Hey everyone - I just wanted to give you all a quick update on what has been happening over the past week. It has been a bit quiet here, but believe me when I say there has been a lot of changes going on behind the scenes to get ready for the upcoming release.

A lot of work has been done over the past week, and an incredible amount of new contributors to the project. I am also in the process of working to get a general release out within the next day or two!

Here are some things to be excited for:

  • Improved performance for long comment threads
  • Improvements to the general UI
  • Customization of swipe gestures
  • More visual options to posts (viewing preview texts, full-width image previews, titles before media)
  • Additional ways to share media and links
  • Initial font size scaling for posts and comments
  • Initial support for blocking communities

And a lot of changes under-the-hood!

I would also like to take this time to welcome a new moderator to the Thunder community! @poolitzer@lemmy.world

For those unaware, there is a nightly Thunder community which has more regular (but potentially more unstable) builds for new and upcoming features if you would like to check that out! !thunder_nightly@lemmy.world

If you would like to see the current change log for the full list of upcoming features, feel free to check them out here: https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md

Sorry again for the long delay between releases - it has been super hectic for me personally and I’ve had a bit less time this week to work on Thunder as I would’ve liked 😅

  • machinaeZER0@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Y’all are gonna go nuts for this upcoming release - get hyped! It’s been awesome following along with the pre-alphas, things have been changing at an incredible pace “behind the scenes” :) excited to be along for the ride!

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    1 year ago

    Hi, it’s me. I am involved with NewPipe and python-telegram-bot and now will help out here as well. Not really an android developer, will just try my best to triage new issues and support the communities as much as I can :)