Working on a native iOS app for Lemmy. Finally far enough along to share some teasers. Post your feature requests!

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I’m building it using the latest and greatest Apple tech. Only available for iOS 17 😈

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I've tried Mlem and Memmy, and the biggest features missing as I see it are:

  • Once you have logged in, search all currently federated servers. See what their subscriber count is on their local instance, and across all instances. Sort by subscribers, posts/day, or comments/day.

  • A tab which shows you your subscribed communities so you can go straight to them (Memmy and kbin both make you go in to your profile to do this, it should be front-and-center)

  • Ability to subscribe to a community by looking at its main page

  • Ideally kbin communities would show alongside lemmy communities, I think this is a limitation of kbin right now though?

  • Swipe posts to upvote/downvote (right), reply/save (left)

  • Something which tells you the last time information was pulled from a federated server - sometimes it would be useful to know that I might be seeing a page which is 8 hours out of date vs. one which was updated 30sec ago

  • Something which tells you or prevents you from posting to a defederated community since the post will not behave as expected

  • Expose options for copying links to comments, links to parent comments

  • Ability to see your post history separated by threads/comments/etc., and messages; from a comment, go to the specific thread in question (i.e. direct link to parent or contextual comments in that thread, not just the original post)

  • Hide posts you've voted on already

  • I don't think any currently existing apps expose moderator tools. I'm not sure how much of this is present on the API side so far but will be hugely important as communities get bigger.

  • Content density. On Apollo I can see ~6 posts at once on any given page. On Memmy or Mlem I see ~2.5. Just a much more efficient display of content, tell me what the post title is, what community+server it's on, how old the post is, how many comments, what the upvote-downvote calculus is. If I want to know the user count or read the blurb on the post I can tap in to it.

Great list of features with high probability of putting this new app on the level with RIF, Apollo, etc.

I started toying around with Memmy, today. There's a star in the top left corner that is a shortcut to your subscriptions, allowing you to bypass your profile. The feature might be new. Thought I'd share.

Just to add a couple of things to your great list that I’m missing by from Apollo:

  • Hide posts I’ve read (eg posts I’ve scrolled past are marked as ‘read’ and then hidden on next refresh. Ideally with an option to view / search those ‘read’ posts
  • Option to open the built-in. Bowser view in Reader mode—this solves much of the trash mobile sites with endless cookie pop ups and ads

To your second point: already done. As for the first one, I can definitely add that as an option but one of my favorite features from Apollo was that it told you when there were new comments since the last time you opened the post. What if it hid the post unless there were new comments in the thread? Maybe have that as an option as well. I’m really going for extreme levels of customization & I love the idea

Maybe I’m being dense, but where’s the option to always use Reader mode? I can see for each individual website once opened, but that’s a Safari setting not a memmy one…

Btw, I only found this when you added Inbox. Fantastic :)

More thought on hiding posts:

  • Definitely should be an option. Manual could be swipe left on post. My home feed currently has 2 large stickied posts at the top and id love to hide them permanently. Id also like the option of hide when opened and hide on scroll like Apollo.
  • In wefwef.app’s Profile tab, you can see your Posts and Comments. Something like that with an extra option for Hidden posts (again, like Apollo), perhaps with the possibility of notifications / icons showing if there is new activity on them?
  • Replies to your own comments still in the inbox, so much less chance of missing those. So much potential to keep improving. I’m working with several apps side by side atm, but definitely keep coming back to Memmy. Except for this reply, as finding my comment was easier in wefwef :(

Great list

2nd point, you can tap on the star at top left corner to go to your subscribed communities, so just 2 taps

I miss Apollo’s compact view as well. Hope it and light theme will come.

I can’t seem to reply to comments either. Only able reply to the OP (I had to open my browser to reply to your comment)

Wonder if there is a community for Memmy to give feedback/feature request/discuss our experiences

Hey there, there is a community on lemmy.ml. Unfortunately, lemmy.ml has been de-federated. So you can check us out on Discord @ https://discord.gg/apCwAdHtZ

Edit: lemmy.ml was not blocked from beehaw. Only lemmy.world. See the list of blocked instances here: https://beehaw.org/instances

Oh no I thought only lemmy.world was. Thats horrible. Luckily I created a lemmy world account and using that as my main. Also joined memmy community and discord yesterday :)

These are awesome requests, I’ll be sure to reach out to you when the app is ready for testing. If you or anyone else have requests when it comes to mod tools specifically please reach out to me. I’ve never been a mod on here or Reddit so I’m not sure what types of tools mods need, but there are definitely APIs for that and I’d love to take advantage of them.