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 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:
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This is a strange one, I have not received any reports of this behavior until now. I did restart the notification server today to see if that may resolve this issue, but I will be taking larger look into this during the week to see if I can’t find what might be causing this. In the meantime, could you try disabling and re-enabling the notifications in arctic to see if that resolves the issue?
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I will definitely add an option to cancel media uploads, this was a poor design choice on my part, I should have included a cancel feature from the start.
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You are absolutely right, this has to do with granting access to new images, I managed to resolve this for the next update. Limited access makes things a little more complicated than it should be. Now with limited access, Arctic will ask you to grant access to new photos before asking to choose new photos to upload. This can be configured in Arctics settings to ask about granting access before each upload, or only doing so once per app session.
- I reinstalled the app fresh even and now on your TestFlight but couldn’t really figure out myself here. However, I tried going to accounts > profile and manually enable the push notification toggle which led to a spam of sound notifications with lockscreen being lit up every five seconds for the same notification until being turned off, the app crashed on the TestFlight version when hitting the Report Issue button under ⚙️ and continues to be the case even now.
- No disagreements here but I have noticed bullet lists can break inside Arctic app when using paragraph spacing. It’s fine in lemmy.world site but on the reddit iOS client for example one can hit
return(enter) while pressing the shift button to introduce paragraph breaks inside the bullets and numbering just like the desktop site. - I applaud your understanding on this issue but if am not mistaking this wrong then instead of having to toggle within the settings layer again, just integrate having to choose & allow together when attaching a new image unless all permission is granted from iOS Settings like in other apps. One thing I would like to ask is will it be possible to attach media outside of Photos app (as from anywhere - Files app for example) like in macOS? Also, for media attachments… can they be shown exactly where it’s mentioned instead of collecting in the bottom? Not sure why caption is necessary for each upload but the images can be above those captions that are forced to fill anyway so it maintains the flow of relevance.