apps,
@apps@toot.fedilab.app avatar

If we have to improve the UI for messages, what would you expect?

PS: there are already some customizations (remove left margin, display counters, change colors).

ePD5qRxX,
@ePD5qRxX@mastodon.online avatar

@apps

A (visually) more obvious "this thing is a video/animated gif" indicator.
A small plain white circle with a hole might work with a dark background, but is almost invisible with white or any other lighter color/pattern.
Picture one is a video, picture two an animated gif...

Screenshot of a toot with an animated gif. The preview image is almost completely white. The small white "play button" in the center is almost invisible.

garretsidzaka,

@apps
I keep losing my spot in timelines when the app is exited and especially when i switch accounts. Perhaps we can find a way to fix this bug. Love everything else!

elshid,

@apps
When I am in a thread, I get all toots two times. That annoys me.

apps,
@apps@toot.fedilab.app avatar

@elshid
We never got that report. We need more details.

Genstar,
@Genstar@meow.social avatar

@apps When did remove left margin come to fedilab? (version)

DonSerrot,
@DonSerrot@gamepad.club avatar

@apps
I'm not sure if it falls into UI for messages improvements, but I'd love to see support for categories when selecting instance emoji. :blobcatmeltthumbsup:

5moufl,
@5moufl@mamot.fr avatar

@apps
a more consistent UI, I feel like the icons are too dissimilar and it always feels like they're spaced irregularly. fwiw I quite like the megalodon layout.

neutronwrangler,

@apps

Reverse the scrolling direction of reading from upwards, to downwards. So that newer messages appear below older ones

Optional setting of coutse

I have always wondered why apps don't offer this, here or the other place. Reading is such a discontinuous process

kallekn,
@kallekn@mastodonsweden.se avatar

@neutronwrangler @apps Exactly! There were actually a couple of Twitter apps that had this feature. I used Plume for years and got used to reading in the natural direction.

The reverse order we have now is especially irritating when reading replies, replies to replies and threads.

Btw, the thread view in should be done over, it is not functional.

apps,
@apps@toot.fedilab.app avatar

@kallekn @neutronwrangler
What exactly is not functional?

kallekn,
@kallekn@mastodonsweden.se avatar

@apps
The indentation is a nice idea, but it doesn't really work, at least not for me. The thin lines in the left margin are just confusing, so I've turned off indentation altogether. If you use lines, they should not be so thin, and maybe not in the margin. It's not possible to distinguish the different colors of you don't have perfect eyesight. Maybe take a look at how some other apps handle threads, there are good and bad examples.
@neutronwrangler

jm_favreau,
@jm_favreau@c.im avatar

@apps
Not exactly about messages, but...
A switch button to quickly show and hide already seen messages might be helpful. And place it on an easy access place like the main bottom bar.

Tejas,
@Tejas@floss.social avatar

@apps
Wow, surprised to see so many suggestions for the improvement of the already wonderful app I started using just a couple of months back. Keep up the good work team. 👍

Franky_Tegeler,
@Franky_Tegeler@berlin.social avatar

@apps
Die korrekte Anzahl der Antworten unter einem Trööt wird bei mir nicht angezeigt, auch nicht wenn ich ihn öffne. Die Anzahl der neuen Tröts im TL-Button wird entweder nicht oder falsch angezeigt. Beides ein Bug? Es wäre schön wenn das bei allen TL korrekt angezeigt wird.

Franky_Tegeler,
@Franky_Tegeler@berlin.social avatar

@apps
In der Tableiste die Möglichkeit sich die Lesezeichen anzeigen zu lassen. Ich finde meine nicht. Würde zu gerne diesen Trööt als Lesezeichen setzen und bei neuen Antworten wieder reinsehen zu können. Push-Up wäre dann toll.

Franky_Tegeler,
@Franky_Tegeler@berlin.social avatar

@apps
In der Tableiste die Möglichkeit sich die Lesezeichen anzeigen zu lassen. Ich finde meine nicht. Würde zu gerne diesen Trööt als Lesezeichen setzen und bei neuen Antworten wieder reinsehen zu können. Push-Up wäre dann toll.

lme,
@lme@bsd.cafe avatar

@apps

  • I'd like to see how many unread toots are in a timeline
  • Progress bar when watching videos is broken. The indicator is not displayed or stays at 00:00
blue_led,
@blue_led@kif.rocks avatar

@apps
Not sure if it matches what you're asking for, but anyway:
A way to stop messages from jumping around all the time. I sometimes completely lose my way and can't tell what I've already read and what's new. The reading position jumps up and down many messages at a time, probably when new boosts are encountered during message fetch so that older messages move up in the timeline.
Personally I'd prefer boosts to not affect the order of messages at all unless they are very old.

kallekn,
@kallekn@mastodonsweden.se avatar

@blue_led @apps This was an issue in earlier versions but I have not seen it lately. The app seems to remember my position very well and the timeline hardly moves at all when automatically fetching new messages. This is maybe the single best feature of 🙂

blue_led,
@blue_led@kif.rocks avatar

@kallekn @apps
I have Fedilab 3.24.1 installed via F-Droid. From what I can tell this is the latest release. I've had the jumping around happen today again.
FWIW the server seems to be running Mastodon 4.1.6.

kallekn,
@kallekn@mastodonsweden.se avatar

@blue_led @apps The same one I have, but from Google Play. Haven't experienced the problem lately.
🤔

Oaktag,

@kallekn
This is still a problem for me also, and it's my main problem with Fedilab
@blue_led @apps

apps,
@apps@toot.fedilab.app avatar

@Oaktag @kallekn @blue_led
Have you enabled fit preview images?

kallekn,
@kallekn@mastodonsweden.se avatar

@apps @Oaktag @blue_led I have not.

Oaktag,
apps,
@apps@toot.fedilab.app avatar

@Oaktag @kallekn @blue_led
And if you disable it, you don't get those jumps?

blue_led,
@blue_led@kif.rocks avatar

@apps @Oaktag @kallekn
Still getting jumps after disabling "fit preview images".
My impression still is that it's related to boosting. Just now I saw one message stay "in place" and lots of others appearing below it that I haven't read before. The one that kept "in place" was boosted by someone though I cannot tell whether it had already been boosted by that account when the previous fetch happened.
Sometimes this happens multiple times in quick succession (batching?) and I'm completely lost.

Oaktag,

@apps
Sorry, missed this. Starting now I'll disable fit preview and see what happens

I thought I could send you a dump of my settings, but nothing seemed to happen when I clicked the "copy settings" thing

@kallekn @blue_led

tony,

@apps
When typing a tag in a toot, display tag trends in the autocomplete list that shows up (like in tag search results) in order to help finding mort comonly used tags.

tony,

@apps
Allow to add Bookmarks and Favorites in the navigation bar.

apps,
@apps@toot.fedilab.app avatar

@tony
Bookmarked

syeberman,
@syeberman@fosstodon.org avatar

@apps
Remove the action buttons under each post. I accidentally click them while scrolling.

arnowi,

@apps
would be nice to see a difference between bots and real people with a slightly different style, e.g. a smaller font for bots.

kallekn,
@kallekn@mastodonsweden.se avatar

@apps Combine the counters and the reaction buttons under each post. Remove the ugly "Hide content" button or make it more discrete. In the compose window, the bottom row of buttons shouldn't be hidden by the keyboard. The top navigation bar and the compose button are visible all the time when reading bottom to top but disappear when reading top to bottom, which is not ideal. The "fetching more" text in the timeline is too big and ugly.

Please add Finnish to list of languages to be translated.

arnowi,

@apps
Sometimes I get an almost full screen toast message in red with a bunch of XML in it.
Can happen when posting, favouriting, boosting, …

coastgnu,
@coastgnu@norden.social avatar

@apps

Enable copy and paste of alt-text again which comes with posts!

ePD5qRxX,
@ePD5qRxX@mastodon.online avatar

@apps

The first line cut off at the top, which sometimes occurs...

image/png

apps,
@apps@toot.fedilab.app avatar

@ePD5qRxX
You use truncate messages over x lines?

ePD5qRxX,
@ePD5qRxX@mastodon.online avatar

@apps

Yes, but both messages are below the threshold

Mayobrot,

@apps I don't know if this exists, but maybe a warning when you tag a new person for a conversation. Basically warn you so you don't accidentally bring someone into a DM by tagging them.

snork303,
@snork303@toot.community avatar

@apps
This is just personal preference, but I've found the floating posting button superimposed over the timeline which appears and disappears when scrolling to be somewhat distracting and sometimes obscures reading. I would prefer it to be static and pinned out of the way, perhaps on the right side of the toolbar.

Piky_Nieves,
@Piky_Nieves@mastodon.social avatar

@apps
Sorry if it is near to offtopic,
What if adding "Fetching new messages" in timeline?
(kind of what Mastodon Oficial app does)

apps,
@apps@toot.fedilab.app avatar

@Piky_Nieves
You mean instead of doing it automatically?

Piky_Nieves,
@Piky_Nieves@mastodon.social avatar

@apps
I mean something like this. ;⁠-⁠)

apps,
@apps@toot.fedilab.app avatar

@Piky_Nieves
It's done automatically when reselecting the tab.

Piky_Nieves,
@Piky_Nieves@mastodon.social avatar

@apps That's ok, I know.

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