Thanks for taking the time to test it out, and provide feedback! It’s always great to have a designer look at Arctic.

• Subscribing to a community can be accessed from the (…) menu on any post, or community feed. (…) -> Community -> (un)subscribe. When searching for a community, you can also use a side swipe to (un)subscribe
• It is definitely time I work on some more icons, it has been a while since I added any new ones. All the icons are made by me, and I am not any kind of graphic designer. My plan for this was actually to run a month icon competition for new icons.
• Padding above posts, are you referring to spacing between posts, or the actual padding between the top of the post cell, and the title?
• Bar highlights? Im not sure I follow what you mean here. The bar shadows(delimiter) due just that, unless I am misunderstanding.
• Indeed, the profile header needs some love. I actually redesigned it recently, and it is an improvement over what it was, but still not what I want.
• Honestly, now that you mention it, I think I should probably replace the Edit / Send button with a Submit button for consistency.
• Opening the post options while scrolling has happened to me a couple of times, but I haven’t found it to be a consistent issue. I can look into it.
• I just added an option to disable Guest Mode in the Account Switcher, it will still be accessible from the Account section in settings.
• I’ve had one other request for a compact subscription list. The reason I opted for splitting into 2 labels is because the community name and community handle are not always the same. I’m going to work on adding a compact layout for this though.
• Which image transitions are you referring to? I believe most images are displayed without an animated transition, but there are a few exceptions.
• Scrolling performance is still being worked on. Since the Lemmy API does not provide enough metadata to determine the final display size of content, additional network requests are needed to determine the size. I’m working on improving this to minimize the hitches while scrolling.
• You are right about the loading state, I need to update this behavior.
• I’ll add an option for hiding the status bar with the top bar. I tried this before, but I was unable to get it working. I’ll look into it again.
• Hmm, I hadn’t noticed the issue with white accent color before, Im not quite sure how I’ll handle this yet, but I’ll look into it. I definitely don’t want to add another theme color just for switches.

Disabling the splash screen on first launch is not possible. This is not set on a timer or anything. iOS automatically manages this, and hides it as soon as the main view is loaded. Without this in place you’d be looking at a black screen while the app loads. I can look into improving the launch time though, this would minimize the display of the splash screen.

I am planning account specific settings, but I have not figured out how I would like to manage this yet. Arctic has a lot of settings, and I don’t want to make things tedious by making each account adopt its own settings. I’d rather like to add a way to override specific settings for individual accounts. I’m just struggling to figure out how to implement the user interface for this.

The name Arctic comes from lemmings. The lemmings natural habitat is typically the arctic tundra. I wouldn’t say that the name Arctic has inspired much in terms of design choices. Though i would love to find ways to incorporate this into the design for stronger branding.

I will say the iPad version is still needing a lot of work. It’s not full of bugs or anything like that, but I haven’t made great use of the larger screen space. I’m still in the planning stages of redesigning this. I’d like to take better advantage of the screen space, and have the layout update dependent on context.

Anyway, thanks for all the feedback. This has given me a lot to work on!