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Boost for Lemmy 1.0.12 🔥 - Mark posts as read on scroll ⬆️, support for webp images, gifs in comments and more fixes! (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi Lemmy! I've just uploaded a new version, and this is the changelog:

Mark as read on scroll (Settings-General-Posts). Posts will be marked as read when you scroll past them. Disable Show read posts in your Account Preferences and you won't see those posts again. Note: In Lemmy, voting, saving or reading comments of a post marks the post as read automatically
Support for animated webp images
Play gifs embedded in comments
Show context option when visiting a single comment thread
Fix long comment chains being unreadable
Bug fixes and improvements

Thanks for using and contributing to Lemmy via Boost. You're awesome!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Not sure why it took me so long.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

🫶

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Paid for the ad free version seeing you're actually updating it. Great app that I paid fir back in the Reddit days as well.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Thanks for your support ❤️🥹

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Thx for making such a good app :D !

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Just happily paid for the ad free version. Since you're doing actual updates and now have read on scroll it's worth it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Awesome! I've been waiting for Mark read on scroll!

On the topic of webp images, I find I can't share them with other apps that don't support webp, could there be a setting to convert them to PNG or jpg when sharing?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Thank you! Appreciate the hard work!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Thanks for this!!! Best app ever, for real. 💯

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I had the app already open and was switching between posts when I got a notification about the update. When I clicked " Read More " on the small notification at the bottom of the screen, it opened lemmy.world in my browser instead of Boost.

Android 14 (UQ1A.240205.004) Pixel 8 Pro Boost v1.0.10

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You may need to enable supported links in Android settings

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Looks like there's none defined on v1.0.10. I also updated to check the new app and there's none on v1.0.12.

Screenshot of Android Settings for Lemmy V1.0.12 default links

Edit: Tapped "Add link" and a popup appeared from Android Settings with checkboxes for all 62 supported links/instances. I guess I have to opt-in. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Sample GIF:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How tf do you post one with a weblink when websites like Giffy wrap it in a website by default.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

In contrast to pages like giphy, I'm not enshittified.
In fact you have to commit some serious jank to have a link serve a gif file if included in a page but a website if opened directly. Those "services" have worked hard to maje your experience worse.

What I did is the default. You put the file into the directory of your website and it'll work like that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sample animated transparent webp:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Thank you

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Hey, your app is one of the best around there, great job! Do you think you could add predictive back gestures ? (Totally fine if you don't) And maybe make the app available in more languages? :))

Also, do you think you could maybe add an option to get rid of the profile drawer (the one on the left side) and make it look like the google play store one? It's kinda hard to use when on gestures :)))

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Thank you for your continued development!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Legend!!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Hi thank your for the update. I want to report an issue which I believe is related to launch modes or navigation stack. Many times I noticed the the app have same screen with multiple instances in backstack so I need to press back button 2 or 3 times to actually go back to front-page.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Thank you for that first feature in the list!!!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

No Ruben, YOU'RE awesome.

Thanks for an awesome update!