Currently using Avelon 1.06 and I must say the QoL improvements plus the themes. Very very close to Apollo now in my opinion.

As one of the first users of Avelon, I must say, you have come a long way. Good job!

  • Jackolantern@lemmy.worldOP
    3·
    9 months ago

    I agree. It’s just that Apollo has been my go to Reddit experience for so long that I can’t help but miss it. But Avelon is doing a great job at making me move on

    • evgiz@lemm.eeM
      6·
      9 months ago

      What’s your top 3 missing features from Apollo? I’ll try my best to add them if possible

      • walrusintraining@lemmy.world
        12·
        9 months ago

        What I miss most in order: -Video scrubbing (apollo would let me swipe anywhere rather than just the time bar which I miss across my phone) -Sharing/downloading video files like pictures -Share as image (shares text posts as an image, and adds the title to image posts.) Share as image for comments (including n parent comments, and post details as options)

        What made apollo so great for me though was how smooth it felt, its optimizations, and its support for so many different websites and services. Overall, Avelon has been an incredible app even without these features. Thank you for developing it.

      • Num10ck@lemmy.world
        4·
        9 months ago

        for me its the heavy battery usage that needs work the most. also somehow for me the left swipes have sweet spots and dead zones. i could use landscape mode. lots of embedded pics in discussion threads are missing completely. when i want to view the discussion rather than click the link/image i click on the title but it often doesnt work. sometimes i try to click near the … underneath but that sometimes doesnt work either. what am i supposed to be aiming for?

        • loopy@lemm.ee
          1·
          9 months ago

          I definitely accidentally click the community, user, or link from the feed view when trying to just open the post. I think it would be helpful to have basically anywhere besides upvote and downvote from the feed view open the post, and then have the ability to click the link, user, community, share, etc when viewing the actual post.

      • I need NOS@lemm.ee
        1·
        9 months ago

        I’m a bit late to the party, but for me there’s one main addition that would make everything better: concentient options to share—or copy—posts as either links to the lemmy discussion or to the original URL. This is especially nice to have for pictures, where you might choose to send a copy of the picture itself or just a link the original.

      • censor@lemm.ee
        1·
        9 months ago

        I miss holding the search button to immediately open search+keyboard :) I know it was that way in an earlier build, maybe there’s a setting to re-enable it that I missed.

        Also thanks for adding swipe from right edge to go forward! Would appreciate a setting for full screen swipe for those that don’t otherwise use gestures

        • evgiz@lemm.eeM
          3·
          9 months ago

          Yesterdays testflight build added custom app icons, about 15 or so to pick from atm