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Sync for Lemmy @lemmy.world

Ljdawson (Sync dev) @lemmy.world

10mo ago

Sync for Lemmy Beta 103 release notes

Key points

Updated the Sync logo to match the Lemmy voting colors
Updated editing posts to match the submit post screen including editing titles etc

New

Added the option to customize the voting colors
Added controversial sort to user profiles and searches

Github issues closed

RedGifs unable to load #474
Unable to edit post tile when editing post #471
When editing a Post, it's not giving an option to edit the Post Title #298
Post Editing doesn't let you change anything except text #297
Can't edit posts for community I mod #456
Sync crashes when viewing this posts comments #464
Network Error notification spam #453
Clicking the "Instances" button returns the error "Could not load communities." #469
Random NSFW Button Loading Perpetually #467

77 comments

What do we think of the new logo?

I love the new up/downvote colors but when I swipe on a comment to upvote it's still orange/purple. Anyway to make that match the new upvote color?
This app is great! Keep it up!
- Good catch.
- Any way to stay with the old orange for up blue for down layout, I guess it's to ingrained for me to dwitch
  
  Settings shortcut: Theme management > Upvote color
  Settings shortcut: Theme management > Downvote color
  Not sure what the old values were though.
  
  I bet you'll get used to it with a few days of using it. But as long as the swipe colors are orange/blue it's going to trip you up.

You're on fire right now!
- I know eh? This is how burn out happens though...
  
  They seem to do bursts of progress and then take a break or at least slows down a lot; hopefully that is them balancing things, taking care of themself, and taking care of core responsibilities.

Swipe left on comment/post to upvote still the old orange colour. Otherwise, looking great!
- Fixed for the next release.
- Great point, it would be ideal if the swipe animation color matches whatever you pick in the settings.

In Sync Ultra previews, when no image is available, the old colors are still shown:
- Oooh good spot cheers

I absolutely appreciate all the work done recently, but I was wondering if there was any chance we could get thumbnails that, when clicked, don't have ?thumbnail=1500&format=webp appended to them. For some posts, it doesn't make a difference, but for longer posts, or posts with smaller text, it makes the image blurry unless you click into the post comments, and select the image there. It feels like a needless extra step when trying to open an image.
- Logged:
  https://github.com/laurencedawson/sync-for-lemmy/issues/490
- yes i have noticed this as well.
  sometimes i had to load the image in the a browser and remove the '?thumbnail=1500&format=webp' manually to be able to load the full image
  
  You should just be able to go into the comment section, then click the image from there. Doesn't matter if it's empty, but it's currently the only workaround other than what you mentioned.

LJ is coming back and is absolutely crushing it with these updates. Thank you, sir. (シ_ _)シ

Having an annoying bug where regardless of whether I change the upvote or downvote colour, it is the upvote colour that gets changed.
- Just fixed and pushed the patch live!
  
  The blue looks nice

What does this setting do?
Settings shortcut: Comments > Delimit scores with a bullet point
- Toggles this:
  
  Subtle, thanks.
- It does what it says on the tin.
  You can toggle it and compare the differences.
  
  You can toggle it and compare the differences.
  You'd think so but I didn't notice

Love the new logo, but especially LOVE the option to change upvote and downvote colors!

Ljdawson you crazy sunuvaremoved you done it again! Is there no end to how you kill it each time, Sync is just the best!
- (シ_ _)シ

Not sure if it's just me, but now upvotes are blue and down votes orange in both the button color and the vote count color after voting. Seems backwards? I'm used to orange being upvotes and blue being down.
- Oh, you must have missed the whole conversation here: https://lemmy.world/post/12922184
  There was a whole thing about it. This is how Lemmy itself does it, so Sync changed to match.
  Edit to add:
  
  Oh that's weird (that Lemmy is reversed I mean). I guess I can just customize them back so no big deal. I kept getting confused thinking I accidentally downvoted stuff.

Is instance blocking in the app yet and I can't find it?
- Instance filtering has been a thing for a while. Or do you mean native blocking?
  
  Like on the website you can block an entire instance.

Given we already have an app icon chooser implemented, could we get an 'old' icon that uses red/blue for up/down? You pretty much just have to rotate the existing icon 180

Do you think you'd be able to add a means of embedding images in a comment, please? We're pretty close with the link feature, but it just needs an exclamation mark for it to embed.
Thank you!
- What do you mean sorry? Sync already adds the !
  
  Sorry I must be missing it, then. How can I do that if I'm wanting to use an image link, without uploading one? Thanks!
- Isn't that what this:
  is already?
  
  So it's just an exclamation point, open and close square brackets, then a URL in regular brackets and Lemmy handles the rest? That sounds like it should be easy enough to implement, similar to the "Insert Link" button.

The post editing update is amazing.

When previewing the post or comment being made, pictures that are in the portrait style aspect ratio do not show up in the preview.
Here's an example:
Landscape

Portrait

Landscape

Result

There's also an issue with uploading pictures. All 3 of the pictures on the above example failed to upload unless I cropped them. Using the crop tool and sizing it to be the original aspect ratio/size does seem to bypass the issues.

Cropped example
- All of your pictures loaded and looked fine for me.
  And uploading also works fine for me. It's probably an issue with your instance or file format? Are your pictures JPEG, or maybe some other format such as HEIC? (By cropping, it's probably converted to jpeg regardless of what the original format was)
  
  Click their profile and view their comments. Only the horizontal ones will appear.
  
  Also, uploading works fine for me without cropping.
  Device information
  undefined
  
  Sync version: v24.03.10-23:09 Sync flavor: googlePlay Ultra user: true View type: Compact Push enabled: false Device: b0q Model: samsung SM-S908W Android: 14
- Logged:
  https://github.com/laurencedawson/sync-for-lemmy/issues/489
- Disregard this comment, misread the parent
  ~~Just confirming that all 3 pictures also display correctly for me:~~
  
  If I understood it correctly, it's when previewing the comment/post, not when viewing an already made comment/post.
- That need for cropping issue was in Sync for Reddit too.

Not sure why but it seems like every other version breaks the haptic feedback vibration for up votes on my pixel 6a.
- Started working again 🤷

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