HardlyReader v0.6.37 (preview)

HardlyReader 0.6.37

Pure preview build: the iPhone IPA is unsigned and needs sideloading.

Added

• The wallpaper can be hidden while the reader is locked. Appearance →
  Background → When locked: Hide swaps the picture for the page's own
  colour until the lock opens, because a photograph says more about the person
  holding the phone than the list in front of it does. Off by default, and it
  stays on the device like the picture itself.
• Bloom. The picture's bright parts glow a little, from one extra layer
  blended with screen — nothing over black, most of its value over white, so
  the highlights lift rather than the frame. A slider beside Blur and Dim, 0–100,
  default 35.
• The phone's top names the service it syncs with — FreshRSS, Miniflux, or
  the server's host — instead of the app's own name, and pressing it opens the
  accounts on this device: switch, add another, sign out.

Changed

• Buzz's topics are eight that name a story: Money and Design are gone, Film
  is Film/TV and covers television, and AI is a word inside Tech rather than a
  section beside it. Stock replaces Money, with the market's own words.
• A category row folds on the first press, in every layout, with nothing
  selected first; the old select-then-open-then-fold ladder is gone. A double tap
  on the name still opens the category's posts — and everything left of the name
  only ever folds, even when tapped twice, so a thumb reaching for the arrow
  cannot open a category by accident.
• The feed you opened stays at the top, with the post list's bar directly
  under it and the posts scrolling beneath: the row pins for exactly as long as
  its own posts are on screen.
• Folded, the sidebar's control band is one hairline across the whole pane —
  16px, edge to edge, and closer to the search row — instead of a 20px strip
  stopping 11px short of the glass.
• A wallpaper at blur 0 is drawn sharply. blur(0px) still made the picture
  its own composited layer, which a phone rasterises coarse and scales; the
  filter is now absent at zero. The stored picture is also kept at 2600px rather
  than 1800 — a tall phone's cover was stretching it 2.1×.