It's been a month since v343 released (Jan 7, 2026) and there's been 54 app updates since then, so here's a quick recap of what's new in the app.

Big New Features:

• [Cloud Sync](Settings: Cloud Sync) - Sync settings via Google Drive
• [Contextual User Notes](Settings: Save User Note Context) - Add notes to users with context, so you can remember why you gave a user a specific note
• [History & Vote Tracking](Settings: History) - Track viewed content and per-user votes
• [Offline Mode](Settings: Offline Mode) - Complete offline support with sync, list selection, and optional comment sync, offline actions are saved and sent when you go online
• Link Previews Expanded Rich preview cards for links to more types.
• Piefed integration We now support the majority of the Piefed 1.6.0 API. This includes Topics, Feeds, Reactions, Flair, Alerts, AI/NSFL filtering, and some Piefed specific user settings.

What's next:

• I plan on finishing the Piefed integration (1.6.0) I still need to support scheduled posts and polls
• Possibly Mbin integration if there is interest

Thank you everyone for all of the support and suggestions, please keep them coming and we'll continue to make Connect the best app for browsing Lemmy!

Links:

• Google play
• you can support me here

-kuroneko

Hi, Between versions 319 and 343, the app has seen significant improvements in cross-platform federation support (aka PieFed), a more robust alert system, and enhanced link previews.

You can now watch for new content on Communities, Posts, and Persons. When there is a new Post or Comment you will get a notification.

On Piefed instances it will use the native API to get alerts, and on Lemmy instances we poll for updates in the background at the interval you set.

🌟 Big New Additions (319 to 343):

Community Alerts & Watching (v334): A major new feature under Settings > Alerts that allows you to "watch" specific communities, posts, or users to receive notifications. Enhanced Federation Support (PieFed/Mbin): PieFed: Added support for Community Topics, improved parent ID resolution, and better voting/profile handling. Mbin & Fediverse: Added specialized link preview tags for Mbin, Mastodon, and Bluesky to better identify content sources. Major Link Preview Overhaul (v324-v325): Link preview cards are now integrated directly into posts and comments. They now resolve internal links (Settings, Multicommunities) and display titles/icons for Lemmy/PieFed users and communities. List Banners (v341): Added new visual banners for the Inbox and Saved pages to improve navigation and consistent look and feel. Sticky Sorting (v320): You can now set and persist specific sort orders on a per-community basis. Sign-In Redesign (v333): The entire Sign-In screen was updated with a fresh, modern design.

Cheers!

MultiCommunities are here!

MultiCommunities are groupings of communities that can span multiple instances. They can be used to make custom views when you are only interested in a specific subset of communities but not the overall Local/Frontpage/All feed.

All of the existing Community Settings should also apply to MultiCommunities such as View Type, Sort, Mark as Read, and so on.

If you'd like to try it out please make sure you're updated to version 239 or above. Please let me know what you think and if there are any features you'd like to see added!

Sharing

All MultiCommunities are fully shareable. Here's the share link to my meme MultiCommunity above (this will only work on version >240): Multicommunity: memes . The format is essentially connect-multi://[multi name]/[community name @ instance]+....

Adding Communities

The overflow options now includes an 'Add to Multi' option. The community banner also has a plus button which will add the Community to a MultiCommunity. If that community already is added instead a minus option will appear here for removing that community.

Don't have Connect Installed? You can find it on Google Play here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect

Cheers!

Kuro

Hi,

Test

it's been a while since I've done one of these so this will be changes between 150 and 171. I've been focused on resolving image and performance issues mainly in this time but I also added a couple new things too. Youtube links now open in-app (configurable in settings), there's an option to remove special characters from display names which also changes bubble letters into plain letters, search results are now sortable, and mentions now show up correctly in the inbox.

Added

• Tagged comments (person mentions) now show up in the inbox
• Option to control where Youtube links open
• Option to hide special characters in usernames (and transform bubble letters)
• Added sort options to search
• Youtube links now bypass the webview and open directly in app
• Added experimental setting to highlight new comments (defaulted OFF)
• Added back navigation inside web views
• Added scaled / controversial sort options
• Added initial support for Lemmy 0.19

Upgrades

• Upgraded various libraries
• Upgraded Fliutter 3.13 -> 3.16

Fixed

• User Profile comment links on foreign instances now resolve correctly
• Fixed an issue clicking on saved comments from foreign instances
• Fix a flash when expanding images in some scenarios (not in cache)
• Fix a minor flash on user avatars and community icons
• Video Player bar text is now always white
• Fixed an image flash when a cached image is no longer held in memory
• Fix an issue with how I'm calling the Pictrs API on Webp images
• Added a secondary image cache for avatars/icons
• videos now start smaller while loading instead of taking up full height
• Fixed an issue where images could fail to load when clicked
• Fixed comment notifications not showing the correct comment thread
• Smoothed out the image close animation a bit more
• Possibly fixed a bug with clicking comment replies from the inbox
• Fixed a bug with the link handler resolving post card clicks
• When link handler resolution fails now loads posts from the remote instance
• Fixed a comment display error with inline videos
• Fixed a link handler issue where it could fail on posts from different instances
• Fixed an issue with urls similar to Lemmy format being mistaken for a Lemmy instance
• Fixed a crash related to link handler finishing before its transition completed
• Fixed issue with vote actions not refreshing post cache
• Refreshing post list now scrolls to the top
• Fixed an animation flash when expanding images
• Fixed a login issue with instances on v0.19
• Video player now mixs with other audio instead of taking over
• Upgraded various libraries
• Fixed an issue with thumbnails apppearing blurry
• Fixed a bug where links without any protocol prefix would crash
• Increased the cache size from 100 objects to 200

Thank you everyone for all of the support and suggestions, please keep them coming and we'll continue to make Connect the best app for browsing Lemmy!

Links:

• Google play
• you can support me here

-kuroneko