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Sync for Lemmy Beta 96 release notes (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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New

  • Support for Lemmy 0.19
  • Lots and lots of refactoring cleaning up technical debt
  • Added "Account settings" to replace "Lemmy Settings"
    • This new section syncs up with your Lemmy account
    • A few things will need updating such as your nsfw setting and sort

Changes

  • Any action that fail now alerts the user via notification
  • Show / hide NSFW has been moved to Settings > Account settings (this now respects your account choice)
  • Sort has been moved to Settings > Account settings (this also now respects your account choice)
  • Removed "mark posts as read" and "remember across devices" as Lemmy does this automatically

Github issues closed

  • Tasker Integration: Action Configuration Broken & No Post Syncing #350
  • User domain not shown in posts for accounts with a custom name #118
  • Portrait 2 columns layout bug #11
  • Unsubscribe action fails silently #151
  • S4L doesn't expose Bot account preferences #173
  • Show NSFW content doesn't sync with Hide NSFW Posts #170
  • Show scores doesn't sync with account setting #171
  • Disabling "mark posts as read" does not work #356
  • Show Read Posts not synced with Hide Read #174
  • Default sort settings not shared with web app #163
  • Show Profile Pictures doesn't sync with Show Avatars #172
  • S4L doesn't pull/ignores web settings #70
  • Crash when Biometric account lock is enabled #110

Other fixes

  • Fixed a crash when searching within messages
  • Fixed a crash in the in-built webview
  • Fixed a crash when sharing posts
  • Added a fix for HTML chars in the summarizer

Updates

  • androidx.annotation:annotation > 1.7.0
  • com.android.tools.build:gradle > 8.2.0-beta04
  • com.google.gms:google-services > 4.4.0
  • androidx.core:core-ktx > 1.12.0
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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Is he still supporting sync, development hasn't been updated for awhile

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Yes. Sorry for the crap comms.

Hotfix pushed today to fix the crashes and I'll be pushing a large update soon after.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

In theory, yes he is. Longtime fans of Sync for Reddit will tell you that this is normal and he works in sporadic bursts, but accomplishes a lot in the times he is actively working on his projects.

That being said, I don't know that there has been any official word about it. Just people saying that 3 months - or longer - breaks are normal for @[email protected]. Please correct me if I'm wrong!

People have been asking this for months now. It'd be cool to get an updated status, but I doubt it'll happen (until he's actually back). We just have to deal with the broken features (and all the issues tracked in GitHub).

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

First sentence sums me up perfectly. Intense working + winter blues = burnout this time around but I'm back and just trying to make my way through a few months of posts + messages.

Todays release is just a quick hotfix for the crash but hoping to release a fairly big update soon.

Thanks for the patience.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Thanks for coming back to us - we're happy you made it through what sounds like a shitty winter! You kick a lot of ass when you're around, so it's easy to picture you burning out.
Welcome back!
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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yep, it's normal. Nope, he doesn't usually say much about it. It's probably still actively worked on since nothing has been said. The only time I can remember was when it was actually communicated that development would be slowing down some years ago due to life stuff. As such, assuming that development is still ongoing is reasonable IMO but of course that isn't necessarily something all users see as something worth paying for.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Seems to be working with Lemmy 0.19, except we can't select scaled sort. Although if I have my default set to scaled sort on my profile settings in browser, it kind if works on Sync and sorts correctly. Just the UI is missing for it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

If your app crashed, read on. It's been pointed up that the bug is due to the 'hide username' option. I manage to get around it by restoring earlier backup to the earlier version. To those that need a temporary fix, before the dev patch the update, here you go.

First, you need to uninstall the updated version and install the earlier version by using old apk (apkmirror). Then, restore the old backup. After that, need to unhide the account username, and make a new backup. Then, update the app to a new version and sign in, and restore with the backup. The new app will be good to go with the old setting (except the hide username option).

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Alternatively, the app only crashes on the startup homepage. If you're able to open a post on Lemmy from Firefox you can open with sync link handler and open your setting from the comments screen.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Welcome back! Thank you for the update.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

This app refuses to run on my TI-86 from 2004. Devs please fix.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I can't used previous settings. App will crash if I restore from backup. The only way I can use the updated app is by login and use default settings. Dev, please look into this. I don't want to set the settings all over again.

Anyway, if you app crash, delete the data and cache, start over.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Could be leftovers from anti-piracy measures of reddit sync. I remember it was quite difficult to restore settings through titanium backup.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Nah I ripped all that out

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Sort is broken now, trying to change it says "network error" and it defaults to "top 6 hours" which for many communities shows no posts.

Can't revert to previous version of Sync for some reason, it prompts me to update it and refuses to start if I don't.

The "Communities" button under the three dot menu still doesn't do anything.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Great! Now we wait for lemmy 0.19 to go stable!

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Holy shit! Welcome back!