The subscription list has not worked for me for a couple of days (since the app store version 1.0.7 if I recall correctly). I installed 1.0.8 and it persists. Restarted my phone a few times since I first saw the issue, even fully reinstalled from the app store (and re-setup everything manually…), nothing seems to fix it.
Other apps are showing it just fine, so I think it’s not my account or the instance.
This laptoo has Fn as default instead of F keys. I hate it. I found several solutions for different vendors to switch state in bios. Is that the only option?
I personally find it rather infuriating that swapping those is made so difficult, and to this day don’t know who has more usecase for media keys and varied power buttons over function keys.
Non-IT people, who, believe it or not, are the majority of users out there. I’ve stopped keeping score several years ago on how many people had asked me how to bind F-keys to something else, but at that point things were like 100% of IT people wanted F-keys, while 70-80% of non-IT asked me for help rebinding them to other things.
I’m a programmer and these decisions annoy me as well, I’m just pointing to the answer as for why some computers come with the annoyance enabled (and often make it unnecessarily hard to change it). I’m by no means defending it. If anything, I think it should be up to the OS to have an easy way to change the behavior instead of assuming what the user needs and making it difficult to change.
It’s been a months since 1.0.7 and the app still has bugs that need to be fixed. I’m hesitant to pay for the next month of pro without any progress. Meanwhile Voyager gets multiple updates per week…
A month ago I replied to the dev with a wall of text on how I felt like Avelon showed great promises but paying for something based on what it sounds like it’ll be in the future is a bad idea. I still think my position regarding this is right.
However, a few days after that, I decided to just do it with the lifetime purchase and hope for the best. Turned out that around that time Memmy’s devs revamped that app and haven’t added the number one feature on my list (bottom bar swipes navigation) and others are still planned to return. Avelon also went on a hiatus (I think it’s related to the rebalancing of pro features). Most other Lemmy apps are in different stages of having some stuff I like, but lacking most features I want.
Hopefully we’ll see updates again soon. I’m not going to try getting a refund or anything, but if this flops, I’m most likely gonna give up on Lemmy.
Yes, I think Memmy had a revamp but I’m not sure of the details. I think it’s still React, but the devs mentioned “learning some tricks and how to avoid some mistakes”.
I don’t think I’m being sensitive though. First, I really don’t think a decision to quit Lemmy would happen soon. Second, even though there are several apps for it under development, as I said, they’re all at different stages of maturity and none of them cover all the bases I expect to use in the long term. I honestly hate having to reach around the screen to navigate, which is my biggest problem with all of them now that Memmy lost its gestures navigation. Then there are smaller stuff like Avelon not re-blurring NSFW after you tap on it. Or the crashes. Or the opening Lemmy links in a browser view instead of a regular view in the app. Some of these issues are shared between all of the 7 apps I have for Lemmy on my phone.
I’m going to give it time, I understand very well how most of these apps are side projects. My main concern is that either these apps eventually get abandoned, or they go paid/partly paid like Avelon, while still not providing me with the experience I expect to get. I don’t have the inclination to relive the awful experience Reddit forced us through for years with a different name.
Ahh, got it. Yeah I guess it can take a toll when people go too toxic, but on the other hand there are people who get their buttons pressed too easily.
Sorry for the late response but I guess this situation is a good example of some of the points I’m going to address.
First, I am an avid Unix/Linux user and professional, having started using them in the early 90s as a kid. I basically grew amidst Linux going from a pet project to what we all see today, and the reason I’m bringing this up is to try and set aside any notion that I don’t like Linux or any of its related projects. I do, I use Linux and related projects daily, both for personal and professional reasons.
But there are things I don’t like about it. One of the biggest is the community behavior where someone (or a group) disagree with something, then the “”“solution”“” most people default to is to split off and start a parallel project, that is very similar to the previous one and that maybe addresses the disagreement that spawned it in the first place.
The Federated network is just yet another example of this behavior. I understand how Twitter and Reddit drove many people out of their respective platforms and created the opportunity for a new thing, but I also see Mastodon and Lemmy doing the same thing dozens if not hundreds of Linux distros, Android versions, etc have and still do: they keep fragmenting things over and over and over.
There is the mindset that the niche is more important than the broader audience, there is very little focus on non-technical users and instances come and go like it doesn’t matter if someone spends hours, days, weeks finding communities they enjoy, then all of a sudden they have to figure out a way to redo all that on a new instance because the previous one decided to shut down.
Lemmy is still only a tiny fraction of Reddit in terms of userbase and especially content. I browse these platforms for these reasons, not to brag about being “OG”, or because a small community for some very specific niche migrated over. This ends limiting my time around here way more than I’d like. Lemmy just “runs out” of stuff I feel interested in much faster than Reddit does.
The second “big point” is more directly related to Avelon and the other apps for Lemmy.
I’d say that even though Avelon has been getting better and better, my “main” Lemmy app is still Memmy because it’s the app that managed to put together the bigger number of features that I am particularly interested in - gestures navigation first, several tiny QoL bits later, such as reblurring NSFW content after opening it.
A lot of the apps have some of these features but lack many others. Avelon gets closer to Memmy for me, but the gestures always pull me back towards Memmy because I just don’t like doomscrolling through anything and having to reach around the screen to do stuff.
All of the above said, these are the reasons why I don’t feel inclined to paying for any Lemmy apps yet. No matter if it’s a subscription or lifetime payment of any kind, none of the currently available apps are at a point where I feel like paying for something to access a platform that at any moment might fragment itself further and have even less content for me to access with said paid app(s).
I don’t mean any offense or attack, especially on you. You seem interested in making Avelon better every update and I respect that. But even the “ancestral” history on Reddit and Apollo added to this position of mine. I was an early adopter of Apollo Pro and Ultra Lifetime, and even though I used that app for years, often hours daily, I suffered with many bugs that never got properly addressed. So I’ve learned the lesson of putting money on what I will get whenever the payment goes through, not the promise of future updates. And finally I think I can conclude my position: I’ll consider either subscribing or getting lifetime whenever both Avelon and Lemmy are at a stage where I feel it’s worth the money. Otherwise I’ll keep an eye on both and hoping they get there.
iOS has that feature built-in. Tap on the notch/dynamic island and it’ll scroll back to the top of the screen.
What some apps (Tweetbot, Apollo, Slide, etc) implemented to make that better, is code for when you tap on the notch:dynamic island a second time, it takes you to where you were before the first tap.
Yep, this post was written from Avelon. Other than the lack of markdown support in the editor, it looks fine to me.
For #1, I’ve only had 1 situation where stuttering happened, which was after around an hour or so of doomscrolling. It wasn’t severe, but noticeable. Then I tapped on a video and the app went irresponsive, then I reloaded it.
The performance I mentioned is just slower scrolling. On previous versions scrolling felt faster than on v1.0.5.4. It may be just wrong perception, though. Lemmy’s instability has made me browse it less frequently. I’ll reinstall the App Store version a bit later and see if it’s just memory failing me.
For #2, both videos and GIFs. I’ll try to mark down which types (and host domain) and update you later.
Data caps are everywhere, I’m not sure why you’d think they’re a thing of the past. I believe the scenario is more like “you’re lucky if your plan doesn’t have caps” instead.
1.5T/month is uncomfortable though. One of my VPN services has a 1T/month softcap (speed drastically reduces after that) and it’s usually fine for my household, but one person going crazy on YouTube rabbit holes or us binging something on Netflix, pushes that limit fast.
Terrible scenario, but unfortunately I think there’s too much money involved for the right thing to be done and this kind of service getting the treatment it should have.
Depends on what the pace is and whether you plan on improving your running.
If the pace is slow, it should be fine. Lots of people (I was one of those) get into running thinking that going as fast as possible, all the time, is the way to go. Then they get injured, like I did.
Running slow greatly reduces the chances of injury, and that’s one of the reasons behind the 80/20 philosophy (80% slow, 20% fast runs).
However, your body will get used to it and will stop improving. There are people who also insist that given enough time of performance plateau, you may start going the opposite way and begin losing progress. As far as I know there’s no science to this claim, but it is clear that the first part will hold water (the part where your body will get used to it and will stop improving).
If you’re fine with that and the pace is not putting you at greater risks of injury, you should be fine.
When checking the app, I was surprised when I saw that I only have a few subscriptions. But when I checked the other lemmy app that I’m using, it’s there....
Does closing the app and opening again fix it? I’ve had this and other weird behaviors with not just Avelon but all Lemmy apps. Lemmy.world has been having a rough time these past weeks, there’s even an instance-wide stickied post about it. In my case, reopening the app once the instance stabilizes usually fixes these weird behaviors.
Not sure if you’re aware (I’ve discussed this with other devs who weren’t), but iOS actually lets you add your own fonts and apps can use them. Unfortunately it’s not “plug-and-play” like on computer OSes and the support needs to be added for the app to access them. Are you able to look into that, please?
I wish Apple would make it so extra steps aren’t necessary from individual apps to use them, but thus far it is 🤦🏻♂️
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Avelon 1.0.8 - push notifications, lots of fixes, performance improvements, and some nice-to-have features! (apps.apple.com)
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How to switch thr state of Fn keys?
This laptoo has Fn as default instead of F keys. I hate it. I found several solutions for different vendors to switch state in bios. Is that the only option?
Any updates?
It’s been a months since 1.0.7 and the app still has bugs that need to be fixed. I’m hesitant to pay for the next month of pro without any progress. Meanwhile Voyager gets multiple updates per week…
Push notifications - open beta!
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It seems I lost some of my subscriptions
When checking the app, I was surprised when I saw that I only have a few subscriptions. But when I checked the other lemmy app that I’m using, it’s there....
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