Try it!
I haven’t seen another Lemmy client that lets you write code in your post with real-time syntax highlighting. It’s not just code. Write your posts in rich text without toggling between Markdown and preview.
There are a lot of Lemmy clients, so I’m sure someone else does this. But I wanted to share in case anyone else finds this helpful.
This is looking great! Thanks for sharing the live web version. Is the plan to keep that active as a web app?
That web app will stay active. My plan is to catch people’s attention with the web app but encourage people to download the native apps for macOS, iOS, Android, and I’m thinking about adding Linux. iOS and Android are currently in beta.
What I really need are a few more users. I’m pouring a lot of time into developing this. I’m realizing marketing an app is a whole other skill that I don’t have.
A few users would both help me feel like I’m building this for someone, and hopefully provide some feedback.
Would you ever consider releasing it as an alternative front-end which instances could choose to implement, similar to Tesseract and MLMYM?
Yes! I was thinking exactly that. I’m just not sure exactly how to go about that (just start DMing server owners?). I was also thinking I want to achieve a certain level of polish before I approach anyone, but I tend to be a little too much of a perfectionist.
The last two big things I’m missing are signup flow and messages. After that, I think it’s mostly bug fixes and minor improvements.
You can absolutely just DM server admins. Some are more communicative than others, but many are also in Discord and Matrix together. I'm not sure if other app developers have anything similar.
I'm willing to test on Android, but I don't see the apk in the release
Thanks! Android requires me to add like a dozen manual closed beta testers via email before I can create an open beta test. I was thinking about just skipping beta testing and going directly to Play Store.
I'll DM you details soon. Even if I do launch Android directly to Google Play, I still would love some feedback from someone that daily drives Android. I'm looking at everything though the lens of an iOS user.
I don't use it, but I'm sure that Emacs's lem.el Lemmy client can also do it, as emacs has Markdown syntax highlighting.
investigates
https://codeberg.org/martianh/lem.el
Yeah, it's got markdown-mode as a dependency, so it'll be using that for composition.
EDIT: Yeah, and it mentions "rich post compose".
That’s pretty cool! But if thats the closest thing, I think I can safely say this is a unique feature in the non terminal ui class of Lemmy clients.
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