Zoom zoom zoom, new update incoming and Happy (late) Canada Day for my fellow Canadians out there (if there are any out there 👀) 🎉
I know I skipped v0.2.1+9 - this was because a build failed for TestFlight, which upped the version from v0.2.1+9 -> v0.2.1+10
This update was mainly focused on improving overall performance for Thunder - you should hopefully see less lag as you scroll down your favourite feed or community!
In addition to that, a few new major additions have been added, including the ability to view a user's profile, a revamped account page (for posts, comments, and saved posts), editing of comments, ability to download images and of course, more quality of life improvements to make your experience even better!
This release has a lot of under-the-hood changes, so its expected that bugs may show up that were previously not there. Please open up a GitHub issue if you find any of those!
Obligatory message: If there are any developers out there who want to contribute to this project, that would be greatly appreciated!
To see the full details of this release, check out the GitHub release announcement: https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder/releases/tag/v0.2.1%2B10
For those on TestFlight, the update should automatically install on your device. For those who obtained the app through IzzyOnDroid, that update should eventually reach your devices!
There is also a discussion page here for any general discussions about this release if anyone is interested: https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder/discussions/167
Thanks for reading this far, here's a cookie 🍪
Also, if you are interested in becoming a moderator for this community, feel free to reach out to me. This community is growing incredibly fast and it's getting hard for me to handle all this by myself
Thanks, everything is super smooth for me. No updates for showing thumbnails for external media yet right? It's cool, I'm sure it coming soon
Thanks! Could you clarify what you mean by external media? If you mean something like Imgur, then that is not implemented in yet because I would have to check their API usage
However, media for links in general (png, jpg/jpeg, gifs) should show up! Let me know if that’s not the case and open a new GitHub issue for it 😅
Thanks for the reply. I mean for things like external news articles. In other apps, when you have a news article, you'll see a picture from that article in the thumbnail in your feed, instead of just the hyperlink icon.
So for example if I go to the Canada community, I'll see a post titled "Rebuilding Lac-Mégantic: Decade after rail disaster, residents say downtown still a desert" which links to a CBC article. In other apps, I would see the picture from that article in the thumbnail. In Thunder, there's no thumbnail, just the hyperlink icon. Sorry to be long winded, just trying to be detailed. Does it make sense?
Ahh I understand, thanks for explaining it to me! I think it really depends right now on the link. Some links will show you the thumbnail while others don’t - this is definitely something that could very well be improved
The compact view only shows the link icon for now because I want to find a better way to differentiate between an image vs a link - if the link icon were to change to the thumbnail as it is, it would cause some confusion if someone was expecting to tap on the thumbnail to see an image
Thanks so much for all your work. I understand wanting to differentiate between links and images. If I may offer a counterpoint, I believe Apollo didn't differentiate between them, and I never conflated the two. It was usually obvious from the post title whether it was an image or a link. That's just me and my personal preference though. I know Memmy differentiates between them by having a translucent link icon over the thumbnail. Although not my personal preference, it is one option.