I know the developers are working hard and I’m sure they’ll be coming with Mlem updates. I hope to see a notification centre being added, as well as the posts being collapsed instead of full-length. Do you wish for an Apollo type of design, or similar?
Edit: just a heads-up, I am not in any way affiliated with LemmyNet nor its devs. You can also voice your suggestions via Testflight by beta-using Mlem.
Copy paste Apollo
Basically just ripoff Apollo entirely.
It would be fucking amazing if Christian ports Apollo for Lemmy. But for that Lemmy needs to have enough audience.
One could argue that the best way to do that is to port Apollo like Tweetbot did with Ivory. These third party clients hold more power than they think. If they all migrate then the users will follow. Reddit is just the hosting. Abstract that away behind clients and you have the same thing.
Yeah I think many people who use third party clients will completely stop using Reddit altogether.
Don’t get lost implementing fancy features at the beginning, concentrate on supporting what the Lemmy web UI does and try to provide a smooth and pleasant experience on iOS.
In case you’re looking for inspiration would highly recommend to take a look at the Ice Cubes client for Mastodon. An extremely well made app.
That would be something, Ice Cubes is great. Maybe the devs from Ice Cubes would like to create an app for Lemmy as well.
After all the standard features are in place, a good iPad version!
Search for posts and communities!
Not requiring a login
iPad layout, swipe to vote, font scaling for comments, not just titles
Just echoing many others, the biggest day to day thing I would like to see is a compact feed view. Right now it’s a lot of scrolling.
Proper font scaling
Currently working on this.
Awesome keep up the good work. iOS is so popular in the US a good lemmy client will be beneficial to the decentralized internet community.
Time to take the www back, we appreciate your hard work
Swipe to vote, Community grouping, Enhanced media viewer, Customizable themes and layout!
That’s it! :)
An experience like Apollo would be great but I’ll take what we have. It feels cozier.
I think it has potential to get there eventually. It already follows the similar design and usage philosophies, and I imagine the development could really take off now.
Keep in mind that Apollo has years of full-time development behind it, whereas Mlem is essentially an early beta of an open-source passion project.
Thank you for the point about the length of development. I essentially started Mlem a year a half ago as my very first iOS project to take my mind off the pain from a major surgery I had the the time, then it sat abandoned until I revived it just a little over month ago. So the total dev time on Mlem is only around a month and a half. It’s still a little baby 😊
Hey, everyone, I’m from the Mlem Team, and I’d like you all to know we love hearing from the community when it comes to what you want from the app, bugs, etc.
Please come to the Mlem App Community to share your thoughts and concerns. Also, you can join the discussion on Matrix, or even contribute to the project yourself!
Cheers!
– The Mlem Team
The features I’d love to see:
- Compact / Collapsed posts
- List of your Subscribed Communties
- Search for Communities
- Multi-Communities (an equivalent to the Multireddits in Apollo)
I use (or used to use) the Multireddit feature in Apollo all the time. My big use case is that I can put “spoiler” communities there so they don’t pop up in my main feed but I can go there once I’ve seen the relevant episode! It’s also really good for grouping regional ones… like
Edit: and being able to edit your own post!
Just as a side-note: Multireddits are not an Apollo feature, they are a part of Reddit itself since 2013. Although, Apollo did support them before the Redesign did (which calls them “Custom Feeds”) if I’m not mistaken.
Second this. Especially community information. What community a post is in, a user is in, subscribe to the community etc.
Also allowing local filter on the post lists. Currently it’s subscribed or all.
Thirding this.
It does get confusing if there are two communities that have the same name but from different instances, but you really can’t tell which it’s from.
I know I’m not adding anything of substance with this comment but I keep seeing posts about voting with content rather than just upvotes, but I also want to add my vote for multithreads!
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.
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