Heyo everyone,

This update brings a few cool new features, most notably:

  • Smart link previews
    • Now shown in comments and posts
    • Previews for communities, users and regular links
  • Image carousels
    • For posts with lots of images!
  • iPad support
  • Layout/ui tweaks
  • Bug fixes and other improvements

Check out this image gallery in the latest build to see how it works:

(just scroll through it!)

I figured (like some other devs) that some iPad support is better than none. Though the layout is not built from the ground up for iPad, it now fills the whole screen and pushes in some content. This is similar to how other apps like Apollo did it, and it looks much nicer than than a scaled up phone app. I haven’t had time to test this version much, so please let me know if you discover any weird stuff.

The update also introduces a custom markdown rendering system that enables me to add things like link previews and image carousels. Seems to work pretty well now, but could definitely be some bugs with it for certain posts - if you find any, let me know!

Hope you enjoy the update!

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Just started using the beta. It is very smooth and my new favorite lemmy app.

I would love to see a toggle for “default external links to Reader Mode.” The search function was a little difficult to find with the arrow in Explore; idk if there’s a way to have the search more accessible. And I would love to see some icon options whenever in the future.

Fantastic app though. I love the theme options built-in and smooth UI.

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Cool, thanks! Reader mode is a good idea, I haven’t actually used that before but would definitely be nice to avoid all those pesky popups etc. I’ll try adding it soon!

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Thanks! I appreciate you considering the feedback. And again, thanks for the app. I just heard about it, and it is crispy clean.

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I was wondering if you have any thought about reducing the buffer between posts and comments?

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Hmm, yeah could add a customization setting. Would you prefer just a thinner buffer or a single grayish “line” like in some other apps?

I figured that since the design is quite minimal you need a clear separator between items, but perhaps I went a bit overboard.

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I was thinking a single grayish line, but a smaller buffer may also work.

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Hi evgiz,

Another great update 1.0.2 (27)… this time the app feels snappier than ever… I loved it…

I have come with one more request here (greedy me):

Can you make the bottom nav icons customisable??

Like changing their position according to our likes maybe…??

( I wanted the search and notification icon swap their position to maintain the visual design aesthetics… so asking this )

Thank You.

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Customizing the tab bar positions will not be a priority, got a lot of other things that I think are more important. Perhaps in the future!

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No problem!!

I appreciate your work…

The app has shaped up really well from past few updates…

Thank you.

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May be an iOS 17 issue only, but this update appears to have broken custom text size in the post. The feed text changes, the settings text does, but inside the post the text doesn’t change size.

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Should be fixed in latest build!

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Looks the same right now. I’ll see if I can add a photo…

Edit: can’t add a photo because lemm.ee limits photo sizes to very low levels

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What a great app! Loving it so far. Is there any way to support you? Any version in the App Store soon?

With some polishing this will be the one I use.

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Thanks! Working towards an appstore release hopefully quite soon

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I just downloaded the AppStore version and could make that tip. Thanks, great release!

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