Memmy - An iOS client for Lemmy

What does this icon do? It appears on scroll sometimes. Tapping it does nothing.

Edit: Want to make this a sugestion thread, so please let us know your ideas on themes or names below.

Howdy all!

We have been internally discussing a rebranding of Memmy to another name. This has been a discussion for some time, and although we have certainly tried to see the upsides of not rebranding, we don't think this is a viable long-term option, for - among others - the following reasons:

• Eventual support for non-Lemmy services such as Kbin or Mastodon
• User awareness of Lemmy. Right now, the vast majority of people who are finding the app most likely are specifically searching for "Lemmy". While that's great and (based on trends on downloads/day) shows that there's obviously a big demand for Lemmy, we think this might not be the best way to grow - not just for ourselves but for Lemmy as a whole. We want the fediverse to grow and the best way to do that is to make it acceptable and easy to access without specifically targeting people who already know about Lemmy
• Community feedback in general about the name. None of this is taken personal or anything, but there's definitely negative feedback for multiple reasons about it, and honestly I think we agree with most - if not all - of that feedback.

Like I said, this is not something that we are doing lightly and we want to make sure we make the right choice before moving forward.

Mind you, we are not talking about a short-term goal here of supporting multiple Fediverse platforms. That probably isn't even in the one-year plan if I'm being honest. But I personally believe the way that we make the Fediverse work is by making the whole experience awesome, and that means offering users with options and ease-of-use.

So, with that said, we want to see what you guys think. We have had internal discussion about the possibility of using the name Badger, and while we all think that's a pretty good option, we are not 100% sold and want to gauge feedback before we do anything. Edit: It seems like that might not be something the community is interested in, so we likely won't be going that route.

Please drop your suggestions for themes or names below! We will go through them all sometime later in the day.

Let us know your thoughts!

I’ve set the font one or two steps larger. Bugging me out since days, thought I mention it

Can you implement a language selector? I don‘t like the german translation as it contains reddit circlejerk terms like „Pfostieren“ instead of „Posten“. I‘d rather use the english version.

Since of yesterday evening, the Memmy App gives me an Error on startup (see image).

I can see the app had an Update, so I guess it is related to that. On Init, I can see the background-image (dark orange with planet) and after a second the error pops up. When saying ok. There is a second error message with the same message. The longer I wait before I click it away, the more error messages there are to be clicked away. So I guess there is repeated request that is failing in the background.

As soon as I clicked the error away, I can only see the default the App UI, with an empty center panel saying "Error loading content :( Retry". When waiting the error message will reappear after 2-4 seconds. When waiting, there are several (2-n) error messages stacked that has to be clicked away to get back to the empty panel.

Coming to the App Store tomorrow!

Hey all! We still have some more QOL updates coming tomorrow or Saturday. Working on getting comments all sorted up (more like the Apollo style) and getting post editing/deletion as well as mod tools underway.

This update provides a VAST improvement to the image viewer. There shouldn't be any more issues with the swiping to close.

There are some issues still but they are minor and I'll get them cleaned up here soon. I've spent the day writing this viewer from scratch, so it's been a process.

The "white flash of death" should be fixed here as well when you open up the app.

We also now support localization! German is officially supported now, and we will be sourcing other languages to improve the experience for everyone.

Other minor fixes as well in this build, including a fix for a crash that was happening with the new spoilers.

Stay tuned, and happy scrolling!

It would be nice if the app automatically marks a post as read as soon as the user scrolls past it. Apollo had this feature.

I recall it had the mouse on it. Now I have the purple world.

I would like to have a option to show only favorites in the homefeed. Is this somehow possible and I didnt see it?

I feel like the default font size is way to small, even when I use "Use System Font Size"

What do you think? I had to make it bigger to make it look better imo.

could we have a jump to next main comment like in Apollo? I'm really missing the option. It was more comfortable scrolling through comments

Hello, I have to say memmy is far superior to the official interface. Brilliant thanks for making it.

Maybe I would suggest getting rid of the 3 button layout and reducing it to 2 if possible. Right top seems way too full.

Especially the 3 dots show only 1 option. So the last 2 can be imho merged.

That is all. Pretty tired, going to sleep. Enjoy everyone!

Big QOL update will be coming later this week <3

Hi guys,

I’m aware it’s not really cricket to start comparing different lemmy apps when they are still so young. I was just wondering having read a post for mlem. Such a sidebar would be a great addition. It would free a spot on the bottom bar. What is now “traverse” could be the sidebar in “feed” you could use this space in the bottom bar for a dedicated settings tab.

Hey all. A serious family medical emergency came up today. I do not really know how it's going to turn out right now, so you might not see as much from me for a few days. The release to the App Store is still in process, we are just waiting for a review from Apple, this will not affect that.

If it goes on for a bit, I will make sure that Sean knows how to process a build and release to TestFlight and subsequently to the App Store. I am hopeful that things will turn out alright but it's a pretty scary situation and I'm honestly not sure.

I'll be around in the evenings and will do a bit of work, but I likely will not be reading or replying to anything here. Your feedback will still be monitored and we will be going over that. Additionally, for bug reports, I highly recommend opening an issue on GitHub. It is incredibly easier to read and follow issues opened there. Things here are quickly buried and hard to find.

Thanks for all the support

Is there one?

I know they must have taken a good amount of work, but I dislike the animations for collapsing comments, they’re quite slow and distracting. Is there a planned option to disable them?

Love everything else, fantastic work!

The counter for the “upvotes” on post and comments are all over the place. They change all the time, sometimes showing just a zero. It’s not really important, just weird. Maybe it has something to do with the update of the server

Just wanted to share :)

In order to get up to speed with the people that are coming here without TestFlight, I've submitted a build to Apple with all of the current features and fixes.

I'd anticipate this to take about 24 hours, but it's possible it will be reviewed today. Apple is weird. I've had things get approved in like 8 hours on Saturdays before, so there's a chance it will happen today. I'll update you all when that happens.

Improvements and additions:

• New icon and options for changing icon color
• New and improved swipe animation (by the way, this is better than the last update wink)
• Improvements to image viewer (double tap works now too)
• Performance enhancments throughout the app
• Hide read posts
• Images in comments
• Collapsible posts
• Default comment sort
• All of the "Top" sort options
• Show a loading modal while downloading images
• Added a manage accounts button to accounts dropdown
• Add option for reader in webview
• Settings improvements
• Added embark theme
• Added buttons in comments for upvoting and replying
• Adjustments to splashscreen
• Username doesn't link to user profile in compact mode now
• Add option to use the default browser instead of in-app browser

Fixes:

• Fix issues with toast not changing color or disappearing
• Fix cake day showing the wrong year
• Fix issue where links with an internal IP address would ask for permission to local network
• Fix issues with account disappearing after app launch
• Read icon now uses the correct color
• Fix crash caused when pressing Matrix links
• Fix crash when searching for a community with an @ at the end

If any of these issues are bothering you now, rest assured they will be fixed for you quite soon.

Hey all!

We got an approved TF version up earlier, should have another one today and that will be submitted to review. I anticipate it would be reviewed either overnight or sometime tomorrow (Apple does do reviews on the weekend thankfully)

I want to clear up two items real quick:

1. There are edge cases where the app will ask you for access to the local network. This is related to an issue where if an image is linked that is, for some reason, on an internal network (i.e. 192.168.1.1), the app tries to access that to cache the image. Obviously it doesn't exist, but because it's trying to make a local network connection, iOS displays this warning.

For an example of this, please visit my profile in-app and hit posts. I've made a test post inside of /c/test that will trigger the issue. Feel free to just deny access, there's literally no reason to have this enabled.

2. Just to clear up some questions about what the device ID is used for, there's a comment chain here about all of this in full detail.

TLDR is that it is used for push notifications, and because the auth token from Lemmy we need technically would let us also see your email address, we have to disclose this as being linked to your identity.

If you do not enable push notifications, there is zero information sent to us from the app. And if you do, the only time that traffic is sent from the app is when you enable or disable notifications.

If anyone has questions about anything else, please comment here and I will answer all of them.

Cheers guys!

I don’t know if others miss this function too but I really do. So I thought I’d share this with the community:

There was this little button on the bottom right in Apollo. By pressing it you could jump to the next root in the comments. It would be a great feature to have in memmy. What’s your thought about this?

Smooth as fuck, you guys are absolutely killing it

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