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Memmy - An iOS client for Lemmy @lemmy.ml

1y ago

Build Submitted to Apple - 0.1 - That swipe tho 🤌

In order to get up to speed with the people that are coming here without TestFlight, I've submitted a build to Apple with all of the current features and fixes.

I'd anticipate this to take about 24 hours, but it's possible it will be reviewed today. Apple is weird. I've had things get approved in like 8 hours on Saturdays before, so there's a chance it will happen today. I'll update you all when that happens.

Improvements and additions:

New icon and options for changing icon color
New and improved swipe animation (by the way, this is better than the last update wink)
Improvements to image viewer (double tap works now too)
Performance enhancments throughout the app
Hide read posts
Images in comments
Collapsible posts
Default comment sort
All of the "Top" sort options
Show a loading modal while downloading images
Added a manage accounts button to accounts dropdown
Add option for reader in webview
Settings improvements
Added embark theme
Added buttons in comments for upvoting and replying
Adjustments to splashscreen
Username doesn't link to user profile in compact mode now
Add option to use the default browser instead of in-app browser

Fixes:

Fix issues with toast not changing color or disappearing
Fix cake day showing the wrong year
Fix issue where links with an internal IP address would ask for permission to local network
Fix issues with account disappearing after app launch
Read icon now uses the correct color
Fix crash caused when pressing Matrix links
Fix crash when searching for a community with an @ at the end

If any of these issues are bothering you now, rest assured they will be fixed for you quite soon.

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Please give us a link in the app so we can toss you some money. Some of us want to support your hard work and don’t want to be loaded down by ads in the future.
- Rest assured ads is something that will never be in this. No feature lockdowns, ads, any of that.
  I can’t link anything in app for payments or donations unfortunately. Eventually there might be a tip jar though. For now if you really want, there’s a buy me a coffee.
  
  I would say as much love as the app has received, definitely consider adding a tip jar. You’ve made a rather good app that is giving people a lot of value, so people would be more than happy to compensate you for your time. Given you can’t provide links in the app to third party payment services, this would provide the easiest route for people to do so.
  
  Support link still shows your Twitter account. Not sure if you’ve moved on to mastodon or not.
  Oh and a huge thank you for creating an amazing app in very little time. That’s some seriously consistent hard work. Doesn’t go unappreciated. ❤️
  
  Sent $5
  
  Hope I really don’t need to screenshot this to post in a few years… 😊 anyways, awesome app you’ve made! Can’t wait for the update to hit the AppStore, I deleted my flight test copy by mistake… 😭
  
  Sent 3 cups! Enjoy!
  
  No feature lockdowns
  What about for notifications? Surely those will start costing you something if growth continues as it has been lately.
  
  Oddly I can’t click the buy you a coffee link in the app. It keeps collapsing the comment?
  
  No feature lockdowns, ads, any of that.
  I thought you were going for an Apollo clone
  jk
- You can send the developer a donation here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gavink

It seems minor, but having community icons show next to the name is really important to me. I’d also love for the community name to be on the left side or closer to the title of the post (like it was in Apollo).
- If you’re not on TestFlight, just know this is already done.
  
  I’m not (it said it was full) — perfect!

Not going to lie, I miss the old memmy app logo but happy with the progress
- I’m going to throw it in the next update. I actually was going to do it now but it was a headache like you couldn’t imagine getting the icon switching to work. Had a list of things to do that just never materialized because of how long it took me to get that done.
  
  No problem, I respect the work 👍
  
  I really like the new logo and colour, but giving people the choice is a great idea.
  
  I appreciate the option to have different app icons! I personally love the Saturn.
  And the latest testflight version is absolutely mint, it’s insane how fast you’re implementing improvements
- Same. I prefer the little lemmy mouse to the planet. The new colours are dope tho. I’d love to see the lemmy mouse in a different style. Maybe we can get Apollo-style designer submissions for icons? 😍
  
  I don’t think we’ll really iterate on the mouse, we’ll put the existing icon in there but i wouldn’t really expect new ones. We will definitely accept submissions for icons though and put the ones we like best in. Probably will want to set up a formal process for that.
- i like that its not a damn mouse lol. it was kinda ugly.

I’d love to see the images behave a little more like Apollo, which allowed zooming out with just a double tap (which also zoomed in, or opened the album to swipe through), but to get it away, it was just a double tap to zoom out and swipe it away.
- This is probably one of the absolute hardest things to replicate. I’m going to be working on it though for sure for the 0.2 release.
  With that said, zoom out on double tap is fixed on this release. Swiping through the images in a post will be added in 0.2 as well as other improvements to the image viewer in general.
  
  Awesome! I’m on the TestFlight build and loving the rapid progress. I think it was still a little janky for me and after a second double tap I’m not able to swipe the image away.
  Apollo had a lot of years to polish - what you’ve done in such a short period is absolutely amazing. I donated via your buy me a coffee link, but you should absolutely charge something for this app. Putting notifications behind a paywall is perfectly reasonable.
  Personally I loved the one-time Ultra purchase and would occasionally just throw some cash in the tip jar on big releases.
  
  Even crazier is Apollo had this awesome feature for zooming in on pictures. You could double tap to zoom in, then double tap again to resize to fit the screen. But then you could also double tap and hold on the second tap and drag up or down to zoom in and out like you can in the Maps app. That I used all the time. Also, Apollo would let you zoom in really really close - double tapping would get you to a normal zoom level but then you could just keep pinching to zoom in quite far. Love what you're doing, keep up the great work.

It’s unbelievable that you can make an app this great in this short amount of time, and that other site can’t get it right after years. Thank you for all you do, I just did the “Buy me a Coffee”!
I have two requests if possible. The first is probably the easiest - orange is my favorite color, so I’d love an orange color of the icon to rock on my home screen!
The second is probably harder. I miss the small button on the bottom right that jumps to the next parent comment. It doesn’t have to be a button, it could be a swipe or tap. When I’m in the middle of a long comment chain, sometimes I just want to bail on the thread and move to the next parent comment, but I can’t find an easy way to do that other than just scroll and look.
Again, thank you for the great app! Make sure you get that tip jar in here, you deserve to get some payment for your great work!
- We can get both of those done :)
  As a matter of fact I’m going to start working on the jump button this week.
  
  Dude, you are awesome!
- Our icon designer already made an orange one today, possibly from seeing this comment lol
  
  That’s awesome, thanks! I’m gonna need to buy you guys more coffee! ☕️

Ooh the new swipe thing is so cool. Great work!
- Can’t take the credit for that one. We have an amazing contributor who made that happen. Completely overhauled it for us. Super grateful for that.
- What’s the new swipe functionality? I’m not on the TestFlight but the swipe I have now seems pretty smooth to me.
  
  The key thing I noticed was when you swipe further to downvote, it’s a cool animation of the arrow turning upside down.

LOVE the new app icon! I guess I’m a minority that wasn’t a fan of the other one. The colours were just a tad too gaudy for me.
Also just generally loving all the new features and care being put into this app.
A couple notes:
If you use swipe actions too quickly then the arrows will start pointing in all sorts of directions (not import and only if you are messing around with it)
The image viewer feels less responsive than the original one in earlier versions. I’m not familiar with this style and I guess I’m wondering what the goal is?
- I absolutely LOVE the new icon!

Added buttons in comments for upvoting and replying
Please let me hide them :-(
- Don’t worry it will be there today :)
  
  Thanks, appreciate it!
- You can already hide them! Go to settings -> content -> hide comment actions. (I think actions) I added this when i implemented the buttons but forgot to tell gk that part lol. We’ve gotten some complaints about people not knowing how to vote on a comment so i made it shown by default instead.
  
  Yeah, someone tipped me off about this in another thread, thanks :-)
  We've gotten some complaints
  I noticed! I found this very surprising tbh, but hey, at least it's a decent option to have.
- No please keep them
  
  I'm asking for a way to hide them. I'm not asking for this feature to be removed, I just want a way to toggle this option off.

Thanks man looking brilliant

I didn’t get into the test flight. I downloaded as soon as it was available in the App Store. I’m loving it but anxiously awaiting the update to fix profile not loading. I’ve never had my profile load successfully
- Are you using your email to sign in? If so, can you try signing in with your username?
  
  I was. Changing to my username worked. Thanks!

Still waiting patiently for the update to show in the App Store. And by patiently I mean checking 3 times a day lmao. But I can’t believe the devs for this app. So impressed with how it’s been mostly flawless for the week I’ve used it. Will be donating soon!
- Glad i´m not the only one! Apple must be busy, tiny bit over the the expected 8-24hours by now heh
  
  Update is out now

Would the option to swipe back from anywhere be possible for people that don’t use the voting gestures?
- We plan on adding this eventually
- Second this, probably my most missed feature from Apollo.

Memmy has a perfect 5.0 rating on the App Store. Well done!

Ok, that swipe animation do be nice tho.
One of the things I remember back from Alien Blue (I think) was that when you had a picture full screen, you could kinda grab it and “toss” if any direction to go back to the post. I think the official Reddit app may do this, but 🤷‍♂️
Also, scrubbing in Apollo was amazing. I noticed “wefwef” may have implemented if already.
(First time trying your app, so I will correct any inaccuracies if someone will kindly correct me)

I am in absolute awe of this app, tysm

I do like the new swipe animations but I find it’s much harder now to swipe from the left edge to go back to the community view, without accidentally activating the voting swipe on whatever comment happens to be where I’m swiping.

Would love to see few features:
Ability to filter/block a community directly from feed, without having to go to that community.
A keyword filter list that hides post with those words in their title.
Ability to hide posts from feed.
Keep up the great work!

You have done amazing! Honestly the speed at which you release is phenomenal and pretty intimidating for someone who works in software, it sets a new benchmark in my opinion.
One thing that would be handy is the ability to share to Memmy from other apps via the share sheet
The ability to follow topics via a saved search or similar would also be handy.
Also the ability to bookmark a community but not have it appear in my feed would also be useful
Just feedback, overall this is such a polished app, I’m super impressed

too many line breaks. viewing a thread like this one, everything has a line break between it. too crowded. also, the swipe buttons have a black outline to it. shouldn't it just be a solid color?

btw setting up microsoft appcenter codepush is really quick and you can avoid slow update turn around.
I've been releasing my react native apps for years instantly to beta and alpha in-app update channels. Testflight is slow, the app store is slow, codepush is fast af.
- Sent you a DM about this

Thank you for the non-Test Flight update! Just installed the app today and really love the browsing UI and functionality.
My only issue so far has been with voting on comments, there is seemingly no way to vote on a comment without swiping (context menu has no option, tapping comment score just hides comment), and the swiping seems to upvote/downvote at random with no relation to the strength/size of the swipe. I see that is updated in 0.1 so looking forward to it.
If you are supposed to be able to tap the comment vote score to upvote/downvote like in the webapp, it does not seem to work at the moment. iPhone 14/iOS 16.5.1
- There is on latest update
- Buttons are added in this update 🎉

Is there a way to get the community icon to show up in the main page instead of the planet? Can’t wait for the AppStore version to come out!

Thank you! Question about the in-app browser. Many other apps use it and I've always been wondering: does it save cookies and sessions or is it just a minimal thing that just opens the page temporarily with safari, without persitent storage?

Everything feels so smooth now. Great work!

Love the new icon options! It was something I secretly hoped you’d implement down the road, and I’m amazed you found time to include it so early!

Is there currently no way to save an image from a post? Like an add to photos button when viewing a pic?
Or am I just really missing it?
- If you open up the image in the viewer, there should be a save button on the lower left.
  
  Weird, it doesn’t absolutely nothing on my app.

Is there any way to stop having memmy ask me every time I save a photo if I want to keep selected photos or access all photos? Not sure why it’s asking me this to save a photo but there’s no way to back out of the option unless I either click “keep selected and then deselect the photo that I just saved and then click done.
image for reference

Awesome update notes! Literally refreshing the App Store hourly for this!

OP doing lord’s work right there

Swipe to dissmiss on pictures have issue now after last update Before it was so smooth and fast

not sure if this is a bug or a feature request, but it doesn’t appear there is a way to view the users bio in memmy?
viewing a profile is fine, but anything you set in the bio on the web interface is not viewable anywhere in the app that i can find

Fantastic launch! Looking forward to following the development

Love it 😍

Like the previous app icon better :/
- It will be back in there today :) I was going to do it but it was such a headache getting the switch to work that I forgot all about it.
  
  Nice :)

I must say, I’m using the TestFlight build and the app is as smooth as ever. Night and day difference from the version of like a week ago.
Thank you for all your hard work I can’t wait to see what you do with the app moving forward

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