Thunder App

The subscription button is wonky, it doesn’t always register the tap, and doesn’t show whether or not it was successful in the way the usual “pending” does.

This is usually due to network delays, and should improve as the instances improve! However, I do agree that it is a bit difficult to tell whether you've successfully subscribed/unsubscribed to a community. An idea here is to maybe provide a toast notification whenever the action was done successfully/unsuccessfully

But, links actually work! Even lemmy.world links that sometimes time out will take you to the community if you back out and try again

This is still a bit of a WIP but I did try to support some of the common use-cases that I saw. However, if you notice that something is not being redirected back to the app, feel free to open up an issue on GitHub so that it can be tracked!

Thanks for trying it out!

Holy shit! I missed the slide functions on comments! Right to up/down vote, left to save/reply. Bloody brilliant!

Tap comment to collapse the chain/thread

Fun fact: you can actually tap on the top part of the comment (where the username is) to collapse it!

Small main screen view where images/previews are on the left or right side with the title of the post next to it (a la Apollo, and now an option in Memmy)

I agree, having more types of views is something that will be worked on - just haven't had the time to actually do it yet 😅

Swiping down/up on an image should close it

Right now, you can swipe right to close the image! But I do agree that having more ways to dismiss the image would be good/more intuitive

I have not yet tested this on v0.18 yet, but if anyone knows an instance that is running v0.18 and can test it out, that would be great!

It doesn't seem so, but there's still hope with Artemis

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For the OLED black mode, there’s an issue on GitHub created for it already! I’m not sure when I’ll be able to get around to that but if anyone wants to take a crack at it, this is the link to the issue: https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder/issues/18

For anyone not following the GitHub issue, this feature is currently being worked on, and should hopefully arrive in the next release!

Yeah, the loading times is something that I want to improve a bit more in the future. There’s a lot of different factors that play a role in why it takes a while to load:

• Instance responsiveness and how fast the server responds back
• If there are a lot of images being loaded, then it also takes a bit of time, especially if you’re using the “full image height” setting
• Optimizations in the code to better handle loading/caching data, etc.

This will hopefully improve as instances get better at handling loads, and once more optimizations are made in the code! 😅

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Are you using an Android phone or iPhone? If you’re using an Android phone, then you can download the APK directly from GitHub (linked to this post)

If you’re using an iPhone, then it should be installed automatically through TestFlight unless automatic updates is turned off. I dont know if TestFlight pushed out the update properly so it would be good if you could let me know!

No immediate plans yet for Google Play Store, but I would like to try to get it on F-Droid if possible!

Releasing to F-Droid is something outside my knowledge set but if anyone sees this and is interested in helping out that would be awesome

Yeah, I agree with you and I do want to eventually make it so that markdown is easier to write and preview. However, it is a bit more technically challenging to do that, which is why I opted for this solution for now!

Thanks for trying it out! I’ll try to figure out a better way to handle the reply button overlapping content (currently thinking that maybe the reply is hidden automatically when you start scrolling? but maybe there are better ways to do this)

If you’d like, feel free to make an issue on GitHub for this issue so that it can be tracked!

It might run on Android 7, I don’t quite remember what the lowest supported version is. I think the best bet is to try it out and see!

It would be nice if the blurb could explain why Thunder is being developed given that Jerboa is already there.

I’ll definitely improve the community sidebar a bit! This project is honestly just something that I wanted to work on while learning a bit more about Dart/Flutter. It’s both a learning opportunity for me and also something to give back to the community!