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.
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!
Point 1 & 2 should be fixed in the latest build!
[Bug] The app won’t always shows the complete list of subscribed communities properly..
I mean it misses out the subscribed communities sometimes even after the refreshing and I have to search the community and re-subscribe again..
Fun-Fact, Just now I re-subscribed to Avelon App community for the third time as it was not showing in my subscription list 🙃
[Edit] Just noticed that the Avelon App community which i just re-subscribed would disappear from subscription list once I refresh the app..
Hmm, not sure what this could be, never seen the bug myself. I'll look into it, thanks for the heads up!
Sharing a small recording regarding this bug here
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SPBK7eGytpoBydrmdxNAKGfuAyvSNVrs/view?usp=drivesdk
Think I figured this one out, check out the latest build!
Can confirm the bug been squashed 👍🏽
Already loving the app for its minimal and clutter-free styling.
Just a small request, Hope to see a brand new app icon just before the App Store release ( I know it’s not a very important at the moment as you have other main features to implement. It’s just my personal request )
Will let you know if I encounter any bugs in future.
Thanks.
Nice, that was fast. Much better, thank you. I think you meant 1&3 :)
Yeah 1&3 is right :)