In order to get up to speed with the people that are coming here without TestFlight, I've submitted a build to Apple with all of the current features and fixes.
I'd anticipate this to take about 24 hours, but it's possible it will be reviewed today. Apple is weird. I've had things get approved in like 8 hours on Saturdays before, so there's a chance it will happen today. I'll update you all when that happens.
Improvements and additions:
New icon and options for changing icon color
New and improved swipe animation (by the way, this is better than the last update wink)
Improvements to image viewer (double tap works now too)
Performance enhancments throughout the app
Hide read posts
Images in comments
Collapsible posts
Default comment sort
All of the "Top" sort options
Show a loading modal while downloading images
Added a manage accounts button to accounts dropdown
Add option for reader in webview
Settings improvements
Added embark theme
Added buttons in comments for upvoting and replying
Adjustments to splashscreen
Username doesn't link to user profile in compact mode now
Add option to use the default browser instead of in-app browser
Fixes:
Fix issues with toast not changing color or disappearing
Fix cake day showing the wrong year
Fix issue where links with an internal IP address would ask for permission to local network
Fix issues with account disappearing after app launch
Read icon now uses the correct color
Fix crash caused when pressing Matrix links
Fix crash when searching for a community with an @ at the end
If any of these issues are bothering you now, rest assured they will be fixed for you quite soon.
Please give us a link in the app so we can toss you some money. Some of us want to support your hard work and don’t want to be loaded down by ads in the future.
Rest assured ads is something that will never be in this. No feature lockdowns, ads, any of that.
I can’t link anything in app for payments or donations unfortunately. Eventually there might be a tip jar though. For now if you really want, there’s a buy me a coffee.
I would say as much love as the app has received, definitely consider adding a tip jar. You’ve made a rather good app that is giving people a lot of value, so people would be more than happy to compensate you for your time. Given you can’t provide links in the app to third party payment services, this would provide the easiest route for people to do so.
Hope I really don’t need to screenshot this to post in a few years… 😊 anyways, awesome app you’ve made! Can’t wait for the update to hit the AppStore, I deleted my flight test copy by mistake… 😭
It seems minor, but having community icons show next to the name is really important to me. I’d also love for the community name to be on the left side or closer to the title of the post (like it was in Apollo).
I’m going to throw it in the next update. I actually was going to do it now but it was a headache like you couldn’t imagine getting the icon switching to work. Had a list of things to do that just never materialized because of how long it took me to get that done.
Same. I prefer the little lemmy mouse to the planet. The new colours are dope tho. I’d love to see the lemmy mouse in a different style. Maybe we can get Apollo-style designer submissions for icons? 😍
I don’t think we’ll really iterate on the mouse, we’ll put the existing icon in there but i wouldn’t really expect new ones. We will definitely accept submissions for icons though and put the ones we like best in. Probably will want to set up a formal process for that.
It’s unbelievable that you can make an app this great in this short amount of time, and that other site can’t get it right after years. Thank you for all you do, I just did the “Buy me a Coffee”!
I have two requests if possible. The first is probably the easiest - orange is my favorite color, so I’d love an orange color of the icon to rock on my home screen!
The second is probably harder. I miss the small button on the bottom right that jumps to the next parent comment. It doesn’t have to be a button, it could be a swipe or tap. When I’m in the middle of a long comment chain, sometimes I just want to bail on the thread and move to the next parent comment, but I can’t find an easy way to do that other than just scroll and look.
Again, thank you for the great app! Make sure you get that tip jar in here, you deserve to get some payment for your great work!
I’d love to see the images behave a little more like Apollo, which allowed zooming out with just a double tap (which also zoomed in, or opened the album to swipe through), but to get it away, it was just a double tap to zoom out and swipe it away.
This is probably one of the absolute hardest things to replicate. I’m going to be working on it though for sure for the 0.2 release.
With that said, zoom out on double tap is fixed on this release. Swiping through the images in a post will be added in 0.2 as well as other improvements to the image viewer in general.
Awesome! I’m on the TestFlight build and loving the rapid progress. I think it was still a little janky for me and after a second double tap I’m not able to swipe the image away.
Apollo had a lot of years to polish - what you’ve done in such a short period is absolutely amazing. I donated via your buy me a coffee link, but you should absolutely charge something for this app. Putting notifications behind a paywall is perfectly reasonable.
Personally I loved the one-time Ultra purchase and would occasionally just throw some cash in the tip jar on big releases.
Even crazier is Apollo had this awesome feature for zooming in on pictures. You could double tap to zoom in, then double tap again to resize to fit the screen. But then you could also double tap and hold on the second tap and drag up or down to zoom in and out like you can in the Maps app. That I used all the time. Also, Apollo would let you zoom in really really close - double tapping would get you to a normal zoom level but then you could just keep pinching to zoom in quite far. Love what you're doing, keep up the great work.
LOVE the new app icon! I guess I’m a minority that wasn’t a fan of the other one. The colours were just a tad too gaudy for me.
Also just generally loving all the new features and care being put into this app.
A couple notes:
If you use swipe actions too quickly then the arrows will start pointing in all sorts of directions (not import and only if you are messing around with it)
The image viewer feels less responsive than the original one in earlier versions. I’m not familiar with this style and I guess I’m wondering what the goal is?
You can already hide them! Go to settings -> content -> hide comment actions. (I think actions) I added this when i implemented the buttons but forgot to tell gk that part lol. We’ve gotten some complaints about people not knowing how to vote on a comment so i made it shown by default instead.
Still waiting patiently for the update to show in the App Store. And by patiently I mean checking 3 times a day lmao. But I can’t believe the devs for this app. So impressed with how it’s been mostly flawless for the week I’ve used it. Will be donating soon!
I didn’t get into the test flight. I downloaded as soon as it was available in the App Store. I’m loving it but anxiously awaiting the update to fix profile not loading. I’ve never had my profile load successfully
One of the things I remember back from Alien Blue (I think) was that when you had a picture full screen, you could kinda grab it and “toss” if any direction to go back to the post. I think the official Reddit app may do this, but 🤷♂️
Also, scrubbing in Apollo was amazing. I noticed “wefwef” may have implemented if already.
(First time trying your app, so I will correct any inaccuracies if someone will kindly correct me)
You have done amazing! Honestly the speed at which you release is phenomenal and pretty intimidating for someone who works in software, it sets a new benchmark in my opinion.
One thing that would be handy is the ability to share to Memmy from other apps via the share sheet
The ability to follow topics via a saved search or similar would also be handy.
Also the ability to bookmark a community but not have it appear in my feed would also be useful
Just feedback, overall this is such a polished app, I’m super impressed
btw setting up microsoft appcenter codepush is really quick and you can avoid slow update turn around.
I've been releasing my react native apps for years instantly to beta and alpha in-app update channels. Testflight is slow, the app store is slow, codepush is fast af.
I do like the new swipe animations but I find it’s much harder now to swipe from the left edge to go back to the community view, without accidentally activating the voting swipe on whatever comment happens to be where I’m swiping.
Thank you for the non-Test Flight update! Just installed the app today and really love the browsing UI and functionality.
My only issue so far has been with voting on comments, there is seemingly no way to vote on a comment without swiping (context menu has no option, tapping comment score just hides comment), and the swiping seems to upvote/downvote at random with no relation to the strength/size of the swipe. I see that is updated in 0.1 so looking forward to it.
If you are supposed to be able to tap the comment vote score to upvote/downvote like in the webapp, it does not seem to work at the moment. iPhone 14/iOS 16.5.1
too many line breaks. viewing a thread like this one, everything has a line break between it. too crowded. also, the swipe buttons have a black outline to it. shouldn't it just be a solid color?
Thank you! Question about the in-app browser. Many other apps use it and I've always been wondering: does it save cookies and sessions or is it just a minimal thing that just opens the page temporarily with safari, without persitent storage?
Is there any way to stop having memmy ask me every time I save a photo if I want to keep selected photos or access all photos? Not sure why it’s asking me this to save a photo but there’s no way to back out of the option unless I either click “keep selected and then deselect the photo that I just saved and then click done.