I hadn’t really thought about it before, But it only took about 5 minutes to add support for a lighter variant of dark mode. I’ll include this in the next release.
I am however working on customizable theme support. It’ll allow for creating custom themes and changing just about any color you want in the app. This is taking me some time to build though, and it likely won’t be ready for a while.
My pleasure! I did not plan on such a long list of changes, I got a little carried away. I had a list of issues I had noticed over the last couple of months, and I was just planning to address those with this update. After such a long break from the project, I wasn’t in a huge rush to release this update. That gave me the time to work on bigger features like Mac support, and embedded content.
Always a pleasure, I’m excited to be working on Arctic again after such a long break!
To be fair, that feature list was completed before the surgery. I just had surgery on Monday. I figure if I’m going to be mostly bed bound for the next month, I could put that to some use and work on Arctic.
I definitely burnt myself out towards the beginning of summer, that’s what started my taking a break from development. Then between work, summer heat, and my injury, it took me a while to get back into the groove.
Sorry, it was late when I replied and I didn’t notice exactly what you were referring to. I got sidetracked by the post not showing for you.
This is about the link preview in the post not being blurred. This is not exactly a bug. The issue with blurring content in comments is that there is no way to mark a comment or a link as NSFW on Lemmy. What I could do is add an option to blur all links and images in comments on NSFW posts. To be honest, I hadn’t really thought of this scenario before.
I did some work on this issue last night. I improved the logging a bit so that the error message actually shows the failure reason provided by lemmy rather than just the generic network error.
As for the issue, I can’t seem to track down why that would have happened. I’m on lemmy.world as well, and I have no issue uploading images. I ran some tests today, and I was able to upload some large images. There are some dimension restrictions as well of (10,000 x 10,1000) and (40,000px).
Do you happen to be using a VPN? I know lemmy.world had disabled uploads when using a VPN to help with illegal content being uploaded. If not, then there must be some issue I’m not noticing / experiencing and I’ll have to look into it further.
I did take a long break from Arctic development over the summer and I’m just getting back into it over the last couple of weeks. I’m excited to be back at it, and thankfully the surgery is not too much of an interruption so I can use some of my time off to push out some updates.
That’s possible, it could have just as easily been due to the maintenance I was on the notification server the last few days. I had the server offline several times during maintenance. I believe it is working as expected now.
No worries about the late response, hope you’re feeling better!
Sorry, I noticed this post a little late. I usually get notifications for new posts here, but I believe I was doing maintenance on the notification server when you posted this.
Anyway, it looks like you figured this out already. I would love to include an option to toggle this account setting in Arctic, however it goes against the AppStore regulations. I’m allowed to have a toggle for client side filtering and blurring, but not for changing the account setting. I’ll see about adding a status message in settings to notify users if NSFW content is disabled on their account.
The new TestFlight build is out now, I probably won’t be making a post about it until tomorrow. I just wanted to let you know.
Could you elaborate on the issue you are having with message notifications? I updated the notification server, so it is possible I broke something without noticing. I am actually using a separate server for internal testing of notifications, so there may be an issue with the production server that I am not aware of.
Thanks for letting me know, I’ll look into this and roll out a hotfix as soon as I can. Looks like we are both on the same instance, so it should be quite easy to debug the issue.
I had surgery today, so the update may take a couple of days. I’m not yet sure how the medication is going to affect my ability to focus.
I need to go through this update and do some more testing. I rushed the release a little more than I had hoped so I could try and get the update out before the TestFlight build expired, so I didn’t test it as well as I usually do.
Anyway, thanks for letting me know about this, I’ll let you know as soon as I roll out the next build.
Hopefully if all goes well in review, and review times are not extremely long right now, then I will be releasing Arctic on the AppStore within the next week or so.
Thank you to all the great testers for all your support and feedback!
TestFlight builds are not going anywhere, I will be continuing to push new builds as often as possible, though releases may change a bit. Going forward we will have RC (release candidate) builds which will be targeted at bug and stability testing to ensure updates are not introducing new issues into the AppStore releases. I’ll have more information on this when I release the next TestFlight build.
Arctic v0.2.7 is out on TestFlight. This update is focused on backend optimization and push notification features.
You can now setup notifications for individual communities. Notifications can by filtered by post keywords, post author, and post score. In the coming releases I will add support for more filtering options. To list a few, filter by phrase rather than keyword, upvote/downvote rather than just score, multiple authors, comment count, pinned(stickied) posts, etc. I’ll also be adding support for temporary notifications,community notifications that will automatically expire after a set amount of time.
Account notifications can now be toggled by type, you can toggle notifications for: badges, replies, mentions, and messages. This also adds support for mods/admins. You can enable mod notifications for new post/comment reports, and admin notifications for new user registration applications. note that user application cannot currently be viewed within Arctic.
You can now tap the title in any posts feed and quickly jump to a different community using the community selector.
Arctics Lemmy API wrapper has now been extracted into a swift package (Swimmy) for improved maintainability and so it can be utilized as a shared code base for Arctics Push Notification server. In doing so, I also added support for Combine allowing for improved error handling with the API.
I’ve migrated Arctics notification server to a new hosting provider. With the new provider, I may be able to offer all notification options as a free service provided I can sustain off of small donations. This would be ideal, as I never wanted to paywall any features in Arctic. I’ve also setup getarctic.app a new home for Arctic. The website is quite barebones at the moment, but I will be updating it as my time allows.
As always, thank you to everyone for helping test Arctic, and providing feedback. I know new features have slowed in the last few releases. Going forward I’ll be working on polishing the current feature set in hopes of an AppStore release in the next couple of weeks.
That’s great to hear, and I hope you’re enjoying Arctic so far. I actually started out using Memmy as well, it was one of the first apps available with a good set of features. I hadn’t realized that support had ended for the project though, That’s a shame.