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Liftoff v0.10.5 - Bugs, Bugs, Bugs! (github.com)
submitted 2 years ago by liftoff to c/liftoff
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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:

Android:

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
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[–] ekZepp 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

HI, the photo preview height is a bit too low, it cuts basically any meme and force you to click on them each time, can you add an height control or a disabile option in future version?

Also, any way to hide this? I know is a server issue, but can we disable it from showing?

[–] zachatrocity 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We're gonna shrink it down into a more concise error message for 502s but we're not gonna stop displaying it

[–] TwinTurbo 3 points 2 years ago

Perfect! I like the fact that you're showing the error, so I can know exactly what went wrong, whether it's likely on my side or the server's.

[–] ekZepp 1 points 2 years ago

That's great 👍

[–] Shizu 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Hi! Can you make the post preview height toggle able? I preferred it the old way and now I have to click the images in order to see my memes fully.. That's rather ~~inconvenient~~ annoying. Edit: changed inconvenient to annoying as it is really annoying to have to click every image.

[–] zachatrocity 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah we'll add this to a toggle in the settings

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, I don't like this new layout as much. Greatly prefer the old way

[–] zachatrocity 8 points 2 years ago

We'll make this toggleable. Thanks for the feedback

[–] DaniloT 4 points 2 years ago

Came here to post exactly this, it would be much better if it was a toggleable option for the fixed card height, I liked just scrolling and in fact was the reason I switched to liftoff, was just a better experience, now it's annoying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Agreed I'd rather see an entirely too long post occasionally than have to click/tap every other one just to see the punchline to a meme I already read half of while scrolling

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Changed photo previews in post feed to have a consistent maximum height and updated opening animation (prefanatic)

Thanks, I hate it. I don't want a preview, I want the real thing. Full pictures in the feed was one of my favorite features about Liftoff and you just removed it completely. Could at least have made it a setting.

I guess I could live with previews if there was a clear indicator on whether I'm seeing a preview or the whole picture fits the maximum height - now I only realize I need to click on it because e.g. the meme doesn't make any sense so there's probably some caption that I'm missing.

Great work otherwise, thank you for your efforts, but this feature sucks. (Great opening animation, though.)

[–] Creazle 2 points 2 years ago

I hate to be a bother, but I support this comment. I was quite happy just scrolling my memes without needing to tap on the post, but now top text and bottom text are cut off most of the time.

[–] veroxii 10 points 2 years ago

Great work. Can I ask again please for allowing to change the font size of comments?

My eyes are not that great anymore and the current comments are at the edge of readability for me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Really impressed by the speed with which these updates are flying out. Great work!

[–] BornVolcano 7 points 2 years ago

I hate having to push this every time but is there any progress on being able to see media and images in a post while commenting, without having to exit the comment altogether?

[–] aaronstc 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I seem to have lost full height images in my feed. Was one of the reasons I ended up sticking with liftoff.

[–] liftoff 2 points 2 years ago

This has been added back!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Connect for Lemmy dev here. That photo opening animation looks great!

[–] neblem 4 points 2 years ago

Wow lots of stability improvements for sure! Looking forward to those next updates!

[–] keeeener 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

not sure if this is a feature or not but whenever you collapse threads and then scroll to the top of the post without pulling to refresh ( to confirm info OP says to comment on, etc), the app acts like it is entering a new post and un-collapses all threads when you scroll back down... almost like the app refreshes and doesn't save preferences until you get out of the post

[–] keeeener 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

to add to this, it only seems to happen when a post has enough comments to actually scroll, like this post. other posts with non scrolling amount of comments don't seem to be affected

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Same, I just started using Liftoff and got a little lost because my comments expanded again once off screen.

It'd also be nice if they removed/shrunk the "tap to expand" line, or made it inline with the commenter username, sort of like collapsing on the official Reddit app.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The new in-app-browser is truely an improvement, thank you!

[–] Noedel 2 points 2 years ago

This was my main qualm. Love it.

[–] DigitalPortkey 3 points 2 years ago

I love this app so damn much. Thank you for continuing to persevere <3

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Is there a way to see why the Play Store release is being marked as incompatible with my device? Because the GitHub version runs perfectly fine.

Device in question is an OnePlus 3 running LineageOS 18.1 (Android 11)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow and I thought my 8T was running really well for being almost three years old. Yours is seven!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I changed out the battery but other than that it's still going strong. More than powerful enough for my workloads (mainly browsing and videos).The OLED screen is still in perfect condition.

Doesn't support 5G and some GNSS providers if that's something you care about. But at some point I'll be forced to upgrade because its not going to get anything newer than Android 11.

[–] dreadedsemi 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you need contributers? I like this app but still needs work

[–] MothBookkeeper 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Literally the first paragraph of the post is asking for contributors.

[–] dreadedsemi 1 points 2 years ago

Sorry missed that. At the time app doesn't load well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

You guys are legends, I love this app. Thanks for all of your work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I'm so excited that this app is rolling with the same fervent continuous updates and improvement activity needed to hold Lemmy together under the deluge of new users. I have actively seen the app get better and then had to look up to see if it had been updated.

Nice work! It's become increasingly a pleasure to use.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Right on

[–] launch_wait_echo 2 points 2 years ago

Would it be possible to deselect instances in settings, so they don’t appear anywhere in the app until I reenable them in settings?

[–] RomanRoy 2 points 2 years ago

Great work you're doing here guys

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Will there be kbin support in the future?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

When I tap on a link to a community in another instance, it takes me there, but if I then try to subscribe it tells me to pick my account first I do this, then it reloads the page, and only then can I subscribe. What is the point of this step? Liftoff obviously already knows what account I'm in so why do I need to choose it before I can subscribe?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Great work!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm still randomly not able to interact with other instances on certain posts while it works on others.

[–] Spacebar 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fixed and updated ModLog Pages & API

What does this mean? Does it have to do with moderating?

[–] liftoff 1 points 2 years ago

Yes you can now see the mod logs for communities in the about tab of a community page