Avelon update (1.0.2 b24) - iPad support, image carousels, smart link previews, user links and more! (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by evgiz@lemm.ee to c/avelon@lemm.ee

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Heyo everyone,

This update brings a few cool new features, most notably:

Smart link previews
- Now shown in comments and posts
- Previews for communities, users and regular links
Image carousels
- For posts with lots of images!
iPad support
Layout/ui tweaks
Bug fixes and other improvements

Check out this image gallery in the latest build to see how it works:

(just scroll through it!)

I figured (like some other devs) that some iPad support is better than none. Though the layout is not built from the ground up for iPad, it now fills the whole screen and pushes in some content. This is similar to how other apps like Apollo did it, and it looks much nicer than than a scaled up phone app. I haven't had time to test this version much, so please let me know if you discover any weird stuff.

The update also introduces a custom markdown rendering system that enables me to add things like link previews and image carousels. Seems to work pretty well now, but could definitely be some bugs with it for certain posts - if you find any, let me know!

Hope you enjoy the update!

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[-] shuntipepperment@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One more heads-up:

The link preview only enlarges the list if a page has too many links.. ( for 50 links it generates 50 link previews making the list to grow with 100 entries with duplicates )

My question is that, Is this supposed to work like this or anything can be done to reduce the list and nullify the duplicates ( Kind of inline previews maybe )??

Example:

Please check how the link preview enlarges the page by checking any one of the posts in this below community.

https://feddit.nl/c/trendingcommunities

Here this community shares 10-20 trending communities each days.

Noticed that Short and Medium Left swipe functionalities in gestures have been swapped ( Earlier it was Short for REPLY and medium for SAVE ),.. is it intentional or a bug ??

I felt the medium swipe for save was a standard setting across other lemmy/reddit apps and got used to it. 😅

this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2023

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