Mlem for Lemmy

For the other dumdums like me who didn’t discover this immediately.

Download the TestFlight beta for iOS 16+

After a massive reorganization and recruiting almost 20 new developers and designers from the community, we've made a HUGE amount of additions and improvements to the app, with many more to come! Yay!

NEW ADDITIONS

• Redesigned interface! NEW POSTS, COMPACTS POSTS, ALL THE THINGS!
• Updated Settings Tab
• Tap to collapse comments/threads
• Long post text is now truncated so they don't take up your whole screen. They will have a maximum height.
• Increased contrast between post/comment cards and background
• The way the application interacts with the Lemmy API has been improved, this should reduce crashes in multiple places

BUG FIXES

• Tapping community links will no longer crash the app, instead an alert shows saying they're not currently supported (we're working on it now, it needs a few different chunks of work completed)
• Duplicate/looping posts when scrolling feeds should no longer happen 🤞
• Rapid scrolling through feed should no longer cause crashing 🤞
• Mlem icon is now brighter!

KNOWN ISSUES

• Some images may extend beyond the post card bounds in Card View
• In compact mode, link previews may not load
• Comments still have old up/downvote buttons

MORE TO COME

• Full a11y compliance which should work perfectly with iOS's Accessibility functionality like Guided Access and Screen Reader. (Thanks to contributor Weston for your expertise and audit!) Note: we weren't able to work this into the current build because of the constant changes to the interface, but some/most of it should be in the next build!
• New Profile Tab and Messages Tab
• New & improved fullscreen image viewer (not ready in time for this release)
• Inbox notifications (not Push, as that takes more work-- more on that later)
• Colored thread indicators
• Swipe-to-vote
• Post/comment saving
• Updated NSFW tag/blur

Again, please keep in mind that this is an early beta. As such, it's not feature-complete and there will be bugs and unexpected behavior. Enjoy testing, and we look forward to hearing your bug reports via TestFlight and your feedback! You can comment here or come chat with us in The Mlem Space on Matrix.

PS, and because lots of people have asked-- Mlem app will never support iOS 15. Sorry, but we'd have to rewrite the app from scratch, and that's not something we're gonna do. Additionally, kbin support isn, for now, out-of-reach due to incompatibilities between the kbin and lemmy APIs. Although this may change in the future, for now, it's not going to happen.

Cheers!

The Mlem Dev Team

• Mlem App Space on Matrix
• Mlem App on GitHub

I am one of the Beehaw admins...we received a message from your team via another Beehaw admin.

There are some people that are considering working on better mod tools.

See: https://discuss.online/post/12787

Let me know if I can be of further service.

I've been beta testing your app from almost the beginning. Thank you.

I know the history of comments is in the works - but wondering if it’s possible to edit or delete our comments from the comment section itself?

When I downvote a post from a community based in an instance that disabled downvotes (ie Beehaw), who sees that downvote? Only me? Only other Mlem users? Only users that share my instance? Everyone but Beehaw users?

Would be great if you could choose between all, subscribed and favourits only

Is it possible to limit the size of a post on the feed? There are now some very long posts to scroll through before I get toetje next post.

Is there a way to open an image and zoom in within the app itself?

Are there any plans to support Kbin instances or do I have to use another app for that?

@mlemapp

In apollo, i used to click the posts tab to scroll back to the top of my feed. It would be great if mlem could do it as well.

Am I just missing where the setting is to blur NSFW images before opening the post? Or is this something that's yet to be implemented? I'm subscribed to a couple of NSFW communities and not having the blur can make opening the app a bit awkward at times

It would be cool if you could hold down on the account tab, and then switch accounts from there, without leaving the thread you’re in. In that case, if you have multiple accounts, and if you’re reading something, but you’re on the wrong account, you can switch and comment with the correct account.

Hi. could you test the app with voiceover, and fix what's wrong there? I would appreciate.

My only apple device us an ipad, since i prefer this app over safari, will there be an ipad compatibility (not just a big iphone app) or will this just like Apollo used to be?

I keep trying to press it out of habit. Would really come in handy as the comments keep growing!

Loving the app so far though, thank you @lFenix@lemmy.ml for all your work already.

Pardon me but I don't even know how to search within a community on Jerboa to see if this has been asked before.

Would love to be able to see my comment history and any replies I get. It’s a big part of building the community!

The @mlemapp iOS app in combination with a quick account setup on https://sh.itjust.works has been the simplest way I’ve found to het running on a fediverse powered Reddit replacement.

💫 Really loving the experience!!

I really appreciate this app, it’s what I need to adopt Lemmy. However there is one unpleasant thing where I see posts in my feed that are very much not my preference.

1: ability to filter out some communities while browsing all 2: ability to (preferably per account) have nsfw enabled but obscured

Basically I want to be able to scroll all, allow for nsfw in case some news would be otherwise filtered out, but have a way to avoid something I don’t want to see being right in my face.

When I’m scrolling communities I sub to this is less needed

Thanks!

Hi, Mlem App Community!

We on the Mlem Team wanted to share some data from our TestFlight so far with you all to let you know how popular the app is.

The Testing Numbers

So far, we have just over 8k beta testers for the Mlem App! That's out of 10k total test slots in TestFlight, which means that we're close to our max allowable testers! That's a lot of adoption for a week since our announcement!

Also, 89% of currently-registered testers have the latest build installed and are currently testing (meaning 11% deleted the app but are still registered), and there's a 34.6% reporting rate for crashes-- meaning some of you could do a better job with crash reporting.

New Recruits

Last week, we posted a call for new contributors, and you, the community, stepped up! We've added a bunch of new developers and designers, including those with expertise in accessibility compliance, helping us to make sure that everyone will be able to use our app, using all of the system's features iOS provides and meeting a11y standards. With new UX designers, we've overhauled our interface, and with new graphic designers, we're bringing a great starter set of custom icons, with more to follow in future releases. And, most importantly, after an internal reorganization, higher-quality and more regular updates will follow with more strict project management, bug tracking, and resource delegation-- all thanks to the lemmy community coming together to make a great app for everyone!

Development & Feedback

The app testing is going well and development is proceeding apace. We've heard tons of positive feedback, and we're thrilled to hear that everyone is loving the app. We've also been listening to all of your excellent feedback. We've put everything into our Issue Tracker on our GitHub project page, and we're working through them, along with all of the bugs you've been reporting and new features we're planning, and we're working on a huge update for our next beta, which we hope to release very soon!

So, keep testing, stay excited, and check back here for updates, and discussion about the Mlem App!

Cheers!

-- The Mlem App Team

• Mlem App Chat on Matrix
• Melm App Recruitment Chat
• Mlem App on GitHub

One thing I’ve noticed in my initial Lemmy experience is that there can be many duplicate communities across servers. I’d like to be able to quickly see in the search bar which communities have the most subscribers

Do you get any of the money donated to Lemmy project? Or is anything else set up?

I would love to be able to see what instance someone is commenting from or what instance a community is in. There should be an option to add @instance after usernames and community names