Please note: it may take a couple minutes for it to be available in all regions. We just pressed the button.
Mlem for Lemmy is out of beta and live on the App Store!
Thank you to everybody who tested our app and submitted feedback, whether through TestFlight or a GitHub issue or a post on the community. Your insight has been an integral part of making this app what it is, and we look forward to working with you to make it even better in the months to come.
The past month and a half of hard work has been an amazing journey, but this is just the beginning. We hope you give it a download and join us as we strive to bring you the best mobile Lemmy experience we can.
I like the design and the layouts but there are a few things to improve. The biggest for now is the image viewer. When I click on a post it just opens the post with the title and comments, but not the image itself. I can’t zoom in or anything.
Overall though it’s very clean and off to a good start.
The image viewer is our #1 priority right now. To zoom you can tap the image once in the post view--we're working on getting a hotfix out shortly to make that work the intuitive way, where tapping the image in feed opens the quick viewer.
Longer-term, we're working on a much more robust, fully-featured media viewer, but it's a complex piece of code and we want to get it right--it's slated for our next milestone (1.1, targeted Aug 5).
Me too! The differences really become apparent when more features are added.
Battery life I notice. Also just the way the thing feels; I can intuit where things are in the app because I already know how to use my iPhone.
Yes! We will continue using TestFlight to try out our beta features, so if you want the cutting (and maybe buggy) edge of our development, stay on there. If you just want the stable, reliable app, the App Store version is your friend.
There are a couple smaller reasons, but the big one is that we use NavigationStack to handle our core view navigation--it's a truly monumental improvement over the old NavigationView, and lets us do things like build an iPad version without rewriting all our nav stuff, but it is unfortunately only compatible with iOS 16+.
I know that's probably not a super satisfactory answer, but I'd rather be transparent than spin some PR nonsense at you.
Thanks for the quick reply! I just wanted to confirm it wasn’t something superficial. I’ll look into updating and see what the performance hit looks like
Oh I know. I’ve just been burned many times in the past with upgrading iOS on older phones so I generally avoid it these days until I have a compelling reason to upgrade. Forced obsolescence and all that
Congratulations! Wonderful release. For me it‘s feature complete. Nice to have would be a dark gray mode and an option to see downvotes, but that‘s not a must-have. I love it as it is and deleted the other Testflight clients.
I personally love the competition between the app developers. Memmy just released a big update yesterday that had a ton of improvements, so I switched from Mlem to Memmy for the day to test it out. It's a race between who can make the better app and it benefits us the users.
I've heard of this app during the past month but this is the first time seeing the icon. Holy shit is it adorable! And... I never saw it as mlem, I read it as m-lem so I also feel a little dumb
I'm on Android and waiting for sync or else I'd try it out. Good luck!!
That functionality has been moved into the widget customizer. You can configure the layout of your buttons in Settings -> Appearance -> Posts or Comments -> Customize Widgets
Is there a way to search for posts? Seems like the search tab is just communities?
Also, while using this to post this comment, I was confused on where I was typing because the post itself took up most of the screen, def gotta get used to that
I’m giving this app a try. Just wanted to say that within 30 seconds, I inadvertently blocked someone while trying to change the post size. Maybe the options shouldn’t be under a submenu. Blocking a user should ask for confirmation by default. Also why do you make the user enter credentials instead of ask redirect to the instance to grant permissions using oauth?
Thanks for giving us a try! We're constantly improving, and your feedback is invaluable--we're working on adding confirmations to more destructive actions for the next build.
For credentials, we don't use oauth because Lemmy doesn't support it--there's an issue open on their GitHub that should resolve that, but until then it's passwords or bust.