Connect for Lemmy App

Coming from baconreader one of the most useful things for me was the ability to curate a few different "front page" feed. I think Reddit had multi-Reddits which this was based on.

Also being able to set favorite communities made it possible to easily navigate these and other communities I liked to view a lot.

There are communities that i love when I am looking for something specific but I don't necessarily want them in my front page.

Sometimes when I'm trying to navigate the side pane, Connect only gives me a couple of options. One of which is a huge SIGN OUT button that I've accidentally clicked a half dozen times already

I don't think we even need a sign out button in that menu - imo it should be in a sub menu - but if it's gonna stay there could you shrink it way down?

Padding between posts seems to be bugged on v1.0.106 making out difficult to see when one post ends and another starts.

I can't seem to see posts that are below 0 points.

If I respond to a person, and their post gets downvoted, mine also becomes contextually unviewable.

Same seems to happen if I respond to someone and they delete their post.

Is this a connect feature? Where can I change this? I don't want posts to be hidden unless I hide it manually. I always want to be able to revisit my posts in the threads they were posted in.

Super low-priority change request but sometimes the notifications and status bar blur (like in the attached photo) with the titles and photos and obscures both at the same time. Would love to have an opaque bar to keep the notification bar separate.

Recently I've had trouble with double posting. I swear I used to type my words, hit the airplane and I was done. Was another screen added? It seems like I used to be taken back to the comment list and now it puts me in the editor and I get confused. I think that the comment hasn't posted so I hit the airplane again and double post. Anyone else having issues?

Howdy,

For some reason I can no longer see the Next\Previous comment bar. I have disabled\re-enabled show comment bar and comment navigator. Is this handled somewhere else?

Version 1.0.104 (but have noticed this for a while).

Hello, just picked up the Connect app and I've been enjoying it the most of any Lemmy app so far. However, I've been getting the following strange behavior, which may be a bug:

Viewing a specific post (https://lemmy.world/post/2104570) shows that there are (at time of writing) 76 total comments, but actually scrolling through reveals only ~37-40, even after expanding collapsed ones. Navigating directly to this post in a web browser reveals more comments than are shown in the app (still less than 76, around 65 or so, but I assume this is some other bug with Lemmy). Reloading the thread does not fix it and this has persisted across 2 days by my checks. I don't have any instances or users blocked, and I don't think that blocking communities would lead to this behavior (I haven't blocked the one in question). Am I missing something?

It seems that I'm unable through either ineptitude or issue to view long pictures. Help?

Recently I've noticed that there's a slight delay between tapping on a post to view it and when it actually opens. I realized that this must be to support double-tap voting, as the app has to wait for the full double-tap timing window after your first tap to determine if you were going to perform a double-tap to vote or if you actually wanted to view the post.

I'd really appreciate a setting to disable this feature as I find the slight delay when opening every post to be very annoying.

I have noticed that only a small handful of gifs will play automatically and within the app while scrolling through a community, but the vast, vast majority of the time a link is shown and you have to navigate away from the feed / lemmy (in the built in browser) to view them.

I thought it might be a limitation of lemmy / the fediverse until I saw the few above mentioned gifs.

Is the playing of (nearly) all gifs within Connect something that can happen and will come in time?

Thanks.

When was this feature added? Just found it and was wondering if anyone else had found it yet! Are there any more secrets you are hiding @kuro_[email protected] ??

Exit: wait on 1.0.106 its a toggle

I've subscribed to the beta testing program so this is not likely to affect most of users, but after updating to 1.0.101 (yesterday) I can't use any swipe action on posts any more, neither in card view nor list view nor fullwidth. It gives a double haptic feedback, as if the action was sent and cancelled immediately afterwards. Saving, upvoting and replying work seamlessly from the post buttons. Restarting/logging in again did not help (and the fact that the actions work with the buttons seem to indicate that my account is entitled to upvote/reply to that post). For comments everything works fine though.

Edit: my bad, already reported here

I hate this feature with a burning passion. It makes it hard to zoom in and move around. It's slow. And when my screen dims while I read I can't wake it up without closing the image.

Please let me disable this feature in settings

I have recently been having an issue where filters are applied, not by me, while I'm browsing in Connect. Entire communities are showing no posts with the message, "Empty because all posts are being filtered". There are no filters turned on in the settings that I can see. Many comments are also hidden due to filters, including my own. I have checked in using the browser interface and everything is normal there.

Is there a setting I am missing, or do I have another issue with the app?

Edit: Issue solved, apparently I had blocked lemmy.world though I'm not sure how.

The active Sort method is displayed in the Top bar, second line. To improve visibility, it would be helpful to have an option to select one of the action colors to display the active Sort method.

Alternatively, the active Sort method could be moved next to the Sort selector icon on the right section of the Top bar.

Two related questions. When I select an inbox reply sometimes it takes me to the comment context (great!) bi other times it takes me to some other random comments on the same thread and I can't even find my original comment. The other question is how the heck do I search the comments? The search function doesn't seem to do this?

Gives error "person_not_found". This is a local conversation. I tried adding the domain but didn't help. Using the beta.

I'm on 1.0.104 and it won't let me view the blocked settings list anymore? Its just blank when the loading stops

When viewing the seperate upvote/downvote count, downvoting decreases the value, but it should increase the downvote value, since you are adding a downvote.

Also can't seem to get to About Community from the left nav. It just shows a grey box when I click it. If i go to the comm and hit the button it shows how it should.

You can't click links on the About Community page (when it loads). I have to open in the browser to click the hyperlink, its a bit of a pain! Thanks for reading, love the app!!!

For some reason, when I try to reply to msgs... formatting the text doesn't work.

Anyone else having this problem?

Edit: If you change your font size in settings to larger...formatting won't work. This was the problem I was having.

Next to the comment counter, I can't seem to figure out what the bracketed number indicates. For a second I thought it meant new comments, but I've seen some posts that have 2 (+2) and when I open it, it still only has 2 comments.

What the title says, something like size 'cover' on CSS

Excellent app, and possibly the most stable on a slightly outdated tablet.

I would like to know how to add or erase instances listed, or are users limited to the three you offer (lemme.ee, lemmy.world, and lemmy.ca)

I have a custom/private instance I use the web interface with for a small group of developers, and cannot for the life of me figure out how to add it to connects list. Plus, I don't use lemm.ee or lemmy.ca, so I would like to remove them.

Could someone point me in the right direction?

Thank you!

When I attempt to login to sh.itjust.works on Connect for Android v1.0.96, I get

error: sh.itjust.works - incorrect_login

I am able to login to sh.itjust.works from Firefox and Wefwef (Voyager?) using the same username/password.

I double and triple-checked before posting this because password problems are almost always user error...

Edit: This was indeed user error. I was using the keyboard suggestion for my username which was adding a trailing space which was passed as part pf my username when attempting to log in. Removing the trailing space allows me to log in.

Would it be possible to have the next comment appear in the same position as the previous comment when using the navigation feature? Currently, when pressing the 'Next' button, the next comment defaults to the center of the screen. I think it would make navigating comments easier if it stays in the same spot. Thanks in advance!