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this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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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.
iPad layout, swipe to vote, font scaling for comments, not just titles
After all the standard features are in place, a good iPad version!
Not requiring a login
Swipe to vote, Community grouping, Enhanced media viewer, Customizable themes and layout!
That's it! :)
Search for posts and communities!
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
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.
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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.
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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.
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 😊
- hide after viewing
- view hidden
- swipe left / right to upvote / downvote (like on Apollo)
I like gestures. Being able to set them. Long left, short left etc.
I like being able to go back by from the center swipe right(so I don’t have to swipe back from the edge). And then short left is upvote. Long left is downvote. Makes browsing and engaging so efficient. This site needs high votes per user right now. So it would help the site too.
Being able to filter communities is also very helpful.
For an iPad I think an easy(?) first huge improvement is being able to use split screen etc.
What exactly do you mean with "filtering communities"? Do you mean blocking/hiding them?
Have used the app for several hours now and one thing I miss a lot from Apollo is very long posts being reduced on the main feed so that the whole screen is not taken up. When you want to read more you simply tap.
There are long sticky threads up on a few instances here that are a bit of a nuisance to scroll through each time. While I understand that’s temporary, it could be annoying to see any long wall of text fill the feed.
Tl;dr: please condense posts in main feed :)
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!
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Ability to view communities I'm subscribed to
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Ability to see my posts and comments
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iPad compatibility
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Gestures
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Compact mode
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Add photos to comments
These things would be game changers imo.
I can’t seem to find Mlem on the App Store. Am I missing something?
First you install the app Testflight on App Store (instructions here https://testflight.apple.com/join/xQfmkJhc). Then click on the Apple icon over here (https://join-lemmy.org/apps) to open it in Testflight and install it.
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Searching for communities is essential. Like others have said, lift as much inspiration from Apollo as possible and you'll basically end up with everything users need.
I REALLY like the feature in Apollo where you could enable hiding of posts after you’ve viewed them. That way every time you open the app or refresh it you only see new stuff.
might be pretty weird, but whatever, I tried tapping on my home to go to the top of my feed and it didn't happen.
If they could almost replicate this to Apollo. Or even bring Christian aboard to help out. This app would take off instantly. Thousands of people are on his side. This would easily be a huge competition for Reddit within just a few days.
Submitting content, a way to see the various communities to subscribe to would be two big things I’d like to see it do!
Apollo is the one of the best designed apps I've ever used, I'd take inspiration from it in any applicable way.
Outside of obvious UI/UX improvements I'd love to see good iPad support.
Apollo is a work of art, such a shame to see it go
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