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
The new default inbox view is pretty unreadable, at least for me. The entire screen is filled by like 1.5 replies, there’s tons of dead space. Is there any way to change the view options of the inbox? I can’t seem to find any.
Not currently. What would you like?
Granted, I’m not a UI expert, so this is my personal feedback.
Edit to add: This is not to say I hate the changes, love the recent progress on the app :)
Currently, whenever there has been a new reply, the inbox defaults to (and then remains at) “all unread”.
I like having it on “all” and would like for it to remain there.
Could this be an option? For messages to remain at whatever tab they were last set to and stay there when there are new messages.
Overall, I prefer the old version. Sometimes I need to be reminded of the context of a reply, I can just tap the reply. Other times it’s obvious from the message itself.
Right now the post title font is larger then the reply font. It should be the other way around. The reply should be the most obvious thing, and the ancillary stuff should be small and compact. But including the title at all should be optional, as well as the icons.
I personally don’t want to see user avatars or community icons or even the post title, really. I also don’t need it to have a cute speech bubble. The reply should use the full width to save vertical space.
There’s a lot of wasted space for one line replies. And longer replies end up being taller than need be because of the indent. And seeing the same post title over and over is oddly bothersome.