Hey everyone! I wanted to give an update on the status of Memmy development since things have been slow recently.
Don't worry, we haven't just abandoned Memmy! There are a few reasons we haven't really had many updates or progress recently. gk and I have both been a little burnt out after doing so much before. We didn't really pace ourselves very well I think, so recently we've been taking a break. I've been addicted to Baldurs Gate 3 and gk is trying to get out of Gold Nova in CSGO 😏. Additionally, there was a lot of drama recently on lemmy that kind of left a sour taste in our mouths and has just led us to not using lemmy as much recently.
But don't worry, we are still developing. We are actually working on a rewrite of the app, since we both were rather new to React Native when starting this, and have learned a lot of do's and don'ts. We're also planning on having Android support in the rewrite.
We appreciate the patience and support, thank you to all our users!
Funny, I was just browsing the App Store for alternatives. Hated them all. Memmy is still the best imo.
Separately, been holding off on Balder’s because it seems so intimidating but I’m so darn close to giving into the hype.
Have you tried Bean? It’s pretty great, especially the group communities feature!
But Bean is way too expensive. I wish the dev would lower the lifetime cost….lemmy is just too new to demand that kind of price, not to mention the app is a baby and spending that amount of money on an unproven app that could be abandoned tomorrow is a huge risk.
Interesting. I saw it but it didn’t interest me. I tried Voyager and Thunder, which I didn’t like. It feels like every app out there tries to recreate Apollo in some way.
Bean looks good. Agreed about the cost. Even Apollo was $10/year and I think $30/lifetime but you had the breadth of Reddit at your fingertips. Lemmy is light on content for now.
Oh I really like that it lets you add any instance as a guest. Way easier solution than having to make an account on another instance.
I do love Avelon’s explore tab
I just started using it a few days ago and have been really impressed. Been Memmy, Bean, Voyager and Avelon there are some solid iOS apps. Looking forward to them all maturing but it’s promising so far.
Great suggestion! Hadn’t come across it but I really like it. Super clean and functional.
As others have said, you should check out Avelon. It’s my favorite Lemmy app after ours
I love seeing devs support alternatives like this, thank you!
Do it. Give in. It’s great.
Try Mlem