Download the TestFlight beta for iOS 16+
After a massive reorganization and recruiting almost 20 new developers and designers from the community, we’ve made a HUGE amount of additions and improvements to the app, with many more to come! Yay!
NEW ADDITIONS
- Redesigned interface! NEW POSTS, COMPACTS POSTS, ALL THE THINGS!
- Updated Settings Tab
- Tap to collapse comments/threads
- Long post text is now truncated so they don’t take up your whole screen. They will have a maximum height.
- Increased contrast between post/comment cards and background
- The way the application interacts with the Lemmy API has been improved, this should reduce crashes in multiple places
BUG FIXES
- Tapping community links will no longer crash the app, instead an alert shows saying they’re not currently supported (we’re working on it now, it needs a few different chunks of work completed)
- Duplicate/looping posts when scrolling feeds should no longer happen 🤞
- Rapid scrolling through feed should no longer cause crashing 🤞
- Mlem icon is now brighter!
KNOWN ISSUES
- Some images may extend beyond the post card bounds in Card View
- In compact mode, link previews may not load
- Comments still have old up/downvote buttons
MORE TO COME
- Full a11y compliance which should work perfectly with iOS’s Accessibility functionality like Guided Access and Screen Reader. (Thanks to contributor Weston for your expertise and audit!) Note: we weren’t able to work this into the current build because of the constant changes to the interface, but some/most of it should be in the next build!
- New Profile Tab and Messages Tab
- New & improved fullscreen image viewer (not ready in time for this release)
- Inbox notifications (not Push, as that takes more work-- more on that later)
- Colored thread indicators
- Swipe-to-vote
- Post/comment saving
- Updated NSFW tag/blur
Again, please keep in mind that this is an early beta. As such, it’s not feature-complete and there will be bugs and unexpected behavior. Enjoy testing, and we look forward to hearing your bug reports via TestFlight and your feedback! You can comment here or come chat with us in The Mlem Space on Matrix.
PS, and because lots of people have asked-- Mlem app will never support iOS 15. Sorry, but we’d have to rewrite the app from scratch, and that’s not something we’re gonna do. Additionally, kbin support isn, for now, out-of-reach due to incompatibilities between the kbin and lemmy APIs. Although this may change in the future, for now, it’s not going to happen.
Cheers!
The Mlem Dev Team
Has it been updated in TestFlight yet? Still shows version 0.06 for me :(
It’s currently in review by Apple. It should come out soon though!
For me as well - if I click the TestFlight link in the post it tells me the Beta test is full. :( Can’t wait to check out the new version!!
I’m only showing .0.0.6 (22) in Testflight. So maybe it’s awaiting approval still.
Same here, it’s set to auto update too, so not sure what might be going on
Same here
Make that 3, tried uninstalling and reinstalling via test flight but having the same issue.
Give it some time. It’s possible they uploaded it to TestFlight when they made this post and it takes Apple’s servers a bit to actually publish it.
It is available for me now.
Just checked back and it’s available yes. It looks great as well! Thanks Mlem team :)
Please remember everyone that Apple still treats TestFlight builds like AppStore releases, it has to go into review first once it’s accepted you’ll be able to see the update :)
Yes and no. In this case, the delay is because we updated the version number (0.0.6 —> 0.0.7) instead of simply the build number (which we also bumped to 23). This is what triggered the review. Hopefully it will be a short process!
Awesome! Great job with the app, it’s fairly enjoyable to use already.
This is awesome, thanks everyone for your work!
Aw the beta is full :(
Sorry, kids! We’ve hit our 10k limit!
Upvote for popularity, downvote because I’m not in the 10k :D
sorry (not sorry) that our test group maxed out so fast!
Unfortunately I just get “Something went wrong” since updating to 0.0.7
yeah, some lemmy instances are slammed and throwing SSL authentication errors, and this is the response. we’re already working on creating more robust error handling and changing the UX for those errors. it’s very annoying, but we can’t control the lemmy instances and whether they’re up or down. what we can control is how the app reacts when it experiences an error, so we’re working on making it less annoying!
20 new developers! Damn. Thanks for the hard work, everyone.
It’s somewhat exciting to be a part of this journey so early on; Lemmy will obviously continue to change as it adapts to an influx of users, so I’m sure you guys have your hands full. Looking forward to the continued progress of the application.
To be specific, that’s 20 new contributors. 7 or 8 are graphic and UX designers, and the rest are devs.
This is so great! Great job everyone! Now we just need Lemmy to fix it’s sorting so it isn’t useless.
This app looks slick! Unfortunately I was too late to join the TestFlight beta. Is there a rough ballpark estimate when we might see this app on the App Store? Keep up the good work :)
we’re aiming for July 1 for 1.0 🤞
Would definitely like to see subscribed to communities feature
Looking forward to it.
It makes me happy that you’ll be working on screen reader accessibility in future, this app is great!
yeah, we wanted to implement at least some of it in this update, but it wasn’t ready yet. soon1
Our goal is to hit 1.0 by July 1 🤞
It’s available now :)
Hopefully this update will allow me to login to lemmy.world and try your app out! I’m excited about this platform and the apps to come along with it.
Also, if there is one feature I miss from Reddit (or was it an Apollo feature?) is the ability to hide posts you’ve upvoted/downvoted. Right now I like to use the “top of day” for my subscribed feeds on lemmy, but if I read the top posts, close the app (I use Memmy at the moment since it’s the only other iOS Lemmy app I’m aware of), and come back later, it’s all the same content for the most part. Upvoting/downvoting posts you read encourages to interact with a post and also keep your feed full of new content.
Looking forward to the update to roll through! All of the info here sounds excellent :)
