Hey guys! Sorry for being AWOL for the past few days. I’ve been taking some personal time and stepped away for a bit. Going to be cleaning up some more stuff and pushing out some good stuff to you guys soon.

This build here - for real this time - offers significant performance enhancements. There is more to be done, but this is a great start.

Here’s some changes:

  • Hide username in the tab bar
  • Some context menu refactors
  • Add bug report option
  • We have replaced the old UI library with a new one. There are still some quirks to work out, and we will be handling those over the next few days. This offers quite a significant performance boost over the last library.
  • Using more stable variables to prevent unnecessary re-renders. This is one part of the performance improvements.
  • Fix infinite refreshing attempts of an empty community
  • Added option to delete posts. This was something I threw in tonight and will be finishing edit post tomorrow. I also have the mod tools ready to go, just a matter of adding them where they need to be in the menus
  • Comment chains are collapsed after either the first 4 2nd level comments or after 3 replies to a 2nd level comment. Much easier to scroll through comments now. This is a WIP so there might be issues. Let us know.
  • Added a comment jump button. Speaks for itself. Might have some issues and is still a WIP. Let us know if anything goes wrong
  • Should have fixed a few crashes that were getting reported while I was away.

Again, sorry for the downtime. I’ll be more active over the next week and we should see some big stuff.

  • Apathy TreeEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    I’m super onboard with whatever you decide to do, but I’m not sure if this is a bug or intended functionality based on release notes, so figure I’ll ask here.

    Since this release, best I can tell, up/downvotes are merged into a single number. I was using this app specifically because it kept them separated while others didn’t. Is this going to be a permanent UX change?

    I only ask because I really really don’t like it (part of the draw of Lemmy is the separate up and downvote counts, and I actively do not want them combined, for mental health/groupthink reasons). I’d like to know if I should look for a different app (literally zero pressure intended) or if perhaps you plan to add a toggle or something for people who don’t/do want the condensed numbers.

    If you end up adding a toggle (or there exists one presently I have not found), imho the default function of separating up/downvotes should be the default here also (this isn’t Reddit and suppressing that fact doesn’t help people with the change; it needs to feel different to be different), but I’m not out here developing an app myself, since I don’t have the skills, so take that feedback for what it is.

    I appreciate your work either way, thank you for doing what you do!

    • @gkd@lemmy.mlOPM
      4•1 year ago

      There’s a toggle for this under Appearance. Let me see if it got changed (accidentally) to default to enabled. If that happened, it isn’t the intention.

      Edit: Yea, it was changed. I’m reverting that back. Anyway, you can just disable the toggle for now. Thanks for the heads up.

    • Apathy TreeEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Also it seems I can’t just select/“click”/press comments from my post history to view them in situ anymore.

      I can’t see context for anything…