Connect for Lemmy App

I'm curious how stickied posts in MultiCommunities are handled in other apps. I don't believe Connect is the only app that has this feature. Are they still posted at the top and you potentially have to scroll through a lot if you have a lot of communities added?

Currently, Connect doesn't put them at the top but rather chronologically, by your sort method.

I think it should remain at the top but if, say, the total number of stickied posts in a MultiCommunity exceeds 3, it's collapsed into a single option to open up a new page with all stickied posts.

Going to a user profile and selecting the add note option does nothing.

I think it was working fine previously but I just noticed in v252 that when you try to block an instance, it blocks the instance of the poster rather than the community the post was made.

I'm sure I reported this already, I was going to update that report but can't find it now! So sorry for the duplicate.

This is a good post to test: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/42624268

When visiting any of the links on it, the post displays but the comments don't. Refreshing either gives an error (can't find post) or shows a completely different post.

249 would break image saving with some backtrace about the error, the new update I kust received make the entire app freeze and then it just crashes to Android

Hello,

First, thank you for the amazing work. Since few weeks the app freezes for few seconds when visiting c/datahoarder and it only happens with that community.

Hello !

When I try to download an image, with the new good looking (👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼) popup overlay, I get this error:

Cheers!

The post overflow menu includes separate options to view the user and community for the post. Perhaps this could be removed since the option to do so are available outside of the menu and I imagine few people are using it. But I could be wrong, if people think it's useful, please chime in.

Also, if the share button is selected as a secondary button, the option should be removed from the post overflow; the save button does this.

I'm not sure what that Unicode is called but it reminds me of blinds. I kind of dismissed the first instance in the screenshot but them I saw the issue in a post title. Links for the two instances.

https://lemmy.ca/comment/15973593

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/32912270 (title)

Also, can you add saving of alt text to drafts? Please and thank you's. As well, when editing, you can't edit alt text?

Started seeing this every now and then on v251. Previously I don't recall seeing this. It only occurs when a profile picture has issues loading and typically is temporary; the error is removesd once the link resolves. Before it's resolved, it can be a hindrance.

I support apps being more verbose and error messages but in this particular case, I don't think the error message is necessary; if the a profile picture link doesn't resolve, so be it. Maybe on an user profile page, it may be more of a consideration.

I just happened upon a post with a spoiler and couldn't view it.

Edit: works in the preview, doesn't work after posting

Tried to make a screenshot but the post was way to confusing being a lemmy screenshot on lemmy so il attempt to describe the issue.

Basically the block user option now overlaps with the Android navigation bar right at the bottom of the screen and can't be clicked.

I’m on the mobile app connect to read lemmy. Since a few days, I can only see a grey screen when trying to read comments.

Has anybody else encountered this or does anybody have an idea how I can fix this?

Thank you!

Error text:

An error occured (PlatformException(error, null, null,

java.lang.NullPointerException

at U2.f.onMethod Call (SourceFile:350)

at n3.d.P(SourceFile:26)

at g3.c.run(SourceFile:140)

at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:958)

at

android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)

at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:205)

at android.os.Looper.loop (Looper.java:294)

at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8 177)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)

at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgs

Caller.run(RuntimeInit.java:552)

at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.jav a:971) ))

I was originally going to post about blurred NSFW images opening in external browser unless you first open the comments where the thumbnail is visible and tapping on that then opens the image internally. But this issue has recently spread to cover pretty much every image. The images have URLs like https://sopuli.xyz/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.world%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2Fc29a7ebe-f747-4518-8e53-62a552145b5f.jpeg which seems to make Connect think it's an entire website that should be opened externally. Is it a Lemmy thing, my home instance sopuli.xyz thing or a Connect thing?

Note that I did try disabling the external browser in the settings but actual websites opening internally was a horrible reminder about why we don't do that.

EDIT: Following @bstix@feddit.dk's advice, I switched to the beta branch on Play Store and it seems this week started with a number of related fixes. I'm on version 257 now and the majority of images seem to now open internally regardless of the external browser setting, like they did before. 💪

Was working in a recent version but now everything opens in the internal browser. I'm on v247.

EDIT: For posts with links where the thumbnail is not resolving, the link goes to the external browser. For everything else, it opens in the internal browser; with the open external setting on.

It was working in a recent version but I no longer see the highlighting in v244&245. Tried toggling the setting on and back on but nada.

Clicked the above link, which worked:

Local post link

However it shows there are comments but Connect isn't displaying any.

Refreshed by pulling from top. Now shows completely different post:

This one

Local feddit.uk version

Incidentally just before this I edited a comment and instead of the usual bug where it can't find it, it showed me the wrong post. Not sure if this is all related.

(Will edit images in asap - seem to have been blocked from uploading for the moment)

First and foremost, I'm really glad this feature has finally been added. Many have requested and it's here. Unfortunately, it's not fully baked yet.

Filters(keyword), MultiCommunities, and user notes are not exported in v244. Domain and other filters may also not be exported; I didn't have those so I'm not sure if they get exported.

So whatever you do, don't go clearing the app cache and expect everything to be saved when you import. Like I did. I only have myself to blame for testing freshly implemented features on beta builds. Losing my user notes hurt.

I was looking at this thread and, at the time of this post, it's supposed to have 41 comments but Connect only showed a handful. Opening the post in a browser shows the missing comments, some of which were moderated and removed. One comment, that had a long chain, was removed but many of its replies were not and shows up in the browser. Not sure if the moderation action is the cause of Connect not showing the chain or maybe because it's long?

Recently, I noticed the keyboard would sometimes pop up at random times and I finally figured out reproducible steps.

Search any community from the sidebar and tap on it. Tap on a post and then tap and hold the screen, sliding it to the right. The keyboard should popup for some reason, even though there is no input field on-screen(after the post view is off-screen). This only seems to happen if the search field in the sidebar has text inputted. I was wondering why the heck the keyboard keeps popping up.

Pinned posts were showing up at the top of communities a couple of versions back ~~but they're following your sort settings in v241.~~ And I think a few versions prior as well.

EDIT: Ah, so they're actually showing up at the bottom of page 1. They don't follow your sort settings and enabling the page number setting revealed that specific.

Is it possible to get lemmyverse.link URLs to resolve internally? And preferably open in Connect when tapped on elsewhere?

I just tapped one in Connect and it opened in a browser, which was a bit annoying!

Reproduction Steps:

1. Open Connect
2. Switch to another account
3. Open the Profile page from the sidebar
4. Back out of the Profile page

Expected Behavior: User will be returned to the feed from step 2. before checking their Profile

Observed Behavior: User is returned to the default feed of the account from step 1.

Extra Information: This bug requires the user to be logged into more than one account. The different feed that's presented is the default feed of whichever account Connect is started with. You can change which account Connect starts with by switching to whichever account you want, exit out of Connect and swipe it away, and then open Connect again.

I'm not sure what the trigger is for this but it seems to occur after a couple hours of not using Connect. So sometimes when I view posts in a community, the vote count for it is around half of the actual count when I go back to viewing the community page. If I open the community in my browser, the current vote count indicates the community view in Connect is up to date. I can view other posts or go back into affected posts and the count will be incorrect.

I think viewing other subscribed communities will also not fix the problem. It is corrected when I view one of my feeds and then go back to the posts. I've only noticed this happening with the Canada community on Lemmy.ca, so it may be community specific but I suspect it's not and my other subscribed communities aren't as active to test.

I've only noticed this recently, so maybe it's only been introduced in to last couple of updates, or it's been longer and I haven't paid attention.