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This is by far one of my favorite Sync for Reddit (and now Lemmy) features.

Do you want to go to a different subject from your current feed but you don't want to lose the feed position? Just hold the community or post you want to go and it will open into another "app window"

Sync for Reddit/Lemmy already handles the RAM in a glorious way by not being closed or losing the content that quickly like many other apps, with this nice extra handy feature you can even improve more your navigation!

EDIT: The feature is called "Long press cards to open comments in the background" and you can check it here:

Settings shortcut: Post options > Long press cards to open comments in the background

It only works in cards and slide views for posts, and I think it works for communities in the explore section with any view type.

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[โ€“] swordthensnow 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Damn, new sync users? I've been using Sync for like 10 years and I just learned this. I did notice you can open subscriptions in new windows, could you do that with subreddits before?

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Holy shit! I've been using sync for 8 years now and didn't know this lmao! This app is the balls.

[โ€“] kratoz29 5 points 2 years ago

I don't know how I found this, but it must have been pure luck lol.

[โ€“] midori 11 points 2 years ago

I've been a sync user for years and had no idea this was a thing. Can we have more of these tips and tricks posts?

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I enabled that option to test it and when I long-press a post it says "Comments opened in the background" but I don't see a way of accessing this "background" to view them.

[โ€“] kratoz29 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Open your app switcher, there will be another "Sync app" there.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Holy shit, that worked!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I always just took it to mean that it would cache all the comments in that thread while you were still browsing your feed. Is that not the case?

[โ€“] kratoz29 7 points 2 years ago

Open your app switcher, there will be another "Sync app" there.

[โ€“] Kangy 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Huh, I don't seem to have this option, only to open in a browser. Gonna check I'm up to date and try again

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[โ€“] wmrch 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Seems only work for cards. I prefer compact and it doesn't seem to work there.

[โ€“] kratoz29 4 points 2 years ago

I just checked in compact and yeah, it doesn't work entirely there, but you can go to the discover section and hold on to the communities there and they'll open up into another app/window, that's how I use this most anyway, so it's something ยฏ\_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

[โ€“] Kangy 1 points 2 years ago

Doesn't work fully on slides either yet. At least not for me

[โ€“] kratoz29 3 points 2 years ago

Yes, that's the one! I could not find the name LMAO.

Weird, I am not using cards but slides and works fine, also works in the discover list, it would be a shame that this amazing feature does not work at all in other view types.

[โ€“] Kangy 1 points 2 years ago

Ahh thank you!

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Praying for a cool kbin app soon ๐Ÿ™

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

worth every dollar spent on it!

[โ€“] sanguinepar 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is great, but I wish it worked on smaller cards view, as that's my default.

[โ€“] kratoz29 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can still open communities on another app card from the explore menu, so it's something.

[โ€“] sanguinepar 2 points 2 years ago

Ah true, thanks!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This feature is so handy! I wish you could do the same with accounts though. Would be handy to be able to open an alt account in another window without losing where I am with my main account

[โ€“] kratoz29 2 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah, that seems like a nice feature suggestion, maybe dev can implement it sometime?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

So, this is awesome, thanks!

I didn't bother trying it since it was in the "legacy" menu.

[โ€“] oryx 2 points 2 years ago

This has been one of my favorite features for years!

[โ€“] twistypencil 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What does it mean in sync to peak? There is an option to mark posts read on peak

[โ€“] kratoz29 1 points 2 years ago

It is when you long press on an image to see it I guess.