Connect for Lemmy App

Posts hidden via three button menu reappear if you scroll the position the post was at out of view and then back into view

Say I am interacting with user abc in a comment chain. If they start acting incendiary and I block them, I can no longer see abc's comments. This would be fine, except... if user xyz responds to one of my comments in that comment chain, I have no way of interacting with that. Want to reply? Want to block them, too? Too bad, the entire chain is invisible (but you're still notified about xyz's comment, which you can do nothing about).

Maybe instead of making abc's comments invisible, they could be replaced by a comment box with "blocked user" instead, so the rest of the comment chain remains intact?

I'm trying to add a word to my filter. Let's say it's "orange". I type "o", it collapses my keyboard, says saved settings. I type "r", same thing. I takes forever to type in a word. Can it update after I type more or hit enter or save settings?

At least, that seems to be the case. I've seen several times now that it doesn't autofill, and fiddling with the URL has kicked it into life. Today I realised that it appears to only work if the URL ends in a slash.

In a passing comment someone said that lemmy.zip blocked hexbear by default. I checked in connect and didn't see it blocked. I checked on the web and it was blocked. Connect didn't know. I'd expect it to know.

Switched from lemm.ee to lemmy.zip. My old usernames were still in he profile switching section. I tried to switch to the old ones to remove them. The app just circled for several minutes. I force closed it and reopened it. It gives an error about unable to contact the server but at least gives me a menu. I removed the dead servers username.

So, not critical but weird.

I've used connect for a few years now, and was a lemm.ee user until they shut down at the end of June. I switched to lemmy.zip, and now when sharing pictures on Android (S24 Ultra) it won't actually share any media, it just shows the words image_proxy in the share dialog but there's no actual media to share.

Edit: Nevermind, got it figured, thank you though!

Profile screen only loads initially and refuses to update until app is restarted

steps to recreate

• Load Profile screen (important, don't skip step)
• Find a thread elsewhere on lemmy
• add comment to that thread
• return to Profile screen
• scroll up to refresh

Expected Behaviour

comment on thread should be visible in profile screen after refresh (or should auto refresh on returning to the Profile screen)

Current behaviour

I have to kill the app completely and reload it to update the Profile screen

Found on a Samsung Note 20 Ultra 5g

Connect Version 1.0.275 (275)

Not sure when this broke, but I'm no longer seeing the preview images when a post is a link to a news article.

It's just showing the 🔗 image with the domain under it.

Edit: Clearing cache doesn't help. Feddit.uk had a update a few days ago, so I'm wondering if that's caused this, although not sure why it would have?

As the title says.

Saving pictures and videos worked since a long time but since about a month or two, it would freeze up connect and make it crash.

Then a next version fixed it, then a subsequent version broke it again and it has been broken ever since, even after multiple new versions

Any idea when this might be fixed?

Edit: this is on Android v1.0.275 but has been broken in many other versions before that for at least like 2 months now

Go to a thread with more than a screenful of comments. Collapse some comments. Scroll away and back. Comments no longer collapsed.

I have no plans to move from Lemmy any time soon, but I am curious if PieFed integration was being considered.

It would probably make more sense to fork Connect but a "multi-client" would be neat.

I updated to the latest version being on beta channel and some comments in threads look like having 125% size of letters compared to others. Idk if that's some option in settings (I've not found one) and I don't see some systematic rule of why it happens.

edit: added screenshot, first comment is of different size to the next one, changing font size settings keeps the difference

Please can you add the pin/unpin to community feature, for moderated communities? I thought Connect already could do this but I just looked for it and couldn't find it!

Just saw a post on the voting history that Voyager has as a feature and I think it would be neat feature to adopt. Even for users like myself that makes use of user tagging already, I think it would still be useful and complimentary.

This may also provide a bit of a framework for different requested feature, a history of your upvoted and down voted posts. I didn't use it much on Sync for Reddit but it was situationally useful.

When pressing and holding a thumbnail on a post sometimes it will 'stick' and won't go away without restarting the app. I notice that I can still scroll but the image will stay throughout any menus, pressing back, or creating a new post with the plus sign that pops up at the bottom.

edit: v269 btw. It seems v275 patches the issue. Thanks devs!

When entering the inbox from mid-feed on android, it seems like you can no longer swipe or use the back button to go back to where you were in the feed. Pressing the back button now does nothing, and i have to reselect the feed view in the sidebar, which resets my position in the feed. This is quite annoying when I've already scrolled past a number of posts and see that I've received a message, since i know that reading or responding to it means I'll have to reset my feed from the beginning. Love this app so much though and appreciate everything you do.

Hi,

Clicked on the link in this comment and connect pops up a little "API error" notification at the bottom, and backs out of the post.

It looks like connect is trying to open the link as if it were linked to another community?

Occasionally I get notifications on Connect from one of my other accounts.

When opening the notification, nothing happens. I would expect it to switch to that account and then open as it does for the current account.

• With "force full-size thumbnails" disabled (the default) most thumbnails fail to load

• With "convert to webp" enabled (the default) most images fall to load in app, but work in an external browser

As an aside, is there an "open external" anywhere when viewing an image? It used to be in the three dot menu, but I don't see it now.

I'm on 1.0.275 and the app crashes upon startup. I also got a system warning about the app using a lot of background battery power.

Images load at a very low resolution and take 5-10 seconds or more to fully load. Something changed a little while ago as I wasn't having this issue before. I tried clearing cache with no change.