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Umm... Redgifs stopped working

I'm partly colorblind and it's super hard for me to see when I upvoted or downvoted a post. Just making the up or down arrow bolder (or circled) once it's been clicked would fix the issue completely for me and all types of colorblind people.

Thank you for the great work 💛

Hello, I'm a slut and I'd like to be able to upload NSFW pictures again ❣️

Just chiming in to say thanks for the update and all the hard work!

Changing default sort to hot does not stick for me.

Redgifs is broken (as is tradition) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Device information

Sync version: v23.11.29-22:27    
Sync flavor: googlePlay    

Ultra user: false    
View type: Slides    
Push enabled: false    

Device: bluejay    
Model: Google Pixel 6a    
Android: 14

The biggest thing I'd wish for is full markdown support, stuff like spoiler tags, superscript and tables is still not working properly and it would be nice if it did.

I also don't know if this is a bug others experience or if I have messed something up on my device, but clicking community links sometimes opens up the link in browser instead of in Sync.

Finally, highlighting new comments on a thread re-visit would be a dream, but last I heard it wasn't supported by the backend. But maybe an option to highlight comments made during the last X minutes as a sort of hack?

He lives!

I thought I made a post, but it didnt get any replies and doesnt show up on the community posts for me.

But I was running into some posts where the image fails to load, like this one

https://lemmy.world/post/12685097

While the thumbnail sometimes loads, the image gives me that error.

Also been running into a lot of images that say “image was actually a webpage” or something along those lines.

Thanks!

I'm eagerly waiting for separate upvote and downvote counters 😼 but let me know if you were only asking for features not discussed previously to shut up next time

Good to see you're still alive! Looking forward to future updates and improvements.

Nothing to report or add, I just appreciate you!

I have a feature request. Harmonic for hackernews has the option to open a url directly on archive.org, which I think is a pretty neat feature. Would it be possible to add this?

Just wanted to say thanks for the post, even if it was a quick one to say releases are coming. I had been considering signing up for your paid version but was hesitant to pull the trigger because I feared the project had been abandoned. Since it's not, I'm signing up now. Appreciate all the work you put into the app!

Thank you for making this app 💜💜💜

I'd love it if clicking on the thumbnail of an image opened the raw image, instead of the compressed view, so instead I have to go into the post and click the image there for full resolution. It's especially noticeable for larger images with small text.

The only bug I'm having with Sync for Lemmy is that it does lots of wakelocks in the background, I had to set the app to restricted mode in the battery settings as a workaround.

I don't know if this is because it tries to fetch notifications (a feature not available yet) or IDK.

Setting it up to "restricted" instead of "optimized" basically fixes idle issues, although I can see the app refresh a lot more than when it is optimized...

Sync for Reddit never had this issue, I always had it in optimized mode and it barely was active in the background.

Pictures for reference:

EDIT: I am experiencing this issue with AOSP, with MIUI I did not, but I'm guessing it is only because MIUI is more aggressive with apps in the background.

EDIT 2: Also I'm seeing a new gap just below the main post in the newest version 😅

Using Boost for Lemmy as the example here.

Since release Sync just hasn't been able to handle tables. Every other app I use does it no problem, but sync really struggles with it.

Is there a way to make "deleted by user" stand out more as a system message? The current styling makes it look like they literally commented "deleted by user"

I'm hoping the new update will include the new "scaled" sorting option. I think it will really help support smaller communities on Lemmy if more people use it.

In Sync for Reddit we had the ability to view previously upvoted posts. I don't know if Lemmy supports that, but that was a feature I used often to go back to something. Thanks

Can we have the swipe mode for pictures that we used to have in Sync for Reddit?

Images like the one in this post don't automatically open at full resolution. There's a discussion in the comments about the steps to get it to open at full resolution.

https://lemmy.world/post/12703748

Features wise, full mod tools would be awesome, but I figure you've got that on the list already. Same with the latest lemmy stuff like instance blocking at the account level.

Beyond that, the only thing I can think of is more granular control over theming. I finally found a set-up that's working for me, but I know it took some fiddling that could have taken less time if I had been able to tweak background colors, or whatever. I've seen other people talk about that for sync, as well as other apps that a don't even have the options sync does. From a usability perspective, contrast between sections of the ui can be the difference between literal headaches and a relaxing scroll.

But, again, that's pretty low priority imo.

Sometimes, when people post multiple photos, only the first one loads

I'll add another feature request that I forgot: instance browsing. Being able to see a list of communities within a remote instance would be nice (preferably sorted by subscribers like in the web UI). Being able to see the Local feed from a selected remote instance would also be useful. I think both those features could help with community discovery.

EDIT: disregard most of this, I was blind to the instances button. It would still be nice to see the communities-list on an instance sorted by size.

Any chance of an option to flip the upvote/downvote colors to the Lemmy ordering (blue up/red down)? It's always a little jarring going between the app and website and seeing all my votes are backwards

I'd love the ability to view and manage reports, and ban users.

Alao viewing upvotes / downvotes. All the admin features basically.

Glad to see you're back, LJ, hopefully things are going ok in life for ya.

I'd love the ability to block entire instances from within the app, or hide if that API isn't available.

I'd still like to see OpenBoard keyboard get to auto-complete/correct in the title field (and Swiftkey, I've heard). I don't know what's up with that, but it makes me sad.

The spoiler tags could use an overhaul so they are consistent with the rest of Lemmy. (Obviously handled in the markdown overhaul you mentioned)

Being able to edit image posts, or the titles of posts in the app would be appreciated.

The other thing that's on my list is the inbox thing. There's the discrepancy in badges for unread - bottom nav bar gets the badge, but the other views don't seem to; there's also the crashing when I change to other views in my inbox if I get there from the left drawer or the top "More Actions" area. (Pretty sure I made issue tracker reports on those.)

Welcome back, LJ! Thanks for all the work you put into Sync - it is such a good interface and user experience overall, and I love it.
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The only problem as an overall happy Ultra user is when I try to go back from any other sub-page, the previous page sometimes starts from the very beginning as if it refreshed.

For example, when I just browse the feed, then find an interesting community, visit it, come back and I have to scroll the feed all over again. This doesn't happen every time but only sometimes. Doesn't feel like ram issue as I'm running S24U, should be capable for that.

Also, automatic skip of "Load next page" would be awesome as I've filtered quite a lot of stuff.

Otherwise Sync is amazing, keep it up!

Pretty much the only thing that's missing for me is a way to customize card and background colors - dark mode gray's too light, AMOLED is too dark for me ^^

I'd like an option to use the red nsfw previews instead of the blur.

Is it possible to get ads blocked in the articles that open through sync? I'm not talking about the ones that show up in the unpaid version in the comment section, but rather when you click through to an article, sometimes the sites are so ad-riddled it becomes difficult to read.

The 2 screenshots here are the same link opened through sync vs through firefox

This is the link

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/willy-wonka-event-uk-chocolate-experience-meth-lab-1235837133/

More ads? Seriously?

A new spammer today made me think of another feature request: automatically refresh the currently viewed comment section after blocking a user to instantly remove the blocked comments.

My app still crashes if I try to view my messages inbox :(

I'd like to be able to cross post like I can in the web frontend.

There is also the problem that I can't upload any photos which I took with my phone to lemmy because they're just too big. It would be nice if it would offer to resize it to smaller to be able to upload it, otherwise I have to somehow do that manually on the phone which is not very stright forward.

I want to filter out image posts. Lots of communities have good content but are plagued with useless unfunny reddit-tier memes.

Full immersive mode, or transparent navigation bar. Gesture navigation is horrible.

Multiple images in comments have been pretty buggy, I'll tap one and it goes to the other image

Hi! so far it works great.

I only have this network error whenever I try to set "New" as default sorting in profile settings.

I tried to post a screenshot but the image upload also fails here ಠ_ಠ

Edit: I meant to say Settings> Account Settings. The error notification always says "Network error. Unable to save."

Thanks for making a great app! I have been satisfied with it and don't mind slow releases. :)

Hello from a long time Sync Pro user. Love your app and how much support and time you put into it.

I don't have any issues with Sync for Lemmy specifically.

Although, I'd love to see sync pro available outside of the Play Store, even if directly from your website.

I'd really like to completely decouple my phone from Google and there is a very small handful of apps that I still have to get from Google Play.

However for the paid apps, I can't reasonably use Aurora Store because I'd need to link my Google Account for a license.

I know those would be extra work for you, so if you do decide to work on it l, know that I totally wouldn't mind buying another lifetime license for a de-googled purchase validation.

I recently started using a VPN and have found that I can't post comments while my connection is secured. Don't know if that's a Sync issue or what.

It would be nice to have a quick action to change thumbnails to the opposite side.

Did removing NSFW posts go away? When I look at my filter options I see that I can blur previews and such, but the option to have them completely blocked went away. Or maybe it moved?

It's great! The only things I've noticed is that I don't think the spoiler tags work correctly, and I can't post gifs from the built in gif search (I get errors saying "could not upload image".

Feature request: Saved post/comment categories similar to Reddit Gold. I'd love to long press the saved icon to supply a category. Then list all of the items of that category on the saved items page.

I understand that Lemmy currently does not support this.

I'm having an issue where the toggle for post-title -with-share when sharing an image does nothing - but I don't see anyone else with the issue, so maybe it's just me?

Is there a way to configure the hide/show read posts more granularly? I'd like to have it off when viewing a specific community and on for the broader feeds

I'm missing comment navigation like Sync for reddit used to have, with buttons to go between the root level comments.