Avelon App

Very well done!

App looks and feels really good already! I'll still keep using memmy, but you are getting your app so close to apollo that I'll probably soon switch over.

I have an iPhone 8 Plus, and Memmy became unusable on my phone as it became increasingly resource hungry (it uses React native). With this latest update, Aveleon is now my default app.

Thank you!

Thank you so much for the wonderful app. It’s a joy to use.

Awesome update! This addresses so many things that are all very welcome. Thanks for your work :)

Regarding feedback, here’s some smaller things:

• bottom nav bar is much better already, I still think the margin on the left and right of the icons should be way smaller than the margin in between the icons. It looks quite odd compared to every other nav bar
• I‘d like to see posts and comments in one feed underneath the account tab (or somewhere else easily accessible). Maybe it’s just me though
• after jumping somewhere via the quick switch menu, the back button should go back to where I was coming from. It should add the new view to the stack, not replace the current one

Much needed features not on your list in the OP:

• Marking post as read when opening the post’s image in the feed
• iOS share sheet integration for images (please, if someone posts an image, let us share the IMAGE, not a link to the image or a link to the post)

Once those two are implemented I will daily drive Avelon as I really like the performance and the haptic feedback.

Here’s a couple nice-to-have’s:

• community icons in the feed
• text posts in the feed need a default icon like Apollo, at the moment the layout shift is too drastic

But eh... Is there a way to post? For the life of me, I cannot find the button to create new posts.

This update is great I’m really loving the way this app looks and behaves compared to a lot of the competition. I was wondering if it’s possible to implement some kind of full width swipe back feature. Like the one in Apollo that lets you swipe to the previous screen from anywhere, not just from the left side. If I recall, you had to disable the other guestures in order to use it, but my memory might be fuzzy. Either way the app is fantastic, keep up the great work.

Pull to refresh isn’t working on iOS 17 db 4. Not sure if it’s an iOS 17 issue or not, but just wanted to throw that out there.

Loving the app though, great job!

Thanks for the update. The app is excellent to use and feels much snappier than Memmy.

Is there a way to upvote or downvote posts using gestures once you've opened them? I know there's the three-dots button at the top, but a swipe on the post body would bea easier to perform on long posts.

Another suggest I have is adding an option to display the instance names on users and communities.

Thanks for your work on this release and on this app in general. Avelon becomes my main app to browse Lemmy!

The main feature that I’m missing is the ability to collapse all a comment thread with a swipe gesture.

I've used Avelon exclusively for about a day now, here's my feedback thus far:

• Your implementation of NSFW blurring in the feed is the best I've seen across all Lemmy apps I've tried. I hugely appreciate the red [NSFW] block and the additional safeguard before loading the feed. 10/10, absolutely perfect.
• Performance is, as I've mentioned previously, also the best across all Lemmy apps I've tried.
• The haptics are very enjoyable; excellent implementation.
• I love that you can see the formatting as you type it in your comment, rather than having to gamble on using Markdown correctly and then editing your post when it inevitably looks wrong
• The scroll box for the comment you're replying to is a good idea. The UI is even better than Apollo's, where IIRC you couldn't actually read the comment you're replying to AND write at the same time.

The only other request I have, other than what I put in my other post which is already on your radar, is to add a swipe action for "collapse top comment". In Apollo and Voyager, you can swipe to collapse the top comment of a comment chain. For instance, if I swipe on this comment: https://lemm.ee/comment/1591116 it would act as if I tapped to collapse this comment: https://lemm.ee/comment/1565013 - hopefully that makes sense!

Are you planning to introduce mark read and hide?

I like the communities view, but maybe there should be a confirmation dialog when swiping to unsubscribe from a community? Just accidentally unsubscribed from one and have no idea which it was :/