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What do you want most from the Interstellar app? (kbin.earth)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/fediverse@piefed.social
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With the PieFed API support having been enabled for about a week now, a lot of you have been trying Interstellar for the first time.

What do you feel is missing? What is the feature you would like added most? What pain points do you run into? Also, feel free to include what you already like about the app.

This is no guarantee, btw, I just want to get some feedback from y'all and hopefully we can find some points of improvement.

Lastly, there are a lot of PieFed specific features that are not supported by the API, and we obviously wouldn't be able to add support to Interstellar until they are in the API. We can still discuss them here if you'd like. Those features include Feeds, Topics, Polls, Flairs, Tags, admin/mod tools, and probably more.

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[โ€“] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Should be the default in my opinion.

The problem with that is that Interstellar is not only available on phones, but also on large tablets and desktop devices. So if we change the default to hide the UI, then it would also do that on larger devices, which is probably unwanted.

What we really need is an onboarding process / welcome screen, which would ask you to configure some common settings and add your first account.

Will you consider adding back gesture?

Possibly? Do other apps have back gestures as well? The problem here is if I added back gestures from post back to Feed, then would people expect it to work the same for all pages (like community page back to Explore, user back to user comment, etc.)? It seems like it would be quite a bit of effort to implement for all of those.

Additionally, it seems like having that back gesture would rule out having the possibility of feed swiping (being able to swipe on one post to get to the next) in the future.

IMO, back gestures should be handled by the OS, as if you swipe from the side out on Android, then it goes back one screen, and that's handled by the Android OS.

I'm not ruling it out, but I do want to get more feedback on the idea.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago

    if we change the default to hide the UI, then it would also do that on larger devices,

    Understood. Let's keep it as an option. I think the majority of Interstellar users would be on mobile.

    Do other apps have back gestures as well?

    It really depends on the app. I use Voyager and it supports back gestures everywhere.

    IMO, back gestures should be handled by the OS

    Unfortunately iOS handles back gestures differently. The problem is that without back gesture I need to tap the upper left corner every time I want to go back. With huge phones these days I have to use two hands to operate it.

    PieFed webapp supports back gesture (via Safari), and it remains my app of choice for this reason.

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