Hey, black cat! From the screenshots, your app looks very promising. Would you consider making it FOSS, though? Just asking.
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The app looks great! Feels very fluid.
I have only three requests:
- make it FOSS in spirit of the fediverse (obviously you don't have to, that's your choice)
- give me a way to download pics from inside the app. I very often download memes and share them in other chats. You've got open external, which works, but it's an extra step. Downloading in app would just be more convenient.
- lastly, give me a way to buy you a beer 😁
Hi, thanks for the feedback and I'm glad you're enjoying it! I've added a download button to media views. Open source is on the roadmap as well if there's enough interest.
I would strongly recommend open-sourcing it! There are several FOSS apps already and it would be hard to compete against them without opening up =]
Nice job. But not available in my country (Germany). Looks really nice and familiar to reddit apps.
Just added Germany to the list of countries! I think it will take Google an hour or so to update.
Thanks!! Would be nice if you can setup the f-droid app.
Thank God there's a filter setting 😭😭😭 sorely missed coming from infinity. First thing filtered? "reddit."
That UI looks really clean. I love it. Is it open source? Not that i dont trust you but i try to not use any closed source apps anymore, i would appreciate it if you would share the link to the source code.
Congrats for the release! I finally have alternative to Jerboa!
Some feedback if you don't mind:
- Full Height view. It's like the full width view, but display the image without any cropping.
- Tap and hold to show image in full screen, release to close. Very useful for compact views. Also should works for articles thumbnails.
- Native imgur support. Right now it's treated as a web page. If it'll require using paid API, just disregard this until you have some funding.
- Preload images when on wifi (optional setting). Basically preload the next N images in the list so they'll appear instantly.
- Show full community names and user name. Right now it only show the community name and user name, but not the instance name. This is confusing if you subscribed to multiple communities with the same name from multiple instances. Same for usernames.
- option to toggle denser comments views with minimal whitespace.
- (possible bug?) The community list on the side menu doesn't show all my subscribed communities.
It's interesting. Needs some more formatting options imo. I liked how in boost for reddit the titles of posts were always at least as big as the preview of the body of the post. Just makes it look much cleaner imo. Could use a font size option. Could use some color options too eventually.
Also, it needs a "Subscribed" page. Default lemmy has this page that only shows you content from communities youre subscribed to. You should see about getting that feed on your app.
Overall though great work, it looks really promising thus far and I'm impressed with how quickly you've put this together.
I'll take a look at how Boost for Reddit formats their titles, thanks! The 'Frontpage' once you're signed in should be equivalent to the Subscribed page.
Looks great from the screenshots!
The Google Play link doesn't let me install it though and I can't find it via the Google Play app.
Edit: it says that the app is not available for any of my devices. I'm using a Pixel 7
Strange - I'll take a look! I'm testing on a Pixel 6 so I would think it would work.
I'm on pixel 6 and it doesn't work with logged in aurora store.
Edit: it works now!
Looks good and I was able to get it on pretty quickly. I was about to post this from the app but saw it's missing the web's markdown shortcuts and image upload option.
Also looking at this post the screenshots are cropped and I didn't see a straight forward way of looking at the whole image.
Thanks! I'll make a note to add markdown shortcuts and image upload to the next release. I should probably make those cropped images expand out on click.
Can you also host the APK or upload it on F-Droid?
Yeah I'll look into uploading the APK and add a reply here when it's ready.
And you designed, developed, tested and published it in a less than 10 days? Your first android app? Really?
I switched over when the subreddits started going private. It's been a lot of long nights haha.
Not my first app :)
I love the look and layout, but I can't get any threads to load. It just says "No posts"
Seconded. I logged in but the posts don't show up. Also only my subscriptions on my main instance are listed, not subscriptions from other instances.
This app looks really promising. Reminds me of Boost.
I'll take a look! Do you have any filters applied? Is that across all instances?
I love the app! I just wanted to give you some debug info. I can't log into a second account on my current andoid tablet or andoid 10 phone. The button to do so does nothing.
Hi! could you confirm you're on the latest version? it should say 1.0.31 under settings
That fixed it! You and your team are doing great work! It is appreciated!
That fixed it! You and your team are working very fast! Keep up the good work! It is appreciated!
That fixed it! You and your team are working very fast! Keep up the good work! It is appreciated!
just downloaded the app. I really like it. please keep up the good work
Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying it!
Will this app be compatible with kbin.social accounts? I've tried to sign in and it's throwing a whole page of an error message.
I may be wrong but, are you not showing all communities subscribed in the list, just the first page? I see 10 but im subbed to somewere closer to 50...
The screenshots look good, but I'm not able to test it because it's not available in the netherlands :(
Looks like Infinity! looks promising
Any chance of adding Kbin logins?