Thunder App Nightly

Hello its me again bringing another pre-release of Thunder for v0.2.1+11! (if all things go accordingly and I don't mess up TestFlight builds again)

Just an update: I'll have a bit less time this week to work on Thunder, so updates may take a bit longer than before.

Be fully prepared to know that these pre-release versions may contain major bugs which could cause Thunder to crash or behave unexpectedly.

For things to test out, I would suggest:

• general testing of app overall, vote, reply, comment, share, etc.
• testing and changing custom swipe actions
• scrolling through long comment threads to check for any stuttering or performance issues
• changing all of the settings in the setting pages and see if they are all being applied correctly

Without further ado, these are the changes from the last pre-release:

• Post duplicates are now filtered from the feed - contribution from @ajsosa
• Fixed issue with haptic feedback when attempting to edit your own comment
• Fixed issue where you could not edit your comment in some instances when using your display name
• Fixed issue where commenting would bring you out of the post
• Fixed issue where longer comment threads would not show up properly
• Increased NSFW blur - contribution from @guigs4
• Slight changes to contrast of text in posts - contribution from @Fmstrat
• Added tooltip labels on sort types - contribution from @micahmo
• Added comment sorting - contribution from @guigs4
• Added option to show title before content - contribution from @Fmstrat
• Added option to show images edge-to-edge - contribution from @Fmstrat
• Addition of manual refresh icons to different screens - contribution from @bactaholic
• Adjusted font scaling to match closer to defaults, and applied font scaling to more places
• Fixed issue with talkback on posts not applying properly

and probably a whole bunch of other under-the-hood changes I forgot to note down

If you want to see all the full changes since v0.2.1+10 (its a long one): https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder/blob/962a089f5ff48d24b76ad67f76aeef34b3f1a123/CHANGELOG.md

This is the first pre-release of Thunder for v0.2.1+11! (if all things go accordingly and I don't mess up TestFlight builds again)

Just an update: I'll have a bit less time this week to work on Thunder, so updates may take a bit longer than before.

Be fully prepared to know that these pre-release versions may contain major bugs which could cause Thunder to crash or behave unexpectedly.

Without further ado, these are the changes from last time (based off changelog):

Added

• Added colour to username in comments to distinguish your own comments
• Added option to allow text preview on text posts in normal view - contribution from @coslu
• Added option to share media link or external URL links in the dialog popup on post long press
• Added back featured post icon on posts within a community
• Added ability to customize swipe gestures on comments and posts
• Added ability to develop with hot reload using docker - contribution from @Fmstrat
• Added initial implementation for font size scaling for titles and content - this is very very rough at the moment so feedback is appreciated

Changed

• Adjusted visual feedback in comment swipe gestures
• Added option in settings to enable/disable swipe on bottom navigation bar to open sidebar on feed page - contribution from @bactaholic
• Added option in settings to enable/disable double-tap on bottom navigation bar to open sidebar on feed page (this is disabled temporarily) - contribution from @bactaholic
• Decreased scroll distance needed in order to fetch more comments from a thread
• Improved error messages when more comments fail to fetch within a post
• Decreased number of comments to fetch at a time to improve loading performance
• Posts now load first before comment threads to make viewing posts more responsive

Fixed

• Potentially fixed issues with HTTPS certificate errors when running on Android using Adguard with HTTPS filtering enabled
• Improved performance for comment threads with a lot of comments
• Fixed issue where the last comment on a thread could potentially not show up
• Fixed issue where markdown links were not respecting "open in external browser" option - contribution from @Fmstrat
• Fixed issue with download media not working on Android for some users - contribution from @minicit
• Fixed issue where media download button appearance in light mode - contribution from @coslu

For things to test out, I would suggest:

• general testing of app overall, vote, reply, comment, share, etc.
• testing of custom swipe actions
• scrolling through long comment threads
• changing all of the settings in the setting pages

Question above. Right now if I try to install nightly and I have stable installed I get prompted to update. Are we going to be able to have both installed simultaneously?

Here's another pre-release version, coming in hot

This latest version includes several fixes to the previous one, including:

• Fixed issue where replying from inbox would show grey screen
• Fixed issues with profile posts/comments/saved not showing up all the way
• Fixed issue with "save" being part of Talkback on posts
• Removed saved tab when viewing user profiles (as I don't think thats a possibility)
• Adjusted error messages when creating or editing comments

Again, like the last pre-release from this morning, the goal here is to just test out all of the general functionality and find any major outstanding issues or bugs that may affect a lot of users.

This will most likely be the last pre-release for v0.2.1+9 unless any major issues are noted! I plan to release v0.2.1+9 to everyone either later tonight or early tomorrow depending on if any major issues pop up

Thanks again for helping test these versions out! I really do appreciate all your efforts :D

Hey there, back again with another pre-release version of Thunder for v0.2.1+9! This will probably be the final list of new features that are going to be added in the upcoming release, so it will just be bug fixing major things that pop up here and there.

Note: There is currently a login issue with lemmy.world due to the upgrade to 0.18.1. This is not something on Thunder's end

Be fully prepared to know that these pre-release versions may contain major bugs which could cause Thunder to crash or behave unexpectedly.

Without further ado, these are the changes from last time:

• Added ability to edit your own comments, the action simple replaces the reply swipe action when on your own comment
• Fixed an issue where performing vote/save actions on comments would do it to the first comment in the thread (the parent one)
• Fixed issue where subscribing from the search page would cause an error to pop up
• Fixed issue where setting a default sort option would cause infinite loading to happen

For things to test out, I would suggest just testing out general things like voting, saving, replying, and creating posts, as well as testing out the following things (these are issues which are marked as "fixed" in the issues tab)

• Error when subscribing from community search #160
• Display vote counts for posts #159
• Ability to edit comments #158
• Upvote and downvote buttons feel unresponsive #141
• Increase visual separation of posts in dark theme #137
• Timeouts replace entire screen with error message #134
• Reply button covers text #130
• Unable to exit #124
• Mark as read button on read inbox messages is not functional #121
• Pull to refresh doesn't work on posts #120
• Alternate comment collapse behaviour #119
• Inconsistent haptic feedback when upvoting with gestures # 116
• Add share button to post in list view #106
• Sort by top #101
• Media download button #50
• Stuttering issues while scrolling #24
• Simple way to access a user or community profile #17

I apologize in advance if this is a Lemmy thing that I don't understand but I've been noticing some content differences while using the Lemmy apps. I usually brushed those off as performance or API issues but I can't with this one.

I've been closely following Thunder's development so I was excited to see the nightly community but upon arrival it shows no posts and 5 subscribers. Checking from other apps I can see that there are 2 posts and ten times as many subscribers.

So is it an actual Thunder bug or a weird Lemmy feature ? I thought instances weren't supposed to impact content ?

Here's the first pre-release version of Thunder for the upcoming v0.2.1+9 release!

As always, this is a pre-release version so it is expected that there may be crashes or major bugs introduced.

More details about the pre-release version, changelog, and things to test are outlined in the pre-release notes!

Please comment in this post for any bugs or issues that you find while testing. Thanks!