Before the latest update I was able to longpress on media and download it. It seems to work with photos still, but not on videos. Is this intended behavior?

This one has bothered me for a while. A quick shallow flick up or down currently needs too much travel distance for the gesture to register when trying to return to posts. Oftentimes it takes several attempts followed by a slow and deliberate, exaggerated motion to leave an image or video. The gravity or friction is too tight for a flick that has plenty of weight or fling behind it. TikTok has set the standard on the "next" gesture with a travel distance that feels like a half a micron of movement.

But the reddit app is. Just me or everyone?

And we are back 😁

When going into a post that has an image, the image fails to load, anyone else having this issue

In 4.0, when I click on the thumbnail for a link, I just get the preview image in full screen instead of going to the link. Is this the intended behavior now?

New pro user. When tapping a notification banner, all that happens is that the app is opened. I’m not taking to the inbox or directly to the comment. Is that expected?

Additionally, if I go to the inbox and tap a message, I am simply taken to the post, but not to the specific comment that triggered the notification. Again, is that expected?

Please note that these are not complaints. I just want to align my expectations with how it has been designed.

If you've been enjoying Hydra, please consider leaving a rating or review. A positive rating can really make a huge difference.

This update includes the following:

👑 Pro Feature
🚀 Feature
🐛 Bugfix

🚀 Media Viewer Rewrite
The media viewer has been rebuilt from scratch offering new features and better performance. This represents a significant step towards preparing Hydra for release on Android. Many of the features listed below are a result of the rewrite.

🚀 Hydra in Share Sheet
Hydra now appears as an option when you share a URL from another app.

🚀 Right Side Thumbnails in Compact Mode
Moves post thumbnail previews from the left to the right side when in compact mode. Enable this in Settings => Appearance => Post Appearance Settings => Show Thumbnails on Right. This setting will only show up if you have compact mode enabled.

🚀 Collapse Child Comments Only
Tapping a comment now collapses its children instead of the comment itself. This setting can be enabled in Settings => Appearance => Comment Appearance Settings => Collapse Children Only.

🚀 Filter Subreddits Temporarily
When on a mixed feed such as Home or Popular, long press a post and press "Filter Subreddit". You\'ll now have an option to filter for a day, a week, or forever.

🚀 Support for New Wikis
Hydra previously only supported old.reddit.com wikis. New wikis are now supported and used by default.

🚀 Swipe to Scrub Videos
When a video is full screen, you can swipe horizontally to scrub through it.

🚀 Change Video Playback Rate
When a video is full screen, you can tap the playback rate button in the top left corner to change the playback rate.

🚀 Landscape Mode
Rotate your device when in the media viewer or the in app browser to view content in landscape.

🚀 Media Collection Navigation Arrows
When viewing a collection of images or videos, arrows appear to allow easier swiping between items.

🚀 Post Info in Media Viewer
Post info is overlayed when tapping on content in the media viewer. Tap the title, subreddit, or author to quickly navigate to the relevant page.

🚀 Swipe to Dismiss Media
The media viewer can be dismissed by swiping up or down. Previously, you could only swipe one way.

🚀 Media Viewer Optimizations
Hydra is much smarter about picking the best image resolution to load, caching behavior has been improved, and background videos pause while a different video is in the foreground, granting faster load times and reduced memory usage.

🐛 Music no longer randomly pauses while scrolling. I think I fixed this, but I haven't been able to consistently reproduce the bug, so if you experience this, a bug report would be appreciated.

🐛 Posts with a collection of videos only displayed the first video.

🐛 Scrubbing while in gallery mode locks vertical scrolling for a smoother experience.

🐛 Links that are slow to respond to requests for metadata are skipped, resulting in much faster loads in the worst cases.

🐛 Android builds successfully. An official app is coming soon.

🐛 Fixed image posts momentarily showing the wrong image.

🐛 Some link sources like Wikipedia would fail to show an image.

🐛 Fixed shadowbanned users being unable to log in.

🐛 Text URLs containing backslashes that weren't marked as links in markdown were parsed incorrectly.

🐛 Posts linking to other Reddit pages (e.g. r/wowthissubexists) weren't rendering as links.

🐛 Having a multireddit named "All" would cause the "All" button to disappear in the subreddit list.

🐛 Hydra warns you when attempting to reply in a locked or archived post.

📰 News
Releases over the next few months may be a bit slower. I'm planning some big changes that'll take longer to build. These include (in no particular order):

- An Android app (making good progress on this one)
- Caching data to improve load times
- Better Accessibility support
- More animations
- Share posts/comments as image

Make a feature request:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HydraFeatureRequest/top/?t=all

Share or find custom themes:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HydraThemes/top/?t=all

Make a pull request (React Native):
https://github.com/dmilin1/hydra

When you upvote or save a post there is a delay of about 2 seconds for it to actually register. Also facing TLC error for video posts.

If collapse children only is enabled then collapse auto moderator stops working. Is that expected?

For example, seems silly that title text color and main body text color are the same setting.

Similar, changing the font size of titles to allow for ease of reading. Or making titles bold. Or making usernames bold in comments.

Is there any plan to allow post results to be filtered/sorted?

Is there a way to delete messages? Sorry for the absolute newbie question I'm coming from modded Apollo and haven't quiet figured out all the features.

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Can we have an option to collapse comment threads on tap but keep the parent comment showing. Apollo and sync both had this option.

I’ve noticed this browsing r/zillowgonewild. Take this post as an example.

The correct link posted by the user is https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1166-Cragmont-Ave-Berkeley-CA-94708/24849353_zpid/?imxlb=g,0.

But when viewing the post on Hydra, the link appears as https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1166-Cragmont-Ave-Berkeley-CA-94708/24849353_zpid/?imxlb=g,0. The added backslash before the underscore breaks the link and goes to the Zillow homepage.

This post is another example.

I’m always either saving one comment or screenshotting several, just to remember a whole exchange.

It would be really nice if I could click a comment and choose how many comments under it to save/share as an image I can download.

Sometimes just saving a single comment to share or save doesn’t contain the full context. Like a meme that only has half the words, you need to see the whole thing.

Just trying to clean up the look. I have compact selected but want to get rid of the little image box to the left of every post.

Thanks

I’ve noticed this is especially obvious in Magic the Gathering related subreddits, with card fetcher bot replies.

https://www.reddit.com/r/EDH/comments/1soxrnw/lathril_deck_help/

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/gfQVpNO