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🔵 Apollo Beta Build 247 is now available! Includes the Home Feed Freshinator, New Comments Highlighter, Richer Title Flair, as well as a variety of other tweaks and improvements. Please give it a test!
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Hey all,

I just released build 247 of Apollo as a TestFlight (it should materialize as version 1.15 to the public).

In this update there's quite a few goodies I'd love for you to test out and give feedback on. Feedback in this thread or subreddit is the preferred location, but you can also email if attachments or privacy are needed (logs can be handy, and you can send an email with them via Settings tab > About > Logs).

Home Feed Freshinator

Rebuilt Apollo's home feed to be much more dynamic, with a decrease in content that feels stagnant and sticks around too long. Still completely based on your subscribed subreddits, you'll see an increased variety in content, as well as an increase in freshness of content by bringing in new posts more frequently, or simply allowing you to refresh the feed to get new content.

Please put this one through its paces, seeing if you encounter any oddities like no content loading, or content duplicating, or just anything that feels amiss. Post here in this thread if it's super simple, or email via Settings tab > About > Logs which will attach some logs that can help me determine what Apollo was trying to do.

This is available only through the "Best" sort on your Home feed.

New Comments Highlighter

(May need to enable under Settings tab > General > Show Unread Comments)

If you read a thread, and then encounter it again later, in your feed Apollo will show a count of how many comments have been added since you last viewed it, and when viewing the thread, it will highlight the new comments. This is really handy for coming back to a thread later and seeing what you missed out on.

Richer Title Flair

Some subreddits elect to have images and icons in their title flair to better represent a specific flair (like "Happy News" with a smiley face or something), and before Apollo would just show this as a text approximation (for instance, :happyface:), now the imagery is fully rendered right into the title!

Other

  • No longer supports iOS 14. iOS 14 has had miniscule usage in Apollo for awhile now, and as of recently it dipped to well below 1% of users, so this version requires iOS 15 or newer. Having a newer baseline iOS version means devs are able to use newer iOS features (for instance every year there's really awesome advancements to SwiftUI) that make development easier/faster
  • Revamped the Settings screens a little, in addition to how it looks I also moved the Themes option into the "Appearance" section to reduce confusion
  • New icons
  • Should fix bug with home feed showing same old content from when you were signed out
  • If you select a paid feature Apollo now prompts you to unlock Ultra. This is an attempt to simplify because of confusion around the dual offerings (Pro and Ultra) in Apollo, where it'll hopefully be more simple/obvious what to unlock if you simply want everything in the app, which is better for most users than "buy this, then this". (Pro is still available to purchase though and can be done so through Settings)
  • Changed the icon for "Best" sort, firstly to somewhat commemorate a change in how the Best algorithm works in Apollo, and secondly because it's the primary sort icon that Apollo users are exposed to, and I've had a ton of feedback over the years that the trophy icon is not at all clear for "tap this to sort"
  • Open in Apollo Safari extension now works properly with old Reddit as well
  • If you have the option enabled to automatically collapse AutoModerator, Apollo will now properly collapse the comment even if it's not stickied
  • Revamped the live comment sort a little, so it should be faster and work even better
  • Exclude Subscriptions from Feed now works not only with r/All, but with r/Popular as well
  • Related to the previous item, added an option in Settings to always enable subscribed subreddit exclusion from r/All and r/Popular, so you don't have to manually enable it each time
  • Fixed a bug with Wikipedia preview parsing for non-English languages

Thank You

Thank you for beta testing the app, and as mentioned you can leave comments here, start a new thread, or email (the latter preferably do via Settings tab > About > Logs until I fix a bug with the big blue button at the bottom of Settings)

- Christian

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Thanks! Getting some crash reports for this, on it

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