Introducing Connect for Lemmy

Hey, black cat! From the screenshots, your app looks very promising. Would you consider making it FOSS, though? Just asking.

The app looks great! Feels very fluid.

I have only three requests:

• make it FOSS in spirit of the fediverse (obviously you don't have to, that's your choice)
• give me a way to download pics from inside the app. I very often download memes and share them in other chats. You've got open external, which works, but it's an extra step. Downloading in app would just be more convenient.
• lastly, give me a way to buy you a beer 😁

Thank God there's a filter setting 😭😭😭 sorely missed coming from infinity. First thing filtered? "reddit."

It's interesting. Needs some more formatting options imo. I liked how in boost for reddit the titles of posts were always at least as big as the preview of the body of the post. Just makes it look much cleaner imo. Could use a font size option. Could use some color options too eventually.

Also, it needs a "Subscribed" page. Default lemmy has this page that only shows you content from communities youre subscribed to. You should see about getting that feed on your app.

Overall though great work, it looks really promising thus far and I'm impressed with how quickly you've put this together.

I would strongly recommend open-sourcing it! There are several FOSS apps already and it would be hard to compete against them without opening up =]

Nice job. But not available in my country (Germany). Looks really nice and familiar to reddit apps.

Congrats for the release! I finally have alternative to Jerboa!

Some feedback if you don't mind:

• Full Height view. It's like the full width view, but display the image without any cropping.
• Tap and hold to show image in full screen, release to close. Very useful for compact views. Also should works for articles thumbnails.
• Native imgur support. Right now it's treated as a web page. If it'll require using paid API, just disregard this until you have some funding.
• Preload images when on wifi (optional setting). Basically preload the next N images in the list so they'll appear instantly.
• Show full community names and user name. Right now it only show the community name and user name, but not the instance name. This is confusing if you subscribed to multiple communities with the same name from multiple instances. Same for usernames.
• option to toggle denser comments views with minimal whitespace.

That UI looks really clean. I love it. Is it open source? Not that i dont trust you but i try to not use any closed source apps anymore, i would appreciate it if you would share the link to the source code.

I love the look and layout, but I can't get any threads to load. It just says "No posts"

Looks great from the screenshots!

The Google Play link doesn't let me install it though and I can't find it via the Google Play app.

Edit: it says that the app is not available for any of my devices. I'm using a Pixel 7

Looks good and I was able to get it on pretty quickly. I was about to post this from the app but saw it's missing the web's markdown shortcuts and image upload option.

Also looking at this post the screenshots are cropped and I didn't see a straight forward way of looking at the whole image.

just a quick feedback, when being in the dark mode, the user switching remain in light mode.

also, adding new accounts after the first one, doesn't seems to work.

I added my lemmy.world and it seemed to work.

anything else besides it, didn't work (tried, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, etc.)

overall it's a good mvp, well done, need s little more work and i would appreciate if it was a FOSS to absolutely avoid situations in which an app because the unofficial-official app but then a sudden surge of egocentrism from an individual take it away.

Looks great but it says it's not available in my country (Brazil)

Can you also host the APK or upload it on F-Droid?

I signed into my dataterm.digital account but when I go on profile I see my feddit.de profile even though I didn't login with it.

Thanks for making this!

My first impressions upon downloading are that I'm glad it exists but I think I'll stick to Jerboa for the time being. It looks really well made for those who are into the cards display format, however I'm personally not a fan of cards views on apps and I feel the list view isn't quite there yet.

One interesting quirk I noticed worth noting for the developer, not sure if it's a bug. I signed in with Urnchos@sh.itjust.works and when I click profile it seems to display my comment history of my Kbin account by the same name. I'm not certain if the profile would display the comments and whatnot of all instances that have that name?

Will you be making this open source?

just downloaded the app. I really like it. please keep up the good work

I love the app! I just wanted to give you some debug info. I can't log into a second account on my current andoid tablet or andoid 10 phone. The button to do so does nothing.

Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying it!

Any chance of adding Kbin logins?

My keyboard constantly tries to switch to caps as I type in Connect. I am using Grammarly. It will flicker the upper case layout between each key press. It's unusable as it is.

Google Play say that is not available/compatible for my Xiaomy 12 Pro

so far I'm really liking it. I would like alternating backgrounds on comments just to help separate them out a little.

I don't see the ability to edit my comments. I had to pull up the pwa to edit this one.

Looks amazing! I'll try it out!

Looks like Infinity! looks promising

Posting from the app. Awesome progress for only 10 days.

Looks good. Now we just need a good iOS app

Will this app be compatible with kbin.social accounts? I've tried to sign in and it's throwing a whole page of an error message.

Nothing is showing up in my feed when signed in to lemmy.ml

Also, the Google password manager is trying to input the password into the instance text box when trying to sign in. Pixel 7 Pro.

Wow, you are really fast! I've been using Jerboa and the PWA, but not super happy with either. Yours look great! Will use it more and feed back to you if that's okay.

One thing I found is that it doesn't show the number of new comments. I usually sort by NewComments, and I would expect to e.g. see "49 comments (14 new)" like Jerboa/PWA.

Wow, impressive work, in such a short time. I really like it.
Thank you!

Maybe bug: in list view, the width of post title and content seems to be limited to around 80% of my screen width.

Have you considered creating a community for your app? Would make it a lot easier to follow development

I can't even be accepted to join Lemmy. I'm on Kbin right now.

Tbh, these platforms confuse me. The Kbin app is great though, so I guess I don't need to change.

Would like to know how to follow a group though.

Looks great! I'll also chime in that the Play Store website tells me it's not available for any of my devices, and the Play Store app says it's not available in my country (Chile).

The screen shots look good. I'll download it and try it out. Let me know if you make a community for it so we can give back feedback on there. The more apps the merrier now that Reddit is getting rid of all them!

Looks nice, but not available in my country.

I'm able to sign in but no posts populate the feed. Also only a small amount of my subscriptions show up in the sidebar.

Damn that looks awesome! Did you find any good docs on the API? I only found the lemmy-js-client, which is a library, though. Wanted to do some shenanigans with Python and Lemmy, but there doesn't seem to be too much documentation...

Hey, i like your app a lot! Jerboa doesnt work on my Motorola, so i installed your app. Looks very nice and works well as a first impression!

I just want to tell you good luck, we are all counting on you! :D

Downloaded and used for an hour or so. I'd like to see an option to change the font size. I like my stuff to be small so I can get more content on the screen. 1.6 posts is pretty bad for me. I also couldn't find a way to change my default homepage to "subscribed - new" but maybe I just didn't search hard enough. Either way, it's good to have some competition for Jerboa!

Edit: Found Frontpage. Might be worth changing this to Subscribed since that seems to be the Lemmy equivalent.