I just happened upon a post with a spoiler and couldn't view it.

Edit: works in the preview, doesn't work after posting

I’m on the mobile app connect to read lemmy. Since a few days, I can only see a grey screen when trying to read comments.

Has anybody else encountered this or does anybody have an idea how I can fix this?

Thank you!

Tried to make a screenshot but the post was way to confusing being a lemmy screenshot on lemmy so il attempt to describe the issue.

Basically the block user option now overlaps with the Android navigation bar right at the bottom of the screen and can't be clicked.

Error text:

An error occured (PlatformException(error, null, null,

java.lang.NullPointerException

at U2.f.onMethod Call (SourceFile:350)

at n3.d.P(SourceFile:26)

at g3.c.run(SourceFile:140)

at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:958)

at

android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)

at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:205)

at android.os.Looper.loop (Looper.java:294)

at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8 177)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)

at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgs

Caller.run(RuntimeInit.java:552)

at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.jav a:971) ))

I was originally going to post about blurred NSFW images opening in external browser unless you first open the comments where the thumbnail is visible and tapping on that then opens the image internally. But this issue has recently spread to cover pretty much every image. The images have URLs like https://sopuli.xyz/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.world%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2Fc29a7ebe-f747-4518-8e53-62a552145b5f.jpeg which seems to make Connect think it's an entire website that should be opened externally. Is it a Lemmy thing, my home instance sopuli.xyz thing or a Connect thing?

Note that I did try disabling the external browser in the settings but actual websites opening internally was a horrible reminder about why we don't do that.

Was working in a recent version but now everything opens in the internal browser. I'm on v247.

EDIT: For posts with links where the thumbnail is not resolving, the link goes to the external browser. For everything else, it opens in the internal browser; with the open external setting on.

It was working in a recent version but I no longer see the highlighting in v244&245. Tried toggling the setting on and back on but nada.

I'd really prefer having the 1 touch view option back, while the image browser window likely has its uses I don't like it popping up for every image. Thanks for your efforts!

Clicked the above link, which worked:

Local post link

However it shows there are comments but Connect isn't displaying any.

Refreshed by pulling from top. Now shows completely different post:

This one

Local feddit.uk version

Incidentally just before this I edited a comment and instead of the usual bug where it can't find it, it showed me the wrong post. Not sure if this is all related.

(Will edit images in asap - seem to have been blocked from uploading for the moment)

I don't know if I'm missing it, but I can't see an option to report accounts. I just got another Nicole spam, this time with a bunch of bitcoin links, but I could only find a block option via Connect, and had to logon via web to report the account. I looked on the three-dot menus both on the message and the profile, but I couldn't see a report.

First and foremost, I'm really glad this feature has finally been added. Many have requested and it's here. Unfortunately, it's not fully baked yet.

Filters(keyword), MultiCommunities, and user notes are not exported in v244. Domain and other filters may also not be exported; I didn't have those so I'm not sure if they get exported.

So whatever you do, don't go clearing the app cache and expect everything to be saved when you import. Like I did. I only have myself to blame for testing freshly implemented features on beta builds. Losing my user notes hurt.

Just sharing an issue I'm having, and glad if there's any potential solution. Thank you either way for your work on this app!

Issue: In any post comment tree, comments with images (or comments that are just images) appear as in the first example image - DominusOfMegadeus's post is just empty on my Connect for Android app. If I long-press and choose "Open," it will open a browser to the hosted instance and the image will show correctly, as in the second image.

Troubleshooting: I looked everywhere in the settings (both in Connect and in my instance's settings) and can't find something that could be limiting this.

Is this a bug? Or is there a fix I'm just missing?

I was looking at this thread and, at the time of this post, it's supposed to have 41 comments but Connect only showed a handful. Opening the post in a browser shows the missing comments, some of which were moderated and removed. One comment, that had a long chain, was removed but many of its replies were not and shows up in the browser. Not sure if the moderation action is the cause of Connect not showing the chain or maybe because it's long?

Is it possible to get lemmyverse.link URLs to resolve internally? And preferably open in Connect when tapped on elsewhere?

I just tapped one in Connect and it opened in a browser, which was a bit annoying!

I just got a new phone and I can't figure out how to transfer my Connect settings over. Would be super cool if I could export an XML file or something.

Pinned posts were showing up at the top of communities a couple of versions back ~~but they're following your sort settings in v241.~~ And I think a few versions prior as well.

EDIT: Ah, so they're actually showing up at the bottom of page 1. They don't follow your sort settings and enabling the page number setting revealed that specific.

Recently, I noticed the keyboard would sometimes pop up at random times and I finally figured out reproducible steps.

Search any community from the sidebar and tap on it. Tap on a post and then tap and hold the screen, sliding it to the right. The keyboard should popup for some reason, even though there is no input field on-screen(after the post view is off-screen). This only seems to happen if the search field in the sidebar has text inputted. I was wondering why the heck the keyboard keeps popping up.

Reproduction Steps:

1. Open Connect
2. Switch to another account
3. Open the Profile page from the sidebar
4. Back out of the Profile page

Expected Behavior: User will be returned to the feed from step 2. before checking their Profile

Observed Behavior: User is returned to the default feed of the account from step 1.

Extra Information: This bug requires the user to be logged into more than one account. The different feed that's presented is the default feed of whichever account Connect is started with. You can change which account Connect starts with by switching to whichever account you want, exit out of Connect and swipe it away, and then open Connect again.

I'm not sure what the trigger is for this but it seems to occur after a couple hours of not using Connect. So sometimes when I view posts in a community, the vote count for it is around half of the actual count when I go back to viewing the community page. If I open the community in my browser, the current vote count indicates the community view in Connect is up to date. I can view other posts or go back into affected posts and the count will be incorrect.

I think viewing other subscribed communities will also not fix the problem. It is corrected when I view one of my feeds and then go back to the posts. I've only noticed this happening with the Canada community on Lemmy.ca, so it may be community specific but I suspect it's not and my other subscribed communities aren't as active to test.

I've only noticed this recently, so maybe it's only been introduced in to last couple of updates, or it's been longer and I haven't paid attention.

Our dev does good things. Please help keep the world economy intact by buying him a coffee.

Connect -> Settings -> Scroll to bottom -> Support your dev link.

Nelson demands it.

Edit: A few coffees later and the DOW is up 2k. Coincidence? I think not.

MultiCommunities are here!

MultiCommunities are groupings of communities that can span multiple instances. They can be used to make custom views when you are only interested in a specific subset of communities but not the overall Local/Frontpage/All feed.

All of the existing Community Settings should also apply to MultiCommunities such as View Type, Sort, Mark as Read, and so on.

If you'd like to try it out please make sure you're updated to version 239 or above. Please let me know what you think and if there are any features you'd like to see added!

Sharing

All MultiCommunities are fully shareable. Here's the share link to my meme MultiCommunity above (this will only work on version >240): Multicommunity: memes . The format is essentially connect-multi://[multi name]/[community name @ instance]+....

Adding Communities

The overflow options now includes an 'Add to Multi' option. The community banner also has a plus button which will add the Community to a MultiCommunity. If that community already is added instead a minus option will appear here for removing that community.

Don't have Connect Installed? You can find it on Google Play here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect

Cheers!

Kuro

Originally, I just wanted to request tagging specific instances as NSFW. This would be helpful for posters on specific instances that do not always tag posts as NSFW but still should get caught by our NSFW preferences.

NSFW isn't always porn so the NSFW filter catches a bit much, sometimes. Excluding specific communities from the NSFW filter is an option, but that gave me yet another idea.

Expanding on this idea, it would be cool to start categorizing communities with tags, like "sports" or "news", "world news" or something arbitrary like "neat".

This would allow filtering by what kinds of content I want to view at any given time, in theory. Hell, we could even start building a master list to share for community categories in GitHub or something like that.

I can't find it anywhere in the settings. When I open the app I want to to default to Top-Day but it's stuck on Top-6 hour. Actually, sticky sort doesn't work either. I changed to Top-Day and closed the app, opened again and it was back to Top-6 Hour. Thanks for any help!

I have had the problem several times where I search for a post or comment that I know exists, but because I've got "hide after vote" enabled, it doesn't show up in search results. It's there a way to see hidden posts/comments in the search results?

Updated the app trying to fix the front page loading bug and now I'm getting flash banged by my screen when I open an image, or even my own profile with a bright blue banner I didn't ask for. Exceedingly unpleasant. Is there any way to roll back to an older version without all this?