Key points

  • Message notifications are back!
  • A big refresh to messaging
    • Added a new unified inbox option “all” combining comment replies, mentions and direct messages
    • Quick action buttons are now shown for comment replies, mentions and direct messages
    • Comment reply actions (more icon) now shows the user and community rows (with additional options)
    • Comment replies now show the community icon and post title
    • Comment replies have had a visual refresh
    • Comment replies, mentions and direct messages can now be quickly reported and marked as read
    • Comment replies, mentions and direct messages can now be marked as unread
    • Added a quickly reply swipe gesture
    • Added page dividers
    • Your own send direct messages can now be deleted
    • Direct messages are now shown in threads

New

  • Added .webm support to the image viewer and image peek
  • Added “linked instances” and “blocked instances” to the instance chip group

Changes

  • Experimenting with always showing the community icon in feeds
  • Updated the reply icon

Github issues closed

  • View mode not updating properly #402
  • No messages returned snackbar doesn’t automatically go away #333
  • Add ability to disable “view more” toast messages #365
  • Allow images in comments to use shared element transitions #391
  • Add new app icons to replace the legacy S4R ones that were removed #389
  • Add option to swap upvote and down vote colors to match Lemmy #386
  • Username doesn’t show in the account picker if there is no display name #451
  • Account settings save button not disappearing after saving #448
  • When swapping between automatic and manual theming, some elements don’t change color properly #479
  • Override sort dialog shows cancel button twice #484
  • Username of non active account in account picker is empty #492
  • Crash on startup with latest update #445
  • Missing username in picker #478
  • Not showing link options properly and crashing when clicked #513

Other fixes

  • Fixed a title displaying issue caused by the recent change to titles
  • Fixed a crash when clicking link options on a text post
  • Fixed a bug where the description of the current messaging section in the toolbar wouldn’t update correctly
  • Fixed an issue with a broken lift target in messaging causing the status bar not to change color

v122 adds support for a super secret upcoming new feature…

  • @wahmingEnglish
    8•3 months ago
    1. An option to hide the buttons below each reply unless you short / long press the comment, similar to how the normal comment section currently works. That would compress the space each reply takes by quite a bit.
    2. An option to replace the post title with the context of the reply, what comment was the reply posted to? The post title is very frequently irrelevant to the actual discussion taking place.
    3. Have the same swipe options apply to replies as to comments. E.g. upvotes, downvotes, etc.

    Granted, I’m not a UI expert, so this is my personal feedback.

    Edit to add: This is not to say I hate the changes, love the recent progress on the app :)