Hmm a few other people have reported this as well. It might be something wrong with the app or it might be a problem with the android system webview which has been getting a lot of changes recently. Either way the next release will have chrome custom tabs which should help relieve this problem :) Also I'll be adding the in-app image viewer in a future update which should solve this problem for all users as well.
This is the second most beautiful app I've ever seen, (No. 1 being Fabulous: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.thefabulous.app)
With some more features it will be the best reddit app, you should be extremely proud of yourself.
Hmm did this only happen in the latest update, or was it a problem in the versions from last month? Another user has reported similar problems, also on a nexus 6p. He was running android Marshmallow 6.0.1, is this the same with you? I've been unable to replicate the problem on my 6.0.1 Nexus 7 2013.
>This sometimes seems to be associated with a temporary memory leak since my phone will slow down significantly
Well it is possible that there is a memory leak somewhere, I'll try exploring and plugging any leaks. But it might be a problem with the android system webview as it was just recently updated. In this case I can try tweaking the way app treats webViews. It might help, but I have no way to test it.
Also, in the future, you won't need to encounter this problem in the first place because the next major update will have an in-app image and video player for imgur, gfycat, youtube, etc. instead of just using a plain internal webView browser.
Sorry yeah they're called spinners by the Android team. Relay was originally called Reddit News and it's one of the most popular reddit apps for android.
It's bold because you used #, which reddit interprets as a "heading" (reddit is using markdown for styling of comments). To write it properly, you have to use a backslash like this:
#3 is already there ...