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Hey everyone, Thunder v0.4.0 is finally here! This release cycle took a bit longer than usual, but as a result, introduces a lot of new features, changes, and fixes which should make for a even better Thunder experience. If you have any suggestions or feedback, feel free to discuss it in the Thunder community or on GitHub.

If you're enjoying Thunder and would like to show some support, star this project on GitHub! This helps gain visibility for the project and allows more contributors to help with the continued development of Thunder. If you'd like to show some appreciation, here is a post with details on how to donate to the active contributors of Thunder.

A quick reminder: if you are using the Google Play version or App Store version, please note that it may take a bit of time before you receive the update. Now onto the update notes. This update brings a few major features:

🎉 New Features

  • The comment creation page has been fully re-built from the ground up and introduces a few new features, including the ability to specify the comment language, ability to comment as a different user, and addition of spoilers to the markdown toolbar. If you have any suggestions or feedback regarding these changes, feel free to make a new issue on GitHub!
  • There is now initial support for video playback on Thunder! The built-in video player should work with most video URLs (that end in a proper video extension) and should work with YouTube URLs. Additionally, you can customize some video settings such as playback speed, auto-mute, auto-play and more in the Settings page. The video player is still experimental, so there may still be some issues present.
  • Additional customization options including the ability to customize the colours of actions (upvotes, downvotes, saving, etc.), hiding thumbnails from the feed, showing user/community avatars, and much more.

ℹ General

  • There have been improvements to the overall UI/UX across the board. This includes improvements to the pure black theme, improvements to markdown rendering of tables, quotes, and more.
  • There have also been a lot of changes under-the-hood to hopefully improve the overall performance and reliability of actions. As a result of these changes, there may still be some issues that were not caught during testing. If you notice any general issues, please make a new issue on GitHub.

And much much more. I can't go through all the changes in the changelog, but for those who are curious, feel free to check out the full changelog below.

We have a Matrix space if you would like to join in on discussions.


Additions

  • Updated create comment page UI and added language selector to comments by hjiangsu
  • Added ability to comment as a different user by micahmo
  • Added spoiler to markdown buttons by micahmo and hjiangsu
  • Added support for selecting discussion languages by iparks99
  • Added support for new sort types as defaults by micahmo
  • Added option to show user/community avatars by iparks99
  • Added an option to hide thumbnails in feed by iparks99 and hjiangsu
  • Added option to use profile picture for drawer by micahmo
  • Added support for customizable action colors by micahmo
  • Added selectable post/comment text by micahmo
  • Added notification debugging section by micahmo
  • Added confirmation message when unsubscribing from community by micahmo
  • Added experimental support for video player by ggichure and hjiangsu
  • Added sort options in instance explorer by micahmo
  • Added ability to perform empty search in Search by micahmo

Changes

  • Show individual unread counts in inbox page by micahmo
  • Improved missing post snackbar message by micahmo
  • Improved spoiler appearance by micahmo
  • Adjusted markdown editor link dialog styling by micahmo
  • Adjusted padding to community sidebar by micahmo
  • Added loading page for posts/comments on slower connections by micahmo
  • Adjusted post/comment language selector styling by hjiangsu
  • Refactored post metadata and user/community chips by hjiangsu
  • Refactored post page quick actions by hjiangsu
  • Implemented core architecture to handle push notifications (APNs, UnifiedPush) by hjiangsu
  • Added retry action when initial feed loading fails by micahmo
  • Improved markdown appearance for block quotes, code blocks, and dividers by micahmo
  • Apply full name customizations to inbox mentions view by micahmo
  • Allow creating posts/comments with null language by micahmo
  • Optimistically mark replies as read by micahmo
  • Improved cross-post UI by CTalvio
  • Disabled Thunder's edge swipe to go back on Android by hjiangsu
  • Fixed various OLED color theme issues, community name format by CTalvio
  • Improved UX for notification settings by micahmo
  • Improved swipe gesture setting clarity with icons by CTalvio
  • Added loading page when opening notifications and increased size of notification icon by micahmo
  • Replaced score indicator icon by CTalvio
  • Improved image dimension fetching logic by hjiangsu
  • Improved the comment context jumping by micahmo
  • Improved account page and management UI by CTalvio
  • Improved selection of text when creating post/comment by micahmo

Fixes

  • Fixed subscribe/favourite app bar action not updating UI by micahmo
  • Fixed comment load spinner showing incorrectly by micahmo
  • Fixed account page back button behaviour on Android by hjiangsu
  • Fixed issues with deleted comment content showing up by micahmo
  • Fixed search FAB primary single press action not triggering by micahmo
  • Fixed issue marking multiple replies as read by micahmo
  • Fixed issue with tablet mode images and full-height images by hjiangsu
  • Fixed pan/pinch triggering unintentional double tap zoom by CTalvio
  • Fixed issue popping notification page triggering twice by micahmo
  • Fixed viewing notifications as correct user by micahmo
  • Fixed FAB modal transparency and exit fade animation by CTalvio

Misc

  • Integrate run on save scripts for VSCode by micahmo
  • Configure i18n.ally plugin by ipcjs
  • Apply linter suggested fix-ups by micahmo
  • Updated translations by hjiangsu
  • Updated instances by github-actions
  • Replaced scrollable_positioned_list with super_sliver_list by hjiangsu
  • Added test endpoint for UnifiedPush server and reduced UnifiedPush notification payload (in development) by micahmo
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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by poolitzer@lemmy.world to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

Hello people!

We wanted to make a short announcement regarding posts in here. We would like to encourage you to keep posting feature suggestions/discussions about this app or lemmy in general.

Please use the GitHub issue tracker for bug reports however, since it is important for us to keep track of those and they don't require a discussion anyway.

Have a great day!

P.S.: We also have a matrix space now, if you want to join and hang out with out :)

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Is it possible to have link posts in compact layout while other posts are in cards layout? I miss this feature from Boost and Eternity.

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submitted 2 weeks ago by pedka@lemmy.ml to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

is it an option, cause i cant find it anywhere? if it is, please tell me where can i do it

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I scroll all:scaled fairly often, as my list of subs isn't super active, but there are some communities that come up fairly often that I would rather not see. Is there a way to implement that on the client side or would that require a Lemmy change?

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submitted 1 month ago by Bingo to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

Is there a way to disable the app's back navigation gesture? It kinda overlaps with Android's back gesture

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Fake4000@lemmy.world to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

I use the follow system when setting a theme. However, Thunder defaults to gray theme rather than amoled.

Would love to have the option to set a preferred dark theme so that it defaults to the amoled option instead.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by kellyaster@lemmy.world to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

Edit: nvm, I changed something in settings, it was user error. Pls disregard

Hi Thunder devs, I have an accessibility issue to report regarding the special styling for original poster and mod names (changed with the last major release). I haven't checked against WCAG, but I'm pretty sure they don't meet color contrast standards; it's pretty hard to read the grey text, especially over the 'mod' orange.

Otherwise, no complaints. I really dig Thunder, I chose it as my daily driver after months of testing alongside Voyager, Eternity, and Jerboa. It just feels more responsive and intuitive, and the customization options are quite good. Nice work!

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Feature request: Horizontal swipe for next/previous post in feed

I would love this as an option for navigating between posts, and I'm surprised that most Lemmy apps don't have this.

Joey for Reddit had this feature, as does the official Reddit app. Connect for Lemmy has this feature, and Boost for Lemmy doesn't show the comments in swiping mode. Eternity is the only Lemmy app which does it properly so far, but development has fallen behind in other areas.

Would the Thunder devs consider implementing this feature? It would probably win me over!

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Any way to collapse your profile as you scroll down your posts / saved posts? Sometimes I want to send a screenshot of a post I saved but the profile is taking up a lot of space together with the bottom tab bar.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by lzbz@programming.dev to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

The feed default sort options list is missing "scaled" and "controversial" options. Would be great if those could be added. Thanks for the great app!

edit: Looks like this is already in the works: https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/pull/1298

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Hey everyone, its been a while but it's finally time for another Thunder release. As always, there have been many improvements, additions, changes and fixes in this release which should make for a even better Thunder experience. If you have any suggestions or feedback, feel free to discuss it in the Thunder community or on GitHub.

A quick reminder: if you are using the Google Play version or App Store version, please note that it may take a bit of time before you receive the update. Now onto the update notes. This update brings a few major features:

🎉 New Features

  • Instance and community modlogs are now available in Thunder. To access the instance modlog, tap on the triple dot button located on the top app bar and select "Modlog" when viewing general feeds (Subscribed/Local/All). To access a community modlog, navigate to the given community and find "Modlog" in the extended actions.
  • Mod reports are now available to view and resolve within Thunder via the drawer. If you are a moderator or admin of a community/instance, you should see a new "Reports" option under the general feeds. Only post and comment reports are available at this time. Private message reports will come in a future update.
  • The user feed has been fully re-worked to provide a better experience similar to the general/community feeds. This means that you can now change the sorting when viewing a user feed, and use the FAB for additional actions.
  • An instance explorer has been added into the Search page. This allows you to explore communities, posts and comments for the current instance.
  • Thunder now has an in-app changelog for updates. It is turned on by default, but can be toggled off in the settings. This changelog should help you keep track of what additions, changes, and fixes have been added in upcoming versions.

ℹ General

  • Improvements to markdown rendering. Spoiler markdown detection has been improved, and there is now initial/experimental support for subscript and superscript markdown tags. Markdown quick actions when creating posts/comments will be added in the near future.
  • You can now customize the user/community name format and style across Thunder! This is accessible through Settings -> Appearance -> Theming. You can adjust the font weight, colour, and format for both user and community names.
  • Improved UI/UX for long press actions, and additional customization options including customizable feed dividers and navigation bar labels.

And much much more. I can't go through all the changes in the changelog, but for those who are curious, feel free to check out the full changelog below.

We have a Matrix space if you would like to join in on discussions: https://matrix.to/#/#thunderapp:matrix.org


I would just like to thank everyone for the continued support and contributions. Thunder is still a project that I can only work on the side, and knowing that others enjoy it drives me to continue working on it!

If you would like to show a token of appreciation to me or anyone else that has contributed, check out the following link for more information: https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/issues/756

Thanks again for everything so far, and I hope you enjoy this update!


Additions

  • Added instance explorer to see instance posts/communities/comments by micahmo
  • Added partial superscript/subscript markdown support by hjiangsu
  • Added ability to mark posts as read when scrolling through feed by Fmstrat
  • Added support for posting as a different user by micahmo
  • Added instance and community modlogs by hjiangsu
  • Added option to show full date and select date format by hjiangsu
  • Added additional Lemmy styled user/community formats by hjiangsu
  • Added ability to search federated instances by micahmo
  • Added ability to switch user in user account settings page by micahmo
  • Added new type badge to indicate video URLs by hjiangsu
  • Added in-app changelog by micahmo
  • Added support for custom user/community styles by micahmo
  • Added option to show navigation labels by micahmo
  • Added customizable feed card divider by hjiangsu
  • Added ability to view post/comment reports by hjiangsu
  • Added Turkish language localizations by mikropsoft

Changes

  • Refactored user page to match feed page by hjiangsu
  • Improved sort top submenu transition by micahmo
  • Adjusted “Hide NSFW Previews” setting label to “Blur NSFW Previews” by hjiangsu
  • Improved Lemmy spoiler detection by hjiangsu
  • Improved link handling for users/communities by micahmo
  • Reworked internal post parsing logic and thumbnail previews by hjiangsu
  • Hide unsupported FAB actions based on feed (general, community, user) by hjiangsu
  • Categorized post/comment bottom sheet options by micahmo
  • Improved link sharing experience by micahmo
  • Improved feedback when loading instance information by micahmo
  • Android back button closes opened drawer by micahmo
  • Android back button closes opened user sidebar by micahmo
  • Applied subtitle hint for show post author setting by micahmo
  • Improved navigation to comment context by micahmo
  • Improved handling of search result comments on deleted posts by micahmo
  • Removed usernames on user feeds posts by micahmo
  • Applied timeout when loading image dimensions for image viewer by hjiangsu

Fixes

  • Show keyboard automatically when community search is triggered, and state fixes by micahmo
  • Fixed issue with talkback and downvote semantic label by hjiangsu
  • Fixed notifications page state issue by micahmo
  • Fixed issue with refreshing the feed when switching accounts by micahmo
  • Fixed in-app browser url scheme redirection by micahmo
  • Fixed community name format in create post page by micahmo
  • Fixed handling of multiple deep link actions by micahmo
  • Fixed tagline refreshing multiple times on load issue by micahmo
  • Fixed sidebar overflows by micahmo
  • Fixed tagline overflow by micahmo

Misc

  • Moved fastlane directory for F-Droid approval by hjiangsu
  • Fixed CI for Flutter 3.16.9 and update docker builds by Fmstrat
  • Upgraded to Flutter 3.19 by hjiangsu
  • Updated peter-evans/create-pull-request by micahmo
  • Updated instances by github-actions
  • Updated Lemmy API version by hjiangsu
  • Added development flavor by hjiangsu
  • Improved animations for advanced share sheet and link preview modals by micahmo
  • Updated translations from Weblate by hjiangsu
  • Upgraded gradle version and migrated to flutter_sharing_intent by hjiangsu
  • Updated internal package dependencies by hjiangsu
  • Integrate i18n-ally by micahmo
  • Migrated from sqflite to drift packages by hjiangsu
  • Updated Lemmy API to support upcoming 0.19.4 by hjiangsu
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Login seems broken? (lemmy.world)

For some reason, my app can’t seem to handle logins correctly. I am able to log in ok, but the account management page never shows the login, which means I can see my inbox, etc.

I haven’t tried completely deleting and reinstalling yet, but I have tried to log in several times with no change in app behavior.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by zabadoh@ani.social to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

With the recent Thulean* comment spam attacks, mods have dutifully deleted the offending comments, but Thunder still renders the deleted comments.

Connect seems to have the same bug

Voyager and Jerboa show the comments as deleted

Examples:

https://startrek.website/post/8228446

https://ani.social/post/2729729

https://lemmy.world/post/13350248

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How can I switch between two instances and make all the sub lemmies I subscribed to appear in subscribed section?

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Devider between posts? (discuss.tchncs.de)

If i remember correctly, there was some space between posts in early versions. On 0.2.9 in card view, there is no space. Is there some way to get back this post divider, so that I can easier see where one post ends and a new one begins?

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Does Thunder currently support the ability to report posts and/or comments? I'm having trouble finding any way to do this from the app.

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When I switch between logged in accounts, I have to manually refresh the feed tab/view to reflect the account switch. I would prefer the reload be done automatically, an option to allow users to specify this behavior would be ideal.

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Hey everyone, just a friendly reminder for those on instances that are either about to upgrade or have recently upgraded from version 0.18 to 0.19 (e.g., lemmy.world, lemmy.blahaj.zone, sh.itjust.works, etc.).

After your instance updates to 0.19, please remember to re-authenticate (i.e., log out and log back in). This is because of some authentication changes made in 0.19 which invalidates the session.

Thanks!

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It seems that the web UI treats spoilers without a space after ::: the same as the regular ones, while Thunder ignores those as spoilers. It looks like the closing spoiler marker may be entered without whitespace but it consumes extra text after the spoiler, and overall acts weird

I can create an issue if that's needed, or this post may be referenced in an existing issue to be used as a test

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Hey everyone, it's time for yet another Thunder release. As always, there have been many improvements, additions, changes and fixes in this release which should make for a even better Thunder experience. If you have any suggestions or feedback, feel free to discuss it in the Thunder community or on GitHub.

A quick reminder: if you are using the Google Play version or App Store version, please note that it may take a bit of time before you receive the update. Now onto the update notes. This update brings a few major features:

🎉 New Features

  • Initial support for moderator actions. Thunder has added support for some moderator actions such as locking, pinning, and removing posts. To access these actions, simply long-press on a post and select "Moderator Actions" from the menu. Additional moderator actions such as mod logs, and reports will come in a future update.
  • Support for high-refresh rate devices. Thunder should now feel smoother on Android devices with high-refresh rate displays, and should no longer be limited to 60 Hz. For iOS, Thunder also supports ProMotion devices.
  • Customizable post metadata. You can now customize the post metadata information (vote counts, comment counts, etc) on your feed! This can be done in Settings -> Appearance -> Compact/Card View Settings. Simply drag and drop the metadata information you want to see on your feed. The order of the information will be the order that you drag it into the preview.
  • Experimental local push notification support on Android. Thunder has experimental support for handling push notifications locally on Android devices. When enabled, Thunder will attempt to fetch new notifications in the background while the app is not running. Please note that this feature is highly dependent on the Android OS and their battery saving settings

ℹ General

  • Additional UI/UX and quality-of-life improvements. This includes but is not limited to:
    • Support for spoiler markdown tags. Spoiler tags will be automatically minimized, and can be expanded when tapping on them
    • Support for creating cross posts for an existing post, and deleting existing posts
    • Addition of more options including hiding top app bar, medium font scale option, and colorized usernames
  • Added new condensed post body view to the post page which shows a smaller preview of images and thumbnails
  • Added the ability to search posts/comments directly from community feed

And much much more. I can't go through all the changes in the changelog, but for those who are curious, feel free to check out the full changelog below.

We have a Matrix space if you would like to join in on discussions: https://matrix.to/#/#thunderapp:matrix.org


I would just like to thank everyone for the continued support and contributions. Thunder is still a project that I can only work on the side, and knowing that others enjoy it drives me to continue working on it!

If you would like to show a token of appreciation to me or anyone else that has contributed, check out the following link for more information: https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/issues/756

Thanks again for everything so far, and I hope you enjoy this update!


Changelog

Additions

  • Added new condensed post body view to the post page by micahmo
  • Added compatibility with high-refresh displays to Thunder on Android devices by mufeedali
  • Added initial support for markdown spoiler tags by hjiangsu
  • Added ability to create cross-posts from the post page by micahmo
  • Added ability to share user profiles by micahmo
  • Added ability to subscribe/unsubscribe to community from long-press action by hjiangsu
  • Added option to hide the top app bar on scroll by hjiangsu
  • Added user counts to instance page by micahmo
  • Added additional medium font scale option by hjiangsu
  • Added moderated communities to drawer by hjiangsu
  • Added ability to share communities by micahmo
  • Added ability to clear image cache on startup, and manually by hjiangsu
  • Added experimental local push notifications on Android by micahmo
  • Added notification page to display individual messages by micahmo
  • Added ability to delete posts by micahmo
  • Re-introduced in-app browser as an option by micahmo
  • Added community icon indicator when posting is restricted to mods by hjiangsu
  • Added option for colourized usernames by ggichure
  • Added new unread comment indicator for read posts by CTalvio
  • Added ability to customize post card metadata information by hjiangsu
  • Added ability to search posts/comments from community feed by micahmo
  • Added setting to change image cache settings on Android by micahmo
  • Added initial moderator post actions (lock, pin, remove) by hjiangsu

Changes

  • Improved post/comment score formatting by micahmo
  • Adjusted the color of the delete draft icon by micahmo
  • Language selector now prioritizes current language at the top of the list by micahmo
  • Community selector shows suggested communities by default by micahmo
  • Prioritize favorites in empty community prompt by micahmo
  • Improved account log out flow by micahmo
  • Search page suggests alternate filters when there are no search results by micahmo
  • Account selector improvements and minor fixes by hjiangsu
  • Image viewer dynamically adjusts image zoom based on resolution Niranjan-Dorage
  • Added indicator for media downloads by micahmo
  • Indicate deleted posts by micahmo
  • Added inkwell to spoiler markdown by micahmo
  • Added option to navigate to new post after creation by micahmo
  • Improved handling for navigation to non-instances by micahmo
  • Adjusted search bar to match material design, and misc fixes by micahmo
  • Removed usesCleartextTraffic attribute on AndroidManifest by hjiangsu
  • Added locale code to app language selector by hjiangsu

Fixes

  • Fixed issues with images being too wide in community/user sidebars by micahmo
  • Fixed issues where post actions were not being updated properly in the search page by micahmo
  • Fixed issue where local featured posts were not being highlighted properly by micahmo
  • Fixed issue where subscriptions in drawer were not in alphabetical order by hjiangsu
  • Fixed an issue where you could favorite a non-subscribed community by micahmo
  • Fixed some issues with user navigation and error handling by micahmo
  • Fix some issues with the search page resetting by micahmo
  • Fixed some community/user name detection by micahmo
  • Fixed issue with advanced image preview not showing by micahmo
  • Fixed exit confirmation snackbar by micahmo
  • Fixed issue with creating cross-posts by micahmo
  • Fixed an issue with loading favorites on startup by micahmo
  • Fixed issue where feed FAB can be triggered on other pages by hjiangsu
  • Fixed issue where app language bottom sheet would fill full height by hjiangsu
  • Fixed issue with deferred comments by micahmo
  • Fixed search page keyboard on iOS by hjiangsu
  • Fixed post page failure when image fails to load by hjiangsu
  • Fixed inbox counter not reflecting true number of unread notifications by hjiangsu

Misc

  • Clean up linter warnings by hjiangsu
  • Updated instances by github-actions
  • Updated translations by hjiangsu
  • Added CI workflow to check for sorted translations by hjiangsu
  • Sorted translations in alphabetical order by hjiangsu
  • Refactored community and user avatars by hjiangsu
  • Reorganized files to their domain by hjiangsu
  • Refactored local settings to use localization strings by hjiangsu
  • Refactored thumbnail badges and compact post cards by hjiangsu
  • Migrated from gallery_saver package to gal for media downloads by hjiangsu
  • Created new feature request, and bug report templates. by K4LCIFER
  • Refactored snackbars to use overlays and remove dependency on context by hjiangsu
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12315554

Post is displaying URL image in Thunder but not Voyager

Hi,

I'm comparing Lemmy Android app clients and I'm between Thunder and Voyager.

I noticed something weird with Voyager. There was this post it displays an image in the timeline using Thunder but it doesn't in Voyager.

Is it some configuration that I need to tweak in Voyager?

Also, is there some config to display short text about the post if has image? Like some description below if available

Thanks

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

I can see the message but can't seem to actually reply to it.

Thank you.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

Still loving Thunder but there are two issues I'm having in creating posts.

When I enter an URL, the app gives me a suggested title but selecting it does nothing.

One community wants me to select the language. Again I can find the language in the list but not select it.

I hope you can help.

EDIT: okay, both of these features work on my phone but not my tablet. Both are Android device.

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