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Sync for Lemmy Beta 91 release notes (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ljdawson@lemmy.world to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

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New

Added "overview" as a new default section for profiles
Added "saved" as a new section in profiles
Added "all" as a new section in search
Updated the look and feel of the login page
The status of your logged in session is now checked at startup and a relogin page is shown if needed
Added an option to hide all comments made by PipedLinkBot (Settings > Lemmy settings)

Ultra

[Ultra] Feature extension: Summarize third party articles #416

Changes

The sort icon in posts & comments now matches the current sort

Github issues closed

Blocked communities are not blocked #425
Tapping into a post, Sync stops displaying the instance of users #237
Search bar for instance list #430
Instance name missing when viewing comments #421
The article summarizer in Ultra does not show "Summary " when using "Slides" view type and "Show image previews" turned off #409
Add ability to swipe between instances and communities when using the instance or community browser #405
Anonymous profile pic not showing #347
Some favoriting improvements #400
Subscriptions are still shown when anonymous #348
Would be nice if the app had an indicator in the settings of which app icon is currently chosen #399
FAB shown in the Theme Management preview doesn't match the square Material 3 design #395
Remove the controversial comment setting #397
Remove the "Show user flair" setting #396
Move some of the features listed within Settings->Experimental to their designated spots #394
When changing the launcher icon the app icons take a good bit to load #388
Profile button in List View just a TODO #354
"More actions" button crashes app in comments #210
Opening 'More Actions' when in a post crashes the app #351
Dark overlay doesn't work #344
Disable infinite scroll #337
The "select source" bottom sheet should dismiss when clicking camera or gallery before it shows the new intent #379
Remove twitter previews in the settings #359
Card options (columns) missing in View Type Settings menu when view is set to Small Cards #355
Server Donations #212
Support for viewing instance page #207
'Legitimate Interest' GDPR consent settings does not save #200
Very unhelpful bad login notification #197
Adding Instances (More than just the default instance) #190

Other fixes

Fixed an issue where requests weren't cancelled when changing profile section
Pressing About at Root (Everything, Local, Subscribed) should fetch info from the sidebar #39
Fixed an issue preventing searches in communities
Thumbnails should load much faster now
Fixed a crash in the settings when leaving after changing night mode
Fixed an issue where the logged out session would not show a profile picture
Fixed an issue where communities were not filtered locally when viewing instances
Actor pictures now fade in
Fixed an issue loading timestamps

Updates

Gradle > 8.3
Now building with Java 17
Updated to Android Studio 2023.1.1 Beta 1
com.github.bumptech.glide:glide > 4.16.0
org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin > 1.9.10
com.android.tools.build:gradle > 8.2.0-beta01
org.mockito:mockito-core > 5.5.0
org.robolectric:robolectric > 4.10.3
com.google.firebase:firebase-bom > 32.2.3
com.google.auto.value:auto-value > 1.10.3
org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup:tagsoup > 1.2.1
org.slf4j:slf4j-api > 2.0.9
com.squareup.okhttp3:mockwebserver > 5.0.0-alpha.11
jp.wasabeef:glide-transformations > 4.3.0
org.jsoup:jsoup > 1.16.1
commons-io:commons-io > 2.13.0
org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 > 3.13.0

Removed

The old broken tasker integration
org.mp4parser:isoparser
org.mp4parser:muxer
com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer-dash
com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer-hls
com.github.tittojose:timerangepicker-library
In-app Imgur gallery handling

Notes

Increased the number of threads available to image management
Increased the number of threads available to web requests
Finally transitioned from Butterknife to ViewBinding
Removed the "legacy" dark mode time picker
Clicking on any item that requires login now opens the login page (instead of a toast)
Domains are now shown for non-Lemmy hosted images
Changed the styling of usernames + communities

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[–] ljdawson@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Lots of refactoring + fixes this release.

I've been working hard on localising the app in Spanish + German but that just missed this release, hoping to get that in the next release for sure.

Again beta 50 to 91 mainly due to lots and lots of internal releases!

Cheers, Lj

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Again beta 50 to 91 mainly due to lots and lots of internal releases!

I thought I was going crazy, how could I miss so many versions lol.

I have no update version yet showing in the PlayStore... so I guess it is a matter of time?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] Lemisset@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same here, I don't have the update available yet. I just assume it's still making its way through the tubes.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Hopefully it won't take long, this app keeps showing how premium the Lemmy experience can be on mobile 🤘🏻

[–] Nankeru@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly, the app crashes for me 1–2 seconds after opening it. I'm no longer able to use it. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3

[–] ljdawson@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Submitted a fix to Google, should be live soon.

[–] Nankeru@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks! Updated and working now.

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[–] M137@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You are awesome! It's crazy to have such a great app for something like lemmy, really not something you expect or at all take for granted. It's so cool that you managed to keep it so similar to the reddit version, it's very nice to feel at home with it after using it for reddit for years.

[–] ljdawson@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

(シ_ _)シ

[–] charles@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for all your work LJ, it's clear the value we get from having you be able to dedicate so much time to working on Sync. Love seeing so much improvement to an already great app.

I'm especially happy for the PipedLinkBot feature and profile overview.

Edit: now that the update has shown up on my end and I've tried the new features, I'd like to add that I slightly misunderstood what the PipedLinkBot would do, any chance we could have an option for those comments to be collapsed by default instead of hidden?

[–] DTFpanda@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ugh, this update is so good. This app is so good. Even if Lemmy continues to lose users and content, I love opening this app because of how good it feels to navigate through it.

[–] ljdawson@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

(シ_ _)シ

I'm going to keep building it with the faith that this is going somewhere. It's been really fun working on this.

[–] Oneobi@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

It's not the user loss that is the concern, it's the actual contributors that matter the most. As long as they stick around, it's all good.

So don't stop contributing folks!

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I've noticed since updating this morning that clicking images (not sure what it's officially called, the Image Preview? when you click an image post without loading the post comments) frequently loads a blank screen. Only clicking back and then on the image again gets it to load properly.

[–] ljdawson@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There should be an update available that fixes this.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just downloaded the update and can confirm that fixed the issue. Your turn around time continues to amaze me. I work in a corporate environment where we have to write user stories, discuss them in backlog grooming, do sprint planning, develop, test, go through a Change Advisory Board approval, do release planning, then deployment.

The fact that I can just comment in one of your threads about something weird I'm seeing and then you fix it in less than a day is nothing short of astonishing. You rock!

[–] DTFpanda@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I can only imagine how good this feels to read a compliment like this. That was really well said.

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[–] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Do you mean peeking? When it only appears while you hold? Or just a tap on the thumbnail?

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I didn't even know peeking was a thing until you mentioned it. Oddly enough, that works fine. Tapping the thumbnail gets a blank screen. Holding gets it to load.

[–] ljdawson@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can you share a screenshot of what you mean?

Thanks

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hope this helps.

I'm browsing like this (Compact mode?):

I click the thumbnail of the top image post. A blank screen loads but no image:

I click on the screen, which takes me back to browsing. The post shows as read:

I click the same thumbnail again and the image loads successfully:

This happens with almost every image, but not all. Maybe 90%?

[–] gothicdecadence@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Getting the same issue

[–] Aabbcc@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have the same issue, hard to take a picture of a blank screen so I'll try and be specific with steps to reproduce

I'm using small cards. Click on an image on the right side of a small card

Expected result the image opens up, I can swipe to close it.

Actual result screen is black sometimes with a loading icon. It stays this way indefinitely. Closing the image and clicking it again let's it display as expected

[–] ljdawson@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks.

Just small cards?

[–] Odo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I am using Compact mode and experiencing the same thing in the latest update.

[–] mom@nom.mom 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Seems to be resolved. I was definitely being patient for each pic, tested on several images/posts/instances with the same result each time, but now it works. Sorry for the false positive

Device information

Sync version: v23.09.13-09:43    
Sync flavor: googlePlay    

Ultra user: false    
View type: Compact    
Push enabled: false    

Device: bluejay    
Model: Google Pixel 6a    
Android: 13

When tapping to view an image, I get this:

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[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

This scenario has happened to me, too, so many times and not just in this update.

I get the black screen so I wait between 1 and 10 seconds for it to load.
Give up and press back.
Immediately tap the thumbnail again, and then the image instantly appears.

I wait a random number of seconds each time, so it'd be a really funny coincidence if the image finished loading exactly when I give up every time.

I do have slow cell service in certain locations, so sometimes the image is just slow to load, I'm sure. But the timing of the image finally appearing in step 3 above is too precise to be a coincidence the number of times it's happened.

Update 1

Edit: since writing this comment, every image I've tapped gives the black loading screen and I haven't waited even 1 second before tapping back and tapping the thumbnail again, and then the image immediately loads.

Update 2

I turned off image preloading, cleared cache, and did some testing. It's a good time to test since I currently have poor cell service:

I repeated the same basic steps: tapping a thumbnail, tapping Back as fast as I can, then tapping the thumbnail again. A couple times this immediately displayed the images, but other times I got the black screen again. I think it's based on file size.

I performed the above "Back and re-tap the thumbnail" loop up to 6 times, and when the image still didn't load, I waited 20 seconds on the black screen to see if it would eventually load. It never did. But then I would perform one more quick Back and re-tap and it would load.

This is what I think it happening: the image finishes loading eventually, but the loading screen never gets the "image downloaded" event and never updates to show the image. Then trying again loads it from cache.

If pre-loading is on, and you have fast internet you might never see this behavior. Images will be cached as fast as you can scroll. Maybe you could test this by uploading a truly enormous image, clearing cache, and using only cell service in your basement or something.

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[–] Mr_Buscemi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Same here. I just click the image from my frontpage and it just loads to a black screen. If I hold down on the image it will pop up in the full screen preview though. I'm on small cards.

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[–] NinjaFox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey, getting instant crashes after updating on my end. I sent in a feedback report, crashes while loading up.

[–] ljdawson@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just pushed a fix, thanks for the report.

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[–] Zoldyck@discuss.online 3 points 1 year ago

Already fixed in newest app update.

[–] Mr_Buscemi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just noticed a glitch with spoilers I think

If you use the spoiler tag on a comment and then click on the spoiler to un-hide it, clicking edit will remove the spoiler tag code for the stuff that was originally marked. The " >! ! < " disappears in the editing page is what I mean.

But if you never un-hide it, you can click edit on your comment and it will show the ">! !< " still there.

[–] chalupapocalypse@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Anyone else having issues with redgifs

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[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Blocked communities are not blocked #425

How does Sync have anything to do with Blocks? I read issue #425. The initial report says "Open the community. Click the block button. Community is now in the list of blocked communities."

That block button has always been a server-side block recorded on the instance itself, right? So I'm assuming the submitter means they checked the list of blocks on their instance's website.

And then you replied that you fixed it. How is this possible?

[–] ljdawson@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I mistakenly understood this as the filter issue. Reopened.

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

My app crashes immediately upon opening, after the splash screen but before loading any posts. I've tried restarting my phone. Haven't tried clearing the app's cache because I don't want to relogin and also I shouldn't be on lemmy during work anyway lol.

Running Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra with Android 13 and One UI 5.1. I have sync ultra.

Edit: Clearing data worked until I restored my settings.

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I tried clearing the cache and that didn't work. Also it looks like I'm still logged in so I guess idk what the cache stores lol

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[–] ljdawson@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just pushed beta 92 that fixes the crash.

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Works now, thanks!

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[–] schnokobaer@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Added "overview" as a new default section for profiles

This is great and long awaited, however it also means months of muscle memory down the drain again 😂

[–] baru@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you've enabled the hide button in posts this version will load the post instead of hiding it.

Device information

Sync version: v23.09.13-09:43    
Sync flavor: googlePlay    

Ultra user: false    
View type: Slides    
Push enabled: false    

Device: HWVOG    
Model: HUAWEI VOG-L29    
Android: 10

[–] amorpheus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Same here.

Device information

Sync version: v23.09.13-09:43    
Sync flavor: googlePlay    

View type: Slides    
Push enabled: false    

Device: sweet    
Model: Xiaomi M2101K6G    
Android: 13

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[–] chemsed@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see "#### New" instead of "New" in bold characters in the previews before I click on the post. The text accompanying the title is not formatted, it's the raw markdown input.

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[–] MakeItCount@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Is there a fix planned for the old sorting for comments not working on some/all Lemmy instances ? Or is entirely a Lemmy issue

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[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems like I cannot open comments anymore.

[–] ljdawson@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you switch to the "slides" view mode that should stop the crash. I've already submitted a patch to Google, just waiting their approval.

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Top stuff! Thanks, I would never even have thought to do that.

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