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Sync for Lemmy

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Welcome to Sync for Lemmy!

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Welcome to the official Sync for Lemmy community.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Community Rules


1- No advertising or spam.

All types of advertising and spam are restricted in this community.



Community Credits

Artwork and community banner by: @MargotRobbie@lemmy.world


founded 1 year ago
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Key points

  • First round of modtools added
  • Added spoiler support
  • Hidden posts stay hidden
  • Sync can now open lemmy links from the top 50 instances

Ultra

  • Added the option to export and import subscribed lists
  • Added the option to translate text from images
  • Generate "ultra previews" for posts with missing thumbnails
  • Display website previews in comments (enable in Settings > Ultra)
  • Select text from images during post submission

New

  • Added modtools
    • Pin / unpin posts
    • Remove / restore posts
    • Lock / unlock posts
    • Ban / unban users from a community
  • Hidden posts now remain hidden after a refresh (shown on profiles)
  • You can now select Sync to handle Lemmy links from any of the top 50 instances
  • Last edited timestamps
  • Added the percentage of upvotes a post has received
  • Webp images now animate when opened
  • You can now open additional folders when selecting media to upload (three dots)
  • Clicking on a comment from the inbox now shows the full comment list
  • Simplified accounts are listed in the picker
  • NSFW previews are now blurred and respect the full height setting
  • Renamed "Show emotes" to "Show embedded images" in the comment settings
  • Switched to a brighter color for highlighting text fields in night mode
  • Filtered communities are no longer shown in recents
  • Images in comments are now swipeable when opened
  • Added "open url" action to the community picker when a URL is posted

Usability

  • Added tooltips to the editor icons
  • Added support for the Open Dyslexic font

Github issues closed

  • Viewing Inbox message in original context does not show comment being replied to #187
  • Add Lemmy spoiler support #127
  • Import / Export Subscribed Communities #111
  • Tooltips are MIA from the reply and edit pages #291
  • Recents thread list links to reddit url #289
  • Translate option does not appear on image posts with a body #292
  • Add option to copy body text from post #281
  • Displaying more server side info for home instance #273
  • Show all Parent Comments instead of showing many levels of comments #267
  • user filters not working #268
  • Add an indicator whether a comment/post has been edited #266
  • Hide action does not work #60
  • Toggle account action button should cycle between anonymous #255
  • Paid Ad-Free APK file without AdMob bundled #250
  • Restoring Purchase on Chromebook Gives Error #248
  • Separate Downvote & Upvote Scores + Vote Total in Profile #249
  • Ability to return to full Post thread at position of comment #254
  • Add Translate Text option in addition to Extract Text Ultra Feature #252
  • App continually crashes if default post sorting is changed in settings #154
  • Error toast when no posts available says "sub has no posts" instead of community #234
  • Wrong permalink instance #235
  • REQUEST Dyslexic friendly font #222
  • Add option to blur NSFW previews #323
  • Reappearing hidden posts, app scrolls up automatically. #324
  • Emote filter is also filtering regular embedded pictures #321
  • [Ultra] Extract Text From Images for Post Title #315
  • Posting: Community selector shows communities I filtered/blocked #313
  • Photo album navigation across multiple image links within the same post or comment #316
  • Wording not consistent when subscribing to community #307
  • Photo picker doesn't show albums from external storage #304
  • The input box types are mismatched? Title thinks it's a URL and URL think it's a title #303
  • The app should give a dialog asking if you want to leave when you cancel a submit #294
  • profile pictures still low res when enlarged #270
  • Enhancement: Load parent when clicking on comment reply in inbox #285

Other fixes

  • Fixed an issue where the profile section as missing in the small toolbar
  • Fixed an issue where the domain was inserted into selftext before the link
  • Fixed an issue with the link handler freezing
  • Fixed an issue where sharing a comment would share the wrong link
  • Plus can now be used in the username input
  • Fixed an issue where the title field was not autocompleting
  • The title field now auto selects on open when submitting
  • Fixed an issue where user highlighting wasn't respecting instances

Updates

  • com.google.firebase:firebase-crashlytics-gradle > 2.9.8
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[โ€“] Terevos@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

First round of modtools added

THANK YOU!

I've been wanting mod tools since I started using Lemmy a few months ago. Even this little bit is super helpful.

[โ€“] ConfuzedAZ@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice, I hope the app is making enough to keep the updates coming.

[โ€“] Byter@lemmy.one 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sync can now open lemmy links from the top 50 instances

This is appreciated.

I wish there were a way to add to the list of supported URLs as a user. Looks like that would be an Android enhancement.

Is there any mechanism in Android's intent-handling to make this more flexible today or are we stuck for now?

[โ€“] ljdawson@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly they have to be hard coded in

[โ€“] derocker@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Would there be a form or a submission process to getting certain domains included? I guess opening a GitHub issue for each one?

Trying to get

https://4wd.social/

To work

[โ€“] ljdawson@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That instance has 1 user per month. Going to guess that's you?

[โ€“] derocker@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No it's not me. That user I believe is the admin for it. I discovered that it's a instance for hosting 4wd communities but no user registration. So would like to use it for it's purpose but navigating links is hard. Going to try and help build but I only use sync to access lemmy.

[โ€“] Risk@feddit.uk 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Disappointed that importing and exporting subscribed lists is an Ultra feature :( I can't afford ultra.

[โ€“] induna_crewneck@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

I made a script to transfer subscribed subreddits to lemmy: https://github.com/induna-crewneck/Reddit-Lemmy-Migrator

[โ€“] kattenluik@feddit.nl 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There has to be some kind of good feature locked behind to make money, you can use a different program to do this anyways.

[โ€“] Risk@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

I do understand - it's just a shame.

[โ€“] ljdawson@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Current priority #1 is to fix the remaining comment display issues.

Edit: all fixed, will be pushing live tomorrow.

[โ€“] can@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Speaking of, I'm sorry to say I think this update broke opening comments on my device.

Device information

Sync version: v23.08.23-18:29    
Sync flavor: googlePlay    

Ultra user: true    
View type: Compact    
Push enabled: false    

Device: heroltebmc    
Model: samsung SM-G930W8    
Android: 8.0.0
[โ€“] Zephyr@reddthat.com 11 points 1 year ago

Kind sir, I now give upon you my money.

[โ€“] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago

Just paid for ad-free baby! Let's go.

[โ€“] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good god you work fast. Great stuff, thanks so much for adding the mod tools ๐Ÿฅฐ

[โ€“] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago

A lot of great changes, this is awesome!

[โ€“] atheist@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Thanks for the update.

Is there an option to show hidden posts on refresh?

[โ€“] ShaolinRaiden@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Tap on your in-use account where you go to add another account or switch between accounts. That showed all the hidden posts for me

[โ€“] atheist@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

Nice, thanks. That worked.

[โ€“] NickCudawn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That feels like a bug. Maybe there should be a setting to chose between permanently hiding (including beyond switching accounts) and hiding until refresh. I would prefer the former and that's how it was on Sync for Reddit, but it seems there's an audience for the latter option

This is what I wish WOULDN'T happen. I switch instances all the time, I hate having to re-hide posts over and over. If I hide a post, please keep it hidden!

[โ€“] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'd love this to be an option. I like temporarily hiding read posts to find unread content more quickly, but being able to refresh and see them again.

[โ€“] thimantha@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeahhhh. The current behavior is not how I use the hidden posts feature. It was perfect before and now it's ruined how I use the feature.

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Great Update. The improved hidden post behavior is a good step in the right direction. Another feature from Reddit Sync I'm missing is the account selector while commenting.

[โ€“] milan616@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the hard work LJ!

[โ€“] JackDark@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! Is there a way to return the solid red NSFW previews? I tried unchecking the blur setting, but everything is still blurred.

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[โ€“] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Woo, so many changes and fixes. Thanks for the image picker one!

[โ€“] lolreconlol@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Did the Lemmy hype die down? It sure feels like it. Still missing content.. can't leave Reddit yet.

[โ€“] Zoldyck@discuss.online 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chicken and egg. I completely stopped using Reddit and I'm fine.

[โ€“] Princeali311@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same, but I'd lie if I said I'm not missing it. It's mainly that there is almost no community even remotely as active as some of the same ones I was posting on Reddit.

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[โ€“] running_tadpole@lemdro.id 12 points 1 year ago

Well, when contents don't follow people will return to the old place.
Like Lemmy lacks sports contents, so I keep returning to Reddit for dose of sports contents.

[โ€“] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Last I read we lost about 10k users from the high point. But who knows how many if them were posting and commenting?

[โ€“] wahming@monyet.cc 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of them were probably also duplicate accounts as people found an instance that fit them

[โ€“] rooster_butt@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I think it's this. I was posting on 3 different accounts until I found one to settle in.

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[โ€“] wahming@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
  • Sync can now open lemmy links from the top 50 instances

https://lemmy.world/post/3769853 Doesn't seem to work. The post linked there opens up in an internal browser

Edit: Click through to the lemmy.ml post

[โ€“] EtzBetz@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Works for me. You need to go into app settings and check the domains which you want Sync to allow to handle.

[โ€“] wahming@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

As in, you clicked the link I provided, and the link inside that link?

[โ€“] anonymoose@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Awesome! Is beta 34 going to be available to everyone, or only the Play beta users group?

[โ€“] ljdawson@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hell yeah these are awesome updates, THANK YOU for app mod tools, I have been waiting for somebody to do it lol. Great work man.

That being said, could you bring native playback for catbox.moe videos? It's essentially lemmy's imgur

Also redgifs opens the API link and fails downloads instead of opening the actual video

These are def nitpicks as I know the app is still in beta, thank you for all you're doing!

[โ€“] anonymoose@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Awe yiss! Amazing velocity of updates, thank you!

[โ€“] 1984@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I feel like this version is slower to read comments since it seems to load all of them and then scrolls to the right comment.

I think before it was showing the comments right away but there was a button to load the parent comment.

I went from beta 29 to this one though.

[โ€“] ljdawson@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Changed the behaviour for the next release.

Thanks for fixing the image picker issue, very much appreciated

Posting on 34!

[โ€“] mom@nom.mom 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do spoiler tags only work if they're using >! and !<

!Because the ones I've seen that use the other method haven't been covered like spoilers!<

(Wasn't quite ready to post)

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