Boost For Lemmy

I see this often and wonder how much I miss as a result. Imgur links neither render as a link nor an image. I only know it's a link to an image when I view it the same post via the WebUI or another app. I don't even realize these are images most of the time and just scroll past.

Is it simply not being handled yet? A bug? Design decision?

Referenced post: https://lemmy.world/post/24776463

DAE have very delayed and sometimes never fired notifications for Mentions and DMs?

Reply notifications go through per settings just fine every 15 minutes or so

But mentions and DMs never seem to fire on time, sometimes 1 or 2 hours late, if at all. It won't even show a counter for those tabs when I'm on the replies screen, only when I flip to them they'll "catch-up"

I am evaluating if hosting a Lemmy instance fulfills my use case. If I share a link with Lemmy, it is really just that, I shared a link, right?! I noticed that in some cases Boost shows further content for this link. For example for a YouTube link it shows a thumbnail. But for other page like news pages it has no thumbnail or so ever. I double checked, if I share the same news article with for example my messenger of choice the preview is correct, means the meta data gets correctly resolved. Because I am new to Lemmy I would like to know which software is now responsible to resolve it. For example I had a NSFW gif page link which was perfectly resolved but others get not.

Every hint about it is appreciated. 🙏

The ability to add users to list's separated by group. With all the crazy stuff going on it would be helpful to be able to remember who is who. Maybe with a user defined flair next to their username on their posts and comments.

I don't like blocking views I don't agree with but would like an easy way to see at a glance what kind of person I'm dealing with and make it easier to see patterns in their discussions. If they were to be overly annoying, arguing in bad faith consistently or just a propaganda mouthpiece this would make it easier to recognize.

Something to break the infinite scroll.

Lots of stuttering.

Is there a way to enable logs outputs? I'm getting pretty regular timeout errors on my primary instance of choice. I'd really like to know more details about what's going on.

Basically the title. I click a link and it takes forever to open. Doesn't matter the type of link. If I click a link multiple times then eventually N pages open all at once

For example

https://lemmy.ca/comment/13566145

Since the fediverse doesn't have a distinct username length limit, it might help to put a max length and then ellipsis it

LongUsername@LongInstanceNam... 135 ⋅ 2w ⋅ (2w)

I can easily find posts that I have saved by going to my profile but I can't seem to find saved comments anywhere

I have an image that absolutely must be seen by you folk but I can't upload it! I made this account on the lemm.ee instance if that matters but whenever I try to upload an image I get error 400/414. Anyone else?

I've mainly seen this with ^superscript^ notation not being recognized, but I assume there are other differences between Lemmy markdown and what Boost uses.

I would llike to request the implementation of swipe gestures in boost for Lemmy to allow users to quickly and intuitively interact with posts and comments.

This feature would significantly improve the user experience by providing a more efficient and modern way to engage with content.

Specifically, I propose adding the following swipe gestures:

1. Swipe to upvote/downvote posts and comments
2. Swipe to share posts and comments
3. Swipe to save posts and comments

Benefits

• Improved user experience and engagement
• Faster and more intuitive interactions with content
• Alignment with modern mobile app design patterns
• Competitive feature parity with other popular Lemmy apps

Implementation Suggestions

• Add horizontal swipe gestures for posts in the feed
• Implement horizontal swipe gestures for comments
• Include customizable gesture settings to allow users to personalize their experience
• Ensure smooth animations for visual feedback during swipe actions

Examples from Other Apps

• Sync for Lemmy: Allows swiping on posts to vote, share, and save
• Voyager for Lemmy: Implements swipe gestures for various post and comment actions

Potential Challenges

• Ensuring gesture recognition doesn't interfere with scrolling
• Maintaining accessibility for users who may have difficulty with swipe gestures

Conclusion

Adding swipe gesture functionality to boost would greatly enhance the app's usability and bring it in line with other popular Lemmy clients.

This feature would make content interaction more efficient and enjoyable for users, potentially increasing engagement and user satisfaction.

scrolling through All and getting to the bottom restarts the App instead of loading more posts

Is this a known issue? Is it only certain phones? I want to save images and memes to my galaxy 8 but i can't. As far as i can tell The app has permissions you access my image folder. When boost returned from the reddit api debacle i could download images just fine. But a couple months ago i stopped being able to.

I can load the HD version of the image just fine.

This way you can blur previews unless you specifically seek out NSFW content.

As a community owner, I need to edit the rules from time to time, and it's annoying to have to go to the web interface to do so.

It happens if I try to upload an unedited photo from my camera roll. If I crop it, even by a tiny amount, it lets me upload. It's a really frustrating issue because I have to edit every photo before uploading.

It happens frequently, which is annoying, I paid to remove the advertising, because I believed in the quality, but this bug makes it unfeasible to use it.

On some screens, long tapping a comment hides it, while short tap brings up options. On other screens this is reversed.

See title. In app playback for loops content (ala the in app YouTube player) would be fantastic.

Example post: https://midwest.social/post/20018226

I sometimes find it hard to tell at a glance if a post I'm looking at is one I have clicked on since they are just a slightly lighter grey than posts I haven't clicked on. Being able to set it to whatever color I would like would be very helpful.

When coming from an NSFW post, both the post links and any links in comments should open in an incognito tab by default, instead of a regular tab. This is the main reason I currently use the (pretty broken) internal browser ATM.

I believe there is an intent to handle this, see https://conn.dev/chrome-incognito.html (which also seems to work for other browsers).