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Leomard - a native macOS client for Lemmy (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello! I have made a macOS client for Lemmy - Leomard. It's an initial version of the app, and my first macOS app made for the public.

Features

Mac-native client
Fast, small and light (only 9.2 MB)
Open source (GPLv3)
Beautiful responsive interface

Of course, it's a very early version, some features are missing (ex. image uploading), and you may encounter a bug here and there.

Don't forget to follow Leomard's community: [email protected]

Or jump straight to the project’s Git: https://github.com/Athlon007/Leomard

If you have questions, feel free to ask :)

Hi everybody! This is the initial release of Leomard - a native macOS client app written in Swift using SwiftUI. It’s still in very early phase of development, features are missing, but it’s a start. Feedback is most welcome!

Screenshots:

Changelog

Initial Release

Sent from Leomard.**

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Let’s go with the native clients 🙏

Looking amazing 🙌

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Native is the way 🙏

Unfortunately, at work I usually have to settle for Vue.JS front-ends 😂

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Vue JS is awesome, when making websites.

The fact that people make apps with it is what sucks. Not because Vue JS is bad, but because native apps always look and feel better. Always.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I absolutely agree with you. Vue JS is my go-to framework, when I want to make a website nowadays.

Cramming it into an app and publishing it on App Store/Play Store though… shivers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

🤢

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

From business stand-point - I absolutely get it. One codebase, many platforms.

But the dev part of me absolutely hates it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

There are still milder ways for being cross platform… using certain frameworks or languages are pure self hatred 🥹

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thank you so much for making it available on Intel. I got the last Intel MBP out of sheer bad luck lol.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Let me know how it runs. I have no way of testing the app on Intel Macs. It should make no difference whatsoever, but who knows.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

It seems great! No issues so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

runs fine on a 2017 macbook pro!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Love it!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

sigh, not compatible on my old 2014 Macbook pro as it still runs MacOS 11.7.6 (Big Sur).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Check this out :) https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/ got Monterey running on my 2012 mbp

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Oooh, thank you for that. Gonna try it this week.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I’ll see what can be done.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Ran into the same problems on my 2014 iMac. Month ago I ran core legacy patcher, and now my old iMac runs ventura!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Looks awesome!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nice! Got it up and running on an M1 MBAir.

I'd say the only thing I noticed is the comments on posts don't seem to be coming up for me? It does show the number of comments, upvotes, etc. and has a field for entering a new comment.

At any rate, it looks pretty slick overall :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Same. Also, doesn’t seem to let me sign in (on SDF); the login box goes away, but when I switch to the feed, the lane on the RHS says “Lemmy.world”. When I go back to the profile page, it shows me the login box again, suggesting the login actually failed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Edit: ah, I think keychain access must not have worked. It didn’t prompt me; so I’m not sure how to grant it manually.

Edit 2: built from source and it did request access this time. I granted it, but the behavior seemed otherwise the same as above.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

That’s strange. I’ll try to take a look into it in the morning.

Honestly, I even tried it in the VM and it did work…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

NBD, it's a nifty app. I love native compiled apps.

OK, I opened it again and authentication appears to be working! Perhaps there was an additional issue with when I ran it from the Releases folder vs. when I ran it after moving it to /Applications in the sense that it invalidated the fact that I authorized KeyChain access prior to moving?

Comments still fail to load, though (can see 31 comments should exist, but it displays nothing; scrolling down doesn't reveal them, either)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did the Keychain pop-up ever appear?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, it appeared on first open (the one that launched automatically when I compiled it in XCode).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Posting from it now. Looks great!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Will give it a try. Thanks for open sourcing it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

awwww man shoulda called it Liger, the most ferocious beast.

...and the icon a sweet pair of nunchucks

....numchucks

...numbchunks

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I like (snow) leopards more, sorry!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Great start. UI def needs some tweaks (maybe it’s just the colors chosen?) but better than I can do lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Any specifics to improve?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

honestly - if you just copy/use the three column design and color scheme from Reeder this would be damn perfect. I find the 3 column design (like mail, reeder, messages (ok thats only 2 but you get the idea) to be perfect on the bigger Mac screens.

I have 0 idea how hard this would be though.

https://www.macstories.net/reviews/reeder-5-review-read-later-tagging-icloud-sync-and-design-refinements/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Maybe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Great ui , but two things 1 : add multiple accounts 2 : some subscriptions don’t show on some lemmy servers like lemmy.pt , lemmy.fmhy.ml etc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Already in to-do list for the next version
I have no idea why that’s the case, I am literally pulling data from Lemmy API and presenting it to the user.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I don't even have a mac, but this is gorgeous! Keep up the good work!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

@athlon Nice! 2017 MBP on macOS 13.4.1.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

test comment from Leomard please ignore

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Haha, called it. Well, almost, I thought it was going to be an instance. Love the name :)
It’s great to see new clients emerge.

Btw, do you have any plans to support kbin once its api goes live?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oof, I am not sure just yet. First I want to strike for 99% compatibility of Lemmy’s API itself, then I can think about things like kbin. It’s too early to say.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Ok, I see, thanks for answering. Good luck with your app!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Any chance it can work with kbin as well?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

As of right now, Leomard is strictly tied to Lemmy’s API.

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