github moffatman/chan v1.1.1-forked-engine
v1.1.1

latest releases: v1.2.9+116-forked-engine, v1.2.9+116-forked, v1.2.9+116...
2 years ago

Major Features

  • "Side drawer" is now the default navigation style on Android
  • Home board setting
    • You can set the app to always open at a certain board
    • You can also set the app to always open at the board switcher of a site
  • Image search via IQDB.org
  • Option for a button to open the "gallery grid" directly from a thread
  • Option for large centered post image thumbnails
  • Option to set a different language for translation instead of English
  • Added a "remove all watches" button in the saved tab
  • Lower data usage (fixed HTTP compression headers)

General Improvements

  • Soundposts rewritten
    • Should be a lot faster to merge video with sound
    • Fixed the video output when combining sound and still image
    • Sound download shown with cancel button in case of slow sound server
  • Better table layout on Reddit
  • Threads you create are indicated with a "(You)" label
  • Option to always show full filename instead of cutting off long ones
  • Auto mute now only applies while opening gallery, if you unmute it and swipe around the gallery, the sound will sway on
  • Option to auto-mute if on speakers
  • Sped up the metadata removal process when uploading
  • Double-tap left/right to jump back/forward in the video player
  • Video player gestures are now rotated properly when the video is rotated
  • Adjusted catalog grid layout when "Show more image if text is short" is off
    • Now the line count can be used to set a fixed height for the text area
  • New action to request desktop site in web image picker
  • Pull-to-refresh the thread watcher within the side drawer
  • Option for single-level thread-named image folders on Android
  • Media precaching skips files hosted on archives with strict access quotas

Tweaks

  • Don't show popup message when auto-changing file checksum
  • Don't lock "persistent side drawer" size on foldable devices
  • On iOS, playing videos will not interrupt background audio like music or podcasts
  • Files are saved with their original filename instead of their server-side filename on Android
  • Image rotation is remembered in current gallery session
  • Removed the misleading icons from undo popups
  • Reduced undo popup timer from 5 seconds to 3.5 seconds
  • Removed full-line-tap for ancestor quotelinks in tree mode
  • Switched to Android system API for back gesture conflict avoidance
    • Hopefully this works better for users with customized gesture settings
  • Disabled syntax highlighting on single-line code blocks
  • Allow open-in-new-tab from /chance/ board
  • Made it harder to accidentally swipe-open tab menus
  • The tab switcher animated its position too often
  • Adjusted the display of watched threads with "(You)s only" enabled in the side drawer
  • Added a button to open the board switcher when no board is selected

Bugfixes

  • Video playback and media conversion was broken on 32-bit android devices
  • Auto-size uploaded files didn't work
  • "Comment" label in reply field was in the wrong position
  • Search field could be cut-off when text scale was less than 100%
  • Some Android-style text fields displayed incorrectly when full of text
  • Picture-in-picture video position was wrong on iOS
  • Status bar icons were white with light theme on iOS
  • "Clover-style replies button" had a poor layout depending on text and image size
  • Error viewing some threads on soyjak.party
  • VP9 webm creation target bitrate calculation was too high, leading to stuck conversion
  • Reverse-image-search context menu actions were shown on some posts without images
  • Spoilered images on 1500chan would break the thread
  • Bottom bar gestures would activate even in iPhone home indicator area
  • Threads opened while history was paused were still indicated in the catalog
  • History-clearing from "this session" in popup was broken
  • Unable to collapse some expanded posts in "mouse" interaction mode
  • "Remove archived" button sometimes broke after undoing
  • Media playback features could break if caches were cleared at an unlucky time
  • Thread-title media folders didn't work in the catalog
  • Downloading images opened from a direct URL didn't work and showed a file permissions error
  • Keyboard popped up when returning to filtered catalog
  • Hacker News title missing from catalog

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