Loving Memmy so far!

The only two things I’d like to see are:

  • searching within a community (this is probably requested previously but I can’t search previous posts. Please let me know if I’m wrong here!)

  • the subscriptions tab to become a button within the dock at the bottom. I frequently move between my subscriptions and I find it a little tucked away at the moment.

Regardless, love your work. It’s always a bit rich making requests for something that is FREE! So, again, thanks for all your hard work and feel free to disregard the above.

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    Regardless of whether Memmy is the most “iOS” like, it’s the most like Apollo (RIP). I do like Avelon and Voyager as well but Memmy is my favorite and just feels compact, clean, and right.

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    Far from it. Featurewise it is the richest, but it does not feel like home on iOS.

    Regarding apps for lemmy I prefer

    Avelon Mlem. This one is made with swift has checks all the iOS design guidelines boxes.

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      I’m not very familiar with the iOS guidelines but try to refer to them sometimes. Are there any glaring issues you are aware of that Memmy has, with the guidelines, or is it more a lot of small things? I imagine it’s easier to stay within guidelines while using SwiftUI/UIKit but maybe it’s not.

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        I can’t imagine what kind of iOS guidelines could make Memmy more comfortable to use. It’s so damn good.

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          Wouldn’t necessarily make changes off of it, would just be curious

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            O shit you’re the actual dev of this. I’m not sober and didn’t even think about the whole, y’know… you’re pink and IT SAYS THAT RIGHT THERE

            Cannot thank you enough. What you’ve created is absolutely the best. I’ll thank you with money, because the fact that you’ve adapted my other favourite mobile developer’s app to work for this community is just exquisite.

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        Take any of the Apple apps for example. They implement the frosted glass effect to give you a sense of foreground and background and it looks just super nice. I sent two feedback text to Memmy about this but this low hanging fruit hasn’t been implemented yet.

        Then the size of the big headers that shrink down when you scroll down to reveal more content. Just real eye sugar!

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          We don’t read the test flight feedback because most of it is extremely low quality and we get a ton of it.

          Regarding glassmorphism, it’s something difficult to do in React Native. (although Bean does it so i guess possible) I believe both gk and i are not big fans of it anyways. I don’t hate it in certain places but i honestly really don’t like it in Mlem for example. Maybe because of all the varied content i can see come through it on Lemmy, where as in Messages or Mail it’s more monotone.

          Regarding the tab bar going away on scroll. I believe this is not an accessible design and am also unaware of it ever being recommended by Apple. Also unaware of it being used in any apple apps. Totally fine to like it, just don’t think it’s an iOS design guideline.

          Appreciate the feedback, though i guess i thought we were talking more about UX design over aesthetics.

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            We don’t read the test flight feedback

            Oh, well, that’s good to know. And here I thought that was actually the main way we were supposed to submit bug reports and feedback

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              No we’ve said multiple times in the community the best way to submit feedback is in GitHub. That’s basically the only place we track anything. We’ve been meaning to just close down test flight for a while too but want to get the app in a better place after all our major refactors.

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            I’ll chime in the other way, I detest the frosted glass effect that the user above is describing. Mlem uses this if you want to check out a reference.

            I love how clean and immersive the app is current state. The foreground of the bottom bars user above (no hate, just my opinion) makes me feel like I’m on my phone and I prefer to just get lost in content

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            I just mentioned the tabs disappearing is better solved than in Apollo, didn’t say that was mandatory as per guidelines.

            As for the frosted glass effect it is UI as well as UX, as UI contributes to the UX. If you personally don’t like it, that’s your thing. It’s especially nice to have the content scroll under the bars, it makes the static boring monotone footers and headers come to life and gives you the illusion of a bigger screen. Take the latest Netflix design on iOS for example. The header is huge, but the video poster moves so nicely under them. All the Apple iOS apps have this effect. And a lot of Apple users care

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              It doesn’t contribute to UX, it’s purely a visual thing. I’m more interested in design guidelines that pertain to UX and usability.

              Maybe we’ll add glassmorphism as an option someday, but the priority to me would be usability issues that go against apple guidelines.

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      As a dev it’s nice to check all the official guideline boxes, as a user I’d much rather actually have features.

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        Yeah, Avelon and Mlem are different apps. I prefer Avelon. Memmy is great but I just prefer Avelon myself. Feels more my design style with the choices the dev has made.

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          Avelon is super cool, i really like it and how it’s unique and different

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            Just commented how I appreciated your support of another app in another comment. Keep up the great work, the Lemmy community thanks you!

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      Definitely +1 for Mlem. It’s my main. I’d also like to give Bean a shoutout! While it’s not entirely Swift IU (far as I can tell), it’s way more Swift than Memmy and just as if not more feature rich!

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        Bean isn’t swift, it’s React Native like us. If you mean more iOS like then maybe it is?

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          Oh, well it definitely feels like it’s using Swift UI for the majority of the UI (although not all, as I said). Regardless, great job on Memmy!

          Edit: after taking a closer look at Bean (which I should’ve done earlier lol), it looks like Apple’s UI is only really used in the menus and pop-ups of Bean. That’s pretty embarrassing but oh well lol. If you’re looking for proper full swift with swift UI, Mlem is the way!

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    Glad you are enjoying it!

    1. It’s on the roadmap but we just haven’t gotten around to it. Gk might be adding it soonish though.
    2. We were thinking of maybe making the subscription drawer open from anywhere in the app if you long press the Feed tab icon. I’ve also been meaning to add some customization options for the tab bar on the bottom to let you change what options are there, but no promises on that coming any time soon.
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    Personally I like Memmy too, Wefwef is great as well. Only thing I dislike of the latter is that it doesn’t let you choose between app icons, but oh well.

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    It’s my primary iOS Lemmy app currently (with Mlem as the backup). I am very keen on Voyager becoming a native iOS app though as a former Apollo user 👀 (sorry to admit that on the Memmy community!)

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      I think I’ve tried pretty much all the iOS clients for lemmy now, and Voyager is by far the best. Maybe I’m biased as a former Apollo user like you.

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      It’s on the App Store but even that version isn’t native (written in Swift with Swift UI) as far as I can tell

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    There’s a lot of fantastic work going on with Lemmy apps, and I have several installed.

    But I keep coming back to Memmy!

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    Memmy cannot pin/favorite a community without subscribing to it.

    That is something that Apollo, Narwhal, Bean, Voyager, Mlem, and a few other apps have been able to do.

    In fact, the only other app I use that also lacks such functionality like Memmy is the official Reddit app.

    Memmy is nice, but such missing functionality has put it low on my list of favorite clients.

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    Memmy is working really well on the iPad as well and the enhancements you mention make a lot of sense. I use an Android phone and am switching between Liftoff and Sync at the moment.

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      Not currently. Maybe once we are more or less “done” developing the core features of Memmy and know for sure we are not changing any layout stuff or anything. But it’s too time consuming testing for both devices.

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    Agreed.

    Hey if the Dev sees this, some communities I subscribe to don’t let me post, I get an error saying “this language is not supported”. I (just today) deselected “Undefined” as a language choice in my web profile to see if that fixes it, but I wasn’t sure if there was a way to add language selection into the app to prevent these errors.

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    I’m still on ios 15 due to me running this 6s until it dies or is completely unsupported with security patches. So memmy is the only option I’ve found to work.