Admin of kbin.earth, creator of Interstellar.
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I'll take a look at things when I get a chance. The notifications are actually supposed to be sorted by new, so I'll definitely need to fix it if they're not.
On Interstellar, all of your posts and comments would be under Account -> Overview. Any replies to your posts and comments should be under Account -> Notifications.
Also an easy way to search thru my own comments/posts by text would be great too. In Thunder I can search filter by user which makes it easy
I could see that being useful, yeah.
no clue if that limits the capabilities compared to a piefed account
I believe you're correct here, we'd only be able to filter search results by user on Lemmy and Mbin, not PieFed yet.
Not sure if we could do this already, but could we sort the communities in alphabetical order in the pull out drawer?
The starred communities and users in the nav drawer are already alphabetically sorted. However, neither the Lemmy, Mbin, or PieFed APIs allow you to get a list of communities sorted alphabetically; so that wouldn't be possible for the subscribed communities list.
Could we add an option to show some of the 'action buttons' in compact mode? I generally prefer using compact mode as opposed to a full card. And it would be nice to be able to upvote/downvote a thread quickly. I think the compact threads are a bit crammed as is, so it might require some adjusting to make it work and look nice. Just a suggestion though.
The compact mode card ... the titles are always cut off at the thumb nail. Perhaps it would be better to just make the card taller to accommodate the title. They could just be varying card heights depending on the title of the thread.
It sounds like maybe an option in between compact and non-compact would be best for you.
Maybe some colored text highlighting to separate either the user or instance, rather than have everything just one color.
That's definitely something we could add. I know Thunder already has an option like that, right?
Anyways, thanks again for all your work and finding a way for us to give feedback. I don't want to come off as demanding or anything as you don't owe us anything.
You're good, you don't come off as demanding. Asking for feedback and suggestions was the whole point of the post :) Thanks!
been using the app this week and is being great so far, but one point that irks me is if I'm in the notifications section and press the back button, I expect to go back to the feed or previous section I was, but it just closes the app and I have to see my reflection on the screen.
It works like that because you went to a completely different page via the navigation bar. You'd have to use the same navigation bar to get back to Feeds. I will say, somebody else recommended requiring two back presses in order to actually exit the screen (which we'll likely implement), so that would at least mitigate your issue of accidentally exiting the app.
thanks for this app!
You're welcome, and thanks for the feedback!
text on it is small
Feel free to bump up the "Global text scale" option in Display settings a notch or two; that might help.
It would be better if searching had more sort options
I'll see what we can do, but we might already be using all the sort options available by the PieFed API.
I really like jerboa's "press back twice to exit" (if you press back on a screen that would close the app: a toast comes up at bottom of screen "press back again to exit").
That's definitely something we could add!
the bottom of a comment section sometimes is hidden behind my phones back/home buttons so I cannot press the button to open more replies and sometimes can't press the up/downvote buttons.
This is also something we should easily be able to fix.
Thanks for the feedback!
I don't know if I've missed some configuration option
No, you haven't missed anything. ATM, all replies open an inline text editor.
The issue I have with the current reply is that it's just too small. It's a third of my screen so not only do I not get a good overview of my reply I also have to scroll a lot just to proofread.
I can definitely see it being an issue, especially on smaller screens. Maybe we could add an option to set whether you want commenting to be inline or on a separate page.
Half of these we already have :) Unfortunately, the other half is not supported by PieFed's API, but it's good to know there's interest!
- Gestures. Can't live without'em
Settings -> Feed Actions -> Enable Swipe Actions
- Better admin/mod tools within the software
This is also something I feel is lacking. We already have support for modding posts/comments specifically (mark NSFW, mod delete, pin in community, and ban user), but nothing much beyond that. I would like to improve it sometime soon.
- Very small nitpick; but maybe add the Sub/Mod/Fav/All/Loc buttons as a dropdown menu? I never liked how they were always there.
Settings -> Feed Actions -> Set Filter
- Better, more fleshed out settings tab
I agree, I would say the Settings menus are a bit cluttered/unorganized. I'm just not really sure where I would start to fix that. I'm no UX person. Especially considering you couldn't find the settings for the features you wanted :)
Well that's about it. I hope this doesn't come off as demanding or anything, you don't owe anything :D And thanks for adding piefed support, it's great
You're all good, this was exactly what I was asking for :) Thanks!
The sorting for piefed lacks a few options: Top Day, Top 6 Hours, etc. That is the most annoying so far.
Will definitely add, I'll make sure it's in the next update! PieFed's API didn't support these options previously (which is why they're not in Interstellar), but I just checked the PieFed source code, and it looks like they are supported now at least.
Thanks for developing the app. Cheers!
Thank you!
Should be the default in my opinion.
The problem with that is that Interstellar is not only available on phones, but also on large tablets and desktop devices. So if we change the default to hide the UI, then it would also do that on larger devices, which is probably unwanted.
What we really need is an onboarding process / welcome screen, which would ask you to configure some common settings and add your first account.
Will you consider adding back gesture?
Possibly? Do other apps have back gestures as well? The problem here is if I added back gestures from post back to Feed, then would people expect it to work the same for all pages (like community page back to Explore, user back to user comment, etc.)? It seems like it would be quite a bit of effort to implement for all of those.
Additionally, it seems like having that back gesture would rule out having the possibility of feed swiping (being able to swipe on one post to get to the next) in the future.
IMO, back gestures should be handled by the OS, as if you swipe from the side out on Android, then it goes back one screen, and that's handled by the Android OS.
I'm not ruling it out, but I do want to get more feedback on the idea.
Can you autohide when scrolling?
Yes, you can in fact! Just go to Settings -> Display -> Hide feed UI on scroll.
Happy cake day!
@TyrianMollusk@infosec.pub Yes, that is correct. There's no way to register for an account through the app ATM. You'll just have to do so through the website.
Yeah sorry, I'm guessing Flutter (Interstellar's UI framework) doesn't support devices that old.
Also good to mention Interstellar also has a test flight for iOS and macOS as well. Meaning Interstellar will work on any platform (Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows).
An update for Interstellar will be released tomorrow with additional PieFed API support, including PieFed notifications
To add, I've been using micro lately.
@aasatru@kbin.earth I did not receive a notification from this for some reason, and I doubt BentiGorlich did either. Unfortunately, I do not know why those comments did not federate over. Maybe it has to do with the fact that this is a microblog, instead of a thread.
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So... apologies if this isn't the right place to ask and I will immediately go to the right place if there is a better one... but I have a question about fedia.io
I think there's some sort of DDOS attack going around because I've been in the same boat with kbin.earth slowing down. kbin.earth's traffic has nearly doubled in just the past few days and I'm still trying to figure out the source.
Writing this message on the interstellar app just now. My only minor gripe is that there's no way to mark something as read with a single tap that I've found. (Got to long press and mark as read, but I'll accept that I may have missed something)
I'll give a quick overview: to mark a post as read, you need to either open it, vote on it, boost it, or mark it as read explicitly, which can be done through the overflow menu (long press or tap overflow button, like you said) or by configuring the swipe gestures to have the mark as read action (then all you have to do is swipe on the post). In the next update, we will also have a "mark as read on scroll" option, which, when enabled, will mark all posts in your feed as read once it scrolls off the top of the screen.
Wow, thanks for putting so much time into this! We should definitely be able to implement some of these. I especially like the idea of having a diverse set of "muted" content, and having a way to quickly mute something through the overflow menu. Honestly, I like your terminology of "muted" content much better than "filter list"; so maybe I'll rename "filter lists" to "mute lists". Also adding more copy/share/block options seems good too.
Lots of other great ideas here that I'll try to keep in mind! Thanks for the feedback!