Memmy - An iOS client for Lemmy @lemmy.ml

2y ago

Memmy v0.4 - Upcoming Release Today - Swipe to go back on the tab bar, drawer for communities, iOS 14 dropdowns, performance and other bug fixes, and more

Hey all!

This should be available sometime later in the day. Huge thanks for a few new contributors - @joshua-davis-rose and @bohn002 - for putting in a lot of work as well.

Subscriptions now available in a drawer instead of "Traverse". More of an Apollo-esque style
Switch accounts by pressing and holding the profile button. Feed header now allows you to select Local/All/Subscriptions
Continuing to improve image viewer
Saving images and sharing images now uses the cached files to share, so you don't need to re-download them
Alphabetized subscription list
Community about screen now shows moderators
You can swipe back using anywhere in the tab bar (I've been experimenting with full-screen swipe back as well, once I get that ironed out a bit more we will add that too)
UI now uses the iOS 14+ dropdowns for context menus
Cleaned up some issues with longer community names, but there are still more to handle. Keep an eye out.
Subscriber count is now in the community search
All NSFW image issues should be fixed
Lots of performance enhancements around the app
Also lots of bug fixes, especially for a few newly discovered crashes

Please be sure to report any issues to the GitHub if you can. It is much easier to track there than it is here. There's a lot of traffic, so it's hard to keep track of all of it!

Stay tuned for more coming throughout the week!

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Thanks so much to the dev team and everyone who contributed, the app is shaping up to be really nice and feature-rich.

swipe back and subscriber count in the search are the excellent improvements! 👏

Hey dev team! Thank you so much for the updates. Use Memmy on the daily basis.
Now that Lemmy grows, I as a mod really need to get good mod tools on mobile apps. Such as a pushnotification on new entries in modmail. I'm fully aware that you guys are busy enough but is there maybe a update on when this can/will be implemented?
For example, now I need to manual check the mobile version of the website, go to modmail and moderate from there. If there is a is a comment section with 100+ comments, it is a huge hassle to find and delete the comment.
- Getting the better context menus going was a huge first step. Plan on doing mod tool stuff this week 👍👍
  
  Awesome! Looking forward to it, thanks.
  
  congrats man, super dope release.

Awesome work! Probably wouldn't even be on Lemmy if it wasnt for this great app!
- Same, came over from Apollo and Reddit. I have Voyager, but idk what it is about this app I just absolutely love it.

This isn’t important but this post should be stickied, and the posts for the out of date updates should be unstickied.
Thanks for all the work!
- I agree. It’s a small, but important change.
- Pinned. Thanks!
  
  able to unpin the old?
  
  Hmm was never pinned for me? Very far down my feed now.
  And there’s several old pins from pre App Store release.

I actually really liked that the app had a dedicated tab for communities (Traverse). I’m sad to see it going away, I never liked swiping for the subreddits in Apollo.
- Well we’d like to make some things customizable, so that very well could be one of them.
  For the record I’m actually with you on that, which is why I’m interested in seeing how we can get the best of both worlds 👍
  
  awesome. thanks!
- I second that. Liked it as well.

Will the feed selection (All/Local/Subscribed) be saved between app restarts? I really don’t want gonewild (or other NSFW content) posts from All to be at the top of the feed when I’m launching the app in public. I always have to switch to Subscribed manually right now
- You can set a default sort option in the settings.
  Settings > Content > Default Listing Type
  
  Didn’t know that - thanks!
- I agree, everything is really nice, but it would be even better if it saved that I was on the subscribed part. Thanks for the work!

Keep up the great work! The app has become zo much more polished in just a month's time!

Good stuff, still holding out on 'scroll past to mark read' for lazy browsing :)

Perfect! + 100 for the long press actions

Memmy has been such a good experience in the short time it’s been around, and I hope it only gets better from here. Thanks dev team!

Is this going to be a TestFlight update first or both TestFlight and App Store? Thanks for the great work on this!

Congratz on the release and thank you so much!

- Thanks.
- Came here to say this. When I select sort by new for example, it only shows my post.
  Otherwise, I love the layout of this version. Great job!

Thank you so much for making such an awesome app and giving such timely updates! I’d gotten used to the traverse menu, was starting to really like it

Thank you so much!

Congrats, and thank you! 💪🏻

Love the new swipe back feature, such a convenient feature to not have to reach across the screen, thanks!
Looks like the new update did slow down the app smoothness though, I’m no longer scrolling the app at full refresh rate and stutters are occurring during scroll and when pulling out community drawer. But, I know everything is a work in progress and it’s really shaping up!
- Thanks for letting me know. What device are you using?
  
  iPhone 13 Pro, iOS 16.5.1, compact view.
  All previous builds since the beginning were buttery smooth, just the most recent one has noticeable stutter while scrolling and swiping to open/close community side bar

Thank you for your team’s hard work! Loved this update

Hi @gkd@lemmy.ml
Thanks for the update and improvements.
Fyi, Hide NSFW still doesn’t work. Would really appreciate if this was fixed.
- I am completely unable to reproduce these issues, which is giving me a lot of headache. Can you link me a post that should have been hidden but was not?
  
  Sure, this is the 10th post in my home page when I select ‘All’ and sort by ‘Active’.
  Both ‘Blur NSFW’ and ‘Hide NSFW’ are toggled on.
  
  Same here. Feed is All sorted by Hot.
  Currently third post is this and not hidden.
  Version 0.4 (2)

Is this update completely broken for anyone else on iPad? iPadOS 16.5.1(c) I can’t scroll more than 5 posts without getting a blank feed and crash, buttons are often unresponsive, and I couldn’t even navigate over to this community. iPhone with iOS 16.5.1(c) seems totally fine with the update.
- Out of curiosity do you have a bunch of subscriptions?
  
  Yes - about 700
  
  Yes - about 700
  
  Yes - about 700

Thank you so much for the updates, and thank you for also listening to the users and implementing the suggested changes so quickly! I don’t know if and where this may have been asked, but do you anticipate the need to raise any funding? I know so many people are against the monetization if apps and stuff, but do you have any plans for those who want to contribute?

Wow guys. This app is almost perfect at this point!

Great update. Love that the subscriptions seem to be cached or preloaded.
One thing I noticed is there is extra space below the bottom bar (at least on my iPhone 8).
- Ah an iPhone 8 user! Haha, didn’t realize that. I’ll remove the space. (At least it isn’t Android with 18372 different screen sizes…)
  
  I imagine that having that space there is probably bad for older iPhones but might actually be good to keep for newer iPhones (the ones without a home button), so the little white bar on the bottom of the screen doesn’t get in the way of the menu.
  
  Oh yeah we exist lol. SE3 would be the same too I guess.
  While I have you, any news on notifications? They still don’t seem to work.
  Thanks for replying and thanks for being such a cool developer!

Great work, I love working this app evolve.
Now my one pet peeve/ feature request:
Can we get the option to always show the instance next to a community name? Especially for subs like “meta” or “main”, knowing the instance makes a huge difference. And right now it takes several taps to find that.

Love what you’ve done with the app! Amazing work - it’s super cool to see how fast this has come almost out of the blue. Out of curiosity - with the changes to the image viewer, do you anticipate to support long pressing to open the options menu, in addition to tapping on the icon at the bottom right?

Great update. Much smoother interface. Is anyone else having problems with oversensiticity to touch on iPad? I’m accidentally opening posts by just hovering over the screen.
- I don’t have an iPad to test on but let me borrow one tomorrow and see if I get the same thing. Not sure what would have changed to cause that but I’ll check it out for sure.

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