Connect for Lemmy App

Links aren't opening when tapped on if you have either card view set, in v254.

Example post.

For affected users, you may want to temporarily switch to a list view until a fix is implemented.

Initially reported by i_am_not_a_robot.

I'm curious how stickied posts in MultiCommunities are handled in other apps. I don't believe Connect is the only app that has this feature. Are they still posted at the top and you potentially have to scroll through a lot if you have a lot of communities added?

Currently, Connect doesn't put them at the top but rather chronologically, by your sort method.

I think it should remain at the top but if, say, the total number of stickied posts in a MultiCommunity exceeds 3, it's collapsed into a single option to open up a new page with all stickied posts.

Going to a user profile and selecting the add note option does nothing.

The last update broke a number of features:

Saving images will make the app

Block community or instance no longer working

Subscribe will constantly give "unsubscribed from..."

I think it was working fine previously but I just noticed in v252 that when you try to block an instance, it blocks the instance of the poster rather than the community the post was made.

249 would break image saving with some backtrace about the error, the new update I kust received make the entire app freeze and then it just crashes to Android

Hello !

When I try to download an image, with the new good looking (👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼) popup overlay, I get this error:

Cheers!

Hello,

First, thank you for the amazing work. Since few weeks the app freezes for few seconds when visiting c/datahoarder and it only happens with that community.

Started seeing this every now and then on v251. Previously I don't recall seeing this. It only occurs when a profile picture has issues loading and typically is temporary; the error is removesd once the link resolves. Before it's resolved, it can be a hindrance.

I support apps being more verbose and error messages but in this particular case, I don't think the error message is necessary; if the a profile picture link doesn't resolve, so be it. Maybe on an user profile page, it may be more of a consideration.

The post overflow menu includes separate options to view the user and community for the post. Perhaps this could be removed since the option to do so are available outside of the menu and I imagine few people are using it. But I could be wrong, if people think it's useful, please chime in.

Also, if the share button is selected as a secondary button, the option should be removed from the post overflow; the save button does this.

I'm not sure what that Unicode is called but it reminds me of blinds. I kind of dismissed the first instance in the screenshot but them I saw the issue in a post title. Links for the two instances.

https://lemmy.ca/comment/15973593

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/32912270 (title)

Also, can you add saving of alt text to drafts? Please and thank you's. As well, when editing, you can't edit alt text?

Tried to make a screenshot but the post was way to confusing being a lemmy screenshot on lemmy so il attempt to describe the issue.

Basically the block user option now overlaps with the Android navigation bar right at the bottom of the screen and can't be clicked.

I’m on the mobile app connect to read lemmy. Since a few days, I can only see a grey screen when trying to read comments.

Has anybody else encountered this or does anybody have an idea how I can fix this?

Thank you!

Error text:

An error occured (PlatformException(error, null, null,

java.lang.NullPointerException

at U2.f.onMethod Call (SourceFile:350)

at n3.d.P(SourceFile:26)

at g3.c.run(SourceFile:140)

at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:958)

at

android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)

at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:205)

at android.os.Looper.loop (Looper.java:294)

at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8 177)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)

at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgs

Caller.run(RuntimeInit.java:552)

at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.jav a:971) ))

I was originally going to post about blurred NSFW images opening in external browser unless you first open the comments where the thumbnail is visible and tapping on that then opens the image internally. But this issue has recently spread to cover pretty much every image. The images have URLs like https://sopuli.xyz/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.world%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2Fc29a7ebe-f747-4518-8e53-62a552145b5f.jpeg which seems to make Connect think it's an entire website that should be opened externally. Is it a Lemmy thing, my home instance sopuli.xyz thing or a Connect thing?

Note that I did try disabling the external browser in the settings but actual websites opening internally was a horrible reminder about why we don't do that.

EDIT: Following @[email protected]'s advice, I switched to the beta branch on Play Store and it seems this week started with a number of related fixes. I'm on version 257 now and the majority of images seem to now open internally regardless of the external browser setting, like they did before. 💪

Running the latest version 249 but noticed that in the past few versions the option to save videos is gone. Images and GIFs are working and now saving to correct folder (thanks again for fixing that). Hoping now you can fix video downloads. Don't have menu options to open video links externally which would be a workaround Video sound also doesn't seem to work.

Also in the new image viewer to save pics/gifs you must click the 3dots to expand the window and then click download. It would be great to add customizations to make it more efficient with fewer click by customizing the toolbars and/or adding the ability to double click, long press, swipe or something like that to make it more usable.

Totally appreciate all the hard work to constantly improve this great app.

Was working in a recent version but now everything opens in the internal browser. I'm on v247.

EDIT: For posts with links where the thumbnail is not resolving, the link goes to the external browser. For everything else, it opens in the internal browser; with the open external setting on.

It was working in a recent version but I no longer see the highlighting in v244&245. Tried toggling the setting on and back on but nada.

I'd really prefer having the 1 touch view option back, while the image browser window likely has its uses I don't like it popping up for every image. Thanks for your efforts!

Just sharing an issue I'm having, and glad if there's any potential solution. Thank you either way for your work on this app!

Issue: In any post comment tree, comments with images (or comments that are just images) appear as in the first example image - DominusOfMegadeus's post is just empty on my Connect for Android app. If I long-press and choose "Open," it will open a browser to the hosted instance and the image will show correctly, as in the second image.

Troubleshooting: I looked everywhere in the settings (both in Connect and in my instance's settings) and can't find something that could be limiting this.

Is this a bug? Or is there a fix I'm just missing?

I don't know if I'm missing it, but I can't see an option to report accounts. I just got another Nicole spam, this time with a bunch of bitcoin links, but I could only find a block option via Connect, and had to logon via web to report the account. I looked on the three-dot menus both on the message and the profile, but I couldn't see a report.

First and foremost, I'm really glad this feature has finally been added. Many have requested and it's here. Unfortunately, it's not fully baked yet.

Filters(keyword), MultiCommunities, and user notes are not exported in v244. Domain and other filters may also not be exported; I didn't have those so I'm not sure if they get exported.

So whatever you do, don't go clearing the app cache and expect everything to be saved when you import. Like I did. I only have myself to blame for testing freshly implemented features on beta builds. Losing my user notes hurt.

In previous versions I changed the download location to a Connect folder under Pictures and that worked. Since the recent update where you have to click multiple time to get to the download option it defaults to the Picture folder and not the designated folder even when that's where it says I the message that pops up. Also lost the option to change download directory in Settings.

I was looking at this thread and, at the time of this post, it's supposed to have 41 comments but Connect only showed a handful. Opening the post in a browser shows the missing comments, some of which were moderated and removed. One comment, that had a long chain, was removed but many of its replies were not and shows up in the browser. Not sure if the moderation action is the cause of Connect not showing the chain or maybe because it's long?

Recently, I noticed the keyboard would sometimes pop up at random times and I finally figured out reproducible steps.

Search any community from the sidebar and tap on it. Tap on a post and then tap and hold the screen, sliding it to the right. The keyboard should popup for some reason, even though there is no input field on-screen(after the post view is off-screen). This only seems to happen if the search field in the sidebar has text inputted. I was wondering why the heck the keyboard keeps popping up.