So, every other month it seems I go and try to find a different app for Lemmy that generally performs better in terms of some issues I have with Connect. As usual today I have done this and realised I really like this app and others just fall flat for various different reasons as always happens.

So I guess this is a request to please update connect just to fix a few bugs and stop some frustrations in my day to day use. Anyone else that has reoccurring issues maybe please just add to this thread in the hopes of just ironning out a few issues that ruin the experience of what otherwise is a fucking great app!

My first major issue is the handling of images. This issue was introduced in the last update I believe. Image loading can be painfully slow sometimes which it never was prior but is something I can live with, what is more frustrating is when an image is present but blurry as a lot appear whilst “loading” but then upon completion it displays the following error page instead of the image -

If I download the image from this screen it will save the correct image so there is an issue somewhere with the image itself being displayed within app. I haven’t seen this error with gifs however they will sometimes just never load showing a black screen with no error, I believe this is only with jpeg?

The other most frustrating thing to deal with is the app refreshing itself when you switch to another app on your phone. This does not happen all the time but does it often enough to be very frustrating. Even when I am in the middle of a reply to a comment or post, I switch to a browser or whatever to copy a link and switch back and the app will refresh itself to “frontpage: hot” feed. This is especially frustrating when trying to reply to ransom threads on /all as I then may never find what I wanted to reply to again or it takes an inordinate amount of time scrolling.

In a similar vein if you do post a reply to something, after that reply has been sent it will again default back to “frontpage: hot” so by responding to any threads you totally lose your place on a feed, as someone who browses all a lot this is incredibly frustrating! Again, it never did this in the past that I remember.

Moderator tools would also be amazing but I dont really care to much about this when compared to these issues above.

Eternity is the closest I’ve found to the experience I get here but the deal breaker there for me is it won’t download anything unless it has notification permissions and nothing gets notification permissions!

  • salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    For me, while I can see the thumbnail of a post, when I try to view anything hosted on files.catbox.moe, I will always get an error similar to the picture in your post. I’ll try to edit in a pic of the error later, along with my phone and software specs. Just wanted to add my support to your post! As a RiF (rip) and reddit refugee, I really appreciate the similar UI of Connect, and I haven’t found anything else I like better.

    Edit: found this post, I guess it’s not just a Connect thing: https://feddit.org/post/7056788

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      For me, while I can see the thumbnail of a post, when I try to view anything hosted on files.catbox.moe, I will always get an error similar to the picture in your post. I’ll try to edit in a pic of the error later, along with my phone and software specs. Just wanted to add my support to your post! As a RiF (rip) and reddit refugee, I really appreciate the similar UI of Connect, and I haven’t found anything else I like better.

      Edit 1: found this post, I guess it’s not just a Connect thing: https://feddit.org/post/7056788

      Edit 2: I found this post with a catbox.moe link, tried to open it and got this error:

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    The refresh issue you have is weird, I am on a s24 Android and never have that issue.

    I have noticed the odd image issue though

    Not to mention today I had this

    The link worked on my pc just couldn’t click on it within the app as it loaded to this page.

    Beyond that though, I’m very happy with the app I think it’s fantastic.

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      To be clear I really like the app a lot which is why I dont want to leave it for something else, it just has a few very frustrating things when using it daily!

      I’ve never seen that “no routes” error page myself.

      For clarification if Kuro reads this in regards to the refreshing issue I am using a Pixel 6a on Graphene OS. Tbf I didn’t consider that maybe the refresh thing was down to my phone rather than the app.

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        I see the frustration with the refresh though, indo it to myself on occasion when getting something from elsewhere on my phone, I have a habit of hitting the close all apps button when I bring them all out in a tabs view.

        Drives me mad. Hopefully your issue can be resolved.

        I’m curious about all the links posted to the loops website, I never want to navigate away from lemmy and wish they videos would loop in app not launch in app but on a website.

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    Constant refreshes is probably your phone unloading the app from it’s memory to save some. See if settings for Connect in the list of your installed apps have different power\memory saving modes. My older phone loses the app if I switch two times to another apps, like to browser and then to gallery - and Connect is now reset to the start of the feed

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      Thanks for the tip and I will check, the only reason I thought it was app based is because I can sometimes use it for hours switching between things, leave it minimised for long periods and it’ll not refresh. Other times it will do it repeatedly.

      That doesnt explain why it is switching and refreshing feeds after I have replied to a thread though as I am not leaving the app so it should be staying in memory as it is active.

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        The later is on the app, right. Maybe dev didn’t implement a method to show a thread eith your reply, or just generalized to always refresh it.

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    For me, I noticed that on the overview page I see that a post has comments, but when I click on a post, no commen are there. Might also have to do with my instance and federation, I’m not sure.

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        Interesting to hear that this doesn’t only happen for me.