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Official community for the native iOS Lemmy app Avelon.

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  1. Posts should be related to the Avelon app in some way. Be civil :)
  2. If you have a feature request/bug report, mark the post with [Feature Request] or [Bug]. That way they're easier to find for everyone!
  3. If you're reporting a bug, please include the iOS version, Avelon version, the device you're using, and any steps necessary to reproduce the bug. Screenshots are also very helpful. The more information you include, the quicker the bug can be squashed! Thanks!

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The screen moves off the screen on left and right. Trying to figure out what is going on. Anyone else experiencing this issue? Moved all iOs settings to lowest font size. Will keep exploring…😳

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I’m not sure why, but I can’t connect to discuss.online as of yesterday. All I get is a “Failed to connect” error. No other detail.

I did create an account on lemm.ee and that works.

Anything else to try? I did uninstall and reinstall but that didn’t change the login failure.

Thoughts?

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The touch top (by WiFi icon, battery, etc) automatically scrolls to the top is the most awful iOS feature. It should have been behind a setting in iOS, but here we are. Is it possible to move it behind a setting in the app?

Thank you!

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Hey @evgiz,

I have a quick wee feature request. I’ve got the mark read in scroll AND hide on read features enabled. As it stands I get about 20 posts or so from last I checked Avelon, followed by months old content.

It would be great if, at least on my Home feed, I could have the feed end at posts older than a week?

Thanks muchly, J.

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Would love to see some mod tools added to the app. Happy to help test and provide feedback on them if needed.

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Currently, there’s no option to copy a comment to your clipboard. It would be very nice to get this as I currently would have to take a screenshot then use optical character recognition to extract the text.

Additionally, Apollo had a really cool option to export an image with a user comment. It was really good feature because it was granular in that you could decide to anonymize the usernames in the screenshot, format the screenshot to only include what you intended, pretty much anything you can think of about screenshot formatting, etc. That feature was really cool and I miss it dearly.

IMO, if you’re going to be THE ubiquitous Lemmy app, you need to provide everything good that Apollo had.

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There’s a bug when you edit your comment, to correct a spelling mistake for example.

It either works and ‘saves’ - it doesn’t save. Or it does not work at all.

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Hey friends, I see you just pushed another test flight build, cheers for all the new updates. However, I just tried changing the App Icon and it doesn’t work at all, just stays on the default one. I tried a bunch to see if it was just one of them glitching out, but none of them work.

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Hi everyone!

First of all thank you for all the amazing feedback I have gotten so far. I was a bit overwhelmed by the response on my first release, but I'm happy to see so many people enjoying Avelon. This update addresses a ton of the most common feedback I have received with a lot of useful new features including swipe gestures, a new inbox and a new subscriptions page.

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Changelog

  • Swipe gestures for posts and comments
    • Fully customizable! Head over to the new gestures page in settings
    • Quickly perform actions such as upvote, downvote, save and reply
    • Also added swipe gestures to various other parts of the UI
  • Inbox to view your replies
    • Quickly respond using gestures
    • Quickly open the relevant post
  • New subscriptions page
    • More compact, grouped alphabetically
    • Not a tab any more (reachable by swiping back in posts)
  • Community links now work in-app
  • Added ability to save comments
    • No way to see saved comments atm. Coming later!
  • Added customizability to thumbnail position
  • Add option to enable more sort options (6 hours, 12 hours, 3 months etc.)
  • Add option to show both upvotes and downvotes
  • Added ability to save etc. from within a post
  • Add swipe gestures to the in-app-webview
  • Add purple accent color (yellow too in previous build)
  • Reworked navigation system (no longer brings you to a different tab unexpectedly)
  • Restructured settings a bit (will be more changes here over time)
  • Fixes issue where your own votes would often be counted twice
  • Fixed some typos
  • Fixed alignment issues with tab bar
  • Fixed overflow issue with some posts (hopefully)
  • Attempted to temporarily fix ios17 reply crash
  • Lots of other things I probably should have written down earlier

Screenshots

Known Issues / Future Features

  • Adding posts
  • Viewing profile pages
  • Viewing saved comments
  • Blocking/filtering
  • Multiple accounts
  • Adjusting text size
  • And more stuff!

Replies have been crashing on the iOS 17 beta and I've added a temporary fix that hopefully resolves this (though it lacks markdown highlighting). I'm not on the beta yet myself so unable to verify or add a proper fix for now, will look at this once I get a device on the beta.

Given how many features this update adds, I do expect the build to be a bit less stable than before. If you encounter any bugs/crashes I really appreciate your feedback, either here or through testflight.

Hope you enjoy the update, and let me know what you think about all the new features!