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Sync for Lemmy

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Sync for Lemmy Beta 34 release notes (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ljdawson@lemmy.world to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

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Key points

First round of modtools added
Added spoiler support
Hidden posts stay hidden
Sync can now open lemmy links from the top 50 instances

Ultra

Added the option to export and import subscribed lists
Added the option to translate text from images
Generate "ultra previews" for posts with missing thumbnails
Display website previews in comments (enable in Settings > Ultra)
Select text from images during post submission

New

Added modtools
- Pin / unpin posts
- Remove / restore posts
- Lock / unlock posts
- Ban / unban users from a community
Hidden posts now remain hidden after a refresh (shown on profiles)
You can now select Sync to handle Lemmy links from any of the top 50 instances
Last edited timestamps
Added the percentage of upvotes a post has received
Webp images now animate when opened
You can now open additional folders when selecting media to upload (three dots)
Clicking on a comment from the inbox now shows the full comment list
Simplified accounts are listed in the picker
NSFW previews are now blurred and respect the full height setting
Renamed "Show emotes" to "Show embedded images" in the comment settings
Switched to a brighter color for highlighting text fields in night mode
Filtered communities are no longer shown in recents
Images in comments are now swipeable when opened
Added "open url" action to the community picker when a URL is posted

Usability

Added tooltips to the editor icons
Added support for the Open Dyslexic font

Github issues closed

Viewing Inbox message in original context does not show comment being replied to #187
Add Lemmy spoiler support #127
Import / Export Subscribed Communities #111
Tooltips are MIA from the reply and edit pages #291
Recents thread list links to reddit url #289
Translate option does not appear on image posts with a body #292
Add option to copy body text from post #281
Displaying more server side info for home instance #273
Show all Parent Comments instead of showing many levels of comments #267
user filters not working #268
Add an indicator whether a comment/post has been edited #266
Hide action does not work #60
Toggle account action button should cycle between anonymous #255
Paid Ad-Free APK file without AdMob bundled #250
Restoring Purchase on Chromebook Gives Error #248
Separate Downvote & Upvote Scores + Vote Total in Profile #249
Ability to return to full Post thread at position of comment #254
Add Translate Text option in addition to Extract Text Ultra Feature #252
App continually crashes if default post sorting is changed in settings #154
Error toast when no posts available says "sub has no posts" instead of community #234
Wrong permalink instance #235
REQUEST Dyslexic friendly font #222
Add option to blur NSFW previews #323
Reappearing hidden posts, app scrolls up automatically. #324
Emote filter is also filtering regular embedded pictures #321
[Ultra] Extract Text From Images for Post Title #315
Posting: Community selector shows communities I filtered/blocked #313
Photo album navigation across multiple image links within the same post or comment #316
Wording not consistent when subscribing to community #307
Photo picker doesn't show albums from external storage #304
The input box types are mismatched? Title thinks it's a URL and URL think it's a title #303
The app should give a dialog asking if you want to leave when you cancel a submit #294
profile pictures still low res when enlarged #270
Enhancement: Load parent when clicking on comment reply in inbox #285

Other fixes

Fixed an issue where the profile section as missing in the small toolbar
Fixed an issue where the domain was inserted into selftext before the link
Fixed an issue with the link handler freezing
Fixed an issue where sharing a comment would share the wrong link
Plus can now be used in the username input
Fixed an issue where the title field was not autocompleting
The title field now auto selects on open when submitting
Fixed an issue where user highlighting wasn't respecting instances

Updates

com.google.firebase:firebase-crashlytics-gradle > 2.9.8

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[–] Terevos@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

First round of modtools added

THANK YOU!

I've been wanting mod tools since I started using Lemmy a few months ago. Even this little bit is super helpful.

[–] ConfuzedAZ@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice, I hope the app is making enough to keep the updates coming.

[–] Spliffman1@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

It's a chicken and egg thing I think, app makes enough to be sustainable for work to be done on updates.... And work done on great updates makes more people get it so it stays sustainable...

[–] Byter@lemmy.one 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sync can now open lemmy links from the top 50 instances

This is appreciated.

I wish there were a way to add to the list of supported URLs as a user. Looks like that would be an Android enhancement.

Is there any mechanism in Android's intent-handling to make this more flexible today or are we stuck for now?

[–] ljdawson@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly they have to be hard coded in

[–] derocker@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Would there be a form or a submission process to getting certain domains included? I guess opening a GitHub issue for each one?

Trying to get

https://4wd.social/

To work

[–] ljdawson@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That instance has 1 user per month. Going to guess that's you?

[–] derocker@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No it's not me. That user I believe is the admin for it. I discovered that it's a instance for hosting 4wd communities but no user registration. So would like to use it for it's purpose but navigating links is hard. Going to try and help build but I only use sync to access lemmy.

[–] Risk@feddit.uk 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Disappointed that importing and exporting subscribed lists is an Ultra feature :( I can't afford ultra.

[–] kattenluik@feddit.nl 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There has to be some kind of good feature locked behind to make money, you can use a different program to do this anyways.

[–] Risk@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

I do understand - it's just a shame.

[–] induna_crewneck@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I made a script to transfer subscribed subreddits to lemmy: https://github.com/induna-crewneck/Reddit-Lemmy-Migrator

[–] ljdawson@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Current priority #1 is to fix the remaining comment display issues.

Edit: all fixed, will be pushing live tomorrow.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Speaking of, I'm sorry to say I think this update broke opening comments on my device.

Device information

Sync version: v23.08.23-18:29    
Sync flavor: googlePlay    

Ultra user: true    
View type: Compact    
Push enabled: false    

Device: heroltebmc    
Model: samsung SM-G930W8    
Android: 8.0.0

[–] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago

Just paid for ad-free baby! Let's go.

[–] Zephyr@reddthat.com 10 points 1 year ago

Kind sir, I now give upon you my money.

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good god you work fast. Great stuff, thanks so much for adding the mod tools 🥰

[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago

A lot of great changes, this is awesome!

[–] milan616@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the hard work LJ!

[–] induna_crewneck@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Great Update. The improved hidden post behavior is a good step in the right direction. Another feature from Reddit Sync I'm missing is the account selector while commenting.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Woo, so many changes and fixes. Thanks for the image picker one!

[–] atheist@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Thanks for the update.

Is there an option to show hidden posts on refresh?

[–] ShaolinRaiden@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Tap on your in-use account where you go to add another account or switch between accounts. That showed all the hidden posts for me

[–] atheist@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

Nice, thanks. That worked.

[–] NickCudawn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That feels like a bug. Maybe there should be a setting to chose between permanently hiding (including beyond switching accounts) and hiding until refresh. I would prefer the former and that's how it was on Sync for Reddit, but it seems there's an audience for the latter option

[–] FederatedSaint@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is what I wish WOULDN'T happen. I switch instances all the time, I hate having to re-hide posts over and over. If I hide a post, please keep it hidden!

[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'd love this to be an option. I like temporarily hiding read posts to find unread content more quickly, but being able to refresh and see them again.

[–] thimantha@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeahhhh. The current behavior is not how I use the hidden posts feature. It was perfect before and now it's ruined how I use the feature.

[–] ljdawson@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Added an option for the next release.

[–] Spliffman1@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Thanks so much, the previews are wonderful!

[–] lolreconlol@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Did the Lemmy hype die down? It sure feels like it. Still missing content.. can't leave Reddit yet.

[–] Zoldyck 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chicken and egg. I completely stopped using Reddit and I'm fine.

[–] Princeali311@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same, but I'd lie if I said I'm not missing it. It's mainly that there is almost no community even remotely as active as some of the same ones I was posting on Reddit.

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[–] running_tadpole@lemdro.id 11 points 1 year ago

Well, when contents don't follow people will return to the old place.
Like Lemmy lacks sports contents, so I keep returning to Reddit for dose of sports contents.

[–] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Last I read we lost about 10k users from the high point. But who knows how many if them were posting and commenting?

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of them were probably also duplicate accounts as people found an instance that fit them

[–] rooster_butt@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I think it's this. I was posting on 3 different accounts until I found one to settle in.

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[–] wahming@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Sync can now open lemmy links from the top 50 instances

https://lemmy.world/post/3769853 Doesn't seem to work. The post linked there opens up in an internal browser

Edit: Click through to the lemmy.ml post

[–] EtzBetz@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Works for me. You need to go into app settings and check the domains which you want Sync to allow to handle.

[–] wahming@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

As in, you clicked the link I provided, and the link inside that link?

[–] JackDark@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! Is there a way to return the solid red NSFW previews? I tried unchecking the blur setting, but everything is still blurred.

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[–] anonymoose@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Awesome! Is beta 34 going to be available to everyone, or only the Play beta users group?

[–] sarsaparilyptus@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for fixing the image picker issue, very much appreciated

[–] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Posting on 34!

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I feel like this version is slower to read comments since it seems to load all of them and then scrolls to the right comment.

I think before it was showing the comments right away but there was a button to load the parent comment.

I went from beta 29 to this one though.

[–] ljdawson@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Changed the behaviour for the next release.

[–] mom@nom.mom 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do spoiler tags only work if they're using >! and !<

!Because the ones I've seen that use the other method haven't been covered like spoilers!<

(Wasn't quite ready to post)

[–] Princeali311@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Can we have an option on NSFW blur vs fully red?

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