I've resurrected lemmur, a beautiful flutter app. Coming soon to an instance near you!

Hey guys, a week ago I started working on a lemmy app like many others as an excuse to learn flutter. Along the way I found an old app that was abandoned but very well built.

After a couple of days I was able to get things running and semi-useable again. Including posting this post from the app! The main effort being updating to 0.17.x.

Here's some screenshots:

https://bigfoot.ninja/pictrs/image/cad899aa-39f8-4793-928a-7dcec70acdc2.png

https://bigfoot.ninja/pictrs/image/1be631d6-94cc-40a7-94bc-3313c5e63e10.png

https://bigfoot.ninja/pictrs/image/d03a4a69-daad-415b-a51b-3283217b656f.png

I'll be renaming the app (so I can republish it), tentatively under the name "Lem".. but really open to ideas here.

dimspace,

"Leap"

Because, that's what lemmings allegedly do, but also encouraging people to take the leap and embrace the fediverse

Leap for Lemmy

theory,
@theory@feddit.uk avatar

I like this best

CompadredeOgum,
@CompadredeOgum@lemmygrad.ml avatar

that sounds great

mykl, (edited )
@mykl@lemmy.world avatar

Hey Zack, we should probably talk!

I follwed the same route but focused on the iOS side and so I have "Limbo" in TestFlight! Lemmur is such a great base isn't it? It's such a shame that the original devs moved on.

Have a look at my take at https://lemmy.world/c/limbo

zach,

Woah! Yeah we should talk!

Can't believe they abandoned it.

Matrix: @zachatrocity:matrix.org

Here is my latest write up on progress and alpha re-release for Android:

https://bigfoot.ninja/post/4042

mikestevens, (edited )

Haha, how ironic. I downloaded the old Lemmur from F-Droid today, having no idea it had been abandoned. When I couldn't add lemmy.world, I knew something was up.

It's a good looking app, so good on your resurrecting it!

As for a name... Given it's a resurrected app, how about Zommur? 😁

zach,

I did the same thing last week, that's how I got started on this whole thing! Hahaha

burgersc12,

I saw the app and had been hoping someone would resurrect it! My feature request (if possible) is to mark posts as read when you scroll past them. Its the feature i miss most from Joey (RIP)

KingCrimson,

Literally installed it today too lol

StarLuigi,
@StarLuigi@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Holy crap, this reminds me so much of Infinity for Reddit (my favorite reddit client.) If this releases I'd love to try it out!

zach,

If you're game to test while I get the wheels back on we're making progress!

https://bigfoot.ninja/post/4042

Note: significant bug with the comments due to API redesign that happened in the last 4 months.

sloth,

And it works!

Poiar,

If you don't go with any of the other people's suggestions, I'd like to inform you that in Danish, Lem basically means penis :)

sloth,

These things are important when it comes to international products 🤣

sabreW4K3,

I like the name Lemmynade 🍺

zach,

Shout out to https://kbin.social/u/Gamers_Mate for the name suggestion!

JackGreenEarth,
JackGreenEarth avatar

Can you make it support kbin.social please too?

StickBugged,
StickBugged avatar

I truly hope he/she does, it look great and I'd absolutely love to use it

AI_toothbrush,

They moment

zach,

Yeah once I get things stable this is on my list!

dantheclamman,
@dantheclamman@lemmy.world avatar

Mlem https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/464de357-a6f4-4742-87c7-d6289924c29f.jpeg

_calm_bomb_,

There's already an iOS app using this name.

lightingnerd,

Mobile lemmy, yeah, this is a solid winner!

Lumidaub,

tentatively under the name "Lem"

How about going one abstraction further and calling it Stanislaw? I'll see myself out (but looking forward to trying the app).

zach,

Not gonna lie, I had to Google that one.

But point taken lol, I'll come up with something better.

bobbytables,

I absolutely love the idea of a connection to Stanislav Lem. He's one of the greatest SciFi writers!

So how about "Stanny"? It sounds similar to Lemmy and tributes Lem.

CompadredeOgum,
@CompadredeOgum@lemmygrad.ml avatar

Just like "Lemmy" reminds me of "Lenin", "Stanny" reminds me of "Stalin"

i aprove.

Hopfgeist,

Not a great Lem fan, but this meta-level of app-naming appeals to me.

Lumidaub,

There really wasn't a "point", I just thought it was funny :) You call your app whatever the fudge you like, as long as it works.

Hopfgeist,

Great idea. But don't spell it with the correct "ł" letter. That will be a pain to input on any keyboard other than Polish ones.

Suoko, (edited )
@Suoko@feddit.it avatar

You could make THE LEMMY app:

  1. By scraping all communities with the same name hosted in different instances and letting us subscribe to some/all of them all at once.
  2. By scraping kbin magazines too
zach,

Yeah I'm working on that separately as an instance utility.

But Lemmynade (new name) does aggregate multiple instances and user accounts into a single feed which is nice

godless,

Looking great, can't wait to test it! Nothing against Jerboa for the time being, but alternatives are always welcome. Been testing summit yesterday that someone posted as well, and I think every app has some unique features about it, so let's see where the journey goes.

Ideally I'd love to have something as close to Reddit Sync as possible :-P

As for the name, isn't Lem a bit short? Not that I dislike it, but in terms of being properly searchable on google and the likes it might be better to go for a longer, unique search string, else it could get a bit cluttered.

Elkwrath,

Sync is coming to lemmy soon

zach,

Should have a testable android APK on the repo tomorrow and I'll work on getting the iOS app out for people to sideload.

Over all it works pretty well, there's a few bugs but it's a solid foundation!

Yeah I suck at names, I'll keep thinking

godless,

Sounds awesome! Do you have a link to the repo so I can follow you there?

zach,

Yeah you can track progress here:

https://github.com/zachatrocity/lem

I'll make a more formal GitHub release hopefully tomorrow!

TurtleTourParty,

Ideally I'd love to have something as close to Reddit Sync as possible :-P

I have good news for you. Sync for Lemmy is happening!

!SyncForLemmy

I second Lem being too short unless op plans on doing a lot of SEO or making people search Lem for Lemmy.

godless,

No fucking way!!! YES!

Whooping_Seal,
@Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works avatar

Is summit worth using over Jerusalem? I currently have Jerboa installed but there's some things I find clunky about it.

iturnedintoanewt,

Hey man, thanks for the hard work! Seems it only works for lemmy.ml? I can't add my account at lemmy.world!

zach,

Don't get Lemmy from the play store. That's not mine. The original devs abandoned the project.

Lemmy.ml is no longer required and will likely be removed as the default for the app.

I've renamed it and here is some info on how you can get the first Alpha release:

https://bigfoot.ninja/post/4042

iturnedintoanewt,

I see! Do you plan to publish to F-Droid? By the way, seems the link is dead.

root,
@root@lemmy.world avatar

This, please.

peepo,

Is it open source?

hydroel,

Yes it is (GPL 2.0)

Whooping_Seal,
@Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works avatar

Any idea why a newer project would elect for the GPL 2.0 over the 3.0? I know that the Linux kernel is GPL 2.0 still and I think it had something to do with changes regarding DRM (Tivoization). But I don't see how that would apply here.

Cybermass,

A group of lemmings is called a slice, the app could be something like

LemSlice

SliceOLem

Or maybe just Slice

Just some ideas

machinaeZER0,

I really like Slice, hahah. Simple, short and memorable!

spaceduck,
@spaceduck@lemmy.world avatar

I third Slice.

DannyBoy,

@zach IDK why, but this app gives me some Infinity for Reddit vibes.
Probably is the UI. Those upvote and downvote buttons.

StarLuigi,
@StarLuigi@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

That was also my first thought seeing it!

zach,

Yeah it does look similar. I didn't design the UI up to this point. I've justed updated it to support the lemmy backend starting from 0.17.x

It fairly out of the box material design flutter

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