Redditors out there, rejoice! The popular Reddit client app, Alien Blue, has recently been updated with lots of new features and improvements. If you’re excited, you can download the update right now as you read this or download the app by clicking here. You can see the full change-log below. Enjoy!

Improvements:

• Drag from screen edges, toolbar or navigation bar to easily navigate back (and forward) without reaching
• Clipboard detection for Reddit links
• Optimal article view now uses a hybrid readability engine to render articles to match your Alien Blue color/font settings
• Optimal switch now remembers your preference based on content type (gifs, videos, articles etc.)
• Ability to choose Instapaper Mobilizer, Readability, or Alien Blue’s native layout for reformatting articles
• Ability to order search results by number of comments
• Improved handling of image centric / comic websites in optimal
• Improved scroll performance for comments

Moderator Tools:

• Ability to approve/remove posts
• Template-based messages & comments to notify posters of moderation activity
• iCloud backup & sync of moderator templates across iOS devices
• Access to Mod Queue, Removed and Reported posts
• Subject line is now available in Mod Mail
• Tapping on a Mod-mail notification will now take you straight to your Mod inbox

UI Improvements:

• Revised posts view improves density of visible posts per screen
• UI improvements to comments header bar
• Revised UI for switching post order
• Revised UI for searching posts
• Minor UI improvements to Inbox screen (major revisions coming soon)

New Gestures:

• Screen edges (and navigation bar) can be dragged to navigate back or forward
• Drag beyond an article to switch to its comments. Same for switching from comments to an article.
• Dragging any browser content downward will quickly toggle between it’s optimal and original view.
• Long press on back button to skip directly to any previous screen
• Triple tap on navigation bar to switch between day/night theme

Fixes:

• Critical: Canvas not handling revised Imgur links
• Fixed: Some GIFs freeze the application for a few seconds
• Fixed: Photos/GIF occasionally causing optimal switch to rapidly move backward and forward
• Fixed: Switching themes causes artifacts near the navigation bar
• Fixed: Texture distortion on additional options drawer for posts and comments
• Fixed: Texture distortion behind posts table
• Fixed: YouTube videos stuck in portrait when “Allow Rotation” is off
• Fixed: Some imgur albums appearing out of sequence
• Fixed: Occasional crashes when manually clearing cache
• Fixed: Image cache not routinely clearing
• Fixed: Crash from incorrectly encoded gif images
• Fixed: “More” button is hard to trigger while tilt-scrolling is enabled
• Fixed: Entering and exiting fullscreen slightly snaps the content out of place