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Connect for Lemmy App

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Hi, only bug fixes in this release as the feature I'm working on isn't quite ready yet and I had to set up a local instance of Lemmy for testing purposes without spamming a live instance. Hopefully this means more testing from my side going forward and more app stability. For thumbnails I'm now loading in better compressed images so you should see memory and network improvements, especially on list views where I also scale the thumbnail to the size of the list card, 1MB images are now 10KB in my testing. I changed the upvote colour to more of an orangey colour. It matches the app icon orange now. If you have the setting to open links in a external browser it no longer applies to opening images.

What's new

  • Upvote colour is now orange
  • Thumbnails are now more efficient (especially list views)
  • Images no longer open in external browser
  • Communities will now respect the 'Should Launch Externally' setting on open

Fixes

  • Comment hint text ('Comment') now matches your theme settings
  • Comment textbox is now autofocused so no extra click needed
  • Improved the text visibility of the Notificiation icon number
  • List view images are now aligned to the top and not the center
  • Fixed a minor left padding issue on List view body text
  • Adjusted the text for 'Show Post Bottom bar' to better reflect what it does
  • Fixed a bug with Subscribe/Unsubscribe not showing correct values in the top right action menu
  • Fixed the error message when unable to find a person
  • Fixed copy url action item for web views

Thank you so much for all of your feedback! A bottom nav drawer seems like the most requested feature currently so please look forward to that! It will have an option to disable for those that don't prefer it.

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-kuroneko

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[–] crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm sorry about the stupid question, but how does connect compress the images? Is it on a server somewhere that compresses them remotely and sends you the smaller file, as that is the only way I can think of to reduce network usage.

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah the pictr service which Lemmy uses has an api (essentially appending parameters to the url) but I'm also reducing the dimensions of images in the disk cache if they exceed a certain threshold.

[–] crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So I guess that it only works for pictures directly hosted on Lemmy instances? Or does it work with third party image hosts like imgur?

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only the pictures hosted via Lemmy

[–] crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

That's really cool. Thank you for explaining.

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