Hi guys! This update (version 1.0.2 build 12) brings more sweet features, including:
- Custom font support
- Text size fully customizable!
- Hide read posts
- Customizable per-feed or you can manually toggle it
- Mark posts read on scroll
- More swipe gestures:
- Collapse comment thread
- Mark post as read
- Unfinished replies are now saved as drafts
- Option to delete your embarassing comments
- Body preview for text posts
- More customization options:
- Community icons & user avatars
- Large vote buttons
- Account avatar in bottom tab
- Hide tab labels (super clean!)
- Number of lines to show for text posts
- Download/share buttons in the image viewer
- Ellipsis buttons for posts & comments
- Easily access common options
- Reworked thread rendering system
- Edited comments now has an edited icon
- Profile pages now have avatar images
- Aaaand of course a bunch of various UI improvements & bug fixes
Wanna check it out? Here’s the link:
For you seasoned testers out there, I’d really like some feedback on any bugs you might find, especially for the mark-read-on-scroll and hide-read-posts feature, but of course everything else as well. Some of these systems were a bit tricky to get right, so I might have introduced a few new bugs here and there.
Hope you enjoy the update, and let me know what you think!
If I may, I would like to ask about the future of the app. I’m currently testing a couple of lemmy apps and for example Bean app is already testing some Pro features for a monthly subscription.
What’s the plan for Avalon? One-time purchase? Subscription model? Free software?
Yeah of course. I mentioned this briefly in my first post, but haven’t discussed it a lot. I don’t have a concrete plan for these things atm, so I’d also be happy to hear what people think would be best.
For now I’m thinking free app with an option to donate to support the development. I really like Lemmy and hope to see it grow, so I wanna take part in that by creating a great app that encourages people to contribute and join in on conversations like these. I really enjoy the development process too, it’s super encouraging to get so much feedback from people here.
After the initial version I’ll consider some kind of pro version for additional nice-to-have features. No idea what these could be, but I’m thinking perhaps themes or some other more advanced features. It takes a lot of time to develop an app like this (I don’t expect it to be any kind of profitable really, it’s just a time-consuming hobby of mine), but I’ll have to be honest and say I’d be happy to get something back for the time put in. Like a few pizza nights would be cool.
Another thing I’ve considered is burnout. I’ve experienced burnout a few times before, and getting something in return can definitely help remedy that. I think it’d be a strong motivator to keep working on highly requested- and niche features that the more “hardcore” Avelon users would appreciate. And again - if people have thoughts about what they think would be best, I’m happy to discuss the topic further!
Currently I pay for Ivory (iOS app for Mastodon) since I think it has a great design, features and reasonable price, so if anyone can provide a similar experience (basically anything I felt is “worth it” without being too expensive) I’m more than willing to pay.
I personally prefer one-time purchases but also understand the subscription model appeal for developers. It’s just that if it looks too expensive to me (like I think the newly Sync for Android is proposing) I’m gonna pass on it.
Basically, if you hit that sweet spot you get my money lol.