Thunder App Nightly

Update: Hey everyone, this is a quick hotfix to address an issue with infinite loading screens when full-height images is enabled.

Fixes

• Fixed issue where having full height images enabled causes infinite loading screen* by hjiangsu

Previous Nightly Release Notes

This is the second pre-release for Thunder v0.3.0! This pre-release version introduces quite a few new features and improvements, as well as usual bug fixes. As always, please submit any issues or bugs that you find in this version.

Be fully prepared to know that these pre-release versions may contain major bugs which could cause Thunder to crash or behave unexpectedly.

Some notable changes to test out:

• Mod reports are now available to view and resolve within Thunder via the drawer! If you are a moderator or admin of a community/instance, you should see a new "Reports" option under the general feeds. Only post and comment reports are available at this time. Private message reports will come in a future update.
• You can now customize the user/community name format and style across Thunder! This is accessible through Settings -> Appearance -> Theming. You can adjust the font weight, colour, and format for both user and community names.
• Thunder now has an in-app changelog for updates. It is turned on by default, but can be toggled off in the settings. This changelog should help you keep track of what additions, changes, and fixes have been added!
• Improved UI/UX for long press actions, and additional customization options including customizable feed dividers and navigation bar labels.

Additions

• Added additional Lemmy styled user/community formats by hjiangsu
• Added ability to search federated instances by micahmo
• Added ability to switch user in user account settings page by micahmo
• Added new type badge to indicate video URLs by hjiangsu
• Added in-app changelog by micahmo
• Added support for custom user/community styles by micahmo
• Added option to show navigation labels and adjusted non-active tab icons by micahmo
• Added customizable feed card divider by hjiangsu
• Added ability to view post/comment reports by hjiangsu
• Added Turkish language localizations by mikropsoft

Changes

• Improved link handling for users/communities by micahmo
• Reworked internal post parsing logic and thumbnail previews by hjiangsu
• Hide unsupported FAB actions based on feed (general, community, user) by hjiangsu
• Categorized post/comment bottom sheet options by micahmo
• Improved link sharing experience by micahmo
• Improved feedback when loading instance information by micahmo
• Added modlog page to instance page* by micahmo
• Added modlog page link handling* by micahmo
• Android back button closes opened drawer by micahmo
• Android back button closes opened user sidebar by micahmo

Fixes

• Fixed external app link handling for in-app browser* by micahmo
• Fixed accessibility issues with modlog filter and instance explorer* by micahmo
• Fixed handling of multiple deep link actions by micahmo
• Fixed instance explorer paging issue* by micahmo
• Fixed superscript positioning* by hjiangsu
• Fixed image close transition* by micahmo
• Fixed tagline refreshing multiple times on load issue by micahmo
• Fixed instance explorer loading for small instances* by micahmo

Misc

• Updated Lemmy API version by hjiangsu
• Added development flavor by hjiangsu
• Improved animations for advanced share sheet and link preview modals by micahmo
• Updated translations from Weblate by hjiangsu
• Upgraded gradle version and migrated to flutter_sharing_intent by hjiangsu