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2y ago

Mlem for Lemmy is live on the App Store!

It's here!

Download Mlem for Lemmy on the App Store

Please note: it may take a couple minutes for it to be available in all regions. We just pressed the button.

Mlem for Lemmy is out of beta and live on the App Store!

Thank you to everybody who tested our app and submitted feedback, whether through TestFlight or a GitHub issue or a post on the community. Your insight has been an integral part of making this app what it is, and we look forward to working with you to make it even better in the months to come.

The past month and a half of hard work has been an amazing journey, but this is just the beginning. We hope you give it a download and join us as we strive to bring you the best mobile Lemmy experience we can.

Cheers,

The Mlem Group

LemmyClient @lemmy.world

PuddingFeeling907 @lemmy.world

2y ago

APP STORE RELEASE

Mlem for Lemmy is live on the App Store!

Meta @aussie.zone

useless_modern_god @aussie.zone

2y ago

APP STORE RELEASE

Mlem for Lemmy is live on the App Store!

Apple @lemmy.ml

Eric @lemmy.ml

2y ago

APP STORE RELEASE

Mlem for Lemmy is live on the App Store!

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lmao thanks for the help, App Store
- To be fair Plex is pretty awesome.
  
  Plex has saved me, my friends, and family tons of money over the years.
- lol

I like the design and the layouts but there are a few things to improve. The biggest for now is the image viewer. When I click on a post it just opens the post with the title and comments, but not the image itself. I can’t zoom in or anything.
Overall though it’s very clean and off to a good start.
- The image viewer is our #1 priority right now. To zoom you can tap the image once in the post view--we're working on getting a hotfix out shortly to make that work the intuitive way, where tapping the image in feed opens the quick viewer.
  Longer-term, we're working on a much more robust, fully-featured media viewer, but it's a complex piece of code and we want to get it right--it's slated for our next milestone (1.1, targeted Aug 5).
  
  Glad you’re working in the image viewer. As of this release, images don’t even open in the post view. Touching them does nothing.
- This and scrolling lags/choppy after going back. Apart from that for initial launch this looks amazing, also loving those extra icons 👍.

Congrats! even though it has only been such a short time, It has been amazing seeing this project grow.

Congrats! I’m excited that Mlem is built in SwiftUI instead of a cross-platform framework. Native-built apps are usually so much better.
- Me too! The differences really become apparent when more features are added. Battery life I notice. Also just the way the thing feels; I can intuit where things are in the app because I already know how to use my iPhone.

Congratulations!
Also, this is my first post using Mlem!

Will the beta still see updates or should we switch to the App Store version?
- Yes! We will continue using TestFlight to try out our beta features, so if you want the cutting (and maybe buggy) edge of our development, stay on there. If you just want the stable, reliable app, the App Store version is your friend.
  
  I'm staying on beta to get first dibs on the coming improvements. lol. Congrats on the official app store release!
  
  Went back to the testflight version so I can get to use image-viewer update faster 🥵

Why does it require iOS 16? I am on 15.7 on an iPhone SE Second generation
- There are a couple smaller reasons, but the big one is that we use NavigationStack to handle our core view navigation--it's a truly monumental improvement over the old NavigationView, and lets us do things like build an iPad version without rewriting all our nav stuff, but it is unfortunately only compatible with iOS 16+.
  I know that's probably not a super satisfactory answer, but I'd rather be transparent than spin some PR nonsense at you.
  
  Thanks for the quick reply! I just wanted to confirm it wasn’t something superficial. I’ll look into updating and see what the performance hit looks like
  
  The less headache for the devs, the better. I fully support this decision
  
  Does that mean an iPad view is on the cards?
- Just in case you're not aware, your phone is compatible with iOS 16
  
  Oh I know. I’ve just been burned many times in the past with upgrading iOS on older phones so I generally avoid it these days until I have a compelling reason to upgrade. Forced obsolescence and all that

Love your app! I’ll take a look at your GitHub and see if there’s anything I can help with.
- Glad you like it!
  The project board todo column is the place to look if you want to pitch in

I love seeing the memes devs are choosing for the screenshots for these apps. Well done!

Awesome. Just downloaded it. Congratulations guys.

I love it on my ipad, but I really wish I could save images.
- We’re working on a fully-featured media viewer with the image saving + a whole bunch more—stay tuned for the next update!

I have nothing constructive to add except CONGRATULATIONS and THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK!!

🥳

Congratulations! Wonderful release. For me it‘s feature complete. Nice to have would be a dark gray mode and an option to see downvotes, but that‘s not a must-have. I love it as it is and deleted the other Testflight clients.

Can’t log in.
- I have the same issue. Also using lemmy.world.
  
  I managed to log in using a lemmy.ml account. This reply was sent from the app.
- Same issue. Tried reinstalling the app, but it didn't help. Not on lemmy.world

I'm going to try it soon. Any comparisons to Memmy right now? I'm glad there is variety out there now
- Nicer looking comment section. Logical position of subscriptions. Beautiful animation when collapsing posts. Just to mention my favorites.
- I personally love the competition between the app developers. Memmy just released a big update yesterday that had a ton of improvements, so I switched from Mlem to Memmy for the day to test it out. It's a race between who can make the better app and it benefits us the users.

Awesome 🥳

Congratulations!

Fantastic work. The app is lovely!

downloaded, 5-star rated, reviewed
congrats and good luck!
I’m glad to have a fully ios native app available
- So much this. I was tempted to leave the fediverse due to missing content. But this release convinced me to stay and wait for Lemmy to grow.

Congrats!

I've heard of this app during the past month but this is the first time seeing the icon. Holy shit is it adorable! And... I never saw it as mlem, I read it as m-lem so I also feel a little dumb
I'm on Android and waiting for sync or else I'd try it out. Good luck!!

I most certainly just downloaded the app. I’m so excited about what’s to come. :)

Great, I love it!

Cool! Just installed from App Store!

Great work, I’m in love with this app. Keep growing guys!!

Congrats 🎉

Just downloaded and enjoying so far. Great work! It was a bit hard to search for but that will likely change once it has a bunch of downloads.

Can someone remind me again where the setting is to move the upvote arrows to the right hand side?
- That functionality has been moved into the widget customizer. You can configure the layout of your buttons in Settings -> Appearance -> Posts or Comments -> Customize Widgets
  
  Thank you!

Awesome news.

LFGGGGGG!!!!

Is there a way to search for posts? Seems like the search tab is just communities?
Also, while using this to post this comment, I was confused on where I was typing because the post itself took up most of the screen, def gotta get used to that
- Is there no edit comment in lemmy?
  Also small thing I found was I couldn’t go to my comment from my profile tab
- We're working on fleshing out the search tab, and it should have posts and users in the next major release.
  That's useful feedback on the post composer--we'll look into making that clearer. Thanks!

I’m giving this app a try. Just wanted to say that within 30 seconds, I inadvertently blocked someone while trying to change the post size. Maybe the options shouldn’t be under a submenu. Blocking a user should ask for confirmation by default. Also why do you make the user enter credentials instead of ask redirect to the instance to grant permissions using oauth?
- Thanks for giving us a try! We're constantly improving, and your feedback is invaluable--we're working on adding confirmations to more destructive actions for the next build.
  For credentials, we don't use oauth because Lemmy doesn't support it--there's an issue open on their GitHub that should resolve that, but until then it's passwords or bust.

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