Hi everyone!
First of all thank you for all the amazing feedback I have gotten so far. I was a bit overwhelmed by the response on my first release, but I’m happy to see so many people enjoying Avelon. This update addresses a ton of the most common feedback I have received with a lot of useful new features including swipe gestures, a new inbox and a new subscriptions page.
Changelog
- Swipe gestures for posts and comments
- Fully customizable! Head over to the new gestures page in settings
- Quickly perform actions such as upvote, downvote, save and reply
- Also added swipe gestures to various other parts of the UI
- Inbox to view your replies
- Quickly respond using gestures
- Quickly open the relevant post
- New subscriptions page
- More compact, grouped alphabetically
- Not a tab any more (reachable by swiping back in posts)
- Community links now work in-app
- Added ability to save comments
- No way to see saved comments atm. Coming later!
- Added customizability to thumbnail position
- Add option to enable more sort options (6 hours, 12 hours, 3 months etc.)
- Add option to show both upvotes and downvotes
- Added ability to save etc. from within a post
- Add swipe gestures to the in-app-webview
- Add purple accent color (yellow too in previous build)
- Reworked navigation system (no longer brings you to a different tab unexpectedly)
- Restructured settings a bit (will be more changes here over time)
- Fixes issue where your own votes would often be counted twice
- Fixed some typos
- Fixed alignment issues with tab bar
- Fixed overflow issue with some posts (hopefully)
- Attempted to temporarily fix ios17 reply crash
- Lots of other things I probably should have written down earlier
Screenshots
Known Issues / Future Features
- Adding posts
- Viewing profile pages
- Viewing saved comments
- Blocking/filtering
- Multiple accounts
- Adjusting text size
- And more stuff!
Replies have been crashing on the iOS 17 beta and I’ve added a temporary fix that hopefully resolves this (though it lacks markdown highlighting). I’m not on the beta yet myself so unable to verify or add a proper fix for now, will look at this once I get a device on the beta.
Given how many features this update adds, I do expect the build to be a bit less stable than before. If you encounter any bugs/crashes I really appreciate your feedback, either here or through testflight.
Hope you enjoy the update, and let me know what you think about all the new features!
Very well done!
App looks and feels really good already! I’ll still keep using memmy, but you are getting your app so close to apollo that I’ll probably soon switch over.
These are definitely on my list! For now you can use the iOS accessibility settings to change the font size, but I’ll look at implementing an in-app option as well.
I have an iPhone 8 Plus, and Memmy became unusable on my phone as it became increasingly resource hungry (it uses React native). With this latest update, Aveleon is now my default app.
Thank you!
Same here, Avelon become my default app of choice very quickly.
Apps like Memmy and Bean ( I liked this app for clutter free experience and giving more fonts options especially “Avenire - Font ” ) are draining more battery in comparison to Avelon with the similar usage patterns.
Also I like the clean and minimalistic layout of Avelon in comparison to the more cluttered Memmy.
Can’t wait to see this app grow even more.
Thanks for this beautiful app developer.
Thank you so much for the wonderful app. It’s a joy to use.
Awesome update! This addresses so many things that are all very welcome. Thanks for your work :)
Much needed features not on your list in the OP:
- Marking post as read when opening the post’s image in the feed
- iOS share sheet integration for images (please, if someone posts an image, let us share the IMAGE, not a link to the image or a link to the post)
Once those two are implemented I will daily drive Avelon as I really like the performance and the haptic feedback.
Here’s a couple nice-to-have’s:
- community icons in the feed
- text posts in the feed need a default icon like Apollo, at the moment the layout shift is too drastic
Marking posts as read when opening the thumbnail should be a quick fix, will prob include in next build. Haven’t worked with the share sheet so gotta investigate that a bit first.
Not sure about community icons, makes the feed a bit too cluttered imo. Might look at adding it as an option eventually, but not a high priority atm!