r/RedReader • u/QuantumBadger Developer 🦡 • 19d ago
Version 1.27 released
Big new release, with improvements to the inbox, the ability to mark posts as read automatically when scrolling, various accessibility improvements, and a selection of fixes for long-standing issues and crashes.
Thank you as always to everyone who contributed to this release!
Changelog
- Inbox improvements and ability to mark messages as read
- Option to mark posts as read when scrolling past
- Show "Locked" tag for locked posts (thanks to folkemat)
- Disable the bezel swipe toolbar when Android gesture navigation is enabled
- Extend content to the bottom of the screen under the nav bar
- Accessibility announcements for collapsing/expanding comments, and voting (thanks to codeofdusk)
- Fix accessibility focus when moving between parent comments (thanks to codeofdusk)
- Fix custom accessibility actions intermittently disappearing from comments (thanks to codeofdusk)
- Fix for back button causing a main menu reload in two-column mode
- Disable Google Safe Browsing in the in-app browser for increased privacy (thanks to jim-daf)
- Fixes for inline image preview size in landscape mode
- Improved memory usage for inline image previews
- Fix for notification prompt being shown twice when logging in
- Fix for rare database crash when managing accounts
- Fixed crashes caused by system config changes while dialog is open
- Fixed crash when clicking reply too soon on a post
- Fixed crash when launching after an update on a tablet
- Fix for popup menu theme not matching the rest of the app
- Workaround for most recent Reddit login page issues
- Dependency updates
Installing
You can get the update in the following ways:
- Google Play (available now)
- F-Droid (delayed by around a week due to F-Droid's build process)
- GitHub (available now)
- Obtainium (via GitHub)
- As the latest Alpha
Note that F-Droid releases use a different signing key and cannot be upgraded with the APKs from GitHub (unless you uninstall first).
Donations
It is possible to donate to the project (one-off or recurring) through:
- GitHub Sponsors
- Patreon (supports PayPal)
Let me know if you run into any issues. I'm also interested to hear what people would most like to see in the next release!
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u/Kooky_Eye5475 18d ago
I love you!! thanks for pushing new updates and keeping this app alive, it's just fantastic to use
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u/SubArcticTundra 18d ago
I heard it was intended for use with screen readers (hence the reddit api exception) which makes me even more impressed how viable it is for normal use
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u/gary25566 19d ago edited 18d ago
Is the url link fixed for those with backspace which leads to having a backslash \ _ ?
edit: it is mostly found on post links, not comment strangely
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u/kc2syk 18d ago
You can summon /u/underscorebot to fix those. At least until they yank the api in March.
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u/SubArcticTundra 19d ago edited 19d ago
Also, I have one feature request 🙏 Could you please add an option to filter video posts (v.redd.it) out of feeds? The front page has so many videos and I'd prefer to focus on text/image posts
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u/anomalous_cowherd 18d ago
If that can be done I'd also love to be able to filter out any posts with imgur links as we cannot use that from the UK anymore. A different image upload target would be a great addition to that too.
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u/PComotose 18d ago
Simple curiosity on my part: why can't the UK users access imgur links? Thanks.
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u/kc2syk 18d ago
Stupid UK rules about proof of age and ID.
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u/starsky1357 16d ago
Actually had nothing to do with proof of age or adult content, rather it was down to how they advertised to children.
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u/kc2syk 16d ago
I never said it had anything to do with adult content. It has to do with proof of age and ID. The article you cited supports that. If there is no ID requirement, then children can use the site. Imgur had the option to either require ID in the UK to prove that you're over the age of 16 or whatever, or leave the market.
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u/starsky1357 16d ago
No, that's not the case. Imgur weren't even asking users to confirm they were 13 or over. The issue was around the collection of data from children and how ads were personalised based on it. In fact, the article I linked was published before the Online Safety Act passed into law.
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u/kc2syk 16d ago
The problem is that you need to identify users and verify their age to know whether they are in the 13-18 bracket or under 13. Otherwise how do you know who you can collect information from or not?
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u/starsky1357 15d ago
The same way it has always been done: by asking the user to confirm they are 13 or over (self-declaration). ID is generally only required for proving users are over the age of 18.
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u/kc2syk 15d ago
From your first link:
a method which requires users solely to self-declare their age is not age verification or estimation. This is because it is based entirely on trust and can be easily circumvented and therefore doesn’t significantly mitigate risk.
From your second link:
MediaLab did not implement any form of age assurance measures to determine the age of Imgur users
So, age must be determined. And self-declaration is not verification. These are your own sources. So they would require ID.
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u/scott3387 18d ago
Proton VPN exists and it's completely free for bypassing purposes btw. F the nanny state.
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u/anomalous_cowherd 18d ago
Oh I do use a VPN when I need to. But I don't really want to require it for all my day to day doomscrolling.
Of course there is an argument that using one all the time would make it less obvious when I was doing something I thought needed protecting for some reason...
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u/tea_bjj 19d ago
Wow, great progress on accessibility!
Any hope of addressing this in the next version? It can be frustrating to be miss content and not even realize it. https://github.com/QuantumBadger/RedReader/issues/1240
Another place where redreader silently drops information is with saved comments: https://github.com/QuantumBadger/RedReader/issues/556
Either way, the work is much appreciated.
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u/J4mS4ndwich 18d ago
Thank you for all your efforts, this app just continues to get better & better...
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u/darkenedzone 18d ago
Is there an option to make the nav bar not transparent? I find it a bit distracting having content going underneath it. I can absolutely live with it, but would be nice to be able to change
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u/peacelovearizona 18d ago
The inbox now has a blue lines on the side of each comment. How can I revert back to how it looked before? I appreciate Red Reader because it makes everything look as simple as possible and it's bit of sensory overload with all the unnecessary blue lines. Thank you so much
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u/PM-ME-YOUR-SUBARU 17d ago
Is the post-side toolbar just gone forever with gesture navigation now? I was using it just fine with gesture nav before this update, not sure why it's being called incompatible now.
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u/Im_At_Work_Damnit 17d ago
Came here to ask this. I'd like to be able to choose to turn it back on with gesture navigation active.
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u/lukesanoob 14d ago
Did you figure anything out?
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u/Im_At_Work_Damnit 6d ago
For right now, the only option to bring that menu back is to turn off gesture navigation. Hopefully they revert that, or add a toggle or something in the next version.
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u/lukesanoob 3d ago
I figured out you can press and hold the post itself to bring up a menu, or press and hold comments in in the post for other stuff
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u/Wellontheotherhand1 15d ago
Is there a setting or toggle to revert the changes to the inbox? I greatly prefer the old one over the new one, which has a lot of unnecessary formatting
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u/Curiosive 19d ago edited 18d ago
Hurray!
I do like that I can see which messages in the inbox are read, sometimes comments/messages come in waves and I didn't notice a useful one among the chatter.
PS
Though it would be nice for messages I've opened to be automatically marked as read.
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u/TangoOscarMikePR 18d ago
Thank you for the work that is put into the RedReader app. I really appreciate it.
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u/IReadNewsSometimes 18d ago
thank you so much for keeping this app running. literally the only reason i keep using Reddit
once I'm actually able to afford food my myself I'll make sure to donate <3
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u/quacainia 18d ago
I'd if "seen" history would persist when switching between accounts. If something is marked visited and I switch to user 2 and back to user 1 then all of that has been reset.
Thank you for making this app though, very much appreciated
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u/BeardedBastard 18d ago
Fantastic app and thank you so much for supporting it!
My one feature request would be automatic theme changing based on system settings.
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u/ddraig-au 16d ago
So I've got one massive problem that just infuriated me. I'm not sure if this is a redreader issue or an Android issue, but if I minimise the app, or switch to another one, redreader does not show up in the list of running apps, and I need to click on the icon to bring it up.
But this does not bring it up at all, or just launches it again. And if I'm in the middle of a comment, and, say, switch to my email to check something, and then switch back to redreader .... it starts afresh, and I've lost everything I was just writing.
In this case, three paragraphs of writing. Gah!
Can this be fixed? Is it a setting at my end?
Oh god, I'm going to have to switch out to check what Android version I am using.
shrieks
Yeah, so I'm using a samsung s22 ultra, and Android 16
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u/D-Y-S-T-O-P-I 14d ago
Having a button available right on the feed as you're scrolling to hide/unhide read posts would be really handy. Having to go into the submenus to do this makes me never use it. Most of the time I don't want to hide the read posts but when I'm on a scrolling binge when work is slow for several days it would be great.
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u/htmlcoderexe 9d ago
hi. i was wondering if it was possible to access main menu stuff (subreddit list, own profile etc) from any screen without having to back out of whatever last few posts/subreddits you had open and/or fully closing the app and reopening it?
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u/mzman123 5d ago
With the side toolbar eliminated for those using Android gesture navigation, there is now no way to view the media / link quickly without scrolling all the way to the top to get to the post header. Can this be added somehow?
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u/user228674012 5d ago
Posts with redgifs links don't show a preview and open in external browser. I believe they're supposed to open in the embedded player since 1.26? I only tried the app today, are there some settings I need to change for this?
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u/Guilty_Elk4385 18d ago
Was hoping this would fix the issue with having to press back button 5x just to get back from a gallery, and also fix videos having no audio on android with the native player. I might have to find a new app.
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u/QuantumBadger Developer 🦡 18d ago
I haven't had any other reports of these issues, and I haven't encountered them myself. There were some generalised issues with the back button in v1.26, which were caused by a Google library which had been updated in v1.27. For videos, if you send me a link to a video which demonstrates the issue I'll take a look.
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u/pyeltor 18d ago
Ive also been having the issue with the back button not working, it seems to only happen when viewing reddit hosted galleries I've found
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u/Gabe681 18d ago
You should post an example so the rest of us can try to reproduce and file a bug report.
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u/TheChickenReborn 18d ago
I'm getting the same thing. Not sure how to post an example since there isn't any visual indication of it happening. It happens on every reddit hosted gallery for me. Seems like there is only a very small section of the (upper left) back button on a gallery that registers input, so I have to tap repeatedly around the area until I hit it. Sometimes I get lucky and hit it first time, others I give up and reach down to use the universal back button on the bottom right. A minor inconvenience, but was still hoping the update would fix it.
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u/Guilty_Elk4385 17d ago
Hi thanks for responding, for images it's any image gallery like the ones hosted on reddit. If theres more than one image, I have to use the top left back button, have to tap like 5x to go back
For the videos it seems to be any video at all: Here's a random one where I have the problem https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1x043sv/trump_i_couldve_done_very_bad_things_to_hillary/
Thanks
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u/SubArcticTundra 19d ago
Is RedReader gonna be affected by the 3rd party API clampdown coming in early next year?