Connect for Lemmy App

So here goes: several times it's happened that I'm writing a rather long post or comment, and maybe I need to switch apps to check something, or someone calls, or something like this; upon launching Connect again, if it happens to get killed by Android's memory management in the meantime, it only shows me the home page. If I manage to remember which post it was, the app would show the unfinished comment itself, which is useful, but I still need to be able to get to that post.

There seems to be a correlation between how long a feed hasn't been interacted with and this behavior. (Scroll up and down a feed; Wait a random amount of time; pre-fetching seems to halt.)

There are times when pre-fetching the feed can be slow and briefly pause while loading. Sometimes, this is when the feed will lock up.)

... this happens more often on cursed memes. /s

I can still slide to open the menu, but cannot take action on the feed. (The + button opens in the fore-foreground, so it works as well as 'back to exit' Connect.)

I was playing with the thumbnail preview in fairly rapid succession when one just "stuck".

I get notifications on new messages that don't show in the inbox, and mark as read doesn't clear the message from unread.

Manually switching from all/unread seems to work and clears the read messages

When I open the comments of a post, I can still "back" to the frontpage. But when I visit Settings or Inbox via the menu, I can't "back" out of it anymore. I have to navigate back to the frontage via the menu.

I'm using Connect 1.0.267. And everytime I switch accounts via the side tab, the app takes a long time to load the switched account and there's a spinner going on but it never switches.

I've tried logging out of the accounts and logging in back afresh I have but it still doesn't work.

The only way to get it to work is to

• switch account on Connect
• go to the android app info page
• force quit and open the app from scratch.

Then I can get to the switched account.

Am not sure if I'm the only one having this as I cannot find other similar bug reports on this.

Appreciate any help. Thank you.

Wondering if there's any plans for adding a translate feature. I use Fedilab for Pixelfed and stuff and it has a nifty translate button. Sure, it's not that hard with text copy and I have a translation app installed for a reason. But I'm lazy and tend to ignore stuff in other languages until I found out about the in-app feature. I'm not sure if many Lemmy apps have in-app translation so it could be a stand out feature. And Fedilab being open source may help with implementing the feature here.

When reporting a post, can we have a tick box below the reason for "block user"? This would save doing two actions when reporting a spammer who needs blocking.

Updated to v268 - I now can't access the Inbox!

There seems to be a visual glitch, where upvoting also makes the downvote counter go up by one as well.

Edit: hopefully this link works: https://autistics.life/@SilverArrows/114474315964904870

Seemingly random. Error may only happen on the first post a new thread. Could be a server-side issue, but not sure.

One issue I wanted to discuss is when a post thumbnail image is cropped or not-scaled to fit on my screen.

I have the "Limit thumbnails height" setting turned off, which mostly ensures the full image of a post is displayed. However, more and more I'm seeing thumbnail images cropped due to width and I have to open the image to see the full image.

Is anyone else having this issue? Is it the expected behaviour of the app? Is my desire to see the full image of each post on my feed as I scroll ridiculous?

Thanks.

Does this app have the option to change your profile picture? I can't find the setting, and I see when this was asked before it went unanswered.

Menu -> Refresh does not cause this issue.

Hey, not sure when this regressed, as I'm browsing Lemmy rarely, but it used to sort of work when the experimental features was added, but it broke again in recent months.

Swiping the post left, to go to the next one, bumps you back to the list of posts.

Swiping right on the post seems to work, but it kinda goes back in the history, as opposed to the list of posts.

I seem to be experiencing an issue where the X-small and small comment font sizes are the same size. I was under the impression that they should be different sizes. Same thing appears to be going on for the x-large and large comment font sizes.

With x-small set:

With small set:

It would be good to have the option to filter out posts that are older than XX option in the front-page feed. Currently, I have hide after read set, so I will eventually run out of posts. However, if I then find a new community to subscribe to, my feed will eventually just be a huge list of posts dating back to potentially years that I don't want to see. To hide them, I have to scroll through all of them so that next time they will be hidden, but it would be nice if there was an option to automatically filter them out.

I probably didn't explain this well, it has been a long day. Happy to discuss further if needed

Bug - when subscribing to a community, the pop up message at the bottom says unsubscribed to community.

Unsubscribing also says the same message.

~~Version is whatever the latest on play store is now, I'll need to check and come back~~ or not, can't find the version number

Pixel 9

The recent text bump seems to affect list view and I'm not sure if it's necessary; as it is for card view. I think the point of list view is being able to quickly view information that while is condensed, remains readable. Because of the size bump, I bumped the text scaling down a notch to 0.875, which makes the feed font size look as it was, but also reduces comment text size. It's still readable to me but is smaller than I would prefer and am used to.

There's a bunch of things that need to be taken into consideration in regards to how the UI is changed with different user-selectable font sizes, so I can understand if this is not implemented anytime soon. Or maybe just adjust it for list view and call it a day?

EDIT: Or am I crazy and it's the same size as it was for list view? I'm not sure.

Not sure when the update changed but I can't seem to find a way to view the community from the 3 dot menu of a post.

There used to be a /c/"community" on this menu.

I feel like I'm missing something obvious?

As a secondary button, tapping on it does nothing. And other methods, including viewing a post's picture and just viewing a post. This is on v264. I think I first noticed this a few versions back.

I'll post this minor one as well. If you have 4 secondary buttons set, sometimes a sticky post will have its overflow menu button clipped on the right and goes off-screen.

When the app has been updated, it shows a popup with the last changes. Once you close it, there seems to be no way to re-open it again.

Am I mistaken? Because I would very much like to have the ability to review the changelog after closing the popup.

Greetings from Germany

I am able to create and access two multicommunities, but when I try to create one with [email protected], it tells me that my instance is not responding.

Not sure what the issue is. As soon as [email protected] is removed from the multicommunity, it seems to work fine.

For me the title is to big and the rest of the text is too small. Would be great if there wasn't such a large ratio between title and texts.

The same goes for the comments: I don't see much point in the text size being different from the thread text.

Landscape is not working on the latest beta it seems or am I missing some setting?