jwr1

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[–] jwr1@kbin.earth 1 points 3 weeks ago

I think it would make sense to have communities in an alphabetical order

Unfortunately, that's just not possible with either Mbin, Lemmy, or PieFed, as there's no way to request a list of communities sorted alphabetically. The stars feature will be your best bet, as it's kind of meant to fix having to dig through your subscriptions list.

Beyond those two things you've done an excellent job with the app.

Thank you!

[–] jwr1@kbin.earth 4 points 3 weeks ago

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!

[–] jwr1@kbin.earth 2 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] jwr1@kbin.earth 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] jwr1@kbin.earth 2 points 3 weeks ago

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!

[–] jwr1@kbin.earth 3 points 3 weeks ago

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!

[–] jwr1@kbin.earth 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jwr1@kbin.earth 3 points 3 weeks ago

Feel free to comment on this post if there's anything in particular you think Interstellar is missing: https://kbin.earth/m/fediverse@piefed.social/t/1469625

[–] jwr1@kbin.earth 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Feel free to comment on this post if there's anything in particular you think Interstellar is missing: https://kbin.earth/m/fediverse@piefed.social/t/1469625

[–] jwr1@kbin.earth 4 points 3 weeks ago

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!

[–] jwr1@kbin.earth 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] jwr1@kbin.earth 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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!

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