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!

  • fer0n
    3·
    11 months ago

    Regarding feedback, here’s some smaller things:

    • bottom nav bar is much better already, I still think the margin on the left and right of the icons should be way smaller than the margin in between the icons. It looks quite odd compared to every other nav bar
    • I‘d like to see posts and comments in one feed underneath the account tab (or somewhere else easily accessible). Maybe it’s just me though
    • after jumping somewhere via the quick switch menu, the back button should go back to where I was coming from. It should add the new view to the stack, not replace the current one
    • evgizOPM
      2·
      11 months ago

      Point 1 & 2 should be fixed in the latest build!

      • shuntipepperment
        2·
        11 months ago

        [Bug] The app won’t always shows the complete list of subscribed communities properly…

        I mean it misses out the subscribed communities sometimes even after the refreshing and I have to search the community and re-subscribe again…

        Fun-Fact, Just now I re-subscribed to Avelon App community for the third time as it was not showing in my subscription list 🙃

        [Edit] Just noticed that the Avelon App community which i just re-subscribed would disappear from subscription list once I refresh the app…

        • evgizOPM
          2·
          11 months ago

          Hmm, not sure what this could be, never seen the bug myself. I’ll look into it, thanks for the heads up!

      • fer0n
        1·
        11 months ago

        Nice, that was fast. Much better, thank you. I think you meant 1&3 :)