Hello! Thanks for the invite to test, I’m looking for a new app to replace the soon-to-die Liftoff and Raccoon looks like it might be going places.

I’ve written up a long list of notes here but honestly, overall I really like it and it seems like it has most of the features I need. Just wanted to be thorough with my testing so it’s a long list. Also I’m currently recovering from covid so if any of them are gibberish, blame that.

Again, just to stress, I really like the app and feel bad about how long this snag list is. Keep up the great work!

Bugs / confusions

• No way to see which account you’re commenting from <– putting this first because it’s a biggie
• Multicommunities seem a bit broken. I set one up, it took ages to load the feed, and now sorting by “hot” is putting 3yr old posts at the top 🤷‍♀️
• Trying to click through to old posts from the multicommunity feed, they also take a long time to load. Not sure if that’s due to coming from the multicommunity feed or just the age of the post, but it needs some kind of loading indicator rather than a blank screen
• I somehow got into a commenting UI while still logged out but couldn’t figure out how to recreate, it was while trying to click through to a post from search results
• Swipe to vote “works” on search results while logged out
• Vote and bookmark icons are shown when logged out even though they don’t do anything. Admittedly I am not at full brain capacity right now but it made me forget I was logged out and I thought it was just broken 😅
• The “plus” button to reply / scroll to top is also visible when logged out but does nothing when pressed
• Unable to scroll right to the bottom of some threads - I think this might be if the last reply contains an embedded image but will test some more and report back
• Scaled sort is an option regardless of instance version, unclear what it’s actually doing on instances that don’t have it
• Not very clear how to switch between feeds, looks like it should be the hamburger icon to the left but isn’t
• Can’t click through to comments by tapping comment icon, have to tap headline instead, feels a bit weird
• Unclear exactly what situation results in the “load more comments” button but most threads have it every couple of comments and it’s quite intrusive
• No indicator in inbox to show where the notifications are (e.g. messages, mentions)
• Having the link to your profile labeled as an instance is odd
• Swiping back from inbox or settings should not close app
• Swiping back from feed should at least have an optional confirmation before closing app
• Yes I accidentally close apps a lot

Readability

• Body text is very big by default, but changing it makes headlines weirdly small. They really need two different text sizes.
• Similarly, having all text everywhere be the exact same shade isn’t great in terms of visual hierarchy
• Comment indenting isn’t very clear especially since all the marker lines are the same colour

Misc

• App’s default feed is lemmy.world Local. Given how many users get confused and think “lemmy” is only their local server’s content, I think All would be the better choice there for onboarding purposes.
• Explore tab also defaults to Local which makes even less sense in the context of searching. Has the hilarious result of showing knitting posts top of a search for “crochet”, you’ll have the yarn crafts crowd after you for that one! 😉
• Zombie mode is interesting, but the default speed is incredibly slow and makes me wonder whether it’s actually supposed to be used or is just a joke feature

Questions

• NSFW is turned on by default in the app settings. But this is also an account setting in Lemmy itself, so I assume the account setting overrides the app one? That could confuse people, not sure it needs a separate app setting.
• What is “use dynamic colours” setting? I genuinely have no idea lol
• Is there a way to access account settings yet?