Hey everyone - I just wanted to give you all a quick update on what has been happening over the past week. It has been a bit quiet here, but believe me when I say there has been a lot of changes going on behind the scenes to get ready for the upcoming release.
A lot of work has been done over the past week, and an incredible amount of new contributors to the project. I am also in the process of working to get a general release out within the next day or two!
Here are some things to be excited for:
- Improved performance for long comment threads
- Improvements to the general UI
- Customization of swipe gestures
- More visual options to posts (viewing preview texts, full-width image previews, titles before media)
- Additional ways to share media and links
- Initial font size scaling for posts and comments
- Initial support for blocking communities
And a lot of changes under-the-hood!
I would also like to take this time to welcome a new moderator to the Thunder community! @poolitzer@lemmy.world
For those unaware, there is a nightly Thunder community which has more regular (but potentially more unstable) builds for new and upcoming features if you would like to check that out! !thunder_nightly@lemmy.world
If you would like to see the current change log for the full list of upcoming features, feel free to check them out here: https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md
Sorry again for the long delay between releases - it has been super hectic for me personally and I’ve had a bit less time this week to work on Thunder as I would’ve liked 😅
Y’all are gonna go nuts for this upcoming release - get hyped! It’s been awesome following along with the pre-alphas, things have been changing at an incredible pace “behind the scenes” :) excited to be along for the ride!
Hype!