Connect for Lemmy App

• With "force full-size thumbnails" disabled (the default) most thumbnails fail to load

• With "convert to webp" enabled (the default) most images fall to load in app, but work in an external browser

As an aside, is there an "open external" anywhere when viewing an image? It used to be in the three dot menu, but I don't see it now.

I'm on 1.0.275 and the app crashes upon startup. I also got a system warning about the app using a lot of background battery power.

Images load at a very low resolution and take 5-10 seconds or more to fully load. Something changed a little while ago as I wasn't having this issue before. I tried clearing cache with no change.

If following a link to a comment (from Inbox although not sure that's relevant), when tapping the "view full post" button it still shows the single comment until refreshing by dragging down from the top.

This isn't really a bug, moreso just a compatibility issue with Android 15. Wasn't a problem with 14.

Would it be possible to display thumbnails in full quality? I would like to see images in their best quality without having to tap on them

For example, this one. https://lemmyverse.link/lazysoci.al/post/26817260

It's about half of posts I looked at today.

It used to be that pressing the back button while in the settings menu would take you back to where you were before. For the last several versions, it would instead unceremoniously exit the app. I see from the notes for 271 that an exit prompt has been added, seemingly cementing what I would have considered the root bug. (i.e. that it exits at all rather than just going back)

So how are we supposed to leave the settings menu if not the back button?

I've blocked dozens of communities, quit the app and relaunched and still get posts.

Also in settings under block list I only see blocked instances. I've blocked at least one user too, it doesn't show any communities or users only the instances.

Anyone else seeing this? Thanks

Would be nice to see these QOL features added:

1. When changing account using the left pull out bar, uit would be nice if a user could tap the currently logged in user name to drop down the list of users instead of only being able to tap the three dots. Very frustrating when trying to change accounts one handed.
2. Pressing Android system 'back' button when in settings minimises the app when it should move back to the pull out drawer and again to go back to the feed.

Would be great to connect to the frontpage of a mastodon site (e.g mastodon.social) via add/choose account. So I have all information of lemmy and mastodon in one App.

It'd be nice if Connect could have local (on device) history of what the user has opened previously.

I would sometimes read/see things that I would forget to upvote/save, and would then wonder what those things were - and since this isn't my browser, I can't just go to the history.

So here goes: several times it's happened that I'm writing a rather long post or comment, and maybe I need to switch apps to check something, or someone calls, or something like this; upon launching Connect again, if it happens to get killed by Android's memory management in the meantime, it only shows me the home page. If I manage to remember which post it was, the app would show the unfinished comment itself, which is useful, but I still need to be able to get to that post.

There seems to be a correlation between how long a feed hasn't been interacted with and this behavior. (Scroll up and down a feed; Wait a random amount of time; pre-fetching seems to halt.)

There are times when pre-fetching the feed can be slow and briefly pause while loading. Sometimes, this is when the feed will lock up.)

... this happens more often on cursed memes. /s

I can still slide to open the menu, but cannot take action on the feed. (The + button opens in the fore-foreground, so it works as well as 'back to exit' Connect.)

I was playing with the thumbnail preview in fairly rapid succession when one just "stuck".

I get notifications on new messages that don't show in the inbox, and mark as read doesn't clear the message from unread.

Manually switching from all/unread seems to work and clears the read messages

When I open the comments of a post, I can still "back" to the frontpage. But when I visit Settings or Inbox via the menu, I can't "back" out of it anymore. I have to navigate back to the frontage via the menu.

I'm using Connect 1.0.267. And everytime I switch accounts via the side tab, the app takes a long time to load the switched account and there's a spinner going on but it never switches.

I've tried logging out of the accounts and logging in back afresh I have but it still doesn't work.

The only way to get it to work is to

• switch account on Connect
• go to the android app info page
• force quit and open the app from scratch.

Then I can get to the switched account.

Am not sure if I'm the only one having this as I cannot find other similar bug reports on this.

Appreciate any help. Thank you.

Wondering if there's any plans for adding a translate feature. I use Fedilab for Pixelfed and stuff and it has a nifty translate button. Sure, it's not that hard with text copy and I have a translation app installed for a reason. But I'm lazy and tend to ignore stuff in other languages until I found out about the in-app feature. I'm not sure if many Lemmy apps have in-app translation so it could be a stand out feature. And Fedilab being open source may help with implementing the feature here.

When reporting a post, can we have a tick box below the reason for "block user"? This would save doing two actions when reporting a spammer who needs blocking.

Updated to v268 - I now can't access the Inbox!

Seemingly random. Error may only happen on the first post a new thread. Could be a server-side issue, but not sure.

One issue I wanted to discuss is when a post thumbnail image is cropped or not-scaled to fit on my screen.

I have the "Limit thumbnails height" setting turned off, which mostly ensures the full image of a post is displayed. However, more and more I'm seeing thumbnail images cropped due to width and I have to open the image to see the full image.

Is anyone else having this issue? Is it the expected behaviour of the app? Is my desire to see the full image of each post on my feed as I scroll ridiculous?

Thanks.

Does this app have the option to change your profile picture? I can't find the setting, and I see when this was asked before it went unanswered.

Menu -> Refresh does not cause this issue.