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Hey there! We're aware that the comment-collapse animation is a little jarring; this is something we want to improve in future.

You can simplify the animations used when switching pages and when opening the image viewer by going into System Settings -> Accessibility -> Per-App Settings (right at the bottom) and enabling "Reduce Motion" and "Prefer cross-fade transitions" for Mlem.

Disabling the comment-collapsing animation isn't yet possible. I've opened an issue for this on our GitHub, and will look into disabling it when "Reduce Motion" is enabled 👍

The Saved feed has moved to the Feeds list, just below “All”, “Local” and “Subscribed”.

Mlem is an open-source project developed by unpaid volunteers. Anyone is welcome to start or stop contributing to Mlem at any time.

The number of people in our development team is the number of people who are passionate enough about the project to spend their free time working on it. We don’t control that number, and we certainly can’t just “expand our dev team” like a company can by employing more developers.

The “crunch” you refer to was during the large influx of users migrating from Reddit. During that time more people (including myself) became interested in the project, and naturally a subset of those people were interested in developing for it. The development team grew because of the increased interest towards the project, not just because we wanted to expand it.

If someone wants to contribute a custom low-level markdown renderer to the project, they’re more than welcome to.

We have a very small developer team working in our free time, and none of us have any prior knowledge in the area of low-level markdown extensions. It’s very complex, and we’d probably never leave beta if making a perfect markdown renderer was on our requirement list, so we omitted it. It might be possible to work out given enough time, but that’s time that we chose to invest in other areas instead.

If you know of any other non-web apps (iOS or Android) that are able to correctly render all of Lemmy’s markdown, let us know. We may be able to learn from/use their implementation, depending on the license it’s distributed under. I haven’t seen any Lemmy clients that can do this yet.

Spoilers, subscripts and superscripts don’t work, but everything else does.

Markdown in general is unfortunately rather difficult to render. We use an open-source treesitter that parses GitHub-flavored markdown, which is similar to Lemmy’s markdown. Fully supporting the Lemmy markdown specification (spoilers, for example) would probably require us to instead use a custom implementation built directly out of cmark.

Both saved posts and saved comments are mixed in together in the "Saved" feed. This is how it worked previously when the "Saved" feed was in the profile, too. If this isn't working properly and you don't see your saved comments in the "Saved" feed, let us know.

In future, we'd obviously like to add more granularity here, such as being able to filter the saved feed by just posts or comments, or sorting the saved feed.

Yep! We fixed this in a TestFlight patch on Monday. GitHub

Yep, this isn’t possible right now. We’re tracking the issue here, and I’ll try to get it working in the next major update 👍

This isn’t supported by Lemmy yet. It would be relatively easy to let our users follow other users on the client-side, and show your followed users on the subscriptions page. However, as this isn’t supported by Lemmy, your followed users unfortunately wouldn’t sync with the web app or other clients.

It would get a little more tricky to show notifications when a user posts, or create a “followed” feed that only shows posts from users you follow. To do either of these, we’d have to make a separate API request for each user that you follow. If you follow a large number of users, this could be problematic.

One potential way to mitigate this would be to have a separate “send notifications” option for followed users, and we’d only allow you to enable this setting for ~5 users.

I think this is a cool idea. Following users isn’t on our immediate roadmap, but it’s something we could look into in future.

We're focusing on building the best Lemmy client possible right now, and aren't considering branching out to cover multiple platforms. If we do ever consider that, it'll be in the far future once the client is properly polished. Lemmy themselves are discussing potential video support - if that's implemented into Lemmy, we would of course try to support it.

Thank you for making Lemmy ❤️

I looked into the possibility of highlighting new comments when I added the indicator, but unfortunately there isn’t a support for it API-side. So we’d have to do it locally.