Android Mobile App feedback for smallweb

[kesha-shah]

Hi Team, Kudos to you for launching the app version for small web! Its super cool and I am loving it :D

I have been using app for few days now regularly and below are some of my observations :D

Please note I am using Pixel 8 phone, so my feedback would be regarding android app on that device.
Happy to create separate issues if you feel its even an issue in the first place.

1. If a blog site takes time to load and I go next, mostly after 2 next button app generally crashes.
2. After app is crashed and I reopen, many times it gives me same blogs again (probably because of using random function and not saving state locally) but I would like not to re-read blogs which I have already read once because if I click on next multiple times in fast speed then it again crashes. Lot of times I end up going through same blogs and not able to read any new blog because of this.
3. Like button with red filled colour is a bit confusing because it gives me impression that this post is already liked by me but thats not the case. So there is no differentiation currently for the post which I liked vs the post which is not liked.
4. It would be nice if we can show like count on the post as we show on web.
5. when I like any post, there is small popup which says "Liked", is it possible to reduce the time it stays active? when I like and re-read the blog it kinda stays there for long time which impacts my reading.
6. I am loving the bookmark option!
7. "Liked" tag name is a bit confusing, I am guessing it is same like "Appreciated" before? Liked means my liked post or liked means everyone's liked posts?

Thank you!

[kesha-shah]

@libhide here you go!!

[libhide]

Thanks @kesha-shah! Glad you're enjoying the app :) Replies to the feedback:

1. That's odd. I haven't seen this happen for me at all. I'll investigate more. If you can provide any specific steps to recreate this issue, it would be helpful.

2. A strange one again. The app just fetches random posts using the random endpoint. Maybe the endpoint is behaving weirdly. I'll look into this.

3. (+4, 5) Watch out for the next update! Let us know how you feel about the interaction once you update.

4. Yay!

5. Yes, "liked" is what we use across the board now. The liked tag is posts that have been liked by other Small Web users. So, if you like any post, it will become a part of the liked tag/feed for all users.

Once again, thanks for the feedback. I'll take the look at the issues you pointed out.

[kesha-shah]

@libhide this is the screen recording for the crash - hope it helps.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b57e48e8-ee15-4553-89c1-a638fa08dbac

It happens more frequently when internet is slower and i select category (i.e Travel & Outdoors) and skip few posts by clicking next icon.

Let me know if you are able to reproduce otherwise I will try to give you crash logs.

Regarding 2nd point - Yes, it comes randomly because there is just one random() function which generates random value and that is regardless of user as its on server, but when pool is small those random numbers generally gives lot of duplicates. In web I tried to store hash of blog link in local storage and it does not show same blog again, it refreshes every time user reaches end of all blogs otherwise refresh every day. (I am not sure if that logic is still there though)

Thanks for replying promptly and looking into it @libhide !