For context, you can consider current Lemmy pre V1 and the upcoming update V1.

Lemmy has some big updates coming soon. Initially, when I wrote Blorp, it made sense to keep things simple and coupled to Lemmy since Lemmy is what I’m personally the most interested in. However, supporting current Lemmy versions and future Lemmy versions is going to require me to decouple Blorp from a specific version of the Lemmy API anyway.

A bunch of people have asked about PieFed support, and I’m realizing the groundwork I’m going to need to lay to support Lemmy v1 will likely make PieFed support much easier. I haven’t looked into MBin, but I imagine it may be similar.

I’m not really sure what the point of this is, other than a routine update post and bouncing ideas off you all. Likely, Lemmy will always be my top priority, but my plan is to update Blorp so it allows you to write adapters to plug into different but similar projects like Lemmy, PieFed, etc.

This is a combination of a bunch of releases from the past week. iOS updates have been a little delayed, but as of today this is all on the App Store.

• updated settings page look and feel
• manage blocks from settings page
• add button to block community
• indicate when a post has been cross posted
• default create post to most recently visited community
• confirm before leaving community to prevent accidentally leaving
• make sidebars a lot better
• improve inbox notification indicators when using multiple accounts
• make markdown rendering more closely match official Lemmy UI
• fix scroll jumping when collapsing comments

We're also now listed on

• https://join-lemmy.org/apps
• https://www.lemmyapps.com/

I only have so much time to text other Lemmy apps, but I'm pretty confident that you aren't going to find a cross platform Lemmy app that handles account switching as smoothly as Blorp.

If you're enjoying Blorp, please take a moment to leave a comment, star us on GitHub, or share it with a friend ❤️

That's all for now. Keep Blorping

Basically Ctrl+K or Cmd+K would trigger a menu that would let you search for pages, communes, users, maybe more without touching your mouse. The goal would be for you to say “I want to jump to this community” and be able to do that in less than 3 seconds and without touching your mouse. This would be more of a power user feature.

It would be powered by this library https://cmdk.paco.me/

I’m not really sure how many people are using Blorp on mobile vs desktop/web as I don’t collect any analytics data. But likely this would primarily benefit desktop and web users.

Btw, I’m starting a Matrix Chanel if you’re interested in joining. I would love your feedback in helping to shape Blorp. https://matrix.to/#/#blorp:matrix.org

The entire app has been rewritten. This is to address performance issues, make Android possible, but most importantly, it lays the groundwork for more work to come!

Theres also a ton of small bug fixes included in this release.

Download

• iOS TestFlight Beta
• macOS

Android Beta - looking for testers!

• Google requires me to do some closed beta testing before I can open it to the public
• DM [email protected] with the email associalted with your Google account for access (this is temporrary)

Edit: iOS is waiting on approval from Apple. Expect an update from TestFlight in the next 24-48 hours. Web, macOS, and Android area all ready to test today!

Quick update:

I've been working on this project for a few months. After fighting some of the technical choices I've made, I've decided to rework some big components of the app. The next version, which will likely be 1.1.0, will take a few weeks, but should improve performance on iOS and will also launch on Android.

Because I'm rewriting a large portion of the app, it will likely be a 1 step back 2 steps forward situation. You may notice some steps back on iOS, but ultimately it this will synchronize web with Android/iOS better making it easier to manage all 3 projects and meaning better apps on all platforms in the near future.

Thanks again for everyone's support so far! Please keep your feedback coming, though I likely won't be able to address that feedback until I finish this major update in a few weeks.

Try it!

• Join the iOS beta
• Download the Mac app

If you already have either the iOS or the Mac app it should prompt you to update. You can relaunch the Mac app to trigger the prompt.

Changes

• Add setting to hide read posts in feed
• Fix comments not showing up after submitting
• Fix bug where saved posts feed was only showing posts local to your server
• Refresh inbox tab more frequently
• Cache user profiles
• Improve performance of post feeds (most noticeable on iOS)
• Fix dark mode flicker
• Fix youtube embeds where video ID contains dashes
• Increase the sizing of the login form to make it to use

Appreciate all the feedback so far!

I'm struggling a little to get the performance I want on iOS. I'm curious if anyone is using an older iPhone. I would love to hear if you think the app feels snappy enough or if there's room for improvement. If you could leave a comment or DM me with the phone your using and what you think.

Announcing the Blorp Mac App Preview – Available to Test Now!

Blorp is at a stage where there's still plenty of work to do, but I’m ready to start gathering feedback. The main areas that need improvement are enhancing the post creation experience and adding the ability to sign up directly through Blorp.

That said, Blorp is already very usable. I’ve chosen to launch the Mac app first because, among all the Lemmy clients, the desktop space is the least saturated. I’m starting with Mac since that’s where I’ve done all my testing, but the plan is to expand to Linux and Windows as well.

I’d love for you to download Blorp for Mac! If you’re not ready to install it yet, or you're not on a mac but still want to check it out, you can use the web version at blorpblorp.xyz.

Did I mention, Blorp is open source? You can read all the code on our GitHub.

Other platforms coming soon:

• iOS
• Android
• Linux
• Windows