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!
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.
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.
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.
Very nice update, well done! Thanks for your work!
Great Update, i like the new design!
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.
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 :)
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!
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!
I’m only showing .0.0.6 (22) in Testflight. So maybe it’s awaiting approval still.
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!!
Make that 3, tried uninstalling and reinstalling via test flight but having the same issue.
Same here, it’s set to auto update too, so not sure what might be going on
It is available for me now.
Just checked back and it’s available yes. It looks great as well! Thanks Mlem team :)
It makes me happy that you’ll be working on screen reader accessibility in future, this app is great!
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 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!
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.
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
