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Memmy - An iOS client for Lemmy

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Build Submitted to Apple - 0.1 - That swipe tho 🤌 (lemmy.ml)

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In order to get up to speed with the people that are coming here without TestFlight, I've submitted a build to Apple with all of the current features and fixes.

I'd anticipate this to take about 24 hours, but it's possible it will be reviewed today. Apple is weird. I've had things get approved in like 8 hours on Saturdays before, so there's a chance it will happen today. I'll update you all when that happens.

Improvements and additions:

New icon and options for changing icon color
New and improved swipe animation (by the way, this is better than the last update wink)
Improvements to image viewer (double tap works now too)
Performance enhancments throughout the app
Hide read posts
Images in comments
Collapsible posts
Default comment sort
All of the "Top" sort options
Show a loading modal while downloading images
Added a manage accounts button to accounts dropdown
Add option for reader in webview
Settings improvements
Added embark theme
Added buttons in comments for upvoting and replying
Adjustments to splashscreen
Username doesn't link to user profile in compact mode now
Add option to use the default browser instead of in-app browser

Fixes:

Fix issues with toast not changing color or disappearing
Fix cake day showing the wrong year
Fix issue where links with an internal IP address would ask for permission to local network
Fix issues with account disappearing after app launch
Read icon now uses the correct color
Fix crash caused when pressing Matrix links
Fix crash when searching for a community with an @ at the end

If any of these issues are bothering you now, rest assured they will be fixed for you quite soon.

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[–] teft@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Please give us a link in the app so we can toss you some money. Some of us want to support your hard work and don’t want to be loaded down by ads in the future.

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Rest assured ads is something that will never be in this. No feature lockdowns, ads, any of that.

I can’t link anything in app for payments or donations unfortunately. Eventually there might be a tip jar though. For now if you really want, there’s a buy me a coffee.

[–] ndguardian@lemmy.studio 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would say as much love as the app has received, definitely consider adding a tip jar. You’ve made a rather good app that is giving people a lot of value, so people would be more than happy to compensate you for your time. Given you can’t provide links in the app to third party payment services, this would provide the easiest route for people to do so.

[–] uhauljoe@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

agreed. i subscribed to apollo for 99c a month, i'd be more than happy to keep doing that if it helps memmy flourish

fuck reddit, there need to be viable alternatives and memmy is creating a wonderful experience

[–] sebnil@infosec.pub 2 points 2 years ago

Sent 3 cups! Enjoy!

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hope I really don’t need to screenshot this to post in a few years… 😊 anyways, awesome app you’ve made! Can’t wait for the update to hit the AppStore, I deleted my flight test copy by mistake… 😭

[–] tranceFusion@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

The code is open sourced under a public license. The developer doesn't own the code any more than you do. If they added ads someone could just fork it and remove them.

That said, running a large open source project is difficult and frustrating. Any donations they receive will likely be a pittance compared to what they would make spending that time coasting in a corporate dev job. Send them a few bucks as a thank you: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gavink

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Support link still shows your Twitter account. Not sure if you’ve moved on to mastodon or not.

Oh and a huge thank you for creating an amazing app in very little time. That’s some seriously consistent hard work. Doesn’t go unappreciated. ❤️

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Hmm where is that at? I don’t even use Twitter, I think I only had the account for SEO purposes. I don’t really use mastodon either, not my type of social media (twitter, bluesky, mastodon, etc.) but I do have an account there.

Given gestures vaguely I definitely don’t have any interest in using it lol

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

After payment, it’s on the thank you page.

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Ohh ok cool. Thanks for pointing that out! I had no idea lol

[–] Jeff@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oddly I can’t click the buy you a coffee link in the app. It keeps collapsing the comment?

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That’s awkward isn’t it 🤣

We are going to overhaul markdown for the 0.2 release hopefully, so links will have a bigger hit box. I’ve noticed this too.

You should be able to try pressing slightly below the link to get it to work though.

[–] Jeff@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I went to the GitHub link and clicked from there. Hope you like coffee!!

[–] tranceFusion@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

You can send the developer a donation here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gavink

[–] Jellojiggle@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Still waiting patiently for the update to show in the App Store. And by patiently I mean checking 3 times a day lmao. But I can’t believe the devs for this app. So impressed with how it’s been mostly flawless for the week I’ve used it. Will be donating soon!

[–] Catatafish@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Glad i´m not the only one! Apple must be busy, tiny bit over the the expected 8-24hours by now heh

[–] Catatafish@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Update is out now

[–] Nusm@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It’s unbelievable that you can make an app this great in this short amount of time, and that other site can’t get it right after years. Thank you for all you do, I just did the “Buy me a Coffee”!

I have two requests if possible. The first is probably the easiest - orange is my favorite color, so I’d love an orange color of the icon to rock on my home screen!

The second is probably harder. I miss the small button on the bottom right that jumps to the next parent comment. It doesn’t have to be a button, it could be a swipe or tap. When I’m in the middle of a long comment chain, sometimes I just want to bail on the thread and move to the next parent comment, but I can’t find an easy way to do that other than just scroll and look.

Again, thank you for the great app! Make sure you get that tip jar in here, you deserve to get some payment for your great work!

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[–] nuzzlerat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

LOVE the new app icon! I guess I’m a minority that wasn’t a fan of the other one. The colours were just a tad too gaudy for me.

Also just generally loving all the new features and care being put into this app.

A couple notes:

If you use swipe actions too quickly then the arrows will start pointing in all sorts of directions (not import and only if you are messing around with it)
The image viewer feels less responsive than the original one in earlier versions. I’m not familiar with this style and I guess I’m wondering what the goal is?

[–] DuckGuy@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Added buttons in comments for upvoting and replying

Please let me hide them :-(

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Don’t worry it will be there today :)

[–] Theoldwarrior@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

No please keep them

[–] abc12@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Would the option to swipe back from anywhere be possible for people that don’t use the voting gestures?

[–] Tatsu@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

Second this, probably my most missed feature from Apollo.

[–] unwinagainstable@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I didn’t get into the test flight. I downloaded as soon as it was available in the App Store. I’m loving it but anxiously awaiting the update to fix profile not loading. I’ve never had my profile load successfully

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are you using your email to sign in? If so, can you try signing in with your username?

[–] unwinagainstable@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I was. Changing to my username worked. Thanks!

[–] spicyfood77@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Not going to lie, I miss the old memmy app logo but happy with the progress

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I’m going to throw it in the next update. I actually was going to do it now but it was a headache like you couldn’t imagine getting the icon switching to work. Had a list of things to do that just never materialized because of how long it took me to get that done.

[–] quaff@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Same. I prefer the little lemmy mouse to the planet. The new colours are dope tho. I’d love to see the lemmy mouse in a different style. Maybe we can get Apollo-style designer submissions for icons? 😍

[–] highestincharge@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

not sure if this is a bug or a feature request, but it doesn’t appear there is a way to view the users bio in memmy?

viewing a profile is fine, but anything you set in the bio on the web interface is not viewable anywhere in the app that i can find

[–] catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ooh the new swipe thing is so cool. Great work!

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Can’t take the credit for that one. We have an amazing contributor who made that happen. Completely overhauled it for us. Super grateful for that.

[–] metanomaly@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Would love to see few features:

Ability to filter/block a community directly from feed, without having to go to that community.

A keyword filter list that hides post with those words in their title.

Ability to hide posts from feed.

Keep up the great work!

[–] sennalonso1981@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks man looking brilliant

[–] stevehobbes@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’d love to see the images behave a little more like Apollo, which allowed zooming out with just a double tap (which also zoomed in, or opened the album to swipe through), but to get it away, it was just a double tap to zoom out and swipe it away.

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is probably one of the absolute hardest things to replicate. I’m going to be working on it though for sure for the 0.2 release.

With that said, zoom out on double tap is fixed on this release. Swiping through the images in a post will be added in 0.2 as well as other improvements to the image viewer in general.

[–] stevehobbes@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Awesome! I’m on the TestFlight build and loving the rapid progress. I think it was still a little janky for me and after a second double tap I’m not able to swipe the image away.

Apollo had a lot of years to polish - what you’ve done in such a short period is absolutely amazing. I donated via your buy me a coffee link, but you should absolutely charge something for this app. Putting notifications behind a paywall is perfectly reasonable.

Personally I loved the one-time Ultra purchase and would occasionally just throw some cash in the tip jar on big releases.

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Yea I think that’s probably the only thing I’d consider putting behind a paywall just because of the fees that come with that for me. The one thing I never agreed with Apollo on was keeping posting behind a subscription.

For what it’s worth, I think it’s janky too. I just have not had time to focus on that, so I’m fiddling with it a bit at a time. I think once this version hits the store, we can slow down a bit and iron out a super solid 0.2. Keep the TestFlight going with a build every day or two, but with more new features coming instead of just bug fixes (things are getting ironed out finally)

A few of the remaining crashes we had should be fixed here soon too. A couple of them were actually issues with Expo rather than Memmy, but the team over there was super responsive and fixes have already been merged in. Those should be ready to be published by them here next week Id imagine

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Just be careful with a one time lifetime purchase. All devs of larger apps say that was a massive mistake. Learn from their mistakes. Although I was also a lucky Ultra lifetime user, I realize that push notifications are costly. I’d recommend against anything “lifetime.” Leave yourself an out. Do major release unlocks or something like that. Gives you room to not screw yourself or your users. Seems like a good balance.

Also, don’t be afraid to be transparent on costs, etc. That helped Christian immensely and you’ll gain a lot more subscribers who wouldn’t normally subscribe because they understand the economics. The ones who don’t would be considered bad money anyway.

[–] ThatGirlKylie@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Is there any way to stop having memmy ask me every time I save a photo if I want to keep selected photos or access all photos? Not sure why it’s asking me this to save a photo but there’s no way to back out of the option unless I either click “keep selected and then deselect the photo that I just saved and then click done.

image for reference

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