Liftoff!

Lots of great changes have been added by our growing team of contributors as highlighted below. If you want to join the team come and say hello at the team discussion on Matrix

Please note that many lemmy servers are under massive pressure today, so you may see many unexpected error messages and silent failures. Please bear with us all!

Updates should appear on TestFlight and Play Store today.

v0.10.5 Release

iOS:

• TestFlight (will be visible later today)

Android:

• GitHub
• Play Store
• If you want to stay up to date with the latest releases before it gets on Play Store or F-Droid, checkout Obtainium

Hello everyone! We are blown away by the tremendous support from the community! Thanks for using our app and helping beta test as we round things out.

It's been a few days since we've posted an update and the team has been hard at work with a TON of bug fixes and some new features.

Change log

• Added configuration option to automatically convert .webp images to .png for saving (njshockey)
• Added error messages and retry buttons for instance loading errors (zachatrocity)
• Implemented comment contexts and added "Show context" and "View all comments" buttons (jcgurango)
• Fixed several issues with comments not loading correctly after posting a new comment (jcgurango)
• Fixed and updated ModLog Pages & API (zachatrocity)
• Added menu item to view a community in a specific instance other than the originating instance (jcgurango)
• Added shadow to bottom tab bar to visually offset it from cards underneath (swmarks)
• Added Chrome Custom Tabs / Safari View Controller to replace in app browser on Android & iOS (swmarks)
• Added deep link support for links like liftoff://lemmy.world/c/liftoff (shocklateboy92)
• Updated l10n translation hooks, and added strings (mykdavies, zachatrocity)
• Changed "You're not logged in, log in" message to dismiss after 7 seconds (christopher-conley)
• Fixed an issue causing login to fail if there is a space after the username (christopher-conley)
• Changed photo previews in post feed to have a consistent maximum height and updated opening animation (prefanatic)

What's coming

• We hear you about notification badges. Those are coming, PR is opened and being tested. As well as local pushed notifications via scheduling
• Ultra compact view. Really we will be adding a 3rd view type so we will have card, list, and compact. The current compact view will become list
• Even more error handling for instance failures.
• bugs bugs bugs