Watch out! Theres another update incoming 🎉

This release has a lot of changes under the hood which will pave the way for better performance overall, and hopefully allow for shiner features in the future! There’s a lot of quality of life changes in this one to make your experience hopefully better.

Since this release has a lot of under-the-hood changes, its expected that bugs may show up that were previously not there. Please open up a GitHub issue if you find any of those!

Obligatory message: If there are any developers out there who want to contribute to this project, that would be greatly appreciated!

To see the full details of this release, check out the GitHub release announcement: https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder/releases/tag/v0.2.1%2B8

For those on TestFlight, the update should automatically install on your device. For those who obtained the app through IzzyOnDroid, that update should eventually reach your devices!

There is also a discussion page here for any general discussions about this release if anyone is interested: https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder/discussions/115

I am so glad to see all the support for this so far, and it has truly been incredible. Thank you all for helping me build this app, and let’s continue to make it even better

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    1 year ago

    For those on Android, theres a few things I would like to get your feedback on (I don’t have a physical Android device so I cant see it for myself):

    • How does the icon look like to you? Has it improved from last time?
    • How is Material You? Does it work as expected?
    • Did the name of the app change to Thunder instead of thunder (capital case vs lower case)?
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      1 year ago

      Icon looks great, Thunder is capitalized! Material You is working beautifully, though I might consider having it theme the floating New Post button as well?

      AMAZING release, dude!

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      The icon changed to a full black circle with the logo in the middle as it should be and the “T” is now capitalized. I am running Android 11 so no Material You testing for me. That was adden in Android 12 and up

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      I’m on Android 10 so won’t be that helpful because I know a few of the functionalities you’re using are not compatible :

      • Icon looks the same for me
      • Material You is not available on my phone (so the Iphone alternative of choosing color combinations could be useful)
      • Thunder with an uppercase T confirmed
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      • Icon’s great now! Fills the full app circle
      • Material You works as expected! Colors are themed correctly
      • It’s now Thunder instead of thunder
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      The only issue I’m seeing with the material you design and actually this is kind of a problem with the dark theme is the text of links in posts is not readable. E.g https://ibb.co/qpjtNm4

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    1 year ago

    You added everything I asked for and everything else I secretly wished for! What an amazing update, you are awesome! The new icon and Material You theming are A+, thank you so much for all your work on Thunder.

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    It is one of the best designed lemmy app so far but my biggest issue with the app is that after scrolling a certain amount app becomes so laggy to the point it becomes unusable. Hope the issue is fixed soon.

    I’m an Android user so let me know if more info is required.

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    1 year ago

    Don’t forget to unpin the previous release and pin this one !

    Loving it so far, I’ll probably be back with more feedback after testing but so far the one change that’s weirding me out a bit is the new collapse only collapsing the parent comment. For some long comments it was very handy to collapse them and have a one line preview. Maybe a compromise with a pixel height would could work ? I just had a comment with a screenshot bigger than my screen and was sad when I clicked on it and still had to scroll the full length.

    New settings are great <3 Great work !

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      Hey! Thanks for the quick feedback! I think for this, there’s different opinions on how it should be handled.

      I think the best solution to this would be to just add in a setting which allows you to switch between the two methods of collapsing :D Feel free to open up a issue on GitHub for this!

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    @darklightxi this app is still under development but it’s very promising.

    the icon for me is a square with white background, and the loading posts is a hit or miss, but still it’s way better then all other clients I have tried in it’s current state, nice

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    Can we get fully collapsed comment threads back as an option? Also when a comment is collapsed, there should be some indication that there are child comments hidden

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    Nice! Although when I first launched it after updating, it got stuck on the (frozen) spinning loading wheel for like 20 seconds. Luckily everything is working fine now. I’m on iOS 17 by the way

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      Hey! yeah, theres been a lot of changes under the hood so that may have contributed the to loading that you saw.

      The best thing (if I could do it) would be to ask everyone to re-install the app if possible since there may be inconsistencies due to all those changes

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    I just downloaded the app. I love the feel, look & everything so far!

    I’m such a baby at this, so please excuse my ignorance. But I can’t seem to like comments under posts. Am I just missing something?

    Also I don’t know where to find my comments that I’ve made. Again, am I just so dumb I can’t find it? How do I see My posts & comments & how do I like other ppl’s comments? Please & thank you.

    Sorry, I didn’t know where else to ask this. 🥺 I love this app so much rn.

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      Hey! Thanks for trying Thunder out :D I would like to preface this by mentioning that this is still in (what I would consider) very very early alpha. Because of this, there’s still a lot of features that I’m working hard to bring to everyone in the community!

      But I can’t seem to like comments under posts.

      You can perform actions on comments by swiping on them! Currently, that’s the only way to upvote/downvote, save, and reply to comments

      Also I don’t know where to find my comments that I’ve made.

      This is currently in the works! In the next release, I’m hoping to have a more detailed profile view where you can see your posts, comments, and hopefully saved items

      I hope this answers your questions!

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    Really liking this app, a big improvement in navigation over the website. Thanks for your efforts here.

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    Changelog says that now read posts dim the posts if you open them, but that is not working for me.

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      Whoops, I just tested it out again, and I forgot to dim the posts on the default view. If you switch to compact view, you should see them dimmed!

      I’ll fix that for the next release