Zing Touch: ILX now ON IPHONE (and ipod tooches too)

Lovely update! Thanks stet

yes, thank you stet!

re: the recent update.

Bookmarks have disappeared from Zing for me but I still see them on the web.

same here

Back now. Thanks?!

stet, I saw that you added a few versions back a little Zing link at the top of mobile versions. But it just goes to the main page. Is there any chance you could have the app open web links to the actual thread? This would be a great way of effectively adding a search function.

that's a really good idea, yep

Where is that little Zing link again?

It appears when Apple decides it should, which is a bit opaque

Oh right. Can see it in safari but not in chrome

https://ilxor.com/stet/search.png

SEARCH.

It's rolling out now. It's not quite perfect, but it works: find threads, find posts, from the entire archive. Works if you have multiple sites added too.

It's surprising what a difference it makes — feels like an app full of 20 years of stuff now, rather than one that's just about bookmarks.

I said almost exactly ten years ago that I wanted to add it, and then y'know, things got busy, there was stuff to do, whatever, sorry. (Also: it was really surprisingly hard)

The big thing missing is sorting, I'll get on that for 2029.

(Zing is ten years old? Bloody hell)

S E A R C H

You rule, stet. Thank you so much.

stet!! you're the best.

Whoop whoop

Happy Birthday Zing!

Thanks Stet!

Had to raise the bar, eh? Couldn't leave well enough alone?

Awesome!

This is fantastic

Wow thanks stet. Christmas came early for Zingers

oh yes. search! thanks stet!

It's surprising what a difference it makes — feels like an app full of 20 years of stuff now, rather than one that's just about bookmarks.

Yes indeed it does. Thanks for all the hard work!!

wow! thank you Stet

SEARCHHHH! Thanks Stet!

wow stet, this is what’s been missing from my life! merci beaucoup.

one weird thing: in dark mode you don’t get to see what you’re typing in the search box, the results still show up tho.

Ah, are you on iOS 11? It works on iOS 13 but I can’t figure out how to make it work on the older phones.

iOS 12 here, yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqTbBCRxsME

Had to raise the bar, eh? Couldn't leave well enough alone?

So great. Thanks sir!

i think bookmarking threads is faster now too. thank u STET

oh my god

feels like a nice bit of fit and finish now too

This new search feature is aces, have used it several times in the past few hours.

stet i love you

Fucking hell. Well done, thanks a million. You could have made this a paying update. Would have gladly forked out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR2FvrU-NIM

Challops:

I don’t like how the lines have disappeared between threads in dark mode. Bring back the lines or at least alternate background colors like answers do (in both modes).

I don’t understand the HUGE type announcing the board / thread title (or the app) at the top of each screen? It doesn’t need to be so big. Also, when I hit filter threads, the field floats behind the huge type and it’s annoying.

challops accepted. Some of this is work in progress -- filter threads will be replaced by thread search soon, and the huge type problem is an iOS 13 change that's half-finished (because I realised we have to keep iOS 12 support for the older phones).

Lines on threads is a good shout, I'll try and put those back. Confess I just got tired of slogging at Search code and felt it was good enough to get out.

Couple more challops:

1. The orientation bug where Zing jumps back a bunch of posts if you rotate it back and forth is still there.
2. Some kind of memory leaks with YouTube and maybe Twitter. If you start a YouTube video and then click back, the video never gets shut down entirely and you continue to hear audio until you kill the app. Maybe embeds aren’t being killed correctly?

YESSSSSSSSSSS

stet, you are the best. Seriously.

cosign with DJI - also if you tap a Twitter post on e.g. the image, any linked video won't link correctly, but if you tap on the date of the post, it loads correctly and you can tap through to the video or images linked.
A small thing too - when shifting day-to-night and vice versa using standard type appearance, the big headlines stay in the colour of the old mode (i.e. they stay white, on a light background, or black on a dark background). If it was possible for Zing to switch to night mode when the phone does so, that would be awesome, but maybe break things for folks not on iOS 13.
Offered only in the spirit of wanting to help, not complaint - it's a great app!

As others have said, I'd have been happy to pay for this upgrade.

this is a gift that keeps on giving

Challops version going to Apple, fixing:
- Lines are back between messages
- Orientation bug is fixed at last
- Twitter videos now play inside the message view(!)
- And stop playing when you leave the view

I can't fix the dark/light switch not changing the headlines without dropping iOS 12 support (as far as I can tell) and there are way too many people still not on iOS 13 yet.

(Thanks for being lovely, everyone)

Thank you stet!