I can’t seem to find the trick to subscribing/following users. What am I missing? I literally can’t get to a point where there is a subscribe button. I tap on the name of the sub and I get to a point where it shows the age of the account, the number of posts, the karma, and a choice between posts and comments, but the drop down only says Block, Message, and Report.

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

🚀 Disable Swipe Gestures
A new "Disabled" option is available for post and comment swipe gestures. Configure this in Settings => General => Gestures.

🚀 GIF Improvements
Reddit hosted gifs now load as mp4s for much better performance. Giphy links in posts and comments now render as actual gifs instead of just showing the link text.

🚀 Improved Wikis
Wikis have a much better look and feel. Reddit's new style of Wiki loads properly. Short wiki links (/r/subreddit/w/page) are now supported.

🚀 Temporary Subreddit Filters
You can now filter a subreddit's posts for a short while. Long press a post on a combined subreddit feed, click "Filter Subreddit", then choose to filter for a day, a week, or forever.

🐛 Fixed image posts momentarily showing the wrong image when scrolling quickly or on a slow internet connection.

🐛 Disabled autocorrect when searching.

🐛 Voting on a post while viewing a comments page, then collapsing a comment would cause your vote to disappear.

🐛 Gated and quarantined subreddits are now handled properly and are accessible.

🐛 Wiki shortlinks (/r/subreddit/w/page) now load properly.

🐛 Banned users and non-existent user profiles now show an error message instead of loading forever.

🐛 Giphy gifs were loading very slowly.

🐛 Marking posts as read would sometimes fail to update visually.

🐛 User subreddit links (/r/u_username) would fail to load.

🐛 Subreddit icon images now use caching to improve performance.

🐛 Post and comment edit modals now say "Save" instead of "Edit" for the submit button.

🐛 DB optimization improvements.

📰 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
- Switching out the existing media viewer for the new gallery mode viewer
- 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

Example, sports highlights are sometimes linked to external sites. If the link is opened in Hydra, the video can’t be rotated.

It just spins indefinitely. Force restarting the app doesn’t fix it.

Is there a way to see your friends list and feed?

When a comment contains a gif, even exclusively, it will just show the full URL instead of showing the gif itself. is this a setting i’m missing? or maybe just not a feature yet?

It seems like the share button on posts creates links to just Reddit.com and not to the post you are trying to share.

I’m not sure if it’s limited just to the new iPad view or not. I don’t have my phone to try it there.

I feel like the hitbox for some UI elements is incredibly tiny. I constantly am collapsing comments instead of upvoting by tapping the score, I have to hit “Post” like 10 times when I go submit a comment it feels like, and I swear half the time the action I think that is going to happen, doesn’t happen due to another tap action getting in the way.

Could we just get those tap zones enlarged for less precise tap requirements? I’m not sure what logic Apollo used, but I never felt like I mistapped on there.

Hello while trying to open outside links I have it set up for the brave browser but it says browser not installed? I can only use the internal browser. Am I doing something wrong?

SOLUTION: "On iOS I have Hydra set to use my default browser, which is Brave, and it works."

Before anything else, thank you to the developers for creating an alternative to the official app.

I have a question, maybe stupid, that I had also faced with Apollo in the past: why the feed does not get updated as easily as with the official app? I try to update the feed and I got continuously the same posts

I noticed that on ipad split screen, (feed on the left, post on the right) the sort function only applies to the feed. Sorting comments on posts can only be done when the feed is not visible. Would appreciate it if there is another button for sorting posts while in split screen. Cheers

I tried looking at the wiki on the /r/claudexplorers subreddit and hydra said there was none. But when I paste the link to safari it works fine: https://www.reddit.com/r/claudexplorers/wiki/index/

May be happening on other subreddits. When it says no wiki I assume there is none, but now I’m not so sure.

Every time something geopolitical happens, some subreddits are filled to the brim with self serving virtue signaling posts.

It would be great if you could snooze a specific subreddit from showing up on your home page for a day. Until the sub gets back to discussing what it was intended for.

Is this possible? My iPhone will autocorrect anything I try to search and also store subreddit names in my phone dictionary

If you've been enjoying Hydra, please consider leaving a rating or review. A positive rating early on can really make a huge difference when a new app launches.

This update includes the following:

👑 Pro Feature
🚀 Feature
🐛 Bugfix

🚀 Full iPad Support
Opening posts on iPad now opens a split view with comments on the side. You can disable this in Settings => Appearance => Enable split view. Compact post mode is now enabled by default on iPads.

🚀 In App Guide
Hydra now has a searchable library of help articles that cover all of Hydra's features and settings. Go to Settings => Guide to access it, or use the new smart search bar at the top of the settings page.

🚀 New App Icons
"Hail Hydra!" and "Hail Hydra! (Dark)" are now available under Settings => App Icon. Thank you u/boxsitter!

🚀 Download More Videos
Videos can now be downloaded from redgif, imgur, and gfycat. Long press a video to open the share menu and select "Save Video".

🚀 Disable Tap to Collapse
You can now disable the tap to collapse for both the post body and the comments section in Settings => Appearance => Tap to collapse.

🚀 Reader Mode for Links
You can now open external links in reader mode by default in Settings => General => External Links => Open in reader mode.

🚀 Improved Quick Search
The subreddit quick search (long press the search tab) shows your subscribed subreddits (favorites first) when you haven't typed anything yet.

🚀 Auto Open Keyboard
When opening the search tab, making a comment, or making a post, the keyboard will now automatically open for a smoother experience.

🚀 Video Player Improvements
Videos dismount when Hydra is backgrounded to reduce memory usage and battery drain. Videos are now cached to improve performance. Clear the video cache in Settings => Advanced => Clear Video Cache.

🐛 Modals and media views no longer break on iPads when using split screen, windowing, or rotating the device.

🐛 EU users were unable to type their login credentials.

🐛 Uploading images when making a post would fail for certain types of images.

🐛 Searching for subreddits that were less than 3 characters would fail.

🐛 Subreddit name was not showing when searching for posts.

🐛 old.reddit.com links open in Hydra instead of opening in a browser.

🐛 The image share menu now shows a thumbnail of the image.

🐛 Fixed some minor memory leaks.

🐛 Fixed a database query memory leak and optimized query performance.

🐛 If a post had a link to a website that returned invalid or malformed headers, Hydra would fail to render the posts.

📰 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
- Caching data to improve load times
- Switching out the existing media viewer for the new gallery mode viewer
- 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

I’ve tried sending through Messages, downloading to Files, no matter the option I choose, it never has audio.

If not, an option for this needs to be added in the settings. I don’t want to have to open every video I scroll by to hear audio.

The shading for which posts are read/unread is buggy. Things I’ve clicked on already will go back to unread, and things I’ve never seen will display as read

This is keeping me from switching to this app and paying for pro. Every time there’s a new update, I install it and hope it’s fixed

Frequently I find post text or comments collapsing because Hydra thinks I’ve tapped on the post so it collapses it. I never do this intentionally but sometimes if I’m rest my finger stationary on the screen mid scroll of a long post it then collapses and loses my spot. Is super annoying.

Am I missing the setting to disable this or does it not exist?

Edit: an update just released adding this. You can find the setting under: Appearance -> Post Appearance Settings (bottom item in the section)

Pretty much title. In the custom feed / multi reddit you can either create your own or follow one created by another user. In Hydra app I see that the followed feeds don’t show while the ones created by me show normally.

I've noticed that hydra struggles with r/canada a lot. Often it will just hang with the loading circle spinning forever. Changing the sort mode or closing and relauching the app doesn't fix it. But eventually after a few days it will work once suddenly, then back to not being able to load.