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,
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!
Mlem v2 is a completely different codebase to Mlem v1, so bugs that exist on v1 are likely to be fixed in v2. We're aware of an Mlem v1 crash that occurs on iPad when Face ID Unlock is enabled - this is unfortunately difficult to fix because of the way Face ID Unlock works.
In iOS 18, Apple is introducing native support for Face ID Unlock in any app. This makes our own system redundant, so we'll be removing our version of the feature in favor of the more reliable iOS equivalent.
Thank you. And I know I harp on the iPad crash bug a lot, but that is because I use Mlem mostly on iPad. That said, I greatly appreciate your work and the amazing app! Keep up the good work please.