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Thunder App Nightly

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An open-source, cross-platform Lemmy client for iOS and Android.

This community is intended for announcements and features related to pre-release builds of Thunder.

If there are any developers who would like to contribute, feel free to reach out on GitHub!

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This is the first pre-release for Thunder v0.2.7! This pre-release version introduces quite a few new features and improvements, as well as usual bug fixes.

Be fully prepared to know that these pre-release versions may contain major bugs which could cause Thunder to crash or behave unexpectedly.

Please see below for the full changelog since the last general release. For those on TestFlight, you will receive the pre-release update once it has been approved by Apple.

Some notable changes to test out:

  • Ability to edit posts and set the post language. You can now edit your own posts and change the post language! This is relatively new so please mention any issues related to this change.
  • Reorganization of the settings page, with post and comment previews. You can now see a preview of your post and comment settings without having to leave the settings page. The post and comment options have been moved to Settings -> Appearance -> Posts/Comments.
  • Searching for comments within a post. You can now trigger a search within a given post to find specific comments. This only searches for comments that have already been loaded in at this time.
  • Under-the-hood migrations for system text scaling. You may notice slight changes in the text size from the previous version. If there are any issues (such as too large or too small font sizes), please open up a new issue on GitHub with more information.
  • And much more listed below!

Thanks again for sticking around, and please mention any bugs and issues that you encounter when using this version!

Additions

  • Added ability to collapse post body contents by @hjiangsu
  • Added ability to open external community links in Thunder on Android by @micahmo
  • Added ability to show link options when long-pressing on link previews by @micahmo
  • Added ability to select app language in Settings by @hjiangsu
  • Added ability to perform comment search when viewing a post by @micahmo
  • Added ability to edit existing posts by @hjiangsu
  • Added ability to set post language when creating or editing a post by @hjiangsu
  • Added setting to show or hide read posts per account by @hjiangsu
  • Added post/comment previews to Settings and reorganized setting pages by @hjiangsu
  • Added missing feed sort types for old and top 3, 6, 9 months by @micahmo
  • Added support for community/creator search filters in Search page by @micahmo
  • Added more community translations. Thanks to everyone here for contributing towards translations! If you have contributed towards translation and would like to be explicitly mentioned, please let me know your GitHub handle through Matrix or on here.

Changes

  • Migrated textScaleFactor to textScaler by @hjiangsu
  • Updated extended image package by @gwbischof
  • Fixed search filter labels by @micahmo
  • Added subscribed status and community subscriber count in community picker by @micahmo
  • Improved image link handling to open images in-app by @micahmo

Fixes

  • Fixed status bar visual glitch on app startup by @micahmo
  • Fixed issue where Android back button did not close community sidebar by @micahmo
  • Fixed user avatar showing blank when display name is empty by @micahmo
  • Fixed issue with app bar accessibility by @micahmo
  • Fixed custom tabs not using default browser when opening links by @hjiangsu
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nice update, editing posts and searching comments is nice. Thunder isn't showing up in app languages that might need to be checked. Also new settings layout is way better

[–] darklightxi 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, right now, app language selection is only available within Thunder through Settings -> General. There might be a way to manually add it in so that it shows in the system settings

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I found it, I switched thru the languages a bit and noticed they seem to have alot of untranslated strings. Maybe a notice when you switch languages that tells you it's incomplete should be added?

[–] orangeNgreen 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Really enjoying this update - especially the ability to edit posts.

Just a heads up, I noticed I minor visual error that occurs with long usernames and long community names while within a post. It causes some of the info to get pushed offscreen. See image.

[–] darklightxi 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks for mentioning it, I've noticed that too! I've been trying to think of the best way to handle these types of situations without cutting off any information if possible. If you have any ideas, let me know

[–] orangeNgreen 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, tough one. All I can think of is maybe moving the author and community to the top of the post? Or cutoff the community name at a certain point and end it with a “…”, but not sure how clean that would look.

Edit: or maybe do it how you have it on the feed, and move the comment and clock info below the author and community.

[–] darklightxi 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I made some changes in this PR: https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/pull/968

Let me know your general thoughts on this!

[–] orangeNgreen 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I think that works! Thanks for working on that!