Thanks again for all the updates!

In that sense we would like to know from developers of Lemmy clients and frontends if their projects are ready for 0.19, as we are planning to release it within the next weeks.

Thunder is ready to go!

I can go ahead and talk about Flutter as that’s what I’m familiar with (from my limited experience).

For some context, I’m the main maintainer for Thunder, which is built purely with Flutter/Dart. I can also only speak on behalf of iOS/Android as we’re only focusing on targeting those platforms at this time.

There will undoubtedly always be some compromises when using Flutter as compared to their native counterparts. However, if your app only ever deals with handling UI and logic that is platform agnostic, then I would say that Flutter is fairly good. It makes it really easy to support both platforms and removes the need to re-write logic for each supported platform. This means you can get everything to behave pretty much the same regardless of the platform.

The moment your app needs to tie into platform specific features, it’s a mixed bag. You can either find packages that suit your needs, or write your own logic to bridge that gap. When trying to find packages, you often need to check if it supports the platforms you’re supporting as not all of them will. You also have to see how well maintained they are since most packages are from third parties and not from the Flutter team themselves. I haven’t dealt with having to write custom logic to tie into platform specific features so I can’t comment too much on that.

Hope this helps!

Just an update, here is the PR which should resolve this issue: https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/pull/743

Thanks for the report! I’m noticing that as well so I’ll take a look at this

Thanks, I appreciate that! I do think favourites in the sidebar is already an existing issue on GitHub, so it’s just a matter of having time to work on that :D

I can take a look at this!

Anyone else’s cache for this app get big suuuuper fast? That is my final gripe. Using it for a few days will get up to like 600mb so I clear it often.

Hmm, this could just be from all the media that is cached when you use the app. Could you open up a new GitHub issue on this so that we can take a closer look at it?

Sorry for the delay in response. I’ve heard occurrences of this happening and the reasoning could be that either

• the data is being synced back up from a backup, or
• Thunder is saving its local database somewhere on your device which does not get cleared properly

For now, the temporary fix if you encounter this issue is to go to Debug -> Clear Local Database, and that should completely remove any local data from your device!

Colour themes aren’t working properly for me

Could you elaborate a bit more?

All Posts" feed isn’t loading poperly

What instance are you on? I have not been able to reproduce this issue unfortunately

Would be really nice to have a settings export/import option so you don’t have to add your accounts and redo all your settings every time.

That’s a good idea, could you make it into an issue on GitHub? Thanks!

Hmm, I can take a look at it but I’m not sure how easily fixable it’ll be for the upcoming release

Noted, I’ll take a look at it!

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Good idea, I’ll add in something at the top of the debug menu which warns users about the potential actions that may occur. I do feel like the debug menu itself is a bit self-explanatory and users would normally just stay away from it unless necessary!

This might take a bit more time before we can add it in. The caveat with this is that we have to handle it for both iOS and Android devices which is what makes it a bit more tricky!

Interesting - it definitely seems to be something related to cross-federation and how Thunder handles that logic. I’ll take a closer look at it when I have the time!

Could you try updating to the latest pre-release if you haven’t yet? v0.2.1-alpha.4+12? I’ve made a couple of changes there with account stuff so it could fix it. Regardless, I’ll see if I can create an account on aussie.zone to try and reproduce it

My first thought (in case you’re curious) is that it has something to do with cross-federation and how that logic is being handled. If you were to login to your lemmy.world account and try to edit comments on here, are you able to?

If you disable post swipe gestures comment swipe gestures are supposed to work but dont.

That should be fixed in the next nightly!

For the vote and reply actions on comments, could you add that in as an issue? Thanks!

Hmm, alright I think its time to figure out the root cause of this issue. Can you answer a few questions (I’m sorry if I’ve already asked these questions previously 😅):

• What method do you use to log in? username or email
• Do you have a display name set or no?
• Have you tried clearing app data and cache and try again? Also attempt to re-install the app with app data/cache cleared
• Do you see any errors popping up at all?
• What is your default instance?