Connect for Lemmy App

Hey all,

Posting a Feature Request for the dev(s). Is there a way to add a shortcut to hide all read posts in the main feed(?) page carat menu? I would greatly appreciate the ability to hide any and all read posts and refresh my feed(?)

Also would it be possible to add an option to mark a previewed(long pressed) post to be marked as read.

Apologies if these are already a features and I just didn't look hard enough.

Thanks!!! Tpyoman

P.S. love the app use it every day and is my main app to browse lemmy other than sync which I might just ditch of these features are available on connect.

I want to ignore all of the "This is an automated archive" posts. Any way I can filter that string?

I'm trying to block posts from !memes@lemmy.ml as a community.

When I go to the appropriate settings dialog, and try searching for "memes@lemmy.ml" it returns communities such as "wholesomememes@lemmy.ml" and "animemes@lemmy.ml"

Therefore I can't select "memes@lemmy.ml" to block.

I think the search is not including the blank prefix case.

Any link to streamable does not open on my device (samsung s22 android 13) with the internal webbrowser

Feature: Horizontal swipe for next post (experimental) Version: 1.0.120

Appreciation:

I previously suggested that the "left-to-right" swipe gesture take the user to the previous post, rather than out to the main scroll feed. This seems to have been implemented. Thank you Kuro!

Request 1:

However, there are now three "go back" user inputs with identical functionality. An in-app button in the top left, the standard phone back button in the bottom right, and the "left-to-right" swipe gesture. I think it would be useful if one of these took the user out to the main scroll feed. My suggestion would be the in-app button in the top left, as it is the least likely to press accidentally.

Request 2:

Not sure if this is a bug or intentional, but the "swipe for previous" gesture doesn't go past whichever post was originally selected from the main scroll feed. My ultimate Lemmy browsing experience would be "sort by new", scroll to the oldest post I have not yet viewed, and "swipe for previous" until I'm caught up to the present.

Request 3:

As I don’t use swiping gestures on comments, I would find it useful if the "swipe for next post" area were extended to include the comments section when "comment swipe actions" are disabled.

Bug:

Swiping for the previous post sometimes brings up the comments of the previous post, but not the previous post itself. The posts and comments are now out of sync with each other, and further "swipe for previous" gestures continue out of sync. As a workaround, "swipe for next" seems to usually sync the posts and comments back up with each other.

Thanks again, Kuro, for such a great Lemmy app, and for your solicitation and implementation of user feedback!

I don't want to see a bunch of emojis instead of a name. The colors draw your eye and so far I've found none of the people who do that are worth that attention.

Is there a setting for it? Am I just blind?

Just wanted to say I really like the link handling in this app. When I use lemmy on Desktop it's always a nightmare to navigate different instances, even with the Greasemonkey script. This app just does it out of the box. Barely had any cases where it doesn't work recently

Is it possible to add an option to auto mute videos when opening a post? At times it's hard to even tell that it's a video when clicking on a post. I've been surprised a few times!

In this picture you can see it in the title of the one post. I have noticed itnin comments sections as well.

I see this nearly daily.

I remember seeing a different code on comments as well. It was something like  

When looking at Local or All I want to use Top6. However, when viewing smaller communities, there may not be any posts in the past 6 hours, so I want to sort those by new.

Can Connect have a way to remember that so that I don't have to keep changing my sort settings?

Would it be possible to make the NSFW blur customizable? The big red box stands out like a sore thumb and there doesn't seem to be a way to make it a different color or use a graphic or something.

This is definitely the best Lemmy app I've used but I think some changes to how images work could make it feel a lot more smooth. Making it more like how Sync handles it is what I'm going for. Being able to double tap then hold and drag to zoom in or out is super convenient. I also like the shorter distance to drag to close the image. I have also had issues with gifs displaying as static images.

Currently have to open them, but would be nice to able to skip a step.

Saw this with my @mtgzone username. Problem with that instance or with Connect app?

Revealed spoiler text appears at first to be blank. Highlighting reveals that it's there, just the same color as the background.

Edit: this is in 120

Ive recently been sorting top 6 hours but I was curious if there's an option for top 3 hours? I know that's just getting more granular, but not sure if it's a lemmy thing or an app thing.

Cheers!

Would it be possible, in the formatting bar below the text boxes, to have a button that will automatically create a link to an instance or communities? (And usernames now that I think about it?) I keep forgetting and having to look up the exact formatting for each of them. Thank you!

Before update 1.0.124 turning off that setting removed the side/ hamburger menu.

Would it be possible to have a feature to 'freeze gifs' in user avatars. As you can see from this example it can be really distracting. We've all seen what signatures and other cruft look like on other forums- see Ars technica etc.- and I am in the camp that anything that adds cognitive load but isn't part of the post or comment should be minimised.

Thanks

I was trying to find the comments I've saved on the Connect app, but the Saved tab on the left navigation rail only seems to display saved posts; not comments. Is there a way to view saved comments in the app?

Update: It seems the comments are actually there under Saved. However, when I sort by "new", newly created comments appear after posts for some reason. I have to scroll ALL the way down to view the saved comments. This seems to be a sorting bug.

The swipe controls seem to be gone or are not being registered, but only when viewing the Frontpage, Local, or All. The swipe controls work correctly when viewing a specific community.

I tried going through the settings and disabling other swipe controls, but the behavior remained constant.

Edit: version 1.0.123

Please make a right handed mode. Reaching the far left corner to upvote gets really tiring really fast.

Also another thing, when there are multiple images linked in a post connect seems to load the first picture just fine however the other ones are loaded with a grey backdrop. Please fix.

Connect is the only Lemmy app I have installed that doesn't have a Subscribed feed. And the current default feed isn't even close to the Subscribed feed.