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Avelon update! Custom fonts and text size, mark read on scroll, swipe to collapse threads, reply drafts, community icons and much more! (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi guys! This update (version 1.0.2 build 12) brings more sweet features, including:

Custom font support
- Text size fully customizable!
Hide read posts
- Customizable per-feed or you can manually toggle it
Mark posts read on scroll
More swipe gestures:
- Collapse comment thread
- Mark post as read
Unfinished replies are now saved as drafts
Option to delete your embarassing comments
Body preview for text posts
More customization options:
- Community icons & user avatars
- Large vote buttons
- Account avatar in bottom tab
- Hide tab labels (super clean!)
- Number of lines to show for text posts
Download/share buttons in the image viewer
Ellipsis buttons for posts & comments
- Easily access common options
Reworked thread rendering system
Edited comments now has an edited icon
Profile pages now have avatar images
Aaaand of course a bunch of various UI improvements & bug fixes

Wanna check it out? Here's the link:

Download on Testflight

For you seasoned testers out there, I'd really like some feedback on any bugs you might find, especially for the mark-read-on-scroll and hide-read-posts feature, but of course everything else as well. Some of these systems were a bit tricky to get right, so I might have introduced a few new bugs here and there.

Hope you enjoy the update, and let me know what you think!

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[–] Cmar 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fact that both the top and bottom bar get hidden when you start scrolling has already gotten me interested and aboard.

Thank you for creating and sharing this app with hs!

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

A beloved aspect from apollo that surprisingly not many other apps use

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And it works even better than in Apollo!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hi Evgiz,

This is the best update yet for me.. loved the fact that you listened and updated every user feedback thoroughly..

A small suggestion though,

Currently the text size is adjustable only to the feeds..

The feed looks nice as a result, but once you go inside the feed the the text size is not adjustable and it feels very large in comparison.

Give us the option to chose a separate text size adjustment for post and comment section or make the current text size adjustment applicable to whole app..

And a small nitpick here, I feel the smoothness has got hit with the latest update.. The app stutters in most parts of the scrolling now.. 😅

Thanks mate, appreciate your hard work and time in creating this lovely app.

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

My text is matching in both the feed and the post. Try checking you’re on the most recent TestFlight release?

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

Hi brcl, thanks for the heads up..

Just changed the font option in accessibility > per-app settings..

Now the issue been resolved..

I’m just loving this update evigz..

Looking forward to what’s more lovely features to come ( greedy me 😅).

Thanks again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hello! I’m trying out your update and I feel that this is the best yet. Great job!

I just noticed that the mark read on scroll doesn’t not work? And may I suggest you add a button to hide read posts?

Thank you!

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

Woops, I screwed up. Check out the latest build (b13), should work there. There's already a button in the top right menu, could ofc do a separate one for this but I think that'd quickly get a bit too cluttered.

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

Hey man! The ellipsis button just shows me either show read button and hide read button.

So when I choose hide read, the posts I read gets hidden. But I can’t manually hide post cause if I press it again, it shows the hidden posts. I guess the “hiding” is done automatically?

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

Oooh, I get what you're saying. The hide-read-posts is basically a filter for your feed, so I figured an on/off toggle would be enough. You're right tho, it should definitely stick around.

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

Yeah. I feel that if there’s a dedicated button just for hiding read messages. That would be great

[–] Vake 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is my favourite app for Lemmy and I never hear it mentioned?!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I guess PR is not my greatest strength...

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

Hi. Thanks for the update!

My home page has become laggy after this update, especially when scrolling up near the top of the feed and when pulling to refresh.

I've also noticed that the preview in the font adjustment setting doesn't match what I get on the front page: the text on the front page is smaller.

This is running the latest build, 1.0.2 (14).

Update: The stuttering seems fixed in 1.0.2 (20)!

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

Also notice the lag on the homepage near the top especially. Feels jittery when scrolling.

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

The app was probably bit nervous due to all the new features. Mind testing if the latest build (b17) resolved the issue?

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

Ha :) seems the new build resolved the issue!

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

Hi,

[Bug] Top nav bar is completely covering the name of the community inside the community’s home page and not hiding properly on scroll.. this bug present since yesterday’s build and present in the latest (b14) build.

Now stuttering can be noticed systemwide.

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

Afraid, I also noticed the stuttering introduced in the recent updates.

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

Worked a lot on optimization for the newest build (b17), mind checking if its better on your device now?

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

Nice, that was quick. Feels snappy again on the 14 Pro. Thank you 🙏

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

Really impressed with this update. It feels super smooth now, the gestures seem to be working extremely well, the text size is great! Great job all the way around! I’ll let you know if I stumble across any bugs.

Haven’t tested pull to refresh on iOS 17 yet, will let you know if that’s fixed…

Edit: pull to refresh is not fixed on iOS 17 yet. Thanks for all the great updates in this release!

[–] Jackolantern 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I must say, I love your new update. Almost perfect and very smooth! Keep it up, you’re doing great!

I hope you consider giving us the option to turn on a floating hide button though. But that’s ok, current option works, it’s just that I need a few taps more to hide read posts.

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

Just added a hide-posts-above gesture that might just scratch the same itch. Not gonna add any floating buttons for now, but it's on my potential-future-features list

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

If I may, I would like to ask about the future of the app. I’m currently testing a couple of lemmy apps and for example Bean app is already testing some Pro features for a monthly subscription.

What’s the plan for Avalon? One-time purchase? Subscription model? Free software?

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

Yeah of course. I mentioned this briefly in my first post, but haven't discussed it a lot. I don't have a concrete plan for these things atm, so I'd also be happy to hear what people think would be best.

For now I'm thinking free app with an option to donate to support the development. I really like Lemmy and hope to see it grow, so I wanna take part in that by creating a great app that encourages people to contribute and join in on conversations like these. I really enjoy the development process too, it's super encouraging to get so much feedback from people here.

After the initial version I'll consider some kind of pro version for additional nice-to-have features. No idea what these could be, but I'm thinking perhaps themes or some other more advanced features. It takes a lot of time to develop an app like this (I don't expect it to be any kind of profitable really, it's just a time-consuming hobby of mine), but I'll have to be honest and say I'd be happy to get something back for the time put in. Like a few pizza nights would be cool.

Another thing I've considered is burnout. I've experienced burnout a few times before, and getting something in return can definitely help remedy that. I think it'd be a strong motivator to keep working on highly requested- and niche features that the more "hardcore" Avelon users would appreciate. And again - if people have thoughts about what they think would be best, I'm happy to discuss the topic further!

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

Currently I pay for Ivory (iOS app for Mastodon) since I think it has a great design, features and reasonable price, so if anyone can provide a similar experience (basically anything I felt is “worth it” without being too expensive) I’m more than willing to pay.

I personally prefer one-time purchases but also understand the subscription model appeal for developers. It’s just that if it looks too expensive to me (like I think the newly Sync for Android is proposing) I’m gonna pass on it.

Basically, if you hit that sweet spot you get my money lol.

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

Looking forward to trying this out properly.

I’m a little confused by the ‘mark read on scroll’ feature. If I scroll there isn’t anything obvious to tell me that the post has been marked as read (the title doesn’t dim for example). Is that correct? To then see read posts again I need to tap the three dots in the top right hand corner and select the option. Again is that correct? If so do you plan to add a show / hide floating button to make that a little easier to use?

Either way another great update to play with.

[–] zdzoz 1 points 1 year ago

Is this project open source by any chance?

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

I love the clean UI, reading is really easy on the eyes.

Pull to refresh is still not working for me tho, also the front page looks a bit weird after this update; some posts are off-set to the left and not swipeable to vote.

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

Dang, that's an issue with long community/usernames I believe, will fix. Thanks!

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

Can you take a look at [email protected]

Posts and even the community header are waaaaaay off-set 😅

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

Nice catch, thanks! Willfix

edit: fixed

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

Awesome, thanks!

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

That’s fixed now, pull to refresh also works now for me. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I noticed that swipe back from anywhere disables not just swipe right, but also swipe left gestures. Is there any chance that we will be able to use swipe right from anywhere to go back, and still and to use the two left gestures for voting etc?

Wonderful app btw.

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

Hah nevermind, found an elegant solution for this. Works in the newest build!

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

Yay! Thanks. This just made your app my favorite.

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

Thanks, glad you like it! I'd like this feature too, but it requires quite a bit of work so I'm gonna prioritize other things for now