New

• Update navigation handling so pages keep state when switching between them; by @olorin99.
• Add support for listing private messages in PieFed and Lemmy; by @olorin99 and @jwr1.
• Interstellar is now available to download natively for Arch Linux via the AUR: interstellar-bin. Now you can download Interstellar in style 😎.
• Add Lemmy private message creation.
• Add notification support for Lemmy.
• Add Mbin support for choosing a top sort timeframe, and move top sort options to a submenu; by @olorin99.

PieFed support

Support for PieFed’s alpha API was added by @jwr1 and @olorin99! Keep in mind that the API is currently limited in its capabilities, and we were not able to implement all the features Interstellar provides; this is the case wherever you see a screen or pop-up message that says “Unimplemented” error. Additionally, the alpha API could easily change at any moment, so don’t expect it to work without issues.

If you’d like to try it out despite it being an “alpha” feature, then when you go to sign-in, enter preferred.social as the Instance Host. See this post (https://piefed.social/post/484755) if you’d like more information about that instance and general PieFed API info.

New Timeline feed view

A new “Timeline” Feed View is available for Mbin that displays both thread and microblog posts in reverse chronological order (newest first). No other sort options work for this view, as sorting is done on the client side.

Fixes

• Fix configs magazine browser link in about page.
• Fix alt text not showing for Lemmy posts.
• Fix user profile edit screen so avatar and cover deletion works on Lemmy.
• Fix the message thread screen so it uses an infinite scroll view and can load messages past the first page.
• Fix notifications for messages not being clickable.
• Hide user follow button for Lemmy and PieFed.
• Display server software names with correct casing.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/jwr1/interstellar/compare/v0.8.0…v0.9.0