iOS users - what features do you want to see on Mlem?
I know the developers are working hard and I'm sure they'll be coming with Mlem updates. I hope to see a notification centre being added, as well as the posts being collapsed instead of full-length. Do you wish for an Apollo type of design, or similar?
Edit: just a heads-up, I am not in any way affiliated with LemmyNet nor its devs. You can also voice your suggestions via Testflight by beta-using Mlem.
Multi-Communities (an equivalent to the Multireddits in Apollo)
I use (or used to use) the Multireddit feature in Apollo all the time. My big use case is that I can put “spoiler” communities there so they don’t pop up in my main feed but I can go there once I’ve seen the relevant episode! It’s also really good for grouping regional ones… like
Just as a side-note: Multireddits are not an Apollo feature, they are a part of Reddit itself since 2013. Although, Apollo did support them before the Redesign did (which calls them “Custom Feeds”) if I'm not mistaken.
One could argue that the best way to do that is to port Apollo like Tweetbot did with Ivory. These third party clients hold more power than they think. If they all migrate then the users will follow. Reddit is just the hosting. Abstract that away behind clients and you have the same thing.
I think it has potential to get there eventually. It already follows the similar design and usage philosophies, and I imagine the development could really take off now.
Keep in mind that Apollo has years of full-time development behind it, whereas Mlem is essentially an early beta of an open-source passion project.
Thank you for the point about the length of development. I essentially started Mlem a year a half ago as my very first iOS project to take my mind off the pain from a major surgery I had the the time, then it sat abandoned until I revived it just a little over month ago. So the total dev time on Mlem is only around a month and a half. It’s still a little baby 😊
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Loving the app so far. Here are some things I'd like to see implemented at some point (in no particular order):
Option to NOT show the entire post on the feed. Similar to Apollo, we should have option to just show the Post Title and maybe a few lines from the post itself. Then click into to expand. Right now you see the entire post which some times takes up the whole screen
I REALLY like the feature in Apollo where you could enable hiding of posts after you’ve viewed them. That way every time you open the app or refresh it you only see new stuff.
this is the biggest feature I want. every time I open lemmy I see the same posts until I scroll for pages... how does everyone else handle this without a mark read on scroll?
YES! Second the button to jump to the root of the next comment. Next root and swipe gestures were the two biggest reasons I started using Apollo in the first place.
I like gestures. Being able to set them. Long left, short left etc.
I like being able to go back by from the center swipe right(so I don’t have to swipe back from the edge). And then short left is upvote. Long left is downvote. Makes browsing and engaging so efficient. This site needs high votes per user right now. So it would help the site too.
Being able to filter communities is also very helpful.
For an iPad I think an easy(?) first huge improvement is being able to use split screen etc.
Don’t get lost implementing fancy features at the beginning, concentrate on supporting what the Lemmy web UI does and try to provide a smooth and pleasant experience on iOS.
In case you’re looking for inspiration would highly recommend to take a look at the Ice Cubes client for Mastodon. An extremely well made app.
I love Apollo! Agree with a lot of the sentiments here. Would like Face ID, swipe left/right capabilities, options how to open links, collapsibility, media options (autoplay, loop, controls, mute, etc.)
A way to see your post history, right now the only way to see your posts is to find them. There is a profile page which just shows your post scores and then dead space so makes sense to just stick it there.
Have used the app for several hours now and one thing I miss a lot from Apollo is very long posts being reduced on the main feed so that the whole screen is not taken up. When you want to read more you simply tap.
There are long sticky threads up on a few instances here that are a bit of a nuisance to scroll through each time. While I understand that’s temporary, it could be annoying to see any long wall of text fill the feed.
Searching for communities is essential. Like others have said, lift as much inspiration from Apollo as possible and you'll basically end up with everything users need.
I’m another Apollo refugee so taking any and all inspiration there would be great. Also I’d like to be able to share / export a post, or grab the web link for sharing, or to be able to bounce out to safari. I’d also like to be able to tap and hold on images in posts to copy or share them.
If they could almost replicate this to Apollo. Or even bring Christian aboard to help out. This app would take off instantly. Thousands of people are on his side. This would easily be a huge competition for Reddit within just a few days.
Mlem is heavily inspired by Apollo. We're working on a new interface and UX for the app which should be in the next release. we're coding it now and will be testing it internally very soon.
Christian did an amazing job with Apollo, and we want to learn from that, take the great work he did, and carry what we can forward into Mlem!
Please come to the Mlem App Community to share your thoughts and concerns. Also, you can join the discussion on Matrix, or even contribute to the project yourself!
What do you mean multiple accounts across multiple instances? Your account on lemmy.ml can ask lemmy.ml to fetch posts on other instances, via communities, to which you can then subscribe to.
Yup, I’m also heavy on the customisation aspect. Would be fun with custom icons like you said (the dev said they would implement community-submitted icons in the future), as well as in-app themes like Reddit/Apollo had.
I'm working on Mlem accessibility issues, can you please describe what you mean by "More colour contrast between posts and the app background" so I can make sure to document it correctly?
Really just the way posts look against the dark grey background when dark mode is on. Dark on light looks weird to me, and occasionally makes it difficult for me to tell where one post ends and another begins when I'm skim-reading. Personally, I'd suggest making the posts slightly lighter than the grey background, then making the background black (or something very dark, like #262626).
I’d love to see a Dark Mode personally, but also a way to see what’s on the homepage of a instance. I like to check that (kind of like r/all) to get news or things outside my main subscribed community’s
Just FYI, if iOS is in dark mode, so is Mlem. So it has dark mode, I guess it just needs a user setting for it when you want it different from your OS theme
I feel like Jerboa for Lemmy (Android's Lemmy App) could benefit from some of these suggestions as well, so hopefully the dev is also taking a look at this thread xd.
My biggest gripe is the inability to make the home screen/post view compact. Right now, it shows the entire post when someone creates one, which means youre scrolling for a long time to get past a single post in many instances.
searching for and sorting communities by some metric (like most subscribers)
ability to acknowledge pinned posts and fold them up or remove them from view (tired of scrolling past them)
a Share feature of a sort? I'd like to be able to "Share with..." and open a post (say, from a web browser) in Mlem.
more descriptive error messages when trying to log in (did the login fail because u/p is wrong or the server is fubar?)
filtering (blocking) communities should allow me to show either posts with those word(s) or posts without those word(s). As of now I think it's just posts with the defined words. Regex would be super!
I like how Apollo will show trending subreddits. Not sure if mlem can support that given the federated design of lemmy but it was super useful in finding new subreddits.
Definitely agree with this. I had joined so many subreddits on Apollo thanks to the way it advertised them. Here’s to hoping Lemmy devs will make it easier to discover new communities!
Improved scrolling performance should be a high priority. Currently scrolling a feed results in tons of dropped frames and poor performance and then the feed jumps around as images load and pop in. It’s even worse when you try to scroll back up. I’m guessing some kind of static size for posts and moving certain tasks off the main thread will help here but my SwiftUI experience is limited
I don’t know if it’s just me, but interaction with other servers is not as seamless as the experience on the web frontend. Yes, I can add multiple accounts, but I am yet to find a way to browse posts from across all of the linked communities.
I just installed it and started using it. So far it’s pretty nice I love that adding a comment is so easy. Coming from Apollo anything that behaves like that would be a big win