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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

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[–] Floppy 4 points 1 year ago

This is great! Thanks so much for all your work on Mlem :)

[–] SmarfDurden@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, kids! We’ve hit our 10k limit!

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

Upvote for popularity, downvote because I’m not in the 10k :D

[–] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

sorry (not sorry) that our test group maxed out so fast!

[–] MedicareForSome@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Looks seriously great. Lots of improvement. The crashing stopped and has been replaced by errors. Presumably issues with the server rather than the app.

The compact view looks slick. It would be better if clicking the thumbnail brought you directly to the image such as in apollo.

I'd also love swipe gesture for voting.

The 'new post' constantly having the url for your other brew app is pretty unwelcome. Especially in its current form where it looks like a hyperlink. If it was gray and user-typed URL text was white, it would be much more acceptable.

[–] robzombie91@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Would definitely like to see subscribed to communities feature

[–] Floppy 3 points 1 year ago

Currently the beta is saying it’s full. Looking forward to seeing all this stuff at some point though! ❀️

[–] StewieTheThird 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm my test flight is still showing 0.0.6

[–] StewieTheThird 3 points 1 year ago

Alright so I just checked the Matrix chat, looks like it is still pending approval from Apple before public TestFlight release.

It makes me happy that you'll be working on screen reader accessibility in future, this app is great!

[–] asperagus@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Great Update, i like the new design!

[–] acdoe98@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

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 :)

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

New feed with standard height posts looks much better and scrolling seems smoother πŸ‘

Is long press to share on posts new in this release? I don’t remember that in prior releases.

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

Thank you for all your hard work on this, it's really coming along nicely!

[–] bassdruminphonebox 1 points 1 year ago

I've just updated from 0.0.6 to 0.0.7, but found it wouldn't show posts. I kept seeing "Something went wrong. Sorry, something unexpected happened. Please try again."

I signed out and in again, and now I see "Mlem couldn't fetch you account's information. File a bug report."

I see an existing issue https://github.com/buresdv/Mlem/issues/181 which might be related. Should I create a new issue, or describe what I'm seeing as a comment on that issue?

[–] blahaj 1 points 1 year ago

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 :)

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

Really nice update.

I hope in the future we can choose have thumbnails on the right so we can click them easier and the left side text can all begin at the same point, cleanly aligned. And self posts etc won’t need a thumbnail, which will cut down on the busy and rigid look.

Something somewhat like this:

[–] icecrmsandwich@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Great update so far! Love having compact view as it was my preferred choice when browsing reddit. Just wanted to feedback that there's a tad delay when using gestures I.e. swiping from left which is a bit jarring compared to other apps like Memmy

[–] novibe@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Has it been updated in TestFlight yet? Still shows version 0.06 for me :(

[–] katzen@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is available for me now.

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

Just checked back and it’s available yes. It looks great as well! Thanks Mlem team :)

[–] KillaBeez@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does this fix the constant crashing?

[–] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

This app is much more stable and addresses several issues which caused a majority of crashes.