v0.2.7

[hjiangsu]

Hi everyone and happy new year! It's finally time for another Thunder release. As always, there have been many improvements, additions, changes and fixes in this release which should make for a even better Thunder experience. If you have any suggestions or feedback, feel free to discuss it in the Thunder community or on GitHub.

A quick reminder: if you are using the Google Play version or App Store version, please note that it may take a bit of time before you receive the update. Now onto the update notes. This update brings a few major features:

🎉 Features

• You can now edit your own posts, and set the appropriate language for your post. When you open your own post, you will see a pencil icon which will allow you to edit your post along with the language.
• The Settings page has been overhauled and re-organized, with post and comment previews for certain visual settings. This should hopefully provide a better overall experience for adjusting and customizing your settings.
• You can now set Thunder's app language to any of currently available translations. Please note that the translations are not fully complete, and you may encounter untranslated content.
• Additional settings have been added in which sync up with your Lemmy account. This includes showing/hiding read posts, showing/hiding scores, and showing/hiding bot accounts.
• There is now a Safari extension which allows you to open Lemmy links within Thunder for iOS users. This extension is disabled by default, but can be enabled in the system settings under Safari -> Extensions.
• Favoriting communities is now available. When you favorite a community, it will be prioritized throughout the app (in the drawer, search results, etc.)
• Keyword filters are now available in the Settings page. Adding keywords will filter any posts whose title or body containing one or more keywords.
• Many quality-of-life improvements including collapsible post bodies, more community translations, addition of more sort types, improved search filters.

⚙️ Performance

• Improved general loading times when starting up Thunder. This should result in some drastic improvements for certain instances.
• Updated many under-the-hood dependencies.

And much much more. I can't go through all the changes in the changelog, but for those who are curious, feel free to check out the full changelog below.

We have a Matrix space if you would like to join in on discussions: https://matrix.to/#/#thunderapp:matrix.org

Changelog

Additions

• Added ability to collapse post body contents by @hjiangsu in Added option to collapse post body #888
• Added ability to open external community links in Thunder on Android by @micahmo in Open external community links in app #908
• Added ability to show link options when long-pressing on link previews by @micahmo in Refactor link long press handling for use with link previews #909
• Added ability to select app language in Settings by @hjiangsu in Ability to select app language #901
• Added ability to perform comment search when viewing a post by @micahmo in Add comment search #887
• Added ability to edit existing posts by @hjiangsu in Ability to Set Post Language and Edit Existing Posts #893
• Added ability to set post language when creating or editing a post by @hjiangsu in Ability to Set Post Language and Edit Existing Posts #893
• Added setting to show or hide read posts per account by @hjiangsu in Add setting to show or hide read posts #921
• Added post/comment previews to Settings and reorganized setting pages by @hjiangsu in Re-organizing settings page and addition of post/comment previews #890
• Added missing feed sort types for old and top 3, 6, 9 months by @micahmo in Add and reorder sort types #924
• Added support for community/creator search filters in Search page by @micahmo in Add support for community and creator search filters #925
• Added setting to show comment score rather than upvote/downvote counts by @hjiangsu in Added setting to show comment score rather than upvote/downvote counts #935
• Added additional actions to comment/post long press menu by @micahmo in Improve comment/post actions #958
• Added ability to open links in Thunder from Safari extension by @hjiangsu in Add ability to open links in Thunder from Safari extension #905
• Added initial steps to build Thunder for web using dockerfile by @gwbischof in Build for web and dockerfile #943
• Added ability to show/hide post and comment scores by @hjiangsu in Ability to show/hide post and comment scores; Ability to show/hide bot content #936
• Added ability to show/hide bot content by @hjiangsu in Ability to show/hide post and comment scores; Ability to show/hide bot content #936
• Added support for SVG previews in markdown by @micahmo in Support SVG previews in markdown #938
• Added instance version on account selector and instance page by @micahmo in Show version on instance page #964
• Added support for displaying comment origin instance by @ggichure in add support for displaying comment origin instance #944
• Added option to change formatting of full community/user instances by @micahmo in Standardize and make configurable full names #973
• Added confirmation when marking all as messages as read by @micahmo in Feature/mark all as read confirmation #979
• Added ability to favorite communities in drawer by @hjiangsu in Added ability to favorite communities in drawer #971
• Added ability to filter posts containing keyword in title/body by @hjiangsu in Ability to filter posts containing keyword in title/body #974
• Integrate community favourites into search, community auto-completes by @micahmo in Utilize favorites feature elsewhere in app #984
• Added more community translations. Thanks to everyone here for contributing towards translations! If you have contributed towards translation and would like to be explicitly mentioned, please let me know your GitHub handle through Matrix or on here.

Changes

• Migrated textScaleFactor to textScaler by @hjiangsu in Migration of textScaleFactor to textScaler #830
• Updated extended image package by @gwbischof in Bump extended image #904
• Fixed search filter labels by @micahmo in Fix search filter terms #914
• Added subscribed status and community subscriber count in community picker by @micahmo in Improve community picker #917
• Improved image link handling to open images in-app by @micahmo in Open images in-app #919
• Improved URL detection when searching by @micahmo in Improve URL detection for search #959
• Removed artificial stretching for images by @micahmo in Do not artificially stretch images #939
• Refactored FAB settings page by @hjiangsu in Refactored FAB settings page #949
• Changed default FAB action to create new post by @hjiangsu in Changed default feed FAB action to New Post #970
• Added visual feedback to some sidebar components by @micahmo in Add inkwells to some sidebar components #981
• Account page now remembers tab/section across refreshes by @micahmo in Some tweaks to the user page state #965
• Moved account settings to Settings page by @micahmo in Feature/settings account #966

Fixes

• Fixed status bar visual glitch on app startup by @micahmo in Fix statusbar glitch #910
• Fixed issue where Android back button did not close community sidebar by @micahmo in Android back closes community sidebar #907
• Fixed user avatar showing blank when display name is empty by @micahmo in Fix indexing into an empty display name #916
• Fixed issue with app bar accessibility by @micahmo in Fix AppBar semantics #918
• Fixed custom tabs not using default browser when opening links by @hjiangsu in Fixes custom tabs not using default browser when opening links #928
• Fixed issues with feed loading on initial app start by @hjiangsu in Fixes for issues with feed loading on initial app start #940
• Disabled image dimension fetch when compact mode is enabled by @hjiangsu in Disable image dimension fetch when compact mode is enabled #950
• Fixed issue with long initial app start when logged in by @hjiangsu in Added throttling to CheckAuth method to reduce API calls #947
• Fixed overflow issue on post view metadata by @hjiangsu in Fixing overflow issue on post view metadata #968
• Fixed some physical back button inconsistencies on Android by @micahmo in Fix some back button issues #977
• Fixed spinner showing on user page when no posts are available by @micahmo in Fix/user spinner #978
• Fixed issue tapping on some usernames by @micahmo in Fix issue tapping on some usernames #997
• Empty queries now reset search by @micahmo in Reset search for empty query #999

Misc

• Updated LPG dependency by @micahmo in Update LPG dependency #952
• Updated Lemmy API dependency by @hjiangsu in Updated Lemmy API dependency #954
• Removed dotenv dependency by @gwbischof in remove dotenv #946
• Set new LPG property by @micahmo in Set new LPG property #972 and LPG fix #985
• Refactored dialogs by @micahmo in Refactor dialogs #969

Full Changelog: 0.2.6...0.2.7

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