Yeah, though long tap is already used for toggling the action bar for comments, so you'd end up with a similar issue of using to interact with small links and getting the wrong result sometimes. So probably a user setting to turn the small links on/off entirely would be safest.

I think I'm on Lemmy for the long haul - I like the fediverse decentralisation. The hardest part of Reddit to abandon will be the search results on Google, but perhaps we'll see something similar with Lemmy in a few years if it picks up steam.

Just submitted a PR to fix this, thanks for the suggestion: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/pull/549

I did just that, thanks! Everything is so much faster using that instance, wow.

Fairly sure this is fixed, but might not be rolled out yet.

We'll likely add an option soon to turn off small links (like inline user names and community names) so you won't be taken to the user's profile in the first place if you accidentally tap it.

Try a long tap on the comment body. If that doesn't work, try a tap or long tap on the comment header. It's possible there's a few bugs with some of the new comment interactions.

Thanks! Can't believe I missed that. Also, I didn't know we had an aussie Lemmie server, sweet.

This would be lovely. Then once that functionality was working, we could create a Reddit-style front-page for new accounts that subscribed to a bunch of popular hashtags. That would really help to ease onboarding and make instances feel a bit less isolated.

Ah good point - I think we'll need to add that. I'll make a Github issue now so it doesn't get lost.

If you select View source on the post you should be able to?

I think this will be the server struggling to respond, sending back an error code instead of the requested data in json format. The app should probably display something more user-friendly like "Server error (504)" (or whatever the error code is).

It's odd you're not seeing similar issues on the web version though... maybe it just takes longer to load or there's a timeout somewhere in the app that needs to be adjusted.

Cool, I didn't know we could embed images in posts and they'd show up inline. I wonder how long that will last, haha.

They really seem like they made the decision internally to force everyone into their own app and kill off as many third party apps as possible, presumably for data collection/analytics. That would explain why they're quietly ignoring third party app devs and other alternative solutions (like the paid user API key solution discussed elsewhere).

Same experience here, I checked out Mastodon and was impressed with the fediverse and open nature of everything, but the style of social media just didn't gel with me. Not surprising as I was exactly the same with Twitter.

I was literally saying "someone needs to make Mastodon for Reddit" before I discovered Lemmy!

I feel like a lot of the discussion on here at the moment is obviously focused on Lemmy itself and Reddit, but that's not surprising given the huge influx of new users.

Looking forward to the various communities and platform itself maturing. The first time I've been optimistic about social media in years, haha.

Yeah after some discussion on GitHub this is the direction the app is headed in, and the next update should have some settings in this regard with Boost-like behaviour as a user option. We can add more options if the community are split on their preferences. The joy of open source!

Yeah BaconReader does the same, I think it makes sense. I'll try and fix that for the next release.

Now it's in and I'm using it, I'm wondering if it would be better if tapping a comment would only collapse the children of that comment instead. This might prevent user frustration if they try and click a link in a comment but miss, so the comment closes instead.

My pleasure, I'm glad I could contribute in my own small way to this awesomeness!

I imagine a lot of the early adopter Reddit refugees are web/mobile devs. Perhaps it's worth putting a callout to them specifically to help out on the various GitHub projects if they're looking to contribute?