature set in hopes of an AppStore release in the next couple of weeks.
v0.2.7 full change-log
Added Community Notifications
Setup notifications for any community
Configure filtering options (author, keywords, score, more filters coming soon)
Add unlimited watchers
Added support for granular account notification options
Badges (Application notification badge)
Replies (Comment and Post replies)
Mentions (User mentions)
Reports (Moderator reports)
Applications (Admin user registration applications) (Arctic does not currently support showing applications in the app)
Updated the community selector to default to subscribed communities
Added typing suggestions when searching communities in the community selector
Added support for displaying thumbnails in push notifications
Added support for stripping markdown elements in push notifications
Added community jump to the Posts Feed, tap the title in the navigation bar to quickly jump between communities
Added Changelog to settings
Migrated API backend to a package (Swimmy) shared between Arctic and Arctic's push notification server
Fixed issue on iOS 15 where the Post feed search bar could overlap elements of the navigation bar**
Is there any testing I can do on my side to help debug?
EDIT:
Found the issue. I completely missed that it asked for username when logging in and my password manager filled in the email. Working as expected when I put in the username