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

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/2030083

Hi everyone!

First of all thank you for all the amazing feedback I have gotten so far. I was a bit overwhelmed by the response on my first release, but I'm happy to see so many people enjoying Avelon. This update addresses a ton of the most common feedback I have received with a lot of useful new features including swipe gestures, a new inbox and a new subscriptions page.

Download on Testflight

Community: !avelon@lemm.ee

Changelog

  • Swipe gestures for posts and comments
    • Fully customizable! Head over to the new gestures page in settings
    • Quickly perform actions such as upvote, downvote, save and reply
    • Also added swipe gestures to various other parts of the UI
  • Inbox to view your replies
    • Quickly respond using gestures
    • Quickly open the relevant post
  • New subscriptions page
    • More compact, grouped alphabetically
    • Not a tab any more (reachable by swiping back in posts)
  • Community links now work in-app
  • Added ability to save comments
    • No way to see saved comments atm. Coming later!
  • Added customizability to thumbnail position
  • Add option to enable more sort options (6 hours, 12 hours, 3 months etc.)
  • Add option to show both upvotes and downvotes
  • Added ability to save etc. from within a post
  • Add swipe gestures to the in-app-webview
  • Add purple accent color (yellow too in previous build)
  • Reworked navigation system (no longer brings you to a different tab unexpectedly)
  • Restructured settings a bit (will be more changes here over time)
  • Fixes issue where your own votes would often be counted twice
  • Fixed some typos
  • Fixed alignment issues with tab bar
  • Fixed overflow issue with some posts (hopefully)
  • Attempted to temporarily fix ios17 reply crash
  • Lots of other things I probably should have written down earlier

Screenshots

Known Issues / Future Features

  • Adding posts
  • Viewing profile pages
  • Viewing saved comments
  • Blocking/filtering
  • Multiple accounts
  • Adjusting text size
  • And more stuff!

Replies have been crashing on the iOS 17 beta and I've added a temporary fix that hopefully resolves this (though it lacks markdown highlighting). I'm not on the beta yet myself so unable to verify or add a proper fix for now, will look at this once I get a device on the beta.

Given how many features this update adds, I do expect the build to be a bit less stable than before. If you encounter any bugs/crashes I really appreciate your feedback, either here or through testflight.

Hope you enjoy the update, and let me know what you think about all the new features!

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[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

Looks a lot like Voyager, shame it is an iOS only app rather than a webapp.

[-] evgiz@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I really prefer native apps, it's usually way easier to get solid performance and top notch OS integration. Of course it limits the number of devices it can run on, but that's the price you pay. I don't think Avelon would have worked nearly as well as a PWA.

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

It's really okay, personally I find it better to have options for both native and web apps (and I'm saying that not even using iOS ha ha)

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