Sync for Lemmy

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 the community icon in feeds
• Updated the reply icon

Github issues closed

• View mode not updating properly #402
• No messages returned snackbar doesn't automatically go away #333
• Add ability to disable "view more" toast messages #365
• Allow images in comments to use shared element transitions #391
• Add new app icons to replace the legacy S4R ones that were removed #389
• Add option to swap upvote and down vote colors to match Lemmy #386
• Username doesn't show in the account picker if there is no display name #451
• Account settings save button not disappearing after saving #448
• When swapping between automatic and manual theming, some elements don't change color properly #479
• Override sort dialog shows cancel button twice #484
• Username of non active account in account picker is empty #492
• Crash on startup with latest update #445
• Missing username in picker #478
• Not showing link options properly and crashing when clicked #513

Other fixes

• Fixed a title displaying issue caused by the recent change to titles
• Fixed a crash when clicking link options on a text post
• Fixed a bug where the description of the current messaging section in the toolbar wouldn't update correctly
• Fixed an issue with a broken lift target in messaging causing the status bar not to change color

-----

v122 adds support for a super secret upcoming new feature...

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

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

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

As in title - woke up today and sync closes instantly after opening. trying a re-install now.

Edit: thanks all for your feedback.

The culprit was Canary Webview. I uninstalled it and everything's ok again. All apps working fine.

Basically what the title says. I first noticed that maybe 2 weeks ago, instead of showing the vote count of the post, Sync just shows me a blank space between the up- and downvote arrows: !

Has this something to do with Lemmy or Sync itself? Has anyone else noticed that?

On my pixel whenever I use the pull to right gesture to go back on a post the background will be black. However, if I use the back button or system back gesture the background shows the previous screen.

On my tab both gestures show the previous screen, so it's not a general thing I guess...

Scenario (steps to reproduce)**

1. View instance list from the main page
2. Select a smaller instance with communities that may not be federated
3. Look at the list of most recent posts
4. Tap the community name of a post from the list (this is only possible if you have this setting enabled: Settings shortcut: Link handling > Tap communities to open
5. See if it takes you to correct community

Result(s)

Some results lead to entirely different communities.

Device information

Sync version: v24.03.26-14:56 Android: 14

I'm glad the people from Danelund and Germandy are doing their thing on Lemmy but I don't know what the fuck any of it means and it makes for a lot of block button tapping. A toggle would be very nice.

I know I can view subscribed and there's ways around this but I want an "all" feed I can read all of, with fewer taps.

Sync is great, thanks for everything!

I am axtive in communities that requite uploading images, but i haven't been able to properly upload any images using Sync in months. The communities are across multiple instances, so I believe it is a Sync issue.

Pretty much the title. There's plenty of things that need to be addressed and as a sync ultra paying customer I feel that the Dev should at least try to maintain their software. Curious if anyone else has tried emailing him?

Am I missing something? Yesterday there was a visible vote count next to each comments username. Today there is nothing. Maybe a setting I accidentally changed? I can't for the life of me figure it out.

Sometimes I want to find a post I viewed a while ago. I can hide read posts, but is there any way to view read posts?

I can't find anything in any menus.

Is there a setting that might resolve the issue attached, where really long comment threads get squished into illegibility?

The linked post essentially performed a benchmark of lemmy apps and if they properly display the formating options available. Sync got 3rd last place, position 18 out of 20 apps, with a score of 6.9 out of 10. There's a comment that essentially contains the test set. I hope we get some fixes, cause some of the problems have been around for a while.

In my personal experience the issues with spoiler tags, and some of the embedded images and their sizes is rather annoying. For example this comment shows perfectly fine on desktop, but becomes a garbled mess on sync (as you can tell by my comment, blaming the bot). Also note that while sync technically gets 3/3 for the images, the last image should be text-sized between the "arrows". It isn't, it's just huge (and consequently a pixelated mess).

Edit: fixed link to example comment for spoiler.

I'm sorry if this is a dumb question. I figured there would probably be an easy way to do this but I haven't been able to figure it out. Suppose I have a bang-syntax community such as "!syncforlemmy@lemmy.world" copied to my clipboard. How do I open this community within Sync? Everything I've found so far just searches for this as text.

Idk why it stopped working but it did. I tried clearing the cache and turning the setting off and on again. It still doesn't work.

Since yesterday, posts and comments have stopped showing vote counts. Is this a bug with Sync or did I press something I didn't mean to?

I was looking through my Pi-hole logs and a strange URL is regularly coming up that I can't figure out what it is used for.

ap.syncforreddit.com

Does anyone have any insight?

Maybe I just can't see it, but I was looking for a way to reply to posts via a swipe, like I can with comments

Is it possible to see up and down vote counts instead of the sum?

Trying to share an article through signal doesnt work for me. Anyone else has this issue?

1. Click on article so it opens in webview
2. Click share icon
3. select receiver & press send
4. Nothing happens

I added a second lemmy account to Sync and on that second account posts aren't marked as read after I opened them. Sometimes they get marked as read after a reload, but only sometimes.

Is that a bug? Is there a solution?

Hey all, just ran into this this morning, I was replying to a comment and it showed up at the same level as the comment I was replying to until a refresh. I'll see if I can reproduce it for screenshots in a bit. Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me so far?

I noticed with QPR3, the back gesture in Sync now shows a black screen during the animation.

Could this be fixed? I read it'll become default in Android 15.

On posts that I access through my home instance, i.e. any post present in the "Your local instance" feed, nothing appears in the comments section apart from the message "There are no comments", despite the UI suggesting that there are several.

When accessing the post's permalink in the web UI of the instance, the comments show up without issue, even when logged in.

To reproduce, log in to sync with a lemm.ee account, switch to local feed and click on any post that appears to have comments. For example: https://lemm.ee/post/35476369

For some reason I haven't been able to replicate this on any other instance (tried with .world and .ml, both of which don't seem to have this issue)

What features would you most like to see implemented/updated?

Hi there,

It seems that my midwest.social account has stopped showing the upvote count on posts and comments sometime over the last few days. My Lemmy.world and lemm.ee accounts show them fine still.

Ive tried logging out and back in and still no dice.

Anyone else having this bug?

Samsung Galaxy S24, latest play store build.

Anyone having a new issue where swiping from the left to go back to the thread list from a thread doesn't load properly and instead shows a black screen for a second or so.

Screen recording: https://imgur.com/a/bvzkyfu

All animations in the settings are enabled.

Recently I started noticing that a lot of posts will mark as read for a second then go back to unread when viewing just the image or article. It's not all posts though and I haven't determined a pattern yet, but opening the comments seems to mark as read on refresh even though the post looks unread before refreshing.

I'm on version 122 of Sync on Android.

Starting yesterday, when I click a link to view the image or comments, the link doesn't appear "read" when I go back to the feed.

I know Sync hasn't updated, but yesterday I updated Chrome and rebooted my phone, in case that's relevant.

I keep clicking the same posts over and over and can't use Hide Read option to only see new stuff.

I can't see what I'm typing in landscape orientation. I type in landscape 100% of the time.

It happened recently, the share function doesn't seem to be pulling the URL from the page.

Edit: this is with Firefox mobile beta 127.0b9 as my default browser

This is not happening on every post, but I'm seeing "There are no comments" more and more on posts where there are comments. The comment counter in the example pic shows 8. And I know there is at least one (I made a comment).

Any ideas?

Edit: I did try clearing cache and storage with no effect.

How can I see totals per up and down vote in sync? Right now it combines them.

Not sure if it's just me but I've noticed I've never seen any images in the body of a post on sync, though I have on a browser. I assumed in the past the user just forgot to add images but I now found a button to open them. Are they meant to be embedded in the large empty space?

!

!

!

Just incase this issue is widespread and nobody can see, Il note that I have attached 3 images showing the issue.

Device information

Sync version: v24.03.26-14:56 Sync flavor: googlePlay

Ultra user: false View type: Cards

Device: Nord Model: OnePlus AC2003 Android: 11

Can someone please check this comment I made and let me know if you see the inline image?