This update will be released to beta testers and Github within the next couple of hours. If the update is bug free, it will be released to everyone else within 24 hours.
This update adds two relatively big features. The first is link previews. This feature will show a link preview popup when a link is tapped, displaying information about the link. You are then given the choice to visit the link or back out. This is a safety precaution as it’s difficult to see where a link takes you on mobile when you tab on links within text. By default link previews are only enabled for links within text. You can change this in settings (Settings > Misc > Preview links). You can choose between showing link previews for all links, only for links within text or disabling the feature entirely.
This update also adds more mod tools as suggested by @kersploosh@sh.itjust.works. It adds a new feed Moderated communities which is a special type of multi-community feed that shows posts from all communities where the current user is a moderator. Note that this feed will only appear if you are the moderator of at least one community. This update also adds some other moderated related improvements as well.
Changelog
- Added an setting to preview a link before the app opens it. By default tapping links within text will open the link previewer. This can be changed in settings.
- Added a new feed type: moderated communities. This feed will show posts from any community the current signed in user moderates.
- Invert volume icon in video player
- Fixed an issue where tapping certain area of a post will not open it
- Show an indicator on the community posts screen for removed posts
- Fixed an issue where loading communities on
burggit.moeresults in page not found errors. - Fixed a bug where certain links in text would not render correctly.
- Tapping the current version within the “About” settings page will now take you to the changelog page.
Update
I found a few bugs while testing. Most of them are minor bugs. I will releasing a patch update as v1.9.1. This update will contain the following changes:
- Further improve link parsing. Link parsing was still incorrectly parsing certain links.
- Fixed a bug where certain community links would not work.
- Fixed a bug where tapping on certain links would cause a crash.
- Fixed a rare crash.
This app has become one of the most polished and well-made Lemmy apps. Thank you for your hard work and for making Lemmy a better community, and thank you for updating your API calls so that I can use this app with the newest versions of the Lemmy backend.