Hey guys, a week ago I started working on a lemmy app like many others as an excuse to learn flutter. Along the way I found an old app that was abandoned but very well built.

After a couple of days I was able to get things running and semi-useable again. Including posting this post from the app! The main effort being updating to 0.17.x.

Here’s some screenshots:

I’ll be renaming the app (so I can republish it), tentatively under the name “Lem”… but really open to ideas here.

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    1 year ago

    “Leap”

    Because, that’s what lemmings allegedly do, but also encouraging people to take the leap and embrace the fediverse

    Leap for Lemmy

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    1 year ago

    Haha, how ironic. I downloaded the old Lemmur from F-Droid today, having no idea it had been abandoned. When I couldn’t add lemmy.world, I knew something was up.

    It’s a good looking app, so good on your resurrecting it!

    As for a name… Given it’s a resurrected app, how about Zommur? 😁

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      1 year ago

      I did the same thing last week, that’s how I got started on this whole thing! Hahaha

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        1 year ago

        I saw the app and had been hoping someone would resurrect it! My feature request (if possible) is to mark posts as read when you scroll past them. Its the feature i miss most from Joey (RIP)

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    1 year ago

    Holy crap, this reminds me so much of Infinity for Reddit (my favorite reddit client.) If this releases I’d love to try it out!

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    Hey Zack, we should probably talk!

    I follwed the same route but focused on the iOS side and so I have “Limbo” in TestFlight! Lemmur is such a great base isn’t it? It’s such a shame that the original devs moved on.

    Have a look at my take at https://lemmy.world/c/limbo

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    1 year ago

    If you don’t go with any of the other people’s suggestions, I’d like to inform you that in Danish, Lem basically means penis :)

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    Looking great, can’t wait to test it! Nothing against Jerboa for the time being, but alternatives are always welcome. Been testing summit yesterday that someone posted as well, and I think every app has some unique features about it, so let’s see where the journey goes.

    Ideally I’d love to have something as close to Reddit Sync as possible :-P

    As for the name, isn’t Lem a bit short? Not that I dislike it, but in terms of being properly searchable on google and the likes it might be better to go for a longer, unique search string, else it could get a bit cluttered.

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    You could make THE LEMMY app:

    1. By scraping all communities with the same name hosted in different instances and letting us subscribe to some/all of them all at once.
    2. By scraping kbin magazines too
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      Yeah I’m working on that separately as an instance utility.

      But Lemmynade (new name) does aggregate multiple instances and user accounts into a single feed which is nice

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    1 year ago

    Honestly, I think Lem is too similar to Mlem and Memmy and whatnot. I’d go with something Fed- or Thread- or Verse-related. Like Threader (could style it differently) or something

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        1 year ago

        Any idea why a newer project would elect for the GPL 2.0 over the 3.0? I know that the Linux kernel is GPL 2.0 still and I think it had something to do with changes regarding DRM (Tivoization). But I don’t see how that would apply here.

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    1 year ago

    A group of lemmings is called a slice, the app could be something like

    LemSlice

    SliceOLem

    Or maybe just Slice

    Just some ideas

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    1 year ago

    This looks great! I never used Slide, I was a JoeyforReddit user, but I’m really excited to see all the different apps in development.

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    Thanks you, that’s great :)

    Do you mean F-droid repo?

    As for suggestion, I noticed that you can’t really add a custom Lemmy instance.