Issues: you want stuff now!

The following list details most of the things you, other users, and this author especially feel are in need of improvement in Gravity. Your order of priorities may differ to this author’s.

It’s not intended to be anything other than a short summary of what needs improving in the app. You may think differently. You’d be wrong.

Here goes:
(But before I do, don’t forget the official Gravity forum.)

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There’s still no back-to-top button, no placeholder between sessions, and no ability to go to a specific point in the timeline.

• Effect: If you close the app down then re-open it, or if the app is put to the background for a while, often focus will skip to the latest tweet. You lose your place. It’s annoying. A huge number of people have been asking for Gravity’s behaviour to be altered.
• Workaround: None.

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There’s no Update All button.

• Effect: As an example, this author has all timeline & search updates set to 60 minutes. There’s nothing particularly important that I need to drain my battery for by updating everything at 5-minute intervals. It can wait. However, it would be great to have a menu command or button that would update everything, right now!
• Workaround: Exit and re-open the app. Hardly in keeping with the smooth nature of the rest of the app.

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Still only 8 images available to post, the latest to appear on the phone.

• Effect: An example: This author has hundreds of images on this phone. 708 right now. 700 of them (yes, seven hundred) are not available to post from within Gravity.
• Workaround: Use the web, a system plugin such as Furtiv, or another app.

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Too-low list lengths mean users can’t see a full timeline.

• Effect: There are artificially low limits set on the number of tweets that, for example, you can view from another user’s bio tweets list. Favourites are another example of too-low limits, to see older favourites, one has to delete new ones.
• Workaround: Use the web or another app.

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Facebook is woefully short of features.

• Effect: Facebook in Gravity is a bit weedy and underdeveloped. Status Updates seem to be exactly like the News Feed but without posts including pictures.
• Why? @janole stopped developing Facebook for Gravity when the official app was released. The general consensus among Gravity users: IF it will install and not crash quickly on first opening, the official Facebook app is poorly executed and not usually worthy of continued use. This author is being kind to its developers.
• Workaround: Use the web or Snaptu if you need to interact with friends.

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Google Reader still updates only manually.

• Effect: There is no ability to schedule automatic updates for Google Reader.
• Workaround: Same as ‘update all’: exit and re-open the app.

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Scrolling still skips on v3.

• Effect: Those users dissatisfied with the too-small number of post-able images often mistakenly say there are 7. A bug in the Gravity user interface means occasionally tweets or posts or images are skipped whilst scrolling. Even with only 8 images, a skip can be observed often. If you really, really think there are 7 you’re wrong, count them now. Then please do it again, s-l-o-w-l-y.
• Workaround: None.