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Liftoff!

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A mobile client for Lemmy running on iOS and Android

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[We've just put out a quick bump to 0.10.9 to include a few fixes. Notes below apply to 0.10.8 and 0.10.9]

Lots of great changes have been added by our growing team of contributors as highlighted below. If you want to join the team come and say hello at the team discussion on Matrix

Updates should appear on TestFlight and Play Store today.

v0.10.9 Release

iOS:

Android:

Hey everyone! I know it's been a few days since we've released but we've got a feature packed release today! Thanks to all our users and the continued feedback, keep it coming!

Change log

  • Added MP4 and some redgif support (jjcomer)
  • Added swipe gesture actions! (shocklateboy92)
  • Added photo cropping before upload! (mykdavies)
  • Added code of conduct and tweaks for iOS release (mykdavies)
  • Redesign of home tab and themes colors (swmarks & a_minh)
  • Fixed alignment of post pills/chips (mykdavies)
  • Redesign of compact view to be more compact (zachatrocity)
  • Added help text on account page to help guide the user (mykdavies)
  • Added RU (asher) and EO (mykdavies) language localisations
  • Tons of bug fixes!

Screenshots

Known Issues

  • We hear your concerns about dark mode and will address these.
  • Swipe actions against posts don't always update the post's icons.

What's coming

  • iOS and Android full release! We'll keep test flight and early access going for beta testers!
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[–] simple@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Contrast feels a lot nicer, thanks for the update!

I wish there was some spacing in-between posts though. It feels like they blend in together a little.

Edit: turning off card shadow in compact mode helps a lot

[–] liftoff@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Yeah turning off shadow is great. I should have updated the default. Light mode needs the shadows

[–] trouser_mouse@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

This is awesome, you're getting on so fast!

One thought - I wonder if dark mode is a little too dark, could maybe do with being slightly grey/blue and have post shadows off by default (but on in light mode). Love the green dividers in amold mode!

Best Lemmy app by far!

[–] jjffnn@feddit.dk 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm going to join the gang of dark mode is too dark.
I see that it splits the comments in half, so maybe if it is possible to add a grey mode that looks like the old dark mode, both sides could be happy.
I use dark mode as much as possible, but this dark mode is migraine inducing to me due to the white on black colorscheme.

[–] liftoff@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

We'll add back the grey mode

[–] TeaHands@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Yay! I picked Liftoff because it was so much better looking than all those other harsh black apps. This is very happy news to wake up to 🥳

[–] jjffnn@feddit.dk 4 points 1 year ago

Awesome! Thank you. <3

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[–] B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great update. Love the swipe actions.

[–] Speckle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

They're kinda fun! Just been figuring them out to upvote you!

[–] holoyolo@partizle.com 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love the redesign! Looks so much sleeker and the colour for dark mode is better.

Could we have a setting to disable swipe gestures please? Clumsy me will end up accidentally triggering the wrong ones all the time.

[–] liftoff@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah good call, we can do that

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[–] guriinii@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Personal preference I guess but I preferred the greyer UI. I find the text easier to read on a lighter background. Be cool to have an option to change the background colours as well.

[–] sloonark@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the update but honestly dark mode is way too dark now. Liftoff had the easiest on the eye dark mode before this so it's disappointing to see it look like the official reddit app now.

Please can we have an option to bring it back?

[–] liftoff@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sure we can bring it back!

[–] Noedel@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I agree with this guy, I've loved every update so far but this one is too dark. It adds too much contrast which makes it harsh on the eyes.

[–] Cabeza2000@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I cannot emphasize how important this is for my eyes, the sooner you guys can bring this back the better.

BTW, can you provide more info on "compact view to be more compact". What exactly changed? I have the feeling that the space within posts has been reduced but I am not sure. If that is the case then I preferred to have a more clear separation within posts (already disabled the shadow).

[–] nuke@yah.lol 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks for being so responsive!

[–] ralothar@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Is there a way to disable swipe-gestures? They do look nice but I constantly save or upvote random posts or comments just by scrolling and fat-fingering

[–] cnhguy@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Was the button to save posts removed? I figured out you can swipe to save, but it's pretty cumbersome on long posts like this one

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[–] Mjokfox@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Great update, but I am not a fan of swipe actions. Could you add an option to disable the feature? Maybe I'm blind and just stupid but I could not find this option in this release.

[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hi @liftoff@lemmy.world, cool app!

3 questions:

  1. In notifications there's really no need to collapse those comments, could you make it that tapping it would go straight to the comment you're notified about (instead of trying to aim at the little link icon) and would mark that notification as read (instead of trying to aim at the little tick icon)?

  2. Will there be push notifications?

  3. When searching via website I get to search throughout many instances and in the app I must select one, either lemmy.world or one I'm on. Also sometimes I can't subscribe to other instaces' communities because it wants me to log in so I need to use browser instead. I imagine handling all this federation is not an easy task, you think it will be possible to adress it? It must be the hardest thing to code in the entire app, isn't it?

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

Huge fan of 1. Definitely expect that to be the behavior instead of having to hit the link icon

Second to this, when we go to the comment can we have it automatically do the in context action? I have to hit it every time. I post enough that I can't remember exactly what they're replying to

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[–] ArmoredCavalry@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Love the swipe actions! This might already be planned, but one thing I've seen with other Apps is haptic feedback during swipe, as you go from no action to action #1 to action #2.

Keep up the great updates!

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago

Added MP4 and some redgif support (jjcomer)

Thank you!

[–] fisco@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Appreciate the update, but the central drop down for feed choice now having been moved to one side, feels really unbalanced...& detracts from the app origins...Much preferred the central positioning of all the prior versions...

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

I think it's better on the side. I feel more at peace with it

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I just want to thank you, I always liked Lemmur more than any alternative and missed it. I am happy to see the project brought back to life.

[–] scromblilation@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I don’t have any suggestions and I had no complaints before. I really like this version and I can only see improvements.

Thanks for all you’ve done.

[–] owatnext@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Howdy! I like the app a lot, and I wanted to see if I could help! When I set the app to Welsh, most of the words are indeed not Welsh. I am still learning Welsh but I'd like to help translate the app if possible.

However, the Weblate instance you have linked on Github confuses me, I can't sign up (edit: 405 error) and I am unable to find the directory containing Liftoff, it just redirects back to the parent directory.

Thanks for your hard work!

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[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a way to re-hide an nsfw image? I want to be able to hide it back after I'm done seeing it.

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

Scrolling a bit beyond and coming back does that.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 1 year ago

Would it be possible to have an option to turn off gesture navigation entirely?

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

Hey, not sure if this is the case for others but the second tab (I think it's meant to be subbed communities) is broken and has been for awhile now. Something about a null something or other. Will edit to add the correct error in a sec.

App looks great otherwise though I do agree about it being a bit dark. Someone suggested a grey mode in the colour of the old dark mode and I would love that

E: error is "null check operator used on null value"

[–] liftoff@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This is a lingering error with the forced logout that some instances did. You can remove and re add your account and it will be fixed or you can wait a few days and we'll get it fixed.

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

Had the same issue, this fixed it for me. Thanks!

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

I just can't decide which app to use. they all have things I like and update so frequently

[–] Madbrad200@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah same. I like Jerboa, Liftoff, Connect, Thunder. Summit has potential too.

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

Thank you for another great update. Can't wait to see how this app ends up 😁

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

Nice work on the app, really liking it so far. Is it possible to do a universal search? I only seem to be able to search in the instance my account is it.

[–] Madbrad200@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

can you describe how "redgif" support is supposed to work? For me, it still forces me to open redgif in-browser.

[–] liftoff@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Redgifs has a nightmare of an API. In my testing only 2 out of 10 worked. We're waiting on a dedicated API token from them

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

Should be much better in 0.10.9

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

Ah it finally rolled out to me, I love the swipe gestures! Only additional requests with swipes is to be able to customize the actions, have haptic feedback, and toggle on/off.

I'd love to be able to short swipe to upvote + long swipe to downvote. I had it set up that way on Apollo for years and it would be such a big QOL thing for me lol. (example)

Some misc things:

  • highlighted text shows cut/copy/paste but not replace, look up, translate, etc. (screenshots)
  • text replacement is still wonky (screenshots)
  • setting for text size throughout the entire app instead of just on posts/comments (example)
  • tap very top of screen to scroll to top (edit: it works on the home feed but all pages)

I appreciate all the time + hard work everybody is putting into this :)

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

^ That didn't happen before. It's fixed by opening the account list. The subscription tab only shows a timeout error now all the time and the bookmark button is missing :(

EDIT: oh, just found the swipe actions. Some thoughts on that: a two-staged swipe-action isn't very intuitive and will lead to the wrong action being triggered more often than not. Maybe make a left swipe bookmark and right swipe upvote. With the bookmark swipe I can't unbookmark anymore and even if I could, there would be no indication right away.

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[–] LoneBear@wirebase.org 4 points 1 year ago

Just opened the app and immediately noticed the redesign of the top. It looks great, thanks!

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