Asklemmy
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
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I'd love to have the top and bottom panels pop in and out when scrolling through comments similar to how Apollo does.
I dont think i have this feature enabled on Apollo, can you tell me where to find it? Then i can write a feature request :)
It's near the bottom in settings. It's titled "hide bars on scroll"
I’m another Apollo refugee so taking any and all inspiration there would be great. Also I’d like to be able to share / export a post, or grab the web link for sharing, or to be able to bounce out to safari. I’d also like to be able to tap and hold on images in posts to copy or share them.
I would pay again for an iOS app that is like Apollo!
I’d very much like an ipad layout please.
Also a way to consolidate multiple accounts across instances into a single feed.
Kbin compatibility.
What do you mean multiple accounts across multiple instances? Your account on lemmy.ml can ask lemmy.ml to fetch posts on other instances, via communities, to which you can then subscribe to.
Do you mean something like a multireddit?
My biggest gripe is the inability to make the home screen/post view compact. Right now, it shows the entire post when someone creates one, which means youre scrolling for a long time to get past a single post in many instances.
Save to Photos, and other options for images
I like how Apollo will show trending subreddits. Not sure if mlem can support that given the federated design of lemmy but it was super useful in finding new subreddits.
Definitely agree with this. I had joined so many subreddits on Apollo thanks to the way it advertised them. Here’s to hoping Lemmy devs will make it easier to discover new communities!
Improved scrolling performance should be a high priority. Currently scrolling a feed results in tons of dropped frames and poor performance and then the feed jumps around as images load and pop in. It’s even worse when you try to scroll back up. I’m guessing some kind of static size for posts and moving certain tasks off the main thread will help here but my SwiftUI experience is limited
- searching for and sorting communities by some metric (like most subscribers)
- ability to acknowledge pinned posts and fold them up or remove them from view (tired of scrolling past them)
- a Share feature of a sort? I'd like to be able to "Share with..." and open a post (say, from a web browser) in Mlem.
- more descriptive error messages when trying to log in (did the login fail because u/p is wrong or the server is fubar?)
- filtering (blocking) communities should allow me to show either posts with those word(s) or posts without those word(s). As of now I think it's just posts with the defined words. Regex would be super!
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.
An improved comment editor for sure. Better navigation around the app itself and around communities.
I don’t know if it’s just me, but interaction with other servers is not as seamless as the experience on the web frontend. Yes, I can add multiple accounts, but I am yet to find a way to browse posts from across all of the linked communities.
Finally registered and found mlem. It’s pretty nice so far, but would definitely like to have a way to search for communities.
iPad support!
I just installed it and started using it. So far it’s pretty nice I love that adding a comment is so easy. Coming from Apollo anything that behaves like that would be a big win
Just had a crash (and submitted a report). So fewer crashes please 🤣
Also, when I relaunched the app, it had forgotten the two accounts I had previously configured.