I came from Apollo, and I gotta say that Memmy feels like a spiritual successor to it. Nice, clean, and fast!
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Yup! It gives me the same vibes too
Same here, loving the experience in TestFlight. I’m also eager to see this app push beyond just quality of life/stability changes and throw in some unique Fediverse features as well
Same. It absolutely feels like it. I’ve really enjoyed Lemmy for the few days I’ve been here and Memmy just makes it so nice. I’m very surprised how much time I’ve spent here.
R.I.P Apollo
Since it seems like a lot of people here aren't aware, this is app is open source and publicly licensed, and you can watch the effort being put in on github. It seems like the developer has been working around the clock to get this done, for free, writing code that is owned by the community. If you are loving it, send a few bucks to say thanks: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gavink
It's doubly laudable when you consider that he's paying $100 for a developer license so we can have Memmy for free. He might have had the license already for other projects, but still, I'm humbled by the generosity, both in time, effort, and money.
Push notifications are an ongoing cost as well.
True but for iOS developers this can be seen also as an investment, as any employer will hire you after seeing you maintain an app like Memmy. It’s the best kind of portfolio you can have.
Not really, IMO. I maintained a large open source project for a few years and the amount of time suck and mental drain is hard to overstate. Most employers seemed to barely look at it even though they could have clearly seen how I programmed, interacted with users, etc. And, if you decide to stop maintaining it, all those happy users are going to be unhappy users. Given that even bad developers have not much trouble getting steady work, and that all that time could have been invested in a project that earned or had the potential to earn money, it’s sort of hard to justify outside of personal passion. Just my experience, anyway…
Sad to know, and it’s partly the reason I don’t work on a open source iOS app currently: I’d rather work on something that solves a problem people are willing to pay.
I worked on apps that are used by the general public before (not mine, a company’s app) and the amount of users who are willing to shit on something without trying to understand that their issue isn’t common and we’d need more information to fix it are very high.
I think it’s better to have an app that makes a small niche happy than having a general popular app that will attract many toxic people.
I'll tip a coffee to the developer, thanks!
Thanks for sharing that link! Just supported and am always happy to support open source projects that bring me so much joy!
Yes, it’s really good except I have one problem : I cannot up vote or down vote any posts within the comments.
The default behaviour is to swipe from left to right on the comment. In the latest TestFlight release (0.1.0), they’ve added icons that you can tap on.
That works for me, until I accidentally move it too far and downvote. Then it’s a struggle to get it back to normal, and then it seems primed to downvote again, because it’s a struggle to get to the upvote again.
If you downvote, the next swipe action is to cancel that downvote. Then you’re back to zero and can do either again.
Note I’m on TestFlight and not 100% sure if the recent fixes here are in the App Store version yet.
Thanks for pointing this out. I’m not a fan of changing the swipe behavior contextually because it adds an additional cognitive layer to try and save a few milliseconds. The tradeoff isn’t a good one, but an interesting ui exploration. Loving all the updates so quickly in general though.
Interesting. It seems like the UI does get stuck showing a downvote even though a small swipe is applying an upvote.
As others have pointed out, by default Memmy is swipe to vote. However I think the developer has a build coming with tap to vote as well!
Yep already in the beta I’m using right now.
It’s a far superior app from the few available for Reddit, I would like swipe to scroll on videos/gifs, maybe in the future.
Memmy is awesome as app, wefwef as webinterface
Can you reply to comments? I have been using Memmy since it’s very early stages and I have not figured out how to reply to someone’s comment.
Swipe from right to the left on the message you want to reply. Posting from memmy
There also was just an update that adds a reply button on comments
Just got the update I wish it was still clear though prior to this update on how to reply to comments as I don’t think it tells you anywhere how to.
Also vote up and down buttons if you don’t want to swipe.
I can just swipe left on it
I guess people not knowing about swiping the comments is why they added the buttons. Apollo and every reddit app I ever regularly used had swiping actions for comments and replys so it's natural to me. I'm guessing most apps have some sort of tutorial for teaching this when first starting to use the app. I kinda prefer less space being used with swipe only UI.
Maybe this is not the place, but since the app is open source maybe some designer may create a new icon for the App? To be honest, the current one looks to me ugly
TestFlight just pushed an update with a new icon. You can change colors in Settings.
It’s really great so far! Couple things I’d like to see integrated or fixed:
Sometimes child comments do not show
An interface toggle to show only top level comments, or to scroll to the next or previous parent comment
Couldn’t agree more! The app is so minimalistic and yet so intuitive, the gestures, the touch; absolutely great 🤌
Memmy and mlem is outstandingly awesome. Latest update on mlem also “chef kiss”, i have 2 account on different instances, even tho app have ability to use more than one account in one app, i use both mlem and memmy for different purpose of each account. Im happy the development of lemmy. Thank you dev..
Same here!
Just came to say that I like Memmy a lot, as well.
I’m just curious, what are the iOS alternatives for the fediverse right now?
Mlem, Liftoff, Thunder, Wefwef
Mlem is about to submit to the App Store too. Others in TestFlight, except wefwef which is a web app.
It’s excellent. I’ve been really loving the amount of time and attention the dev is putting into this. The number of consistent—and useful—updates coming out is insane.
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