Hi, Between versions 319 and 343, the app has seen significant improvements in cross-platform federation support (aka PieFed), a more robust alert system, and enhanced link previews.

You can now watch for new content on Communities, Posts, and Persons. When there is a new Post or Comment you will get a notification.

On Piefed instances it will use the native API to get alerts, and on Lemmy instances we poll for updates in the background at the interval you set.

🌟 Big New Additions (319 to 343):

Community Alerts & Watching (v334): A major new feature under Settings > Alerts that allows you to “watch” specific communities, posts, or users to receive notifications. Enhanced Federation Support (PieFed/Mbin): PieFed: Added support for Community Topics, improved parent ID resolution, and better voting/profile handling. Mbin & Fediverse: Added specialized link preview tags for Mbin, Mastodon, and Bluesky to better identify content sources. Major Link Preview Overhaul (v324-v325): Link preview cards are now integrated directly into posts and comments. They now resolve internal links (Settings, Multicommunities) and display titles/icons for Lemmy/PieFed users and communities. List Banners (v341): Added new visual banners for the Inbox and Saved pages to improve navigation and consistent look and feel. Sticky Sorting (v320): You can now set and persist specific sort orders on a per-community basis. Sign-In Redesign (v333): The entire Sign-In screen was updated with a fresh, modern design.

Cheers!

  • NoTagBacks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    13 days ago

    So I’ve been having an issue on and off between versions that seems to have been broken by this update again. When downloading images, the whole application stops responding for awhile and takes anywhere from 30 seconds to a couple of minutes. If I touch anything in between I keep getting a persistent android notification that the app stopped responding even after the hangup is over. Before updating to this version, it seemed to work just fine and downloaded immediately with no freezing. I’m not 100% sure what version I updated from, but it’s likely the last one pushed to the Google play store. Figured I’d finally say something now that it’s come up again.

    • kuro@lemmy.caOPM
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      13 days ago

      Hi, thanks for the report and I will take a look! Is this happening consistently on all images? I think you’re on the main release and not the beta track?