Boost for Lemmy

For some reason, when I opened my app today, communities that I previously blocked are now showing up in my popular and all feeds again.

I remember Boost used to have this feature when it was a Reddit client. If the code for that is still around, maybe it can be dusted off for this? :)

Im a long time boost user and finally making the switch to lemmy. I have an account on lemmy.world and lemmy.zip. Im noticing that when Im logged into my lemmy.zip account, photo posts don't load at all. It doesn't matter if its SFW, NSFW, local or on another instance, they all just show up as black picture.

This does not happen when logged into lemmy.world. Any ideas?

I've been a long-time Boost user but it's become almost unusable due to it failing to load images when using a Lemmy.zip account, possibly due to the Avif format. The app is updated infrequently, and people's reports of the issue have been ignored.

I've tried a few alternative clients, but none of them comes close to the experience. Summit can be made to look close, but still has weird color schemes and applies the color to the community names, making them stand out more than the post title. Voyager just uses the WebView on Android, feeling like using a web browser. Scrolling through posts in Raccoon is choppy.

What's everyone's go-to app if not Boost?

...it uses the %20% character sequence instead of the domain suffix dot (I think) which doesn't resolve to any site. Please kindly correct this small bug to help less technical users, thank you ! EDIT: this was when first adding my account, I've added the page for reference. I could not reproduce it now, so I'll update if I find it again.

Basically title. When I refresh my feed after commenting on a post, the post no longer appears. Either in my main feed or in the specific community. I can still see the post and comments by clicking through from my comment and profile. I still get replies and can post further comments. This seems to be happening regardless of instance, I've tried it on both lemmy.world and other instances so I don't know if it would be a problem with federation.

Or is this some setting in Boost that I have toggled?

I am on 1.0.28, but I saw a reference to 1.0.30. It's not showing on the Playstore. How do I upgrade?

It correctly logs the upvote, but it doesn't show that I've voted on it when I refresh the page.

Voting again will undo the initial action, but it will temporarily make it look like the score increased further, until you refresh the page.

This post

https://lemmy.zip/post/59130730

And some other image have a tiny green line on top of it too, it appear unaffected on web browser.

Edit: Apparently Racoon app also have the same issue for some?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/59348743

When using spoiler tags, if you add bold/italic formatting to the title, the title is hidden as part of the spoiler in Jerboa, instead of being rendered as a title with bold/italics.

Regular spoiler

Regular spoiler

Bold Title

Bold title

Italic Title

Italic title

The example that brought me here:

https://lemmy.ca/comment/21351153

Cross posted, because it seems Boost suffers from the same problem: not rendering bold/italic spoiler titles correctly.

Boost however renders the Bold/Italics and ignores the spoiler tags, while Jerboa just hides the bold/italic title within the spoiler, displaying no title at all.

When viewing tables that are hidden behind the 3 colon spoiler tag, they are not displayed as a table and instead displayed as plain text.

When I asked the admin of lemmy.zip about images no longer loading in the Boost app but everything loading when I switch to my account on a different instance, the admin speculated that it's Lemmy.zip's move to convert all images to Avif. The theory makes sense, considering the move is recent and Boost had no problem displaying images from the server earlier. As such, I'm requesting Avif support in the app!

I actually didn't even realize that piefed was supported, but I see some of you posting on here are on those instances.

I've been curious to try piefed, but haven't felt like switching app yet so just curious.

Tapping and holding an image in a comment sometimes brings up a share menu where you can copy the image link, etc. and sometimes it just collapses the comment. From doing some testing, I have found that whenever the image has alt text in the markdown is when it just collapses. So...

...an image in a comment written this way will bring up a share menu if tapped and held:

![](https://site.tld/image.png)  

However, an image written this way will just collapse the comment:

![a really cool image](https://site.tld/image.png)  

Is it possible to see who upvoted and downvoted a post or comment in Boost? Its a possibility on Lemmy, but there doesn't seem to be a function for it on Boost.

It seems that hyphens within instance links aren't recognized in Boost. For example, !Silksong@indie-ver.se is not accessible, as it is read as !Silksong@indie.

I'm afraid that I can't confirm it myself, as I don't use Boost, but a user here says that Boost apparently can't handle Threadiverse bang links where the hostname has hyphens in it.

He was attempting to follow !Silksong@indie-ver.se

Just wanted to get a heads-up to the Boost developers.

Thanks for your time!

Please see this screenshot:

As you can see, the floating button is partially hidden. Scrolling does not fix the issue. Nor restarting the app.

EDIT: just found out that the issue only happens when viewing posts. If I open a post, the floating button is fully shown. That is, when viewing comments, the button is shown correctly.

This has been annoying behavior for a while. When I click any post from the widget it brings up my previously viewed post. I then have to click back and go back to my home screen and click the article a 2nd time to get to the post.

Note: Clicking the home button doesn't help. The important piece is that I have to click back. It seems like the widget click on an article only works if the app state isn't in a specific article already.

The app in the screenshot is URLCheck, it is my "default browser" and allows me to see where a link is going and edit it or choose what to open it in.

It's showing that the ! link I tapped on the bottom of the screen got an "https:/" (one slash) put in front of it instead of being treated as a proper link to a community.

The same thing happens with @ links:

In settings there is a menu option under storage that has the description text "Change download location" but clicking it just gives the toggle for separate folders per community.

Have I missed the spot to change where photos download to? I don't want them landing in my pictures folder on Android.