Three Cheers for Tildes: App updates and feedback (April 2024) — Version 1.0 is out for Android!
This is a recurring topic for the Three Cheers for Tildes mobile app, which is currently in alpha testing.
I'll summarize the previous month's updates at the start of each topic, so people can read the updates and then hit Ignore if they don't care about more frequent updates and user feedback.
Recently:
Three Cheers version 1.0 is out for Android! (Mar 25, 2024)
- Submit topics!
- Added donation option in Settings
- Share links from other apps to create a Tildes submission
- Edit topic text
- Delete topics
- Require minimum Android 7.1.1
- Fixed refreshing feed after login/logout
Android v1.0.2 (Apr 13, 2024): Validate submission tags, fix submit UI bugs, fix comment UI bugs with horizontal rules.
Android v1.0.1 (Apr 1, 2024): Fixed crashes on home feed
iOS v0.11.3 (Mar 28, 2024): Fixed UI bugs and crashes on large iPhones (Pro Max series), particularly when using the in-app WebView browser.
iOS v0.11.2 (Mar 8, 2024): Fixed crashes in Inbox under the Comments tab.
Android and iOS v0.11.0 (Mar 3, 2024)
- Added sort options for topics
- Tap username on comment, and topic OP, to view profile
- View markdown of topic OP
- Fixed minor UI bugs
- (Android) Fixed wrong profile showing via bottom tab, after logging into a different account
Last month's topic: March 2024
Where to get it
Android version on Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.talklittle.android.tildes
iOS version on TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/mpVk1qIy
Reiterating my thoughts from last week: Thank you to everyone for your emotional support, and bug reports and feature requests. Version 1.0 is a big milestone for the app. Finally adding the ability to submit topics!
iOS version 1.0 is a work in progress.
To the people who've already donated using the new donation feature: Thank you very much for your generosity! It means a lot that people are sticking with the app and putting in a few bucks to say thanks.
The aggregate amount of money is really very small, in case anyone was wondering. But on an individual level I know how big of a deal it is to pull the trigger on giving your money away. I really do appreciate it a lot. Thank you again!
Thank you. I've been using it exclusively for probably 2 months now and it's great. Your RIF app was the one and only app I ever used for reddit so it's kind of sweet to get to use this one here. Appreciate the simplicity and hard work.
I might be too dense to find it, so there’s a good chance I’m overlooking it: where’s the donate option in iOS?
Thanks for asking. There is no donation option on iOS yet; I plan to add it in the 1.0 release.
Love the app. I appreciate all the work you put in for something you know will never actually be financially worth it. As soon as I saw the update had a donation feature I kicked you some money. Thanks!
Thank you for the donation and kind words!
Thanks for working so hard on this! I've been using it since release and somehow I still didn't recognize your username while on the minecraft server! No issues at all with the app so far, so keep up the great work!
Three Cheers is a fantastic app, really makes Tildes a fantastic mobile experience. Thank you so much for the developments!
Thanks for creating the app, could a custom amount be added as a donation option.
Thanks for asking. I don't think I can add a custom donation amount using in-app purchases. Google does let you buy multiples of $1 or $5 though. I don't know if it's worthwhile to add a sub-$1 option.
Ah not op. I was thinking something like buying cheers! instead of $ numbers. Like some apps have those Buy me a coffee IAPs. Three Cheers equals $5 IAP.
That's a fun idea. I might have to think about small perks to offer donors. In case the mindblowing "thank you" animation isn't enough.
Wonderful!
Great app and thanks for the work you put into it. It works.
I don't know I others feel this way or it's been mentioned before but I feel like the "back" button should be moved to the bottom left instead of the top left. The reach is a bit straining and not natural. Maybe swipe would be even better.
This is Android feedback right? Android devices usually have a hardware Back button at the bottom, so I kept the in-app back button in the familiar top position.
Some Android phones let you turn on a swipe-to-go-back gesture in system settings. Here are instructions.
Actually no, sorry I didn’t specify. I’m on iOS. But thanks for answering.
I believe swipe works to go back on iPhone. If you swipe from the far left edge of the screen.
Some screens in the app don't support that though. Like when a dialog pops up from the bottom. Is there any particular screen you have in mind where you would hope swiping to be added?
You know what I actually does already. I’m an idiot. Thanks and sorry!
I think I figured out the cause of a small cosmetic bug: the text of comments that have a horizontal line are a slightly different (darker) shade in dark mode.
An easy way to find examples of this would be to look at many of @nacho's comments. It's hard to notice the difference in their own, but the difference is more clear when seen in a chain of comments.
Wow good eye! I'll look into this bug. Thanks for the report!
I found a bug, sort of maybe, several times I tried to submit a post from the app but couldn't. I just got an error with no explanation. I think I was submitting an invalid tag (had a " - " in it) but I'm not sure if that was the issue the first time. Unclear if there's a way to make that error message be more specific or give a short list of things to try to fix if it's just generic.
If I had to guess that would probably be it. Tags only support alphanumeric (a-Z, 0-9) characters, spaces or underscores (which effectively act as the same thing), and periods.
that's my best guess too, but there was no way to tell that when submitting through the app!
Yeah, could probably do with a warning in the app similar to the one that shows up on Tildes site when you input invalid tag characters when trying to submit topics (if that was indeed the cause), @talklittle.
If there's no way for the app to tell why the post won't go through - the 'bad' tag gets flagged when you input it on the website but not the app - even just a "check these common issues to resolve the error" could be useful.
IIRC a similar sort of thing happened on Surfboard, another of the 3rd party apps, where it errored out in the app when trying to submit text topics, but still posted that topic, which caused people to click submit repeatedly and post the same thing over and over. So at least @talklittle's app just errored out cold, but didn't submit the topic anyways, and so didn't end up causing a wave of duplicate posting. :P
I mean, we only have one pun thread so hopefully 😅
Thanks for the bug report. The tags were likely the problem. The app can do better checking for valid tags before trying to submit.
Thanks @cfabbro for clarifying which characters are valid.
No worries. And glad to help. :)
One little quirk I noticed in the app, on edited comments it shows only the time of the most recent edit, not the original posting time.
App is great so far! The only request I have is to add a Dracula theme. Haha
I might add theme options eventually since people like to have that option. Don't know when though.
Is there a search functionality in the android App?
I could only find the option to search Topics and not posts.
There is no search functionality currently. As you said, you can filter groups, but cannot search for topics or comments. (The website does have search.)