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Liftoff!

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A mobile client for Lemmy running on iOS and Android

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Liftoff v0.9.18 Release - Bugs and Quality of Life! (github.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by zachatrocity to c/liftoff
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Hey everyone! We have been blown away by the response to Liftoff and we really appreciate the support of the community. We're passionate about creating an app that we want to use and we're excited with the progress. There have been a ton of updates and bugfixes this week and we wanted to share the latest state of things

v0.9.18 Release

iOS:

Android:

Changelog

  • Fixed issue where "Everything -> Subscribed" feed showed no posts
  • Added better compact view
  • Added Post Customization page in settings with live preview
  • Added ability to customize font size
  • Added ability to quickly toggle between card and compact view
  • Fixed mark as read not working, added mark all as read
  • Fixed issue with comment share link not being generated properly
  • Added Gesture Navigation (Thanks shocklateboy92!)
  • Added TOTP Login support (Thanks swmarks!)
  • Added animation configuration (Thanks johnc86!)

Known Issues (In progress)

There are a few bugs still that we're working through and we really appreciate all the support from the community helping us Beta test. Here are some of the known issues we're working on:

  • User and community link opening within the app is finicky #107
  • Separate default comment sort from default post sort
  • New sort in community page's posts sometimes not working properly
  • Unclear usage of everything feed causing seemingly duplicated posts across the difference instances.
  • Check here for a full list

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Y'all are doing really great work, and so goddamned quickly too. Jerboa won't even let me log in, much less navigate this easily.

[–] zachatrocity 3 points 2 years ago

Thanks for checking us out!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Everyday it gets harder to pick a lemmy app to use that isn't Jerboa. Lmfao. This is great! Atm im between this and Thunder.

I do have one issue i see wasn't fixed, but i believe someone has mentioned it. Which is I cannot see content if i go directly to an NSFW sub. It acts like there isnt anything there, but i know I'm able to as I can see it in the everything feed and subscribed feed.

[–] zachatrocity 4 points 2 years ago

There's a few bugs around NSFW, I hadn't gotten to those yet but I will!

[–] koolkiwi 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can easily see this becoming my new time sink once Boost dies in two days! Loving the app so far, very very impressive for such an early version. One thing I'd love to see (correct me if this is already possible) is having the refresh not only available at the top of the page. Having to scroll up for half a minute just to refresh is a bit tedious :D

[–] zachatrocity 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes this is coming!

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[–] Sneckster 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Do we have any notification of getting replies yet?

Using oled dark if that makes a difference

[–] zachatrocity 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Push notifications are on our to-do list

[–] Sneckster 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I meant a notification in app, like a number next to the bell or it just changing colour.

[–] zachatrocity 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh yes we're tracking an issue for that. It will be implemented

[–] Sneckster 3 points 2 years ago

Lovely, thank you.

Would love to be able to jump to the top of the feed by hitting the home button too if that's being planned.

You're all doing a great job so far. I already feel that little bit of loyalty to liftoff.

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[–] Confuzzeled 8 points 2 years ago

Just installed it and loving it so far, it's great that we're getting options now.

[–] urbanracer34 7 points 2 years ago

Coming from Apollo (RIP and o7,) I love this app so far!

[–] AnonLordo 7 points 2 years ago

Your app is awesome, many thanks. I'm missing only the possibility to change the main color, otherwise it has aöready everything I need.

[–] TheInsane42 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Just installed the app via the playstore. I needed to use the website to be able to access it.

BTW, rating can't be correct:

Content rating
PEGI 18 • Extreme violence

I like how you can add multiple accounts and get an overview of all the subscribed channels in 1 view. Posting seems to be an issue yet, at least here with multiple acocunts. (probably pebkac issue, as it's less then an hour on the device)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Just installed it. Can't wait to try it out 😁

[–] ThisIsNecessary 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I keep getting a message like this whenever I try to interact with or subscribe to a community outside of lemmy.world. I'm easily able to do this in other apps like Thunder. What do I need to do differently? "This thread was retrieved via lemmy.ml. You are not logged in there."

Everyone says Liftoff is one of the best apps but I find it unusable as I can't interact with any other federation.

[–] zachatrocity 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If you're using the everything view from the home feed then you're going to get posts that you might not be federated with, an aggregate of any instances you've added to the app.

We're working through tweaking this view and making it smarter to be able to support that interaction. Also I'm not sure thunder actually can do that because im thunder you're seeing comments/posts that are "outside" of lemmy.world but you're accessing them through lemmy.worlds federation.

Long story short if you want it to work like thunder, just use the Lemmy.world -> all feed on the home tab and you'll still see those posts that are "outside" you'll just be seeing them through Lemmy.worlds federation

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Love the app! One issue I'm having that is keeping me hopping back and forth between apps is download links don't work for me in the integrated browser. Could you possibly add the option to open in external browser?

[–] zachatrocity 5 points 2 years ago

Yes that PR is open and this functionality will be in the next release

[–] Tetsuo666 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was eager to try out Liftoff but unfortunately I can't seem to log in on it :/

I noticed my password contains a space in the middle and I always get an "invalid password" error.

I didn't try yet to change the password and try again but I suspect the password field when you login might not like a space in it.

In any case, if I can check if the password is really the issue, I will try to create a proper bug report on the git repository or something.

Thanks for the hard work ! It makes me happy to see devs embracing Lemmy and trying to make the best out of a pretty sad situation with reddit.

[–] zachatrocity 4 points 2 years ago

Oh you might be on to something. There was a similar bug report but we thought it was their password length. It might be spaces. I'll take a lol. Thanks!

[–] ainen 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Are any iOS users having some serious performance issues with Liftoff? I’ve tried both TestFlight versions and no matter what settings I use, Liftoff feels very sluggish.

[–] InfiniteFlow 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Using it right now and it feels ok and fluid.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why can't I upvote and comment from other instances? I couldn't comment on the app but I am doing it on wefwef.app website right now, so if should be possible.

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[–] LemmyFeed 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just installed the app and really like it so far. Keep up the great work!

I'd love to see the ability to hide read posts. I'm coming from baconreader and loved that feature.

[–] zachatrocity 4 points 2 years ago

I think that can be enabled from your user settings on your instance. Not sure how well it works with Liftoff

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

My most awaited feature is for the download button to work. Liftoff is miles ahead of the other lemmy apps, if that button worked it would be feature complete at least as far as I know how to use it.

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[–] _kato 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Amazing app, are there plans to change the accent color from teal to something else? Also any chance we can get material you themes in the future?

[–] zachatrocity 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes this is planned

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[–] sputtersalt 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Love the new update! Are you guys considering adding post/comment text size adjustment as well (rather than just title/header)?

eta: It would also be great to be able to see the bottom navigation when viewing an instance/community page. The little autocorrect bubble is a bit wonky when writing comments as well.

[–] Elcapitan786 4 points 2 years ago

Yes please! came here to say the same thing. Default comments are a little too small

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[–] itadakimasu 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is great work! Thank you so much for putting this together so quickly!

Do you plan to offer the option for tap to collapse comment rather than press& hold to collapse?

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[–] mido 2 points 2 years ago

Cool app, just got it for Android. I'm having issues adding an instance though: !lemmy.eco.br

[–] fishos 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Can you do something about the size of the reply graphics? I'm talking about the green, orange, etc line that appears next to a comment when it is a reply. They're so narrow and the green one starts at the edge of the screen, making it almost invisible.

Example

[–] oscarlavi 2 points 2 years ago

Great job!

[–] wheresyourshoe 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I didn't see it on your list, but communities I have blocked are showing up on the frontpage when I have "all" selected.

[–] zachatrocity 3 points 2 years ago

Under the everything -> all? We're tracking bugs related to this.

[–] Patariki 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

First of all, great app. Question though: it seems there's no button to block communities, am I missing it or hasn't it been added (yet)?

[–] zachatrocity 5 points 2 years ago

You can from the 3 dots on the community page.

There is however a bug where if you use the everything -> all feed blocked communities will still show up. Working on a fix for that

[–] Karl_L 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Loving the app so far! Curious if there is a way to comment on different instances without having an account?

[–] zachatrocity 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Access it through your login's instance. Use the instance -> all view instead of the everything -> all

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[–] CapnAssHolo 2 points 2 years ago

Great app devs.

Just one request. In compact view, it would be really cool if the post header appears left of the thumbnail. Right now it shows above the thumbnail and a lot of real estate is left open

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