I’m another Apollo refugee so taking any and all inspiration there would be great. Also I’d like to be able to share / export a post, or grab the web link for sharing, or to be able to bounce out to safari. I’d also like to be able to tap and hold on images in posts to copy or share them.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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I would pay again for an iOS app that is like Apollo!
Currently:
- Option to upload media from within the app
- A button to write a new post, rather than having to navigate to the community and use the box
- A notification centre
- Improvements to viewing user profiles
- Better link handling
- More colour contrast between posts and the app background
- Edit buttons on posts
- Option to view images fullscreen and save them to gallery
- Improvements to the search bar
- bUg FiXeS aNd PeRfOrMaNcE iMpRoVeMeNtS
Ideas for the future:
- Custom icons
- Customisable UI
- Profile editor
- Inline video playback
- Easter eggs?
Good luck, and great job so far!
I'm working on Mlem accessibility issues, can you please describe what you mean by "More colour contrast between posts and the app background" so I can make sure to document it correctly?
Really just the way posts look against the dark grey background when dark mode is on. Dark on light looks weird to me, and occasionally makes it difficult for me to tell where one post ends and another begins when I'm skim-reading. Personally, I'd suggest making the posts slightly lighter than the grey background, then making the background black (or something very dark, like #262626).
That makes sense, I will look into it. Thanks for the feedback.
Yup, I’m also heavy on the customisation aspect. Would be fun with custom icons like you said (the dev said they would implement community-submitted icons in the future), as well as in-app themes like Reddit/Apollo had.
A search functionality, but maybe it’s already there and can’t see it.
I agree with you. I figure out how to search for communities but a general search functionality would be great!
I’d like to be able to load a user profile and see their comments and posts (like how it is on desktop).
My biggest gripe is the inability to make the home screen/post view compact. Right now, it shows the entire post when someone creates one, which means youre scrolling for a long time to get past a single post in many instances.
Save to Photos, and other options for images
It's been said a few times already but I really love Apollo's swipe to vote interaction. The app looks tidy though, thanks for your work!
- searching for and sorting communities by some metric (like most subscribers)
- ability to acknowledge pinned posts and fold them up or remove them from view (tired of scrolling past them)
- a Share feature of a sort? I'd like to be able to "Share with..." and open a post (say, from a web browser) in Mlem.
- more descriptive error messages when trying to log in (did the login fail because u/p is wrong or the server is fubar?)
- filtering (blocking) communities should allow me to show either posts with those word(s) or posts without those word(s). As of now I think it's just posts with the defined words. Regex would be super!
Improved scrolling performance should be a high priority. Currently scrolling a feed results in tons of dropped frames and poor performance and then the feed jumps around as images load and pop in. It’s even worse when you try to scroll back up. I’m guessing some kind of static size for posts and moving certain tasks off the main thread will help here but my SwiftUI experience is limited
I don’t know if it’s just me, but interaction with other servers is not as seamless as the experience on the web frontend. Yes, I can add multiple accounts, but I am yet to find a way to browse posts from across all of the linked communities.
I like how Apollo will show trending subreddits. Not sure if mlem can support that given the federated design of lemmy but it was super useful in finding new subreddits.
Definitely agree with this. I had joined so many subreddits on Apollo thanks to the way it advertised them. Here’s to hoping Lemmy devs will make it easier to discover new communities!
An improved comment editor for sure. Better navigation around the app itself and around communities.
Just had a crash (and submitted a report). So fewer crashes please 🤣
Also, when I relaunched the app, it had forgotten the two accounts I had previously configured.
I just installed it and started using it. So far it’s pretty nice I love that adding a comment is so easy. Coming from Apollo anything that behaves like that would be a big win
iPad support!
Finally registered and found mlem. It’s pretty nice so far, but would definitely like to have a way to search for communities.