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New Mlem release in TestFlight - 0.0.7 (23)! (lemmy.ml)
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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

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[–] acdoe98@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 :)

[–] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Yes and no. In this case, the delay is because we updated the version number (0.0.6 β€”> 0.0.7) instead of simply the build number (which we also bumped to 23). This is what triggered the review. Hopefully it will be a short process!

[–] novibe@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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

[–] lFenix@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

It’s currently in review by Apple. It should come out soon though!

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

Give it some time. It's possible they uploaded it to TestFlight when they made this post and it takes Apple's servers a bit to actually publish it.

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

Make that 3, tried uninstalling and reinstalling via test flight but having the same issue.

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

Same here, it’s set to auto update too, so not sure what might be going on

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

I'm only showing .0.0.6 (22) in Testflight. So maybe it's awaiting approval still.

[–] katzen@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It is available for me now.

[–] novibe@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Just checked back and it’s available yes. It looks great as well! Thanks Mlem team :)

[–] mujoh@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

New feed with standard height posts looks much better and scrolling seems smoother πŸ‘

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

[–] Darren@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

To be specific, that’s 20 new contributors. 7 or 8 are graphic and UX designers, and the rest are devs.

[–] P_Nuts@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unfortunately I just get β€œSomething went wrong” since updating to 0.0.7

[–] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

yeah, some lemmy instances are slammed and throwing SSL authentication errors, and this is the response. we're already working on creating more robust error handling and changing the UX for those errors. it's very annoying, but we can't control the lemmy instances and whether they're up or down. what we can control is how the app reacts when it experiences an error, so we're working on making it less annoying!

[–] blaamejsen 2 points 2 years ago

Looking forward to it.

[–] ClarkZuckerberg@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Hopefully this update will allow me to login to lemmy.world and try your app out! I'm excited about this platform and the apps to come along with it.

Also, if there is one feature I miss from Reddit (or was it an Apollo feature?) is the ability to hide posts you've upvoted/downvoted. Right now I like to use the "top of day" for my subscribed feeds on lemmy, but if I read the top posts, close the app (I use Memmy at the moment since it's the only other iOS Lemmy app I'm aware of), and come back later, it's all the same content for the most part. Upvoting/downvoting posts you read encourages to interact with a post and also keep your feed full of new content.

[–] saucyloggins@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Really liking the new design and it fixed my main UX issue by condensing long posts. Great work.

[–] SmarfDurden@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Aw the beta is full :(

[–] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorry, kids! We’ve hit our 10k limit!

[–] deepthaw@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Upvote for popularity, downvote because I’m not in the 10k :D

[–] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

sorry (not sorry) that our test group maxed out so fast!

[–] bassdruminphonebox@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] michikade@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Looking forward to the update to roll through! All of the info here sounds excellent :)

[–] R05@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Nice, great progress

[–] tookmyname@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Really nice update.

I hope in the future we can choose have thumbnails on the right so we can click them easier and the left side text can all begin at the same point, cleanly aligned. And self posts etc won’t need a thumbnail, which will cut down on the busy and rigid look.

Something somewhat like this:

[–] KillaBeez@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does this fix the constant crashing?

[–] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

This app is much more stable and addresses several issues which caused a majority of crashes.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

This is so great! Great job everyone! Now we just need Lemmy to fix it's sorting so it isn't useless.

[–] katzen@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Congratulations on recruiting many new developers and designers!

I am very much looking forward to testing all these new features.

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

It’s available now :)

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

Any plans to implement a proper iPad layout?

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

[–] milan@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

Very nice update, well done! Thanks for your work!

[–] Sinnoh@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years 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:

  • lemmy.ml
  • feddit.de
  • lemmy.world

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.

[–] Luminance6716@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Awesome news! Excited to test out the new changes!

[–] CrustyJuggler@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you for all your hard work on this, it's really coming along nicely!

[–] robzombie91@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Would definitely like to see subscribed to communities feature

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

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.ml 1 points 2 years ago

this issue is being tracked. we're not sure what's causing it yet. thanks!

[–] plasticmemmories@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It makes me happy that you'll be working on screen reader accessibility in future, this app is great!

[–] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

yeah, we wanted to implement at least some of it in this update, but it wasn't ready yet. soon1

[–] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Our goal is to hit 1.0 by July 1 🀞

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

Looks great. Much more usable. One thing that might be nice to have at some point is a search feature, or a way to quickly access communities that you follow (may already be planned for the profile page I guess?).

Great work so far though and looking forward to more features in the future. πŸ‘πŸ»

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

For now, you can search for communities by tapping All/Subscribed, then tap again on "Community" and start typing

[–] blahaj@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 :)

[–] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

we're aiming for July 1 for 1.0 🀞

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