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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ljdawson to c/syncforlemmy
 

Key points

  • Random and random nsfw back as actions!
  • Added the ability to browse all instances and communities on an instance
  • Added admin tools (see #312 for details)
Ultra
  • Added a new article summarizer
New
  • Added user + community block managers (Settings > Lemmy preferences)
  • UI changes to the post options bottomsheet
    • Icons are now shown next to the user and community items
    • User and community items can be expanded out
    • A few user items have been moved to a separate bottomsheet
  • The filters bottomsheet now uses icons
  • catbox.moe links are now opened in-app (can be disabled)
  • Imgur video posts now show a small preview image
  • You can now view the moderators of a community
  • Added an option to disable the new hiding behaviour (Settings > experimental > keep posts hidden)
Github issues closed
  • Deep linking causes a transparent, unresponsive Activity to appear if Sync isn't already running #345
  • Random NSFW #246
  • Expose instance name and view its communities #242
  • Add the ability to generate a random base theme color on app launch #358
  • "Failed to start subscription purchase (2)" when subscribing to Ultra #231
  • Crash when using lemmy.ca instance #204
  • Unable to share direct image on Android 14 Beta #104
  • Unable to direct share image #216
  • Remove the "Display if a post is OC" setting #361
  • Block button shown twice in the about menu #403
  • Block list #305
  • Block button does not change to "Unblock" when you block a community #300
  • [Feature Request] Block Community option added to Post Menu #225
  • Function to unblock a user #269
  • When viewing comments in your own or someone else's profile... #401
  • Summarize article/post/comment feature for Ultra #251
  • Switch Media Upload Dialog for Bottom Sheet #160
  • Support for verified links (top X instances maybe) #77
  • Community in drawer sidebar has blank space between name and instance #47
  • Back arrow in action bar isn't visible in login screen on tablets #53
  • Theme sharing generates screenshot only #96
Other fixes
  • Fixed a crash when starting chrome custom tabs
  • Fixed a crash when searching
  • Added a potential crash for TextViews crashing
  • Fixed an issue where searching from the drawer would say todo...
  • You can now enter "-" and "_" in the username field
  • Fixed a crash where some S4R backups would cause a crash
  • ProgressBottomSheetDialogFragments now auto dismiss
Updates
  • androidx.annotation:annotation > 1.7.0-rc01
  • com.google.android.material:material > 1.11.0-alpha02
  • com.google.firebase:firebase-crashlytics-gradle > 2.9.9
Notes
  • NSFW images can no longer be uploaded via Sync
  • Android 14 should behave better now
  • View + saved are now enabled by default in the actions manager
  • Your default community has been reset to handle the new local feed changes
  • The voting icons in comments now match slides
  • The profile icon is now accessible via the 3 dot menu for comments
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[โ€“] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

NSFW images can no longer be uploaded via Sync

Why not? How can Sync tell if an image is NSFW?

[โ€“] ljdawson 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This was added in response to last weeks incident. Once additional tools are in place on instances I'll look to remove this.

Sync uses a local ML model to attempt to classify nsfw content.

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Neat, thanks!

Think the restriction might be lifted in the future once this CSAM thing is figured out?

Not a huge deal to me, I don't plan on uploading any NSFW content and my instance has disabled all image uploading (for now) anyway. Really, I'm just curious.

[โ€“] ljdawson 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup. As I said once additional tools are in place on instances to deal with this issue I'll look to remove the check in app ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I'll see myself out ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

Thanks for all the hard work btw! Really looking forward to the article summaries.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Why not?

Because Google is a diarrhea-soaked abomination of a company that will accuse you of personally trafficking child porn if people have the ability to abuse your app for unintended purposes. This is probably coming because lemmyworld's shitposting board was closed after people spammed it with CP, and LJ is trying to get ahead of Google so they don't de-list his app. Unfortunately for him, Google reviewers don't (can't) read, and will delist his app for a few days anyway. Calling it now.

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you again for all your hard work!

[โ€“] ljdawson 16 points 1 year ago

(ใ‚ท_ _)ใ‚ท

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Added a potential crash for TextViews crashing

Sounds intriguing!

[โ€“] ljdawson 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spoiler alert. It didn't work.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Killing it as usual! Great work

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Hell yeah good patch

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

average sync w

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Anyone know if there are any plans to have sync for iOS?

[โ€“] ljdawson 80 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Not currently.

I'm playing with the idea of Sync for Kbin and Sync for Mastodon on Android though ๐Ÿ‘€

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Sync for mastodon would be great

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Sync for Mastodon please, also Sync for Hacker News

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Ok, sync for mastodon, I didn't see it coming!

That would be beautiful.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Sync for Mastodon

Whoa, I'll take "Things I didn't know I needed until now" for 500!

[โ€“] derocker 7 points 1 year ago

Sync for mastadon would be amazing

[โ€“] big_slap 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

would grouping all of this together and calling it sync for fediverse (im not crazy about the name tbh) work better? I'd like to have everything in one app since they all use the same protocol to talk to each other.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Huh, that might get me to try mastodon again. The browser experience used to be crap.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That's funny. Just a few days ago I thought about Sync for Mastodon.

It would need to be more than great though, because the Fedilab and Tusky apps are already quite good.

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

Since kbin has a drastically different API (which is WIP as I understand), will you rely primarily on the ActivityPub bits for the common interface between lemmy/kbin/Mastodon? I suppose you still need to rely on the actual kbin API for account information, etc.

[โ€“] ljdawson 8 points 1 year ago

I was going to wait until the Kbin API is finalised and then take it from there.

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

As in separate apps or all merged here?

Either way I'm excited to see this in the future, don't let the FOSS bros discourage you.

[โ€“] ljdawson 16 points 1 year ago

I think maybe separate but not completely sure.

If separate they'd have to be some way to share an ultra subscription across them.

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[โ€“] talab 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The article summariser is such a fantastic addition!

[โ€“] ljdawson 6 points 1 year ago

(โ˜ž๏พŸใƒฎ๏พŸ)โ˜ž

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[โ€“] MakeItCount 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you browse other instances ?

[โ€“] Skanky 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Browse "Everything"

There's a chip at the top for "Instances"

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[โ€“] refoux 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It appears filtered communities are not filtered when viewing/browsing an instance.

Great update overall!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This looks great, thank you!

I'm already loving the article summarizer feature!

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

Great stuff, man! How does one subscribe to the beta release channel?

[โ€“] ljdawson 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The current production channel is still "beta" for now.

There's an internal track I'm doing testing releases on but that's limited to 100 spaces sadly.

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

Added ability to browse all instances on communities on an instance

I am confused as to what this means, can you elaborate?

[โ€“] ljdawson 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Go to "everything" and you'll see two new chips "communities" and "instances"

[โ€“] Skanky 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Go to "everything" and you'll see two new chips "communities" and "instances"

FTFY

This new feature is an absolute game changer!!! Amazing!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Wow, I love this. I've generally relied on looking at stuff that hits the main feed to find content but this has opened up so much extra content that I didn't know existed. Great feature!

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