Mlem for Lemmy

We’ve fixed several bugs and made some minor tweaks to the 1.3 beta. We have one final beta build planned before we upgrade it to a Release Candidate.

Cheers,

The Mlem Group

Minor Changes

• Added the ability to block instances from the nav bar menu of the instance details page. NOTE: due to quirks of the Lemmy API, this is currently only available when navigating to the instance from a community, or from a user if you are on an instance running 0.19.4+; it is not available when navigating to an instance from search. This will be fixed in the next beta build.
• Mark read on scroll no longer marks posts read while they are still visible
• Added instance uptime support for toast.ooo and szmer.info

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the interaction bar widgets resetting when upgrading to 1.3
• Fixed sent messages not being filtered when “filter read” is active
• Fixed the inbox tab unread badge sometimes showing "-1” (again)
• Fixed user blocking not showing a confirmation dialog. It will now prompt for confirmation when blocking from profile; when blocking from a post, no additional dialog will be shown beyond the “Block” -> “Block User” flow.
• Fixed incorrect padding in post report sheet
• Fixed an issue where subscribing to a large number of communities would negatively impact the app’s performance. This should make the app noticeably snappier for most users, especially those subscribed to 100+ communities.

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.

Having tried several Lemmy clients, I can safely say that Mlem is my favourite in terms of user experience, except one, even though I am sure I’ve read this is possible in Mlem I cannot find how to block an instance, which was relatively easy to do in Memmy.

It doesn’t appear to be an option in any settings menu, nor an option in an instance profile.

If this isn’t, in fact, possible, I guess this post is a feature request then!

UPDATE: Beta 1 is now available. See the patch notes here

Mlem 1.3 is now available for beta testing! This version brings a suite of moderation and administration tools to Mlem, along with some other highly requested features.

Cheers,

The Mlem Group

Mark Read on Scroll

When this setting is enabled, posts are marked read as you scroll past them. Enable it under Settings -> General -> Mark Read on Scroll.

Inbox Redesign

The "Inbox" tab has been redesigned to be compact and easier to use.

• Replies and Mentions now use the same interaction bar as comments, which is customizable under Settings -> Appearance -> Comments -> Customize Widgets.
• Each inbox tab now shows the unread count for that category.
• Private messages are now labeled as "sent" or "received".

Select Text

Posts and comments now have a “select text” menu action, letting you highlight text from the post/comment and quickly copy/paste it elsewhere.

Inline Image Uploading

Images can now be uploaded inline in posts, comments, messages and reports. If you cancel before submitting, Mlem will request that your instance deletes any images that you may have uploaded.

Save images from Feed

Images can now be saved or shared without opening the image viewer by long-pressing on the image in the feed.

Show Website Host in Compact/Headline Mode

This replaces the thumbnail indicator for link posts, which was removed. It can be re-enabled under Settings -> Accessibility -> Website Thumbnail Indicator.

Instance Uptime

A new tab in the instance page lets you see the uptime of that instance. This is only available for select instances. The data is fetched from https://lemmy-status.org.

Moderation Actions

The following moderator and administrator actions are now available:

• Pin a post to community or instance
• Lock a post
• Remove posts, comments and messages
• Ban users from a community or instance
• Purge posts, comments, messages, users, and communities
• View votes of a post/comment. Only admins can do this right now, but as of 0.19.4 moderators will be able to do this too.
• Add and remove moderators of a community

You can customise how these actions are displayed in Settings -> Moderation. By default, the "remove" and "ban creator" actions are shown for posts in the feed.

Other actions, such as Pin and Lock, are accessible via the ellipsis menu in the expanded post. These actions can be made available in the feed as well under Settings -> Moderation -> Show All Actions in Feed.

Settings -> Moderation also allows moderation actions to be hidden in a disclosure group:

Or as a completely separate menu:

You can add and remove moderators from the "Moderation" section of communities you moderate. Users can also be appointed as moderators from the ellipsis menu of their profile.

"Moderated" Feed

The new “Moderated” feed shows posts from communities you moderate.

Mod Mail

Mod Mail has been integrated into the Inbox tab. It can be accessed by tapping the drop-down at the top of the Inbox page, or by tapping the "Inbox" tab icon when already viewing the tab. In the Mod Mail, you can view and act on both reports and registration applications.

By default, the unread mod mail count is included in the Inbox tab's unread badge. You can customize which types of notification are included under Settings -> Appearance -> Tab Bar.

Upcoming planned TestFlight releases will further improve Mod Mail by adding swipe actions to moderator items and a setting for customizing the report interaction bar widgets the same way as for posts and comments.

Modlog

Added the ability to view the moderation log for a community or instance. The modlog for communities can be found under 'Moderation' in the community page, and for instances under 'Administration' in the instance details page.

Fediseer Integration

A new "Trust & Safety" tab on instance pages displays the guaranteed status of that instances, along with any endorsements, hesitations or censures it may have received.

Minor Changes

• The Saved feed can now be filtered by posts or comments only.
• The upvote, downvote, save and reply actions now display side-by-side in context menus, and the "Block User" and "Block community" are now consolidated under "Block".
• The ellipsis menu in the expanded post view has moved from beside the post title to the toolbar, making it accessible from anywhere on the page.
• Added the option to always open links in reader mode (Settings -> Links -> Open in Reader)
• Added a new app icon, "Ocean".
• Keyword filters no longer apply to communities you moderate.
• Updated the bubble-style picker animation.
• Removed the confirmation popup for "Report".

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the inbox tab unread badge sometimes showing "-1".
• Fixed the instance pin icon not showing in compact mode.
• Fixed sent messages being permanently displayed as unread.
• The comment collapse animation now respects the system "Reduce Motion" setting.
• Image save failure now displays an error message.

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.

I have been noticing a number of posts missing from my subscribed feed. I went and looked at my community [email protected] and in Mlem no posts are shown. However, if I visit the website, or view the community through other apps there are posts, as well as the missing posts from my subscribed feed.

I’ve seen this issue before. My All feed will only continue to load additional posts like twice, for a total of 75-ish posts and then says “I’ve found the bottom” or whatever. This was on my lemmy.world account. I haven’t investigated other instances yet. I’ve closed and restarted the app, still had the same behavior. I have yet to log out and back in.

I've noticed that the most current post here was 22 days ago. Is Mlem still being developed?

BTW, I'm one of the Beehaw admins. Several users have reached out to me because they love Mlem so much.

EDIT: I just noticed a few comments from one of the Mlem developers here.

The number of new comments since last thread visit shown in your feed is great.

Would it be possible to also signify within the thread which of those comments are new?

I am new to mlem since trying out Memmy and much prefer this app. Very clean, easy to digest, and an absolutely adorable icon! However, I notice that posts do not get marked as read as I scroll through All or what have you. I don’t need to click on a meme to have read it, you know. Is there an option to mark as read on scroll that I’m missing?

Also, any option to search within a community? For example, if I wanted to search “read” on the mlemapp community to see if my above question has been mentioned…

Steps to reproduce:

1. Tap on your comment and choose to edit it
2. Place the cursor somewhere in the text
3. Tap a key on the software keyboard
4. The cursor jumps to the end of the text

It's a huge issue to me. I'd imagine new comers would move to another lemmy after experiencing this.

mlem Version: 1.2 (847) iOS version: 17.3.1 iPhone SE

Comment example: https://beehaw.org/comment/2613854

I’m trying out Mlem (looking for a replacement for Liftoff, I tried memmy already) and these silky smooth transitions are driving me nuts. I’m talking about the way text zips around when collapsing comments, or the way images slide in when clicking a thumbnail. I’d rather turn them off, is there a way to do that in the settings?

I love this app. One small room for improvement is that the browser icon in the web link thumbnail (see image) can be distracting. Any ideas?

I'd, for example, place it bottom-right inside the image, as it's not a key information.

Illogical visual flow. We have seen slides that put the key information in the bottom right corner. ...Try to avoid those layouts if possible, in Western culture it’s preferable to put the most important elements at the top or center of the slide.

https://www.ideasonstage.com/news/2019/04/23/2019-04-23-the-7-deadly-sins-of-slide-design/

Sorry, I couldn't find a more authentic source but the above is a support.

That said, even if the icon is to be placed to the bottom-right, it'd still be distracting. Maybe increase color transparency, maybe there are better options.

If I recall correctly, current versions of iOS have a built-in translation engine. Items posted to c/All are in a variety of languages. It would be nice if the user could choose Translate from the … menu when viewing a post.

Mlem 1.2 is out of beta and live on the App Store! We’ve got loads of new features big and small for you to enjoy.

Major Features

• Profile editor: you can now change your display name, biography, avatar and banner image, and matrix ID. Check it out 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, and customize their behavior in Settings -> General.
• 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 made it show 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 has moved! It’s now listed under Feeds along with all the other feeds, and you can also open it from the app shortcuts.

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
• Fixed /u/user@instance and /c/community@instance links not behaving properly

As always, a huge thanks to our TestFlight for all their bug reports and feedback.

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.

I would love to see what my favourite people are up to on Lemmy.

It could be a shortcut listed under the subscribed communities tab and it could also notify of new posts in your inbox. It would have to be implemented client side as I haven’t seen it on the site.

This feature would also drive up engagement on high quality content. Such as art or storytelling.

When i quote something from a post or a comment, i have to retype everything. Is there no way to select text to copy it?

• If viewing a community you cannot switch to another community from the side menu unless you switch to all/subscribed/local first. This was also present in the previous version i believe, however i only noticed it when in subscribed and had to switch to local or all to go back to subscribed to refresh my feed.

• The bug tabbed out of mlem (such as uploading an image to imgur) and then back into mlem, mlem loses your place (i believe it was said it was crashing in the background).

• Spoiler tags are not working (i think this may not be ipad specific).

• Blocking a community does not removd the post from feed any longer (may also not be ipad specific, have not tested on my iphone). [ETA: Blocking from the All feed does nothing, going into a community and blacking there crashes the app][Edit 2: on iphone blocking from the feed does nothing, i have to go into a community to block it, then refresh my feed for the posts to be removed. But it is working on iphone, but not on ipad]

I will add more if I remember, or find them.

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.

Not entirely sure how that would work, but it would be a cool idea anyhow

Maybe a hook into Peertube or Owncast? although hooking into those might be out of scope for a Lemmy client idk

Edit: RPAN was Reddit's short-lived livestreaming experiment, which ended up being killed due to the cost of running a service like that.

How i envision it working within Mlem is that it would display an in-app embed (or native support) for videos hosted via PeerTube or Owncast in the feed (possibly taking up the native resolution / aspect ratio)

To improve discoverability, mlem would (theoretically) recommend communities that are tagged (probably via a #tag in the description) or something like that

I’ve been using Mlem as my main app for months and I’m liking it so far. The only lacking feature to me is admin buttons, which are delete/purge a user/post.

I think it is a pretty basic feature. A button and an API request. I can provide a test instance if you need one.

Is there a way to easily add photos to comments? I’m using the IOS version, curious is anyone had any suggestions.

Hi Mlem community,

With the launch of iOS 17 now well past and adoption rates rocketing towards 75%, we wanted to take this opportunity to lay out our long-term iOS version compatibility plan.

Mlem will guarantee compatibility with the previous major version of iOS until the current version achieves 75% market share. This means that Mlem will soon be dropping support for iOS 16, as iOS 17 is rapidly approaching that mark.

Why 75%?

Mlem originally launched with support for only iOS 16. At the time, that was the latest iOS available, and enjoyed just over a 75% market share. We chose this mark based on both that precedent and an internal consensus that 75% represents “general adoption” of an iOS version.

Why are you dropping compatibility?

Supporting multiple iOS versions costs development time and restricts our ability to take advantage of new and powerful SwiftUI features. We have a small, all-volunteer development team, and strive to offer a sleek and modern iOS experience. We just don’t have the resources to offer comprehensive backwards compatibility while also delivering new features and improvements and remaining true to our identity as a modern SwiftUI Lemmy client.

When will iOS 16 compatibility officially end?

As of right now, there is no set date. Once iOS 17 reaches 75% market share, we will begin allowing code changes that use iOS 17-exclusive features, so iOS 16 support will end when some such change is approved and released. Our current dev build and next release will remain compatible with iOS 16, but we make no guarantees past that.

If you have questions or concerns, we’ll do our best to answer them in the comments.

Cheers,

The Mlem Group

When I pull down the main feed to refresh, old posts (from about one week ago) get loaded instead of the most recent ones.

Closing the app and restarting fixes the issue. Tested with feddit.de and programming.dev accounts.

Does anybody else have this issue?

As of some time today I am no longer able to log into sopuli.xyz with the Mlem app. I can log in on web fine, and with the Memmy app (currently on Memmy).

When logging in I get an incorrect username or password error on Mlem.

ETA: I am using 1.1.2(782) TestFlight build on iOS 17.2.1 on an iPhone 14 Pro, but having similar issues on my iPad Pro.

Hello Mlem community.

I can’t seem to find an option to open links in my default browser, and I don’t want to open them in the in-app browser with ads and trackers. So I hope to see an option to open links in my default browser in the future. Thank you for making this amazing app! 🙂

I had no idea this star was there. I touched it on accident last night and favorites a community. Great feature, poor color choice.