Key points
- Message notifications are back!
- A big refresh to messaging
- Added a new unified inbox option “all” combining comment replies, mentions and direct messages
- Quick action buttons are now shown for comment replies, mentions and direct messages
- Comment reply actions (more icon) now shows the user and community rows (with additional options)
- Comment replies now show the community icon and post title
- Comment replies have had a visual refresh
- Comment replies, mentions and direct messages can now be quickly reported and marked as read
- Comment replies, mentions and direct messages can now be marked as unread
- Added a quickly reply swipe gesture
- Added page dividers
- Your own send direct messages can now be deleted
- Direct messages are now shown in threads
New
- Added .webm support to the image viewer and image peek
- Added “linked instances” and “blocked instances” to the instance chip group
Changes
- Experimenting with always showing the community icon in feeds
- Updated the reply icon
Github issues closed
- View mode not updating properly #402
- No messages returned snackbar doesn’t automatically go away #333
- Add ability to disable “view more” toast messages #365
- Allow images in comments to use shared element transitions #391
- Add new app icons to replace the legacy S4R ones that were removed #389
- Add option to swap upvote and down vote colors to match Lemmy #386
- Username doesn’t show in the account picker if there is no display name #451
- Account settings save button not disappearing after saving #448
- When swapping between automatic and manual theming, some elements don’t change color properly #479
- Override sort dialog shows cancel button twice #484
- Username of non active account in account picker is empty #492
- Crash on startup with latest update #445
- Missing username in picker #478
- Not showing link options properly and crashing when clicked #513
Other fixes
- Fixed a title displaying issue caused by the recent change to titles
- Fixed a crash when clicking link options on a text post
- Fixed a bug where the description of the current messaging section in the toolbar wouldn’t update correctly
- Fixed an issue with a broken lift target in messaging causing the status bar not to change color
Oh true, Fediverse links are still not handled ideally. I know there’s technical limitations to fedi app developers keeping an up-to-date list of domains that their app can open links from, but it would definitely be nice if there were some easier way to do things.
One side note, I’ve noticed that Megalodon (a Mastodon client) has a pretty good workaround for this issue – if you use the share sheet to share a link with Megalodon, it gives you the option to post the link or to attempt to open the link in the client. That’d be a pretty killer feature to have in Sync, if there isn’t some easier/better way to make it easier to choose certain Lemmy domains to open in Sync by default.