We've released a new update to the Stable Pre-Release beta group (and, of course, the weekly), bringing video support, more markdown options, and a bunch of bug fixes. We've also refined our design—check it out and let us know what you think!
Cheers,
Features
- Added preliminary video support:
- .gif, .webp, .mp4, .m4v, and .mov media can now be played by tapping the play button; tapping elsewhere opens the media viewer.
- Currently the only controls are tap to play/stop.
- Planned features, roughly in order include:
- Autoplay
- .gifv support
- Thumbnails for .mp4/.m4v/.mov/.gifv content
- Pausing
- Scrubbing
- Updated design to use rounded rectangles
- Added the ability to edit posts
- Added more Markdown buttons: inline link, code block, and user/community/instance links
- Added a new comments indicator
- Added instance uptime statistics
- Expanded post can now be refreshed
- Added sign up prompts for new users
- Expanded posts now show if they've been crossposted with links to the crossposts
- Added a page for rendering deeply nested comment threads. Navigating to a comment (e.g., from inbox) will open this page.
- Added the ability to create crossposts from the post share menu
Bug Fixes
- Fixed iPad confirmation dialog appearing in the wrong place
- Fixed iPad sidebar navigation
- Fixed Markdown blocks would sometimes being truncated
- Fixed mark read on scroll not respecting the setting
- Fixed an issue preventing swipe actions on the account list and subscription list views
- Fixed some crashes
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