I read fiction for pleasure. Any book that’s so overly complicated and with places totally foreign (made up) that I need to take notes just to keep track of things…that book is not for me. Taking notes makes me think I’m back in school.

PROBLEM SOLVED Somebody must have heard the cries. CONNECT was just updated today July 31 2023 from the Play Store. I tried out the updated version and in another thread, and in this one also, I am able to type as much as I want. And as the typing nears the bottom of the typing box, it automatically scrolls visibly to a new line so you can always see what you’re typing. Nothing goes under the keyboard anymore.

Excellent 👍 Kudos and karma to the attentive, responsive developer for fixing this. I can now stick with CONNECT rather than Jerboa.

Sorry to keep droning on, but I’m now typing another reply in the reply/comment box, but this is being typed in Jerboa and I can type as much as I want and am still able to see all the text I am typing. Unfortunately even in Jerboa the text gets hidden under the keyboard at about 9 lines, but you can manuallly nudge the screen up a bit to see new lines. I cannot do that in Connect.

The font size is larger as you type, so you get 6½ lines before it gets hidden. That’s about 4½ of the smaller sized font in the published reply.

Experiment failed. In the above reply the reply box auto scrolled for about 4⅐ of those lines. The everything else got hidden under the keyboard and I could type no more. Well, I could keep on typing, I just couldn’t see what I was writing. However, strangely enough, I’ve added these last several lines to my original reply by using the “edit” function, and using “edit” you can keep typing and at least manually scroll down to see text that gets hidden under the keyboard.

I do reboot every morning. But I did as you suggested right now and cleared the cache, restarted the phone and am now typing this reply in Connect. Sorry to keep typing but I wanted to see how far I can type.

Actually I think I’m seeing something like that also. I think when I type an original post or even a regular comment, then it’s possible to scroll down and see what you’re typing. But doesn’t work for “replies”. In those, after five or six lines everything echoes hidden under the keyboard.

May be a Lemmy problem that the connect app can’t overcome. I’m typing this in Jerboa. The reply box here hides text under the keyboard also. Doesn’t automatically scroll as it should, but at least in Jerboa you an manually scroll down. In Connect for Lemmy you can’t.