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Memmy - An iOS client for Lemmy

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Coming to the App Store tomorrow!

Hey all! We still have some more QOL updates coming tomorrow or Saturday. Working on getting comments all sorted up (more like the Apollo style) and getting post editing/deletion as well as mod tools underway.

This update provides a VAST improvement to the image viewer. There shouldn't be any more issues with the swiping to close.

There are some issues still but they are minor and I'll get them cleaned up here soon. I've spent the day writing this viewer from scratch, so it's been a process.

The "white flash of death" should be fixed here as well when you open up the app.

We also now support localization! German is officially supported now, and we will be sourcing other languages to improve the experience for everyone.

Other minor fixes as well in this build, including a fix for a crash that was happening with the new spoilers.

Stay tuned, and happy scrolling!

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I love it! Besides the sideways scroll bug, the fact that the image disappeared after only dragging for a little bit was very annoying to me, since sometimes some text might would be behind the dynamic island, and would disappear when I tried to drag the image down just a little to be able to read it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Yea I have made it so that the image will only fill 90% of the screen height at a zoom scale of one (if you zoom obviously it will fill the full thing).

Swiping is now just a matter of velocity. There’s no required distance to reach for it to close, just as long as the swipe itself is fast enough. (You also have to be at a zoom scale of one for this, since obviously you might have a high velocity swipe when in zoom).

The issues like what you were having should be pretty much fixed, but I’m going to keep tweaking this thing. It’s quite a bit of weird logic to get it right and there’s still some work to be done, but it’s a huge improvement over the current implementation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I’ve tried it out and wanted to let you know that it’s way better now, and feels really good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

So much better. One thing I loved about the Apollo image viewer was the double tap and drag to zoom as a one finger option vs pinch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I appreciate the thoroughness of the demo video! Lol

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

By far the busiest devs with these updates. Memmy is fantastic!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

After opening an image and then double tapping it, the image zooms down to the bottom of the screen and also is overlaying the feed. This may be expected behavior?

Also when pinching out to zoom it doesn’t seem to center on where I’m pinching.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yea I know. I’ll have it finished up in an hour or two.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Jeez ur quick! Nice, thanks for the great app :)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you have a Patreon or GitHub for donations?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Consider opening a patreon and GitHub sponsors and open collective so people can donate monthly

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Yes that’s what I’m looking for in projects to support!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you want, point me where and I can help with Czech translations.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’ll write up something on how this can be done. I also think we are setting up something web based where you can easily contribute the translations without needing to use GitHub or anything like that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Or I can just create a request in git if you prefer it. Up to you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yea either is fine with me. Let me just verify how we are going to do it and I’ll let you know 👍👍

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For now, if you want to add them in, you can submit a PR here with a locale file for the relevant language (I'm assuming Czech is cz?)

https://github.com/Memmy-App/memmy/tree/main/src/plugins/i18n/locales

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yes, cz-cs. I will get to it whenever I have some free time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The new image viewer, when zooming in, instead of showing empty space as black, it is transparent, showing the feed behind it. Is this expected behaviour?

The update feels much snappier overall and am loving it regardless. Thank you as always.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Haha no, I’ll have this fixed in a few hours. Just really testing it out.

[–] ebits21 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah likely needs worked on. When I zoom in it scrolls down at the same time too instead of staying centred.

I’m sure improvements will come.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Looks like a bug, though it made me realize I love the transparency. Would prefer that over black to be honest!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Thank you very much for your work. Love the Apollo touch and the speed of fixes and features

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It’s hard to believe you made this using React 👏🏼

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait really?? I didn’t even know that was possible

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ah so no vue ;-;

That’s alright I’ve been meaning to learn swift and I now how to use flutter already

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Which version of memmy will have the improved swipe to close function? I’m on 0.2 and it feels the same.

Thank you!

[–] ebits21 5 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Coming in a few hours.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Thank you for all of your hard work!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Day 2 for me using the app, and I dig it! New to Lemmy as a whole. I would love to see a way to more easily block/ filter out uhh subreddits (I don’t know the proper term, sorry)

Right now I have to click into the sub then click some options to get it done. Not a terrible experience by any means, but after years of having Apollo and my filters set up, having to rebuild them on a different platform/app is a bit tedious.

Perhaps a long press on the sub title in the feed could pop up options to sub , unsub, block?

Love the app so far, and am digging this over Reddit right now!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

loving the app! it doesn’t appear that there is a way to view a users bio — is that coming in a future release?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I’ll make sure it gets done here soon 👍

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Congratulations on the release!

Would you consider having an option for tablet landscape mode to condense posts to the middle of the screen, like how Apollo (was) and Voyager/Wefwef is displayed?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The new image opening animation feels a bit like 30Hz or so

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yea I’ve noticed a few things about it, going to keep ironing it out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe I’m missing it… but when there are multiple pictures I’m unable to swipe between them and instead have to close the picture I opened and tap on another. Is album swiping a feature that will be implemented? Thanks for the hard work I’m really loving the app so far!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yea, it isn't there yet but will be there in the coming days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Great work, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I notice the improvements regarding zooming/tapping (thank you), but I'd like to report what seems to be a bug.

It seems like the app is only loading low-quality images in some cases. I just noticed it after seeing a post on https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]. Following onto the community I saw that on every post there the image is low-quality, it's even hard to read the captions in some cases. Tapping on the share button shows them in the low kilobytes in size.

So far that's the only community I've seen the problem on, though. I'll report back if I notice it elsewhere, but I'm not sure how to confirm it's an isolated problem or if there is something I can toggle to change the behavior.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Updated the App Store version today, since my stabbing the beta link still yields nothing. :(

And I still get a flash of the day/light theme loading first before the OLED dark theme pops in as it should.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Hmm we updated to React Native .72, wonder if that was the cause. Let me take a peek.

[–] ebits21 1 points 2 years ago

Yay no more flash of death! Does startup seem a bit slow now to others? I noticed this with the last beta with the flash still too.

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