I get it, right now it's not perfect, but I'm starting with a closed beta to work out the kinks first. Once we've got that sorted, anyone can hop in and join the beta with a simple link (:

Edit: It is indeed like @mrmoj0rising said a way for me to invite people to the group in TestFlight. I'm pretty new to publishing apps on TestFlight too, so I'm still learning as I go but I figured this was the best way to start.

I can see where you're coming from, since I have a separate page on my homescreen with all the iOS Lemmy apps as well, but I built this UI myself. However, I must admit that my design has been greatly influenced by Apollo (like a lot of other Lemmy iOS apps). In fact, I have a folder filled with Apollo screenshots that I captured before it went offline, using them as a source of inspiration. While I genuinely believe that Memmy is an exceptional app with a lot of features that I haven't even built yet, my main objective was to challenge myself into building an app that has the same native iOS feeling like Apollo.

It’s not some random “it’s all inspired by the same thing”

But it is? I think Apollo has a special place in the hearts of most iOS Reddit users, so it's only natural that we use this as inspiration. For example these are screenshots of Apollo that I used:

For the icons I'm using Apple's SF Symbols, which is probably the same as Memmy uses.

It isn’t forked from any existing Lemmy client, I built it from the ground up myself. Took me a while to get it of the ground with enough features to make it usable in the day-to-day life, but I’m quite proud of the current state :D

The design has been greatly influenced by Apollo (like a lot of other Lemmy iOS apps), so there might of course be some similarities.

From what I understood the API for Kbin is still work in progress. That makes it quite a bit more difficult to create a third party client, which might explain the lack of third party Kbin clients

First of all I want to say that it warms my heart to see these kinds of messages! 🥰

Behind the scenes I’ve been working very hard on the V1 of Lemma. My aim was to have a very stable and feature rich V1. In hindsight this was maybe too big of a goal and I should’ve maybe pushed updates in between that could still have some bugs.

Together with the fact that I have less time to spend on this project because of my new job, it has taken way more time then I hoped.

I am however still very passionate about this project and I think you will all love the new updates that I’m working on. I don’t want to make promises that I can’t keep, but I will try to get the update ready by the end of this weekend 🤞

Thanks for the feedback! Initially this started out as a personal project, so most of the UI is tailored to my personal preference.

I’ll have a look at supporting better accessibility with regards to text sizes

That's definitely on my list! Together with Share as Image, those two were my absolute favorite features of Apollo

At the moment, it's a closed beta, so if you missed the signup, you won't be able to join the TestFlight yet, unfortunately. The good news is that I'm planning to launch a public beta this upcoming weekend, and I'll share a link where you can join when it’s ready!

Good find! Apparently I forgot to add pagination for this screen, so it indeed only fetches the first 50 items. I’ll see if I can fix this in one of the next releases!

The swipe to go forward works amazingly, congrats on the release! 🥳

Great point with regards to having the option to opt-out of auto-playing, I'll make sure to add it to my list

Kind of a shameless plug, but you could have a look at ![email protected].

The ‘Share as Image’ feature is still work in progress, it doesn’t handle very long threads that well yet, but overall I think it’s working quite well already.

I pushed a new release yesterday, once that’s approved by Apple I will announce (and share) the public TestFlight link!

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Thanks for the kind words!

This week I started on re-writing the markdown editor (which is one of the last parts of my big refactor). While I’m very proud of the editor feature wise, the code was not that great. Hopefully the new version fixes the issues that you’re noticing!

The new version also includes a lot more settings, including new app icons, but also improved error handling so that it’s clearer why something is not working.

It’s honestly taking more time then expected, but I’m in the final stages so stay tuned :D

All the settings that are grey aren’t implemented yet, but are on the list to be implemented in the very near future!

The real bug is that you can enable these settings, since they should be disabled 😉

Thanks, absolutely great to hear! 🤩

Preferably bugs will have their own posts, but if one already exists for a certain bug I would appreciate if people commented on existing issues. As for posting comments itself; that's indeed not yet supported sadly. I focussed mainly on viewing content first, but will start working on posting comments (and posts) soon ™️

Awesome to hear! I spent quite some time on getting the video player right, so I’m glad to hear people enjoy it (:

The fact that videos don’t play when you’re viewing a post is actually a dumb thing I forgot haha. Videos get a signal to auto play as soon as they get into view of a virtualized list, since it’s not in a list when viewing a post it actually never gets the signal 😅

I’ll make sure that this is fixed it the next release

It’s written in React Native, with some Swift modules here and there. I wrote down some more in depth behind the scenes in a previous post.

When Apollo shut down I really missed it in my day to day use, so initially this project started out as a personal project to see if I could replace that Apollo craving. Since then the development was going so well that I wanted to share it with the rest of the community as well.

Since then I’ve also build some things that imho are an improvement, for example:

• the onboarding
• the markdown editor
• the chat interface for private messages

It’s been really fun to work on, but now that the basis is quite stable I’ll look into features that make it more tailored to Lemmy

If you disable both the left and right swipe, it will automatically enable full swipe to go back.

Right now I’m having some technical limitations with React Native, where it’s not possible to have full swipe to go back without disabling both swipe gestures. It’s on my list to look further into, but I’m not expecting to solve this in the near future.

Hopefully this is good enough for now :D