In order to get up to speed with the people that are coming here without TestFlight, I’ve submitted a build to Apple with all of the current features and fixes.

I’d anticipate this to take about 24 hours, but it’s possible it will be reviewed today. Apple is weird. I’ve had things get approved in like 8 hours on Saturdays before, so there’s a chance it will happen today. I’ll update you all when that happens.

Improvements and additions:

  • New icon and options for changing icon color
  • New and improved swipe animation (by the way, this is better than the last update wink)
  • Improvements to image viewer (double tap works now too)
  • Performance enhancments throughout the app
  • Hide read posts
  • Images in comments
  • Collapsible posts
  • Default comment sort
  • All of the “Top” sort options
  • Show a loading modal while downloading images
  • Added a manage accounts button to accounts dropdown
  • Add option for reader in webview
  • Settings improvements
  • Added embark theme
  • Added buttons in comments for upvoting and replying
  • Adjustments to splashscreen
  • Username doesn’t link to user profile in compact mode now
  • Add option to use the default browser instead of in-app browser

Fixes:

  • Fix issues with toast not changing color or disappearing
  • Fix cake day showing the wrong year
  • Fix issue where links with an internal IP address would ask for permission to local network
  • Fix issues with account disappearing after app launch
  • Read icon now uses the correct color
  • Fix crash caused when pressing Matrix links
  • Fix crash when searching for a community with an @ at the end

If any of these issues are bothering you now, rest assured they will be fixed for you quite soon.

  • metanomaly@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Would love to see few features:

    Ability to filter/block a community directly from feed, without having to go to that community.

    A keyword filter list that hides post with those words in their title.

    Ability to hide posts from feed.

    Keep up the great work!

  • stevehobbes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’d love to see the images behave a little more like Apollo, which allowed zooming out with just a double tap (which also zoomed in, or opened the album to swipe through), but to get it away, it was just a double tap to zoom out and swipe it away.

    • gkd@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
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      1 year ago

      This is probably one of the absolute hardest things to replicate. I’m going to be working on it though for sure for the 0.2 release.

      With that said, zoom out on double tap is fixed on this release. Swiping through the images in a post will be added in 0.2 as well as other improvements to the image viewer in general.

      • stevehobbes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Awesome! I’m on the TestFlight build and loving the rapid progress. I think it was still a little janky for me and after a second double tap I’m not able to swipe the image away.

        Apollo had a lot of years to polish - what you’ve done in such a short period is absolutely amazing. I donated via your buy me a coffee link, but you should absolutely charge something for this app. Putting notifications behind a paywall is perfectly reasonable.

        Personally I loved the one-time Ultra purchase and would occasionally just throw some cash in the tip jar on big releases.

        • QuarterSwede@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Just be careful with a one time lifetime purchase. All devs of larger apps say that was a massive mistake. Learn from their mistakes. Although I was also a lucky Ultra lifetime user, I realize that push notifications are costly. I’d recommend against anything “lifetime.” Leave yourself an out. Do major release unlocks or something like that. Gives you room to not screw yourself or your users. Seems like a good balance.

          Also, don’t be afraid to be transparent on costs, etc. That helped Christian immensely and you’ll gain a lot more subscribers who wouldn’t normally subscribe because they understand the economics. The ones who don’t would be considered bad money anyway.

        • gkd@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Yea I think that’s probably the only thing I’d consider putting behind a paywall just because of the fees that come with that for me. The one thing I never agreed with Apollo on was keeping posting behind a subscription.

          For what it’s worth, I think it’s janky too. I just have not had time to focus on that, so I’m fiddling with it a bit at a time. I think once this version hits the store, we can slow down a bit and iron out a super solid 0.2. Keep the TestFlight going with a build every day or two, but with more new features coming instead of just bug fixes (things are getting ironed out finally)

          A few of the remaining crashes we had should be fixed here soon too. A couple of them were actually issues with Expo rather than Memmy, but the team over there was super responsive and fixes have already been merged in. Those should be ready to be published by them here next week Id imagine

  • teft@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Please give us a link in the app so we can toss you some money. Some of us want to support your hard work and don’t want to be loaded down by ads in the future.

    • gkd@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Rest assured ads is something that will never be in this. No feature lockdowns, ads, any of that.

      I can’t link anything in app for payments or donations unfortunately. Eventually there might be a tip jar though. For now if you really want, there’s a buy me a coffee.

      • LazaroFilm@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Hope I really don’t need to screenshot this to post in a few years… 😊 anyways, awesome app you’ve made! Can’t wait for the update to hit the AppStore, I deleted my flight test copy by mistake… 😭

        • tranceFusion@lemm.eeEnglish
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          1 year ago

          The code is open sourced under a public license. The developer doesn’t own the code any more than you do. If they added ads someone could just fork it and remove them.

          That said, running a large open source project is difficult and frustrating. Any donations they receive will likely be a pittance compared to what they would make spending that time coasting in a corporate dev job. Send them a few bucks as a thank you: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gavink

      • Jeff@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Oddly I can’t click the buy you a coffee link in the app. It keeps collapsing the comment?

        • gkd@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
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          1 year ago

          That’s awkward isn’t it 🤣

          We are going to overhaul markdown for the 0.2 release hopefully, so links will have a bigger hit box. I’ve noticed this too.

          You should be able to try pressing slightly below the link to get it to work though.

          • Jeff@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I went to the GitHub link and clicked from there. Hope you like coffee!!

  • DuckGuy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Added buttons in comments for upvoting and replying

    Please let me hide them :-(

  • unwinagainstable@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I didn’t get into the test flight. I downloaded as soon as it was available in the App Store. I’m loving it but anxiously awaiting the update to fix profile not loading. I’ve never had my profile load successfully

    • gkd@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Are you using your email to sign in? If so, can you try signing in with your username?