Wanted to share another Substr update after a new round of polishing and fixes.
This pass was mostly focused on making the app feel better on mobile, cleaning up media posts, and smoothing out a few rough edges in sharing and feed behavior.
Here’s what changed recently:
- Improved media posts so images, videos, link previews, and polls now feel much better inside cards, especially on mobile.
- Media can now stretch edge-to-edge inside post cards on mobile instead of feeling boxed in.
- Portrait images now stay fully visible instead of being awkwardly cropped.
- Clicking an image now opens a proper lightbox viewer with a cleaner fullscreen preview.
- The image viewer now locks the background, adds blur, and feels much more intentional.
- Share previews inside the share modal are more reliable now and no longer show a broken image when a post has no media.
- Media-post text handling is cleaner now, with better previews for longer captions and a nicer expand/collapse flow.
- Fixed duplicate post rendering issues in some community feeds.
- Relay publishing was also improved a bit by tightening how publish success is tracked and expanding relay coverage.
A lot of this was again less about flashy new features and more about making the experience feel more solid, readable, and less janky in daily use.
Thanks again to everyone who keeps testing Substr, sharing bugs, and pointing out rough spots. That feedback keeps helping a lot and directly shapes what gets fixed next.
If anyone has more ideas, feedback, or things that feel off, always happy to hear it.
