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

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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

When you receive a notification of a reply to a comment you made, it would be very useful to be able to access the post itself, rather than just the parent comment thread.

!

Post 1: [Potentially NSFW, image-redacted screenshot below] https://lemmy.world/post/21854714

Post 2: https://sh.itjust.works/post/27879920

I was able to comment in these threads from my PC via the Alexandrite frontend, but attempting to view those comments via Sync displays "Could not load post" with an option to Retry, which does not succeed.

Post 1 appears visible when opening the community, but opening the post displays the same error. Post 2 (the sh.itjust.works link which is posted on a lemmy.world community) the post does not appear in the community at all in Sync.

Confirmed that these communities/users are not blocked on my account, and no filters set within the app should apply to these posts either.

!

Device information

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

View type: List

Device: p3q Model: samsung SM-G998U Android: 14

Per this thread, I'm wondering if it might be possible to create feeds of favourited people or communities.

I guess this would be similar to how multireddits worked and since that's not available on Lemmy, this might not be either. But maybe some smart person out there knows of a way.

It's not even me that wants to do it, but I'm invested in an answer now! :-)

Is there any particular reason why pasting an image from clipboard works in some places, but not others? I have not been able to determine what prevents it from working? Is this an issue with Sync? It doesn't seem to depend on the Lemmy instance.

I've been using Sync for at least three years, and I've been a vocal advocate of the app, but I don't feel right paying for ad free anymore.

I am unable to transfer my paid account to my new phone and yet Google continues to take out my $2.13 every month. I understand everyone needs time away sometimes but I don't see how LJD feels right accepting people's money while providing ZERO support for months on end, and never bothering to at least appoint a maintainer in his absence.

I see issues piling up with this app and I'm forced to look at ads while LJD does whatever he wants and takes my money. I feel stupid that I've been paying this man for years to provide a good experience just to be taken for a ride like this.

I had bought the lifetime pro back in the Reddit days, I paid for pro subscription while using Lemmy, and at this point I'm just done. I hate writing this post because I've been a happy, continual premium user of this app for literally years, but there's only so much I can handle.

One thing I really like about Android 15 is the way back navigation is animated. Unfortunately, not a lot of apps support it since this was not available for a while and a lot of apps rolled their custom solutions. Maybe you could change that in Sync?

Device information

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

Ultra user: true View type: Compact

Device: OnePlus8 Model: OnePlus IN2013 Android: 13

I think I was able to upload screenshots recently from my phone, but trying to upload photos from my phone's gallery failed to load. I am not the most tech savvy, but I was able to post photos this way in the past.

I have been emailing some photos to myself, and able to post them to lemmy from my desktop after they fail to upload from Sync.

Is there a problem with my method? or Sync? or Lemmy.world?

I have auto update enabled on my phone for Sync.

Does anyone have advice, or thoughts to share?

Thanks

It looks like the cct-incognito flag has been removed from Chrome v130.0.6723.58

I have two accounts in the app. One of them, if I go to Settings > General has "Drawer Navigation" and "Bottom Navigation"

My other account doesn't have these options at all.

This happened before and then got fixed. I'm not sure what's wrong but if I try to update anything in my account settings I get a network error, unable to save message. For anything in account settings I need to go to my instance directly on a browser and then update and it'll be picked up by sync. This hasn't worked for months and I'm hoping someone here has an idea of what might be wrong.

Hi! I would really appreciate a feature allowing Sync to open Lemmy posts from e.g. my browser. I'm not an Android dev so I do not have a clue of how feasible this is, but it'd make me really happy :)

Anyways, appreciate the work you're doing, please don't burn yourself out too much

Given the issue viewing local community comments I'm sadly considering seeing how other apps have matured since I started using Sync. If I stop my sub, but then it gets fixed and I want to come back, will I lose my user tags, etc? Has anyone tried?

(also, Lj, if you see this it's nothing personal, still the best designed app)

Anyone else experiencing this? I can* view the posts fine but any post to a community on my instance will not show comments (despite a comment count).

Heyo!

I’ve been using Sync for Lemmy for a while and noticed that the app hasn’t been updated in about 3/4 months. So I was kind of wondering if the development of sync is still ongoing?

Additionally, there were some premium features that the developer had promised would come pretty soon, but they still haven’t been added to to sync.

Just curious if anyone knew anything! Perhaps he's just busy with life atm.

Ok so... I was thinking about this in the Sync for Reddit app originally... Maybe the "feature" I'm thinking of already exists and you all already know it but...

I've blocked like... A shitload of people (on sync for reddit... Mostly... But here too sort of) ...

Anyways... Occasionally I want to reconsider a blocking and I would appreciate if there an easy way to view, review, and revise that list within Sync for Lemmy...

If it already exists, my apologies to LJ

Cross posting this from https://sh.itjust.works/post/25548740

There's an issue with posts not showing as read on newer instances of Lemmy.

I can block individual communities, but I wanna block everything from hexbear.

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