This is the first pre-release of Thunder for v0.2.1+11! (if all things go accordingly and I don’t mess up TestFlight builds again)
Just an update: I’ll have a bit less time this week to work on Thunder, so updates may take a bit longer than before.
Be fully prepared to know that these pre-release versions may contain major bugs which could cause Thunder to crash or behave unexpectedly.
Without further ado, these are the changes from last time (based off changelog):
Added
- Added colour to username in comments to distinguish your own comments
- Added option to allow text preview on text posts in normal view - contribution from @coslu
- Added option to share media link or external URL links in the dialog popup on post long press
- Added back featured post icon on posts within a community
- Added ability to customize swipe gestures on comments and posts
- Added ability to develop with hot reload using docker - contribution from @Fmstrat
- Added initial implementation for font size scaling for titles and content - this is very very rough at the moment so feedback is appreciated
Changed
- Adjusted visual feedback in comment swipe gestures
- Added option in settings to enable/disable swipe on bottom navigation bar to open sidebar on feed page - contribution from @bactaholic
- Added option in settings to enable/disable double-tap on bottom navigation bar to open sidebar on feed page (this is disabled temporarily) - contribution from @bactaholic
- Decreased scroll distance needed in order to fetch more comments from a thread
- Improved error messages when more comments fail to fetch within a post
- Decreased number of comments to fetch at a time to improve loading performance
- Posts now load first before comment threads to make viewing posts more responsive
Fixed
- Potentially fixed issues with HTTPS certificate errors when running on Android using Adguard with HTTPS filtering enabled
- Improved performance for comment threads with a lot of comments
- Fixed issue where the last comment on a thread could potentially not show up
- Fixed issue where markdown links were not respecting “open in external browser” option - contribution from @Fmstrat
- Fixed issue with download media not working on Android for some users - contribution from @minicit
- Fixed issue where media download button appearance in light mode - contribution from @coslu
For things to test out, I would suggest:
- general testing of app overall, vote, reply, comment, share, etc.
- testing of custom swipe actions
- scrolling through long comment threads
- changing all of the settings in the setting pages
I’m sure it has a lot to do with switching instances, but this update is smooooth. Everything working smappily and as expected so far :) will try to edit this comment when I’m done and see if that’s fixed itself on my end…
When text scaling was added in, was the base size made smaller? It’s not that different but it feels a bit closer to the Small setting than the Large setting. I’d personally bump that one back up to where it was, but if it’s tied to my system font maybe that won’t be possible?
Either way, keep up the great work!
I don’t understand what’s wrong with me, but I still can’t bring up the ability to edit comments 😭 when I swipe on my own comments I get the same options as I do for other comments (voting/reply/save). It’s supposed to replace reply, right? I’ve done fresh installs and purged my data through the last two releases and still can’t figure this out. Halp!
Apparently this issue is also occurring for another person, this is the link: https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder/issues/175#issuecomment-1620140588
I’ll take a closer look at it and see if I can figure it out
I think we’re onto something - it most likely has something to do with your display name vs username. Could you try to login using your username rather than your display name if you have that set and see if it works? capitalization matters in this case
Regardless, I’ll be making it so that the logic will check for your user id rather than username so that it makes it more robust!
Edit: doing a test edit here to check for something
Edit Edit: More edits are cooler
I don’t have a display name set (to my knowledge) but I also didn’t write my username in capitals on sign in - I can test that now!
EDIT: SUCCESS! Good sleuthing, sir! Only strange behavior I’m seeing now is that the haptic feedback goes a little nuts when you slide to the edit icon, for some reason? I can file a ticket for that!
YAY thats good to hear! I have already noted the haptic feedback issue and have fixed that already hopefully (in for the next nightly release)
You’re a wizard and a legend 🫡 continuously impressed by your work!
Just doing my best :D
Also when I send a comment in this post it does that successfully, but it kicks me out of post view and back into the community feed. I don’t think that was happening before?
This was probably introduced in the pre-release, heres the issue link:https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder/issues/218
woah you are right, I think a long-press is in order.
BTW, devs, anywhere I can submit suggestions? Two soecifically that come to mind…
Having links produce a pop-up, instead of immediately proceeding. The popup should show the full link path, and have a buttom to either proceed, open with, or copy the link.
2nd thing I’d like (not as important) the ability to select the text of a comment. As in being able to highlight a portion for me to copy to the clipboard.
And of course aside from any beginning alpha bugs this app is incredibly nice.
You should check out the GitHub page and file any bugs/requests there if they’re not yet covered (though I would also check out the latest nightly build, as it’s only getting better!)