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Avelon 1.0.6 - community groups, GIF scrubbing, app themes, filtering tools, custom app icons and much more (apps.apple.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by evgiz@lemm.ee to c/avelon@lemm.ee

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Hey everyone! For more than a month now I've been working hard on the biggest update to Avelon so far. Today I'm really excited to announce that it's finally out on the App Store! The update includes a whole bunch of cool new features for people who want that little extra and QOL improvements all-around.

Some of the highlights of this update include:

Community groups
App themes
Right-edge swipe-to-go-forward gesture
Custom app icons
GIF/video scrubbing
Advanced filtering tools, including keywords & instances
Fixes to a bunch of iOS 17 related issues
New markdown editor tools
Smart comment jump button
Ability to manage and clear app cache
Support for Lemmy 0.19RC
Lots of bug fixes & improvements all around

I really appreciate everyone who has helped with beta testing during the 1.0.6 cycle, you guys are honestly great!! It's super motivating to hear so many people enjoying the app, and as always I'm open to suggestions and feedback. I hope you find the Pro-model I've landed on a fair/decent way to run the app. I've tried my best to consider all factors like affordability, development, as well as the quality & quantity of what Pro offers - and I hope I've found a good middle ground.

As for the future: for 1.0.7 I'm thinking I'm gonna focus primarily on performance, stability & bug fixes, but I'll probably throw in some more QOL features as well. Just let me know if you're missing anything or if you find any pesky bugs or nuisances. Hope you enjoy the update!

~~Edit: Seems to be a slight issue with upgrading to pro, working on it 😅~~

Edit: Fixed!

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[–] biffnix 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks to the dev. It’s by far the most polished Lemmy app for iOS right now , and I’ve tried just about all of them.

The pricing is like, a week of morning coffees, so I’m not really sweating it. And that $14.99 for a year is a great option at $1.25/month if thirty bucks will break you.

I’m happy to have bought pro lifetime, and glad you’ve put the number of hours in developing Avelon. I look forward to seeing how it matures.

Oh, just FYI, I LOVE that Avelon is portrait only while scrolling threads. I browse a LOT with the phone while on the couch, or lying in bed, and currently NO other app stays in portrait when sideways. I don’t know any savages who read in landscape. That’s rightly reserved for videos or wide photos, in my opinion. It took Christian YEARS to figure out a toggle in Apollo where you could lock to portrait while browsing text, and auto-rotate only for videos or landscape-only media. It was why I bought Apollo Pro lifetime, finally! But, here’s your Pro lifetime subscription from me, so thanks for making it the way I like it already… ;)

Cheers

[–] evgiz@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you so much, really appreciate it! I've started to look at better full screen landscape support whilst keeping the portrait feeds, but yeah it's more tricky to do than you'd think. For sure something I'd like to do eventually!