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v1.0.32.1

21 May 03:22
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v1.0.32.1 is a hotfix to fix viewing threads on Frenschan. The patch notes for v1.0.32 are below.


Major Features

  • Global search (no specific board) for 4chan and reddit
  • Experimental: Text is laid out below thumbnails
  • Support for the iOS keyboard two-finger text-selection gesture
  • Option for full-quality image thumbnails
  • Searching for a specific board + ID in archives
  • History can now be disabled persistently
  • Custom font can be selected from local device fonts or from selected Google Fonts
  • Additional metadata filters for local history full-text search
  • Support for some new sites
    • endchan
    • erischan
    • kind
    • voidchan
  • Attachment caching updates
    • WEBMs cached on Android
    • Option to pre-load attachments when opening a thread
  • Option to show dates as ISO 8601
  • Added "Unsafe image peeking" mode
  • Option to disable overlays and gallery buttons
  • Popup to select from previously-used names/trips
  • Vertical two-pane split view
  • Option to show last few replies in catalog rows
  • Option to disable thumbnail loading

General Improvements

  • Title now has its own colour in themes
  • Support for showing more types of reddit images and videos in the built-in viewer
  • Images can be panned during pinching to zoom
  • Video indicator now also shown on GIF attachments
  • Reverse-image-search, report thread added to catalog long-press actions
  • Using a dark theme as the "Light theme" will now work correctly
    • Allows switching between two dark themes, such as dark and OLED black
  • Faster interface animation timing
    • Gallery image snapping
    • Thread opening/closing
    • Gallery opening/closing
    • Tree mode collapsing/expanding
  • Ability to move a thread from saved, history, or search panes to its own tab
  • Avoid lag re-opening large threads by deferring some work during the opening animation
  • WEBMs are re-encoded as a fallback if they can't be played
  • Data loss improvements
    • More clear errors when data backup is corrupted
    • Missing threads shown in saved pane, with button to re-download them
  • Better selection of archived threads, prioritizing archives with images
  • Thumbnail and full text available where possible in the 4chan native archive
  • Added "Google" search action to post text-selection popup
  • Tried to enable spellcheck and autofill where relevant
  • Back button to close catalog/thread search on Android
  • Swipe down on tab bar to close it
  • Try to avoid repeated Cloudflare popups from non-user-initiated requests
  • Hidden image MD5s list is the same across all different sites
  • Added MD5 hide/unhide buttons to the gallery
  • Performance optimizations for Saved Attachments grid
  • Android-specific scroll inertia physics
  • Show width/height and filesize of selected image in reply form
  • Arrow keys up/down to select boards in the board switcher
  • Hold on background to close all replies if "Tapping background closes all replies" is set to off
  • MD5 filtering now by default applies only to replies, there is a new option to apply it to threads as well
  • Switching between 5-letter and 6-letter captcha improvements
    • Automatically guesses 5- or 6- letter for each image
    • No need to re-calculate the solution when switching
  • Cross-site links as rich links
  • Alert message with confirmation after leaving the filter regex editor with unsaved changes
  • Captcha solver is a little more accurate

Bugfixes

  • History deletion menu could not be opened
  • Certain videos did not show the mute button
  • Reply field selected-upload-info was cut off on small devices
  • Thread flair was duplicated in catalog grid mode
  • "Status bar workaround" always turned itself back on if disabled
  • Saved threads list was grey and broken
  • Gallery opening when trying to search for the letter "g"
  • Loading watched threads was slow
  • The tab bar was glitchy after switching to another pane while it was open
  • Tab unread counts could get stuck after closing threads
  • Fixed loading attachments from some archives
  • Post # was shown in some places where it didn't make sense
  • Reverse-image-search for WEBMs didn't work
  • Threads didn't scroll to previous position upon open when in the History pane
  • Custom captcha solution was lost when going from 6 letters to 5 letters
  • Watched threads list did not update after clearing old threads
  • The "number of children" count for tree mode posts with multiple parents had an incorrect background colour
  • The count of remaining posts could be wrong in tree mode
  • "Scroll to post" was shown in a thread where it didn't make sense
  • Thread loading spinner in the corner was getting stuck
  • Opening links to boards would allow changing of the board
  • Tapping on spoilers containing links would open the link instead of revealing the link
  • Scroll-to-post not shown when gallery was opened from the vertical attachments list
  • The gallery opening animation was incorrect in some places when using square thumbnails
  • The title bar for the catalog had poor layout on small devices
  • Saving images to board-specific or thread-specific folders did not work correctly on Android
  • Opening your posts / you(s) in threads was broken
  • "Share" selected-text action was missing its label
  • Rotation was offered for square attachments
  • Right-click menu had buggy layout when interface was scaled
  • Filters were not respected in the local history full-text search
  • Cloudflare handler updated to fix posting on soyjak.party
  • Archive search options layout was poor on small devices
  • Tree mode "new posts above" was not calculated correctly when re-opening threads
  • Tree mode "new posts" was not calculated correctly when opening now-archived threads
  • Tree mode "new posts below" count could be briefly stuck when re-opening threads
  • Closing the gallery while swiping between images could show a messy animation
  • Some thumbnails for Hacker News were too small
  • Animation opening selected file in reply form was glitchy
  • Poor performance in scrolling attachments page
  • Board name not shown on /r/all
  • Suggested upload image was not cleared after posting
  • Problem suggesting an upload image when the URL was in the middle of the reply field
  • Reddit cross-posted images and videos were not shown correctly
  • Reddit images and GIFs in comments were not shown correctly
  • Pinned-to-top items were indistinguishable from highlighted items
  • Archive buttons were enabled even when the site had no archives
  • Tab bar auto-hide on scroll didn't count scroll inertia phase

v1.0.32

20 May 19:55
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Major Features

  • Global search (no specific board) for 4chan and reddit
  • Experimental: Text is laid out below thumbnails
  • Support for the iOS keyboard two-finger text-selection gesture
  • Option for full-quality image thumbnails
  • Searching for a specific board + ID in archives
  • History can now be disabled persistently
  • Custom font can be selected from local device fonts or from selected Google Fonts
  • Additional metadata filters for local history full-text search
  • Support for some new sites
    • endchan
    • erischan
    • kind
    • voidchan
  • Attachment caching updates
    • WEBMs cached on Android
    • Option to pre-load attachments when opening a thread
  • Option to show dates as ISO 8601
  • Added "Unsafe image peeking" mode
  • Option to disable overlays and gallery buttons
  • Popup to select from previously-used names/trips
  • Vertical two-pane split view
  • Option to show last few replies in catalog rows
  • Option to disable thumbnail loading

General Improvements

  • Title now has its own colour in themes
  • Support for showing more types of reddit images and videos in the built-in viewer
  • Images can be panned during pinching to zoom
  • Video indicator now also shown on GIF attachments
  • Reverse-image-search, report thread added to catalog long-press actions
  • Using a dark theme as the "Light theme" will now work correctly
    • Allows switching between two dark themes, such as dark and OLED black
  • Faster interface animation timing
    • Gallery image snapping
    • Thread opening/closing
    • Gallery opening/closing
    • Tree mode collapsing/expanding
  • Ability to move a thread from saved, history, or search panes to its own tab
  • Avoid lag re-opening large threads by deferring some work during the opening animation
  • WEBMs are re-encoded as a fallback if they can't be played
  • Data loss improvements
    • More clear errors when data backup is corrupted
    • Missing threads shown in saved pane, with button to re-download them
  • Better selection of archived threads, prioritizing archives with images
  • Thumbnail and full text available where possible in the 4chan native archive
  • Added "Google" search action to post text-selection popup
  • Tried to enable spellcheck and autofill where relevant
  • Back button to close catalog/thread search on Android
  • Swipe down on tab bar to close it
  • Try to avoid repeated Cloudflare popups from non-user-initiated requests
  • Hidden image MD5s list is the same across all different sites
  • Added MD5 hide/unhide buttons to the gallery
  • Performance optimizations for Saved Attachments grid
  • Android-specific scroll inertia physics
  • Show width/height and filesize of selected image in reply form
  • Arrow keys up/down to select boards in the board switcher
  • Hold on background to close all replies if "Tapping background closes all replies" is set to off
  • MD5 filtering now by default applies only to replies, there is a new option to apply it to threads as well
  • Switching between 5-letter and 6-letter captcha improvements
    • Automatically guesses 5- or 6- letter for each image
    • No need to re-calculate the solution when switching
  • Cross-site links as rich links
  • Alert message with confirmation after leaving the filter regex editor with unsaved changes
  • Captcha solver is a little more accurate

Bugfixes

  • History deletion menu could not be opened
  • Certain videos did not show the mute button
  • Reply field selected-upload-info was cut off on small devices
  • Thread flair was duplicated in catalog grid mode
  • "Status bar workaround" always turned itself back on if disabled
  • Saved threads list was grey and broken
  • Gallery opening when trying to search for the letter "g"
  • Loading watched threads was slow
  • The tab bar was glitchy after switching to another pane while it was open
  • Tab unread counts could get stuck after closing threads
  • Fixed loading attachments from some archives
  • Post # was shown in some places where it didn't make sense
  • Reverse-image-search for WEBMs didn't work
  • Threads didn't scroll to previous position upon open when in the History pane
  • Custom captcha solution was lost when going from 6 letters to 5 letters
  • Watched threads list did not update after clearing old threads
  • The "number of children" count for tree mode posts with multiple parents had an incorrect background colour
  • The count of remaining posts could be wrong in tree mode
  • "Scroll to post" was shown in a thread where it didn't make sense
  • Thread loading spinner in the corner was getting stuck
  • Opening links to boards would allow changing of the board
  • Tapping on spoilers containing links would open the link instead of revealing the link
  • Scroll-to-post not shown when gallery was opened from the vertical attachments list
  • The gallery opening animation was incorrect in some places when using square thumbnails
  • The title bar for the catalog had poor layout on small devices
  • Saving images to board-specific or thread-specific folders did not work correctly on Android
  • Opening your posts / you(s) in threads was broken
  • "Share" selected-text action was missing its label
  • Rotation was offered for square attachments
  • Right-click menu had buggy layout when interface was scaled
  • Filters were not respected in the local history full-text search
  • Cloudflare handler updated to fix posting on soyjak.party
  • Archive search options layout was poor on small devices
  • Tree mode "new posts above" was not calculated correctly when re-opening threads
  • Tree mode "new posts" was not calculated correctly when opening now-archived threads
  • Tree mode "new posts below" count could be briefly stuck when re-opening threads
  • Closing the gallery while swiping between images could show a messy animation
  • Some thumbnails for Hacker News were too small
  • Animation opening selected file in reply form was glitchy
  • Poor performance in scrolling attachments page
  • Board name not shown on /r/all
  • Suggested upload image was not cleared after posting
  • Problem suggesting an upload image when the URL was in the middle of the reply field
  • Reddit cross-posted images and videos were not shown correctly
  • Reddit images and GIFs in comments were not shown correctly
  • Pinned-to-top items were indistinguishable from highlighted items
  • Archive buttons were enabled even when the site had no archives
  • Tab bar auto-hide on scroll didn't count scroll inertia phase

v1.0.31

22 Mar 00:13
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Major Features

  • App database rearranged for faster startup time, reduced memory and disk usage
    • Full-text history search is now offered when searching the history page
  • WEBM transcoding rewritten for faster playback on iOS
    • WEBMs will begin playback before fully converted.
    • Most noticeable on long WEBMs (20s+)
  • Tree mode improvements
    • Duplicate subtrees are only shown once, it will move when expanding in another location
    • New setting to still show a post's content when collapsing its children
    • New option to initially collapse all second level+ replies
    • Performance improvements during scrolling
  • Support for Yandex and DuckDuckGo image search in the web image picker
  • indiachan.io support
  • Posts with new IPs are marked
  • New options for post displaying
    • Show "No. " before post IDs
    • Use 12-hour time
    • Always show day-of-week
    • Show post # in thread (enabled by default)
    • Always show spoilers
  • New options for general behaviour
    • Disable blur effects
    • Scrollbar on left
    • Disable rounded corners in catalog grid (enabled by default)
    • Consistent catalog grid image/text split
    • Close all replies when tapping background (instead of just the top reply)
    • Square thumbnails in catalog list and threads
    • Image downloading subfolder structure (Android only)
  • Scrolling thread attachments page can be pinched to adjust the number of columns
  • Filtering option for replies-only
  • "Dynamic" themes generated from Android's Material You colours

General Improvements

  • When closing a page, the previous page is immediately interactive
  • Swipe up on the bottom bar to open the tabs
  • Selected media information shown in the reply field
  • Reduced the amount of dragging needed to peek at images
  • Catalog thread counters always show on one line
  • Gallery opening animation now works in catalog grid mode
  • Reddit flairs now displayed
  • Captcha field now uses letters + numbers keyboard on Android
  • Can receive and open links as a share target on Android
  • Tree mode colours are now based on the secondary theme colour
    • This should result in more vibrant and distinguishable colours
  • Audio-only WEBMs/MP3s show a player on top of the thumbnail instead of a black screen
  • Archive source shown when in archive mode
  • Scrolling to show/hide tab bar is less sensitive to small scrolls
  • Added an explanation when getting the "our system thinks your post is spam" error
  • Filter editor layout improved for thin screens
  • The scrollbar is not as janky/jumpy
  • Gestures disabled near the edges of the screen on Android (to avoid conflict with system gestures)
  • Added a new icon on threads to denote which ones have notifications on for all new posts

Bugfixes

  • File previews were missing when uploading images with spaces in their path
  • Image maximum dimension was not respected when uploading
  • Filter changes not saved when going from Regex to Wizard view
  • Thread counts were wrong in the catalog when deleted posts were preserved
  • Fixed Cloudflare check on iOS 16.4+
  • Fixed loading images from 4plebs archive
  • Mouse hover popups were showing during scroll
  • Very wide images had thumbnails that were hard to activate
  • Tapping on a deleted attachment switched the whole thread to archive mode
  • Thread-specific user IDs could be displayed with poor text contrast
  • It was possible to drag the reply box to be larger than its available space
  • Loading more replies in a sticky thread could lead to them being missing reply buttons
  • Some reddit replies were not loaded correctly
  • It was possible to pull-to-select a board even when board-selecting was not allowed
  • Fix browsing soyjak.party after server URLs were changed
  • Switches were green instead of the proper theme colour
  • Wikipedia URLs containing parentheses weren't properly recognized
  • Reduced maximum number of parallel media conversions to try and avoid slowdowns and crashes
  • Tree-mode threads would not scroll to the correct post upon opening

v1.0.30

12 Feb 20:33
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Major Features

  • Cloudflare check fixed on Android
    • Any custom user-agent will be reset upon installing this update, as it's no longer needed
  • Push notifications fixed on Android

General Improvements

  • Deleted posts stay in the thread, with an added deleted indicator
  • Option to disable double-tap to scroll to replies in thread
  • Option to open board switcher without keyboard opening
    • In the board switcher's internal settings popup
  • Picture-in-Picture videos on iOS will move to avoid the thread navigation menu
  • The catalog page indicator changes to a search-close button when filtering

Bugfixes

  • Saved WEBMs couldn't be played
  • The initial tab wasn't visible in the tab switcher
  • When posts were deleted they got stuck at the bottom of the thread
  • URLs with 1-character domain names weren't recognized (like "t.me")
  • Symbols in country names weren't shown correctly
  • The video player glitched when dragging to seek
  • Board data wasn't updated if the board was set as a favourite
  • Couldn't scroll-away the board switcher after using a long-press on an item
  • The (You) counter in the thread indicator showed the wrong number in tree mode
  • Loading more pages showed an error in some variants of Reddit catalogs
  • Scrolling-away the keyboard in the board switcher didn't work
  • Some operations had no loading indicator, so it appeared like they didn't work
  • Download and share buttons were disabled on mp3s and mp4s

v1.0.29.1

01 Feb 15:55
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Bug Fixes

  • Paste action in the reply box didn't do anything
  • Count of remaining posts could be off by 1 in linear mode
  • There was an extra slash in thread titles
  • Hacker News code blocks had incorrect paragraph spacing
  • Board switcher configuration menu had bad layout on small screens

v1.0.29

31 Jan 23:53
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Major Features

  • Hacker News support (browsing only for now)
  • Incognito tabs (create by long-pressing the new tab button)
  • Push Notifications now use UnifiedPush on Android
    • Should be no change for most users
    • Users without Google Services can now receive push notifications via an alternative distributor
  • Board switcher rewritten to more easily switch between different sites
  • New URL attachment type for Reddit and Hacker News
    • Linked webpages show in the gallery and can be swiped-between
    • URL favicon used as thumbnail
  • Soundposts viewing support
  • Tree Mode rewrite
    • New posts since last update are highlighted
    • Button to scroll to new posts above current position
    • Duplicate occurrences of the same reply chain are minimized
    • Imageboard threads are scrolled-to previous position upon reopening
    • Lots of bugs fixed
  • Tab menu hides itself when scrolling down (there is an option to disable this)

General Improvements

  • More post actions, including "Unmark as You" within Your Posts tab
  • The gallery grid-view is smaller if there aren't enough images to fill the screen
  • Threads in row mode now have a minimum height
  • Swipe left/right on the bottom bar to switch tabs
  • New filtering fields
    • Capcode (Reddit mod status now shows in capcode)
    • Minimum number of replies
    • Maximum number of replies
  • New filtering action
    • Auto-collapse in tree mode
  • Thread title now shown inline in the OP
  • Regular font now used for country names instead of italic
  • Counters are now not dimmed on read threads
  • New button to clone a tab in the close-tab menu
  • Settings, board switcher, and catalog row-mode layout improvements for devices with small screens
  • Add option to hide default usernames in catalog
  • Warning before re-downloading a previously-downloaded attachment
  • Performance improvement when showing reply popup with many replies
  • The catalog no longer scrolls to the previous thread when reopening the app
  • Android back button will activate the Browse tab instead of exiting
  • "Contribute crash data?" popup not shown until app has been launched a few times
  • Picture-in-Picture video on iOS respects app interface elements
  • Ability to set a custom user-agent
  • Hidden Reddit replies can be loaded in linear mode
  • Thread position indicator acts as a "close search" button
  • Captcha number of letters is remembered across app launches

Bugfixes

  • The captcha form could be swiped away by accident when swiping on the letters
  • The veritcally-scrolling images page didn't respect filters
  • Marking a post as yours sometimes didn't show in the thread right away
  • Reply counts were missing from the gallery
  • Various issues where filters and filter updates weren't respected in counters
  • Error loading certain threads from 4plebs archive
  • Tree-mode collapsed-post indicator could cover up post content
  • Reddit strikethroughs and code blocks were not displayed properly
  • Captcha form icons were too big
  • Captcha timers were slightly off of the actual time a new captcha would be available
  • Scrolling-to-bottom of a thread in tree-mode didn't work properly
  • Attachment could remain in the thread-creation form even after posting
  • Sorting the catalog by reply-rate sometimes caused posts to jump around
  • An error was shown trying to load /r/popular
  • The URL matcher was recognizing some things which weren't URLs
  • The URL matcher didn't recognize some new/long top-level domains
  • Reddit thread suggested sort methods weren't respected
  • When filesize wasn't known, 0 KB was still shown
  • Video player timestamps shifted slightly during playback
  • Opening URLs could fail on Android if Chrome was not installed
  • Dvach greentext wasn't displayed properly
  • Tapping on dev-board notifications would re-open that thread even if already opened
  • Catalog-search links on 4chan opened to the wrong board
  • There wasn't any loading animation when fetching deeper tree comments
  • Subreddits showed as /sub/ instead of /r/sub
  • Boards were fetched from all sites on launch, causing extra network use and possibly cloudflare popup
  • Drag-and-dropping a PNG on macOS would sometimes lead to failures to post
  • Mute button might not show up right away in the gallery
  • Attachment badge (webm indicator) not in a visible location when in thumbnail-behind-text catalog grid mode
  • No loading animation shown when adding or removing sites
  • Spam-filter alert didn't wait long enough, giving some false positives
  • Mass-reply filter would hide OPs which linked to many other threads/posts
  • Tapping the thread/catalog loading progress bar wouldn't cause a refresh
  • Gallery was swipeable even when there was only one attachment
  • The reply count of Reddit OPs was wrong
  • Some VP9 WEBMs failed to play on iOS
  • The bottom pull-to-extend in the catalog was enabled even on boards that don't have multiple pages
  • Google image search was broken on Android
  • Youtube Shorts links didn't show thumbnails like other YouTube links
  • Link embedding metadata was fetched every app launch, now it will be every 10 launches
  • Searching within a thread didn't work well for tree mode
  • Poster ID button and "Pass since" text grew too large if font scaling was used
  • Notification initialization blocked app launch, so if there was network troubles it would hang.
  • Reddit URLs containing query parameters couldn't be recognized
  • Duplicate images could show in the gallery if opening from tree mode
  • Typing a quote or dash on iOS could insert a "smart quote" which might not be accepted on all sites
  • The "Quote in reply" action when selecting text was available even when replying wasn't possible
  • Reddit catalog subsequent pages contained the wrong content (didn't respect new/controversial/etc)

v1.0.28

29 Nov 00:39
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Major Features

  • Reddit support (browsing only for now)
  • Tree mode for replies
  • Per-board notifications for posts and threads matching custom filters
  • Native archive browsing (within the catalog sort menu)
  • Horizontally-scrolling gallery grid

General Improvements

  • Use separate API endpoints for red and blue boards (should solve issues getting captcha)
  • Automatic database corruption recovery
  • Reduced disk space usage by rewriting database
  • Already-read threads are dimmed by default
  • Paginated loading for 2chan.net
  • Push notifications respect filters
  • Option to disable keyboard learning on Android
  • Swiping to next image is now disabled if zoomed in
  • Rewrote the catalog sorting interface
  • Added settings-icon shortcut to swap list position indicator between left and right side
  • Captcha form now appears above tab menu, giving more space on small screens
  • Saved posting name is now per-board (any previous site-wide name will no longer apply)
  • Increased text contrast when using "Thumbnail behind text" catalog grid
  • Faster app startup by doing more loading in parallel
  • Splash screen matches theme colours during initial loading
  • Handling for posts suspected to be blocked by Cloudflare/spam-filter
    • The post will be kept in the reply box in case it hasn't successfully been posted
    • The posting cooldown won't apply
  • Added a button to delete all saved attachments
  • Push notification setup error shown on the Saved page to help in debugging
  • Video scrubber redesigned
    • Smoother updates
    • Drag anywhere to seek
  • URLs will be recognized without a protocol ("http://" or "https://")
  • Rotating images in the gallery now happens immediately
  • Tab closing now has a custom popup
  • Double-tap on replies to scroll to them within the thread

Bugfixes

  • Filter pattern field checkboxes weren't working
  • Holding on threads showed a grey box instead of the thread in the popup menu
  • Pressing space to move forward in the captcha didn't work
  • Received files were shown in the wrong order in the attachment picker
  • Unable to load certain images from arch.b4k.co
  • An error was seen when opening the app through "chance://"
  • Highlighted items would be shown regardless of the search filter
  • List loading error alert was shown even if the error message was already onscreen
  • Google reverse-image search was broken
  • Spoilers could have unexplained blank space around them in the catalog
  • Twitter and imgur links would show an embed loading even though they would never embed
  • Gallery position indicator wasn't readable in light themes
  • An error popup could be shown when sharing an image to the app on iOS
  • Some thumbnails from 4plebs were errored
  • Running archive queries could hang forever as there was no timeout set
  • Loading spinner wasn't shown during loading of individual attachments from archives
  • "Warning" posting errors weren't showing the option to check banned status in-app
  • Pressing "Scrolling to bottom" in a sticky thread could glitch out
  • Image count for sticky threads could be wrong
  • Gallery would contain images and videos from filtered posts
  • Suggested image could not be used

v1.0.27

03 Oct 21:47
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Major Features

  • 2chan.net browsing support
  • Translate whole threads at a time
    • Implemented HTML compression to increase amount of free translation that can be used
    • Translated posts appear inline with other posts

General Improvements

  • Catalog search filter is remembered across restarts
  • Checkboxes to enable and disable filters (comments them out)
  • Settings redesign with icons for each setting
  • Many performance improvements
    • Reduced size and frequency of settings database updates
    • Specific optimization for frame drops when opening and closing threads
    • Faster startup loading time by deferring some work over time
    • Specific optimization for catalog scrolling with long OPs (e.g. /g/)
  • Shorter animation when opening and closing the tab bar
  • Filters can select multiple output types
  • Android status bar gallery jank workaround is automatically applied and configurable in Settings
  • Added a button to switch between live and archived in the thread navigation menu
  • Upload file transcoding doesn't ask for confirmation, and doesn't block interaction
  • Version number now shown in Settings

Bugfixes

  • Crash when receiving notifications in the background on Android (for real this time)
  • Highlighted post colour would bleed into other posts
  • Notifications were received for your own posts if notifications enabled for all posts in a thread
  • 4plebs archive search returned HTTP Error 403
  • Various minor issues found through crash reporting
  • Freeze when changing number of captcha letters while letters are spinning
  • Problems opening gallery from a watcher thread with multiple attachments
  • File dimensions shown as "nullxnull" instead of hidden when unavailable
  • Error changing board when the current board failed loading
  • Catalog page indicator was going invisible under various conditions
  • After being open for a while, all images would be stuck loading
  • Various interface layout issues in Settings when font scale was increased
  • Problem tapping on posts in search results and saved posts
  • Strange graphical artefacts when using the image peek gesture
  • Issues scrolling in threads after switching from live to archived (and vice-versa)
  • Switching to a board with the same name on another site didn't work
  • File upload size limit wasn't respected on the dev board
  • Error solving captcha to check banned status
  • Progress bar for auto-thread-update showed the wrong progress after a post load error
  • Gallery could not be opened from the "Your Posts" pane
  • Video duration covered thumbnail when thumbnail was very small
  • Scrollbar not shown in search results
  • Loading spinner shown on top of gallery WEBM errors

v0.26

12 Sep 02:15
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Major Features

  • UI/Wizard for editing filters
  • Pull from left-to-right in catalog to open board switcher
  • Pull from right-to-left in catalog to re-open previous thread
  • Muting of in-app notifications on a per-thread basis

General Improvements

  • Faster loading of threads from archive
  • Cloudflare handler optimized to avoid server-side errors
  • Tap thread titles to show the full text
  • Haptic feedback in more places
  • Separate toggle for country name in catalog header
  • Option to find out banned reason in-app
  • Notification sounds and badges for iOS
  • Separate cookies used for Wi-Fi and cellular connections
  • Option to transcode WEBMs before playing on Android (helpful if device has issues with its VP8/VP9 decoder)
  • Option to move thread position indicator and catalog position indicator to the left side of the screen

Bugfixes

  • Search page fields could not be used
  • Thread position indicator was incorrect if OP post was very long
  • Problem with hiding status bar on Poco F3
  • Video thumbnail was partially visible behind playing video
  • Various minor bugs (thanks to crash reports)
  • Thread navigation menu would shrink to a very small size instead of scrolling
  • Haptic feedback would play on automated thread updates
  • Haptic feedback would play when thread was already updating
  • Automatic thread cache cleanup didn't function at all
  • Memory leak in Cloudflare handler
  • Crash reporter didn't capture fatal crashes on Android
  • App would crash in background on Android when receiving a notification
  • Tapping a notification to an already-opened thread watch wouldn't scroll to that post
  • Thread would update accidentally when closing reply form
  • Cookies were cleared unnecessarily often in some cases when pass was logged in
  • chance:// URL scheme parser wasn't working correctly for links from the userscript

v0.25

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Major Features

  • Fixed the captcha after serverside changes on Aug 25th
  • Added opt-in crash and error reporting
  • URLs to other imageboards and archives will be recognized and opened within Chance

General Improvements

  • Various performance optimizations, scrolling should be noticeably smoother
  • Initial data loading will be re-attempted if network becomes available
  • Added button to share selected text
  • Haptic feedback on various interactions
  • Images in the gallery can be dragged out from underneath the notch or home indicator to see the edges
  • Gallery loading spinner animations when appearing and disappearing

Bugfixes

  • Various things would go wrong after opening a thread within the settings pane on iPad
  • Links ending in a digit were navigating to the wrong URL
  • The image of the replied-to post could be visible underneath its replies in certain conditions
  • Streamable.com thumbnails were not working
  • Non-URL strings were being offered to open in an external browser
  • Current imageboard icon wasn't updating on the catalog page
  • Spoiler tag shortcut wasn't shown on all supported boards
  • Spoiler text was visible when supposed to be hidden in some cases
  • Thread watcher for development board did not update when opening app
  • Links with image previous had a poor layout when width was limited
  • Sometimes Chance-specific links (such as themes) would open twice upon tapping
  • Attachment options weren't closed after posting, resulting in "null" options shown
  • Keyboard stayed focused after starting a suggested archive search
  • Tapping on filtered threads' thumbnails in the catalog didn't open those attachments
  • Filtered items in catalog grid mode are now also in grid mode
  • Toggling scrollbars would cause the settings page to reset
  • Image loading errors weren't shown
  • Sometimes the greyed-out status of thread metadata counts wasn't correct
  • Thread subjects would shrink to an unreadably-small font size instead of giving up and showing an ellipsis
  • Error when playing many VP9 WEBMs on Android in sequence
  • Font rendering was messed up on iOS