I had some mixed thoughts on Blorp that I wanted to share so I'll just put them all in this post.
Firstly regarding Peertube embeds. I'm not sure if this is something you can change, but in the iOS app the embeds use the Peertube player UI instead of iOS built in player interface. This only happens with the app, the web version uses the iOS UI. The Peertube player is a bit to convoluted for a phone so it would be nice to use the iOS one.
It would also be nice if you could add an accessibility text when posting an image. If this is implemented it would be nice if it functioned like in Photon, were you can add an alt text to links as well, so it works with external media.
A bug I noticed is after I moderate more communities the list on the startpage keeps jumping from showing the new communities and not showing them. This is on Piefed, but I don't know if it's specific to it and happens on the app and the web version.
When clicking the share button it would be nice if there was an option to get a link to the post/comment on the instance where it was posted originally instead of a Blorp link. Also I noticed that in the web version there is the option to "Share link to comment" that doesn't seem to do anything.
The favicon of website sometimes is the Blorp logo, sometime the favicon of the instance. Be nice if this was consistent.
The lightbox feed has been great so far, however when I use it I just want to see image posts not the thumbnails of articles, so it would be nice if there was a setting to filter these out.
One problem I see with it is that there is no way to unblur a NSFW image without opening the lightbox feed, which is inconvenient if you want to find something in the image mentioned in the comments.
When saving a post the little pink icon appears and I assumed that pressing it would unsave the post. This isn't really a problem, but it would make the UI more intuitive IMO.
I also noticed a bug were some long usernames extend out of the field when hovering over the user eg https://blorpblorp.xyz/inbox/c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world/posts/https%3A%2F%2Fpiefed.zip%2Fpost%2F491912/comments/1533646
Another thing I’d love to see in Blorp is the ability to automatically set the headline at an article as the post title
I was just trying to edit this post with the app and I got an error “Unexpected error status code 422”
That's gonna be it, I know this is a bunch of stuff at once but I just wanted to get these thoughts out
Thats a great list! If you're willing to stick around, I would for you to do quality assurance. You have really good attention to detail.
I would actually prefer this as the peertube embed UI is a little janky. I'll have to see how easy that is to do.
Yes! I want to solve a bunch of issues with create/edit post in the next release. You should also be able to add alt text for images in comments.
I'm not 100% I understand this. Generally more detail, or even photos, is better. Can you explain it like I’m 3 lol?
You're not the first person to ask for this. The only thing stopping me is I don't want to overwhelm the user with options, but I think this has to be added. Alternatively I was thinking about prompting the person that opens the link how they want to view the post. I'm not sure if the person sharing or opening the link should decide.
I'm aware of this issue. I think it reverts to the Blorp logo if your instance's logo isn't square, but I'm not 100% sure.
Edit: square wasn’t the issue. I think I found a fix.
It's supposed to filter out articles, but maybe the filtering is broken.
I agree. The issue is thers already like 6 different things you can click on within post, and adding more click zones is going to get confussinngggggg.
Not a bad idea. Though I might prompt the user to make sure they want to unsave.
Yeah.... I'm not sure the best way to fix this. Maybe I'll check what the other clients do.
We pull the html title from the url. If the url doesn't set the title to the title of the article, that's kinda on them unfortunately. Though I am in the process of improving this, so this might get better soon.
I think I know what this is. PieFed API has a known issue where you can't update a post that has an empty URL. I'm working with them to fix that.
Thanks for all the feedback! I would start working on fixes, and I would love to work with you on testing everything once it's fixed!
Sure
Yeah, it works fine on desktop but it's just not optimized for mobile
Good to know, I am existed to see how that turns out
I think making the person that opens the link decide might be confusing for non Lemmy/Piefed users
I tried to reproduce the bug but it seems to work now, probably something cached weird? Basically what happened is Blorp refreshed the list of moderated communities and then added the new ones, but after a few seconds it reverted back to the old list. This kept happening (the new communities being displayed and then disappearing again) every few seconds. It's working now so I presume it was the cache, but it the time it persisted between app launches and devices. Maybe an option to clear the cache manually would be useful
You said you found a fix so you may not need this anymore, but the icon changed without changing instance. Also sometimes it is the Blorp icon with a white background
I just checked, it's only on piefed
I understand, not sure how this could work. Maybe just an option in the three dot menu?
I can see myself accidentally pressing it
When on a users page the username in the sidebar is cut of if it is to long, without any indication (... or so), maybe look at that as well
I checked, appears to be piefed bug. I presumed it just wasn't implemented when I tried posting an article
Awesome. Thanks for the response, I'm happy to help test when my time allows