[ NEW BETA RELEASE ] Mlem for Lemmy 1.2

Mlem 1.2 is ready for testing!

Major Features

  • Profile editor: you can now change your display name, biography, avatar and banner image, and matrix ID in Settings -> Account
  • Easy-tap links: links detected in posts and comments now get a nice big tappable button at the bottom of the post. You can copy and share these links via long-press on the link button.
  • Tab bar navigation: tapping the currently selected tab while at the top of the feed will navigate back. Reselecting the search tab from the top of the feed will focus the search bar.
  • Upgraded post composer: we’ve made the post composer prettier, added the ability to upload images from files and clipboard, and now shows the account you’re posting from. It also now displays a warning if your post runs afoul of your instance’s slur filter.
  • Instance page: you can now view detailed instance information, accessible from a community or profile via the ellipsis menu in the navigation bar
  • Saved content feed: saved content is now listed as a feed, rather than a sub-view of profile.

Minor Features

  • Voting icons are now colorized in compact mode
  • “Report” and “Block” items in context menus are now colored red and ask for confirmation
  • Fixed some inconsistent wording and incorrect capitalization
  • Improved performance of markdown rendering
  • Redesigned the account switcher and tweaked the behavior of long press/swipe up: long press on profile now swaps accounts immediately if you have two accounts and opens the switcher if you have more, while swipe up always opens the switcher. Both of these gestures can be enabled and disabled in Settings -> Accounts -> Quick Switcher
  • Added an indicator to posts from subscribed communities in All and Local feeds
  • Added headers to feed pages
  • Redesigned app icon selector
  • Added more app icons
  • Added a new comments indicator to posts you’ve already viewed
  • Added the option to open links in the system browser, rather than in-app
  • Added support for image links and shields.io badges
  • Added options for how your accounts are sorted in the account view and quick switcher
  • Tidied the settings page
  • Added the option to disable tap-to-collapse on comments
  • Refined the swipe action activation angle, so it should be harder to accidentally trigger it while scrolling
  • Added the option to require biometric unlocking when opening the app
  • Added the option to automatically collapse child comments
  • Redesigned the profile page

Bug Fixes

  • Disabled swipe actions on items embedded within the post/comment composer
  • Fixed a bug where favoriting a community from the ellipsis menu would cause the subscription status to display incorrectly
  • Fixed a bug where adding an account while already logged in would fail on instances running 0.19
  • Fixed a bug where account details were not being loaded in the user view
  • Fixed “failed to determine site version” error
  • Saved content now loads dynamically on scroll, rather than all at once

Update 2023-02-05: RC 1 Changes

  • Fixed an issue where interacting with items in the saved feed would crash the app
  • Fixed blocking communities from posts not working
  • Fixed “Show n replies” tap hitbox
  • Fixed “No items” message appearing briefly in Saved feed before content loads
  • Bubble picker now scrolls to the selected item on tap if it is partially offscreen
  • Fixed /u/user@instance and /c/community@instance links not behaving properly
  • Added options to adjust the behavior of easy-tap links in Settings -> General
  • Fixed sidebar navigation not working properly on iPad
  • Fixed the Saved feed not properly refreshing
  • Fixed comments of depth 1 not collapsing properly with auto collapse enabled

Cheers,

The Mlem Group

Mlem is a free and open source project. 100% of our funding, which pays for things like server time, comes from our generous donors; we do not, and will never, run ads or sell data. If you’d like to help support Mlem, you can donate here.

adude007,

I cannot seem to find my saved posts any longer. Am I going crazy??

ericbandrews,
@ericbandrews@lemmy.ml avatar

They’ve moved from the profile to the feeds tab–you can find them in the feed/community list or by navigating from the header within that tab.

adude007,

Can I ask why? It wasn’t intuitive with how it works through a web browser. The saved posts are kept with the profile.

ericbandrews,
@ericbandrews@lemmy.ml avatar

There were a few reasons behind the change:

  • Saved was the odd man out in the profile page–everything else there is your own authored content
  • Saved is a feed containing a subset of content generated by other users. Every other such feed was under Feeds; now all such feeds are under Feeds
  • This way, what you see on your profile page is the same as what other users see on your profile page
  • By extension, the code is much nicer this way because we don’t need to do as much conditional rendering and processing in the user page–we can use the same component with very little modification to display your own profile or somebody else’s
  • This also lets us add the Saved feed to the app shortcuts menu without making that horribly inconsistent–the four shortcuts are the four header items in the Feeds tab
dzaffaires,

Question for MLEM users. I’ve seen comments where the message is or contains directly an embedded image. While replying with this app, I’ve tried pasting an app (on iOS), and can’t seem to find how to do this. Is this a feature that is currently supported?

Thanks to the devs!

sjmarf, (edited )
@sjmarf@lemmy.ml avatar

This isn’t supported yet, unfortunately. We’re tracking the feature here, and will definitely be implementing it at some point in future.

If you want to attach an image to a comment, you can use the ![](image url) markdown. If you haven’t got a URL for your image, you’d have to post the comment from your instance’s website (which allows image uploading).

dzaffaires,

Ok, thanks for the info!

Chef_Boyargee,

When I unsave items (deselect the green flag) it doesn’t always remove those items from the view. Additionally, when I block some communities, the app still populates some posts from that community.

Are my lists too big? Do I need to log out and log back in to refresh everything?

Chef_Boyargee,

Disregard, I’m dumb and can’t read good. My data connection is trash.

ericbandrews,
@ericbandrews@lemmy.ml avatar

Thanks for the bug reports! Looks like there’s an error in the refresh logic for save–posts should remain in the view when initially unsaved (to avoid losing them forever on accidental unsave), but should disappear when the view is refreshed (which does not appear to be happening).

As far as community blocking goes, that’s mostly handled server-side–once you block a community, the app should filter posts from that community out of the currently displayed feed, and relies on the server-side block functionality to keep those posts from appearing in subsequent loads. We load in pages of ~50 posts, so if you block a community from, say, the profile page, it won’t update that over on the Feeds tab (yet, we’re looking at ways to implement that behavior but it’s fairly involved) and so you’ll still see those posts in the feed until the next load. In theory, simply refreshing the feed will clear them out because it’ll fetch the page fresh from the server.

Chef_Boyargee,

Brilliant! Thanks!

dessalines,

Great news, thx for making mlem!

sjmarf,
@sjmarf@lemmy.ml avatar

Thank you for making Lemmy ❤️

slin,

Awesome update. The new comment highlighter is a cool feature, it would be useful if the new comments got highlighted when opening the post.

Are there any plans to remember collapsed comments and keep them collapsed when visiting a post again?

An optional setting to disable inline images in comments would be cool too, some images are really big and I get lost in the comment.

ericbandrews, (edited )
@ericbandrews@lemmy.ml avatar

Highlighting new comments is a good idea! I’ll have to take a look at what support there is API-side for it.

We’d like to remember collapse state, though that one’s a little trickier technically–collapse state is client-side, so we have to do some caching tricks to make that work. We’re reworking our backend modeling for 1.3 to include, among other things, a caching system, so we’ll see if we can work that in.

sjmarf,
@sjmarf@lemmy.ml avatar

I looked into the possibility of highlighting new comments when I added the indicator, but unfortunately there isn’t a support for it API-side. So we’d have to do it locally.

slin,

Thank you for your technical explanation. You all are doing amazing work.

DPearl42,

When I click a link to a community ( for instance in the trending communities) it shows a loading message that then shows a couldn’t find object error. iPhone SE 2020 iOS 17.3

sjmarf,
@sjmarf@lemmy.ml avatar

Thanks for the report! I’ve fixed this, and it’ll be live on TestFlight in a few days 👍

kowcop,

Thanks for the app, it is my first go… Is there any way to see a list of things that I have upvoted?

ericbandrews,
@ericbandrews@lemmy.ml avatar

Unfortunately the API doesn’t support that and it’s infeasible to do client-side, so not for now. They have an issue for it but it’s closed as not planned, though they’ll reopen it if anybody wants to work on it so hopefully we will be able to offer this feature in the future.

syd, (edited )
@syd@lemy.lol avatar

Hmmm, shouldn’t 3rd swipe to the right, collapse from top-level comment, instead of comment itself? Since we can already one tap to collapse comments.

Anyways, really good update. There’s so much features I’ve needed. Thank you guys <3

SideshowBoz,

Good point 👀

Really depends on how we want it to work, I always program in redundant interactions that perform the same task, since some people like to tap and others swipe

sjmarf,
@sjmarf@lemmy.ml avatar

Thanks for the feedback!

We are aware that swiping to collapse the top-level comment would be a useful feature and are tracking the issue here. The swipe action to collapse comments was added back in September, and isn’t a new feature in this release.

PuddingFeeling907,
@PuddingFeeling907@lemmy.ca avatar

Now that is a worthy patch!

nokturne213,

Not really liking how large the new subscription/all/local bar is.

https://i.imgur.com/hf5riBQ.png

I like how much higher it is on iPad.

https://i.imgur.com/8Xl5cMB.png

I realize there is more screen real estate on iPad, but the font is fairly large on iPhone compared to other elements.

kionite231,

Is there a android version of it?

ericbandrews,
@ericbandrews@lemmy.ml avatar

Unfortunately not–Mlem is written entirely in Swift and SwiftUI, which as of right now doesn’t work on Android.

syd,
@syd@lemy.lol avatar

Since they’re developing the app with latest iOS SDK, I don’t think it will ever come to Android.

ainen,

I’ve been looking forward to this update after seeing all the commits on GitHub. So far so good, the update feels and looks great!

quaff,
@quaff@lemmy.ca avatar

New icons 😍😍😍😍😍

willya,
@willya@lemmyf.uk avatar

Awesome, not seeing it on TestFlight though.

ericbandrews,
@ericbandrews@lemmy.ml avatar

Hmm, that’s odd–App Store Connect reports 1.2 as live for all of our testing groups. It might just be a little slow to propagate the build out to all the servers.

willya,
@willya@lemmyf.uk avatar

Went live and updated itself while I was asleep. Great work. Any plans for marking posts as read on scroll and hiding them?

sjmarf,
@sjmarf@lemmy.ml avatar

Yep, this is planned!

Ghostalmedia,
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

Nice to see a bit update. Downloading now!

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