Hi Mlem Community,
Mlem 2.4 is here! We've expanded our PieFed support, plus added a bundle of new features for you to use.
Cheers,
The Mlem Group
Mlem is a free and open source project. 100% of our funding, which pays for things like server time, comes from our generous donors; we do not, and will never, run ads or sell data. If you'd like to help support Mlem, you can donate here.
Features
- Posts and comments can now be exported as images
- Expanded filter functionality to allow filtering for literal strings
- Added support for the following features on PieFed:
- Instance blocking
- Un-deleting private messages
- Moderators toggling posts' NSFW status
- Banning users from a community (available on instances running PieFed v1.3 and above)
- Sort by "Old" (v1.3 and above)
- Local instance community list (v1.3 and above)
- Comment search (v1.3 and above)
- User notes (v1.4 and above)
- Look and Feel
- The private message chat view now uses Liquid Glass
- Confirmation dialogs now use alerts rather than popovers on iOS 26
- The image viewer and inline video player now have Liquid Glass UI elements
- Improved the Dracula theme contrast
- Updated settings styling
- Accessibility
- Added a "distinguish interaction bar" accessibility setting, which adds a subtle background to interaction bar buttons
- Moderation
- Moderators can now edit community descriptions
- You can now filter the modlog by user
- Quality of Life
- vger.to links now open in-app
- The post editor now shows a preview for links
- Added an "edit link" button to the post editor
- You can now upload a custom thumbnail for link attachments in the post editor
- Improved error handling on the instance page
- Images that fail to load now offer a link to view the content in browser
- The Saved and Upvoted feeds can now be filtered to posts or comments
- Added nicer error readouts in a few places across the app
- You can now tap on the version number in the "About Mlem" page to copy it
- The editor now shows a confirmation before closing if it is not empty
Bug Fixes
- Links to local communities now resolve case insensitively
- Fixed account switcher in the post editor not working
- The "n more links" text in the collapsed links button now respects singular/plural
- The Search tab homepage now renders correctly when using OLED theme
- Context menus in the subscription list no longer have blue icons
- PieFed's human-readable link format now resolves correctly
- Fixed votes not updating on page refreshes
- Creator is now shown instead of community in tile posts when inside a community view
- Fixed loops.video videos not embedding
- Theme colors are now more coherent
- The markdown toolbar's hitbox now matches its appearance on iOS 26
- Removed "Haptic manager failed to start" error message
- Fixed tapping the tab bar to scroll to top not behaving correctly on iOS 26
- Fixed newly-created comments not showing if the post had zero comments
- Fixed user who created a report sometimes being shown as creator
