Hey everyone! We have been blown away by the response to Liftoff and we really appreciate the support of the community. We’re passionate about creating an app that we want to use and we’re excited with the progress. There have been a ton of updates and bugfixes this week and we wanted to share the latest state of things
v0.9.18 Release
iOS:
Android:
- GitHub
- Play Store
- F-Droid is coming
- If you want to stay up to date with the latest releases before it gets on Play Store or F-Droid, checkout Obtainium
Changelog
- Fixed issue where “Everything -> Subscribed” feed showed no posts
- Added better compact view
- Added Post Customization page in settings with live preview
- Added ability to customize font size
- Added ability to quickly toggle between card and compact view
- Fixed mark as read not working, added mark all as read
- Fixed issue with comment share link not being generated properly
- Added Gesture Navigation (Thanks shocklateboy92!)
- Added TOTP Login support (Thanks swmarks!)
- Added animation configuration (Thanks johnc86!)
Known Issues (In progress)
There are a few bugs still that we’re working through and we really appreciate all the support from the community helping us Beta test. Here are some of the known issues we’re working on:
- User and community link opening within the app is finicky #107
- Separate default comment sort from default post sort
- New sort in community page’s posts sometimes not working properly
- Unclear usage of everything feed causing seemingly duplicated posts across the difference instances.
- Check here for a full list
Screenshots
Any plans to add comment collapsing? Sorry, I’m new to the app, play store installed
I didn’t see it on your list, but communities I have blocked are showing up on the frontpage when I have “all” selected.
Love the app! One issue I’m having that is keeping me hopping back and forth between apps is download links don’t work for me in the integrated browser. Could you possibly add the option to open in external browser?
Yes that PR is open and this functionality will be in the next release
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I was eager to try out Liftoff but unfortunately I can’t seem to log in on it :/
I noticed my password contains a space in the middle and I always get an “invalid password” error.
I didn’t try yet to change the password and try again but I suspect the password field when you login might not like a space in it.
In any case, if I can check if the password is really the issue, I will try to create a proper bug report on the git repository or something.
Thanks for the hard work ! It makes me happy to see devs embracing Lemmy and trying to make the best out of a pretty sad situation with reddit.
Oh you might be on to something. There was a similar bug report but we thought it was their password length. It might be spaces. I’ll take a lol. Thanks!
Are you gonna intergrate kbin ?
Hiya, thanks for the app, my favourite so far! One QOL I’d like to suggest is a left-handed card view, where the image or content is displayed on the left side of the card instead of the right. So my fellow left-handed friends can navigate a lil’ easier. Thanks!
Testing mentions /u/zachatrocity@lemmy.world
I can easily see this becoming my new time sink once Boost dies in two days! Loving the app so far, very very impressive for such an early version. One thing I’d love to see (correct me if this is already possible) is having the refresh not only available at the top of the page. Having to scroll up for half a minute just to refresh is a bit tedious :D
Yes this is coming!
Much appreciated :)
I keep getting a message like this whenever I try to interact with or subscribe to a community outside of lemmy.world. I’m easily able to do this in other apps like Thunder. What do I need to do differently? “This thread was retrieved via lemmy.ml. You are not logged in there.”
Everyone says Liftoff is one of the best apps but I find it unusable as I can’t interact with any other federation.
Amazing app, are there plans to change the accent color from teal to something else? Also any chance we can get material you themes in the future?
Great app devs.
Just one request. In compact view, it would be really cool if the post header appears left of the thumbnail. Right now it shows above the thumbnail and a lot of real estate is left open
Just wanted to check that I’m on the correct version, TestFlight is showing v0.0.1(11) rather than 0.9.18
Can you do something about the size of the reply graphics? I’m talking about the green, orange, etc line that appears next to a comment when it is a reply. They’re so narrow and the green one starts at the edge of the screen, making it almost invisible.
Are any iOS users having some serious performance issues with Liftoff? I’ve tried both TestFlight versions and no matter what settings I use, Liftoff feels very sluggish.
