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Thunder App Nightly

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An open-source, cross-platform Lemmy client for iOS and Android.

This community is intended for announcements and features related to pre-release builds of Thunder.

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This is the first pre-release for Thunder v0.2.1+14!

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

This pre-release addresses a lot of smaller quality of life changes, as well as a couple of major redesigns and overhauls including the new post creation page and major changes to the floating action buttons courtesy of @coslu and @CTalvio respectively. This pre-release also includes inbox indicators for unread messages/mentions/comments!

This is the changelog so far for this pre-release:

Added

  • Added spinning circle animation on comment card while waiting for comment to be deleted/restored - contribution from @ajsosa
  • Added vote count to comment card in comment list for the user profile - contribution from @ajsosa
  • Show instance taglines in the feed - contribution from @micahmo
  • Added new visual swipe gesture picker within settings - contribution from @micahmo
  • Added option to toggle tappable authors and communities in the feed - contribution from @micahmo
  • Added spinner indicator when sharing media - contribution from @micahmo
  • Added inbox unread indicators on the bottom navigation bar
  • Added more robust community navigation - contribution from @micahmo
  • Added support for navigating from image preview to comments - contribution from @micahmo
  • Added inkwell effect to comments - contribution from @CTalvio
  • Redesigned UI for creating posts - contribution from @coslu
  • Added moderator identifier to comments - contribution from @micahmo
  • Added ability to navigate to user's profile from comment body - contribution from @micahmo
  • Added support for exact community name search - contribution from @micahmo
  • Overhauled floating action button with expandable and customizable actions - contribution from @CTalvio
    • Added dismiss read option to FAB to allow dismissing currently read posts from the feed

Changed

  • Removed tap zones for author/community on compact post cards - contribution from @CTalvio
  • Creating, deleting, and restoring a comment will update locally without requiring a refetch - contribution from @ajsosa
  • Added caching to images to improve overall experience - contribution from @micahmo
  • Respect comment deleted in reply modal, and inbox - contribution from @ajsosa
  • Improvements to sort picker to allow for navigating back when selecting top option - contribution from @micahmo
  • Minor UI improvements to comment images, community image banners, and image viewer - contribution from @CTalvio

Fixed

  • Fixed issue where the community post feed was missing the last post - contribution from @ajsosa
  • Fixed the gesture conflict that can occur between pinch to zoom and tap slide to zoom - contribution from @CTalvio
  • Fixed incorrect indentation to load more replies card within comments - contribution from @ajsosa
  • Fixed another edge case of the loading more comments infinite spinning circle - contribution from @ajsosa
  • Fixed infinite spinning circle when loading a user's posts in the user profile - contribution from @ajsosa
  • Fixed issue where toast notifications were not showing up in the post page - contribution from @ajsosa
  • Removed sliver of border color that was present on root comments for both thick and thin style comments - contribution from @ajsosa
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How do you create new posts with all FABs disabled?

Edit: oh i see. You have to open the sidebar which while accessible with talkback is not the best.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The FAB could use some work. With talkback it only reads as "button" and when expanded the buttons highlight but are not read at all.

Edit: also under settings > gestures the things for choosing the action are no longer read

Edit 2: github issue #517

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

The new fab is really good, but I think you should be able to select it's default action.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is a great release. The only thing missing for me in Thunder is the ability to edit comments. Seems like everything else is there. I really like the UI.

Nevermind. I found it. Doesn't seem like it would be a setting but all is good.

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

Unread messages count and not being able to tap on the community from the compact view are awesome! Great release!

Anyone else's cache for this app get big suuuuper fast? That is my final gripe. Using it for a few days will get up to like 600mb so I clear it often.

[–] darklightxi 2 points 1 year ago

Anyone else's cache for this app get big suuuuper fast? That is my final gripe. Using it for a few days will get up to like 600mb so I clear it often.

Hmm, this could just be from all the media that is cached when you use the app. Could you open up a new GitHub issue on this so that we can take a closer look at it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is a nitpick to be sure. However, talkback currently reads "one inbox tab four of five" or whatever number of notifications you have like "two", "three", etc. Could this be changed to "inbox one tab four of five"? So instead of (number "inbox") it would be ("inbox" number).

[–] darklightxi 1 points 1 year ago

I can take a look at this!