The feature you were asking for has been added in the latest beta, v264. So you may want to check your app store if you're not on that version. Now, just to into Settings, tap on the three dots in the top right and there will be a "Display changelog" option.
Turning that off does make the link work again. But I'll turn it back on since I prefer list view anyways.
Also, could you take a look at highlighting of new comments? It still doesn't seem to be working for me. I'm not seeing any comment highlighting whatsoever.
If you view your account settings in the browser, there should be a checkbox for "Bot". This option is typically used for accounts that perform automated posting. So if yours is mainly a personal account, you may want to unchecked that option. The ability to change that may not be accessible through a third-party Lemmy app so you may need to login to lemm.ee on your browser.
Does the issue occur on the latest beta, v1.0.252? If so, which instance specifically? I tried going to the different communities on v251 and pulling up posts seemed to work fine.
The update should be available to you in the Android or Apple app store. The only thing I can think of where it's not is it you left the beta program; in which case, rejoin?
It seemed like it was fixed in v246 but somehow broke again in that version? I'm on v249 and still haven't seen any comments highlighted.
EDIT: I post that and then it works one time. It randomly works but mostly not for me.
EDIT2: Specifically, I have the comment button as a secondary button and when there's an orange number, that means there's new comments but when I view those posts, most of the time there's no highlighting whatsoever.
I have community banners enabled now but for people that prefer it off, maybe a share and info option for MultiCommunities could be added to the MultiCommunity overflow menu? There's no way to share or check a shared MultiCommunity otherwise and I think the banner setting is also off by default.
The multi-community share link doesn't do anything for me? Ditto, tapping on the link in my browser. I'm on v239.
EDIT: An option to delete a MultiCommunity needs to be added.
Also, having the add MultiCommunity from the subscription section of the main menu would be nice. Another place is the community about page and maybe the community overflow menu(the upper one, after you tap on a post).
EDIT2: So you can delete a MultiCommunity by removing all of its linked communities but this may not be intuitive and having a delete option in the MultiCommunity overflow menu would be useful.
Also, I was trying to find the minus button you mentioned and it didn't click to me that I had to go back into the "Add multi" selection again. Maybe it could be renamed to MultiCommunity or something, since you're not always going in there to add.
EDIT3: If you set a MultiCommunity as the default, it doesn't show the (D).
Maybe it's more like 250ms than half a second. I was referring to the overflow menu on the feeds page but the lower one on the page where you're viewing a post is the same. There's a delay contrast from the upper one versus the lower one. The upper one appears at what seems like normal speed and the lower one is noticeably slower.
Also there's a bug with the upper one where you get that gray screen. After I back out of composing or editing a reply, when I tap on the upper overflow menu, I consistently get a gray screen. Have to back gesture to dismiss the gray screen.
The feature you were asking for has been added in the latest beta, v264. So you may want to check your app store if you're not on that version. Now, just to into Settings, tap on the three dots in the top right and there will be a "Display changelog" option.