Hi everyone! We are halfway through between version 1.10.x and 1.11... next week I am not going to have much time because I'll be attending KotlinConf '24 (btw, if anyone happens to be there, let me know!). So, what to expect for this project?

I am continuing on various user experience and layout improvements (especially the inbox section), I've fixed crashes I received reports for and, if I manage, I'll work on a small enhancement which I've been postponing for too long: hide the ability to downvote if your instance does not allow you to do so.

That's it, enjoy the weekend! I'll publish the next pre-release build on Tuesday May, 21st if you don't mind.

Hi guys, new week new development release! This week I have been working to fix some annoying bugs, e. g. a loader incorrectly positioned before video playback, the pull to refresh indicator was a incorrectly positioned in some screens, and a visual bug while replying to a comment.

Additionally I added a couple of new features, such as administration tools and configurable indent amount for comments which you requested.

Finally I have made several improvements under the hood, adding new unit tests, refactoring code, reimplementing the bookmarks screen to unify the pagination logic and created a CI workflow in order to enforce state checks, so that non-compliant pull requests cannot be accidentally merged.

I hope you enjoy it, have a nice weekend, be responsible and, as always, L. F. E. T. 🦝🦝🦝

I am considering a change in the upvote and downvote buttons, which version do you prefer? Or, alternatively, do you have any other proposals? Let me know in the comments.

Please don't ask me to put a setting for it and have both versions. 😂

Ok, so seemingly even version 1.10.1 wasn't perfect, there was a bug in how the post body max lines setting was enforced, plus a series of small issues (account switching, message loading at the beginning of conversations, the status bar style not being applied correctly with light theme) and several layout that still needed improvements.

I wanted to address as many issues as possible but not force everyone to update, so here is a development build for those who want to install the latest release.

Did I say "if anything goes wrong I can always release a patch"? Yes I did... and here's the patch.

This is mainly to solve a bug with the keyboard in coment creation, a bug in account switching and improve the image detail screen.

Thanks to those who took the time to report these issue and explain them to me.

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Ok, I've decided this month's release is ready, so hopefully soon you should be able to get your updates through the stores.

This version has so many changes that I really struggled to make everything fit into the character limit, but if you play around you'll notice that there are quite a few new things.

It is now possible to fade out read posts, import/export app settings in JSON, navigate to previous or next comment in post detail and even navigate to previous/next post if you opened the detail from a list. Other new features are title autocompletion, bot account highlighting, an option to have full width (besides full height) images, custom tabs support, a monochrome alternate app icon, the ability to receive contents from the system "Share" menu and a brand new "sidebar" used to display community and user info.

Plus, of course, a lot of UI improvements and bug fixes based on your most valuable feedback. Thanks to everyone who dedicated some time to give suggestions, report or fix bugs, and helped in any way.

You are awesome! And, for those who know me a little bit, maintaining this project makes my life better.

Ok, this week's development release is receiving a lot of feedback (a huge thank you to all contributors!) so I'm splitting its lifecycle in half. I've worked through most of the requests and reports yesterday and I'm releasing a new intermediate release today so that from here until Wednesday I have time to collect further feedback and make further fixes.

I hope I'll be able to release 1.10.0 soon in order to deliver all updates to users that stick with the stable version, so unless there are blocking bugs or serious things, the next release will be pushed to the stable channel.

Have a nice weekend, raccoons of Lemmy 🦝 L. F. E. T. 🦝

Cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/13516196

As agreed, this is the new pre-release version of 1.0.0. There are some new features such as: opening links in custom tabs, navigation between comments in post detail and to previous/next post in feeds. Some of your requests about link opening and link banner display have been addressed too, plus the profile and login screen have been slightly improved. I had the opportunity to change some things under the hood, like the pagination mechanism, in order to make it possible to navigate to previous/next from the post screen, which was much needed and resulted in cleaner code, even if it took some time to refactor.

Hi everyone, I need your opinion about the next release. As you know, each Wednesday I release a new beta version and the first week of each month a stable version.

Tomorrow would be time for a new prod release but recently I've been working on a lot of new "huge" features such as opening links in custom tabs, comment and post navigation, etc. which nobody except me have tried in real world scenarios. And not everything is opt-out by default, e.g. the pagination logic had to be reviewed in the whole app in order to be able to navigate between posts from each feed.

Would you like to have stable 1.10.0 tomorrow or a pre-release and skipping the new stable to next week? Personally I would release anyway because if anything goes wrong I can patch it... but if one or two users help me with tests it is worth waiting a week before going into the wild.

Leave me your thoughts in the comments below and thanks as always!

New week, new release! In this one there a couple of interesting features like title autofill, the possibility to receive text (post URL or body) from other apps via the system's share menu and the ability to import and export settings to a JSON file.

On the layout side, I restored the profile screen like it was on version 1.9.0 (stable), introduced a side menu for community info and user info, reviewed some paddings and fixed the edge-to-edge display which was not working well on some devices.

Thanks to all those who reached out to me for feedback, suggestions, hints on how to get things done and everything. You are awesome! 🦝🦝🦝

Since I received some negative criticism (but also some positive remarks) about the profile actions which were moved in the floating action button in this week's release, I am planning to iterate over in for next week's release and I need your opinion.

Instead of using the FAB or having it all always visible, I propose to you to use a side menu from the right side, as implemented in the following pull request. Would you mind having a look at the video on GitHub and give me your opinion? I'll leave two comments below here and will decide what to do based on the number of upvotes of the individual comments.

Thanks to everyone who participates!

Hi everyone! We're releasing on Wednesday again because "what a week, huh?" but I hope it's equally fine for everyone. This development release has a couple of features you requested (marking read posts and showing the number of unread comments, both of which must be manually enabled from the advanced settings screen because I wanted to keep the experience consistent for most users). Plus a series of fixes and improvements.

In this release I have welcomed an external contribution too,which fixed a bug with credential autocompletion. The project is slowly but steadily finding its place in the lemmy-verse it seems. Thanks to everyone who is helping in this journey and, as usual, L. F. E. T. 🦝🦝🦝

This week I'm releasing the development build earlier because I'll be a couple of days away for work. Hope you enjoy it and let me know your opinion about the enhancements and new features and have a great weekend! It sounds a little strange said on Wednesday but... what a week, huh?

This week will be a busy week so I don't have much time, anyway I'll be working on the following areas:

• a screen with the list of licenses of all third-party libraries and resources used, plus a monochrome icon variant
• experimental support for background checking of inbox unread items (i.e. local notifications)
• fixes for a couple of bugs you have reported (e.g. zoomable image screen, full height images in compact mode, etc.)

Many thanks to everyone for your feedback, suggestions and help in building the community around the project! 🙇🙇🙇

Today, being the first Thursday of the month, I released the new stable version with all the improvements and new features that testers have already been able to see in the past weeks. The user base is kind of stable, no review on Google Play and I have lost some stars on GitHub, so the outlook is a little negative... I'll continue working on the project every now and then but that's it. Thanks as always to all who reached out to me... and in the meantime L.F.E.T.

In case anyone missed it, today I released the last pre-production release of March. There are many improvements to the Explore section which has been polished and can now be used to explore a whole other instance in guest mode (by selecting the "Explore <instance name>" option in the top right menu from a community or user detail).

Other features are:

• possibility to share images as files (as opposed to URLs);
• for moderators, the possibility to edit community metadata;
• search in subscription management.

Enjoy the weekend (depending on where you are it may or not be Easter) and stay tuned for next week's roadmap. Since I am planning to release a new stable version for the new month, don't expect many new features, unless you have new crunchy requests (but I haven't received any so far).

L.F.E.T. 🦝️🦝️🦝️

Last week of the month, I should consider releasing a new production build for the beginning of the next. For the release of next week, you'll probably find the following new features:

1. a simplification of the Explore screen with better usage of screen space (and the possibility to subscribe on-the-fly to communities listed);
2. from the user detail and community detail you'll be able to open an "Explore instance" screen which is basically the Explore screen but locked to a local search on the other instance;
3. moderators will be able to edit community metadata (image, banner, sidebar, etc.)

In the meantime I'll continue with my chores (like writing tests, updating documentation, upgrading dependencies, etc.)

Yes, I know I should be releasing on Thursday but ten minutes more, ten minutes less who cares... So, that's it for this week. This version includes:

• UI improvements, especially font sizes and spacing;
• a new screen where you can see all the contents you have liked or disliked;
• a revised interface for moderated contents (which now has both posts and comments from your moderated communities in the same screen);
• easier copy from post title/text as requested by you;
• filter in comments from post detail, which was issue #40 on GitHub but I never had time to implement it;
• the possibility to set a default language for newly created posts and comments;
• other minor fixes and enhancements.

Stay tuned for what I'll be working on next week, as always L.F. E. T. 🦝️🗑️🦝️

Thanks as always for testing yesterday's release. For next week I'll be focusing on these tasks:

• feat: search in comments (requested here)
• feat: easier copy (requested here)
• enhancement: default language for posts and comments
• feat: add the possibility to search within local post of another instance (in Explore?)
• fix some bugs you have reported (inline images sometimes bringing to app crash, manage subscription layout, font sizes)
• as usual some chores (dependency updates, tests, etc.)