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
  • Unable to edit post tile when editing post
  • When editing a Post, it’s not giving an option to edit the Post Title
  • Post Editing doesn’t let you change anything except text
  • Can’t edit posts for community I mod
  • Sync crashes when viewing this posts comments
  • Network Error notification spam
  • Clicking the “Instances” button returns the error “Could not load communities.”
  • Random NSFW Button Loading Perpetually
dutchkimble,

Ljdawson you crazy sunuvabitch you done it again! Is there no end to how you kill it each time, Sync is just the best!

ljdawson,
@ljdawson@lemmy.world avatar

(シ_ _)シ

BakedCatboy,

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.

dotMonkey,

Swipe left on comment/post to upvote still the old orange colour. Otherwise, looking great!

ljdawson,
@ljdawson@lemmy.world avatar

Fixed for the next release.

Coelacanth,
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu avatar

Great point, it would be ideal if the swipe animation color matches whatever you pick in the settings.

Denalduh,

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
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2c1da9e7-04bf-4be0-b9f6-65049ca2fdd6.jpeg

Portrait
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/cd877f74-354e-4e35-a354-e0c928695bef.jpeg

Landscape
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6de15e7d-ff54-47d0-bd6d-34951c6ec062.jpeg

Result
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/92f256eb-f856-4fc2-9eb2-f52171f90017.png

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.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d44f0a67-c704-43c7-b664-528d50d0c8af.jpeg

Cropped example
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ef642c86-2036-433f-849b-1170e7f0ab19.png

sure, (edited )

Disregard this comment, misread the parent

Just confirming that all 3 pictures also display correctly for me:

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/2ec207f5-7d54-4f6a-8a88-9748127cd442.jpeg

youthinkyouknowme,

If I understood it correctly, it’s when previewing the comment/post, not when viewing an already made comment/post.

sure,

Yeah, my bad, you are correct. Just tested with the preview and portrait pictures indeed do not show.

ljdawson,
@ljdawson@lemmy.world avatar

Logged:

github.com/laurencedawson/sync-for-lemmy/…/489

ma11en,

That need for cropping issue was in Sync for Reddit too.

kungen,

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)

can,

Click their profile and view their comments. Only the horizontal ones will appear.

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/6fcc5fa8-e492-4b7b-a6a1-c37d9bb7f57d.jpeg

Also, uploading works fine for me without cropping.

Device information


<span style="color:#323232;">Sync version: v24.03.10-23:09    
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Sync flavor: googlePlay    
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Ultra user: true    
</span><span style="color:#323232;">View type: Compact    
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Push enabled: false    
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Device: b0q    
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Model: samsung SM-S908W    
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Android: 14
</span>
jeze,

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

altima_neo,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

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!

ljdawson,
@ljdawson@lemmy.world avatar

What do you mean sorry? Sync already adds the !

altima_neo,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

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!

ljdawson,
@ljdawson@lemmy.world avatar

Ah sorry not currently then

haych,

nom.mom/comment/1802749 going from this comment, it looks like it should be a fairly simple addition, similar to the Insert Link button when writing a comment.

ljdawson,
@ljdawson@lemmy.world avatar

Yup I just added support for the next release.

dabaldeagul,
@dabaldeagul@feddit.nl avatar

In Sync Ultra previews, when no image is available, the old colors are still shown:https://feddit.nl/pictrs/image/4d87932b-935d-4041-81ec-18a26199c902.jpeg

ljdawson,
@ljdawson@lemmy.world avatar

Oooh good spot cheers

wahming,

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

ConditionOverload,
@ConditionOverload@lemmy.world avatar

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

Psychodelic,

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!

can,

Good catch.

w00,

Any way to stay with the old orange for up blue for down layout, I guess it’s to ingrained for me to dwitch

hobovision,

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.

can,

Settings shortcut: Theme management > Upvote color

Settings shortcut: Theme management > Downvote color

Not sure what the old values were though.

w00,

Perfect, thanks for the pointer

sanguinepar, (edited )
@sanguinepar@lemmy.world avatar

I think they were this:

Blue:
Orange: (or possibly )

Not 100% on that though.

Kovukono,

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.

ljdawson,
@ljdawson@lemmy.world avatar

Logged:

github.com/laurencedawson/sync-for-lemmy/…/490

Discover5164,

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

Kovukono,

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.

Speculater,

Is instance blocking in the app yet and I can’t find it?

can,

Instance filtering has been a thing for a while. Or do you mean native blocking?

Speculater,

Like on the website you can block an entire instance.

can,

I don’t believe that’s implemented. Must have been missed in the 0.19 update.

maniajack,

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

maniajack,

Started working again 🤷

wahming,

Having an annoying bug where regardless of whether I change the upvote or downvote colour, it is the upvote colour that gets changed.

ljdawson,
@ljdawson@lemmy.world avatar

Just fixed and pushed the patch live!

can,

The blue looks nice

sabreW4K3,
@sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf avatar

The post editing update is amazing.

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