Lemmy Apps Directory

The following is a directory of current Lemmy apps. This list includes apps that have released in the last 6 months, or have been confirmed to be in active development, with the most recent at the top. You can find a list including older apps here (unmaintained apps may have security or compatibility issues). The ![open source][1] symbol indicates that an app is FOSS.

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Android

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|!icon | Racoon | ![open source][1] | | ---: | :---: | ---: | | Source | !raccoonforlemmyapp@lemmy.world | | | 1.13.0-beta03 | 2024-11-01 |GitHub Release |

Raccoon for Lemmy is a client for the federated aggregation and discussion platform Lemmy. The project started as an exercise to play around with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) and Compose multiplatform and gradually grew as a fully functional client with many features.

Dev: @ akesi_seli@lemmy.world

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|!icon | Summit | | | ---: | :---: | ---: | | Github | !summit@lemmy.world | Play Store | | 1.44.0 | 2024-11-01 | |

Summit is an app for Lemmy that enables you to explore hundreds of communities with ease. Summit is optimized for Android and offers a smooth browsing experience.

Dev: @idunnololz@lemmy.world

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|!icon | Voyager | ![open source][1] | | ---: | :---: | ---: | | Source | !voyagerapp@lemmy.world | Play Store | | 2.18.4 | 2024-10-20 |F-Droid |

Voyager is an Apollo-like open source web client for Lemmy. It's a mobile-first app, but works great on desktop devices, too. Please feel free to try it out!

Dev: @aeharding@lemmy.world

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|!icon | Jerboa (Official Android client) | ![open source][1] | | ---: | :---: | ---: | | Source | !jerboa@lemmy.ml | Play Store | | 0.0.77-alpha | 2024-09-27 |F-Droid |

Jerboa for Lemmy An app for Lemmy, a federated reddit alternative. Jerboa is an app for Lemmy, a federated reddit alternative. Jerboa is made by Lemmy's developers, and is free, open-source software, meaning no advertising, monetizing, or venture capital, ever. Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News: you subscribe to forums you're interested in, post links and discussions, then vote, and comment on them. Behind the scenes, it is very different; anyone can easily run a server, and all these servers are federated (think email), and connected to the same universe, called the Fediverse.

Dev: @dessalines@lemmy.ml

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|!icon | Connect | | | ---: | :---: | ---: | | | !lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca | Play Store | | 1.0.192 | 2024-08-22 |APKPure |

A native application for browsing the social platform Lemmy and the Fediverse.

Dev: @kuro_neko@lemmy.ca

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|!icon | Thunder | ![open source][1] | | ---: | :---: | ---: | | Source | !thunder_app@lemmy.world | Play Store | | 0.5.1 | 2024-08-20 | IzzyOnDroid |

Thunder is a fully open source, cross-platform, community-driven project available on GitHub. Fully free of advertisements and trackers. Thunder is still very early on in development and many more features are yet to be available!

Dev: @darklightxi@lemmy.world

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|!icon | Interstellar | ![open source][1] | | ---: | :---: | ---: | | Source | | Play Store | | 0.6.0 | 2024-08-19 | Flathub |

An app for Kbin, Mbin, and Lemmy; connecting you to the fediverse.

Dev: @jwr1@kbin.earth

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|!icon | Eternity | ![open source][1] | | ---: | :---: | ---: | | Source | !eternityapp@lemdro.id | Play Store | | 0.2.1 | 2024-08-09 |F-Droid |

A client for Lemmy, specifically designed for Android and written in Java. This project is a fork of the Infinity for Reddit project, and it is currently in the early stages of development. As such, expect many unfinished features and potential bugs!

Dev: @bazsalanszky@lemmy.toldi.eu

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|!icon | Boost | | | ---: | :---: | ---: | | | !boostforlemmy@lemmy.world | Play Store | | 1.0.14 | 2024-07-14 | |

Boost for Lemmy is designed to provide a seamless browsing experience for the decentralized social platform Lemmy and the Fediverse.

Dev: @rmayayo@lemmy.world

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iOS

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|!icon | Echo | | | ---: | :---: | ---: | | Website | !echo@eventfrontier.com | App Store | | 1.3.1 | 2024-10-25 | |

Echo for Lemmy is a fully native iOS application built using fully native Apple SDKs. This means it feels right at home on your iPhone and is designed to be fast, efficient, and easy to use. No overhead from web views or cross-platform frameworks.

Dev: @fishcharlie@eventfrontier.com

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|!icon | Voyager | ![open source][1] | | ---: | :---: | ---: | | Source | !voyagerapp@lemmy.world | App Store | | 2.18.4 | 2024-10-20 | |

Voyager is an Apollo-like open source web client for Lemmy. It's a mobile-first app, but works great on desktop devices, too. Please feel free to try it out!

Dev: @aeharding@lemmy.world

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|!icon | Thunder | ![open source][1] | | ---: | :---: | ---: | | Source | !thunder_app@lemmy.world | App Store | | 0.5.1 | 2024-08-20 | |

Thunder is a fully open source, cross-platform, community-driven project available on GitHub. Fully free of advertisements and trackers. Thunder is still very early on in development and many more features are yet to be available!

Dev: @darklightxi@lemmy.world

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|!icon | Lemmios | | | ---: | :---: | ---: | | | !lemmiosapp@lemmy.world | App Store | | 1.9 | 2024-8-12 |TestFlight |

Lemmios is a client built for Lemmy. Discover and browse through all parts of the fediverse in an intuitive way.

Dev: @mrlavallee@lemmy.world

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|!icon | Arctic | | | ---: | :---: | ---: | | Website | !arctic@lemmy.world | App Store | | 1.1 | 2024-06-11 |TestFlight |

Arctic For Lemmy is a free and native iOS client for Lemmy. In the spirit of the Fediverse, Arctic is completely free and private. No data of any kind will be collected from your device, and no pesky advertisements, Ever. Arctic was built specifically for iOS and runs natively on pure Swift. Enjoy browsing feeds with embedded content that keeps you out of the browser, and in the app. Engage in the conversation using the rich markdown editor, and intuitive post composer

Dev: @CreatureSurvive@lemmy.world

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|!icon | Mlem | ![open source][1] | | ---: | :---: | ---: | | Source | !mlemapp@lemmy.ml | App Store | | 1.3 | 2024-05-05 | Website |

Mlem is the first native SwiftUI Lemmy client on the AppStore. It feels right at home on your iPhone (and soon iPad and Mac). With tons of options for customizing your your experience.

Dev: @ericbandrews@lemmy.ml

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Linux

|!icon | Neon Modem Overdrive | ![open source][1] | | ---: | :---: | ---: | | Source | | Site | | v1.0.5 | 2024-05-28 |GitHub Release |

BBS-style command line client that supports Discourse, Lemmy, Lobsters and Hacker News

Web

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|!icon | Tesseract | ![open source][1] | | ---: | :---: | ---: | | Source | !tesseract@dubvee.org | Web UI | | 1.4.19 | 2024-10-21 | |

Formerly Tesseract for Lemmy. Now “Tesseract for Sublinks” Development is now targeting the upcoming Sublinks project. As Sublinks aims to provide initial compatibility with Lemmy, Tesseract will continue to work with Lemmy for the foreseeable future. Once the Sublinks project moves into its native API phase, Lemmy support will be dropped from Tesseract.

Dev: @ptz@dubvee.org

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|!icon | Voyager | ![open source][1] | | ---: | :---: | ---: | | Source | !voyagerapp@lemmy.world | Web UI | | 2.18.4 | 2024-10-20 | |

Voyager is an Apollo-like open source web client for Lemmy. It's a mobile-first app, but works great on desktop devices, too. Please feel free to try it out!

Dev: @aeharding@lemmy.world

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|!icon | Quiblr | ![open source][1] | | ---: | :---: | ---: | | | !quiblr@lemmy.world | Web UI | | 2.X | 2024-10-18 | |

Quiblr aims to build an intuitive, accessible, and modern interface to connect users to the fediverse.

Dev: @Aurelius@lemmy.world

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|!icon | Photon | ![open source][1] | | ---: | :---: | ---: | | Source | !Photon@lemdro.id | Web UI | | 1.31.4 | 2024-09-20 | |

An sleek web client for Lemmy using mono-ui, a custom design system.

Dev: @Xylight@lemdro.id

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|!icon | mlmym | ![open source][1] | | ---: | :---: | ---: | | Source | | Web UI | | 0.0.50 | 2024-07-21 | |

a familiar desktop experience for lemmy.

Dev: @

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|!icon | Lemmy-UI | ![open source][1] | | ---: | :---: | ---: | | Source | !lemmy@lemmy.ml | Web UI | | 0.19.5 | 2024-06-19 | |

The official web app for Lemmy, written in inferno. Based off of MrFoxPro's inferno-isomorphic-template.

Dev: @dessalines@lemmy.ml

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|!icon | Alexandrite | ![open source][1] | | ---: | :---: | ---: | | Source | !alexandrite@lemmy.world | Web UI | | 0.8.13 | 2024-03-04 | |

Alexandrite is a desktop-first alternative Lemmy client.

Dev: @sheodox@lemmy.world

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~Updated 2024-11-01~

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/29038131

> I'm a decent developer, but with only a couple years' professional experience and no formal training. I'm looking for open source projects to contribute to (ideally pick one or two and get dedicated to them). > > I'm open to small or large projects. > > I'm using this as my source of options: > > https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous/ > > But I'm curious if there are other ones, or if you all have ideas about which ones are needing and deserving help. > > Thanks!

Voyager F-droid/Github/Standalone releases on lemmyapps.com say last updated 9 months ago, but that's not right

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Looking for an alternative to Sync, because I'm tired of not getting updates from LJD despite it being a paid app. Unfortunately, thus far I've tried about half a dozen apps and none of them quite give me as much customisation options as Sync did, especially on the feed view. Few of them even come close. Does anybody have a recommendation for a highly-customisable app?

Cross posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22382916

What the title says. I tried different lemmy apps and home only shows the last community I subscribed to. I can't find a way to fix this via the settings and searching online did not turn up anything useful. Where should I report this?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22173524

This is a relatively small update to address a few issues with v0.4.2.3.

The biggest issue this update addresses is scrolling behavior and performance. The previous release had a bug that would cause poor scrolling performance in post feeds, and issues sizing cells to fit their content. This update addresses this, and offers a significant improvement to scrolling in Arctic.

This update also adds support for native instance blocking, finally. Instance blocking was added to Lemmy in v0.19, after Arctic already had instance blocking built up in. This version will now use the native blocking feature for instances running v0.19+, and fallback to internal blocking on older instances. This update will also automatically migrate your instance blocks from Arctic, to Lemmy.

You can now use search in Arctic’s settings. I know Arctic has a lot of settings, and it can be difficult to find exactly what you're looking for, you can now search for most options. This is still a work in progress, and not all options are searchable yet. I’ll be improving on this in future updates.

Arctic for macOS open TestFlight

--- Arctic is now officially in beta for macOS. I know some users with silicon macs have been using the iPad version of Arctic for a while now, but macOS is now supported on intel macs as well. This version offers a lot of Mac specific fixes and improvements over using the iPad version on Mac. Note that this is the first Mac beta, and there will be bugs. There is still a ton of changes coming for Mac, primarily with the UI to improve support for the use of a mouse or trackpad, and make better use of the larger screen space.

v0.4.2.4 Changelog

New Features

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• Added action menu to user and community buttons on post and comment cells/
• Added options to toggle haptic feedback for various actions/
• Added support for instance blocking using native Lemmy API, this will fall back to internal blocking on instances running versions older than v0.19.x.
• Added support for searching Arctic's settings /
• Added support for opening links to options in Arctic's settings e.g., arctic://settings.root/Settings/Appearance#App%20Theme Will open Arctic to the theme settings.
• Added options button to theme cells in the theme browser/
• Added color descriptions in the theme editor.
• Added option to configure the swipe action angle threshold/

Changes

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• Updated support for stripping Markdown in push notifications.
• Updated toast messages appearance and improved dismiss gestures.
• Updated link preview generation to prioritize links in the order they will be displayed
• Updated scrolling behavior to reduce stutters and jumps while scrolling.
• Updated behavior when blocking, or subscribing. These actions should now be represented immediately in action menus.
• Updated large post default settings to display community button on the top of post cells.
• Updated default swipe action threshold to reduce false triggers while scrolling.
• Updated markdown and HTML parsing for link preview descriptions.

Bug Fixes

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• Fixed an issue allowing Spoilers to be shown in push notifications.
• Fixed an issue allowing Spoilers to be shown in post feeds.
• Fixed a layout issue allowing voting buttons to be compressed on post cells.
• Fixed an issue where link previews in comments would display an extra line of compressed text.
• Fixed an issue preventing paged gallery views from responding to taps when contained in a crosspost view.
• Fixed an issue where cells would not resize when a link preview was loaded.
• Fixed an issue preventing post cells from sizing properly when new content is loaded.
• Fixed an issue that could allow system swipe actions to display, even if custom swipe actions are enabled.

Links

• Website: getarctic.app
• TestFlight: testflight.apple.com
• App Store: apps.apple.com
• Issues: github.com
• Community: !arctic@lemmy.world

It's still in early development stage, but I think it's coming together rather nicely and it's pretty snappy. Thoughts?

As the title says, i want to be able to set it up so that when i open the app i ONLY see the stuff from the instance at the start and not from any federated one until i tab away or something, to use with a tiny private instance. Does this exist?

Bonus points if it's a FOSS one on FDroid.

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Hi all, I’m excited to introduce redgazer.com to the community - a new, streamlined way to browse photos in Lemmy communities.

Key Features

• Gallery View: Browse photos in a clean, Pinterest-style masonry layout
• Quick Preview: View full-resolution images and discussions without leaving your feed
• Multi-Instance Support: Connect to any Lemmy instance seamlessly
• Minimalist Design: No distractions – just the content you want to see

I’ve been working on this for a few months and would love to hear your feedback!

Edit: a few examples:

• pics@lemmy.world
• wallpapers@lemmy.world
• mobilewallpaper@lemmy.world

Cross-posted from "v1.4.20 Released" by @ptz@dubvee.org in !tesseract@dubvee.org

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This is a fairly large release packed with lots of UI refinements, removal of a lot of legacy cruft (though sadly not all yet), new features, better moderation workflow, and lots of bugfixes. This is probably the most overhaul the basics of the UI have seen in one release since the first versions.

Probably my favorite new feature is the configurable "hybrid" view. In hybrid view, all posts default to compact mode, and you can configure which post types should display as cards by default. e.g. Image posts (memes, pictures, etc) will default to cards with everything else remaining compact. You can also, optionally, keep posts that are marked read in compact view.

Additionally, all posts (except text-only posts; there's no difference) can be toggled individually between compact and card now. Previously, this was only possible when the view was set to 'compact'.

Get Tesseract

Hosted instance: https://tesseract.dubvee.org

Docker Tags:

• ghcr.io/asimons04/tesseract:1.4.20
• ghcr.io/asimons04/tesseract:v1.4.20
• ghcr.io/asimons04/tesseract:latest

The hosted instance defaults to Lemmy World but is unlocked to connect to any Lemmy instance.

Bugfixes

Bugfixes: Minor

• May only have been an issue for admins, but administratively hidden and removed communities will now no longer show up in community autocomplete results.
  • They will still (intentionally) show up when filtering for a community in the modlog though (though only admins should be able to see those results)
• Fixed full URLs not truncating properly when "Show Full URLs" option is enabled
• Fixed issue with click-to-play not working on post pages if media is disabled on post pages.
• Disable "reply" button if post is removed or deleted
• Disable 'report' post action if post alredy removed (I think deleted posts can still be reported, though. Need to double-check the API behavior.)
• Disable 'report' comment action if comment already removed.
• Fixed Gifs not previewing if just 'url' is present (i.e. no thumbanil_url or embed_video_url)
• Indicate post's removed/deleted/lock state in the comment item component when viewing profiles
• When "Match Crossposts on Title" is enabled, posts with the same title but different URLs will no longer be erroneously rolled up
• "Distinguish" now only shows on your own comments if you are a moderator. This matches the stupid API behavior because...the Lemmy devs don't listen to anyone. (Wow I really can't go one release without throwing shade at them, can I?)
• Modlog now shows hide/unhide and remove/restore community events.

Bugfixes: Major

Image Cache Housekeeping

Fixed image cache housekeeping not working correctly.

There were changes to fs/promises that I missed, and some functionality changed along with a few of the member variables being deprecated. This was causing the directory content calculations to silently fail safe (returned 0 rather than crashing).

As a result, nothing was ever getting evicted from the cache.

If you are using the cache functionality of the image proxy, you will likely notice that startup takes a bit longer this time if you have housekeeping set to run at startup (recommended). This is because it will be housekeeping all of the cached objects it should have been housekeeping all along. Once the initial cleanup of the backlog has completed, further startups should complete in the normal/expected amount of time.

If startup takes too long, you can always delete all of the .cache objects manually from the mounted cache folder. See the Media Proxy docs for configuration options.

New Features / Changes

"Hybrid" Post View

Rather than a binary choice of "card" or "compact", hybrid view will let you set a list of post types (image, video, article, etc) that you want to render as cards while displaying everything else as compact. This is the new default view.

This is useful, for example, to let memes and news articles co-exist without having to expand every meme image manually in compact view or view every article thumbnail card-sized.

The behavior and post types can be configured from Quick Settings -> Post Style -> Hybrid and then clicking the link for "Configure" -or- from Settings -> Feed- > Hybrid View Configuration

By default, only image posts are expanded to cards.

In addition to setting the types of posts that should render as cards, you can optionlly keep read posts collapsed into compact view when they would otherwise be cards if they were unread. This is enabled by default, but can be easily disabled.

There is also a new regular view called "Compacter". It is the same as compact but post body is fully collapsed. Similar to "More Compact" but not full width.

Post Form Now Automatically Searches for Crossposts/Duplicates

When you are creating a post, the URL will be searched to see if you're posting something that's already been posted. It should do this automatically when the URL field changes or the URL is set and the community changes. The behavior is slightly different depending on if a community is defined:

1. If the community is not set, then it will search for any posts on your instance matching that URL. The label will be "Crossposts".

2. If the community is set, then it will do a remote API call to search the home instance of that community for any posts to that community with that URL. The label will be "Existing posts".

The latter behavior is particularly useful if you want to avoid accidentally posting a duplicate that may have been posted by someone you've blocked or by someone your instance doesn't federate with. Those posts may not be visible to you locally, so the remote search should help identify them so you don't clutter up the feed and/or add extra work for the moderator who usually removes duplicate posts.

If for whatever reason it doesn't trigger automatically, the "Magnifying Glass" icon to the right of the URL field can trigger the search manually.

Also note that behavior #2 only works if you're posting to a Lemmy community since it makes a remote API call to the community's home instance using the Lemmy API. Thus, it cannot search a remote Kbin/Piefed, etc instance.

Can Now Vote on Crossposts Without Clicking Into Them

Vote buttons have been added to the crosspost items, so you can now vote on them from the feed and post.

In the feed, since the cross_posts are rolled up manually from regular post objects, the voting works as expected.

Unfortunately, when clicked into a post, the API call does not add the my_vote variable to the cross_posts array. So while you can vote on the crosspost, and the vote will be correctly recorded, your vote will only display correctly while you're on that page. Since the API doesn't return the vote you cast, on refresh or subsequent loads, the vote button will not indicate which way you voted. If you try to vote again, the score will not necessarily change. Yet another feature I want to implement hampered by dumb API decisions.

DailyMotion Video Embeds Now Supported

I forgot Dailymotion existed until someone posted a link a while back. Upon inspection, they have an embed API, so I figured why not add support for it.

Moderation Menu Has Been Replaced With New Moderation Modal

The moderation menu on posts and comments has been removed. The reason is that the menus were getting cluttered when new things are added, especially for admins who have more options available than regular mods. Rather than creating sub-menus (yuck!) or introducing separate UI elements for admin controls, I've just scrapped the whole thing and started over.

The "mod" button will now open a modal containing all the mod tools that are appropriate for the item.

The cool thing about the new mod modal is that all of the tools are packaged into it. It doesn't open separate modals for banning/unbanning, removing/restoring, etc. It even has the community details available so that mods can reference the rules when issuing actions without leaving the item they're working with.

Current Capabilities and Features

• A mini-banner heading showing the current community with its icon and the creator of the item and their avatar/info.
  • Both communtiy and user are clickable to bring up their respective profile modals to get more info (these pop up in separate modals and aren't integrated into the mod modal)
• Pin/Unpin the post to the community
• Feature/Unfeature the post on the instance (admins only)
• Lock/Unlock the post
• View the community details relevant to the current item (post or comment)
• View the votes for the item (admins only until whatever version of Lemmy lets mods do this for their communities)
• Remove/Restore the post or comment (shows the post meta header or the comment meta header and comment previews)
• Send a DM to the post/comment's creator
• Purge the post or comment (admin only)
• Ban/Unban the user from the community
• Ban/Unban the user from the instance (admins only)
• Distinguish/undistinguish mod comments
• View the user's modlog history
  • Defaults to their history in the community relevant to the current item
  • Can toggle between their modlog history in the community and their full modlog history
  • Also has link to the full modlog viewer filtered for that user.

All tools stay within the same modal, and it shrinks/expands to accommodate the various integrated tools.

Improved Community Modals

To reduce clutter, the "Subscribe/Unsubscribe" (RSS Icon), "Favorite/Unfavorite" (Star), "Add/Remove to Group" (3 People) buttons have been moved to the modal title bar as icon-only buttons.

"Create Post" is no longer a link to the community's create post page. It now shows the create post form right in the modal. There is a button in the upper-right which will take you to the /c/{community}/create_post page if you want to use the old form ( 🖼️ 👩🏻‍🦰 🖼️ it's the same form).

For admins, "Remove/Restore Community" and "Hide/Unhide Community" have been integrated. They will also now prompt for an optional reason to show in the modlog.

The "Community Details" is now a panel (like in the moderation modal) rather than being an accordion. Same functionality, different packaging.

You can now view the community's modlog directly in the modal.

Added the direct ban/unban user tool to the community modal. Instance admins and community moderators can now manually ban/unban users from the community without having to dig up a submission. Useful to revisit an old ban or to ban a known troll making the rounds before they hit your community.

Improved User Modals

The "Copy Lemmyverse Link" and "Copy Actor ID" buttons have been moved to the modal's title bar as icon-only buttons.

• The "Share" icon is for Copy Lemmyverse Link. This is used to share an instance-agnostic link to a user.
• The "Link" icon is for Copy Actor ID.
• The box with arrow in top right icon will take you to the user's profile.

Can view user's modlog history directly in the modal

Can send a message to the user directly from the modal

For admins, the "ban/unban user" form is now integrated directly into the modal.

Piped/Invidious Support Changes

Since YouTube has gone to war against alternate frontends (and is sadly winning), most public instances no longer work. However, I believe that private/small instances may still function as expected.

Since the public instances are pretty much all broken or only partially working, Invidious/Piped support has been modified to only be enabled if the user supplies their own instance.

The distinction between Invidious and Piped has also been removed since the link formats are interchangeable. Now, in Settings, the YT frontend has been changed to just "YouTube" and "Custom". The custom instance list can contain Invidious and/or Piped instances.

The alternate link selector for YouTube videos will now also only show "Invidious/Piped" option if you have defined at least one.

As before, multiple custom instances can be defined but one will need to be selected as the default. That one will be used for the alternate source selector and, optionally/separately, as the embed player.

Note: You can keep YouTube as the default embed player while also adding a custom Invidious/Piped instance to act as alternate links in the alternate source link menu.

The internal lists of public Invidious and Piped instances has been combined and are only used for detection; formerly, these could be selected as frontends.

On the admin side of things, the env var PUBLIC_CUSTOM_PIPED has been deprecated. For now, it will simply be combined with the PUBLIC_CUSTOM_INVIDIOUS list. Eventually the Piped list will be removed, but that is TBD. Those lists are also only used for detection and are no longer presented as possible frontends for the user to select.

If a user wants to use Invidious/Piped, they must supply their own instance in their settings.

Long, Non-Comprehensive List of Various UI Tweaks

• Lots of UI polish all around. Too numerous to list individually.

• Legacy user and community menus in /u/{user} and /c/{community} cards have been removed. The functionality has been moved into the respecctive user/community modals.

• Community link pill buttons are now gray instead of orange. The orange was just...too much. User link buttons are still blue.

• Better display of metadata from posted links

• Cleaner compact view (also incorporates metadata display better)

• Feed images are limited to a maximum of 40% viewport height. This still gives the nice "card" effect while also not making posts massive. They were formerly limited to 80vh, but even this is no longer needed since the ZoomableImage component was integrated.

• Removed user settings for post and feed image sizes since they're no longer needed with the new compact and card view tweaks described above.

• Post body images are now hidden in the feed and a link shown in their place. Clicking the link will open them in a preview modal. Unless the option to disable inline images is turned on, then they will still show as embeds when opening the post. This should help compact mode stay compact rather than some of them being massive with one or more post body images slipping through.

• Direct video (mp4, webm, etc) posts now use the video metadata for the thumbnail if OP didn't post a custom one. Also works in compact view now.

• Bandcamp embeds are now smaller.

• All media renderers now show the embed metadata alongside the post details.

• Direct audio links (MP3, etc) now have renderers; they only rendered in the markdown post body and comments previously. Now if the post URL is an audio link, a player will embed.

• Show link selector, link, and MBFC even if metadata fails to load in preview modal. Also show that info while fetching metadata.

Better Error Handling and Integration with Pifed/Mbin/etc

When clicking a link that goes to a post or comment, Tesseract will massage the URL to attempt to render it locally (extract the instance and post ID and do a remote API call to fetch it for local rendering). This works great for Lemmy, but non-Lemmy services which use the same /post/{id} and /comment/{id} URL format don't work with Lemmy API calls.

Before, this would throw a generic 500 "Failed to fetch post" error. The UX has been improved in this release by showing a clearer error message as well as a button to visit the post on its home instance.

Additionally, if a local post fails to load, there's now conditional verbiage to indicate a local post may have been removed by its creator or removed by a moderator, and there is no button to visit it on the home instance (since it is the home instance).

Cross-posted from "[release] 1.13.0-beta03 available for testing" by @akesi_seli@lemmy.world in !raccoonforlemmyapp@lemmy.world

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Hi folks, a new beta has been release today! It contains some updates to the "App information" dialog (e.g. the link to the new Matrix room) and a fix for the selection of the feed type in the home screen, which incorrectly opened the instance selection.

I'm continuing the migration of all bottom sheets to Material 3 modal bottom sheets, there are just 9 left for the refactoring to be complete.

Thanks to everyone for continuing using the app, have a nice weekend and remember #livefasteattrash 🦝🦝🦝

I need to pump up my contribution numbers to match Flyingsquid’s to further dispel that Reddit urban myth that “Lemmy is not active that’s why I’m not currently using the platform”

It seems like Voyager and Thunder have quite a few features the others don’t have such as advanced search, gif support and user labels.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21303389 > This has been something I've been wanting to do for a while. The app has been pretty stable recently so I can take a moment to work on a simple website for it. The purpose of the website is to have an official "front page" for the app.

Bugfixes

Flairs in Post Titles

It was pointed out that words in brackets meant to act as clarifying text were being converted to flairs and making some post titles hard to read. This is because the [tag syntax] is the same as is used for clarifying text, so there was some overlap causing that behavior.

Now only bracketed text at the beginning and end of the title will be converted into a flair. This should allow flairs using the [tag syntax] to co-exist with all but a few edge cases of clarifying text.

Example:

[Flair] [Flair 2] The title [of the book] goes here [Published 2022] -> The title [of the book] goes here with the flair tags being Flair, Flair 2, and Published 2022. The clarifying text in the middle remains unrendered.

The other bug I discovered in this area was that if the whole title was inside brackets, it would be converted into a big flair tag. Now, if there is no title text left after extracting the flairs, the title will be used as-is.

Example:

[Jaws theme intensifies] would have been converted to a flair before. Now it will render as text (as likely intended by the creator).

Misc Bugfixes

• [26d26798] Add error handling in case bad URL sent to isImage, isAudio, isVideo helper functions.
• [6b99e0cd] Fixes issue where post was not being marked as read correctly on newer API versions since it was sending a single post ID instead of an array.

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New Features in 1.4.16

Can Automatically Mark Posts as Read While Scrolling

Per user request, a new option and feature has been added that will automatically mark posts as read as you scroll past them in the feed. This is disabled by default, but can be enabled in Settings -> Feed -> Mark Posts Read on Scroll

Currently, a post will mark as read when 60% of it is in the viewport for more than 1.5 seconds.

Better Crosspost Attributions

Crossposts are great from a user standpoint as they reduce clutter, but they often bury other communities since it's not easily apparent where it was cross-posted from and by whom. The link also typically takes you away from your home instance (depending on UI, anyway).

Now, when crossposting, the default cross-post header has been updated to give better visibility to the original:

Cross posted from "ORIGINAL_TITLE" by @ORIGINAL_USER@instance.xyz in @ORIGINAL_COMMUNITY@instance.xyz

The title is linked to the canonical AP URL of the original post (same as before but with text applied instead of a bare link). The original user and original community links are in the standard user/community link format. In Tesseract, both of those are clickable to view the user and community profiles.

Since Tesseract will automatically resolve unknown communities if you're logged in, this should give a visibility boost to communities that may go overlooked.

Note that since the crosspost header info is just prefixed into the new post body, this will have no effect on old crossposts. It will also not change anything for crossposts made via other UIs nor will it affect the crosspost behavior in general since those are all based on the post's URL.

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Sidebar Community List

General

The sidebar with the subscription list has been completely overhauled. I'm now using standard CommunityLink components which have the benefit of opening the community modals. The community buttons are still buttons and will take you to the community page. Clicking the community text will open the modal while clicking the button around that will take you to the community page.

The inline menu buttons have been removed since all of those functions are also available from the community modals. This saves a good chunk of memory since a discrete menu is not required for each element now.

The instances for each community are now also shown by default. You can disable this by turning off Settings -> General -> Show Instance Names in Sidebar.

Community List Filtering

I've also re-implemented the filtering of the subscription list. It is now more granular and can accept modifiers as well as take the instance into account.

Default

By default, the filter query will be a case-insensitive contains comparison against the community's display name (or system name if display name is undefined).

It will now also accept an instance if you include it after an @. The instance is compared with a case-insensitive startsWith against the actor id of the community.

• Example 1: new will return any community containing new in its display name (or name if display name is not set)
• Example 2: new@lemmy. will return News@lemmy.word, LegalNews@lemmy.zip, etc.

Filter by Name (rather than display name)

If you want to filter the list by the community's system name rather than the display name, prefix the filter with an !.

The instance is also accepted here if it is provided after an @.

• Example 1: !new will return any community whose system name begins with new such as news@dubvee.org, news@lemmy.world, newcommunities@instance.xyx, etc
• Example 2: Using the same example from above, !new@lemmy. will return news@lemmy.world but not LegalNews@lemmy.zip
• Example 3: Can be used if you want an exact match based on the community link syntax (!community@instance.xyz)

Filter by Instance

To filter by instance, prefix the filter with an @. This will only show communities belonging to the specified instance. This filter method uses a startsWith, case-insensitive comparison against the hostname of the community's actor id.

This is particularly helpful if you want to see what communities you're subscribed to on a particular instance. AFAIK, there is no way to get that info from the API.

UI Tweaks

Independent Preview Button in Post Create/Edit Form

Rather than previewing the entire post, including thumbnail and embed metadata, you can now also preview just the markdown of the post body.

The old behavior was more of an intentional choice that didn't work out well in practice / real-world use. You can still preview the entire post (that hasn't gone away); you just have more granularity in what you preview.

Added "Fact Check" Section to Alternate Source Link Menu

There are one or two "Fact Check" options available in the alternate source link menu now.

• MBFC, if avaialble
• SpinScore.io (shows on all links)

I'm not a fan of AI-generated summaries and analysises anything, so I probably won't be using that, but it's an option if you want to use it.

Direct Video Embeds Now Support Custom Thumbnails

If a custom thumbnail is provided for a post where the URL is to a video, the thumbnail will now be used for the click-to-play overlay.

Other Stuff

• [7c8c96fb] Update MBFC dataset
• [c6ce2213] Update MBFC removal template
• [c908b886] Add option to disable automatically refreshing dates in the RelativeDate component (post/comment published/edit times, etc)
• [135ed9cd] Changed animation on menus to slide instead of scale

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Get Tesseract

• Github
• Docker:
  • ghcr.io/asimons04/tesseract:1.4.16
  • ghcr.io/asimons04/tesseract:v1.4.16
  • ghcr.io/asimons04/tesseract:latest

Update: The dependency issue was my fault. I left out a dev dependency and had apparently been relying on implicit inclusion that worked up until Svelte 5 was released and vite-plugin-svelte updated for that. Updated the package.json and republished. The Docker tags should work fine for x86 (I did them on my dev machine), but the arm64 builds should be finished from the Github actions in the next 10-15 minutes. If you typically build from the repo, you should be good since I published the fix to the dependencies.

cross-posted from: https://eventfrontier.com/post/150886

> I'm pleased to announce the release of Echo for Lemmy! Echo is a Lemmy client for iPhone that I've been working on for a while and I'm excited to finally share it with you all. > > Echo for Lemmy is a fully native iOS application built using fully native Apple SDKs. This means it feels right at home on your iPhone and is designed to be fast, efficient, and easy to use. No overhead from web views or cross-platform frameworks. > > Here are some of the features available in Echo for Lemmy: > > - Connect with communities based on your interests. > - Sort your feed by most active, trending posts, new posts, and many more. > - Upvote and downvote posts & comments. > - Powerful search experience to find the content you're looking for. > - Create posts using share extension from any app on your device. > - Bookmark posts to easily find later. > - Fully native application with dark mode support & accessibility features. > > Echo for Lemmy is available for free on the App Store, with subscription plans available for Echo+. You can download it here: Echo for Lemmy on the App Store. > > You can also join the official Echo Lemmy community at !echo@eventfrontier.com. > > I'm excited to hear feedback, suggestions, bug reports, and feature suggestions. Feel free to comment here, or create a new post! You can also reach out via email at support@rrainn.com. > > This is only the beginning. Much more to come! > > --- > > Download Echo for Lemmy: https://echo.rrainn.com/download/iphone > > Echo Lemmy Community: !echo@eventfrontier.com > > Echo Mastodon Profile: @echo@mstdn-social.com > > --- > > !Screenshot of Echo for Lemmy on an iPhone showing a list of posts in your home feed.

I've been on a bit of a development hiatus the last couple of months, but I'm starting to work on the project again. One thing I've been wanting to address is the broken support for Invidious/Piped.

With Youtube seemingly hellbent on making sure those no longer work, should I remove support for them in Tesseract or give those projects a while longer to find a workaround? I don't closely follow development of either of those, but last I checked, it seemed pretty much dead because of YouTube's shenanigans.

The code could be a lot cleaner if I removed that support, but if there's a chance of either of them coming back, I'd be willing to leave it in.

Questions for the Community

1. Is it just public Invidious/Piped instances that are broken?
2. Do private instances still work?
3. Do you think either project will come up with a medium to long term workaround?

I'm thinking if private instances still work, I may just remove the public list and only enable the option if the user specifies a custom instance in the app settings. For historic posts, I'll just have it rewrite any Invidious/Piped links to canonical YouTube links or the user-defined custom Inv/Piped instance if defined. If not, then I may just remove that support entirely and only rewrite old links to go through YouTube directly so they still work.

Thoughts?

does anyone know any ios apps that allow us to group communities into custom feeds like multireddits? thx

Even if you don't use Photon and have only heard of it, your answers can be useful for some questions!

cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/13579151 >I'd like to learn about the community that uses Photon, so I've decided to make a survey! You can answer it if you like. In about a week I'll collect the responses and see if anything's interesting, and then I'll make a post showing any discoveries. > > The survey just has a few questions about demographics, Lemmy usage, and knowledge of Photon's features.

I've had enough of the text editing issue, where when you press backspace it highlights the space before the word and ends up deleting it. The developer passes off responsibility for this to the engine they use and seems to have no intention of addressing it.

What are the pros and cons of the other Android apps? I'm only considering ones on F-Droid, not the Play Store, so that rules out Summit and Boost. Ones I have available are:

• Thunder (IzzyOnDroid)
• Interstellar (IzzyOnDroid)
• Voyager
• Eternity
• muffed (IzzyOnDroid)
• Combustible

The Quiblr client is now open source!

Excited to finally get to this point and pull together a single working repo for the community to build on and use

cross-posted from: https://dubvee.org/post/1757374

1.4.13

Docker Tags

• ghcr.io/asimons04/tesseract:1.4.13
• ghcr.io/asimons04/tesseract:v1.4.13
• ghcr.io/asimons04/tesseract:latest

Bugfixes

• [0ed97991] Don't badge-ify hashtags if the hashtag linkify option is disabled
• [ce5a310a] Make markdown text reactive (and re-run pre-processing step) to changes to the enable/disable hashtag setting.
• [704e2d78] When clicking the user/community links in the modal, close the modal when navigating to the target (previously modal stayed open)

Enhancements

• [3b8ef653] Update banner when viewing a post on a remote instance to use more concise verbiage and add an extra button to link to the post's canonical instance.
• [ec8c4bfe] User and Community links are now a elements rather than button. Allows middle-clicking or right-click-> open in new tab to immediately open the profile/community in a new tab without having to click through the modal. Regular clicks still open the modal.

New Feature: Synthetic View Modes

Under the hood, there are still only two main types of view: Card and Compact

However, Compact view is affected by several options which can be combined to create different view styles.

The "compact/card" switcher button has been replaced with a selector menu to select from one of 6 views:

1. Card: The flagship Tesseract post view. Posts are shown as cards with all the media embed bells and whistles. Post body preview is set to 240 characters.

2. Compact: The classic "compact" view as of 1.4.12. Feed margins are present, post images are thumbnails, the post body preview is 240 characters, and no media is embedded unless the post is expanded into card view.

3. Wide Compact: Same as "compact" but without the feed margins. Posts span the full width of the display. Clicking the thumbnail image or the "expand" button in the post action bar will expand the post into card view.

4. More Compact: Same as "wide compact" except the body preview length is set to zero and can be expanded.

5. Ultra Compact: Same as "wide compact" except the thumbnails and the post body are hidden. Post body cannot be expanded, and you will need to click into the post to see it. Post can be expanded to card view only with the "expand" button in the post action bar. Expanding into card view does not reveal the post body, only the thumbnail image (if present). If the post is a media post, the embed will be available (either in full or click-to-play depending on settings)

6. Reader: Same as "wide compact" except the entire post body is shown (up to 10,000 characters).

More views may be added along the way, but for now, those should cover more use cases without having to manually fiddle with the various options.

I'm really liking the "Reader" mode, myself.

There was like 8 prereleases for this because i kept changing stuff. This is actually going to be from v1.31.1 and v1.31.2.

Biggest changes

Command palette

• !
• Press / or ctrl + p and start typing to instantly go to a page, switch themes, switch accounts, etc.

Theming changes

• You can now have multiple presets for themes, and there are 5 default presets. (Default, Classic, AMOLED, Catppuccin, Lightly)
• Admins can set their own default theme for photon with PUBLIC_THEME.

New markdown renderer

• Photon now uses svelte-markdown for markdown rendering, which lets me use custom components for markdown.
• Instead of only style changes, I can run actual code, meaning images can be made expandable and codeblocks can be copyable.

Lots of languages

• There are a ton of languages thanks to the community.
• English
• Hebrew
• Bulgarian
• Chinese
• Dutch
• Estonian
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Japanese
• Polish
• Portuguese

Minor features

• New "link actions" menu
  • This will have options for archive sites to bypass paywalls, etc.
  • Media bias action was moved next to here, or in here depending on your selected post style.
• Allow uploading multiple images at a time
• Select menus use my own components now, making them more powerful
• Add infinite scroll to communities too
• Add uploaded media/voted posts in your profile page
• Using my own service worker now, so caches should work properly

Other stuff

• Use sharper icons for readability

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18684855

Hey everyone, Thunder v0.5.0 is finally here! This release cycle took a quite a bit of time, but introduces a lot of new features, changes, and fixes which should make for a even better Thunder experience. If you have any suggestions or feedback, feel free to discuss it in the Thunder community or on GitHub.

If you're enjoying Thunder and would like to show some support, star this project on GitHub! This helps gain visibility for the project and allows more contributors to help with the continued development of Thunder. If you'd like to show some appreciation, here is a post with details on how to donate to the active contributors of Thunder.

Important: Your feed settings (default feed type and sort) will now be based on your Lemmy account settings. The previous feed settings will now ONLY apply to guest accounts. As such, you may have to re-configure your default feed type and default sort type if you were previously using the in-app settings.

Now onto the update notes. This update brings a few major features:

🎉 New Features

• The inbox page has been completely re-written with an updated design to more closely align with Material 3 design guidelines. There's also been a number of fixes to support quick actions within the inbox page (e.g., voting, saving, etc).
• Thunder now respects more of your Lemmy account settings including your default feed/sort settings. You can update your display name, bio, email, and much more in the new Account Settings page. You can also quickly switch between different accounts to modify your Lemmy settings across all your authenticated accounts.
• Additional Lemmy 0.19.x features have been added to Thunder including the ability to hide posts, custom thumbnail support, site content warnings, and more. We are still continuously working on bringing Thunder up to feature-parity with Lemmy, so let us know what features you would like to see.
• Custom user notes/labels are now available in Thunder! This will allow you to add any custom notes to a given user. You can add user labels from the settings page via Settings -> User Labels. Alternatively, you can add labels through the action sheets by long pressing on a given comment and selecting User -> Add User Label.

ℹ General

• The create/edit button for posts and comments have been moved to the markdown toolbar. This should hopefully make it more accessible for one-handed use.
• URL filtering has been added to keyword filters. Simply add a new keyword filter with a URL, and it should be hidden from view.
• Link sharing has been improved to support additional media/external links.

And much much more. I can't go through all the changes in the changelog, but for those who are curious, feel free to check out the full changelog below.

We have a Matrix space if you would like to join in on discussions: https://matrix.to/#/#thunderapp:matrix.org

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Additions

• Refactor inbox page by hjiangsu
• Add additional account settings by hjiangsu
• Add support for custom user labels by micahmo
• Add support for hiding posts by micahmo
• Add ability to create links to app settings by micahmo
• Add account birthday indicator to users by micahmo
• Add ability to import/export local app database by micahmo
• Add post/comment language metadata by micahmo
• Add community stats for community visibility/local subscribers by micahmo
• Add ability to create block quote from selection when commenting by micahmo
• Add ability to re-order user accounts by micahmo
• Add ability to upload multiple images at a time for a post/comment by hjiangsu
• Add support for site content warnings by micahmo
• Add support for custom thumbnails in posts by micahmo
• Add ability to sort inbox by ggichure
• Add ability to view post as a different user by micahmo
• [Experimental] Add debug setting to customize image dimension timeout value by hjiangsu
• [Experimental] Add new experimental post page by hjiangsu

Changes

• Extend keyword filters to URLs by hjiangsu
• Remove page scroll animation when switching between bottom navigation items by hjiangsu
• Decrease layout jank originating from images within comments, and improve image error states by micahmo
• Disable account switching when editing post/comment by micahmo
• Defer loading image dimensions when opening image preview by micahmo
• Improve link sharing for images/video URLs by micahmo
• Show placeholder icon for posts without thumbnails by micahmo
• Allow snackbars to be closed on action by micahmo
• Immediately remove blocked users/communities from feed, disable ability to block self by micahmo
• Use community/user display names globally by micahmo
• Show community/user sort type on community/user headers by micahmo
• Use user/community format styling to cross-posts by micahmo
• Fallback to opening non-Lemmy instances in browser by micahmo
• Improve feedback when subscribing/unsubscribing to community by hjiangsu
• Move create/edit post button into markdown toolbar by micahmo
• Move create/edit comment button into markdown toolbar by micahmo
• Show voting when hidden scores are enabled by hjiangsu
• Add option to navigate to user's instance from post actions by micahmo
• Disable "Subscriptions" sort type option for guest accounts by micahmo
• Remove images from push notifications, improve UnifiedPush logic by micahmo

Fixes

• Fix table column markdown alignment by hjiangsu
• Fix mark post as read when previewing media on 0.19.4 by hjiangsu
• Fix sidebar lag when subscribed to a large amount of communities by hjiangsu
• Fix superscript/subscript parsing edge cases by micahmo
• Fix image overflow when rendering inside a spoiler tag by micahmo
• Fix issue where optimistic voting would not reflect upvotes/downvotes properly by micahmo
• Fix post text preview showing raw markdown by hjiangsu
• Fix snackbar positioning when opening/dismissing keyboard by micahmo
• Fix labeling and minor semantics by micahmo
• Fix text field spell check causing exception on ** text by hjiangsu
• Fix minor typo in 'Change Password' page by wadamT
• Fix semantics for link information by hjiangsu
• Fix share text post by micahmo
• Fix image proxy handling by hjiangsu
• Fix for markdown toolbar not showing above system keyboard by hjiangsu
• Fix dim read posts setting not being applied for card view by hjiangsu

Misc

• Fix macOS build errors by hjiangsu
• Remove javaToolchain binaries by hjiangsu
• Remove push package Android dependency by hjiangsu
• Update PR template by hjiangsu
• Update instances by github-actions
• Update translations from Weblate by hjiangsu
• Update Turkish localizations by mikropsoft
• Migrate anonymous instances to database by micahmo
• Minor under-the-hood feed related changes by hjiangsu
• Improve parsing of video speed setting by micahmo
• Move experimental push notifications under experimental flag by micahmo
• Add more push notifications debugging by micahmo
• Migrate draft storage to local database by micahmo

New Contributors

• wadamT made their first contribution

Pretty much the title. Are there any apps with a "schedule post" feature?

Desktop interfaces and web apps are fine too, perhaps even preferred in this case.

I would find this useful, as I often find several things to post to a given community at once, but would prefer space them out a bit so as not to spam a particular community.

Could also be useful for posting weekly discussion threads, etc.

This is applicable to almost any piece of software with text in it. When starting your new app, you should make sure you are using a separate language file for the strings in your app. This makes text reusable, and you can change it all in one place.

Once your app gains a community, if you did this, you can also get translators!

With Photon i made the massive mistake of hardcoding everything up until the app became massive, and my PR for un-hardcoding all the strings looks like this:

!The amount of lines modified in the GitHub PR. 2,067 lines added, 1,082 removed.

It was worth it though! Because the community has translated it into 11 languages!

!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18444196 > What are the particular tools or features that you must want to see in an app for moderating? Is it different on mobile from desktop? Let me know and I'll compile a list to help mods choose the app best suited to their needs!

See the "New Features -> Link Previews" section below for descriptions of the screenshot.

• Full Changelog
• Docker Tags:
  • ghcr.io/asimons04/tesseract:1.4.7
  • ghcr.io/asimons04/tesseract:v1.4.7
  • ghcr.io/asimons04/tesseract:latest

Changelog is pretty long this time, so use the link above for the full details. Only the highlights will be covered here.

Bugfixes, Tweaks, and Enhancements

Bugfixes / Tweaks

• [Crossposts] Text-wrapped community names in crosspost list (typically when on mobile) no longer incorrectly center-justify themsleves
• [UI] Fixed z-index for alternate source selector in /profile/user section to prevent it from showing over top of the nav bars when scrolling up
• [Hashtags] Fixed regex pattern for hashtag detection so it should now fully ignore any inside code blocks or inline code ticks.

Enhancements

• Brought Back the Discrete Listing Type / Sort Dropdowns: Based on feedback from users, I've brought back the discrete dropdowns in the nav bar for choosing the listing and sort options (they had been moved into the quick settings dropdown menu).
• Quick Settings is now a Modal: The dropdown menu was becoming too cumbersome from a UX and maintenance perspective, so it was moved into a modal. The button for it was also moved to the right side of the navbar rather than the left.
• Removed Context-Aware Search Button on Mobile: The context aware search (which will search the site, community, or currently-viewed profile depending on where you are) button has been removed on mobile to reduce clutter. Mobile users will need to use the main "Search" button in the main navbar and select the appropriate filter options.
• Deprecated Support for /c/ and /u/ User and Community Links: Those formats will no longer be turned into links automatically and are discouraged. The preferred way to link a user in markdown areas is @user@instance.xyz and, for communities, it's !name@instance.xyz.
• Community Modals Now Work With "Unknown" Communities: The community modal has been extended to resolve the community prior to fetching it so that unknown communities can be resolved transparently when clicked. Unauthenticated/guest users will receive an error if clicking a community link that the instance does not "know" about (resolveObject is an authentiated call).
• Misc: Various UI tweaks/polish where things weren't exactly uniform (modal action buttons, etc).
• Misc: Added Quick Settings button to toolbar on post pages
• Post Titles in Feed/Profiles: Fixed quirkiness with post titles. Can now middle-click post titles to open in new tab again as well as right-click to copy link (turned them back from buttons into links but keeping the 'button' behavior)

New Features

Link Previews

Under Settings -> General is a new option called "Preview Links in Modal". This is enabled by default but can be disabled. It is also under the quick options.

Clicking markdown links (in post body, comments, sidebars, etc) will do a server-side metadata fetch and render a preview. "Internal" links that load in Tesseract will not preview and simply use the user's "open links in new tab" preference.

The preview includes:

• Link metadata if available (thumbnail image, embed video, description, title)
• Alternate source selector
• MBFC report (if available)
• If link is to a supported media type (YT, Invidious, Piped, Soundcloud, Bandcamp, Spotify, Odysee, PeerTube, etc), will show the media as an embed
• If metadata description contains links, they will preview in the same modal, and a "back" button will be enabled to return you to the previous preview.

e.g. If someone drops a bare Youtube link, it will render in the modal using your preferred YouTube frontend. Same for a Spotify, Bandcamp, etc link. The link is processed through the same rendering chain as posts, so any supported media should render as if it were posted to the feed.

It also has the alternate source selector and the MBFC plugin tied in, so a news article link in the comments can be vetted for credibility, previewed, and followed.

Post links are not tied into this since the post itself acts as the preview / renderer. This can be implemented, and easily, but it seems pointless to me. If I get feedback saying it should handle the main posts links through that, then I can enable it or at least make an option to.

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Image Descriptions: The post image demonstrates the preview modal that's loaded when clicking the raw Youtube link in the comment shown above. The second image shows the preview for a news link posted in the comments of another post.

Badge-ified Community and User Links and Hashtags

Community and user links in post and comment bodies are now badge-ified and load the community or profile modals upon click (versus the old behavior of being a dumb link to the profile/community pages).

Currently, user links are blue, and community links are orange.

Hashtags are now converted into badges/flairs and are yellow.

!

Anyone know what happened with Raccoon for lemmy? I use Obsidian to download and update the app from Github but now it tells me there's an error when I try to update it. I tried checking the Github page and I get an error there saying the website doesn't exist.

Amazingly, Photon and Alexandrite started on the same day, June 24.

Top left: Voyager

Bottom right: Photon

Top right: Alexandrite

Feature: Alternate Source Selector

Live Example: https://tesseract.dubvee.org/c/news@lemmy.world (The "link" icon to the left of the post's URL.)

Rationale: I'm quite annoyed with people whining "pAyWallED!" in news post comments, and this is Tesseract's way of addressing that (for users of that UI, anyway)

Implementation Difficulty: Easy

Description:

On posts with links (that aren't images, audio, video, Youtube, or other media), a dropdown menu is added with links to alternate sources.

Each one will search for the URL in the selected archive provider (currently Ghost Archive, Archive Today, 12ft.io) or Ground News (new in 1.4.5).

Lemmy-UI kind of does this, but completely ass-backwards (only during post creation to set the post link; I'll spare you my spiel about how that's a horrible vector for misinformation).

On Youtube-like posts (YT, Invidious, or Piped), the options are changed to go to the canonical YT link, your preferred Invidious instance, or your preferred Piped instance, but that's just a secondary (but still nice) feature of that component.

Would love to see something like this more widely adopted and am more than happy to answer any implementation questions.

> Updated! Updates are shown in quote text like this. Some scores are updated following app updates.

An Apps Experiment

Introduction

This is an experiment I performed out of curiosity, and I have a few big disclaimers at the bottom. Basically, I've seen a lot of comments recently about one app or another not displaying something right. Lemmy has been around for a while now and can no longer be considered an experimental platform.

Lemmy and the apps that people use to access the platform have become an important part of people’s lives. Whether you are checking the app weekly or daily, and whether you use it to stay up on the news or to stay connected to your hobby, it’s important that it works. I hope that this helps people to see the extent of the challenge, and encourages developers to improve their apps, too.

How I did it

I wanted to investigate objectively how accurately each app displays text of posts and comments using the standard Lemmy markdown. Markdown is a standard part of the Lemmy platform, but not all apps handle it the same. It is basically what gives text useful formatting.

I used the latest release of each app, but did not include pre-releases. I only included apps that have released an update in the last 6 months, which should include most apps in active development. I was unable to test iOS-exclusive apps, so they are not included either. In all, 16 apps met the inclusion criteria.

> I also added Eternity, which is in active development, although it has not had a recent update. I was able to include several iOS apps thanks to testing from @jordanlund@lemmy.world – Thanks, Jordan! This made for 20 apps that were tested.

Each app was rated in 5 categories: Text, Format, Spoilers, Links, and Images. I chose these mostly based on the wonderful Markdown Guide from @marvin@sffa.community, which was posted about a year ago in !meta@sffa.community (here).

I checked whether each app correctly displayed each category, then took the overall average. Each category was weighted equally. Text includes italic, bold, strong, strikethrough, superscript, and subscript. Format includes block quotes, lists, code (block and inline), tables, and dividers. Spoilers includes display of hidden, expandable spoilers. Links includes external links, username links, and community links. Images included embedded images, image references, and inline images.

> Thanks to input from others, I also added a test to see if lemmy hyperlinks opened in-app. There was a problem with using the SFFA Community Guide that caused some apps to be essentially penalized twice because there was formatting inside formatting, so I created this TEST POST to more clearly and fairly measure each app.

In each case, I checked whether the display was correct based on the rules for Lemmy Markdown, and consistent with the author’s intent. In cases where the app recognized the tag correctly but did not display it accurately, that was treated as a fail.

Results

Out of a possible perfect 10, 7 apps displayed all markdown correctly:

Alexandrite - 10.0

Connect - 10.0

Jerboa (Official Android client) - 10.0

Photon - 10.0

Quiblr - 10.0

Summit - 10.0

Voyager - 10.0

Arctic - 9.3

Interstellar - 9.1

Lemmuy-UI - 9.0

Thunder - 8.9

Tesseract - 8.6

mlmym - 8.0

Racoon - 7.6

Boost - 7.3

Eternity - 7.0

Lemmios - 6.9

Sync - 6.9

Lemmynade - 6.1

Avelon - 5.7

More details of testing here

Disclaimers

Disclaimers

I Love Lemmy Apps (and their devs)

Lemmy apps devs work very hard, and invest a lot in the platform. Lemmy is better because they are doing the work that they do. Like, a LOT better. Everyone who uses the platform has to access it through one app or another. Apps are the face of the entire platform. Whether an app is a FOSS passion project, underwritten by a grant, or generating income through sales or ads, no one is getting rich by making their app. It is for the benefit of the community.

This is not meant to be a rating of the quality or functionality of any app. An app may have a high rating here but be missing other features that users want, or users may love an app that has a lower rating. This is just about how well apps handle markdown.

This is pretty unscientific

You’ll see my methodology above. I’m not a scientist. There is probably a much better way to do this, and I probably have biases in terms of how I went about it. I think it’s interesting and probably has some valuable information. If you think it’s interesting, let me know. If you think of a better way, PM me and I’d be happy to share what I have so you don’t have to start from scratch.

My only goal is to help the community

I do think that accurately displaying markdown should be a standard expectation of a finished app. I hope that devs use this as an opportunity to shore up the areas that are lagging, and that they have a set of standards to aim for.

I don’t have any Apple things

Sorry. This is just Android and Web review. If someone would like to see how iOS apps are doing, please reach out and I’ll share how we can work together to include them.

Do any Lemmy apps have a "hide read posts" toggle on the main page, rather than buried deep in the settings?

Cross posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17743645

Cross posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17478363

Hi Lemmy! I've just uploaded a new beta version that adds support for Lemmy 0.19.4 features, this is the changelog:

• Hide posts: Individual posts can be hidden now. There is Show hidden toggle on the toolbar menu (Lemmy 0.19.4)
• View previously uploaded images on your profile page, Uploads tab (Lemmy 0.19.4)
• Add custom thumbnail when creating a link post (Lemmy 0.19.4)
• Show mod/admin indicators next to usernames in posts and comments
• Fixed mark as read on scroll not working on some instances
• Bug fixes and improvements

[!Play Store Link](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy)

Thanks for using Lemmy. You're the best!

This update is currently available on phtn.app, with a tagged release coming soon. Post navigation is down by 65% and returning from posts is instant.

What's Changed

• feat: add infinite scroll

  • You can now scroll down infinitely without clicking next!
  • As a bonus, returning from a post page is now instant.
  • Of course, you can turn it off in settings.
  • A virtual list is also used so that infinite posts can be loaded with no performance impact.

• feat: parse tags from title

  • Tesseract dev and I had the same idea, [tags in brackets] in posts will automatically be converted to a badge/flair. You can click it to search for all posts with that tag in a community.
  • I added options which let you choose flairs to blur posts of or hide.

• tweak link design

• improve smaller screen support

• codebase: move $profile to a derived, immutable store to improve consistency

• i18n: add new languages/update languages

  • Chinese
  • English
  • Estonian
  • French
  • Finnish
  • German
  • Hebrew
  • Portuguese

• Update p.darrennathanael.com photon region by @DarrenOfficial in https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/pull/350

• Remove empty space left by hideTitle by @sevonj in https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/pull/352

• docs: Post component comments by @sevonj in https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/pull/354

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/compare/v1.30.4...v1.31.0-rc.1