As mentioned in another post, I've moved here from Arctic since it stopped development, and there are just a couple of things I miss. Overall of course mlem is much better, if nothing else than by dint of ongoing development, and it would be fab to see little UX improvements here and there, so this is my stab at documenting the ones that niggle me the most. Others may disagree, and that's fine; this is, in the words of the great one, just my opinion man.

Opening an image on Arctic was just about the best user experience I'd had since Apollo. Here are the main differences I see:

1. Open image without the overlay—no distractions, or buttons covering up bits of the meme text. It's far more common to just want to see the image than to share, copy, save, etc.
2. Double-tap and drag to zoom—probably the biggest one for me. This is so much better for one-handed operation on a smaller device. The double tap zoom is too extreme in most cases.
3. Single tap when zoomed to reset zoom—again, much quicker to reset / close an image, and more likely than needing the overlay. Dismissing a zoomed image in Arctic was basically 'tap, swipe', and very slick.
4. Reduce drag distance to dismiss—this is perhaps just a preference, but I'd like to reduce that to almost zero, so that the tiniest flick of a finger would dismiss a 'non-zoomed' image.
5. Improve rotation handling—this is hard to describe, but open an image, zoom in / out, then rotate the device. The zoom is now weirdly offset, and it's easy to even lose an image off-screen.

I'd also love the option to permanently hide the zoom factor popup—again, just distraction and I'd rather not see it, but appreciate others may like that, so definitely some of the above should be options: show overlay at start, show zoom factor, dismiss sensitivity, etc.

I'd highly recommend trying out Arctic just for this one thing; there's plenty else it doesn't do as well, but I feel images were a strong point. You could even open a compact feed view thumbnail as an image, rather than opening the link which was sometimes useful.

So when scrolling my feed I can see the total comments and total new comments, for example 27 +19 (where the +19 is in green). Would it be possible to have those 19 new comments “marked” in some way so I can quickly scroll and identify them? Wouldn’t have to be flashy, maybe even just a green dot or something next to the commenter’s username, or some sort of different binding/italicizing to highlight it?

TIA!

Features

• Enabled PieFed 1.4 features:
  • Filter comment search by instance
  • Sort comments by controversial
• Error toast timeout can now be adjusted (Settings → Advanced → Developer)

Bug Fixes

• Sending messages from external instance admin list no longer causes an error
• Fixed gaps appearing between certain link posts in feed
• The send message button no longer creates duplicate messages if tapped while a message is sending

We have also made significant backend changes to how we handle posts and comments, so if you see any unexpected new behaviors, please let us know!

I can’t seem to figure out. And no matter how I change the sort mechanism from Hot to Scaled it goes back to Hot.

Long time Arctic user making the switch to Mlem hopefully. I’ve noticed a few things I really miss from Arctic, and a glitch or two in the last few days of using Mlem exclusively. Just wondering whether it’s preferred to post those here or in GitHub?

https://github.com/mlemgroup/mlem/issues/2475

Is it possible to implement?

Features

• Added the ability to export comment threads as images
• Instance blocking is now available on PieFed
• Updated settings styling

Bug Fixes

• Hid the option to filter comment search by instance on PieFed (not supported by API)
• Vote settings in the instance details view now read Yes/No instead of Enabled/Disabled

I woke up to see I’ve got this ugly ass new iOS installed, and now I can’t hold down the account button on Mlem to swap accounts?

It can get more people involved with the group chat

Features

• Comment search is now available on PieFed 1.3 and later
• You can now tap on the version number in the "About Mlem" page to copy it

Bug Fixes

• The "modlog" button is no longer shown in the profile on PieFed instances
• PieFed instances no longer appear in the search sheet when signing up to an instance
• Fixed "Restore" option not showing for removed comments
• Fixed newly-created comments not showing if the post had zero comments

Features

• Expanded keyword filter functionality to allow filtering for literal strings
• You can now filter the modlog by user

Bug Fixes

• Fixed tapping the tab bar to scroll to top not behaving correctly on iOS 26
• Removed "haptic manager failed to start" error toast (for real this time)

Hopefully this is the right place for this.

Some comments are not showing up for posts until I close and re-open the Mlem app.

These comments are comments posted since I opened the app. Simply going to home and opening the app again doesn’t resolve this, I have to completely close and re-open the app to correct this.

I am new to Mlem and new to Lemmy. One thing I wish I could do is mark all existing posts for my subscribed communities as read, so that I only see things that are new to me. I know that I can mark read by scrolling, but I could probably scroll for days and not find the end. Is there a keystroke I haven’t found to mark all posts as read? Thanks in advance!

Features

• Images that fail to load now have a button to open the image in the browser
• vger.to links now open in-app
• Added nicer error readouts in a few places across the app

Bug Fixes

• Removed "Haptic manager failed to start" error message

Hi Mlem Community,

Update: Cloudflare reports the outage is resolved. If you continue to experience issues with Mlem, please let us know.

Due to the ongoing Cloudflare outage, our backend (which primarily provides instance search) is unavailable. This will cause some parts of the app to not work or throw an unusually high number of errors. You can monitor the outage status here.

• The Mlem Group

Features

• Improved error handling on the instance page
• Improved the Dracula theme contrast
• Images that fail to load now offer a link to view the content in browser
• Enabled the local instance community list on PieFed instances running 1.3 or later
• Moderators can now edit the community description on PieFed 1.3 and later

Bug Fixes

• Fixed loops.video videos not embedding
• Theme colors are now more coherent
• The markdown toolbar's hitbox now matches its appearance on iOS 26

When blocking communities from the list view, the block looks to work but the post disappears then immediately comes back. I can give a video if that helps, but I couldn’t easily upload it.

I'm so done with @IceCubesApp and @mlemapp being the only free apps with #liquidglass. I'm moving to @tusker and @Arctic.

Features

• The image viewer and inline video player now have Liquid Glass UI elements
• Added an "edit link" button to the post editor

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the "description" field of the post editor sometimes being cleared when editing a post