I've been using Mlem via TestFlight. It's solid. My only gripe is minor. I see a large amount of duplicate posts across different Lemmy instances. For example, Beehaw's c/technology and Lemmy.world's c/tech often have the same content posted. My guess is it's the nature of federated content. It'd be very impressive if you find a solution to consolidate duplicate posts from Lemmy instances.
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023
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Mlem is Ok, but still lacks way too man QOL features. I found Memmy as well, which is a bit newer, but also seems to be way more polished already, and the dev does updates almost daily. Already has listed communities, search, a working feed that doesn’t duplicate, and blurred NSFW.
Same, I’ve switched to Memmy almost entirely. Seems like a very active and driven dev. Lots of features and very polished in like 5 days or something crazy.
like that “other discussions” tab that would list other posts with the same url
This sounds like a pretty solid solution. I wonder if it's possible at all to implement something like that.
This is still very much a work in progress. I’ll be looking for beta testers soon so keep an eye out if your on the iOS 17 beta
Isn’t it iOS 17 currently in beta? Or are you planning to launch next year?
iOS17 releases in September.
Final public iOS 17 release will be in September with public betas starting next month. I didn’t want to architect a new app on top of technology that will be stale & require rework in 3 months. I wouldn’t expect the app to be ready for full blown public release too soon before then anyway. I’ve only been working on it for a week. Still have a lot of work before it’s stable enough for a release.
I've tried Mlem and Memmy, and the biggest features missing as I see it are:
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Once you have logged in, search all currently federated servers. See what their subscriber count is on their local instance, and across all instances. Sort by subscribers, posts/day, or comments/day.
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A tab which shows you your subscribed communities so you can go straight to them (Memmy and kbin both make you go in to your profile to do this, it should be front-and-center)
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Ability to subscribe to a community by looking at its main page
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Ideally kbin communities would show alongside lemmy communities, I think this is a limitation of kbin right now though?
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Swipe posts to upvote/downvote (right), reply/save (left)
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Something which tells you the last time information was pulled from a federated server - sometimes it would be useful to know that I might be seeing a page which is 8 hours out of date vs. one which was updated 30sec ago
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Something which tells you or prevents you from posting to a defederated community since the post will not behave as expected
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Expose options for copying links to comments, links to parent comments
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Ability to see your post history separated by threads/comments/etc., and messages; from a comment, go to the specific thread in question (i.e. direct link to parent or contextual comments in that thread, not just the original post)
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Hide posts you've voted on already
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I don't think any currently existing apps expose moderator tools. I'm not sure how much of this is present on the API side so far but will be hugely important as communities get bigger.
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Content density. On Apollo I can see ~6 posts at once on any given page. On Memmy or Mlem I see ~2.5. Just a much more efficient display of content, tell me what the post title is, what community+server it's on, how old the post is, how many comments, what the upvote-downvote calculus is. If I want to know the user count or read the blurb on the post I can tap in to it.
Great list of features with high probability of putting this new app on the level with RIF, Apollo, etc.
I started toying around with Memmy, today. There's a star in the top left corner that is a shortcut to your subscriptions, allowing you to bypass your profile. The feature might be new. Thought I'd share.
Just to add a couple of things to your great list that I’m missing by from Apollo:
- Hide posts I’ve read (eg posts I’ve scrolled past are marked as ‘read’ and then hidden on next refresh. Ideally with an option to view / search those ‘read’ posts
- Option to open the built-in. Bowser view in Reader mode—this solves much of the trash mobile sites with endless cookie pop ups and ads
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Great list
2nd point, you can tap on the star at top left corner to go to your subscribed communities, so just 2 taps
I miss Apollo’s compact view as well. Hope it and light theme will come.
I can’t seem to reply to comments either. Only able reply to the OP (I had to open my browser to reply to your comment)
Wonder if there is a community for Memmy to give feedback/feature request/discuss our experiences
Hey there, there is a community on lemmy.ml. Unfortunately, lemmy.ml has been de-federated. So you can check us out on Discord @ https://discord.gg/apCwAdHtZ
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These are awesome requests, I’ll be sure to reach out to you when the app is ready for testing. If you or anyone else have requests when it comes to mod tools specifically please reach out to me. I’ve never been a mod on here or Reddit so I’m not sure what types of tools mods need, but there are definitely APIs for that and I’d love to take advantage of them.
Multi-~~reddits~~communities
Planned (:
Please support iOS 15 users on older phones. apollo still do
A light theme is also much appreciated!
Android hamburger menu doesn’t feel right in a native iOS app
It’s not really a hamburger menu that’s just the icon I chose to use. it works the same way Apollo does.
Feature request: When you tap someone’s user name, it shows clearly which instance they are on e.g. @[email protected] on top (pretty standard) But then when, you click on the instance part of the user name, it brings you to the about page of that instance.
It’s a good idea. The problem is the “hitboxes” if you will are very small there. I’ll see if I can come up with a good way to do this
Feature: hide posts based on specific words in title. Handy when you’ve had enough of a particular topic (trump, musk, …)
Already in the plans! 😁
I mean a good approach would be to just go through Apollo and … copy with bride! Christian did an amazing job with it.
I’m taking a lot of inspiration. If my app is as stable and feature-rich as Apollo I will feel very accomplished. After all these years browsing with Apollo the current options for Lemmy just feel lackluster.
Loved that feature on Apollo. Filter out politics, shit I was tired of seeing (for example is filtered out “Shaggy” back when he was meme’d to death), I’d filter out keywords of movies I didn’t want spoiled. It was honestly one of the best feature of Apollo.
As soon as it’s released, I’ll be on the public beta and am happy to help test if you’d be interested.
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the ability to dynamically filter search results, if that's at all possible (it's not with lemmy's interface currently)
My feature request would be iPad support, because right now there isn’t any app for that.
Memmy has iPad support.
Would love to test this too Feature ideas
- Compact view with thumbnails as an option
- Swipe to upvote
I’m interested in beta testing also. Lmk
Can kbin come along for the ride? :)
I don’t know about Lemmy’s API, but Kbin doesn’t have a functional API yet. So it might be challenging to implement compatibility for both at the moment
Correct. It is in the plans if they ever sort it out.
That looks great! I’m on the iOS 17 beta and would be happy to beta test if you are looking for people!
It doesn’t really make sense to target iOS 17 as the minimum supported version if you want people to test it. Normal users won’t run beta versions of iOS.
Exciting!
Looking great so far! Happy to beta test whenever you’re at that point.
https://testflight.apple.com/join/o9m6BbyU Definitely nowhere near complete but I think it’s good enough for an Alpha (:
Awesome work! Do you have a name for your app already, something like Xeno Blue?
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Among what everyone else is saying. Customizable color schemes! If I could browse Lemmy with a solarized dark-esque color scheme, I may actually cry…
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What about having private dms like Reddit? And make the chat turn into group also?
Didn't see a classic view. Is that in progress?
Exciting!
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