Hi everyone!

First of all thank you for all the amazing feedback I have gotten so far. I was a bit overwhelmed by the response on my first release, but I’m happy to see so many people enjoying Avelon. This update addresses a ton of the most common feedback I have received with a lot of useful new features including swipe gestures, a new inbox and a new subscriptions page.

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Changelog

  • Swipe gestures for posts and comments
    • Fully customizable! Head over to the new gestures page in settings
    • Quickly perform actions such as upvote, downvote, save and reply
    • Also added swipe gestures to various other parts of the UI
  • Inbox to view your replies
    • Quickly respond using gestures
    • Quickly open the relevant post
  • New subscriptions page
    • More compact, grouped alphabetically
    • Not a tab any more (reachable by swiping back in posts)
  • Community links now work in-app
  • Added ability to save comments
    • No way to see saved comments atm. Coming later!
  • Added customizability to thumbnail position
  • Add option to enable more sort options (6 hours, 12 hours, 3 months etc.)
  • Add option to show both upvotes and downvotes
  • Added ability to save etc. from within a post
  • Add swipe gestures to the in-app-webview
  • Add purple accent color (yellow too in previous build)
  • Reworked navigation system (no longer brings you to a different tab unexpectedly)
  • Restructured settings a bit (will be more changes here over time)
  • Fixes issue where your own votes would often be counted twice
  • Fixed some typos
  • Fixed alignment issues with tab bar
  • Fixed overflow issue with some posts (hopefully)
  • Attempted to temporarily fix ios17 reply crash
  • Lots of other things I probably should have written down earlier

Screenshots

Known Issues / Future Features

  • Adding posts
  • Viewing profile pages
  • Viewing saved comments
  • Blocking/filtering
  • Multiple accounts
  • Adjusting text size
  • And more stuff!

Replies have been crashing on the iOS 17 beta and I’ve added a temporary fix that hopefully resolves this (though it lacks markdown highlighting). I’m not on the beta yet myself so unable to verify or add a proper fix for now, will look at this once I get a device on the beta.

Given how many features this update adds, I do expect the build to be a bit less stable than before. If you encounter any bugs/crashes I really appreciate your feedback, either here or through testflight.

Hope you enjoy the update, and let me know what you think about all the new features!

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    1 year ago

    Much needed features not on your list in the OP:

    • Marking post as read when opening the post’s image in the feed
    • iOS share sheet integration for images (please, if someone posts an image, let us share the IMAGE, not a link to the image or a link to the post)

    Once those two are implemented I will daily drive Avelon as I really like the performance and the haptic feedback.

    Here’s a couple nice-to-have’s:

    • community icons in the feed
    • text posts in the feed need a default icon like Apollo, at the moment the layout shift is too drastic
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      1 year ago

      Marking posts as read when opening the thumbnail should be a quick fix, will prob include in next build. Haven’t worked with the share sheet so gotta investigate that a bit first.

      Not sure about community icons, makes the feed a bit too cluttered imo. Might look at adding it as an option eventually, but not a high priority atm!

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        1 year ago

        Agreed re. community icons, it’s not gonna stop me from daily driving Avelon, but it does add a bit of nice flavour to the feed I feel :)

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      1 year ago

      The latest build now marks posts as read when you open the thumbnail!