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Avelon for Lemmy is now on the App Store!

‎With Avelon you can explore every topic, navigate seamlessly using customizable gestures, and tailor the look of the app to your preferences. Engage in diverse conversations and discover the content you care about. Key Features - Sleek design that fits right in on iOS - Support for videos, gifs, ...

Hi everyone!

It's been quite the journey, but Avelon is finally on the App Store!

Click here to download!

The app is includes a lot of awesome features requested by the community, including:

Sleek design that fits right in on iOS & iPadOS
Highly customizable look & behavior
Mark read on scroll & hide read posts
Customizable swipe gestures
Multiple account support
Smart link previews in posts and comments
Support for videos, gifs, photos & other media
Custom font support
Write replies with markdown highlighting
Privacy focused - the app has no tracking of any kind
Gallery mode + hide bars on scroll = full immersion ... and a lot more!

Screenshots

Here's some cool app store screenshots of the app:

Developing this app has been one of the best development experiences I've had, and I feel very privileged and happy to have been able to contribute to Lemmy in this way. Nothing is more motivating than seeing so many people already enjoying the app and providing suggestions and feedback.

I really hope you enjoy Avelon, and I'm looking forward to hearing more about what everyone thinks. Keep the feedback coming!

Thank you, Sigve Rokenes

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Big Congratulations evgiz,

I’m sure the love and fan base for Avelon will only grow from here on just the way we loved it here in TestFlight..

I wish you all the success and growth with Avelon development.

Thanks and really happy for you.

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- Well said. +1. Thank you for Avelon!
  
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Love the app. Two questions.

I feel like I’m missing something obvious, but how do I create a new post? I can reply easily but when I’m in a community I don’t see any way to create a new post. I assume I’m missing something obvious.

Second, the full page swipe is fantastic and something I love from Apollo. Would it be possible to support swiping the other way also? In other word, I open a post, accidentally swipe right, but then I could swipe left to go back exactly where I was. Another thing Apollo did so well.

Thanks for an awesome app.

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- Thank you!
  
  Adding posts in not supported yet unfortunately. It's a bit tricky to make a nice UI for that on mobile, but I'm working on it.
  
  Love full width swipe back myself. I'd love to add the "forward again" swipe too, but it's a quite a bit more complex to do. I'll probably look at it eventually, but gonna focus on some other things first.
  
  Let me know if you have any more feedback!
  
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  Sounds good. I just thought I was missing something obvious. Thanks again for all the hard work!
  
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The app is not bad. The browser needs reader mode. Give the choice to make it all black.

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- Looking at adding reader mode for the next version!
  
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  I hope you can keep reader mode with the browser you’ve used. I love the done/close button being in the bottom!
  
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It would be nice to be able to view pictures in landscape mode, sometimes portrait is too small on a phone. Loving the app!

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Thanks for this app, I really love the clean UI and responsiveness, also the features like individual hide read post settings.

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This app is beautiful.
Thanks.

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Installed and set it up and it’s a very nice and impressive app! Will jump between voyager, memmy, and this to see which one I stick with.

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This app went from I hate the icon and won’t even look at it to moving on my homepage with this last update. Community grouping was the one thing that I’ve been chasing and Bean ad implemented it but not in a clean way. Avelon came second but did it right! Also the new app icons are so much nicer than the default. Last thing it needs is push notifications.

Also, the paid plan feels like it’s very intrusive in the regular use of the app in free mode and gets frustrating. Maybe let some functions available to free users to get them to stay instead of pay walling all the good stuff. Or give a 7 day trial or something.

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Are you planning to have a feature to expand video and gifs to full screen? I had to switch to other apps for this feature at the moment.

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Is this opensource? (Does the fruitstore allow that?)

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I’m really digging this app. Very well done and well made.

Would it be possible to get a sort by top 6 hours? I know that was never a standard for Reddit, but I’ve found it a valuable tool for browsing Lemmy.

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- Already supported, just disabled by default. Go to Settings/General/Sorting and enable "Show Additional Options"!
  
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  May I suggest having the fuller option being the default and allowing the user to remove sort options they don’t use?
  
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Also, just wondering if you have any thoughts on adding support, or creating an Avelon for kbin when the API goes public?

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- Haven't looked much at the kbin api yet. Whether Avelon will support it greatly depends on how good the api is and how difficult it will be to maintain it in parallel with Lemmy
  
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Will there be an Android version?

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- It's a native iOS app so unfortunately not possible
  
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