No, you were right from the start. I was talking about the thumbnails. Sorry for the confusion.
It’s just not a solution for me because, as you already mentioned, it takes up too much screen space in that mode. I’d rather keep the reverse list mode.
I just dug a little into the Flutter API and saw what might be going on. Scaling is done properly on a regular browser, but there might be a built-in function for it somewhere. It may take a few more steps with Flutter.
(Just rambling a bit for those who care about details and theory crafting.)
Calling BoxFit in Flutter is significantly less expensive for thumbnails, I would speculate. It appears that it would take a few operations to scale an image properly and could impact slower devices.
An option to enable or disable image scaling would be nice. It’s just annoying that its probably not a one line code change. (Unless it is. That would be great.)
Hi, thanks for the feedback! I think this might be related to caching and the app switching from keeping images in memory versus loading from storage. Does this also happen on list views for you? Asking because list view images are much smaller.
I’m happy to report that after updating to version 166, the issue almost disappeared! Image posts flicker no more!
Only flickering I’m experiencing is with community/user icons, and this does affect all views. But that’s such a small bug that I wouldn’t consider it as high priority…
(Image posts flickering itself was in my opinion a huge deal, especially for people suffering from epilepsy etc.)
IDK if the player in Connect is integrated or not. In Jerboa, it just uses whatever browser you have set up as the default one and uses the integrated media player in the browser.
Boost for Lemmy does it and it’s an awesome feature. I installed both Connect and Boost on my phone, but I find myself using Boost the most because the new comments are highlighted
Yes but Boost does not show new comment counter. I’m trying to find one that will do both. Boost’s UI doesn’t have the customisations I’m wanting either…
Hi, thanks for the feedback and I’ve added highlights as an experimental setting in v163.
I’m still playing with the logic and highlight color so it might change more in the future. That information doesn’t come through the API so I’m saving a timestamp of when a post is viewed and any comments newer than the timestamp are highlighted.
I’m keeping a timestamp locally of when a post is last viewed and highlighting everything newer than that timestamp. If you use multiple apps it might not be accurate but I couldn’t find a way to access this information from the API.
not sure if this is the right place to report bugs with the app
I’ve seen Kuro around this community recently, so this is likely a good place.
the latest version of the app
Might be useful to specify the exact version number. Not everyone receives updates at the same time, and future releases will render the “latest” statement false.
Nothing to lose is maybe not correct. I’ve been in kinda the same situation before and chose not to open source my app. This was years ago, when I stopped with the project the number of active users had already been declining for years. Somebody contacted me to take it over, but I feel like he wasn’t serious about it. He just wanted to keep it running and be the owner, but not do any of the things needed to get it back on track.
There are a couple of reasons maybe not to open source it:
No code is perfect and people can get really self aware about that. I know I have had imposter syndrome in the past where I thought my code was shit, but people always complemented me on the result. Opening up the code can lead to people seeing how shit it really is and call you out on it. The code is probably fine, but it’s a legit fear.
With open source people expect you to provide a way to report issues and respond to those publicly, with many people adding their 2 cents and big discussions. If you don’t see it the same as they do, or your solution isn’t what they expected or you simply aren’t fast enough, it’s a problem. We’ve all seen flame wars and stubborn developers on open source projects, the drama factor is real.
Forks. Simultaneous the strongest and weakest part of modern open source software. On the one hand it’s awesome we can make multiple versions if the needs diverge or the original devs abandon the project. But on the other hand, it leaves you with very little control over the project. One case I’ve seen one dev worked on a project almost every Sunday as a hobby, the project was popular and had a tight community which grew a bit big. The amount of open issues grew and bigger tasks just didn’t fit in the original dev’s schedule. One of the community members was a good dev who just got laid off and had some extra time. So he forked the project and spent some weeks working on it fulltime, fixing a lot and expanding the project. The original dev wasn’t happy, it was his hobby and the community fragmented over people using the new version and the original version. Everybody was upset and the original dev called it quits and said talk to the new dev. The new dev however got a new job and also abandoned the project, with nobody left to pick up the pieces. The community was already fractured and people stopped using it.
Of course these are only some examples and people feel different about different things. But I can understand reasons not to open source stuff. I also haven’t mentioned the many many reasons why it’s a good thing to open source stuff, they exist and are valid as well.
No code is perfect and people can get really self aware about that. I know I have had imposter syndrome in the past where I thought my code was shit, but people always complemented me on the result. Opening up the code can lead to people seeing how shit it really is and call you out on it. The code is probably fine, but it’s a legit fear.
This is a noob fear. Seasoned devs know all code is shit ;)
It seems to be for all of them, but I’m wondering now since I spend most of my time on the all feed. The way I’ve been responding to comments is by finding the post and then scrolling down to find my comment. I’ll try 163 and let you know
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