Maybe it’s just me but the swiping to up/downvote is incredibly frustrating to use. I find myself accidentally downvoting often. My other issue is that the votes don’t register immediately, so most of the time I can’t tell whether I didn’t swipe far enough or if it didn’t register yet and end up probably swiping 5 times before giving up.

Am I using it wrong? Are there plans to allow for buttons in the future?

Otherwise I am really digging the client. Would like it if the community name was highlighted in a different color when scrolling all too, but otherwise it’s great!

  • darklightxi@lemmy.worldM
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    2 years ago

    Hey! I’m sorry to hear that - I’ll definitely be working on ways to improve the experience for swiping gestures, and I plan to also add in buttons as replacements for those who prefer to do it that way!

    There’s some things I can do to maybe help with swiping:

    • I can increase the distance between the first and second action, so that you have to be more deliberate if you want to downvote a post or comment
    • I am currently working on making the feedback of the vote to be instantaneous, which will let you know if you’ve performed the action! The actual voting will take some time in the background depending on how fast your instance is (but if something fails, it’ll pop up with a message mentioning that)

    Those two points will most likely come with the next release - as for the button actions, that one will hopefully come in a future update! If you have any other suggestions, please feel free to let me know 😄

    • WildlyCanadian@lemmy.ca
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      2 years ago

      Buttons to replace the swiping gestures would make the app perfect for me honestly. Getting used to the gestures now, but I like me buttons.

      Oh and I keep accidentally closing the app by hitting back when I’m on the search tab or the profile tab. Would be cool if back went to the homepage, and if there was a confirmation message to close the app like in RIF. There’s probably more important stuff to work on though so I’ll be patient and watch the progress :)

      Cycled through a bunch of Lemmy apps before settling on this one. Great work! Particularly love the Material You integration so the app matches the rest of my Pixel nicely :)