The perfect Lemmy app?

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I know there are a ton of iOS apps for Lemmy. But what are they missing? What experiences would you like? It could be quality of life or big and ambitious features Many of you often have really good ideas and feedback, I’m looking forward to responses.

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Most of them can't do the basic formatting of Lemmy, so in my mind, they are basically useless.

**Bold**
Bold

*Italic*
Italic

^Superscript^Normal~Subscript~
^Superscript^Normal~Subscript~

~~Strike-through~~
Strike-through

::: spoiler spoiler
Soiled
:::

::: spoiler spoiler Soiled :::

Voyager supports all of these apart from spoilers.

You'd think they would have worked on the spoiler one first, slightly more important than making your text look interesting.

I think it's because spoiler tags in lemmy have been custom-made for some reason, whereas all the other stuff is standard markdown. Voyager is a web app, so it can maybe only render whatever the engine it relies on can render.

Edit: Turns out I'm 2 for 2 on making incorrect statements in this comment.

I’m pretty sure spoiler tags are just not part of the markdown specification. This would mean it’s probably easy enough for an application developer to just take the raw comment and pass it to what I assume would be a markdown rendering library (haven’t done app dev much), but spoiler tags won’t work without some additional work.

A quick Google suggests you're correct - big sites have implemented their own versions, but it looks like everyone has spent the last decade arguing with other about a CommonMark standard.

Yeah, this. Remark, the markdown library Voyager uses, is very powerful but also extremely complex (it has to be, to deal with Markdown edge cases).

I made a bit of progress last week on a custom plugin but it’s a lot of work. There’s like 4 layers of parsing required.

I wish Lemmy used GFM spoilers, which just uses normal details and summary html tags. But alas.

It’s really annoying there’s no standard markdown syntax in common mark.

Voyager added support for spoilers since the comment I'm responding to.

Just in case anyone wanders in here and is considering Voyager.

Voyager does bold and italic without needing to know those, but yea it would be nice to ^add^ the ~others~ you listed without the syntax. It also does crossposting, text faces (/¯ ಠ_ಠ)/¯ share comments and posts as images, preview,

quoting

, auto finding communities and users sorted by most pustular, porting subs from Reddit to communities, etc.

Arctic had all these covered. It’s not perfect but my fave so far

Thunder failed the formatting test. Still like it though.

I wonder if it works differently on iOS, because it displayed all of those properly for me except for the super/subscript on Android.

Raccoon managed everything but the sub/superscript. Not too shabby!

On my client (Jerboa), all of these worked except for ^Superscript^Normal~Subscript~, honestly I don't know why it doesn't support this very specific formatting thing.