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

  • Aaron Doe@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    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 :)

  • BLÅHAJ@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    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 :)

  • bassdruminphonebox@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    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?

    • BrooklynMan@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      honestly, it could be this, or it could be load timeouts from overloaded instances. it’s difficult to tell the difference from our end because the LemmyAPI isn’t very good at telling us what caused an error, so we have to triangulate it ourselves. whichever it is, we’re looking into it, so no need to file an additional report. thanks, though.

  • Sinnoh@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Since updating to 0.0.7, I can no longer load posts from any Lemmy instances. I’m only getting the generic “Something went wrong” error.

    I tried the following 3 instances, same error on all of them:

    As all 3 instances were working before the update and are still accessible in the browser, I’m kinda assuming that it’s a problem caused by the update? I already shared feedback via testflight, but the error message is very generic.

  • mujoh@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    New feed with standard height posts looks much better and scrolling seems smoother 👍

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

  • Darren@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • rarkgrames@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Not sure if it’s been reported but posts are repeating multiple times. Not sure if this would be the api bugging out or the app?

    • BrooklynMan@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      eventually (hopefully soon), yes, we plan to make the app adjust to the iPad.

      fwiw, the app does work on the iPad, just, ya know, narrow.

  • novibe@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

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