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Hi Boost gang,

The first version of Boost for Lemmy is almost ready. If you want to test the app for bugs and give feedback before the app is published, follow this link https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.rubenmayayo.lemmy to enable an early access option on the Boost for Lemmy Play Store listing.

Thanks for your patience!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

When adding images to my profile (both my profile pic and my banner image), they get rotated 90โฐ counter-clockwise.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This has been a very good idea!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

So far it feels solid to me. Thanks so much for your hard work

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Bug/Issue Report:

Been noticing a couple minor things over the past couple days.

  • When clicking the tray notification for messages, it sends me to the mentions part of my inbox not the unread part.

  • Refreshing a profile, or inbox, is inconsistent. Often I need to pull down multiple times for it to update and even then sometimes the update is still older than what's current, requiring more pulls. For a profile this can mean not showing current posts or posts with incorrect comment/score. For inbox this means disappearing messages or not knowing you've got a new one.

  • Speaking of inbox, if I mark a message as read it'll stop any notifications or badge counting. However the message will still occasionally "light up" like it's unread. Doesn't reactivate any notifications, and the app seems to know it's not really new, but it does happen.

Feedback:

  • I'm guessing this will be added later, but at the moment you can't edit titles of posts with the app. If I click edit it just says mark nsfw or delete.

Otherwise I love the app like I loved old boost. The only other thing would be themes but that isn't even remotely important this early in development.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Loving the app! I'm having trouble swiping away media. It doesn't feel sensitive enough and usually takes me several swipes. I've enabled the tap to close which works amazingly but muscle memory wants to swipe.

Recommendation/Hope: it would be amazing to have a media peek where I can tap and hold on a thumbnail and it enlarges the picture. Awesome app, thanks!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This look great! Was struggling with Jerboa for the last few days. I gave up and got into Tildes instead!!

This feels familiar!! ๐Ÿ‘ Awesome

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm excited to switch over and will definitely report any wonkiness.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It's a great start!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Images are able to be posted in comments. Ability to press and make them bigger would be useful.

Understood would be difficult with the press to collapse feature.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah! Thanks for the great Work. Btw. Rndnsfw is Not working ;)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Not sure if it's Boost or YouTube Revanced at fault but got the following error when I tried to open a Lemmy link to a video: https://postimg.cc/q6sW77x0

Also, the sign-up journey is a bit confused. Clicking sign up takes me to joinlemmy, which then just lands me on a home page for whichever instance I click. Might be more user friendly to prompt for a choice of instance and take them directly to that instance's sign up page. And maybe have a button for "not sure? Explore here" or something similar that would take you to joinlemmy

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Being taken to the instance that just selected makes pretty firm logical sense to me, personally. Is the sign up process/path uniform across all instances?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The few I checked were, but not sure if the path is defined as part of the Lemmy protocol.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Is there an option for the comments where I can just long-press to select and copy text instead of needing to go into a copy menu and then using the select text option? That can be bit tedious, and I typically copy most longer comments and send them to my voice-aloud app for TTS. It's definitely the main feature I miss about the old RIF app - easy text selection and perfect Bluetooth keyboard/mouse support.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

A minor ui glitch(?)

When scrolling through posts I noticed that occasionally the post summary would slightly scroll up cropping the first line in the summary.

After playing with it for a few minutes, I can reproduce the behavior by pressing on the summary, holding the press and dragging left or right, continuing to hold the press and dragging up or down.

It seems I tend to scroll with a slight diagonal motion instead of a pure up and down motion.

Screen shots showing the glitch: The post in [email protected], the "hey guys..." line gets scrolled off screen with the "diagonal scroll motion"

Normal post look

Glitched look

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I don't know if it has been posted. After try many lemmy client its end to sync and boost.

But compared both apps there is one difference that I feel, scrolling performance is better on sync. On boost feel little bit lag/stutter.

Else just customization like other comments mentioned.

I hope it will be fixed in next build.

Thanks for build great apps. ๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looking forward to trying this! I'm unable to log in on this account currently as there isn't a TOTP field :)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

would.

can't login to my instanse. nor another.

am not making a new login.

android13

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Only issue I'm having is random timeouts, but I think that just a lemmy thing in general. Nice app

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you! you have done an amazing job! ๐ŸŒท bought the app right away. Not a bug but a question / request : will you implement a 'History' tab in the sidebar, like there was in boost for reddit? I find it very useful having the ability to scroll through posts I've viewed but not saved.. especially after nights my mind wasn't so clear.. Thanks again rmayayo! ๐ŸŒท

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I also can't seem to press and hold on taps for images when in the full-exapanded screen

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