Connect for Lemmy App

There appears to be an issue with the current version of Lemmy that removes the ability for NSFW communities to add a NSFW flag. As I understand it, Connect's client side NSFW settings use this flag to block or blur posts, so currently some posts are getting through.

Not sure if this is addressable on Connect's side, but wanted to bring it up.

I replied to the old comment about this but I think it has got lost or missed.

Thanks for adding alt text! Now we have the image display with the info panel at the bottom, could you move the alt text there? I think it will be infinitely more readable, and more obvious to find.

The highlighting of new comments seems to have broken recently. I checked my config and it is still enabled but they aren't getting highlighted any more.

The last update broke a number of features:

Saving images will make the app

Block community or instance no longer working

Subscribe will constantly give "unsubscribed from..."

Links aren't opening when tapped on if you have either card view set, in v254.

Example post.

For affected users, you may want to temporarily switch to a list view until a fix is implemented.

Initially reported by i_am_not_a_robot.

I'm curious how stickied posts in MultiCommunities are handled in other apps. I don't believe Connect is the only app that has this feature. Are they still posted at the top and you potentially have to scroll through a lot if you have a lot of communities added?

Currently, Connect doesn't put them at the top but rather chronologically, by your sort method.

I think it should remain at the top but if, say, the total number of stickied posts in a MultiCommunity exceeds 3, it's collapsed into a single option to open up a new page with all stickied posts.

Going to a user profile and selecting the add note option does nothing.

I think it was working fine previously but I just noticed in v252 that when you try to block an instance, it blocks the instance of the poster rather than the community the post was made.

I'm sure I reported this already, I was going to update that report but can't find it now! So sorry for the duplicate.

This is a good post to test: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/42624268

When visiting any of the links on it, the post displays but the comments don't. Refreshing either gives an error (can't find post) or shows a completely different post.

249 would break image saving with some backtrace about the error, the new update I kust received make the entire app freeze and then it just crashes to Android

Hello,

First, thank you for the amazing work. Since few weeks the app freezes for few seconds when visiting c/datahoarder and it only happens with that community.

Hello !

When I try to download an image, with the new good looking (👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼) popup overlay, I get this error:

Cheers!

The post overflow menu includes separate options to view the user and community for the post. Perhaps this could be removed since the option to do so are available outside of the menu and I imagine few people are using it. But I could be wrong, if people think it's useful, please chime in.

Also, if the share button is selected as a secondary button, the option should be removed from the post overflow; the save button does this.

I'm not sure what that Unicode is called but it reminds me of blinds. I kind of dismissed the first instance in the screenshot but them I saw the issue in a post title. Links for the two instances.

https://lemmy.ca/comment/15973593

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/32912270 (title)

Also, can you add saving of alt text to drafts? Please and thank you's. As well, when editing, you can't edit alt text?

Started seeing this every now and then on v251. Previously I don't recall seeing this. It only occurs when a profile picture has issues loading and typically is temporary; the error is removesd once the link resolves. Before it's resolved, it can be a hindrance.

I support apps being more verbose and error messages but in this particular case, I don't think the error message is necessary; if the a profile picture link doesn't resolve, so be it. Maybe on an user profile page, it may be more of a consideration.

I just happened upon a post with a spoiler and couldn't view it.

Edit: works in the preview, doesn't work after posting

Tried to make a screenshot but the post was way to confusing being a lemmy screenshot on lemmy so il attempt to describe the issue.

Basically the block user option now overlaps with the Android navigation bar right at the bottom of the screen and can't be clicked.

I’m on the mobile app connect to read lemmy. Since a few days, I can only see a grey screen when trying to read comments.

Has anybody else encountered this or does anybody have an idea how I can fix this?

Thank you!

Error text:

An error occured (PlatformException(error, null, null,

java.lang.NullPointerException

at U2.f.onMethod Call (SourceFile:350)

at n3.d.P(SourceFile:26)

at g3.c.run(SourceFile:140)

at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:958)

at

android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)

at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:205)

at android.os.Looper.loop (Looper.java:294)

at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8 177)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)

at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgs

Caller.run(RuntimeInit.java:552)

at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.jav a:971) ))

I was originally going to post about blurred NSFW images opening in external browser unless you first open the comments where the thumbnail is visible and tapping on that then opens the image internally. But this issue has recently spread to cover pretty much every image. The images have URLs like https://sopuli.xyz/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.world%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2Fc29a7ebe-f747-4518-8e53-62a552145b5f.jpeg which seems to make Connect think it's an entire website that should be opened externally. Is it a Lemmy thing, my home instance sopuli.xyz thing or a Connect thing?

Note that I did try disabling the external browser in the settings but actual websites opening internally was a horrible reminder about why we don't do that.

EDIT: Following @[email protected]'s advice, I switched to the beta branch on Play Store and it seems this week started with a number of related fixes. I'm on version 257 now and the majority of images seem to now open internally regardless of the external browser setting, like they did before. 💪

Was working in a recent version but now everything opens in the internal browser. I'm on v247.

EDIT: For posts with links where the thumbnail is not resolving, the link goes to the external browser. For everything else, it opens in the internal browser; with the open external setting on.

It was working in a recent version but I no longer see the highlighting in v244&245. Tried toggling the setting on and back on but nada.

I'd really prefer having the 1 touch view option back, while the image browser window likely has its uses I don't like it popping up for every image. Thanks for your efforts!

Clicked the above link, which worked:

Local post link

However it shows there are comments but Connect isn't displaying any.

Refreshed by pulling from top. Now shows completely different post:

This one

Local feddit.uk version

Incidentally just before this I edited a comment and instead of the usual bug where it can't find it, it showed me the wrong post. Not sure if this is all related.

(Will edit images in asap - seem to have been blocked from uploading for the moment)

Just sharing an issue I'm having, and glad if there's any potential solution. Thank you either way for your work on this app!

Issue: In any post comment tree, comments with images (or comments that are just images) appear as in the first example image - DominusOfMegadeus's post is just empty on my Connect for Android app. If I long-press and choose "Open," it will open a browser to the hosted instance and the image will show correctly, as in the second image.

Troubleshooting: I looked everywhere in the settings (both in Connect and in my instance's settings) and can't find something that could be limiting this.

Is this a bug? Or is there a fix I'm just missing?