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I’ve tried Mlem and Memmy, and the biggest features missing as I see it are:
Once you have logged in, search all currently federated servers. See what their subscriber count is on their local instance, and across all instances. Sort by subscribers, posts/day, or comments/day.
A tab which shows you your subscribed communities so you can go straight to them (Memmy and kbin both make you go in to your profile to do this, it should be front-and-center)
Ability to subscribe to a community by looking at its main page
Ideally kbin communities would show alongside lemmy communities, I think this is a limitation of kbin right now though?
Swipe posts to upvote/downvote (right), reply/save (left)
Something which tells you the last time information was pulled from a federated server - sometimes it would be useful to know that I might be seeing a page which is 8 hours out of date vs. one which was updated 30sec ago
Something which tells you or prevents you from posting to a defederated community since the post will not behave as expected
Expose options for copying links to comments, links to parent comments
Ability to see your post history separated by threads/comments/etc., and messages; from a comment, go to the specific thread in question (i.e. direct link to parent or contextual comments in that thread, not just the original post)
Hide posts you’ve voted on already
I don’t think any currently existing apps expose moderator tools. I’m not sure how much of this is present on the API side so far but will be hugely important as communities get bigger.
Content density. On Apollo I can see ~6 posts at once on any given page. On Memmy or Mlem I see ~2.5. Just a much more efficient display of content, tell me what the post title is, what community+server it’s on, how old the post is, how many comments, what the upvote-downvote calculus is. If I want to know the user count or read the blurb on the post I can tap in to it.
Great list
2nd point, you can tap on the star at top left corner to go to your subscribed communities, so just 2 taps
I miss Apollo’s compact view as well. Hope it and light theme will come
Wonder if there is a community for Memmy to give feedback/feature request/discuss our experiences
These are awesome requests, I’ll be sure to reach out to you when the app is ready for testing. If you or anyone else have requests when it comes to mod tools specifically please reach out to me. I’ve never been a mod on here or Reddit so I’m not sure what types of tools mods need, but there are definitely APIs for that and I’d love to take advantage of them.
Great list of features with high probability of putting this new app on the level with RIF, Apollo, etc.
I started toying around with Memmy, today. There’s a star in the top left corner that is a shortcut to your subscriptions, allowing you to bypass your profile. The feature might be new. Thought I’d share.
I’ve been using Mlem via TestFlight. It’s solid. My only gripe is minor. I see a large amount of duplicate posts across different Lemmy instances. For example, Beehaw’s c/technology and Lemmy.world’s c/tech often have the same content posted. My guess is it’s the nature of federated content. It’d be very impressive if you find a solution to consolidate duplicate posts from Lemmy instances.
It does this already. When there are multiple posts with the same link they are grouped together and you can choose which one to enter when you navigate to the comments. Still experimenting with it
Feature request: When you tap someone’s user name, it shows clearly which instance they are on e.g. @nevird@beehaw.org on top (pretty standard) But then when, you click on the instance part of the user name, it brings you to the about page of that instance.
It’s a good idea. The problem is the “hitboxes” if you will are very small there. I’ll see if I can come up with a good way to do this
Please support iOS 15 users on older phones. apollo still do
A light theme is also much appreciated!
This is still very much a work in progress. I’ll be looking for beta testers soon so keep an eye out if your on the iOS 17 beta
Isn’t it iOS 17 currently in beta? Or are you planning to launch next year?
iOS17 releases in September.
Final public iOS 17 release will be in September with public betas starting next month. I didn’t want to architect a new app on top of technology that will be stale & require rework in 3 months. I wouldn’t expect the app to be ready for full blown public release too soon before then anyway. I’ve only been working on it for a week. Still have a lot of work before it’s stable enough for a release.
the ability to dynamically filter search results, if that’s at all possible (it’s not with lemmy’s interface currently)
Looking clean and sleek matey!
I’m trying to collect all the apps! I’ve got Mlem, Memmy, and Rennes and I signed up for the Artemis waitlist
Among what everyone else is saying. Customizable color schemes! If I could browse Lemmy with a solarized dark-esque color scheme, I may actually cry…
Oh 100%! I plan on a user-submitted theme gallery along with completely customizable color options so you can set your own colors too
Awesome work! Do you have a name for your app already, something like Xeno Blue?
Working title is Olympus. I already bought the domain so hopefully nothing better comes. The long term goal is to support multiple platforms like kbin & mastodon and possibly (optionally) Reddit
Android hamburger menu doesn’t feel right in a native iOS app
Agreed.
Please make it for kbin too!
I plan to!
I thought Kbin was already part of the fediverse, and thus would work on the app as well (?)
They federate, in that they communicate with eachother, but this app wouldn’t allow you to login on a kbin instance, it’d only allow you to login on a lemmy instance.
To make it do both would unfortunately probably mean a complete duplication of effort, but i’m not sure of that.
Didn’t see a classic view. Is that in progress?
What about having private dms like Reddit? And make the chat turn into group also?
Can kbin come along for the ride? :)
I don’t know about Lemmy’s API, but Kbin doesn’t have a functional API yet. So it might be challenging to implement compatibility for both at the moment
Correct. It is in the plans if they ever sort it out.