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v0.2.1+8

Alpha Release

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Alpha Release [v0.2.1+8] Watch out! Theres another update incoming 🎉 Important: it is highly highly recommended to reinstall the app for the best (and least buggy) experience possible This update i...

Watch out! Theres another update incoming 🎉

This release has a lot of changes under the hood which will pave the way for better performance overall, and hopefully allow for shiner features in the future! There's a lot of quality of life changes in this one to make your experience hopefully better.

Since this release has a lot of under-the-hood changes, its expected that bugs may show up that were previously not there. Please open up a GitHub issue if you find any of those!

Obligatory message: If there are any developers out there who want to contribute to this project, that would be greatly appreciated!

To see the full details of this release, check out the GitHub release announcement: https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder/releases/tag/v0.2.1%2B8

For those on TestFlight, the update should automatically install on your device. For those who obtained the app through IzzyOnDroid, that update should eventually reach your devices!

There is also a discussion page here for any general discussions about this release if anyone is interested: https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder/discussions/115

I am so glad to see all the support for this so far, and it has truly been incredible. Thank you all for helping me build this app, and let's continue to make it even better

Lemmy Apps @lemmy.world

rist097 @lemmy.world

2y ago

Thunder v0.2.1+8

Alpha Release

github.com /hjiangsu/thunder/releases/tag/v0.2.1%2B8

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For those on Android, theres a few things I would like to get your feedback on (I don't have a physical Android device so I cant see it for myself):
How does the icon look like to you? Has it improved from last time?
How is Material You? Does it work as expected?
Did the name of the app change to Thunder instead of thunder (capital case vs lower case)?
- Icon looks great, Thunder is capitalized! Material You is working beautifully, though I might consider having it theme the floating New Post button as well?
  AMAZING release, dude!
  
  The floating button does get themed for me, when material you is enabled.
- Icon's great now! Fills the full app circle
  Material You works as expected! Colors are themed correctly
  It's now Thunder instead of thunder
- The icon changed to a full black circle with the logo in the middle as it should be and the "T" is now capitalized. I am running Android 11 so no Material You testing for me. That was adden in Android 12 and up
- The logo looks great, a bit more elegant! Thunder is capitalized and the Material You theme seems to work great, though I don't know enough about how it's supposed to look to say for sure. It does seem to use the right colours.
- The icon is lit in both UI 🔥
  I think Material You works nice as well.
  The only thing that confuse me is the order of the swipe actions, I think here are swapped compared with every other app (some have the ability to customize this as well though).
  
  The long term plan is to allow customizability of the swipe gestures! Not sure when I'll be able to get around to that though
- Take a look yourself at Material You 😀 Also to mention also: it loads only a few comments from this post but there are 20+
  Thank you for this great app.
  
  This could be most likely that there were new comments added since the last time the post was updated. If you refresh the feed, you should be able to see the updated number of comments!
- Agree with shortwavesurfer re:logo and the Material You theme looks like how I would expect, much prefer it to the default dark theme.
  You are killing it mate, well done.
- Icon looks great
  Can't test Material You
  T is upper-case now
- The only issue I'm seeing with the material you design and actually this is kind of a problem with the dark theme is the text of links in posts is not readable. E.g https://ibb.co/qpjtNm4
  
  Thanks for pointing that out! I'll see if I can fix that 😅
- Can't emphasize enough how much of an improvement this is. Amazing upgrade. Thank you !
- Material You only changes colors.

You added everything I asked for and everything else I secretly wished for! What an amazing update, you are awesome! The new icon and Material You theming are A+, thank you so much for all your work on Thunder.
- Thanks! I appreciate the words!

It is one of the best designed lemmy app so far but my biggest issue with the app is that after scrolling a certain amount app becomes so laggy to the point it becomes unusable. Hope the issue is fixed soon.
I'm an Android user so let me know if more info is required.
- Hey! Yeah, I am aware of the performance issues and it will hopefully improve in the future!

Love the update! Default sorting options and default starting page is just what I was waiting for. I have found two regressions so far on android:
It's now impossible to exit the app by pressing the back button multiple times. Not a big deal, but annoying.
The swipe gestures to upvote/downvote/reply/save no longer vibrate when swiping on comments, only on posts. I suspect I have upvoted many comments by accident while trying to scroll.
- Hey, I noticed those two things as well and they should be fixed in the next release! Thanks for the feedback!

Really liking this app, a big improvement in navigation over the website. Thanks for your efforts here.

Don't forget to unpin the previous release and pin this one !
Loving it so far, I'll probably be back with more feedback after testing but so far the one change that's weirding me out a bit is the new collapse only collapsing the parent comment. For some long comments it was very handy to collapse them and have a one line preview. Maybe a compromise with a pixel height would could work ? I just had a comment with a screenshot bigger than my screen and was sad when I clicked on it and still had to scroll the full length.
New settings are great <3 Great work !
- Hey! Thanks for the quick feedback! I think for this, there's different opinions on how it should be handled.
  I think the best solution to this would be to just add in a setting which allows you to switch between the two methods of collapsing :D Feel free to open up a issue on GitHub for this!
  
  I would disagree with the commenter above. Collapsing all comments except for the one you click on is intuitive behaviour for me as a user of the Relay app for years, and I think this is how most Reddit apps work.
  So yes I think it would be best to have a toggle setting 👍
  
  You got it boss ;)

Can we get fully collapsed comment threads back as an option? Also when a comment is collapsed, there should be some indication that there are child comments hidden
- Yup, that was an issue that was brought up, so I’ll add a settings option to switch between the two modes!
  Also when a comment is collapsed, there should be some indication that there are child comments hidden
  I agree, I just need to find a good way to visually represent that!
  
  Cool, thanks!

I just downloaded the app. I love the feel, look & everything so far!
I'm such a baby at this, so please excuse my ignorance. But I can't seem to like comments under posts. Am I just missing something?
Also I don't know where to find my comments that I've made. Again, am I just so dumb I can't find it? How do I see My posts & comments & how do I like other ppl's comments? Please & thank you.
Sorry, I didn't know where else to ask this. 🥺 I love this app so much rn.
- Hey! Thanks for trying Thunder out :D I would like to preface this by mentioning that this is still in (what I would consider) very very early alpha. Because of this, there's still a lot of features that I'm working hard to bring to everyone in the community!
  But I can’t seem to like comments under posts.
  You can perform actions on comments by swiping on them! Currently, that's the only way to upvote/downvote, save, and reply to comments
  Also I don’t know where to find my comments that I’ve made.
  This is currently in the works! In the next release, I'm hoping to have a more detailed profile view where you can see your posts, comments, and hopefully saved items
  I hope this answers your questions!
  
  Oh my gosh I LOVE THAT!! The swiping is AMAZING 🤩
  Yes, completely answered, thank you! I'm here for the long haul, I don't mind.
  The swiping is now my favorite thing. I love this so much. Thank you for all of you making something so cool 🥰

Yoooo this is the best Lemmy Android app I've tried by far! Will this be on the Play Store eventually?
- Will this be on the Play Store eventually?
  There’s a possibility for it to be on there, but not at the current moment! I want to make sure the experience is as good as possible before launching it on Play Store or the App Store :D

Loving the swipe to upvote function. Reminds me of Relay ☺️

@darklightxi this app is still under development but it's very promising.
the icon for me is a square with white background, and the loading posts is a hit or miss, but still it's way better then all other clients I have tried in it's current state, nice

The app feels amazing! One thing that I personally want is the possibility to share images, gif or videos as they are, not only as a link to the post..
Other than that, I'm switching from connect!

Can't exit app (clean install). Using Samsung A71 5g One UI 5.1
- Can't either
- This is a known issue, and should be fixed in the next release!

Nice! Although when I first launched it after updating, it got stuck on the (frozen) spinning loading wheel for like 20 seconds. Luckily everything is working fine now. I’m on iOS 17 by the way
- Hey! yeah, theres been a lot of changes under the hood so that may have contributed the to loading that you saw.
  The best thing (if I could do it) would be to ask everyone to re-install the app if possible since there may be inconsistencies due to all those changes

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Well, I tried th respond to your request guy android specific feedback. But, ahhhh, it won't open up the action bar to reply to comments, votes, etc at all lol.
It is, however, showing as Thunder, the icon looks great, and so far everything else is smooth. Haven't played around much though
- Well, the reply function is on the right swipe menu, but there's no edit option :)

I just installed. Very sleek looking. good job.

Changelog says that now read posts dim the posts if you open them, but that is not working for me.
- Whoops, I just tested it out again, and I forgot to dim the posts on the default view. If you switch to compact view, you should see them dimmed!
  I'll fix that for the next release
  
  Thanks for the clarification!

Looking as gorgeous as ever. Keep up the great work!

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- Thanks for trying Thunder out! I appreciate all the feedback - if possible could you add them in as issues into GitHub so that they don’t get lost in the sea of comments?
  Thanks!!

Nice update! Any word on support for refresh rates above 60? Whenever I scroll on my 120hz screen phone the app feels like it's lagging.
- Hey! I am aware of the performance issues and am working to improve them slowly over time
  
  Thanks! Just to clarify, it's locked to 60Hz on Android. So it's not that the performance is dipping, it just doesn't seem to support high refresh screens.

Also thank you for improving the handling of the image view! Zoming and panning on a zoomed image was very difficult before, I didn't even have time to make an issue before you fixed it! :)
- Hey! Thanks for the feedback! I feel like there’s still a bit more improvements that can be made to it to make it a bit smoother and easier to use but I do think its better than before 😁

Is the Android version 64-bit only? I can't install it on my older phone with 32b system.

Thank you so much!

Great app dev, keep it up

Just found out about this app. Very fluent on iOS! Thanks for the hard work and looking forward to future updates!

Great release! On my Pixel the icon looks great and everything is working as I would hope. Thanks for the wonderful app!

Everything looks good but I am experiencing some skipping or lag when scrolling down.
- Yup, I’m aware of some performance issues and I’ll hopefully have some improvements to those soon
  
  No rush, just making mention of it. Keep up the great work!

Am i the only one who can't find the starred/saved posts? Material theming 🙏🙏
- Viewing saved posts will hopefully come in the next release 😅
  
  Oh my bad. Thanks!

Congrats for the monet icon!

Wow this is a great app. So smooth!
e: Please add kbin support
- I boosted but also wanted to comment for visibility
- kbin support will probably not be anytime soon as I want to focus on the core features first and making sure that is a good experience before expanding it to other platforms

Love the new option to open links in browser!!
Super minor thing, but it seems like links within posts (like the GitHub ones in this post) don't respect that setting

About only a third of my subscriptions appear on the left tab.
- How many subscriptions do you have? Currently the side bar is limited to 50. I do want to eventually move subscriptions from the sidebar to another location for better management
  
  Thanks! 50 is quite limited indeed. A top menu interface for communities like in Relay would be sublime . That way it wouldn't interfere with the slide to upvote/downvoted feature

On iOS I can’t see the number of upvotes or downvotes from inside the post (while seeing comments). Outside works great.
Great improvements on the app, keep up the good work.

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