Connect for Lemmy App

Starting yesterday, Connect hard crashes when you attempt to click on the Inbox and the same happens if you click on the notification bell showing that there are messages.

As of this morning, the Inbox sidebar label is coloured Red instead of Blue.

Connect Version 1.0.190 Android v13 with latest security patches

Just started today. Possibly related to the recent updates.

Swiping to back out still works, at least for images

v1.0.190

This morning, connect is empty. All view modes are blank like the screenshot. Randomly ONE post shows up if I refresh a LOT, but immediately disappears. I can read and view my profile, but any posts I try and load from there are empty too.

Edit: I appear to be able to scroll the blank space for quite some time.

Editedit: other clients do not appear to be affected.

I just recently got the 190 update pushed. It mentioned lots of fixes. One was image handling.

I have found that now exiting an image is a bit slow or glitchy. A single gesture to go back does not exit and instead it needs two. Tapping an image instead still closes it but there is a delay that wasnt there before.

I'm on a pixel 7pro with gesture navigation.

After editing a comment, UI fails to load the next page. Haven't tested if it's only in non-native instances.

Anyway, if I want to review an edit, I have to hit back twice, refresh, then scroll to find my comment again.

Most don't load for me. Just get a black screen. The ones I've checked were mp4s from imgur. Not sure if that accounts for all of them though.

Edit: I think it started after the most recent update. Edit 2: mp4s from catbox.moe also doesn't work. It shows a spinner at the bottom but never loads.

Looking at the blown-up thumbnails while waiting for the full-size images to load is pretty uncomfortable for my eyes... they search for detail that isn't there yet, and get strained. If there was an option to just see a spinning wheel or similar, I'd choose it in a heartbeat. Alternatively, displaying the image line by line as it loads (slow scan from top to bottom) would be even better, as it would allow me back out before loading the whole thing.

I may have missed it, but is there a way to see all of my subscriptions at once?

I may have missed it, but is there a way to see all of my subscriptions at once?

Like in this post that showed up on my all feed: https://lemmynsfw.com/post/14828436 (nsfw, of course)

There's an image in the post url (which blurs on my feed) and there's also an image in the post body (which does not blur on my feed)

Blocking a user hides their content in comments, but it still shows up in inbox when viewing all as well as in comment chains in the profile view. It would be great if blocked users didn't show up in these places.

Let me know if there's more info needed.

Version: 1.0.187 (187)

Hardware: Google Pixel 7

Expected behavior: When swiping "back" on the main/posts page, expect to see "Are you sure you want to exit? Y/N"-type notification. "No" will return you to the app, whereas "Yes" will "close" the app (as in, reopening the app is a fresh open, not 'pick up where you left off'/minimize)

Observed behavior: Swiping "back" on the main/posts page just minimizes the app

I just upgraded from a Galaxy J7 to a Pixel 3, which seems to have fixed the following problems:

• Clicking on my profile shows me someone else's profile

• Refreshing immediately after changing profiles results in no block list being applied

So, it seems those issues were specific to older hardware.

I am still seeing the issue where trying to save redgifs videos in-app only saves a stub file instead. Though, seeing as redgifs made their videos unsaveable in browsers, maybe this is due to deliberate site shenanigans. Voyager seemingly also can't do this. Though, Voyager doesn't download anything at all, as opposed to Connect's stub files. If the resulting file is non-functional, I think saving nothing would be better, ideally with an error message saying the file could not be saved.

Just a quick observation: I cannot scroll the entirety of the comments within a post that extend beyond a few lines. I can collapse comments and get a bit further but it hits an invisible wall. I have tried adjusting my scroll settings within DeX and the issue persists. I just wanted to make a post for awareness - I am grateful for Connect and it works perfectly for me within the intended phone/app mode. Cheers!

Using a new device, I'm finding that top level comments for posts don't have much by way of padding or margin on the left (or right). On this new device, these comments can be difficult to read due to a curved screen. Is there a way I can somehow add some padding?

I mentioned this in a comment but I figured it would get lost there.

The recent update means redgifs videos now load (yay) but reveals a new problem: videos cannot be saved in-app. Attempting to do so (with file permissions enabled) instead saves a tiny file with the same name, but none of the data.

As redgifs disallows saving from their site in-browser, this effectively makes redgifs content unsaveable.

Any solution or workaround would be appreciated.

Could we please have the navigation bar be transparent?

I'd like to see an option to open a particular post as a different user. Mastodon clients have this and I find it pretty handy.

ie. Clicking the menu on a post should have "open as" which then lets you select one of your other logged in identities, and switches back to the post from that account.

This sounds like a really cool feature if not to difficult to add. https://dubvee.org/post/1621850

I've noticed a lot of blank comments that look active. Opening the comment in a browser shows it was removed by a mod. So those mod messages aren't being displayed. Here are a couple of screenshots showing the problems:

In Connect.

In Firefox

Example post: https://lemmy.world/post/18146992

Just curious if there is a way as I've been subscribed to a couple now that just vanished out of nowhere and it's a bit annoying to have dead instances on the switch screen.

I'm not sure why but shields.io images don't display in Connect.

The MediaBiasFactChecker bot leaves comments that I like to see so I don't want to block it....but it's designed for how the browser version of Lemmy handles spoilers. It says "(click to view the whole report)" which expands the multiline comment.

On Connect, the entire spoiler section shows up (but blacked out, of course).

Honestly I prefer the way Connect handles it now but I don't expect the bot maker to change their formatting to cater to just one app so an option for it would be awesome

This is after I click on View All in my Inbox. Thanks!