Thanks, it’s been an insanely busy month, but definitely worth it!

Thank you so much, it’s great to get feedback from a cross-platform user!

Thanks for posting this! It helped me find a bug in my app where it would download that entire file into memory while attempting to fetch metadata for the link. Whoops.

You can view instance and community modlogs with !arctic@lemmy.world

I’m not sure about Avelon specifically, but I am the developer of Arctic and since I’ve seen several posts about this issue in several clients with no developer responses, I thought I would chime in.

Most clients (mine included) rely heavily on opengraph metadata for generating link previews, and presenting in-line content. This includes information like titles, descriptions, direct image/video links, etc. RedGifs serves opengraph data on all of their webpages and this is how (i’d assume) most clients retrieve the video link for displaying the media in-app.

Well recently (in the last few weeks) RedGifs made some changes. They still serve all the same metadata, however the video link they provide will not load unless accessed via their API. Well this is kind of silly, why provide the link if it cannot be used. Anyway, due to these changes, I decided to apply for a client key for their API. They do have some restrictions as to what type of clients can use their API, but Lemmy apps on apple/google storefronts should fit their guidelines. However it has been several weeks since I applied for the API key, and I have received no response. I’m not sure if other clients have had similar issues or not, but I though I’d share my own experience with attempting to resolve this in my client.

My app Arctic falls into the free, closed source, privacy respecting category. I see what your going for as far as a direction for the community, but it is limiting for apps such as mine. Just because software is free, and doesn’t track its users does not necessarily mean it needs to be open source. Closed source software also does not equate to being nefarious or tracking users.

I’m a big fan of FOSS, and am working towards open sourcing components of Arctic, but I haven’t decided whether I want to fully open source the project.

What I’d prefer to see is requirements for post formatting. So all submissions need to include information about the client

• pricing (free) (paid) (freemium) (IAP)
• source (closed-source) (open-source)
• tracking (ads) (crashlitics) (anonymous) (etc)
• platforms (web) (windows) (linux) (iOS) (android) (cross)

I’m a fan of this community because it is the only one I’ve found that is targeted specifically at providing information about lemmy clients, and with the proposed changes, I see that information becoming more fragmented. I’d rather see changes along the lines of what I suggested, or similar, and then maybe a new community could be born (FOSSLemmyApps) which could be advertised in a stickied post here, and included in the sidebar.

Ultimately, it is up to you as the moderator, but I do hope you’ll consider feedback from the existing subscribers. Perhaps an open discussion, or a poll would be good for getting feedback about the proposed changes.

I like the idea. I feel that it would need a bit more to be used as branding for Arctic. The three dots on their own are not all that recognizable. I think they need a bit more to offer context as to what they represent, and to fill the blank space between. I am definitely a fan of the simplicity, and abstract idea though.

I may play around with that and see what I can come 7p with.

Yeah, I’d love to see what you could come up with. Even if it didn’t make the cut for a new default icon, I could add it as an alt icon.

This would be quite simple to add. The issue I have with it is that most of the app is heavily text based, and it would be difficult to add font sizing support for individual locations.

What I have thought about was font settings for different font styles. All of the fonts in Arctic follow The iOS design guidelines, so it would be fairly easy to add options to customize the size of the 8 different font sizes used in arctic.

In the mean time, as that may take some time to implement, I might add an option for increase headline size for enlarging just headline text.

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Yeah, that’s where the idea came from was I noticed while testing that the data was merged instead of replaced. For settings such as name and bio, etc, it is replaced, but lists like subscriptions, are merged.

Yes, this is a feature that was added to Lemmy recently in v0.19. Basically it allows you to export all your subscriptions, blocked communities, blocked instances, saved posts, saved comments, and account settings such as display name, bio, avatar, etc. It was added to offer support for migrating your account from one instance to another.

I just added support for this feature a couple of days ago, before that I had an option to import/export just your subscriptions, which I replaced with this.

In the next release I will add support for importing selected fields. So basically you’ll be able to export your settings from one instance, and when importing on another, you can select what you want to import, for instance if you only want to import subscriptions, and blocks, you can disable the rest of the fields.

That’s fare, I’m currently working on an update to add more customization options to the post feed cells, and improve the layout of compact styles. If you have any suggestions I’m happy hear them.

That’s a good point, I just really hadn’t received the feedback I needed to improve the mod tools ui until now. Thanks for the suggestions!

No problem at all. This is exactly the kind of feedback in need. I have a few moderators in the TestFlight that have given really helpful feedback, but I only moderator the Arctic community which doesn’t require much interaction. I definitely like the idea of moving the mod-zone to the inbox tab as that is a way more appropriate spot for it, and I will have it update the inbox unread badge as well.

If you want to join the TestFlight I could probably have these suggestions added in the next day or two.

Arctic supports all available mod actions, and also has a mod-zone in the sidebar. I do need to work on improving them, but the support is there.

[edit] it also supports push notifications for reports and applications.

I had the same thought, unfortunately the arctic community is not very big at the moment, so I’ve been waiting to grow it a bit before doing that.

Yeah, I made it a point to add support for split view and slide-over in the initial iPad support, by extension I believe that allows using stage manager. I am planning to add support for a context aware sidebar so it shows a sidebar relevant to the tab you are viewing. Also I want to support multiple windows so you can use multiple accounts side by side. I have a lot of other ideas I’d like to implement as well.

Unfortunately I don’t have an iPad that supports new iOS firmwares, so testing is tedious. Nonetheless, I’ll be working on this soon.

Glad you like it!

I’m also not satisfied with the icon, though I am not a graphic designer and I’ve been struggling to make a better icon/logo. I’m hoping by the next release I can either find a graphic designer to assist, or come up with an improved logo on my own.

That’s funny, I actually spent last night working on both of these ideas. The next release will allow hiding voting arrows and showing combined votes (score) in place of upvote/downvote counts.

Thank you! Embedded content has been a top priority for Arctic since day one. Hopefully soon I’ll have in-line embedding working for markdown so content can be embedded directly in markdown rather than appended below it.