• Valdair@kbin.social
    10·
    2 years ago

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pulled from a federated server - sometimes it would be useful to know that I might be seeing a page which is 8 hours out of date vs. one which was updated 30sec ago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

    • dave@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      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
      • the_nightman@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        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

        • dave@feddit.ukEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          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 :)

        • dave@feddit.ukEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          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 :(
    • the_nightman@beehaw.orgOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • biznachio@beehaw.org
      5·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • ten@beehaw.org
      1·
      2 years ago

      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

  • Pilirin@kbin.social
    4·
    2 years ago

    the ability to dynamically filter search results, if that’s at all possible (it’s not with lemmy’s interface currently)

  • JaymesRS@midwest.socialEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    As soon as it’s released, I’ll be on the public beta and am happy to help test if you’d be interested.

  • anlumo@feddit.deEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    My feature request would be iPad support, because right now there isn’t any app for that.

  • biznachio@beehaw.orgEnglish
    20·
    2 years ago

    I’ve been using Mlem via TestFlight. It’s solid. My only gripe is minor. I see a large amount of duplicate posts across different Lemmy instances. For example, Beehaw’s c/technology and Lemmy.world’s c/tech often have the same content posted. My guess is it’s the nature of federated content. It’d be very impressive if you find a solution to consolidate duplicate posts from Lemmy instances.

    • refmut@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      like that “other discussions” tab that would list other posts with the same url

      • DigitalAudio@beehaw.orgEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        This sounds like a pretty solid solution. I wonder if it’s possible at all to implement something like that.

    • ZappySnap@lemmy.oneEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Mlem is Ok, but still lacks way too man QOL features. I found Memmy as well, which is a bit newer, but also seems to be way more polished already, and the dev does updates almost daily. Already has listed communities, search, a working feed that doesn’t duplicate, and blurred NSFW.

      • codRL@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Same, I’ve switched to Memmy almost entirely. Seems like a very active and driven dev. Lots of features and very polished in like 5 days or something crazy.

    • the_nightman@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It does this already. When there are multiple posts with the same link they are grouped together and you can choose which one to enter when you navigate to the comments. Still experimenting with it

  • ten@beehaw.orgEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    Please support iOS 15 users on older phones. apollo still do

    A light theme is also much appreciated!

  • the_nightman@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    This is still very much a work in progress. I’ll be looking for beta testers soon so keep an eye out if your on the iOS 17 beta

      • the_nightman@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Final public iOS 17 release will be in September with public betas starting next month. I didn’t want to architect a new app on top of technology that will be stale & require rework in 3 months. I wouldn’t expect the app to be ready for full blown public release too soon before then anyway. I’ve only been working on it for a week. Still have a lot of work before it’s stable enough for a release.

  • nevird@beehaw.orgEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    Feature request: When you tap someone’s user name, it shows clearly which instance they are on e.g. @nevird@beehaw.org on top (pretty standard) But then when, you click on the instance part of the user name, it brings you to the about page of that instance.

    • the_nightman@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s a good idea. The problem is the “hitboxes” if you will are very small there. I’ll see if I can come up with a good way to do this

  • wemoguse@vlemmy.netEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    It doesn’t really make sense to target iOS 17 as the minimum supported version if you want people to test it. Normal users won’t run beta versions of iOS.

    • m3enzo@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Agreed, there’s only a limited amount of users on iOS 17. But I believe there are changes in iOS 17 that the dev might be making use of.

  • JohnSmith@feddit.ukEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    Feature: hide posts based on specific words in title. Handy when you’ve had enough of a particular topic (trump, musk, …)

    • Scott@kbin.social
      4·
      2 years ago

      Loved that feature on Apollo. Filter out politics, shit I was tired of seeing (for example is filtered out “Shaggy” back when he was meme’d to death), I’d filter out keywords of movies I didn’t want spoiled. It was honestly one of the best feature of Apollo.

      • JohnSmith@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I mean a good approach would be to just go through Apollo and … copy with bride! Christian did an amazing job with it.

        • the_nightman@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I’m taking a lot of inspiration. If my app is as stable and feature-rich as Apollo I will feel very accomplished. After all these years browsing with Apollo the current options for Lemmy just feel lackluster.