Mlem for Lemmy

First of all, this app is really slick, thank you devs!

My question is basically title. It’s a great option to have but it was not for me. I often downvote comments as I intend to do go back gesture.

Thanks.

We’ve released a new build to the Stable Pre-Release TestFlight group! This update contains some highly requested features, several quality-of-life improvements, and (very) preliminary moderation tools.

Cheers,

The Mlem Group

Features

• Added an OLED theme, which makes all backgrounds pure black
• Added post searching
• Added easy-tap links
• Added an option to autoplay animated media (only available on iOS 18)
• Added some moderator actions:
  • Pin
  • Lock
  • Remove
• Added the Moderated feed
• Added Fediseer integration (Trust & Safety tab in the instance view)
• Added basic account settings
• Added code blocks to Markdown tools
• Added default sidebar visibility setting for iPad
• Posts can now be collapsed in the expanded post view
• Refined the expanded post view
• Added the option to confirm image uploads

Bug Fixes

• Fixed placeholders being shown in comment editor
• Fixed not being able to import settings files not created by Mlem
• Fixed cache size readout not updating when cache is cleared

Mlem is a free and open source project. 100% of our funding, which pays for things like server time, comes from our generous donors; we do not, and will never, run ads or sell data. If you'd like to help support Mlem, you can donate here.

So I know we can post text and images using the link button, but it would be nice to confirm what’s being pasted before uploading. A show clipboard, or a small preview of the clipboard would be nice.

Currently when pasting an image into a Lemmy post, it only shows a Lemmy URL before committing, not the image. Kind of unnerving when you’re thinking “did I copy the right image for this post, or is it about to upload something I don’t want it to?”

I just wanted to test the posting fix in 2.0 (89), and at the same time give a huge shout out to the people who are making all of this possible. You all are a quiet and sneaky bunch, but your hard work does not go unnoticed.

We've released a new update to the Stable Pre-Release beta group (and, of course, the weekly), bringing video support, more markdown options, and a bunch of bug fixes. We've also refined our design—check it out and let us know what you think!

Cheers,

The Mlem Group

Features

• Added preliminary video support:
  • .gif, .webp, .mp4, .m4v, and .mov media can now be played by tapping the play button; tapping elsewhere opens the media viewer.
  • Currently the only controls are tap to play/stop.
  • Planned features, roughly in order include:
    • Autoplay
    • .gifv support
    • Thumbnails for .mp4/.m4v/.mov/.gifv content
    • Pausing
    • Scrubbing
• Updated design to use rounded rectangles
• Added the ability to edit posts
• Added more Markdown buttons: inline link, code block, and user/community/instance links
• Added a new comments indicator
• Added instance uptime statistics
• Expanded post can now be refreshed
• Added sign up prompts for new users
• Expanded posts now show if they've been crossposted with links to the crossposts
• Added a page for rendering deeply nested comment threads. Navigating to a comment (e.g., from inbox) will open this page.
• Added the ability to create crossposts from the post share menu

Bug Fixes

• Fixed iPad confirmation dialog appearing in the wrong place
• Fixed iPad sidebar navigation
• Fixed Markdown blocks would sometimes being truncated
• Fixed mark read on scroll not respecting the setting
• Fixed an issue preventing swipe actions on the account list and subscription list views
• Fixed some crashes

Mlem is a free and open source project. 100% of our funding, which pays for things like server time, comes from our generous donors; we do not, and will never, run ads or sell data. If you'd like to help support Mlem, you can donate here.

Hi, I'm a complete novice to Mlem, after my former app got worse and worse. I tried to rearrange everything in a way, I can enjoy (and it's already far, far better, than with the previous app I used 😃). But: The feed-sidebar on the left, showing the instances I follow and so on, is always open by default, when I start the app. Is it possible (or could it be made so if it's not possible yet) to have the feed sidebar being closed by default, when one starts the app? 🥺

I have a couple of things I’m not managing to do - I can’t seem to search posts, only instances/users etc, and can’t block whole instances from the app. Am I doing something wrong, or are these just features that don’t work in version one on iOS? Thanks

Every time I try to change it, the app crashes. No error code given.

I just updated yesterday to the 1.3.5 release.

Unfortunately now when I use my thumb to quickly scroll posts and comments it doesn’t respond.

But if I stop, and move very slowly it does register the scroll. After it finally does scroll then for about 10 seconds or so it behaves normally.

This doesn’t happen, however, in the top half of the screen. Just the bottom half.

Thank you again for all the hard work you do on the app.

On version 1.3.3, when adding an image to a comment without any existing text, the app crashes. If text is placed in the comment field, image being added will upload successfully with no crash.

Unsure if this is a Mlem or Sopuli issue, but I have been having comments be empty after posting them. Even after multiple edits they are still empty. I went back and fixed a few of them with Arctic and the edits appear to have stayed (which leads me to believe this is a Mlem issue rather than my instance).

Has anyone else been experiencing this while using Mlem (possibly on a different instance).

Crashes on open every time.

iOS 17.6.1.

Hello,

Could someone explain why the Mlem app seems to be at the top of the list based on my iOS privacy report collected over a couple of months? It's a bit weird that no other apps or Mastodon clients reach such high numbers. The Ice Cubes app, for example, only collected 10 domains even though it's also an ActivityPub based network. Additionally, Mlem app's second most frequently contacted domain was a Google domain used to track app analytics, similar to Snapchat, Reddit, or Monzo. Can anyone provide some transparency on this? Thank you.

When on the feed, scrolling as usual. If I go to the left sidebar (usually by accident), there doesn't seem to be a way to go back to the feed at the position I was in. I either have to choose All, Subscribed at the top - or a community in the list, and the feed starts back at the top.

Is there a way to go back to the feed where I was located once I'm in the left sidebar?

Thanks for the great app!

Hi Mlem Community,

We’ve been quiet recently, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been busy! Our development efforts over the last few months have been primarily focused on our 2.0 build. This is a ground-up rebuild, which is no small undertaking. We’ve solidified our backend groundwork, and are now well into rebuilding the UI with a clear roadmap to an early TestFlight beta.

As we mentioned in April, We’re also taking the opportunity to move the app from Lionel Hanners’ account to mine. Doing this requires shutting down the TestFlight, and since we aren’t planning any major releases against the v1 codebase, we’re going to keep it down until 2.0 is ready for beta testing.

Roadmap

We want to get 2.0 into your hands as quickly as we can, and so we’re planning to ship a TestFlight as soon as we have a minimal working feature set for daily use. That feature set is:

• All non-moderator feed options
  • All (DONE)
  • Local (DONE)
  • Subscribed (DONE)
  • Saved (DONE)
  • Community (DONE)
• Profile (DONE)
• Search (DONE)
• Non-moderator Inbox
  • View replies/mentions/messages (DONE)
  • Reply to items (IN PROGRESS)
• Reports
  • Posts (DONE)
  • Comments (DONE)
  • Messages (DONE)
• Account deletion (IN PROGRESS)
• Persist favorite communities (IN PROGRESS)

Bonus features:

• A brand new post layout option
• Full support for Lemmy’s custom Markdown dialect
• Color themes
• Guest mode
• Sort community list by instance

We also have a few features we’re making good progress on and hope to have in the 2.0 release, but might come a little later:

• Basic video handling (videos play properly, tap to play/pause) (IN PROGRESS)
• Improved iPad UX (IN PROGRESS)

We’ll put out an announcement when the new TestFlight takes off with a link to join, and keep this post (roughly) up-to-date with development.

Cheers,

The Mlem Group

Update 2024-07-24 19:45 EST

The v1 TestFlight is officially shut down. A massive thanks to all our testers, and we can't wait to launch the new v2 TestFlight!

Could the design and/or placement of the separate up- and downvote score be improved?

It would be nice to have them where the main score is shown on posts and comments instead of in comment/post info which is very small and not where you look at first.

When I saw the setting I was happy it exists but pretty disappointed that it doesn’t change the main score display of posts and comments.

Or am I just overlooking that setting?

Currently you cannot view the local communities when viewing their instance from within Mlem. This is particularly nice for niche instances such as the one in the image, as well as ones like mtgzone.

It’s great how mlem keeps evolving and there’s some incredible work being done here, thanks :)

There‘s sadly one deal breaker for me: mlem doesn’t scroll smoothly.

It may seem like it’s not a big deal, but for an app that’s showing a feed and where 90% of the time I’m scrolling, it ruins the experience for me. Is there anything that can be done on that front? Or maybe I’m the only one who feels that way.

Again, thanks for your hard work :)

Mlem 1.3.3 is live!

Changes in this patch:

• Added a Paste Link from Clipboard button to the Search tab. If the pasted link is a valid Lemmy URL, Mlem will attempt to open it on your home instance.
• Fixed an issue where certain menu actions were erroneously displayed
• Added compatibility logic for the upcoming 2.0 build

This update has been rolled out to both the TestFlight and App Store environments.

Cheers,

The Mlem Group

Mlem is a free and open source project. 100% of our funding, which pays for things like server time, comes from our generous donors; we do not, and will never, run ads or sell data. If you'd like to help support Mlem, you can donate here.

Mlem 1.3.2 is now available. This update addresses an issue where sending private messages would fail with an "unknown" error.

This update has been rolled out to both the TestFlight and App Store environments.

Cheers,

The Mlem Group

Mlem is a free and open source project. 100% of our funding, which pays for things like server time, comes from our generous donors; we do not, and will never, run ads or sell data. If you'd like to help support Mlem, you can donate here.

I’m trying to find content on other instances (primarily communities but sometimes posts). Sometimes I have the @-handle, sometimes I have a URL. I want to open them in my instance in Mlem.

So far I’ve tried the standard search-for-the-URL trick which works for links on the web, but not at all in Mlem.

How do I get Mlem to open a link to a community or post in my active instance? Or, even better, in an arbitrary instance I have an account for?

Hey mlem folx! I’m using mlem on iOS.

I’m noticing that comment chains don’t always show up in the app. This happens one of two ways, from what I can tell:

1. the top level comment appears as normal, and there is an icon for however many replies, but none of them appear unless I share and open it with a browser; or,
2. I become eventually unable to see comments in comment chains, even if it’s a thread I am participating in.

I don’t know if this is a known thing or not, I admit I didn’t do too much looking through the history here. I hope it’s not a repost.

Mlem 1.3.1 is now available. This update adds compatibility for Lemmy v19.4, resolving an issue where marking posts read on instances running that version would trigger an "unknown" error.

This update has been rolled out to both the TestFlight and App Store environments.

Cheers,

The Mlem Group

Mlem is a free and open source project. 100% of our funding, which pays for things like server time, comes from our generous donors; we do not, and will never, run ads or sell data. If you'd like to help support Mlem, you can donate here.