Sync for Lemmy

Umm... Redgifs stopped working

I'm partly colorblind and it's super hard for me to see when I upvoted or downvoted a post. Just making the up or down arrow bolder (or circled) once it's been clicked would fix the issue completely for me and all types of colorblind people.

Thank you for the great work 💛

Hello, I'm a slut and I'd like to be able to upload NSFW pictures again ❣️

Just chiming in to say thanks for the update and all the hard work!

Changing default sort to hot does not stick for me.

Redgifs is broken (as is tradition) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Device information

Sync version: v23.11.29-22:27    
Sync flavor: googlePlay    

Ultra user: false    
View type: Slides    
Push enabled: false    

Device: bluejay    
Model: Google Pixel 6a    
Android: 14

The biggest thing I'd wish for is full markdown support, stuff like spoiler tags, superscript and tables is still not working properly and it would be nice if it did.

I also don't know if this is a bug others experience or if I have messed something up on my device, but clicking community links sometimes opens up the link in browser instead of in Sync.

Finally, highlighting new comments on a thread re-visit would be a dream, but last I heard it wasn't supported by the backend. But maybe an option to highlight comments made during the last X minutes as a sort of hack?

He lives!

I thought I made a post, but it didnt get any replies and doesnt show up on the community posts for me.

But I was running into some posts where the image fails to load, like this one

https://lemmy.world/post/12685097

While the thumbnail sometimes loads, the image gives me that error.

Also been running into a lot of images that say “image was actually a webpage” or something along those lines.

Thanks!

I'm eagerly waiting for separate upvote and downvote counters 😼 but let me know if you were only asking for features not discussed previously to shut up next time

I have a feature request. Harmonic for hackernews has the option to open a url directly on archive.org, which I think is a pretty neat feature. Would it be possible to add this?

Just wanted to say thanks for the post, even if it was a quick one to say releases are coming. I had been considering signing up for your paid version but was hesitant to pull the trigger because I feared the project had been abandoned. Since it's not, I'm signing up now. Appreciate all the work you put into the app!

Good to see you're still alive! Looking forward to future updates and improvements.

Nothing to report or add, I just appreciate you!

Is there a way to make "deleted by user" stand out more as a system message? The current styling makes it look like they literally commented "deleted by user"

Thank you for making this app 💜💜💜

I'd love it if clicking on the thumbnail of an image opened the raw image, instead of the compressed view, so instead I have to go into the post and click the image there for full resolution. It's especially noticeable for larger images with small text.

The only bug I'm having with Sync for Lemmy is that it does lots of wakelocks in the background, I had to set the app to restricted mode in the battery settings as a workaround.

I don't know if this is because it tries to fetch notifications (a feature not available yet) or IDK.

Setting it up to "restricted" instead of "optimized" basically fixes idle issues, although I can see the app refresh a lot more than when it is optimized...

Sync for Reddit never had this issue, I always had it in optimized mode and it barely was active in the background.

Pictures for reference:

EDIT: I am experiencing this issue with AOSP, with MIUI I did not, but I'm guessing it is only because MIUI is more aggressive with apps in the background.

EDIT 2: Also I'm seeing a new gap just below the main post in the newest version 😅

Using Boost for Lemmy as the example here.

Since release Sync just hasn't been able to handle tables. Every other app I use does it no problem, but sync really struggles with it.

In Sync for Reddit we had the ability to view previously upvoted posts. I don't know if Lemmy supports that, but that was a feature I used often to go back to something. Thanks

I'm hoping the new update will include the new "scaled" sorting option. I think it will really help support smaller communities on Lemmy if more people use it.

Can we have the swipe mode for pictures that we used to have in Sync for Reddit?

Features wise, full mod tools would be awesome, but I figure you've got that on the list already. Same with the latest lemmy stuff like instance blocking at the account level.

Beyond that, the only thing I can think of is more granular control over theming. I finally found a set-up that's working for me, but I know it took some fiddling that could have taken less time if I had been able to tweak background colors, or whatever. I've seen other people talk about that for sync, as well as other apps that a don't even have the options sync does. From a usability perspective, contrast between sections of the ui can be the difference between literal headaches and a relaxing scroll.

But, again, that's pretty low priority imo.

Images like the one in this post don't automatically open at full resolution. There's a discussion in the comments about the steps to get it to open at full resolution.

https://lemmy.world/post/12703748

Sometimes, when people post multiple photos, only the first one loads

I'll add another feature request that I forgot: instance browsing. Being able to see a list of communities within a remote instance would be nice (preferably sorted by subscribers like in the web UI). Being able to see the Local feed from a selected remote instance would also be useful. I think both those features could help with community discovery.

EDIT: disregard most of this, I was blind to the instances button. It would still be nice to see the communities-list on an instance sorted by size.

Any chance of an option to flip the upvote/downvote colors to the Lemmy ordering (blue up/red down)? It's always a little jarring going between the app and website and seeing all my votes are backwards