Nice, thank you.

Yes, I think Memmy had a revamp but I’m not sure of the details. I think it’s still React, but the devs mentioned “learning some tricks and how to avoid some mistakes”.

I don’t think I’m being sensitive though. First, I really don’t think a decision to quit Lemmy would happen soon. Second, even though there are several apps for it under development, as I said, they’re all at different stages of maturity and none of them cover all the bases I expect to use in the long term. I honestly hate having to reach around the screen to navigate, which is my biggest problem with all of them now that Memmy lost its gestures navigation. Then there are smaller stuff like Avelon not re-blurring NSFW after you tap on it. Or the crashes. Or the opening Lemmy links in a browser view instead of a regular view in the app. Some of these issues are shared between all of the 7 apps I have for Lemmy on my phone.

I’m going to give it time, I understand very well how most of these apps are side projects. My main concern is that either these apps eventually get abandoned, or they go paid/partly paid like Avelon, while still not providing me with the experience I expect to get. I don’t have the inclination to relive the awful experience Reddit forced us through for years with a different name.

Sorry guys, I think it might be my fault. 😂

A month ago I replied to the dev with a wall of text on how I felt like Avelon showed great promises but paying for something based on what it sounds like it’ll be in the future is a bad idea. I still think my position regarding this is right.

However, a few days after that, I decided to just do it with the lifetime purchase and hope for the best. Turned out that around that time Memmy’s devs revamped that app and haven’t added the number one feature on my list (bottom bar swipes navigation) and others are still planned to return. Avelon also went on a hiatus (I think it’s related to the rebalancing of pro features). Most other Lemmy apps are in different stages of having some stuff I like, but lacking most features I want.

Hopefully we’ll see updates again soon. I’m not going to try getting a refund or anything, but if this flops, I’m most likely gonna give up on Lemmy.

I personally find it rather infuriating that swapping those is made so difficult, and to this day don’t know who has more usecase for media keys and varied power buttons over function keys.

Non-IT people, who, believe it or not, are the majority of users out there. I’ve stopped keeping score several years ago on how many people had asked me how to bind F-keys to something else, but at that point things were like 100% of IT people wanted F-keys, while 70-80% of non-IT asked me for help rebinding them to other things.

I’m a programmer and these decisions annoy me as well, I’m just pointing to the answer as for why some computers come with the annoyance enabled (and often make it unnecessarily hard to change it). I’m by no means defending it. If anything, I think it should be up to the OS to have an easy way to change the behavior instead of assuming what the user needs and making it difficult to change.

iOS has that feature built-in. Tap on the notch/dynamic island and it’ll scroll back to the top of the screen.

What some apps (Tweetbot, Apollo, Slide, etc) implemented to make that better, is code for when you tap on the notch:dynamic island a second time, it takes you to where you were before the first tap.

Yep, Avelon is very good already. Thank you for the great work!

Ok, a couple of videos that didn’t load:

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/2724582 https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/2724527

And one that did not load and also made the player/app unresponsive (NSFW): https://lemmynsfw.com/post/1495824

I’m gonna reinstall the App Store version and check if the performance perception holds water.

Edit: No, you are right, it does not. The TF version is visibly faster than the App Store one.

Yep, this post was written from Avelon. Other than the lack of markdown support in the editor, it looks fine to me.

For #1, I’ve only had 1 situation where stuttering happened, which was after around an hour or so of doomscrolling. It wasn’t severe, but noticeable. Then I tapped on a video and the app went irresponsive, then I reloaded it.

The performance I mentioned is just slower scrolling. On previous versions scrolling felt faster than on v1.0.5.4. It may be just wrong perception, though. Lemmy’s instability has made me browse it less frequently. I’ll reinstall the App Store version a bit later and see if it’s just memory failing me.

For #2, both videos and GIFs. I’ll try to mark down which types (and host domain) and update you later.

I’m not normalizing anything and I didn’t say there is nowhere you can get unlimited plans. I said it’s not a thing of the past.

I too have uncapped broadband, but I know it’s not something I should fall into the trap of taking for granted.

Data caps are everywhere, I’m not sure why you’d think they’re a thing of the past. I believe the scenario is more like “you’re lucky if your plan doesn’t have caps” instead.

1.5T/month is uncomfortable though. One of my VPN services has a 1T/month softcap (speed drastically reduces after that) and it’s usually fine for my household, but one person going crazy on YouTube rabbit holes or us binging something on Netflix, pushes that limit fast.

Terrible scenario, but unfortunately I think there’s too much money involved for the right thing to be done and this kind of service getting the treatment it should have.

I think the problem is that just like you (and me), they might not know what their purpose is. 😂