v0.9.7 beta

fixed up settings, and I made the bug reporter functional (find it in settings!).

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What Happened:

Architecture / Correctness Fixes

• highlights fixed up - hard to explain, just look at it. it's actually legible now!
• removed a bunch of stale settings that didn't do much
• reworded some stuff

New Features

• you can search settings!
• notifs temp mute setting
• report bugs from the app
• local analytics is now opt-in (performance)
• chatterino, dankchat, chatsen badges (I forgot earlier)
• channel emotes grouped by provider
• unlisted 7tv emotes setting is on by default
• user card default name copy is off

Also Fixed

• user card opens better (removed jitter)
• login retry after cancelling

gearing up for the proxy / pings, but that's a big project. will come soon.
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v0.9.6 beta

cleanup, some fixes / ux.

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What Happened:

Architecture / Correctness Fixes

• KEYBOARD BUG IS FIXED!! for the millionth time, but it actually isn't laggy anymore (I think). fix: just add a timer to prop it to 60fps
• performance audit, fixed some bugs / optimized small things
• stream doesn't reload on PiP anymore
• fix liquid glass jump to bottom bug with globalkey
• 7tv emotes get recorded to disk when live appended
• name paints show properly
• general bugfixes

New Features

• make ios keyboard dismiss easier

Also Fixed

• fix layout nitpick in emote settings (small screens)
• PiP improvements
• fewer network traffic on reconnect

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v0.9.5 beta

More ux fixes, emote fixes, a bit of optimization.

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What Happened:

Architecture / Correctness Fixes

• emotes share one clock
• chat rows optimization (less rebuilds)
• emotes scrolled off screen stop animating
• decoded emote cache freed when you leave app (cheap ram saver)
• removed extra engine spin-up when you background the app

New Features

• limerino badge
• 7tv presence updates properly
• idle emote fps slider, customizability yay

Also Fixed

• personal 7tv emotes missing on user first message
• animated emotes wrong timing until restart
• emote preview restarting animation when 2x -> 4x
• about half of 7tv paints rendering wrong (striped and radial ones)
• idle freeze now pauses twitch gifs too
• battery saver properly caps emote fps
• versioncode jump to 410 for f-droid

Smaller patch this time
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v0.9.4 beta

moderate improvements, mainly tiny details in ui and a few accessibility improvements.

new:

• mod view is better now (less buggy), fixes in ux
• mod status updated live
• custom compact layout instead of 2 presets
• adaptive emote fps (cap 60, so it doesn't drain your battery on 120fps screens)

polish:

• add IME send button
• fix input bar look on iOS, and in general (liquid glass)
• fix fullscreen / input bar hide animation, and ui regarding it in general
• fix liquid glass consistency

fixes:

• autocomplete updates properly if you leave a channel
• twitch emotes "created by" removed
• anonymous chat redirects in ermchat-server backend

that's all for now, just tiny nitpicks.
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v0.9.3 beta

small bug fixes + CI fixes.

New:

• compact layout for small phones
• username overhaul (easier to tap) - tried to add double tap to copy but will fix in next release

fixed:

• keyboard no longer closes immediately
• fixed webview streams on iOS
• fixed invisible char stripping for wrapping text and copying msgs
• top bar / input bar animate smoothly
• input bar glow works fine now

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v0.9.2 beta

fixed CI

v0.9.1 beta

Some UI / UX fixes mainly. I fixed a couple bugs and streamlined emotes and keyboard and whatnot.

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What Happened:

Architecture / Correctness Fixes

• fix slow mode countdown
• fix thread tab
• fix recently used emotes populating logic
• optimize emote loading
• optimize liquid glass loading
• fix inline text fallback for non-loaded emotes
• fix chat pause behaviour + make it more optimized

New Features

• make liquid glass more polished
• replying to widget looks better
• edit channels in channel list
• #channel shows up in mentions
• input bar glow
• add (experimental) link to proxy backend - does not have a backend up yet
• badge info

Also Fixed

• optimize user card history (defer load)
• low ram setting for img cache
• optimize 7tv name paints
• optimize message rows
• skip double emote rebuild
• reduced per-message work / rebuilds

It's (again) a rather large patch, and I would probably call it v0.10.0 if it wasn't for the rather lacking front-end updates / new features.
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v0.9.0 beta

Mainly churn behind the scenes, large correctness / performance upgrades, and many things fixed. it's far more stable now, and code is better quality.

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What Happened:

Architecture / Correctness Fixes

• chat diff works correctly (unloaded messages now resolve with correct emotes)
• emotes unified into one hub, stream emotes from decoder instead of storing in memory (big memory savings!)
• fix where emotes are sorted in emote menu
• refactor chat pipeline completely, to ensure consistency and clean out persistent bugs
• fix autocomplete revert
• fix performance bug (gets very laggy in large channels), ground-up optimization of entire chat/emote pipeline

New Features

• (experimental!) liquid glass, go to settings/customization
• channel point redemptions from pubsub (I know it's deprecated, but it still works)
• (actually a REMOVAL of a feature): removed custom emote fps / throttling - it's actually fast enough now where it's not needed, and with tests it shows negligible perf gains

Also Fixed

• optimized keyboard lag (again, for real this time) by capping emote updates when keyboard is moving
• dedup websocket join
• fix thread update on send msg (broke last update)
• fix many memory leaks, basic fixes across the board (lots of hygiene that was cleaned up from a backlog earlier)

It may not seem like a large patch note for a release that took 10 days, but fixing code takes a lot longer than adding new features... I didn't implement the server this update, but when I get server capacity I will be able to implement the custom backend that drastically cuts on IRC data usage (~9x less!). some features did not ship because this is mainly a correctness update.
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v0.8.0 beta

(another) big release. I really need to learn how to ship small releases. Anyway:

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What Happened:

Architecture / Correctness Fixes

• refactored home screen from ~5000 to ~2000 lines, split up into new files
• optimized sub emote performance
• hardened network handling
• centralized emote parsing
• fixed sys message truncation, reduced scope of helix channel fetches
• audited tests

New Features

• Stream player with picture in picture (webview, not polished but it works!)
• Mod view - instead of commands, you can click buttons (worse than twitch mod view, difficulties with the API)
• threads panel - save threads, view active threads, keep threads alive when you keep it open
• chat search - search by user or text. still doesn't support from:user yet
• user card upgrade: new user messages feature below user card
• more emote compatibility - personal 7tv emotes, global unlockable emotes supported
• split links upgraded, normal link parsing upgraded
• new anonymous account in acc switcher
• gif support! (giphy, read only)
• image hosters can embed into chat
• general UI/UX improvements

Also Fixed

• optimized keyboard lag, made it more smooth
• sub emotes refetch better
• smarter throttle (before, throttle stopped fps after a # of emotes)
• reply whitespace collapsed
• lots of mem leaks fixed

BIG feature drop instead of just fixing bugs. this new list of features is going to surface a whole lot of new bugs though... bugfixes will be on the way
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v0.7.5 beta

I SHIPPED A REGRESSION IN PROD!!!!!!!!!!!!! anyway crisis averted

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