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[ RELEASE CANDIDATE 1 ] | Mlem for Lemmy TestFlight | 1.0.0 (213) (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Kronusdark@lemmy.world to c/mlemapp@lemmy.ml

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Here it is, our 1.0 RC.

There are just a couple more Apple requirements we need to meet to ship but expect no more major features till after AppStore.

NEW

Eric has been toiling from a secret remote location to refine the post layout and bring you some highly-requested customization options. Check out the settings to see what's new!

Weston has been polishing the voiceover and dynamic text features and implemented the first version of blocking users (currently done via posts).

Mormaer has been tweaking the session authentication and refreshing... you shouldn't be logged out without warning anymore. Be advised, due to these changes you will have to log in again upon first launch.

He also built a new account switcher that now lives in the settings screen (we are planning to revisit this soon, we aren't huge fans of the new location either but we needed it out of the home screen).

Darknavi and Jo have been helping out with PR reviews, bug fixes and lots of behind the scenes ops stuff.

BUG FIXES

Lots of tiny stuff here, not gonna add them all, but mostly just spit and polish getting ready for the AppStore.

COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS

Thanks to tht7 for a ton of performance work. Thanks to Sjmarf for the PR improving the timestamp component.

WEBSITE

It's super basic, but needed for Apple, https://mlem.group will be our landing going forward. Links to all the important stuff like community, chat and TestFlight should be there.

NEXT

For Apple we need to finish up some reporting entry points and get the about page updated to take care of license commitments. We are aiming to be under review my Friday, but that might change.

We want to thank everyone for participating in this TestFlight and providing feedback. We are still debating keeping it open after launch, watch this space for more info once we have it.

Thank you for your support. 🙏

The Mlem Group

EDIT: We are aware that you might have to sign in again with this update, but it should be the last time. It was necessary as part of the session fixes we put in. We apologize for this.

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[–] Kronusdark@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Test reply.

[–] NuclearNoggin@lemmy.fmhy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

it worked

[–] infinite_zero@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Despite some unexpected difficulties, Mlem has come a long way in a short period of time. Congrats to all!

[–] bnuytime@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I can’t save pics but I like this a lot more than Memmy aaaaa

[–] bronzing@lemmy.fmhy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

Same, I think the only thing preventing me from using mlem exclusively is the lack of an image viewer.

[–] ericbandrews@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We're working on it--it's been a bit slow because saving pictures and a detail image viewer is very closely tied to how we handle images, which we've been playing around with a lot to get the feed to scroll more smoothly. Picture saving and detail viewing should be out in the next major build.

[–] feifei@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please make the image viewer behave like the native iOS behavior. Swipe down to close etc.

[–] ericbandrews@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

We've got a much better, fully-featured, smooth image viewer in the works--the current one is a quick-and-dirty solution to people not being able to zoom in on pictures. We hope to have it out soon, but it's a complicated piece of code and we want to get it right.

[–] atyaz@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like them both a lot but mlem doesn't seem to have a way to show larger images in the feed, unless I'm missing something. The issue with this is that there are a lot of image posts that I wouldn't have otherwise opened because I can't see what the image is clearly.

[–] ericbandrews@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We're working on a shiny image viewer--it's been slow because it's tightly bound to our image handling, which we've been tinkering with a lot to make the feed nice and smooth. It's slated for the next major update, though, so stay tuned!

[–] atyaz@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

I'm really excited for it, keep up the great work!

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Aww yeah. Let’s go!

Congrats team. Y’all have come super far in a month.

[–] ebits21@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Great work congrats!

[–] 0xeb@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Congrats and thanks to the team. It is already pretty good imo and I use it daily.

Only 1 single feature I would ask is the ability to fullscreen, zoom and interact with images. I think I saw an open issue about it on github already but I guess it won’t make it to the release

[–] Kronusdark@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yea it's killing us but we had to call 1.0 at some point, we capped out our TestFlight. We are aiming 1.1 HOPEFULLY before the end of the month.

[–] lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

nice update! I like how I can hide post and comment scores for a cleaner UI

would be nice if we could customize every button, especially the reply button on comments since I swipe to reply and don’t particularly need the button displayed

looking forward to the official release

[–] Kronusdark@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

we've been tossing some ideas around for 1.2 you will probably love then 🤐

[–] skip0110@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the efforts developing this app. It’s my favorite way to browse lemmy.

[–] BarterClub@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

On the test flight. Looks great so far.

Two things I would like:

able to swipe to change feed. Like Reddit.

Also having the number change color instead of a box for upcotes and downvotes.

[–] spacedancer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you guys planning to open the beta signups again? I’m on Memmy right now but would love to try Mlem out too.

[–] Kronusdark@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Opened 200 more slots, get them while you can.

[–] spacedancer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sweet! Thanks! Just downloaded from testflight.

[–] shenandoah@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks great so far. Minor thing: The contrast is a bit too harsh - is there a gray background mode planned?

[–] feifei@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Or alternatively make the text less white 😉

[–] cribble@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Awesome app. Exited what’s coming next!

[–] liontigerwings@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there are way to follow my own comment to the thread I wrote it in? I like it where when I click on my profile and click my comment, it takes me to where my comment is within the thread.

[–] Kronusdark@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not yet, but it is planned.

[–] liontigerwings@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Good to know. Thanks!

[–] enkydu@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My lemmy account has been deleted from the app after update to 1.0.0 version. I don’t know if it was intentional, jut to let you know.

[–] Kronusdark@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That was expected, we apologize 🙏 it was related to some other session improvements. You shouldn't get logged out all the time anymore if that is any consolation.

[–] volty@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

For iOS, it still worthwhile to file bugs directly through testflight after v1.0.0? FWIW, please keep TestFlight active as there wo always be new bugs and users willing to feel the pain so others don't have to.

[–] blaamejsen@feddit.dk 3 points 1 year ago

I like that you write the webpage is nothing special, but it looks better and shows more relevant info than a lot of other websites

[–] Axiomatose@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tells me beta is full when I try to test.

[–] Kronusdark@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Opened 200 more slots, get them while you can.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a code to redeem for test flight?

[–] Kronusdark@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Check out https://mlem.group we have the link up there.

[–] diggit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Congratulations guys, it looks really great. It’s my number one way to use lemmy and the smoothness is noticeable. Can’t wait to see your shiny image viewer when it’s ready!

[–] Snowyman12334567890@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t like how the posts don’t show images anymore. Is there a fix for that?

[–] Snowyman12334567890@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Never mind figured it out. A bit buried

[–] sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anyone else getting this error with the new version?

[–] sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

fixed it. seems it didn’t care for a trailing dot in my server’s hostame. (but that should be strictly permitted)

[–] swollenmonkey@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Wow this app is really good! Hope it continues to go from strength to strength

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