Carrying on an old tradition. What features / issues should I work on next?
Carrying on an old tradition. What features / issues should I work on next?
These threads used to be really useful back on Reddit.
I'm currently finishing off full app translations for the next release along with lots of the usual bug fixes.
What should I prioritise next?
Cheers, Lj
fairly minor thing, but can you detect from sync whether a home instance allows downvotes? mine does not, but sync still displays the unusable downvote button on everything
A few features I would love to see:
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A way to view groups of multiple communities in a single feed. Like a multicommunity. A workaround right now is to have multiple accounts, which is less than ideal.
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A way to view content from multiple accounts in a single feed. Like a universal feed.
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An easier way to have the same settings apply to multiple accounts.
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A way to block instances or communities.
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When browsing "local" or "all", it would be nice to have some kind of indicator next to the community name to let you know if you've already subscribed or not. I browse "all" sometimes looking for new communities to sub to and I click through to find out I'm already subbed often.
I think something as simple as being able to set a different color for subbed communities would work well and be enough to stand out at a glance.
Block users by instance:
My biggest feature request is an option to view upvotes and downvotes separately rather than as one combined number. Ideally the current combined method would remain an option as well.
Combining multiple posts on all / local feeds:
Have a global setting for not sharing the post title by default when I want to directly share an image from the app. It's come unstuck and turned back on for me a couple times.
I also wanted to say the only reason I'm using lemmy at all is because of your app; I'm a big fan. As soon as your app turned off for Reddit, I quit using Reddit. I'm glad that you turned to this community, and I'll support you here too :)
Side note: I'm a software developer, so if you ever want an enhancement in an open-source library, maybe reach out and I can take a crack at it. I'm mostly familiar with Python and C# but I'm always willing to learn new things!
A way to group subscribed communities into a single 'subscription'. I can then associate all the tech related stuff into one clickable item, and all my sports related stuff etc.
Idea is to let me view subscriptions by 'topic'
Rename other users or hide certain characters. Im sick of people using emojis in their names but I don't necessarily want to block them.
Blocked instances appear in comments.
When people post images, they often use markdown in the text field. Sync doesn't display this properly in the posts feed.
Notifications. Doesn't have to be push notifications - polled notifications is fine as well until push is implemented.
After that, cross-posting support.
A cross post button or option of some kind.
Having webp images/animated images show up in the post feed without having to click on the image
Offline sync would be fantastic.
Eternity for Lemmy implemented this and it's been really handy for small instance users to funnel traffic through our instances.
Not sure if it's a setting I've missed, but I use top 6 hour for the front page, which is great, but then when clicking into a post it still uses top 6 hour, which generally shows little activity or replies, until I then have to change it to active etc to see the whole thread. Am I just being dumb?
posted before maybe:
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filters with a timeout (filters that disappear after a while). The filter might remain in a list of filters and can be reset again (or gets deleted after timeout). This would be a middle ground between blocking certain things completely and not at all.
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weighing of certain communities. A weight of 0 would be the same as blocking. A weight of 1 doesn't change anything. A Weight of 0.5 would multiply the upvotes of posts by 0.5 in order to change its position on the frontpage. ( I am not sure how exactly the rank is determined, but weighing certain meme-communities lower would be nicer than completely blocking them - i like a nice stupid meme from time to time. am not sure how this could work on reality, son this might not have a perfect solution though.
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User tagging similar to Reddit Enhancement Suite. Specifically keeping a count of up/down votes of other users and displaying next to their comments. Also when tagging users it saves a link to the comment causing you to tag them.
The current user tagging feature is the largest reason I subscribe to sync Ultra. It's really one of the only things that helped out with the spam aside from keeping to smaller communities.
As far as issues, I experience occasional crashes (once or twice per day, maybe) when opening images. I haven't found a pattern as-yet but I will try to take note of an example next time it happens.
For new features, maybe push notifications of new messages?
Still loving the app, thanks for all you do!
Emoji support would be :chefs-kiss:
Would like an "overview" when going on mine or someone else's profile so posts and comments are mixed. Saves me clicking through each and giving better context.
Is there a way to see what I've upvoted? I've basically been both upvoting and saving everything. Thank you for all the work either way!
An option to disable the toast 'you are hiding everything on page 6' and just continue on anyway, without needing to press retry.
I have four suggestions that I didn't mention in our previous talk:
1._ Swipe to upvote/downvote the main post in the comment section.
2._ Subscribed mark/icon for communities in the feeds or the new instances view to quickly know if we are already subscribed to such communities.
3._ In the Explore section the subbed users count only show up in unsubscribed communities, it would be nice if it shows In your subscribed communities as well.
4._ Ability to browse per instances in other sections (like when we are inside a community)
Filtering "All" by language. I know it's a GIGO situation, but I think I'd take the win.
For us perverts it would be great if the Redgifs audio issue was fixed.
It also prevents sharing the actual redgifs link easily cause you need to open it in the browser and then share the link. Otherwise it shares the API link.
It did work as intended on Sync for Reddit.
Double dipping with the answers, but it would be awesome if we could toggle filters on and off. My list of filtered communities is enormous (40+ just for various sports teams I don't care to see on the everything feed), but if like to sometimes disable all filters just to see how the standard experience looks.
I imagine a toggle for each filter category (instance, community, users...)
Just want to make sure you're aware of this: https://discuss.online/post/1294119
I cannot connect to discuss.online as a home site from Sync at the moment, though I can browse it from other home sites. It is not an issue unique to me. The admins of the instance have come to the conclusion it is a lemmy/3p client issue rather than an instance issue, and that clients it breaks now will break more completely with future lemmy rollouts.
Change logo to indicate the lemmy connection..This is not at all a serious request, just a personal request fuelled by OCD to get everything as connected as possible.
Sometimes, when scrolling, I get "Your filters have blocked all the posts on this page" or "You have read all the posts on page 17" or whatever.
The pop-up gives either a "Next page" or a "Retry" button (IIRC). When I press it, I'm able to continue just fine.
Can there be a setting added (or something) that just auto-presses that button for me? I'm cool with just scrolling forever, and it seems a little silly that I get stopped by that prompt but pressing 1 little button fixes it.
I'd like the option to exclude a community from an instance filter. There's a community I'm interested in in an instance that is 90% garbage.
If a subscribed community could bypass the filters, that'd be fantastic
Fixing the bug where instances can't be loaded please!
There are two horribly synergistic bugs on my favorite NSFW instance, lemmynsfw(dot)com:
Sync's community filters don't work on that instance, and that instance's community blocks don't work either! They're not related, I'm sure, but when both are broken I see things I can't unsee.
I built up a huge list of community filters in the app, and then one day realized not a single one was working. Not even if I cleared the whole list and added just one filter. Refreshing didn't help. Nor did clearing the cache. At least, I think I tried that.
And, for some reason, Blocks don't work on that instance either, but only when requesting my feed through the API. Blocks do work on the website itself. But that's not your issue. That's theirs.
Thank you for your great work! :)
The one issue I have is that the text is very small while composing comments, and I haven't found a setting to change that.
Here is a screenshot.
I have "hide read posts" enabled on the Lemmy side, through the desktop page.
When I go to my profile on Lemmy's website, I don't see any posts I've made (which makes sense, I've read every post I've ever written), but I do see all my comments in the comment section of a read post.
For some reason, on Sync it doesn't show the posts or the comments. My profile is completely empty unless I go into the settings on my Lemmy instance and toggle the "hide read" setting.
An option to have separate up/down vote buttons
Not a terribly important feature, but I'd like to be able to create multiple instances of a view type, each of which has its own configuration, and be able to switch between them with a quick action.
My phone is so wide that it's difficult to hit the thumbnails in the list view when I hold the phone in the opposite hand (right hand with thumbnails on the left vs. left hand with thumbnails on the right). This feature would allow me to quickly switch the view :)
Is there a way to create a community? I don't think I've seen a way but I haven't done a thorough deep dive
Being able to rotate or mirror an image.
Am I missing a easy one-button to crosspost something from one community to another? If not, then that would be pretty handy.
I know there's share, and I love how much flexibility there is in the share button already, but as a bit of a noob a simple one button crosspost button would be nice. Especially if it has some automated best-practice type settings for the message and media like linking to original post, maybe tagging as a crosspost etc.
Bit of a noob, and even on Reddit was a long time lurker so I always get a bit anxious at how I should be crossposting "correctly".
You could even sneak in some tagging or a formulaic note in the messages to make it easy for Sync to merge duplicate posts found on multiple communities.
Full immersive mode for non Samsung devices, or transparent navigation bar for those of us who hate gesture navigation.
Please make Sync compatible with Lemmy v0.19. lemmy.sdf.org updated to v0.19 and Sync no longer works for me. I'm having to use a different app in the meantime.
A setting to hide posts that I have voted on. I miss this from Reddit.
Sync doesn't seem to format post titles which have links, which breaks the titles of posts made from mastodon ( since the hashtags are in the title).
Small thing but I'd love some metadata about the comment or post when I'm replying. Things like the time it was posted, username and maybe even subreddit with the instance. The full thread for nested comments would maybe be nice but maybe the ui for scrolling through that would be messy.
Would there be a way to implement a meta reddit style setup?
I think that getting support for 0.19 working is a bit important now, since many smaller instances seem to be taking the plunge and upgrading to the beta, so being able to login and support lemmy instances with the new auth protocols is very important.
@ljdawson@lemmy.world hi! Late to the party, but could you fix spoilers to align them with Lemmy's format?
I'd love to be able to adjust line spacing in the body text of posts, like I'm able to do for the comments. Also, now that I'm writing this, I'm noticing that it would be nice to have that in this reply composition screen too. But maybe I just haven't found that one?
Hide NSFW doesn't work anymore. Only blurs.
Restoring the broken filters and fixing the missing saved content bug. But even more important you should be improving your build process' release cycle so you can push out fixes out before new features. I don't want more fluff right now, I want the app I paid for to work as advertised. It's been a month and I'm starting to consider other free competitors.
2 old features I liked from the reddit version. Probably going to be quite low priority versus some other things, but they're the missing things I'm noticing most.
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The little "next / previous comment" arrows. Worked very well for skipping comment chains when you're already a bit into them.
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The little "+#" count next to the total comments to show how many new comments have popped up in a post. Combined with the unread comment dot it made keeping track of new comments on a thread I liked nice.
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A little icon on top of thumbnails to show the image:
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Is a pic
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Is a gif
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Is video
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Redirects to a website
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How feasible would it be to create toggle-able filters. e.g. I could toggle a sports team community when I haven't seen the result of a game.
Not sure if I'm doing something wrong, have an incorrect setting, or if this is expected behavior, but the thing that's been driving me nuts is when I go to share a link it always copies the source of the post for the lemmy link.
If, for example, I'm browsing on lemmy.ml and I want to share a post from lemmy.world, I'd like to be able to copy the lemmy.ml version of the lemmy.world post.
It doesn't make as much sense with public instances, but when you're using a private instance and you want to share with friends and family it can be kind of a hassle to retrieve the URL for said private instance.
I have no idea how this works so hopefully this isn't too wild but it would be neat to be able to use the app with kbin (a kbin account from a kbin instance, not just look at kbin content is what I mean)
Edit: nvm i see someone else already suggested it and you responded, should've checked first
It would be super helpful if we can hide entire instances from showing up at an individual level. For e.g. I see a lot of posts from feddit.de - I don't have anything bad against the server or the users, but the posts there add no value to my experience and fill up my feed with content I'll simply not understand. It would be a better UX to be able to hide these without having the home instance and other users on it be affected by your preference.
Thank you for this amazing app! I'd like to be able to download images to my Downloads folder. I'm on Android 12 and currently I cannot select it. It shouldn't be an issue since newer Android versions don't even require write permissions for that.
User mentions doesn't appear to be working for me.
Someone mentioned me a couple of days ago and it never came through. Could it be an instance thing?
If no content found on default sort, automatically fail over to a second sort selected by the user.
I.e add a toggle that allows "if default is top 12hrs but no content found, load content from new."
Any progress on WebM support? Not sure about other instances, but mine converts GIFs to WebM by default when I upload from Sync. But posts with WebM just act like still images in Sync, and tapping on them just leads to a button to open the WebM in a browser.
In app YouTube player like Reddit Sync had. Drives me nuts when I inadvertently click a YouTube link and it takes me to the YouTube app. It's a pain to get back to Lemmy.
Also, I think I remember a check box on Reddit Sync's in app browser to disable cookies or clear on close or something. That would be nice to have back.
I am still not able to see media from "files.catbox.moe"
Example: https://lemmy.world/post/7887643
[BUG] Sample title
Sample description Sample description body
Scenario (steps to reproduce)**
- Do something
- Do something else
Result(s) Sample results
Device information
Sync version: v23.09.13-18:19 Sync flavor: googlePlay View type: Slides Push enabled: false Device: sunfish Model: Google Pixel 4a Android: 13I haven't seen other people report this, but for me if you click on comments then hit back it won't take you to the page you clicked on the comment link from, but rather the previous one. So if I was on page 2, go into comments then click' back' I'd end up on page 1.
Would be nice to be able to see a single comment thread for any given comment, not only when coming from profile comments section.
Hey Lj! Been loving Sync for Lemmy so far. I would really appreciate an option for auto hiding read content, instead of having to go to select Hide Read every time I start the app or refresh.
@ljdawson To be able to connect to Sync for Lemmy from a Mastodon account.
Of course with limitations due to interoperability (only being able to upvote, reply, or create a post) This would also maybe provide a large user base for the applicationHonestly, not sure. I've been going to the community I want to block and hitting block at the top, but that doesn't remove posts from that community from the everything page. It was working for a bit but doesn't anymore.
You do great work!! Sync has been my most used app for longer than I remember.
Any chance for some tweaks for tablets and foldables?
• I think it would be nice to be able to hide the navigation rail. It feels like a lot of wasted space. The FAB can do everything the rail can while being better looking and easier to reach.
• Maybe more column settings for view types (for folded/unfolded)? I like a single column on the outside screen, 2 columns on the inner screen in portrait, and 3 columns on the inner screen in landscape. This is possible in Infinity for Lemmy. But Infinity, as a whole, is not nearly as polished as your app.
I currently use Infinity on my Fold's outer display for single column viewing and Sync on the inner display with tablet mode disabled to avoid the navigation rail. These tweaks would be awesome for foldable users (all 10 of us) so we could get a better use of space while also enjoying the tablet mode features.
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comment custom indentation and padding
I love the post preview feature when sharing posts online or with friends.
I think something that would be beneficial to Lemmy (and hence Sync) would be if the entire community name (such as !syncforlemmy@lemmy.world) be displayed in the preview.
A rough MS Paint example:
**Feature request: **
View upvote and downvote count in addition to or instead of score
I love long pressing an image to view and sliding my finger down to the options at the bottom to copy, view in browser, etc. Would be nice if download was one of those quick actions.
I'd love these things:
- Be able to mark text and wrap with `...`, back ticks, for code formatting.
- Mark comment replies as unread.
I would like it if a community would remember the sorting I selected. Some communities I prefer to read sorted by newest. Others I like to read top last 12 hours.
Not sure where to submit bug reports:
This comment contaisn a link that contains two @ symbols. Sync inserts a link with the assumption that the two @ signify a Lemmy username.
Original comment: https://lemm.ee/comment/4893130
Cited here for ease of reading (I love that I can see the markdown source directly btw!):
I'd like a way to block " X " posts. The filters seem to strip leading and trailing spaces from the keywords.
Some pages don't have overscroll rubberbanding.
My lemmy instance doesn't allow uploading of images at all. It would be awesome to have a setting that would change the add image function from uploading and image, to providing text boxes for alt text and link instead and have it automatically add the syntax to embed the image in the comment:
I know it's a little one but please fix the spacing of the notification when hiding posts:
Device information
Sync version: v23.09.13-18:19 Sync flavor: googlePlay Ultra user: true View type: Slides Push enabled: falseA feature I would love to have is Auto load next page if a full page of results is filtered. With some communities getting fed content by posting bots that load a chunk of posts all at once, I often hit instances while browsing /all where multiple pages will be empty due to filters. It would be great if the app just loaded the next page automatically in these instances instead of having to manually load the next page.
This isn't really a feature suggestion, but rather a quality of life improvement.
Lately I've been getting a lot of messages saying "All posts hidden on page ### - RETRY" due to having to have so many filters on Lemmy to hide whole communities.
Just this morning I had to hit retry about 6-7 times in a row because there were 6-7 pages on posts completely filtered out..
Had the same issue on sync for reddit but it wasn't as noticeable since filters weren't required as much. On Lemmy it's a staple and kind of annoying once you have a fair bit of communities filtered out.
Option to disable long-press to hide comment.
I have never had a desire to hide a comment and I do it constantly unintentionally.
I have an issue and not sure where to send it. I think "some" post makes Sync crash.
https://mega.nz/file/eBwmCS7L#SR7JURqVQVkgim4QhtqkFcPlKpvJYN8mh9J5K5p87eM
I hid about 5 posts and now there are no posts and the app doesn't crash and doesn't load new posts.
Maybe I need to relogin...
I'd like to not have the title of an image post not be carried over when trying to share externally.
I'd like to see the "read text aloud" feature extended to the body of posts.
I would really love to see a "Comment Score" and/or a "Post Score" (or even an "Total Score") like other Lemmy apps do (Like Voyager). Like how Reddit does karma where you can see total upvotes on all a user's content.
Not necessary but my monkey brain firmly believes that bigger number = better person.
Otherwise app is perfect <3 thx
Shouldn't this combination of settings result in a red preview? Or no preview? Currently it still shows a blurred preview.