Download the TestFlight beta for iOS 16+
After a massive reorganization and recruiting almost 20 new developers and designers from the community, we’ve made a HUGE amount of additions and improvements to the app, with many more to come! Yay!
NEW ADDITIONS
- Redesigned interface! NEW POSTS, COMPACTS POSTS, ALL THE THINGS!
- Updated Settings Tab
- Tap to collapse comments/threads
- Long post text is now truncated so they don’t take up your whole screen. They will have a maximum height.
- Increased contrast between post/comment cards and background
- The way the application interacts with the Lemmy API has been improved, this should reduce crashes in multiple places
BUG FIXES
- Tapping community links will no longer crash the app, instead an alert shows saying they’re not currently supported (we’re working on it now, it needs a few different chunks of work completed)
- Duplicate/looping posts when scrolling feeds should no longer happen 🤞
- Rapid scrolling through feed should no longer cause crashing 🤞
- Mlem icon is now brighter!
KNOWN ISSUES
- Some images may extend beyond the post card bounds in Card View
- In compact mode, link previews may not load
- Comments still have old up/downvote buttons
MORE TO COME
- Full a11y compliance which should work perfectly with iOS’s Accessibility functionality like Guided Access and Screen Reader. (Thanks to contributor Weston for your expertise and audit!) Note: we weren’t able to work this into the current build because of the constant changes to the interface, but some/most of it should be in the next build!
- New Profile Tab and Messages Tab
- New & improved fullscreen image viewer (not ready in time for this release)
- Inbox notifications (not Push, as that takes more work-- more on that later)
- Colored thread indicators
- Swipe-to-vote
- Post/comment saving
- Updated NSFW tag/blur
Again, please keep in mind that this is an early beta. As such, it’s not feature-complete and there will be bugs and unexpected behavior. Enjoy testing, and we look forward to hearing your bug reports via TestFlight and your feedback! You can comment here or come chat with us in The Mlem Space on Matrix.
PS, and because lots of people have asked-- Mlem app will never support iOS 15. Sorry, but we’d have to rewrite the app from scratch, and that’s not something we’re gonna do. Additionally, kbin support isn, for now, out-of-reach due to incompatibilities between the kbin and lemmy APIs. Although this may change in the future, for now, it’s not going to happen.
Cheers!
The Mlem Dev Team
Please remember everyone that Apple still treats TestFlight builds like AppStore releases, it has to go into review first once it’s accepted you’ll be able to see the update :)
Yes and no. In this case, the delay is because we updated the version number (0.0.6 —> 0.0.7) instead of simply the build number (which we also bumped to 23). This is what triggered the review. Hopefully it will be a short process!
Has it been updated in TestFlight yet? Still shows version 0.06 for me :(
It’s currently in review by Apple. It should come out soon though!
Same here, it’s set to auto update too, so not sure what might be going on
It is available for me now.
Just checked back and it’s available yes. It looks great as well! Thanks Mlem team :)
I’m only showing .0.0.6 (22) in Testflight. So maybe it’s awaiting approval still.
Make that 3, tried uninstalling and reinstalling via test flight but having the same issue.
Give it some time. It’s possible they uploaded it to TestFlight when they made this post and it takes Apple’s servers a bit to actually publish it.
20 new developers! Damn. Thanks for the hard work, everyone.
It’s somewhat exciting to be a part of this journey so early on; Lemmy will obviously continue to change as it adapts to an influx of users, so I’m sure you guys have your hands full. Looking forward to the continued progress of the application.
To be specific, that’s 20 new contributors. 7 or 8 are graphic and UX designers, and the rest are devs.
New feed with standard height posts looks much better and scrolling seems smoother 👍
Is long press to share on posts new in this release? I don’t remember that in prior releases.
Glad to hear it!
And yep, that’s a new feature.
Unfortunately I just get “Something went wrong” since updating to 0.0.7
yeah, some lemmy instances are slammed and throwing SSL authentication errors, and this is the response. we’re already working on creating more robust error handling and changing the UX for those errors. it’s very annoying, but we can’t control the lemmy instances and whether they’re up or down. what we can control is how the app reacts when it experiences an error, so we’re working on making it less annoying!
Aw the beta is full :(
Sorry, kids! We’ve hit our 10k limit!
Upvote for popularity, downvote because I’m not in the 10k :D
sorry (not sorry) that our test group maxed out so fast!
This app looks slick! Unfortunately I was too late to join the TestFlight beta. Is there a rough ballpark estimate when we might see this app on the App Store? Keep up the good work :)
we’re aiming for July 1 for 1.0 🤞
I’ve just updated from 0.0.6 to 0.0.7, but found it wouldn’t show posts. I kept seeing “Something went wrong. Sorry, something unexpected happened. Please try again.”
I signed out and in again, and now I see “Mlem couldn’t fetch you account’s information. File a bug report.”
I see an existing issue https://github.com/buresdv/Mlem/issues/181 which might be related. Should I create a new issue, or describe what I’m seeing as a comment on that issue?
honestly, it could be this, or it could be load timeouts from overloaded instances. it’s difficult to tell the difference from our end because the LemmyAPI isn’t very good at telling us what caused an error, so we have to triangulate it ourselves. whichever it is, we’re looking into it, so no need to file an additional report. thanks, though.
Really nice update.
I hope in the future we can choose have thumbnails on the right so we can click them easier and the left side text can all begin at the same point, cleanly aligned. And self posts etc won’t need a thumbnail, which will cut down on the busy and rigid look.
Something somewhat like this:
Thanks!
In the future we plan to offer many more customization options, including which sorts of posts get thumbnails and which side thumbnails show on. It’s not in active development right now (we’ve got some core features like NSFW blurring that have higher priority), but I built the post display with customizability in mind so you have my guarantee that it’s coming.
Great update. The app stopped crashing. Also gotta say… didn’t know that I wanted symmetrical up/down votes but now that I have them,never want anything else.
Really liking the new design and it fixed my main UX issue by condensing long posts. Great work.
That was probably my biggest gripe. Not enough to not browse on mlem, just a small annoyance and glad it’s been addressed.
It was bad when one of the Trump indictment post was constantly at the top of my posts and was like 14 pages long.
It’s available now :)
Hopefully this update will allow me to login to lemmy.world and try your app out! I’m excited about this platform and the apps to come along with it.
Also, if there is one feature I miss from Reddit (or was it an Apollo feature?) is the ability to hide posts you’ve upvoted/downvoted. Right now I like to use the “top of day” for my subscribed feeds on lemmy, but if I read the top posts, close the app (I use Memmy at the moment since it’s the only other iOS Lemmy app I’m aware of), and come back later, it’s all the same content for the most part. Upvoting/downvoting posts you read encourages to interact with a post and also keep your feed full of new content.
I think this will be pretty hard to do, partly because of the federation… I don’t even know how to approach it, except for saving the identifier of all interacted posts, but I guess that wouldn’t scale… maybe it would be simpler to implement it as a server-side feature?
It’s an Apollo-only feature, Reddit doesn’t natively do this. I’ve been thinking about this feature for a bit, and it seems a straightforward implementation would be to store “seen” post identifiers with a TTL. Since the data is just bits of text, it should not take a lot of storage on device, and the TTL takes care of cleaning up. Since most posts on Reddit would be bumped away from any type of feed within at least a couple of days, a TTL of a week or shorter would probably work for Apollo. Not sure about Lemmy right now though. I’m not a mobile dev, so would not know exactly how to implement a system like this for Mlem, but if it was a webapp I would use Redis (if server-side) or something like local storage or cookies with TTLs (if bowser-based offline).
It makes me happy that you’ll be working on screen reader accessibility in future, this app is great!
Our goal is to hit 1.0 by July 1 🤞
yeah, we wanted to implement at least some of it in this update, but it wasn’t ready yet. soon1
Looking forward to it.
