Arctic is a (much) better Lemmy client than any other out there for iOS at least but there are some nifty features for the most recommended app Voyager like the ability to disable side swipes altogether because Apollo’s (reddit) double-tap to upvote for example is much intuitive where side swipes are used to enter and exit communities, posts, comments, menus, settings… or whole app together on Android or Jailbroken devices.
This is my multireddit link after removing u/user which were included as r/_u/redditor from an existing bug to test this for Arctic which would fully enable me along with a lot of us to leave Voyager behind.
I’m beginning to think this app is abandoned, man. I don’t expect any features to be added. TestFlight version hasn’t been updated in 2 and a half months.
It’s not dead. I’ve been very busy and have not had the time to work on it recently. I’ve started working on the next update, and I nearly have it ready for the next TestFlight release. I have a dozen or so bugs patched and a few new features done. I’m also hoping to finish up theming support before the next release.
Next month I should have the time to finish up, and release the MacOS build I’ve been working on, along with improved iPad support.
Things should start moving here again. I’m hoping to get back to weekly updates here soon.
I like the smoothness and animations from being built natively but these tiny-tiny annoyances everywhere are also irritating at the same time like with swipe gestures mentioned above that can be double-tap and long press instead or the notifications for example doesn’t reset nor receive them at real time and so on…
I keep forgetting to enable clearing notifications when reading them in app. I added this feature, but had it disabled for testing. Thank you for reminding me.
As for real-time notification, this is just not possible yet due to API limitations. If they add support for web hooks in the future, then I will add real-time notifications. But currently the only way to get notifications is to request them from the instance. Im already fetching notifications once a minute for each account with notifications enabled. This translates to a lot of network traffic for instances, and I do not want to increase that beyond what it is currently.
What I really meant is push notifications, like there are no banners, badges or alerts of any kind until the app is actually opened even though all permissions are granted:
There’s also another issue I happen to come across when uploading a media, probably another bug but there was no way to exit this screen unless forcefully closing the app: Please change the interface that allows to dismiss with a cancel button so one doesn’t have to start all over again if they’re writing a comment.
Looks like this happens when permission to select more images is about to be granted but it skips to upload instead for the first time per new image: