Hey again!

From the very beginning, my goal with Thunder has been to make it highly customizable. Everyone has their own vision of the ideal experience, and I want Thunder to be flexible and feature-rich enough to make that possible.

Have you ever considered potentially incorporating some of the highly-praised UX elements, theming capabilities, and overall user experience from Sync for Lemmy into Thunder?

Thunder’s UX has been influenced by a number of apps, including Sync. That said, it was never meant to be a copy of another app. While I draw inspiration from many of the existing apps out there, my goal is for Thunder to stand out on its own. I know there’s always room for improvement, which is why I rely on community feedback to improve Thunder’s experience.

Given Thunder’s open-source ethos and active development, do you see an opportunity to potentially fill this gap by bringing some of Sync’s most loved features to Thunder, while maintaining your commitment to transparency and regular updates?

I do intend to keep building and improving Thunder while staying fully open-source. I don’t expect it to replace Sync, but rather to serve as a community-driven, open-source alternative for those who value transparency and open-source software.

That being said, development takes time. There are still many features I’d love to implement, but since Thunder is something I can only realistically work on in my free time, progress is naturally slower. Right now, there are only a couple of active maintainers (shoutout to @micahmo@programming.dev!) who work on Thunder. Additionally, I also have to balance feature development with moderating Thunder’s community spaces (e.g., Lemmy, GitHub, Matrix), which can complicate things further.

I’m not sure if this fully answers your questions, but I hope it does provide some insight on my general thoughts!

Hey there! Thanks for bringing this up.

Right now, I’m not sure if adding another communication channel (e.g., Discord) for Thunder would be useful. We currently have three different channels for different purposes:

• GitHub – For reporting issues, feature requests, and development-related discussions.
• Lemmy – For general discussions, support, and announcements.
• Matrix – For quick conversations and direct messaging.

Adding a Discord server (or something similar) would likely just increase the overhead for me, as I’d have to moderate yet another space. That being said, if there’s ever enough demand, I’d be open to creating one!

Thanks for the kind words!

will be patiently watching for future updates. :)

If you’d like, you can keep an eye out on !thunder_nightly@lemmy.world for any nightly updates (these are updates that happen more frequently, but might contain some more bugs than usual)

Hey there! I just tested it myself and there might be some confusion here on how this works so I can explain a bit further. Feel free to let me know if you still have any other questions.

The thumbnail URL only works when you’re creating a link post (e.g., when the URL field is filled in). This is used when you want to show a different thumbnail image than the one that Lemmy fetches from the original link. If you try to fill in the thumbnail URL for a image or text post, it won’t end up doing anything (this might be where the confusion comes in).

If you want to create a post with an image, you can simply upload the image (the button beside the URL field) and Lemmy will automatically generate the thumbnail based on the image you uploaded. Hope this helps!

Thank you!

Hey there! For videos, there should generally be a back button at the top left of the screen that allows you to exit out of them.

If you’re not able to see it, then it might be a bug with tablet sized devices. Feel free to submit a new bug report on GitHub with some more details on how to reproduce the issue/screenshots so that we can track this easier!

Thanks for the feedback and for the kind words!

Would it be possible to make pinned posts all compact in card view?

I think that makes a lot of sense! If you’re able to, can you create a new GitHub issue for this? This allows us to track feature requests more easily. Thanks!

Hey there! Thanks for the feedback - I recently started to notice this as well so I’ve been putting more focus into improving overall performance and scrolling! This is still a big work in progress so it might take a while before all these improvements make it out into a release.

For a bit of background, most of my time developing Thunder has been through an iOS device (as that was the only device I had access to). On iOS, I would say the experience is generally pretty smooth. Only recently did I gain access to an Android device where I finally started to notice some of the stuttering that you’re mentioning.

Hey there!

Thanks for bringing this up - I’ve created a PR to handle this issue here: https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/pull/1709. Feel free to take a look at the demo video in that PR and let me know if this is what you meant!

Hey there! As others have mentioned, there is currently no way to reply to private messages in Thunder. However, I have heard this feature request a few times, so I’ll try to increase its priority.

My priorities at this time is to add in additional comment moderator actions, so this will likely have to come after that is implemented. Hope that helps clear things up!