Connect for Lemmy App

With the forever experimental "Horizontal swipe for next post" setting on, sometimes I will swipe and due to a bug it will randomly take me out of the post and reset my scroll to when I clicked on the first post.

I'd like it if the feature would scroll you to the post you exited at instead of the first one you clicked on.

Pretty sure this is Connect related because I can access the same communities directly from a browser. For a few random communities, if I click the community name itself or even select the community from my list of subs, it doesn't take me to the page. It just shows me the name, that I'm joined, and the number of posts. I can view individual posts from the community if I go there from my feed. I can access everything normally logged in using a browser.

The bottom bar used to be over my phone's navigation bar. A few months ago that changed and the bar slided behind it. Now it's impossible to operate.

I've spent some time looking for a fix in the settings. Neither post customization nor disabling fullscreen is working. Same thing with the sticky bar as with the collapsing one. Have not found anything useful in the phone's settings itself.

I'm especially tired of always having to close the whole app in order to refresh the feed when I scrolled too far down. Any ideas?

Hey all, I've been having this issue for a few months now. Anytime I save any picture, it completely freezes the app for about 10 seconds or so. It does save the picture successfully afterwards, but it won't respond until then. Occasionally it will even have the "Not Responding" popup come by, but it usually resolves itself shortly after. This wasn't happening when I first started using Connect a while back, but I figured it was my terrible phone acting up. However, I got a moto g stylus 5G (2024) recently and it's still freezing up.

Currently I'm on 1.0.275, Android 15. Let me know if you need any more details.

Is there a way to export saved posts and comments?

Tangentially related- I can't export anything because the button is behind the Android home navigation button on my pixel 8

As the title says: saving pictures in Lemmy connect doesn't work and make the app completely freeze, then crash

How to replicate? Open up an image, any image, and then try saving it. No other app with similar features (saving an image, say, WhatsApp) has this issue.

I have my Lemmy profile set to show NSFW posts (blurred), and the same configuration in Connect.

However, I've just realised that NSFW posts aren't showing up at all. I'm not sure how long this has been broken for, as I don't get many in my feed - I just happened to know there was a NSFW post in a community, which I couldn't see when I went to look for it in Connect.

I think it would be useful to have the option for Connect to pull from the modlog and show the original comment when it is removed by a mod. The reason I manually do this is to facilitate my tagging of users. Oftentimes a comment is removed for good reason and I can tag people as a racist, etc. An inline option by the "Removed by a mod" comment, when viewing posts would be convenient.

Started using block communities for the first time to get rid of AI bots talking to themselves, but I'm still seeing them both immediately and later on after rebooting.

Amy chance I'm misunderstanding how this works or is it broken?

Select a community > top right menu button > block community

Version 1.0.275

Posts hidden via three button menu reappear if you scroll the position the post was at out of view and then back into view

Say I am interacting with user abc in a comment chain. If they start acting incendiary and I block them, I can no longer see abc's comments. This would be fine, except... if user xyz responds to one of my comments in that comment chain, I have no way of interacting with that. Want to reply? Want to block them, too? Too bad, the entire chain is invisible (but you're still notified about xyz's comment, which you can do nothing about).

Maybe instead of making abc's comments invisible, they could be replaced by a comment box with "blocked user" instead, so the rest of the comment chain remains intact?

I'm trying to add a word to my filter. Let's say it's "orange". I type "o", it collapses my keyboard, says saved settings. I type "r", same thing. I takes forever to type in a word. Can it update after I type more or hit enter or save settings?

At least, that seems to be the case. I've seen several times now that it doesn't autofill, and fiddling with the URL has kicked it into life. Today I realised that it appears to only work if the URL ends in a slash.

In a passing comment someone said that lemmy.zip blocked hexbear by default. I checked in connect and didn't see it blocked. I checked on the web and it was blocked. Connect didn't know. I'd expect it to know.

Switched from lemm.ee to lemmy.zip. My old usernames were still in he profile switching section. I tried to switch to the old ones to remove them. The app just circled for several minutes. I force closed it and reopened it. It gives an error about unable to contact the server but at least gives me a menu. I removed the dead servers username.

So, not critical but weird.

I've used connect for a few years now, and was a lemm.ee user until they shut down at the end of June. I switched to lemmy.zip, and now when sharing pictures on Android (S24 Ultra) it won't actually share any media, it just shows the words image_proxy in the share dialog but there's no actual media to share.

Edit: Nevermind, got it figured, thank you though!

Profile screen only loads initially and refuses to update until app is restarted

steps to recreate

• Load Profile screen (important, don't skip step)
• Find a thread elsewhere on lemmy
• add comment to that thread
• return to Profile screen
• scroll up to refresh

Expected Behaviour

comment on thread should be visible in profile screen after refresh (or should auto refresh on returning to the Profile screen)

Current behaviour

I have to kill the app completely and reload it to update the Profile screen

Found on a Samsung Note 20 Ultra 5g

Connect Version 1.0.275 (275)

Not sure when this broke, but I'm no longer seeing the preview images when a post is a link to a news article.

It's just showing the 🔗 image with the domain under it.

Edit: Clearing cache doesn't help. Feddit.uk had a update a few days ago, so I'm wondering if that's caused this, although not sure why it would have?

As the title says.

Saving pictures and videos worked since a long time but since about a month or two, it would freeze up connect and make it crash.

Then a next version fixed it, then a subsequent version broke it again and it has been broken ever since, even after multiple new versions

Any idea when this might be fixed?

Edit: this is on Android v1.0.275 but has been broken in many other versions before that for at least like 2 months now

Go to a thread with more than a screenful of comments. Collapse some comments. Scroll away and back. Comments no longer collapsed.

I have no plans to move from Lemmy any time soon, but I am curious if PieFed integration was being considered.

It would probably make more sense to fork Connect but a "multi-client" would be neat.

I updated to the latest version being on beta channel and some comments in threads look like having 125% size of letters compared to others. Idk if that's some option in settings (I've not found one) and I don't see some systematic rule of why it happens.

edit: added screenshot, first comment is of different size to the next one, changing font size settings keeps the difference