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Memmy - An iOS client for Lemmy

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Coming to the App Store tomorrow!

Hey all! We still have some more QOL updates coming tomorrow or Saturday. Working on getting comments all sorted up (more like the Apollo style) and getting post editing/deletion as well as mod tools underway.

This update provides a VAST improvement to the image viewer. There shouldn't be any more issues with the swiping to close.

There are some issues still but they are minor and I'll get them cleaned up here soon. I've spent the day writing this viewer from scratch, so it's been a process.

The "white flash of death" should be fixed here as well when you open up the app.

We also now support localization! German is officially supported now, and we will be sourcing other languages to improve the experience for everyone.

Other minor fixes as well in this build, including a fix for a crash that was happening with the new spoilers.

Stay tuned, and happy scrolling!

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[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] ivenoidea@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love it! Besides the sideways scroll bug, the fact that the image disappeared after only dragging for a little bit was very annoying to me, since sometimes some text might would be behind the dynamic island, and would disappear when I tried to drag the image down just a little to be able to read it.

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yea I have made it so that the image will only fill 90% of the screen height at a zoom scale of one (if you zoom obviously it will fill the full thing).

Swiping is now just a matter of velocity. There’s no required distance to reach for it to close, just as long as the swipe itself is fast enough. (You also have to be at a zoom scale of one for this, since obviously you might have a high velocity swipe when in zoom).

The issues like what you were having should be pretty much fixed, but I’m going to keep tweaking this thing. It’s quite a bit of weird logic to get it right and there’s still some work to be done, but it’s a huge improvement over the current implementation.

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

I’ve tried it out and wanted to let you know that it’s way better now, and feels really good.

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

So much better. One thing I loved about the Apollo image viewer was the double tap and drag to zoom as a one finger option vs pinch.

[–] greendakota99@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I appreciate the thoroughness of the demo video! Lol

[–] eddietrax@dmv.social 18 points 1 year ago

By far the busiest devs with these updates. Memmy is fantastic!

[–] formatc@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

After opening an image and then double tapping it, the image zooms down to the bottom of the screen and also is overlaying the feed. This may be expected behavior?

Also when pinching out to zoom it doesn’t seem to center on where I’m pinching.

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea I know. I’ll have it finished up in an hour or two.

[–] formatc@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Jeez ur quick! Nice, thanks for the great app :)

[–] anon_water@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have a Patreon or GitHub for donations?

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] nix@merv.news 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Consider opening a patreon and GitHub sponsors and open collective so people can donate monthly

[–] anon_water@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Yes that’s what I’m looking for in projects to support!

[–] th3dogcow@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The new image viewer, when zooming in, instead of showing empty space as black, it is transparent, showing the feed behind it. Is this expected behaviour?

The update feels much snappier overall and am loving it regardless. Thank you as always.

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Haha no, I’ll have this fixed in a few hours. Just really testing it out.

[–] ebits21@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah likely needs worked on. When I zoom in it scrolls down at the same time too instead of staying centred.

I’m sure improvements will come.

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

Looks like a bug, though it made me realize I love the transparency. Would prefer that over black to be honest!

[–] HangingFruit@czech-lemmy.eu 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you want, point me where and I can help with Czech translations.

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ll write up something on how this can be done. I also think we are setting up something web based where you can easily contribute the translations without needing to use GitHub or anything like that.

[–] HangingFruit@czech-lemmy.eu 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or I can just create a request in git if you prefer it. Up to you!

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

For now, if you want to add them in, you can submit a PR here with a locale file for the relevant language (I'm assuming Czech is cz?)

https://github.com/Memmy-App/memmy/tree/main/src/plugins/i18n/locales

[–] HangingFruit@czech-lemmy.eu 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, cz-cs. I will get to it whenever I have some free time.

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Yea either is fine with me. Let me just verify how we are going to do it and I’ll let you know 👍👍

[–] James_Ryan@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

Thank you very much for your work. Love the Apollo touch and the speed of fixes and features

[–] bojaber@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s hard to believe you made this using React 👏🏼

[–] sciawp@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait really?? I didn’t even know that was possible

[–] ribboo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] sciawp@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Ah so no vue ;-;

That’s alright I’ve been meaning to learn swift and I now how to use flutter already

[–] rf_@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Which version of memmy will have the improved swipe to close function? I’m on 0.2 and it feels the same.

Thank you!

[–] ebits21@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago
[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Coming in a few hours.

[–] fetter@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Day 2 for me using the app, and I dig it! New to Lemmy as a whole. I would love to see a way to more easily block/ filter out uhh subreddits (I don’t know the proper term, sorry)

Right now I have to click into the sub then click some options to get it done. Not a terrible experience by any means, but after years of having Apollo and my filters set up, having to rebuild them on a different platform/app is a bit tedious.

Perhaps a long press on the sub title in the feed could pop up options to sub , unsub, block?

Love the app so far, and am digging this over Reddit right now!

[–] richard_wagner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you for all of your hard work!

[–] highestincharge@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

loving the app! it doesn’t appear that there is a way to view a users bio — is that coming in a future release?

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I’ll make sure it gets done here soon 👍

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

Great work, thank you!

[–] Deez@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Congratulations on the release!

Would you consider having an option for tablet landscape mode to condense posts to the middle of the screen, like how Apollo (was) and Voyager/Wefwef is displayed?

[–] faker@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The new image opening animation feels a bit like 30Hz or so

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

Yea I’ve noticed a few things about it, going to keep ironing it out.

[–] faker@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago
[–] somnuz@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for all your great work! The overall feeling of this app is getting better and better, and it gradually and slowly became my main one.

This pains me but for me this is the worst update in terms of stability, yet it might totally be a me problem — I am using 6s (15.7.7) if this helps anyhow.

What I mean by stability, 80% of the time everything is great, then a random crash, on any screen — earlier this happened once or twice actually, now since the update, once per hour.

Other thing, without crashing — just a freeze for a few seconds, at the beginning when I just tried to tap things as I thought my input just did not register somehow, after few seconds it opened posts or menus multiple times in a row.

Sometimes the image viewer behaves strangely or even soft locks me in a loop of having a tiny image from my compact list view hovering over the full screen view and on tap it is just dancing around the screen while changing opacities of the images, other images sometimes disappear completely in the list view and the full screen image starts changing positions too — like it tries to put a left top corner of the image in the center of the screen or just a half of the image to the left, right or bottom.

I was testing Thunder app too and what would be a great addition from my perspective is another list type, they are using a full width pictures but in different proportions and trimming the main picture — it felt different and fresh.

Overall Apollo force is strong in Memmy (maybe Orbit or Orion soon from what I saw in a different post) — a new list view design(s) could be a great spin that would make this app stand out a little more on its own as it definitely deserves to!

Another tiny but quite a big thing for me would be a gesture for the long right to left swipe after “comment” to add a post or a comment to favorites — the option to change their order eventually would be great too.

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

Updated the App Store version today, since my stabbing the beta link still yields nothing. :(

And I still get a flash of the day/light theme loading first before the OLED dark theme pops in as it should.

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Hmm we updated to React Native .72, wonder if that was the cause. Let me take a peek.

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

Maybe I’m missing it… but when there are multiple pictures I’m unable to swipe between them and instead have to close the picture I opened and tap on another. Is album swiping a feature that will be implemented? Thanks for the hard work I’m really loving the app so far!

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Yea, it isn't there yet but will be there in the coming days.

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

I notice the improvements regarding zooming/tapping (thank you), but I'd like to report what seems to be a bug.

It seems like the app is only loading low-quality images in some cases. I just noticed it after seeing a post on https://lemmy.world/c/animalswithjobs@lemmy.world. Following onto the community I saw that on every post there the image is low-quality, it's even hard to read the captions in some cases. Tapping on the share button shows them in the low kilobytes in size.

So far that's the only community I've seen the problem on, though. I'll report back if I notice it elsewhere, but I'm not sure how to confirm it's an isolated problem or if there is something I can toggle to change the behavior.

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