I've created an issue to track this. I haven't looked deeply into the technical feasibility--SwiftUI has some powerful tools for reversing layouts to accommodate languages that scan right-to-left, but I can't promise this is a feature we can deliver without doing a bit more research.
We haven't changed anything, but it's possible your instance admins have made some configuration changes--there are some configuration settings that can mess with image proxying. The Voyager dev brought attention to this last week, plus put up a nice page about it--it's possible that the sopuli admins fixed their config in response to that.
This is correct. The GitHub releases feature doesn’t make a lot of sense for Mlem, since we primarily deliver through the App Store rather than via source downloads.
Today’s build is a bit delayed due to a deployment pipeline issue—it should be up soon. I’ve updated the post with a notice.
Update: The build is now live.
I assume you’re using compact or tiled posts in feed. We color the little arrow in those layouts but not the headline or large post layout (used in the post page) because the upvote button in the interaction bar is already colored, and coloring both looked pretty bad.
We didn’t consider that the upvote button might not be present when we made that choice, though—we’ll revise the design for the next build so it’s always easy to tell at a glance.
In the meantime, if you add the upvote button to your interaction bar (settings -> posts -> interaction bar), that should provide that readability.
I'm currently working with the admins to resolve this issue.
Update: We've identified the root cause and a fix is in development. A patch will be out as soon as possible.
Update 2: The fix is ready and just waiting on App Review to release.
Update 3: The fix is live. Thank you for your patience!
We updated the filtering logic in 2.0 to make it more reliably filter keywords around punctuation, but it looks like that broke multi-word filters. Sorry about that, we'll have it fixed in the next build!
The leaf indicates a new account (<30 days old). We also have an issue open for a setting to always display the age indicator, for which we'd probably need some new symbols :)

Thank you!
@sjmarf@lemmy.ml deserves equal credit :)