New Mlem release in TestFlight - 0.0.7 (23)!
Download the TestFlight beta for iOS 16+
After a massive reorganization and recruiting almost 20 new developers and designers from the community, we've made a HUGE amount of additions and improvements to the app, with many more to come! Yay!
NEW ADDITIONS
- Redesigned interface! NEW POSTS, COMPACTS POSTS, ALL THE THINGS!
- Updated Settings Tab
- Tap to collapse comments/threads
- Long post text is now truncated so they don't take up your whole screen. They will have a maximum height.
- Increased contrast between post/comment cards and background
- The way the application interacts with the Lemmy API has been improved, this should reduce crashes in multiple places
BUG FIXES
- Tapping community links will no longer crash the app, instead an alert shows saying they're not currently supported (we're working on it now, it needs a few different chunks of work completed)
- Duplicate/looping posts when scrolling feeds should no longer happen 🤞
- Rapid scrolling through feed should no longer cause crashing 🤞
- Mlem icon is now brighter!
KNOWN ISSUES
- Some images may extend beyond the post card bounds in Card View
- In compact mode, link previews may not load
- Comments still have old up/downvote buttons
MORE TO COME
- Full a11y compliance which should work perfectly with iOS's Accessibility functionality like Guided Access and Screen Reader. (Thanks to contributor Weston for your expertise and audit!) Note: we weren't able to work this into the current build because of the constant changes to the interface, but some/most of it should be in the next build!
- New Profile Tab and Messages Tab
- New & improved fullscreen image viewer (not ready in time for this release)
- Inbox notifications (not Push, as that takes more work-- more on that later)
- Colored thread indicators
- Swipe-to-vote
- Post/comment saving
- Updated NSFW tag/blur
Again, please keep in mind that this is an early beta. As such, it's not feature-complete and there will be bugs and unexpected behavior. Enjoy testing, and we look forward to hearing your bug reports via TestFlight and your feedback! You can comment here or come chat with us in The Mlem Space on Matrix.
PS, and because lots of people have asked-- Mlem app will never support iOS 15. Sorry, but we'd have to rewrite the app from scratch, and that's not something we're gonna do. Additionally, kbin support isn, for now, out-of-reach due to incompatibilities between the kbin and lemmy APIs. Although this may change in the future, for now, it's not going to happen.
Cheers!
The Mlem Dev Team
Please remember everyone that Apple still treats TestFlight builds like AppStore releases, it has to go into review first once it’s accepted you’ll be able to see the update :)
Yes and no. In this case, the delay is because we updated the version number (0.0.6 —> 0.0.7) instead of simply the build number (which we also bumped to 23). This is what triggered the review. Hopefully it will be a short process!
20 new developers! Damn. Thanks for the hard work, everyone.
It’s somewhat exciting to be a part of this journey so early on; Lemmy will obviously continue to change as it adapts to an influx of users, so I’m sure you guys have your hands full. Looking forward to the continued progress of the application.
To be specific, that’s 20 new contributors. 7 or 8 are graphic and UX designers, and the rest are devs.
Really nice update.
I hope in the future we can choose have thumbnails on the right so we can click them easier and the left side text can all begin at the same point, cleanly aligned. And self posts etc won’t need a thumbnail, which will cut down on the busy and rigid look.
Something somewhat like this:
Thanks!
In the future we plan to offer many more customization options, including which sorts of posts get thumbnails and which side thumbnails show on. It's not in active development right now (we've got some core features like NSFW blurring that have higher priority), but I built the post display with customizability in mind so you have my guarantee that it's coming.
Aw the beta is full :(
Sorry, kids! We’ve hit our 10k limit!
Upvote for popularity, downvote because I’m not in the 10k :D
sorry (not sorry) that our test group maxed out so fast!
Really liking the new design and it fixed my main UX issue by condensing long posts. Great work.
That was probably my biggest gripe. Not enough to not browse on mlem, just a small annoyance and glad it’s been addressed.
It was bad when one of the Trump indictment post was constantly at the top of my posts and was like 14 pages long.
Has it been updated in TestFlight yet? Still shows version 0.06 for me :(
It’s currently in review by Apple. It should come out soon though!
Give it some time. It's possible they uploaded it to TestFlight when they made this post and it takes Apple's servers a bit to actually publish it.
Same here, it’s set to auto update too, so not sure what might be going on
Make that 3, tried uninstalling and reinstalling via test flight but having the same issue.
For me as well - if I click the TestFlight link in the post it tells me the Beta test is full. :( Can’t wait to check out the new version!!
It is available for me now.
Just checked back and it’s available yes. It looks great as well! Thanks Mlem team :)
I'm only showing .0.0.6 (22) in Testflight. So maybe it's awaiting approval still.
New feed with standard height posts looks much better and scrolling seems smoother 👍
Is long press to share on posts new in this release? I don’t remember that in prior releases.
Glad to hear it!
And yep, that's a new feature.
Looks seriously great. Lots of improvement. The crashing stopped and has been replaced by errors. Presumably issues with the server rather than the app.
The compact view looks slick. It would be better if clicking the thumbnail brought you directly to the image such as in apollo.
I'd also love swipe gesture for voting.
The 'new post' constantly having the url for your other brew app is pretty unwelcome. Especially in its current form where it looks like a hyperlink. If it was gray and user-typed URL text was white, it would be much more acceptable.
This is so great! Great job everyone! Now we just need Lemmy to fix it's sorting so it isn't useless.
Unfortunately I just get “Something went wrong” since updating to 0.0.7
yeah, some lemmy instances are slammed and throwing SSL authentication errors, and this is the response. we're already working on creating more robust error handling and changing the UX for those errors. it's very annoying, but we can't control the lemmy instances and whether they're up or down. what we can control is how the app reacts when it experiences an error, so we're working on making it less annoying!
Yeah I’m not even seeing replies (on the web version) from other instances any more. It’s weird because just browsing communities (on web) still works fine for me.
Unfortunately Mlem hasn’t worked once for me since the update, but perhaps it’s just a coincidence that it happened at the same time.
Do I have to make accounts on multiple instances for things to work or should I just wait for scalability improvements?
Not sure if it’s been reported but posts are repeating multiple times. Not sure if this would be the api bugging out or the app?
this issue is being tracked. we're not sure what's causing it yet. thanks!
Very nice update, well done! Thanks for your work!
This is awesome, thanks everyone for your work!
It’s available now :)
This app looks slick! Unfortunately I was too late to join the TestFlight beta. Is there a rough ballpark estimate when we might see this app on the App Store? Keep up the good work :)
we're aiming for July 1 for 1.0 🤞
Great update! Looking forward to the swipe to upvote feature in the future.
Is the reply button broke for anyone else? Whenever I try to reply to someone directly in a comment thread nothing happens.
Other than that, keep up the great work :)
Great Update, i like the new design!
Awesome! Great job with the app, it’s fairly enjoyable to use already.
It makes me happy that you'll be working on screen reader accessibility in future, this app is great!
yeah, we wanted to implement at least some of it in this update, but it wasn't ready yet. soon1
Our goal is to hit 1.0 by July 1 🤞
When will it release in the public app store? I really want to use mlem but sadly you’re full
Would definitely like to see subscribed to communities feature
Hopefully this update will allow me to login to lemmy.world and try your app out! I'm excited about this platform and the apps to come along with it.
Also, if there is one feature I miss from Reddit (or was it an Apollo feature?) is the ability to hide posts you've upvoted/downvoted. Right now I like to use the "top of day" for my subscribed feeds on lemmy, but if I read the top posts, close the app (I use Memmy at the moment since it's the only other iOS Lemmy app I'm aware of), and come back later, it's all the same content for the most part. Upvoting/downvoting posts you read encourages to interact with a post and also keep your feed full of new content.
I think this will be pretty hard to do, partly because of the federation… I don’t even know how to approach it, except for saving the identifier of all interacted posts, but I guess that wouldn’t scale… maybe it would be simpler to implement it as a server-side feature?
It’s an Apollo-only feature, Reddit doesn’t natively do this. I’ve been thinking about this feature for a bit, and it seems a straightforward implementation would be to store “seen” post identifiers with a TTL. Since the data is just bits of text, it should not take a lot of storage on device, and the TTL takes care of cleaning up. Since most posts on Reddit would be bumped away from any type of feed within at least a couple of days, a TTL of a week or shorter would probably work for Apollo. Not sure about Lemmy right now though. I’m not a mobile dev, so would not know exactly how to implement a system like this for Mlem, but if it was a webapp I would use Redis (if server-side) or something like local storage or cookies with TTLs (if bowser-based offline).
Does this fix the constant crashing?
This app is much more stable and addresses several issues which caused a majority of crashes.
can’t see main post text after the update, only the image. I could see all text on 0.6
Nice, great progress
Great update. The app stopped crashing. Also gotta say… didn’t know that I wanted symmetrical up/down votes but now that I have them,never want anything else.
Looking forward to the update to roll through! All of the info here sounds excellent :)
Looking forward to it.
Any plans to implement a proper iPad layout?
Congratulations on recruiting many new developers and designers!
I am very much looking forward to testing all these new features.
also if I choose to view comments by new and refresh the thread it goes automatically to sort by top. Don’t know if it was happening before
Looks great. Much more usable. One thing that might be nice to have at some point is a search feature, or a way to quickly access communities that you follow (may already be planned for the profile page I guess?).
Great work so far though and looking forward to more features in the future. 👍🏻
For now, you can search for communities by tapping All/Subscribed, then tap again on "Community" and start typing
Ah thanks, will try that.
Thank you for all your hard work on this, it's really coming along nicely!
Great update so far! Love having compact view as it was my preferred choice when browsing reddit. Just wanted to feedback that there's a tad delay when using gestures I.e. swiping from left which is a bit jarring compared to other apps like Memmy
I've just updated from 0.0.6 to 0.0.7, but found it wouldn't show posts. I kept seeing "Something went wrong. Sorry, something unexpected happened. Please try again."
I signed out and in again, and now I see "Mlem couldn't fetch you account's information. File a bug report."
I see an existing issue https://github.com/buresdv/Mlem/issues/181 which might be related. Should I create a new issue, or describe what I'm seeing as a comment on that issue?
honestly, it could be this, or it could be load timeouts from overloaded instances. it's difficult to tell the difference from our end because the LemmyAPI isn't very good at telling us what caused an error, so we have to triangulate it ourselves. whichever it is, we're looking into it, so no need to file an additional report. thanks, though.
I would love a setting to control post height, and a long-press to collapse. It’s really nice seeing full posts in the feed - it’s a big change from reddit where so many users don’t even read articles. I do think the default should have a cap as you’ve outlined but options (if they’re maintainable) are always good for users
Awesome news! Excited to test out the new changes!
Since updating to 0.0.7, I can no longer load posts from any Lemmy instances. I'm only getting the generic "Something went wrong" error.
I tried the following 3 instances, same error on all of them:
As all 3 instances were working before the update and are still accessible in the browser, I'm kinda assuming that it's a problem caused by the update? I already shared feedback via testflight, but the error message is very generic.
Currently the beta is saying it’s full. Looking forward to seeing all this stuff at some point though! ❤️
The new app is beautiful! Great changes. Thank you.
Awesome updates! Just downloaded and looks like some really nice additions to the feed view. Appreciate all the hard work everyone has been putting in on this!
Would gladly use it if the beta weren't full. Best of luck!
Looks awesome!!