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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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

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

For me as well - if I click the TestFlight link in the post it tells me the Beta test is full. :( Can’t wait to check out the new version!!

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

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

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

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It is available for me now.

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

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

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

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 :)

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

Awesome! Great job with the app, it’s fairly enjoyable to use already.

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

This is awesome, thanks everyone for your work!

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

Would definitely like to see subscribed to communities feature

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

New feed with standard height posts looks much better and scrolling seems smoother 👍

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

[–] [email protected] 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:

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

Unfortunately I just get “Something went wrong” since updating to 0.0.7

[–] [email protected] 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!

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

It’s available now :)

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

Looks seriously great. Lots of improvement. The crashing stopped and has been replaced by errors. Presumably issues with the server rather than the app.

The compact view looks slick. It would be better if clicking the thumbnail brought you directly to the image such as in apollo.

I'd also love swipe gesture for voting.

The 'new post' constantly having the url for your other brew app is pretty unwelcome. Especially in its current form where it looks like a hyperlink. If it was gray and user-typed URL text was white, it would be much more acceptable.

[–] [email protected] 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.

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

Aw the beta is full :(

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

Sorry, kids! We’ve hit our 10k limit!

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

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

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

Still getting repeat posts on my feed on the newest build

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

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

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

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

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

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.