Key points

• Message notifications are back!
• A big refresh to messaging
  • Added a new unified inbox option "all" combining comment replies, mentions and direct messages
  • Quick action buttons are now shown for comment replies, mentions and direct messages
  • Comment reply actions (more icon) now shows the user and community rows (with additional options)
  • Comment replies now show the community icon and post title
  • Comment replies have had a visual refresh
  • Comment replies, mentions and direct messages can now be quickly reported and marked as read
  • Comment replies, mentions and direct messages can now be marked as unread
  • Added a quickly reply swipe gesture
  • Added page dividers
  • Your own send direct messages can now be deleted
  • Direct messages are now shown in threads

New

• Added .webm support to the image viewer and image peek
• Added "linked instances" and "blocked instances" to the instance chip group

Changes

• Experimenting with always showing t

Key points

• Open externally has been replaced with "Link Options" when viewing post options
  • Added an additional open externally icon next to the link options item
  • Added an image preview and URL preview for link options
• Added "Open on Archive.org" to Link Options
• Downvoting is now disabled for instances that do not support it
• The title field in submit is now working correctly for alt keyboard such as Swiftkey

New

• The update checker has been re-enabled
• Added support for inserting an image link from the text editor
• Added support for markdown in titles

Github issues closed

• App crashes following Beta 96 update if "Hide username in account picker" is enabled #460
• The in app update checker crashes on Android 14 #49
• App crashes when trying to access the three-dot menu or sort menu (on Android 14) #458
• Kebab Menu causes DeadObjectException #6
• Change Sync logo colors to match Lemmy #1
• Replace hardcoded orange #106
• Resolving domains is incredibly slow #

Ultra

• Favorites are now saved and syncronized between devices automatically
• Favorites are now restored when restoring ultra
• Favorite ordering is now saved and synchronized between devices

Other fixes

• Fixed incorrect coloring of the Sync logo for the onboarding page
• Fixed incorrect coloring of the Sync logo on the restore purchases page
• Updated the colors in the ultra preview failed image
• Updated the swipe upvote / downvote colors to match the current theme

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 #474
• Unable to edit post tile when editing post #471
• When editing a Post, it's not giving an option to edit the Post Title #298
• Post Editing doesn't let you change anything except text #297
• Can't edit posts for community I mod #456
• Sync crashes when viewing this posts comments #464
• Network Error notification spam #453
• Clicking the "Instances" button returns the error "Could not load communities." #469
• Random NSFW Button Loading Perpetually #467

If you come across something that doesn't work pop it here

So blue for upvote, red for down and then an updated Sync logo.

Evening all.

I've created a status page to monitor all services I maintain to run Sync for Lemmy.

There's not too many at the moment but will keep updating as I create new APIs etc.

Cheers, Lj

New

• Added scaled + controversial sorts (scaled sort is missing #466)

Changes

• Updated the settings text to remove Sort from Post options (now under Account Settings)
• Added the option to upload nsfw content again

Other fixes

• Fixed a crash for badly formatted user tags
• Fixed a crash when updating a user display name that contains '
• Fixed an issue where clicking save under Account Settings would cause the button to show again

Updates

• com.google.android.gms:play-services-base > 18.3.0
• com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads > 22.6.0
• com.google.android.ump:user-messaging-platform > 2.2.0
• com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging > 23.4.1
• com.google.firebase:firebase-config > 21.6.2
• com.google.firebase:firebase-analytics > 21.5.1
• com.google.firebase:firebase-functions > 20.4.0
• com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer > 2.19.1
• com.google.mlkit:translate > 17.0.2
• com.google.android.material:material > 1.11.0
• androidx.recyclerview:recyclerview > 1.3.2
• andro

• Fixed all RedGif issues
• Added a progressbar for video previews when using slides

Hey everyone.]

So update 98/99 has gone live which fixes the crashes (thanks for the reports).

I'm gearing up for a pretty sizable release but just wanted to check in and ask if there was any issues you're having that I should know about or any new feature requests.

Sorry for the bad comms but I'm making my way through lots of messages and posts on here. Thanks for the patience as I get through these all.

Cheers, Lj

Fixes

• Wide spread crashing reported by all users #475
• Combine Sync for Reddit and Sync for Lemmy into one app #473
• App crashes following Beta 96 update if "Hide username in account picker" is enabled #460

edit: 99 is going live that fixes another crash related to #475

New

• Support for Lemmy 0.19
• Lots and lots of refactoring cleaning up technical debt
• Added "Account settings" to replace "Lemmy Settings"
  • This new section syncs up with your Lemmy account
  • A few things will need updating such as your nsfw setting and sort

Changes

• Any action that fail now alerts the user via notification
• Show / hide NSFW has been moved to Settings > Account settings (this now respects your account choice)
• Sort has been moved to Settings > Account settings (this also now respects your account choice)
• Removed "mark posts as read" and "remember across devices" as Lemmy does this automatically

Github issues closed

• Tasker Integration: Action Configuration Broken & No Post Syncing #350
• User domain not shown in posts for accounts with a custom name #118
• Portrait 2 columns layout bug #11
• Unsubscribe action fails silently #151
• S4L doesn't expose Bot account preferences #173
• Show NSFW content doesn't sync with Hide NSFW Posts #170
• Show scor

New

• Added "overview" as a new default section for profiles
• Added "saved" as a new section in profiles
• Added "all" as a new section in search
• Updated the look and feel of the login page
• The status of your logged in session is now checked at startup and a relogin page is shown if needed
• Added an option to hide all comments made by PipedLinkBot (Settings > Lemmy settings)

Ultra

• [Ultra] Feature extension: Summarize third party articles #416

Changes

• The sort icon in posts & comments now matches the current sort

Github issues closed

• Blocked communities are not blocked #425
• Tapping into a post, Sync stops displaying the instance of users #237
• Search bar for instance list #430
• Instance name missing when viewing comments #421
• The article summarizer in Ultra does not show "Summary " when using "Slides" view type and "Show image previews" turned off #409
• Add ability to swipe between instances and communities when using the instance or commun

Modlog and reports are top of my list.

These threads used to be really useful back on Reddit.

I'm currently finishing off full app translations for the next release along with lots of the usual bug fixes.

What should I prioritise next?

Cheers, Lj

Key points

• Random and random nsfw back as actions!
• Added the ability to browse all instances and communities on an instance
• Added admin tools (see #312 for details)

Ultra

• Added a new article summarizer

New

• Added user + community block managers (Settings > Lemmy preferences)
• UI changes to the post options bottomsheet
  • Icons are now shown next to the user and community items
  • User and community items can be expanded out
  • A few user items have been moved to a separate bottomsheet
• The filters bottomsheet now uses icons
• catbox.moe links are now opened in-app (can be disabled)
• Imgur video posts now show a small preview image
• You can now view the moderators of a community
• Added an option to disable the new hiding behaviour (Settings > experimental > keep posts hidden)

Github issues closed

• Deep linking causes a transparent, unresponsive Activity to appear if Sync isn't already running #345
• Random NSFW #246
• Expose instance name and vie

For example this post:

https://lemm.ee/post/2642405

Shows like this in Sync:

Ideally I'd like to show a thumbnail without grabbing the whole video.

Open to all suggestions!

Cheers, lj

Key points

• Fixed most comment loading / display issues

New

• Added an option to specify the initial comment chain depth loading (default 3)

Github issues closed

• View more button not working properly #132
• Terrible performance on a post with a ton of images #328
• Sharing to Sync link handler gives a [TODO deeplink] toast message #149
• Image in comments not appearing #306
• Comments hierarchy messed up #241
• Comment section not displaying properly when sorted by Top #133
• View More button appears in the wrong place and behaves wrongly #233

Other fixes

• Fixed an issue where disabling recording history caused a crash
• Fixed another view more issue
• Added the toast back in for view more
• Fixed an issue with deep links not opening correctly
• Reverted the behavior of clicking on a comment from messaging, more context is now shown
• Reverted the behavior of clicking on an image in comments loading all as a gallery (buggy)
• Resolving object requests are now

Key points

• First round of modtools added
• Added spoiler support
• Hidden posts stay hidden
• Sync can now open lemmy links from the top 50 instances

Ultra

• Added the option to export and import subscribed lists
• Added the option to translate text from images
• Generate "ultra previews" for posts with missing thumbnails
• Display website previews in comments (enable in Settings > Ultra)
• Select text from images during post submission

New

• Added modtools
  • Pin / unpin posts
  • Remove / restore posts
  • Lock / unlock posts
  • Ban / unban users from a community
• Hidden posts now remain hidden after a refresh (shown on profiles)
• You can now select Sync to handle Lemmy links from any of the top 50 instances
• Last edited timestamps
• Added the percentage of upvotes a post has received
• Webp images now animate when opened
• You can now open additional folders when selecting media to upload (three dots)
• Clicking on a comment from the inbox now shows the full comme

Example post I'll be using to test mod tools.