Yeah, though long tap is already used for toggling the action bar for comments, so you’d end up with a similar issue of using to interact with small links and getting the wrong result sometimes. So probably a user setting to turn the small links on/off entirely would be safest.

I think I’m on Lemmy for the long haul - I like the fediverse decentralisation. The hardest part of Reddit to abandon will be the search results on Google, but perhaps we’ll see something similar with Lemmy in a few years if it picks up steam.

Just submitted a PR to fix this, thanks for the suggestion: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/pull/549

Fairly sure this is fixed, but might not be rolled out yet.

We’ll likely add an option soon to turn off small links (like inline user names and community names) so you won’t be taken to the user’s profile in the first place if you accidentally tap it.

Try a long tap on the comment body. If that doesn’t work, try a tap or long tap on the comment header. It’s possible there’s a few bugs with some of the new comment interactions.

Thanks! Can’t believe I missed that. Also, I didn’t know we had an aussie Lemmie server, sweet.

This would be lovely. Then once that functionality was working, we could create a Reddit-style front-page for new accounts that subscribed to a bunch of popular hashtags. That would really help to ease onboarding and make instances feel a bit less isolated.

Ah good point - I think we’ll need to add that. I’ll make a Github issue now so it doesn’t get lost.

If you select View source on the post you should be able to?

I think this will be the server struggling to respond, sending back an error code instead of the requested data in json format. The app should probably display something more user-friendly like “Server error (504)” (or whatever the error code is).

It’s odd you’re not seeing similar issues on the web version though… maybe it just takes longer to load or there’s a timeout somewhere in the app that needs to be adjusted.

Cool, I didn’t know we could embed images in posts and they’d show up inline. I wonder how long that will last, haha.

They really seem like they made the decision internally to force everyone into their own app and kill off as many third party apps as possible, presumably for data collection/analytics. That would explain why they’re quietly ignoring third party app devs and other alternative solutions (like the paid user API key solution discussed elsewhere).

Yeah after some discussion on GitHub this is the direction the app is headed in, and the next update should have some settings in this regard with Boost-like behaviour as a user option. We can add more options if the community are split on their preferences. The joy of open source!

Yeah BaconReader does the same, I think it makes sense. I’ll try and fix that for the next release.

Now it’s in and I’m using it, I’m wondering if it would be better if tapping a comment would only collapse the children of that comment instead. This might prevent user frustration if they try and click a link in a comment but miss, so the comment closes instead.

My pleasure, I’m glad I could contribute in my own small way to this awesomeness!

I imagine a lot of the early adopter Reddit refugees are web/mobile devs. Perhaps it’s worth putting a callout to them specifically to help out on the various GitHub projects if they’re looking to contribute?

Yeah this is what I’ve been doing, have made a few simple PRs already to enhance the themes a bit! Never worked with Jetpack Compose before, but Google sure does the trick.

Make sure you grab the latest beta of Android Studio (not the default stable one it suggests), and connect your Github account once it’s installed. The emulator works really well for testing, no phone needed. Makes it super quick to get up and running and start submitting fixes.

Oh wow, thanks! The hold is not very intuitive, feels like it could just be a tap. I also tried tapping on the left of the comment replies (where it shows the indentation lines) but obviously that did nothing.

Edit: just submitted a PR to fix this and allow tapping anywhere on the comment body to collapse it.